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Ethereum just experienced its first hint of post-merge price action. Unfortunately for bulls, it was to the downside.  After clinging to roughly $1600 over the past 24 hours, Ethereum has now slipped over 5% lower within the past two hours. Likewise, Bitcoin has lost its $20,000 level once again. Ethereum was trading for about $1587 at roughly 14:19 UST on Thursday. It rapidly descended after that, falling as low as $1456 just an hour later.  At the time of writing, Ethereum...

More crypto companies appear to have laid off their staff members. The only difference between them and Gemini and Coinbase is that they apparently did it in secret. The layoffs occurred some time ago and never made it to the news prior to now. One would assume the companies in question likely sought to avoid publicity for the move given how much flack the previously mentioned enterprises have received for their actions. Among the firms to have let employees go is famed...

While Ethereum’s long-anticipated Merge seems to have hardly dented its price at the time of the upgrade, one of its speculative offshoots experienced a storm of volatility.  Ethereum PoW (ETHW) – an Ethereum hard fork backed by a group of Ethereum miners – soared in value during the upgrade. However, it tanked to all-time lows just hours later.  The ETHW Rollercoaster According to live price data from CoinGecko, ETHW rallied from roughly $30 at 21:30 UST on Wednesday to...

During a time when many crypto companies and lending firms appear to be on their last legs, during a time when many digital asset enterprises are making their way out the door or cutting back on expenses and operations, others are flourishing, one of which is the new exchange Bit Castle based in the island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (in the Caribbean). Bit Castle Is Now Operational The crypto space has not been doing well these past few months. Several...

A group of leading venture capital firms and broker-dealers announced the creation of the cryptocurrency platform – EDX Markets (EDXM). The launch received support from giant finance players, including Citadel Securities, Fidelity Digital Assets, Charles Schwab, Sequoia Capital, Paradigm, and Virtu Financial. The Plan Came to Existence At the beginning of the summer, market makers Citadel Securities and Virtu Financial teamed up with retail brokerage firms Fidelity Investment...

Bitcoin is once again back below $20,000 after briefly surging above the price level last week.  The primary cryptocurrency traded at roughly $20,200 at 17:30 UST on Wednesday, before quickly declining to about $19,600 an hour later. It trades for $19,957 at the time of writing, unable to break back above $20k. According to CoinGlass, about $51 million have been wiped from the crypto markets in liquidations over the past 4 hours, adding to $185 million over the past 24...

A Bloomberg report on Wednesday claimed that Binance app downloads in India jumped to 429,000 in August, the highest this year. This comes just months after the country implemented stringent taxation on local exchanges. Binance’s India Gains Binance is the only one among the major exchanges whose app downloads had seen an increase in August over July, the month when 1% transaction tax in the form of TDS kicked in, a Bloomberg report said, quoting data from Sensor Tower, which...

The recent Bitcoin recovery had the majority of market participants hoping for a new bull market. However, after yesterday’s USA Consumer Price Index announcement, it seems like it was all another bull trap, and the market can still drop deeper. Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart As seen on the daily Chart, the price had rebounded from the $18K level and was moving towards the $24K resistance level. However, the 50-day and 100-day moving average lines, accompanied...

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Solana price started a fresh decline from the $39.00 resistance zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $35 and the 55 simple moving average (4-hours). There was a break below a key bullish trend line with support near $35.90 on the 4-hours chart of the SOL/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could extend losses if there is a clear move below the $32.80 support zone. Solana price is trading below $35 against the US Dollar, similar to bitcoin....