Swan Bitcoin has sued several former employees, accusing them of illegally taking highly prized components of its BTC mining business. Filed on September 25, the lawsuit claims these executives, now running Proton Management, conspired to misappropriate Swan’s intellectual property and secured funding from Tether to create a “counterfeit competitor.” Rain and Hellfire Plan The court filing […]
Changpeng Zhao, the founder and former CEO of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has served his four-month prison sentence and has been released from custody as of Friday. Although he has stepped down as the chief executive of Binance, he is still the largest stakeholder. Recall the events that took place almost a year ago […]
Gary Gensler, the chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), believes there have been significant changes in the financial market requiring upgraded definitions of exchanges and alternative trading platforms. During the 10th Annual U.S. Treasury Market Conference on September 26, Gensler highlighted the shifts in the capital markets since the SEC first […]
TL;DR Dogecoin (DOGE) surged 15% this week, breaking a six-month downtrend, with analysts predicting a potential rally to $0.21 amid strong whale activity. However, DOGE’s high RSI above 80 suggests it may be overbought, signaling a possible price correction soon. ‘It Has Begun’ Dogecoin (DOGE), just like many other meme coins, has been on an […]
Around 89,000 Bitcoin options contracts are due for expiry on Friday, Sept. 27. These BTC derivatives have a notional value of around $5.8 billion. Today’s options expiry is a whopper due to the end of the month and the end of the third quarter, so it could impact spot markets, which have been on the […]
TL;DR Shiba Inu (SHIB) surged 23% in 24 hours, potentially fueled by an explosion in its token burn rate (33,800% increase) and progress on its layer-2 solution, Shibarium. Despite analyst predictions of significant price gains, reaching targets like erasing two zeroes from SHIB’s valuation would require a highly improbable market cap of $800 billion. Climbing […]
The total crypto market has turned green today, with BTC trading at a multi-month peak and many larger-cap alts posting impressive gains. However, none is more impressive than the meme coin realm, as the three leaders have skyrocketed by triple digits. CryptoPotato reported yesterday the massive surge registered by the second-largest meme – Shiba Inu. […]
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of the crypto exchange BitMEX, believes Bitcoin is the “release valve” for fiat printed by traditional finance governments to suppress volatility in financial markets to unnatural levels. In an essay titled Volatility Supercycle, Hayes discussed how politicians printing money to create a calm economic surface triggers volatility in crypto and pushes the […]
On Sept. 26, CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju reported that America is regaining dominance in terms of BTC holdings. Its ratio compared to other countries is rising, “driven by spot ETF demand,” he added. According to the US reserve ratio chart he provided, holdings have been increasing for the past year but have yet to return […]
Base, the Ethereum layer-2 protocol developed by crypto exchange Coinbase, has recently witnessed a surge in its activities, resulting in a significant increase in its daily active addresses. According to data from the on-chain analytics platform IntoTheBlock, the increase in Base’s daily active addresses can be linked to the launch of Coinbase Wrapped Bitcoin (cbBTC) […]