Binance Predicts that Centralized Crypto Exchanges will Eventually be Replaced by More Decentralized or Non-Custodial Trading Platforms

November 8, 2020 @ 10:54 am By Omar Faridi |

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, has noted in its weekly crypto market report that for most of the past week, Bitcoin (BTC) had been trading between the relatively tight $13,300 and $13,900 range. But then, over the span of just 48 hours, the… Read More

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Ethereum (ETH) Transaction Fees Keep Falling After Major DeFi related Ecosystem Growth, Bitcoin (BTC) TX Fees Surge: Report

October 14, 2020 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi |

Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, has again surged past the $11,000 mark as US stimulus talks begin and institutions start to allocate more funds to the leading digital asset. As noted by the OKCoin team, Bitcoin has managed to break out this past week, after… Read More

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Binance Gets Ready for Decentralized Finance, Lists Many New DeFi Tokens, as Crypto Market Adds $100 Billion+ in 30 Days

August 18, 2020 @ 9:47 pm By Omar Faridi |

The team at Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, notes that during the past month, the total market cap of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptos surged by around $100 billion, as it went from about $270 billion to $370 billion, according to CoinMarketCap data… Read More

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Crypto Markets are Plagued with Manipulation, “Endless” Wash Trading, but Industry Execs are Confident about H2 2020 Performance: Report

August 2, 2020 @ 1:28 pm By Omar Faridi |

The digital asset trading market did not perform as well during Q2 2020 when compared to Q1 2020, according to an industry research report from Token Insight. According to the report, the relatively poor performance of the crypto market during Q2 2020 may be attributed… Read More

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Ethereum Adoption: ETH Transactions via Decentralized Exchanges Growing Rapidly, Many Investors are Now Long-term Ether Holders, Data Suggests

May 4, 2020 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi |

The total volume of Ether (ETH) transactions performed via decentralized or non-custodial cryptocurrency exchanges (DEXs) reached approximately $2 billion (in total) for the first four months of this year. It appears that traders have recently begun to increasingly use DEXs to trade ETH this year,… Read More

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Digital Asset Hedge Fund Adaptive Capital to Close Down Operations, Following Crypto Market Crash

March 21, 2020 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi |

Digital asset hedge fund Adaptive Capital is reportedly closing down its operations. Adaptive Capital was a self-described “multi-strategy cryptocurrency hedge fund with a deep focus on on-chain analytics.” The hedge fund predicted that crypto-assets would become a major macro asset class and on-chain analysis of… Read More

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