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Retail investors have finally arrived at the bitcoin scene and have outbought institutions, claimed analysts from the giant multinational investment bank – JPMorgan Chase & Co. By analyzing data on popular retail-oriented brokerages, such as Square and PayPal, they concluded that smaller investors had bought nearly 190,000 bitcoins so far in this quarter.Retail Has ArrivedThe cryptocurrency community speculated for months if or when retail investors would come for BTC. After all, the...

The legal dispute between Ripple and the SEC continues with full force as the payment processor has requested the Commission to produce documents regarding Bitcoin and Ethereum – as they were officially deemed not to be securities.At the same time, thousands of XRP holders have asked the federal judge in charge to serve as third-party defendants as well.Ripple Seeks Documents on BTC and ETHThe latest developments in the Ripple vs. the SEC lawsuit came to light yesterday following a new letter...

AAVE, one of the market’s leading lending protocols, brings further offerings to its value proposition. In a recently released announcement, the protocol revealed that they have now enabled Uniswap and Balancer LP tokens to be collateralized on the platform.AAVE currently holds over $5 billion in total value locked, according to data from DeFi Pulse, and it ranks third in terms of this metric, trailing behind Maker and Compound.In a recent announcement, however, the protocol has taken steps...

As ETH’s price settles around $1,800 following the latest slumps, Ethereum investors continue to withdraw their holdings from centralized exchanges. Consequently, this has led to a new low of ETH tokens held on such trading venues, according to on-chain data.ETH Held on Exchanges Mark a New LowData provided by the analytics company CryptoQuant informed that the number of Ethereum tokens held on centralized exchanges has been gradually decreasing since the last quarter of 2020. At the time,...

Young Americans want to buy bitcoin, and they will use the stimulus checks to do so, said Galaxy Investment Partners’ CEO Mike Novogratz. He added that the primary cryptocurrency had become a proven asset in the past few months with the entrance of giant institutions and corporations.Retail Pushed Bitcoin Higher, Says NovogratzThe first-ever cryptocurrency went on a wild run in the past few days. During the weekend, bitcoin broke its previous ATH, breached above $60,000, and marked a new...

Sam Trabucco, a quantitative cryptocurrency trader, part of the Alameda Research team, took it to Twitter today to reveal that the company is in no way affiliated with REEF Finance. This came as a shock to the community, following a marketwide announcement last week that the latter had invested $20 million in REEF as a strategic placement and future communal initiatives.CryptoPotato received word from the CEO of REEF Finance, who explained what happened, in their view.Sounding the Alarm: Sam...

PancakeSwap, the largest and most popular decentralized cryptocurrency exchange and automated market maker (AMM) on Binance Smart Chain, might have had its DNS hijacked. Cream Finance is also under attack.In a tweet shared minutes ago, PancakeSwap’s official account revealed that the platform might have had its DNS (Domain Name System) hijacked.Until we are able to confirm this is not the case, do not use the site. We will confirm ASAP. In the meantime, better safe than sorry. – The team...

Bitcoin fell by over 10% in a day to about $55,000 following a considerable correction. On-chain data suggests that it could be attributed, to some extent, to sizeable deposits to the large US-based cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, just before the drop. However, Glassnode data refutes this option, claiming that the transfers were internal.18K Deposited to Gemini Prompted the Price Slumps?Everything seemed to be going in BTC’s way in the past several days. The asset had just recovered from its...

The past few hours have been rather unpleasant for bulls as the market took a swing to the lower side. More than $120 billion were wiped off the market capitalization, as bears poke their face.The latest developments in the cryptocurrency markets led to the liquidation of almost $2.3 billion worth of liquidations across both long and short positions in the past 24 hours alone.Unfortunately for bulls, it was the bears who got the upper hand in this, as 94% of all liquidations were long...

The cryptocurrency market is booming over the past few days, with Bitcoin marking a brand new all-time high and capturing the coveted $60,000 mark – another huge milestone.But, as we know from history, the market likes to move in cycles, so it might be the case that soon we see altcoins starting to catch up. With this said, we’ve prepared a list of a few cryptocurrencies besides BTC that might be interesting to look at over the following week.EthereumEthereum did pretty well over the past...