Lending against Crypto? – A $10bn loan market emerges as 2020 comes to a close December 15, 2020 At the time of writing, the global market capitalisation of crypto assets (bitcoin, Ethereum and the like) is in excess of US$400bn. While still much smaller than other more traditional asset classes, this is considerable growth in market cap from a year ago, and yet – considering the perception of inherent volatility in crypto as [...]
NFTs: A hot trend for hackers December 15, 2020 2020 has been another milestone year for new, emerging crypto trends. From the research conducted by our Hacken team, we found that Decentralized Finance (DeFi) undeniably saw the most explosive growth with the total value locked in protocols up 2,000% since January 1, from US$690m to US$14.5bn. However, the Non-Fungible Token (NFTs) space has also [...]
The Year in Review – The 2020 Crypto OTC Market December 15, 2020 Covid is on the blockchain. No it’s not. That was a crypto and Covid joke in one! A trader I spoke to today said that 2020 has been a great year for our personal accounts and awful for just about everything else. Covid has defined 2020 for so much of the world and in my [...]
Bitcoin Maintains $19,000 Level As Corporate Adoption Keeps Growing December 14, 2020 This week CryptoCompare data shows the price of Bitcoin (BTC) moved from about $19,200 at the start of the week to a low slightly above $17,500 before recovering back to $19,100 at press time. The cryptocurrency has maintained this level despite a few pullbacks. Ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has similarly remained [...]
Rebuttal December 14, 2020 XRP receives a spark Bitcoin recovered strongly over the weekend and traded through the $19,000 level, before finding resistance just ahead of the $19,500 level. In part supported by macro narrative and also rotation out of XRP. To that, XRP traded softer over the weekend, largely as expected, as the Flare Network worked out which [...]
Bitcoin Regulation Stalls Rally! Is Now A Good Time To Buy Bitcoin? December 11, 2020 After an incredibly volatile week, Bitcoin heads into the weekend with great uncertainty over the price. There are many bullish events happening in the markets at the moment but one major bearish event is overshadowing them all. New legislation in the USA? As Donald Trump gears up to leave the White House, one of his [...]
Beyond digital gold: unlocking the true value of bitcoin December 11, 2020 Digital gold has gone mainstream. JP Morgan, BlackRock and the biggest names in global finance are now echoing the cypherpunks and suggesting that Bitcoin could replace the yellow metal as a safe haven in investment portfolios. But while Bitcoin does share characteristics with gold, a big reason why the digital gold narrative has found so [...]
Tumbling down December 11, 2020 Softer does it The market continued to trade softer and in early Friday trade, Bitcoin was trading below $18,000 level, while Ethereum fell below $550 level. Looking at the price action over this week and large cap MVIS index is down 7.5%, while the small cap index is down 10.2%. The open interest (OI) across [...]
Risking it all December 10, 2020 Disproportionate Focus MicroStrategy updated its initial statement and announced that it now anticipates raising $537.2 million in net proceeds from a debt offering to buy even more Bitcoins. This is significantly higher than the original target of $400 million. Furthermore, its unsecured, convertible senior notes will pay out 0.750% in interest annually to qualified institutional [...]
Definitely DeFi December 10, 2020 2020 has been a year of spectacular growth in the decentralised finance (DeFi) arena. From retail crypto enthusiasts diving in head-first, to institutional investors cautiously dipping their toes in – the blockchain-powered space of DeFi is flourishing. Since the start of the year, the amount of money locked in DeFi protocols has skyrocketed by a [...]