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Throughout 2019 and the first part of 2020, the growth of the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem captured investors’ attention, leading to a significant influx of investors into Ethereum while also giving rise to the fast-growing stablecoin sector. DeFi’s meteoric growth hasn’t come without growing pains, however, as multiple lending protocols have faced issues that impact […]

Bitcoin saw an explosive upside movement earlier today that caught the cryptocurrency’s bears off-guard, leading to over $75 million in positions to be liquidated. Open interest (OI) on popular crypto trading platform BitMEX has also plunged in the time following this movement, with the freshly liquidated positions apparently leading many traders to move to the […]

Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BTSE has announced the launch of a new tool that will make it easier to access OTC trading on the platform. In a press release shared with CryptoSlate, the company said that the Request for Quote (RFQ) tool will allow traders to obtain a quote on a fixed price before purchase, enabling […]

Bitcoin’s performance over the past few weeks since the mid-March bottom has undoubtedly been impressive. The cryptocurrency, after all, is up nearly 100 percent from the $3,700 lows, a performance that only companies that got supported by the U.S. government, like Boeing, have been able to match. Even still, the rally isn’t done yet. 8 […]

Bitcoin has been on a remarkable run over the past decade, despite the recent downturn. Case in point: the cryptocurrency, which first traded at around $0.001, is now worth upwards of $7,000, a percentage gain that is literally in the hundreds of millions of percent. While such a gain is ludicrous in and of itself, […]

Ethereum has seen a notable price spike today that has come in tandem with a recovery seen across the aggregated cryptocurrency market. This movement has allowed ETH to recapture its position above $180 as Bitcoin navigates into the $7,000 region. One interesting fundamental development that has coincided with Ethereum’s recent price rise is that its […]

Data suggests that large buyers – sometimes referred to as “smart money” – have been in full Bitcoin accumulation mode over the past couple of months, with the number of proverbial “whales” hitting multi-year highs just in the past week. From a macro perspective, this data metric is offering significant hope to investors, as it […]

Zcash and Dash appear to be leading the cryptocurrency market. Despite the recent bullish impulse they went through, a steep correction may be underway. High correlation and its predictive powers Over the past month, Bitcoin, Zcash, and Dash have experienced a high correlation regime. Whenever one of these cryptocurrencies moves upwards or downwards the other […]

FTX, one of the fastest-growing crypto derivatives exchanges in the world, has announced the launch of crude oil futures that expire to the spot price of WTI crude oil plus $100 dollars. The fact that the product comes at a time when oil prices touched negative has instilled a new kind of confidence in the […]

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has been one of the most used buzz-words in the crypto industry last year. The rise of applications built on the Ethereum network was followed by an equally high rise of the expectations people had from the newly created industry—a decentralized answer to the problems with the current financial system. One of […]