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It’s been an eventful week for crypto investors, given the events surrounding the SEC’s Twitter hacking and eventual approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF. The buzz around these ETFs has translated into price rises across the meme coin space, with Shiba Inu (SHIB), Dogecoin (DOGE), and Pepe (PEPE) all seeing gains. Investor demand has also ramped up for under-the-radar tokens, including Sponge V2 (SPONGEV2), which continues to attract attention ahead of its exchange listing. Meme...

Bitcoin miner outflow has reached a 77-month high despite an overall positive trend in the crypto market. According to on-chain intelligence firm CryptoQuant, the ‘Miner Outflow’ metric demonstrated the outflow of Bitcoin from mining pool wallets not seen since August 2017. The outflow metric doesn’t directly monitor funds transferred from miners’ addresses to crypto exchanges, potentially indicating sales. However, outflows provide a general indicator of sentiment, with...

Bitcoin soared past $49,000 hours ago after the first ETFs reached the US market but plummeted by over three grand in the following minutes. This resulted in a lot of pain for over-leveraged traders, as the total value of liquidated positions has soared to well over $300 million on a daily scale. January 10, 2024, will go down in history as one of the most prominent dates for the cryptocurrency industry as the US SEC finally greenlighted spot exchange-traded funds tracking...

Bitcoin (BTC) ripped to another multi-year high of $49,000 on Thursday within an hour of the first U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs going live on public markets. Between all 11 fund providers, Bitcoin ETFs have already traded $1.7 billion in cumulative volume, based on Yahoo Finance data. According to Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart, Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) has led the pack in terms of volume, trading at least $446 million just 30 minutes after the market opened....

EOS price started a fresh decline after it failed to stay above $0.880 against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $0.800 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.7620 on the 4-hour chart of the EOS/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could continue to decline if it stays below the $0.7620 and $0.7800 resistance levels. EOS price is struggling below $0.800 against the US...

Litecoin is gaining pace above the $68.00 resistance against the US Dollar. LTC price is now trading above $68.80 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $71.00 on the 4-hour chart of the LTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could gain bullish momentum if it clears the $71.00 and $72.00 resistance levels. Litecoin price is recovering from the $63.50 zone against the US Dollar, like...

Steve McClurg, co-founder and chief investment officer of Valkyrie Funds, has suggested the potential approval of Ethereum or XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) following the expected launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs in a recent Bloomberg interview. The prediction comes from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which is reportedly likely to approve Valkyrie’s Bitcoin ETF, whereby trading is anticipated to commence as early as Thursday. XRP And Ethereum Spot ETFs on the...

Solana price started a fresh increase from the $85.00 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading near $100.00 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break above a key bearish trend line with resistance at $92.90 on the 4-hour chart of the SOL/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair must clear $102 and $105 to continue higher in the near term. Solana price is trading above $90 against the US Dollar, like Bitcoin. SOL could start a...

Bitcoin price started a strong increase above the $45,000 zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading above $45,200 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There was a break above a key contracting triangle with resistance near $44,300 on the 4-hour chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could continue to rise if it stays above the $44,300 support zone. Bitcoin price is showing positive signs above $45,000 against the US Dollar....

A new report by Kaiko reveals that the liquidity for privacy tokens has plummeted to an all-time low of just $5 million. This drop follows the delisting of several trading pairs by OKX for not meeting certain criteria. Regulatory Challenges Behind Delisting Regulatory pressures have particularly impacted tokens like Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC), pushing them to the brink of being delisted from platforms like Binance due to low liquidity. Despite the market turmoil, the end of...