Around 31,000 Bitcoin options contracts will expire on Friday, Dec. 19, and they have a notional value of roughly $2.7 billion. This expiry event is smaller than average, so it will not impact spot markets, which have been sliding lower all week. Various factors have contributed to the continued sell-off, including another Chinese Bitcoin mining crackdown, […]
Coinbase’s ‘Everything app’ has officially launched, bringing social features, trading, payments, and earning tools into a single platform. The cryptocurrency exchange has also confirmed plans to introduce stock trading and prediction markets on the platform. Tokenized Social and Trading Platform First announced in July, the Base app was positioned as a rebrand of Coinbase Wallet, […]
Caroline Ellison, the former chief executive of Alameda Research and a central figure in the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire, has been quietly moved out of a federal prison facility after serving roughly 11 months of a two-year sentence. The 31-year-old was transferred on October 16 from the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, […]
Bitcoin (BTC) is showing clear signs of entering an increased risk-off phase as market structure indicators shift into bearish territory. According to analyst Axel Adler Jr., both the Structure Shift composite indicator and the Bull-Bear Index point to growing downward pressure, particularly in the derivatives market. Risk-Off Signals Flash Red The Structure Shift signal, which […]
Bitcoin’s average price behavior after the RSI (relative strength index) drops below 30 has nearly always rebounded, according to the macro research head at Global Macro Investor, Julien Bittel. He shared a chart showing the average market path the last five times Bitcoin’s RSI broke below 30. The analyst also rejected the popular belief that […]
Bitcoin selling pressure is still outweighing demand and buying pressure as the bears are keeping markets suppressed. “Why is Bitcoin not pumping?” asked analyst and Stock-to-Flow model founder PlanB on Wednesday. He said that 50% is selling by “OGs traumatized by 2021, technical investors looking at RSI [relative strength index], and four-year cycle fans expecting […]
The interview for the new prospective chairman of America’s central bank will happen on Wednesday, reported the WSJ, citing people familiar with the matter. Pro-crypto Waller, whom Trump originally appointed to the Fed board in 2020, has been a leading advocate for rate cuts this year and could take over when Jerome Powell’s term ends […]
Digital asset investment products recorded total inflows of $864 million last week, in the third consecutive week of modest gains. CoinShares said that this trend indicates a cautiously optimistic investor sentiment despite mixed market reactions following the recent US Federal Reserve interest rate cut. Cautious Optimism Builds According to the latest edition of CoinShares’ Digital […]
A new prediction market platform called Probable is set to launch on the BNB Chain. Decentralized exchange leader PancakeSwap and venture studio YZi Labs, who are co-incubating the initiative, announced the project on social media today. A Frictionless Forecast Platform According to the announcement posts, Probable is looking to distinguish itself in the prediction market […]
Analytics platform DefiLlama has reported an elevated degree of price synchronization among leading cryptocurrencies. Over the past week, several major trading pairs showed correlation coefficients above 0.9, with Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL) moving almost perfectly in sync at 0.99, suggesting a market in unison, with broad sentiment overriding individual asset stories. Correlation Spike Highlights […]