Crypto exchange Bittrex settled charges of offering U.S. investors access to unregistered securities on Thursday, agreeing to pay a $24 million fine within two months of filing a liquidation plan for the exchange. The SEC sued Bittrex, which filed for bankruptcy in May, earlier this year, saying it simultaneously operated a securities exchange, broker and … Read more
332 million SAND tokens will be unlocked Monday, worth $133 million. SAND’s 24-hour trading volume at press time stands at $74.9 million, per CoinGecko. 60 million SAND tokens were transferred out of the multisig Sandbox Genesis smart contract one week ago, according to block explorer Etherscan, a sign that the unlock had already begun. Metaverse … Read more
Good morning. Here’s what’s happening: Prices: Bitcoin and ether are opening flat in Asia trading, seemingly unaffected by Thursday’s Consumer Price Index numbers. Insights: Coinbase (COIN) recently likened cryptocurrencies to Beanie Babies, questioning their future in finance. Meanwhile, analysts project that real-world asset tokenization could become a $5 trillion industry, but warn that without specific … Read more
Crypto-services provider Matrixport’s proprietary Bitcoin Greed & Fear Index, which has a solid track record of marking trend reversals, is signaling a bull revival in bitcoin (BTC) The Greed & Fear Index measures investor sentiment. Readings above 90% signal greed or excess optimism, and readings below 10% represent extreme fear or pessimism. Such indicators are … Read more
XRP temporarily surged to $50 on crypto exchange Gemini, which rocketed the token’s market capitalization to trillions of dollars if only for a few minutes. Prices shot up to those levels for a few minutes at 20:30 UTC on Thursday before immediately reverting to parity with the spot markets on other exchanges. The bump, which … Read more
Shiba Inu (SHIB) tokens have been among the top-performing cryptocurrencies over the past week amid low volatility conditions for bitcoin (BTC). The tokens have risen 20% over the past week, compared with nominal gains for bitcoin and ether (ETH). Among alternative currencies, higher returns were generated only by rollbit (RLB) and unibot (UNIBOT). Trading volumes … Read more
The market cap of altcoins is forming a bullish inverse head-and-shoulders pattern. A potential completion of the pattern would mark the beginning of alt season, according to one trader. A bullish inverse head-and-shoulders price pattern is building in the combined market capitalization of altcoins. The term “altcoin” is short for “alternative coin” and refers to … Read more
The launch of PayPal’s (PYPL) stablecoin PayPal USD (PYUSD) will drive payments efficiencies and an improved customer experience, but adoption of the cryptocurrency is unlikely to be significant in the near term, Bank of America said in a research report on Thursday. “Over the longer term, we expect PYUSD to experience additional adoption headwinds as … Read more
This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day. Latest Prices Top Stories A bullish inverse head-and-shoulders price pattern is building in the combined market capitalization of altcoins. The term “altcoin” is short for “alternative coin” … Read more
Base daily active users hits a record high of 136,000. Activity on Base is tied to Friend.Tech, a social network, rumored to be releasing a token airdrop. About $175 million has been bridged to Base since inception. Frenzied activity around Friend.Tech, a social network platform built on Coinbase’s (COIN) layer 2 blockchain Base, has driven … Read more