Crypto markets are trading sideways, while Spain’s second-largest bank is reportedly planning a leap into the digital asset industry.
Blockchain Bites: $187M Blockchain Bond, $522M BTC Mining Revenue and ‘Ethereum-First’ Institutional Investors
Singapore is funding blockchain R&D. Germany’s second-largest stock exchange’s crypto app saw $1.21 billion in trading volumes this year. Grayscale is seeing a growing number of “Ethereum-first” institutional buyers.
Blockchain Bites: Price Point! Bitcoin at $50K? $60K? $318K?
Traders have begun unwrapping tokenized bitcoins. The U.S. Treasury Department will keep a vigilant eye on digital innovations. And trading volumes on OKEx have plummeted.
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Edge as a Hedge and Crypto’s Reaction to the STABLE Act
Crypto Twitter, like the U.S. Congress, is usually divided. A proposed law to strengthen stablecoin oversight has brought crypto together.
Blockchain Bites: Record-Breaking ‘Active’ Bitcoin Users as Wall Street Ponders Mass Adoption
There are now more active bitcoin users than ever before, as CEOs of both PayPal and BlackRock think about the future of finance.
Blockchain Bites: Ethereum 2.0 Beacon Chain Ships, Libra Rebrands, ‘Bitcoin’ Google Searches Up
Ethereum 2.0 charts new territory with the launch of its proof-of-stake backbone as retail interest in Bitcoin spikes, Google search data suggests.
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin All-Time High Puts It on Pace for Highest Monthly Close
PLUS: Anonymous developers have forked a seemingly dead project to launch DeFi’s latest stablecoin.
Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Cuts Margin Trading, Binance Sweeps US Clients, OKEx Offers Rebates
Coinbase has also changed the way it will alert clients to relevant tax information.
Blockchain Bites: Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Fully Loaded, IRS Sends Befuddling Letters – Again
More than 500,000 ETH have been locked into Ethereum 2.0’s deposit contract, kick-starting the network’s major, multi-year development phase.
Blockchain Bites: XRP’s Rally, Chainalysis’ $1B Valuation, Bitcoin’s Volatility in Perspective
The U.S. government uses USDC to bypass Venezuelan blockades. Chainalaysis eyes a $100 million raise. BTC is less volatile than 22% of S&P500 stocks, VanEck finds.
Blockchain Bites: BlockRock Exec Says Bitcoin Is ‘Here to Stay,’ Investors Load Into BTC Puts
Institutional buyers are loading up on BTC puts, Deribit analysts say. Goldman Sachs thinks the “digital yuan” could be in a billion hands in a decade.
Blockchain Bites: FATF Considers DeFi, Binance Sues and One Step to a BTC ETF
PLUS: Deutsche Bank analysts reportedly said customers increasingly prefer bitcoin over gold.
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Latest Billionaire Bull, Zcash’s Upgrade, Grayscale’s $10B Breakthrough
A metric that has predicted previous bitcoin market tops indicates this rally has just begun.
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Run, Uniswap’s Hemorrhaging Value, Anchorage’s Banking Bid
Bitcoin is nearing all-time highs in price and market cap last set three years ago.
Blockchain Bites: Data Unions. Hard Forks. And One Citi Analyst’s Case for $300K BTC.
MIT researchers resoundingly reject blockchain-based voting. A Citibank MD thinks bitcoin could break out. And another DeFi protocol was hit with a flash loan attack.
Blockchain Bites: Bankrupted Cred’s Missing Millions, Bitcoin Miners’ Quarterly Losses and More
The top stories in bitcoin, crypto and more – all in one place.
Blockchain Bites: $16K BTC, $1B DAI, $13.6B TVL in DeFi
Bitcoin is riding fresh three-year highs as nearly all UTXOs are in profit, while MakerDAO’s DAI becomes the latest crypto “unicorn” with a $1 billion market cap.
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Path to $20K, Ethereum’s ‘Unannounced’ Fork and Biden’s Crypto-Friendly Picks
ALSO: ShapeShift delists three privacy coins citing regulatory uncertainty and $3 billion in blockchain bonds come to market on Friday.
Blockchain Bites: Billionaire Bullish on Bitcoin, Updates on Fowler’s Crypto Capital Case and More
The Silvergate Exchange Network added another exchange member while Riot Blockchain recorded bumper Q3 revenues.
Blockchain Bites: Figure Files for Banking Charter, Cred for Bankruptcy
Also: Ripple is opening a new office in Dubai and President-elect Joe Biden mulls two crypto-friendly potential cabinet picks.