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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the U.S. Commodity Futures Buying and selling Fee (CFTC) shouldn’t be issuing warnings towards decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. Final week, the CFTC introduced that it charged DeFi protocols ZeroEx, Opyn and Deridex for providing unlawful derivatives buying and selling. The regulator says it additionally ordered the three companies to pay financial penalties and to stop and desist from violating the Commodity Alternate Act (CEA) and different CFTC rules. Armstrong, nonetheless, argues that these tasks should not monetary companies companies and says “it’s extremely unlikely the Commodity Alternate Act even applies to them.” “My hope is these DeFi…
Ethereum Core Developers have officially approved EIP-7514 for inclusion in the upcoming Dencun upgrade which is slated for late 2023. This Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) primarily aims to decelerate the growth rate of ETH staking, thereby providing the Ethereum community additional time to craft an improved validator reward scheme. The main modification brought by this EIP is setting the Max Epoch Churn Limit, the validator activation queue upper limit, to a constant value of 8. Previously, the churn limit was calculated by taking “The total number of validators/65536,” which at present equates to about 12/epoch. The decision followed an Ethereum…
In recent days, Bitcoin has shown signs of a potential reversal, with the cryptocurrency charting three consecutive green daily candles. The last time such a pattern was observed was early July and between mid and late June, when Bitcoin rallied from just under $25,000 to over $31,000. This shift in price dynamics has led to a change in market sentiment, with the bearish outlook slowly giving way to a more bullish perspective. While Bitcoin has successfully averted the confirmation of a double top on the 1-week chart fo the moment, this price action has fueled discussions among analysts about the…
Data shows the Ethereum leverage ratio has been going up recently, something that may lead to higher volatility for the asset’s price. Ethereum Estimated Leverage Ratio Has Risen To 23% Now As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQuant Quicktake post, the Ethereum leverage ratio is pointing at increased risk in the market. The “estimated leverage ratio” (ELR) refers to the ratio between the Ethereum open interest and derivative exchange reserve. The former of these, the “open interest,” keeps track of the total amount of positions that are currently open in the ETH futures market, while the latter metric, the…
Despite the less-than-impressive performance over the last few months, Bitcoin investors are still digging their heels deeper into the digital asset. This is evidenced by the continuous rise in wallet activity that has been recorded during this time. Bitcoin Wallet Activity Hits Highest In 5 Months In a Tuesday post, on-chain data aggregator Santiment revealed that there has been a significant uptick in Bitcoin wallet activity despite the BTC price downtrend. Apparently, while the market had fluctuated heavily due to regulatory uncertainties, Bitcoin investors held their own, especially in terms of new wallet address activity. The Santiment reports show fluctuations…
Bitcoin (BTC) soared by over 5% on Tuesday to trade above $26,000 for the first time this week. A major contributor to this price rise was an increase in positive sentiment around the token as a result of Franklin Templeton, a $1.45 trillion asset manager, filing for a spot bitcoin ETF with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) However, as the market euphoria dies down, the premier cryptocurrency has experienced some market recorrection, with many investors now speculating on the token’s next movement. On this note, popular crypto analyst Ali Martinez has discovered a buy signal for BTC investors.…
CertiK, a agency specializing in blockchain and good contract safety, has introduced the discharge of a brand new SkyInsights instrument to handle the rising wants associated to crypto compliance and danger administration within the Web3 business. The platform, SkyInsights, makes use of CertiK’s in depth databases to supply enriched danger insights, involving greater than two billion pockets addresses and good contract labels throughout over 150 various classes. These knowledge factors are supposed to permit companies with digital asset publicity an enhanced view of transaction and counterparty dangers. As a part of CertiK’s providers, SkyInsights presents pockets screening capabilities and intends to…
Traditional financial institutions that have filed crypto ETF applications have focused on a particular market (spot or futures). However, a recent NASDAQ application suggests that the asset manager Hashdex is taking a different approach, which could be a game changer in the Ethereum ETF race. NASDAQ Proposes To List Ethereum ETF According to the application filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the stock exchange plans to list and trade shares of the Hashdex Nasdaq Ethereum ETF, which will be managed and controlled by Toroso Investments LLC. Interestingly, the fund will hold both Ether futures contracts and Spot…
Institution crypto investors have been pulling out of the market for the better part of this year, especially as the bear market has taken hold. However, Ethereum has suffered way more than other assets in this regard with outflows dragging total assets under management (AuM) down. This comes as Ethereum has struggled after falling below the $1,600 support. Institutional Investors Pull Out Of Ethereum In the latest iteration of its Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly Report, alternative asset manager CoinShares has revealed a growing aversion from institutional investors toward Ethereum. This is characterized by a tremendous amount of outflows spanning…
The Bitcoin price has been moving sideways over the past few weeks, although it saw a volatility spike in the last 24 hours. However, the cryptocurrency remains stuck as sentiment turns negative, and more and more traders expect another re-test of critical support. As of this writing, Bitcoin (BTC) trades at $26,200 with a 3% profit in 24 hours. The cryptocurrency recorded a 2% profit the previous week and was the best performer in the crypto top 10 by market capitalization. BTC’s price is moving sideways on the daily chart. Source: BTCUSDT on Tradingview Why Is The Bitcoin Price Likely…