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Bitcoin Derivatives Action Swells: A Few June Futures Trade for $30K, Deribit Adds $140K Options Strike
27.12.2020
Bitcoin derivatives markets have been seeing significant demand in recent months at the same time bitcoin spot markets climbed to all-time price highs and surged 149% during the last three months. Just recently the leading bitcoin options exchange Deribit announced the launch of both $120k...
Huobi Set for US Return, Italians Experiment With Digital Euro + More News
22.12.2020
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The Huobi business group appears set to make a return to the United States a year after it hastily exited the country. The group’s...
Huobi plans return to the US after ceasing operations in 2019
22.12.2020
Huobi Group is setting up a trust company in Nevada after closing down the U.S. subsidiary in 2019
Bitcoin Options Daily Volume Crosses $1 Billion, $100K Strike Introduced for 2021
18.12.2020
Cryptocurrency derivatives markets have been seeing significant demand, as daily volumes for bitcoin options crossed $1 billion on December 17, 2020. Most of the record turnover has been taking place on the derivatives platform Deribit, and a large $100k strike has been introduced on the exchange...
Huobi’s HUSD Stablecoin to Run on Nervos Blockchain
8.12.2020
China's Nervos picks Huobi's HUSD as the first available stablecoin on its blockchain amid a DeFi boom in China
Huobi Global looks to become key player in Polkadot ecosystem
5.12.2020
Huobi and the Web3 Foundation are pouring resources into supporting projects on Polkadot
Research Suggests Bitcoin Buying Ramps Up When Traditional US Markets Open
4.12.2020
While bitcoin and a number of digital assets set new 2020 price highs, a variety of crypto-asset commentators have detailed that since October, there’s been a lot of bitcoin buying action during U.S. market hours. Data shows that between East Asia and North America, the two regions account...
Onchain Researchers Suspect Chinese Government Sold Plustoken’s Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Hoard Last Year
2.12.2020
A number of masterminds from the Plustoken scam were sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding cryptocurrency investors. Last week, on November 19, a court ruling had shown the Chinese government said that it seized over $4 billion in crypto assets from the Plustoken scam. Meanwhile, onchain...
Coinbase, Huobi Join Other Exchanges in Supporting Ethereum 2.0 Staking
1.12.2020
With the much-anticipated launch of Phase 0 of Ethereum (ETH) 2.0 finally here, the industry begins to prepare for the transition to the proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus algorithm for the second largest cryptoasset by market capitalization. Major crypto exchanges, including Kraken, Coinbase and Huobi...
CME Group Outpaces Competition Becoming the World’s Largest Bitcoin Futures Market
29.11.2020
Financial derivatives products for bitcoin have grown massively during the last few months. On Friday evening (EST), Arcane Research explained that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has surpassed Okex as the largest bitcoin futures provider. The regulated derivatives market at CME has doubled month...
Huobi-Branded Crypto Exchange Launches for Malaysian Market
27.11.2020
Huobi Labuan said it's been licensed in Malaysia for a nine-month trial period of cryptocurrency spot and derivatives trading services
Huobi launches regulated crypto exchange in Malaysia
27.11.2020
The new entity is called Huobi Labuan, and its brokerage license allows it to offer crypto spot and derivatives trading for an initial nine-month trial period
XRP Price Climbed 123% in 30 Days, Spark Token Airdrop Pushes Value Higher
24.11.2020
During the course of the week digital currency markets have seen colossal gains and one crypto asset, in particular, XRP, has jumped significantly in value over the last seven days. The distributed ledger token XRP climbed 25% upwards on Tuesday alone, and seven-day price stats show the coin...
USDT Towers Over 30 Stablecoins- Tether’s Market Cap Grew by 2 Million Percent in Just Four Years
22.11.2020
During the last two years since the initial bear market after the 2017 bull run, stablecoins have been extremely popular. Today, statistics show that the market capitalization of all the notable stablecoins today is hovering above the $23.9 billion mark. Out of more than 30 stablecoins in 2020...
Huobi Eyes Bithumb Takeover Deal – Report
17.11.2020
Chinese crypto exchange heavyweight Huobi could be set to snap up a controlling stake in Bithumb, South Korea’s biggest trading platform – in a deal that could create an Asian trading behemoth.
Per a report from The Bell Korea, an unnamed investment banking source believed to be close to the deal...
BTC Options Open Interest Surges, Traders Look to an Unfilled Bitcoin Futures Gap at $18K
15.11.2020
Bitcoin prices have been volatile during the last few weeks, but have managed to climb higher in value at the same time. This week bitcoin derivatives markets, specifically futures and options, show that crypto asset traders should expect more swings going forward. Some traders believe that...
$300M in Bitcoin Flow to Binance From Huobi as China Gets Tougher on Exchanges
13.11.2020
The Chinese government cracks down on the crypto exchanges (again), but Binance has been benefiting
Spot Trading Dropped On Binance, OKEx, Coinbase, Kraken, Huobi in October + More News
9.11.2020
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Major crypto exchanges experienced up to a double-digit drop in their spot trading volumes in October, according to CryptoCompare....
Hash Watch: Bitcoin Cash Services Reveal Contingency Plans for Upcoming Fork
5.11.2020
The Bitcoin Cash blockchain is set to upgrade on Sunday, November 15 and it’s still expected that the network will bifurcate. So far, a number of crypto services have revealed contingency plans for the fork, and today’s data shows that 754 out of 1,000 bitcoin cash blocks were mined...
Bitcoin Network’s Mining Difficulty Sees Largest Epoch Drop Since 2011
4.11.2020
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty saw the second-largest drop in history on Tuesday, as the difficulty dropped to 16.78 trillion, losing a touch over 16% since last week’s all-time difficulty high. The last time bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped so low was in October 2011, when...