The number of ether coins held on exchanges continues to decrease and has reached its lowest position in more than two years. This comes as the tokens sent to the ETH 2.0 contract reached a new all-time high of over six million. ETH on Exchanges Down to a 2.5Y Low According to data from CryptoQuant, the ETH reserves on centralized exchanges had seen a massive drop in the past several days and especially after the mid-May market crash when investors rushed to deposit their...
Read More »Bitcoin Retraces to $34K as Trading Volume Reaches Multi-Month Low (Market Watch)
Following the positive weekend in terms of trading action, bitcoin has retraced by a few thousand dollars to just above $34,000. Most altcoins have also failed to continue upwards as ETH has dipped below $2,300, and BNB is close to breaking beneath $300. Bitcoin’s Trading Volume Drops as BTC Retraces Bitcoin proved most assumptions wrong in the past few days. There were concerns that history is to repeat itself and the asset could lose traction during the weekend as it did in...
Read More »DeFi Will Replace a Lot of Traditional Finance Services: Interview With Balancer
Balancer is one of the pioneers in the DeFi space and a core building block of its infrastructure. The protocol allows for efficient trading by pooling crowdsourced liquidity from investor portfolios while also identifying the best available price. Data from Token Terminal reveals the growth of the platform in terms of total value locked over the past year. Balancer Chart. Source: Token Terminal Before the most recent market-wide slump, which took place in May, Balancer had...
Read More »Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH Sets a 16-Day High, Is $2500 In Sight?
ETH/USD – New 16-Day High. Key Support Levels: $2300, $2250, $2130. Key Resistance Levels: $2350, $2440, $2540, $2640. Ethereum rebounded from support at $1700 (mid-March support) at the beginning of last week and surged into resistance at $2300 (bearish .5 Fib) on the first day of July. However, the second-largest crypto quickly got rejected and found support on top of the $2K mark on Friday. Over the weekend, ETH managed to break back above the 20-day MA (yesterday) and,...
Read More »Ethereum (ETH) Surges to a 2-Week High as Bitcoin Surpasses $35K (Market Watch)
Bitcoin’s weekend struggles seem to be nowhere near as the cryptocurrency initiated another leg up and reclaimed $35,000. Most of the altcoins have charted gains as well, with Ethereum jumping above $2,300 for the first time since mid-June. Bitcoin Reconquers $35K After the volatile week in which BTC reached a multi-day high of $36,600 and then retraced to below $33,000, all eyes were on the weekend as recent history showed that the asset tends to head south when the workweek...
Read More »COVID-19 Vaccine Certificates Sold on the Darkweb for BTC and ETH
Coinfirm revealed that some users on the notorious Darkweb have been selling falsified vaccine certificates for COVID-19 and stolen doses of vaccines in exchange for a variety of cryptocurrencies. Per the report, one can buy 10 shots of the AstraZeneca product for $250 or its crypto equivalent. BTC in Exchange for a Coronavirus Shot Criminals see the anonymous nature of the Darkweb as an attractive marketplace where they can execute a variety of illegal deals. The blockchain...
Read More »Bitcoin Reclaims $34K: Cardano Spikes 7% Following Grayscale News (Market Watch)
Although most previous weekends started with adverse price movements for bitcoin, this time, BTC added more than a grand and reclaimed $34,000. Most altcoins have also reclaimed some ground since yesterday, with Cardano (ADA) rising 7% after news from Grayscale. Bitcoin Tops $34K CryptoPotato reported previously that the primary cryptocurrency tends to head south at the start of the weekends. Consequently, there were concerns about similar developments this time as well. So...
Read More »Crypto Price Analysis & Overview July 2nd: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Binance Coin, & Polkadot
Unfortunately, we had another week of particularly choppy price action where most of the cryptocurrencies are trading in the red. Ethereum is an exception with a rather insignificant gain over the past seven days. Bitcoin Bitcoin is down a total of 4.7% over the past week as it breaks back beneath $33,000. The cryptocurrency started the week looking promising after double bottoming around $31,600. From there, it started to surge higher as it formed a short-term rising price...
Read More »Mike Novogratz: Bitcoin Will Be Digital Gold for 3,000 Years But Ethereum Can Surpass it
While outlining the differences between Bitcoin and Ethereum, Mike Novogratz suggested that the latter might actually surpass BTC in terms of becoming the largest digital asset. During a recent interview, the CEO of Galaxy Digital also urged the cryptocurrency community to enhance its efforts to educate lawmakers about Bitcoin and the entire industry. Can ETH Surpass BTC? The topic of the eventual “flippening” – an event that will see ether surpassing bitcoin as the world’s...
Read More »Renewed Hype? Twitter Unveils NFT Collection on Ethereum-Based Rarible
Twitter has become the latest entity to drop its own NFT collections despite a decrease in the hype surrounding non-fungible tokens. Announcing the development today, the social media platform revealed that it has created 140 NFTs, which will be distributed freely to 140 users. While the NFTs are free, about seven of them have already been listed on the Ethereum-based platform, Rarible, with a “not for sale” disclaimer. At the time of writing, the bidding price for each of...
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