One of the largest cryptocurrency-focused companies, CoinShares, said on Friday that it has withdrawn all of its applications to launch spot crypto ETFs in the United States, including filings for XRP and SOL. At the same time, the demand for both large-cap altcoins on Wall Street has been rather impressive, with the cumulative total inflows […]
MegaETH announced that it will return all funds deposited into its Pre-Deposit Bridge. The Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution reversed a pre-launch campaign intended to preload collateral for USDm, the native stablecoin of the network’s upcoming Frontier mainnet. The team said the execution of the event “was sloppy,” while noting that user expectations around an […]
Around 147,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, Nov. 28, and they have a notional value of roughly $13.4 billion. This expiry event is larger than usual because it is the end of the month, so there may be some impact on spot markets, which have been mostly struggling to recover from this month’s […]
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said end-to-end encrypted messaging is essential for protecting digital privacy, identifying permissionless account creation and metadata privacy as the next major priorities for the sector. He pointed to Session and SimpleX as two projects working on these areas and disclosed that he has donated 128 ETH to each of them. Major […]
Whales are increasingly favoring long positions over retail traders in Ethereum (ETH) and Cardano (ADA), Alphractal found after gauging the Whale vs Retail Delta, a metric that measures net leveraged positioning between large and small investors. A positive delta indicates that whales are aggressively buying and leaning into longs, while a negative delta typically reflects […]
The Nasdaq International Securities Exchange filed with the SEC on Wednesday to quadruple position limits for options on BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (IBIT). The exchange is raising the options limit fourfold, from 250,000 contracts to 1 million contracts. Crypto industry author Adam Livingston called it “incredibly bullish news” for Bitcoin, adding: “This is the transition […]
Altcoins are back in the doldrums with most of this year’s gains being wiped out in a brutal November that saw more than a trillion dollars exit crypto markets. Analysts have been looking at the TOTAL3, or total market capitalization without Bitcoin and stablecoins, for signs of capital rotation. ‘Stockmoney Lizards’ said that altcoins feel dead, […]
Japan has officially finalized amendments to its crypto regulatory framework that have the potential to increase global Bitcoin demand. The reforms aim to clarify custodial liability, stimulate institutional participation, and position the country as a safe haven for digital assets. Reform Could Boost Bitcoin Demand According to crypto research and education institution XWIN Research Japan, […]
Bitcoin (BTC) ended last week with negative returns amid the broader crypto market’s continued decline. Analysts at the crypto exchange Bitfinex revealed in a weekly report that the record marked the fourth consecutive weekly decline for the leading digital asset. According to Bitfinex, the last time BTC recorded four straight weeks of negative returns was […]
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan outlined a valuation framework for digital asset treasury companies (DATs) and said that analysis of the sector often misunderstands how these firms should be priced relative to the assets they hold. In a series of posts, Hougan said the core question for valuing any DAT is to consider what […]