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CoinMarketCap Launches Alexandria: Learn All About Crypto in One Place
2.9.2020
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Increase Your Profit Potential With Margin Trading
25.8.2020
Spot trading is a popular way for investors to access the crypto market in a straightforward manner. It’s mainly fiat-to-crypto trading, as well as crypto-to-crypto trading. It’s simple, you get a crypto wallet, you buy a token with fiat currencies, and then once the price...
Spot Markets Target Top-Tier Exchanges While Derivatives Gain Market Share
17.8.2020
July saw a major shift towards top-tier exchanges on spot markets, while derivatives volumes continue to eat into spot volumes market share
‘This Ad Is S***’: Bitcoiners on Grayscale’s New TV Spot
12.8.2020
Grayscale Investments released a 30-second TV spot on its nine crypto trusts on major news networks this Monday
SEC Seeking ‘Smart Contract’ Tracing Tool That Can Spot Security Vulnerabilities
4.8.2020
The federal securities watchdog has taken an interest in DeFi's most basic building block
Tether Prints $300 Million, While XRP Reclaims Third Spot
30.7.2020
Tether Ltd printed a total of USDT 300 million Wednesday and this brought the total coins created to 540 million in the last three days alone. The latest USDT printing will see the top stablecoin’s market capitalization significantly passing the $10 billion mark. Responding to a whale alert...
13 Exchanges Pass the New 'Trusted' Spot Volume Tests
29.7.2020
Just above half of the examined crypto exchanges passed the tests for 'trusted' spot volume, according to crypto market analysis firm Coin Metrics's latest metric. One failed all of them.
Coin Metrics has introduced a "trusted volume" metric, in an effort to help differentiate between...
Crypto Race Heats Up: Bitcoin’s Dominance Ratio Drops to Lowest Level in 12 Months
24.7.2020
The largest digital asset by market capitalization, bitcoin has lost a significant share of market dominance during the last few weeks. Bitcoin’s dominance ratio dropped to 61.5% on Thursday, after hovering around 66% for months on end. The last time the crypto asset’s dominance level...
As Spot Gold Surges Higher, Tether’s Gold Token Lags Behind
23.7.2020
While gold-backed crypto tokens are being touted as an alternative to USD-pegged stablecoins, a previous price premium on these tokens has now turned into more of a mixed picture as one popular token leads, while other lags behind the soaring traditional spot gold price.
At the time of writing...
Make Jamstack Slow? Challenge Accepted.
15.7.2020
“Jamstack is slowwwww.” That’s not something you hear often, right? Especially, when one of the main selling points of Jamstack is performance. But yeah, it’s true that even a Jamstack site can suffer hits to performance just like any other site. 
Don’t think that by choosing Jamstack you...
Running spot instances effectively with Amazon EKS
14.7.2020
I know this is a little outside the normal scope of CSS-Tricks stuff, but I find the whole concept of spot instances fascinating. Here’s the gist from a very-non-expert (me). You can just buy and pay for web servers, for example, Amazon EC2. You can save a bunch of money if you buy them...
Kazakhstan Sets Eyes on Top-3 Spot for Global Bitcoin Mining
10.7.2020
The post-Soviet country’s cheap electricity has been attracting Bitcoin miners, but will it manage to elbow out Russia and the United States?
Crypto Derivatives Volumes Crash 36% to $393 Billion in June, a Low for 2020
7.7.2020
Crypto derivatives trading volumes plunged 36% to $393 billion in June, the lowest they have reached in 2020, according to a new report by Cryptocompare. The decline may be the result of a lull in investor interest in the instruments during the month in review. In May, derivatives – contracts...
Crypto Spot Trading Halved in June; Kraken's Move in Europe + More News
6.7.2020
This is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Spot trading volumes on both top tier and lower tier crypto exchanges plummeted in June to USD 177bn (-36%) and USD 466bn (-53%)...
Binance Retains Top Spot as CoinGecko Revamps Exchange Trust Metric
1.7.2020
CoinGecko has added a cybersecurity metric to its Trust Score. Like with rival data site CoinMarketCap, the largest exchange Binance retains pole position
Compound’s COMP Token Takes DeFi by Storm, Now Has to Hold Top Spot
29.6.2020
Compound’s COMP token has been wildly successful in the initial period since launching. What’s behind it, and is it sustainable?
How to Spot a Crypto Scam
24.6.2020
Another scammer is impersonating the CoinDesk website and offering impossible investment returns. We did some digging
Here Is Why BigONE’s New VIP System Can Make the Most Out of Your Everyday Trading
22.6.2020
BigONE Exchange, one of the world’s safest crypto exchanges, has taken on a new sheen as it just launched a brand new VIP system that converts a user’s every engagement with the platform into his or her own benefits, be they discount on spot trading fees, reduction on leverage interests...
3 Ways Bitcoin Traders Can Spot and Avoid Crypto Market Manipulation
21.6.2020
Institutions have embraced Bitcoin but BTC whales still impact the crypto market by using hidden orders and wash trading
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Spot Volumes Are Weak While Options and DeFi Strengthen
19.6.2020
Lower bitcoin spot volumes and flatter-than-usual price action doesn’t mean crypto traders have zero opportunities to capitalize