Despite a recent sell-off, today we find the crypto market sentiment with a score it hasn’t seen in at least a year. The combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins is 6.23 – the highest score we’ve written down since starting this series a year ago. For comparison, it…
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Arthur Hayes. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, CfC st. Moritz The normally outspoken CEO of major crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, has gone quiet after a short-lived crash occurred in the exchange’s XRP derivatives market, which may have led to large losses for some traders on the platform. (Updated at 14:54 UTC: updates in…
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Things took a downturn for IOTA (MIOTA), as the network has been “paused,” while its team is focusing on the developing situation of the hacked Trinity wallet. IOTA seems to be going through an escalation of events. When this incident was first reported on, on February 12, IOTA advised people to keep their Trinity wallet…
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Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR), deemed as a blockchain alternative, has surged in the market over the past couple of days after news came out that the blockchain platform is working with Google Cloud, a suite of cloud computing services, in several areas. As of pixel time on Thursday (11:00 UTC), HBAR had secured the spot as…
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XRP, the token associated with the U.S.-based fintech firm Ripple, today soared to its highest level in U.S. dollar terms since July 2019 after the company announced yet another partnership, this time with the National Bank of Egypt, known as the largest state-owned bank in the country. As of pixel time on Thursday (10:58 UTC),…
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There’s a number of different ways one can get in trouble offering, selling or promoting unregistered and non-exempt tokens or coins, says Barrington Dyer, tech attorney and shareholder at Polsinelly law firm. But the past litigations can teach us a lesson on the blockchain law in the U.S. When it comes to the most active…
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Both ethereum (ETH) and tezos (XTZ) surged overnight to post double-digit 24-hour gains, positioning them as two the best-performing cryptoassets among the top 10 coins both over the past 24-hours and for the week. As of pixel time (10:00 UTC), ETH is up by over 14% over the past 24 hours to a price of…
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Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. M&A news Voyager Digital Canada, the operator of U.S. digital asset broker Voyager and the Ethos Universal Wallet, said it has agreed to acquire Circle Invest, the retail digital asset business,…
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Looking into the dapp (decentralized app) ecosystem, things are looking good for Ethereum (ETH) and Tron (TRX), but EOS doesn’t seem to have the same fortune. “While [Ethereum and Tron] are increasing in 2020 January in comparison to 2019 January, EOS is facing a decrease in daily active users by 61%,” says DappRadar, a Lithuania-headquartered…
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Cryptocurrency and blockchain industry officials have expressed their displeasure at proposed leverage capping at Japanese exchanges – as a consultation period deadline approaches. The country’s financial regulator, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), has put forward a proposal that would – as previously reported – seek to place a x2 leverage cap on margin Read more…
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