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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it had initiated and successfully settled legal actions against the Opyn, ZeroEx, and Deridex platforms. The three decentralized finance protocols allegedly failed to register various derivatives trading offerings. As stated in the official press release, Deridex and Opyn faced allegations of not registering as a swap execution facility (SEF) or designated contract market (DCM), failing to register as a futures...

After experiencing a significant downward move that brought Bitcoin’s price quickly close to the $25K threshold, bearish momentum has temporarily subsided, giving way to a phase of consolidation marked by low volatility. Despite this, the most likely scenario for Bitcoin appears to be a period of sideways movement followed by a temporary retracement towards the 100-day and 200-day moving averages (MAs). Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart The recent wave of intense...

Gideon Powell – the chief executive of Texas-based petroleum company Cholla Inc. – thinks bitcoin miners are revolutionary people that are bringing new levels of innovation to the U.S. Gideon Powell on What Makes BTC Miners Important In an interview, he said: Thinking about this from a capability standpoint, the ‘compute cowboys’ are unlocking new power markets for data centers and thinking about the future of industrial manufacturing. It’s all in its infancy....

Bitcoin spiked to a multi-day high above $26,400 yesterday, but that was short-lived, and the asset has returned to a familiar sight at under $26,000. The altcoins are also slightly in the red today, with BNB, ADA, and SOL retracing by over 1%. BTC Fails at $26K Bitcoin’s price performance has been anything but impressive for the past 10 days or so, ever since it shot up by $2,000 and then dumped by almost $3,000 days later after Grayscale’s win over the SEC. The subsequent...

Coinbase Ventures has kicked off its initial round of investments from the Base Ecosystem Fund by selecting six projects. The specific investment amounts have not been disclosed. The Base Ecosystem Fund is essentially operated by Coinbase Ventures, the investment branch of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, and is created to back early-stage projects that operate within its incubated Base network. According to the latest blog post, Base reported that its ecosystem fund has...

A hedge fund manager whose firm was ravaged by FTX’s November collapse is now warning of a second-coming “implosion” at Binance. On Tuesday, Ikigai Asset Management founder Travis Kling published a historical timeline outlining a history of “negative events” at Binance since December 2022, attracting attention from some of the exchange’s top brass. How Binance Resembles FTX Kling’s timeline includes over 40 events that have cast a shadow of doubt over Binance’s...

Insight from Coinmarketcap suggests that the SHIB/USDT market in Binance has more depth than all other SHIB markets in other exchanges.  According to market depth insights from CoinMarketCap, about $775k in funds could induce a 2% surge in price for SHIB on the Binance exchange. Conversely, a deduction of $1.1 million from the SHIB/USDT market in Binance could drive a price drop by 2%.  The data is quite different for the SHIB/USD pair. About $546k can cause a 2% surge in...

The cryptocurrency market is renowned for its volatility and high upside potential. However, the sub-category of meme coins takes this reputation a step further, providing ultra-high-risk, high-reward investment opportunities for degens who dare to partake. Over the past years, Dogecoin has stood as the figurehead of meme coins, turning countless investors into meme coin millionaires. One of these investors is Glauber Contessoto, who goes by the SlumDOGE Millionaire. However,...

Ethereum is now eight years of age, and many experts have come out to praise the world’s second largest digital currency by market cap. Ethereum is Now Eight Years Old! Ethereum first emerged in 2015 and was designed to be more of a network rather than a currency. This has worked well over the years given how much popularity it’s earned amongst developers who prefer its technology to bitcoin’s when it comes to creating new blockchains and assets. Not long ago,...

The market has been relatively calm throughout the past seven days, and it failed to deliver any substantial increase (or decrease) in most of the cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin. Starting with the BTC price, it’s more or less where it was this time last week – slightly below $26,000. To be fair, the cryptocurrency is down around 0.8% over the past seven days, and it wasn’t for the past day, the week looked as if it never happened. The price hovered around $26K in search...