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First Mover: Nine (Bullish) Bitcoin Predictions for Final Months of (Awful) 2020
1.10.2020
Bitcoin is outperforming pretty much every other asset class this year, with a 50% YTD gain, and analysts are bullish heading into 4Q
First Mover: Chainlink’s Sorry September Returns Shows DeFi Hysteria Deflating
30.9.2020
Chainlink's LINK has been the worst-performing digital asset in September in the CoinDesk 20, during an ugly month across cryptocurrency markets
First Mover: Binance CEO Sees Future in DeFi While Bitcoin Volatility Turns Minuscule
29.9.2020
Binance CEO isn't ashamed to discuss DeFi's future — and how the fast-moving arena might represent the future of his industry-leading crypto exchange
Binance CEO Says He Fully Expects DeFi to Cannibalize His Crypto Exchange
29.9.2020
Binance CEO “CZ” acknowledges the irony of trying to tap into DeFi while defending his company’s reign among crypto exchanges
First Mover: Bitcoin Low Exchange Balances Looks Bullish, But Chart Looks Bearish as $11K Nears
28.9.2020
Bitcoin balances on exchanges hit 2-year low, seen as a bullish sign that traders are holding for the long term, or tokenizing for use in DeFi
Voyager CEO Says Revenue Growth Accelerates 8-Fold as DeFi Trading Surges
25.9.2020
CEO Steve Ehrlich says this quarter's revenue is on track to double what the company produced in all of its last fiscal year
First Mover: Tron’s Play for WBTC Shows Competition to Relieve Ethereum Congestion
25.9.2020
Competition builds in market for tokenized bitcoin, used to get extra profit off holdings of the cryptocurrency recently denigrated as a "pet rock."
First Mover: Federal Reserve, Congress Play Game of Chicken Over Stimulus as Market Lurches
24.9.2020
Markets from stocks to bitcoin have groaned amid dimming prospects for more U.S. stimulus, and neither Congress nor the Fed are taking the lead
Supply of Tokenized Bitcoin on Ethereum Now Tops $1.1 B: Here’s Why
22.9.2020
The supply of BitGo’s wrapped bitcoins (WBTC) topped 76,000 after setting an all-time record of nearly 21,000 WBTC minted within one week. Here’s why
Bitcoin-on-Ethereum Token tBTC Relaunches Following Buggy Debut in May
22.9.2020
TBTC, a decentralized way to copy bitcoin (BTC) over to Ethereum, is relaunching today after a smart-contract bug sunk the project in May
First Mover: Bitcoin’s Latest Sell-Off Gets Crypto Traders Mulling Election Chaos
22.9.2020
Monday's sell-off shows bitcoin is likely to trade off with risky assets like stocks if U.S. election chaos sends markets into a fresh downdraft
Bitcoin and Ether in Biggest Slump Since Sept. 3 as Stock Markets Sink
21.9.2020
Prices for both Bitcoin and Ether fell sharply in the past 24 hours, after a drop in global equities
First Mover: Digital Gold Narrative Could Be Bitcoin’s Lone Ace as Ethereum Gains
21.9.2020
Bitcoin's "digital gold" narrative looks promising as ever, but the cryptocurrency's dominance is waning as Ethereum rides DeFi fever
Uniswap’s Sudden $5B Token Valuation Cements Comeback from `Vampire Mining’ Attack
18.9.2020
Uniswap's surprise token delivery has given the decentralized exchange a market value of more than $5 billion, instantly making it No. 1 in DeFi
First Mover: Federal Reserve Does What It Wants to Do as Bitcoin Hits $11K
17.9.2020
This week's Fed meeting ushered in a new regime for U.S. monetary policy, offering a reminder of just how frequently top officials change the rules
First Mover: Binance’s CZ Doesn’t Even Dispute That DeFi Might Be Inevitable
16.9.2020
Big crypto exchanges like Binance, Huobi and OKEx are rushing out DeFi platforms to cash in on the fast-growing industry and stanch user defections
First Mover: Ethereum Gets Unplanned Stress Test as DeFi Fever Grows
11.9.2020
The Ethereum blockchain's soaring gas prices don't seem to have deterred customers, as DeFi usage grows and tests what the market can bear
First Mover: DeFI ‘Vampire’ SushiSwap Sucks $800M from Uniswap; BitMEX Basis Lags
10.9.2020
SushiSwap, the "vampire mining" protocol, sucked more than $800 million from rival Uniswap in the latest DeFi mind-bender. PLUS: BitMEX futures distortions
Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 9, 2020
9.9.2020
With bitcoin hovering just above $10,000 and a tokenized form of Ethereum transaction fees in the crosshairs, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!
First Mover: SushiSwap’s Billion-Dollar ‘Rug Pull’ Is Thriller to Crypto Geeks
8.9.2020
The "Sushi rug pull" is a gripping drama in the fast-moving arena of decentralized finance, which apparently is still limited to crypto geeks