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The number of open BitMEX Bitcoin futures contracts (XBTUSD) tends to peak at around $1 billion, or 100,000 BTC. Having open interest heavily dependant on key psychological levels shows that the crypto derivatives market has matured. Is the crypto derivatives market maturing? The crypto derivatives industry has long been considered a niche one, catering to […]

MakerDAO announced the release of Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD). The move is going to bring a wide range of new features to the Maker protocol, including Dai Savings Rate (DSR) and additional collateral asset types. Despite the major announcement, MKR’s price remains stagnant. The new Multi-Collateral Dai Over a month ago, MakerDAO disclosed a change in […]

Several altcoins are starting to move exponentially despite Michael Novogratz’s claim that the “market is getting smarter.” VeChain, for instance, has been on a rampage surging nearly 185 percent in the last 22 days. As the volatility spreads through other cryptocurrencies, the following technical analysis will explore whether EOS, Chainlink, and Tezos are bound for […]

Privacy-centric Verge (XVG) is preparing to conduct a hard fork that would change the way its halving is structured. As the amount of XVG that can be mined over time is limited, its price could be significantly impacted. Verge 6.0 Verge is a cryptocurrency designed for people who value their privacy. It improves upon the […]

CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to talk with the CEO of EMURGO, Ken Kodama. EMURGO is the commercial arm of Cardano. As CEO of EMURGO, Kodama leads the overall mission to drive the adoption of Cardano by building, investing in, and advising projects or organizations that adopt Cardano’s third-generation decentralized blockchain ecosystem. Below is our […]

Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Bybit has announced the launch of the BTC Brawl competition, which has been dubbed the “biggest global team trading competition the world has ever seen!” Going from strength to strength, after having recently broken the $4,000,000,000 USD mark for 24-hour trading volume, the BTC Brawl is another sign of Bybit’s stratospheric rise […]

Most major altcoins in the likes of Ethereum and XRP have already retraced to 2017 levels. As Bitcoin gears towards a bearish short term trend, investors remain divided on whether altcoins will continue their recovery or begin to see weakened momentum. In recent weeks, Ethereum, XRP, and other altcoins have demonstrated signs of an extended […]

The recent volatility in the crypto markets has led the price action of major altcoins like Ethereum to form a close correlation to that of Bitcoin, which means that the aggregated market has fallen into a bout of sideways trading over the past couple of days. One popular analyst is now noting that Ethereum is […]

Bitcoin has been facing steep selling pressure over the past 24-hours that has marked an extension of that which was first incurred when it broke below $9,000 earlier this month — a previous support level that BTC bulls had been ardently defending. This recent downtrend has led retail interest in Bitcoin to plateau, as data […]

In a Reddit AMA, the co-founders of Brave said that the battle for privacy was an arms race they can win thanks to the company’s ability to innovate quickly. The launch of Brave 1.0 invited many questions from the Reddit community, most of which focused on Brave’s mechanisms for securing data and preventing tracking. Building […]