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After Mocking the Price Model, Crypto Advocates Discuss Bitcoin’s Rainbow Chart Reintegration
26.1.2023
On a few occasions last year, crypto advocates discussed how a number of price models, leveraged to help predict the future value of bitcoin, ended up failing. However, since bitcoin’s value has increased by 36% over the last month, the price has entered the darkest band of the rainbow chart...
FTX Publishes Creditor List, Owes Millions to Well-Known Institutions and Government Agencies
26.1.2023
The now-defunct crypto exchange FTX has published its list of creditors, with the names unredacted. The comprehensive list, which is over 100 pages long, shows that FTX owes a lot of money to well-known institutions, including Binance, Airbnb, Apple, Amazon, Linkedin, Coindesk, the Wall Street...
Alameda Research Shouldered FTX Loss of Up to $1B Following Client's Leveraged Trade in 2021: FT
2.12.2022
Alameda Research bore the brunt of a $1 billion loss incurred by its sister firm FTX after a leveraged trade on the now bankrupt crypto exchange backfired early last year, the Financial Times reported Friday
Ethereum Software Company Consensys Collects User Data, Privacy Policy Discloses
25.11.2022
Crypto users have been complaining about a recent Consensys privacy policy update that says when Infura is leveraged as a remote procedure call (RPC) via Metamask, wallet and IP address data is collected. The news follows a similar decision the decentralized exchange (dex) platform Uniswap recently...
MEXC Leveraged ETF Leads the Cryptocurrency Market as Its Liquidity Ranks First in the World
30.9.2022
Crypto asset trades emerge one after another, and leveraged ETFs become the next star product after futures. MEXC, the cryptocurrency exchange with the highest futures trading liquidity on the Internet, takes the lead again in the cryptocurrency market with leveraged ETFs. Comparing the leveraged...
Profit From DeFi and Metaverse Tokens With PrimeXBT Leveraged Trading
16.9.2022
The DeFi sector has struggled over the last year for various reasons, and the once magma-hot Metaverse trend has cooled off considerably. These disruptive emerging assets aren’t dead, markets are simply cyclical, and interest in these futuristic technologies will return again in a significant...
DeFi Lending Protocol Notional to Offer New Leveraged Product
8.9.2022
The protocol plans to launch three “leveraged vaults” next month that allow users to trade up to 10 or 20 times their initial capital
Study Identifies the Top 10 States in America Most Interested in Bitcoin, Ethereum
5.9.2022
On September 2, the crypto market aggregation web portal Coingecko.com published a study that identifies the top ten states in America that are most interested in the two leading digital currencies, bitcoin and ethereum. The team leveraged Coingecko’s page traffic data and found that...
Tornado Cash Governance Token TORN Shudders More Than 57% Since the US Government Ban
13.8.2022
Amid the crackdown against Tornado Cash, associated addresses, contributing developers, and anyone who uses the mixing platform, the project’s governance token called TORN has shuddered in value. TORN is an ERC20 with a fixed supply that is leveraged for governance proposals and voting....
Three Arrows Capital Founders Speak After Filing Bankruptcy, Exec Says the ‘Whole Situation Is Regrettable’
22.7.2022
This week the two co-founders of the embattled cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital spoke to Bloomberg about their fund crumbling at the seams. The co-founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies did not disclose their whereabouts, but a lawyer who monitored the interview noted the duo is located...
Gold ‘Clearly Turned Bearish’ Says Societe Generale as TD Securities Strategists Expect Further Downside
20.7.2022
According to market analysts, the precious metal gold is officially in a bear market and prices could remain suppressed over the next few weeks. Moreover, while the macroeconomic backdrop has been gloomy, the popular safe haven asset has lost 17.50% in value against the U.S. dollar during the last...
Harmony’s $100M Hack Was Due to a Compromised Multi-Sig Scheme, Says Analyst
26.6.2022
On June 23, 2022, the Harmony development team announced that $100 million was siphoned from the Horizon bridge, and the organization explained it was working with national authorities and forensic specialists. According to an account published Polygon’s chief information security officer...
Report: Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Pitched a GBTC Arbitrage Trade Before Rumored Collapse
22.6.2022
Last week there was a lot of focus on the crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) as the firm allegedly had a great deal of leveraged positions liquidated and there’s been speculation about insolvency. According to a recent report, 3AC’s over-the-counter (OTC) operation...
Report: Bitmex, Deribit Liquidate 3AC’s Positions — Negativity Continues to Plague the Crypto Hedge Fund
17.6.2022
Two days ago, Bitcoin.com News reported on the crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) after reports claimed that the company was allegedly struggling with financial hardship and possible insolvency. Now the crypto firm Finblox is feeling the effects of 3AC’s troubles, and a few digital...
Bitcoin derivatives data shows no ‘bottom’ in sight as traders avoid leveraged long positions
13.6.2022
Is it time to be greedy? Experienced market makers and arbitrage desks have turned strongly risk-averse as BTC price dropped to $22,600
Bitcoin price broke to the upside, but where are all the leveraged long traders?
1.6.2022
BTC price looks to break out of its downtrend, yet pro traders are still unwilling to add leveraged positions
Famed Whistleblower Edward Snowden Reveals He Took Part in the Zcash Launch Ceremony
28.4.2022
Edward Snowden, the well-known whistleblower and former computer intelligence consultant who exposed the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance, has revealed he took part in the Zcash creation ceremony. Snowden says that during the creation ceremony he “participated” and leveraged...
Derivatives Exchange Giant CME Group Adds 11 New Cryptocurrency Reference Rates
9.4.2022
Global markets company and Chicago-based derivatives exchange CME Group plans to launch 11 new reference rates tied to specific crypto assets. The reference rates and real-time indices bolstered by CF Benchmarks are typically leveraged by exchange-traded products and other investment vehicles....
Layerzero Labs Secures $135 Million to Bolster Cross-Chain Interoperability
1.4.2022
Layerzero Labs, the firm behind the interoperability protocol Layerzero, has revealed the company has raised $135 million in a Series A+ finance round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), FTX Ventures, and Sequoia Capital. The new financing brings Layerzero Labs’ overall valuation to...
Lendefi to Provide Secure DeFi Leveraged Trading on Binance Smart Chain
22.3.2022
Lendefi published a blog post to announce that it has integrated Chainlink Price Feeds to its Binance Smart Chain mainnet. The integration will assist Lendefi protocol in securing its decentralized leveraged trading protocol. The integration will assist in the security of its decentralized...