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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
First Mover: Bitcoin Acts Like a Tech Stock and Ethereum Classic Traders Shrug Off 51% Attacks
9.9.2020
Market onlookers are scrabbling for a new narrative as some argue last week's tech rout might explain bitcoin's latest price drop
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
First Mover: Buying Bitcoin’s Dip, Betting Against Tether and Weighing the Jobs Report
4.9.2020
Crypto traders appeared to be buying the dip after Thursday's 11% plunge. ALSO: There's a contract for that: How to hedge Tether's credit risk
First Mover: As Bitcoin Falls for Second Day, Long-Term Holders Probably Won’t Care
3.9.2020
The growing number of long-term bitcoin investors might be the cryptocurrency's most simple bullish indicator – more so than "600,000 asteroids."
First Mover: Bitcoin Tumbles, Bithumb Reportedly Raided, Uniswap Challenges Coinbase
2.9.2020
Bitcoin is down amid negative news from South Korea, but Uniswap has shot to the top of the DeFi rankings
First Mover: Rookie YFI Token Jumped 8-Fold in August as DeFi Dominated
1.9.2020
Yearn.finance's YFI token, which looked like another inside DeFi joke when it launched in July, dominated the August return rankings
First Mover: Huobi Takes on OKEx in Futures, Opening New Front in ‘Chinese’ Rivalry
31.8.2020
Huobi is taking on OKEx in the business of bitcoin futures trading, opening a new front in the ongoing rivalry between the two Chinese-led exchanges
First Mover: Binance’s Shrinking Trading Spreads and Bitcoin’s Jackson Hole Fizzle
28.8.2020
Traders are getting better fills due to shrinking bid-ask spreads on Binance and other cryptocurrency exchanges. It's a sign of a healthy market
First Mover: Monetary Challenges Aren’t Just Virtual as Fed’s Powell Returns to Jackson Hole
27.8.2020
Crypto traders are prepping for a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where inflation is on the agenda
First Mover: Binance’s New DeFi Futures Let Crypto Traders Bet on Decentralization
26.8.2020
Binance's new "DeFi Index Futures" show the push by centralized crypto exchanges to cash in on this year's frenzy in so-called decentralized finance
First Mover: Ether Price Swings Make Bitcoin Look Tame as DeFi Speculation Spreads
25.8.2020
The success of DeFi on the Ethereum blockchain has brought traders more than just congestion and high transaction fees: Volatility in ether prices
First Mover: Anything-Goes Token Market Repudiates Rich-Only Venture Capital Club
24.8.2020
Venture capital is no longer just for the rich, as crypto markets let traders bet on early-stage digital-asset startups, risks included
First Mover: Wacky Bitcoin-to-DeFi Crypto Markets Might Be New Home of Capitalism
21.8.2020
Cryptocurrency markets from bitcoin to DeFi might be full of rampant speculation, but they also might be keeping the fires of capitalism lit
First Mover: Collapsing Bitcoin Futures Premium Offers Glimpse of New Digital Money Market
20.8.2020
Dollar-linked "stablecoins" are being used in exotic cryptocurrency trades, similar to the way money markets serve as liquidity on Wall Street
First Mover: Money Legos Turn ‘Exuberant’ as Chainlink Stripped of ‘DeFi’
19.8.2020
This year's growth in the cryptocurrency subsector DeFi has been so remarkable that some analysts are now calling the phenomenon "exuberant."
First Mover: Bitcoin Passes $12K, Dollar Worries Grow, OMG Jumps, Portnoy’s Orchid #Pump
18.8.2020
Bitcoin rises, Warren Buffett buys gold miner, Wall Street dollars worry grow, OMG price jumps, Orchid gets #pump tweet, Ethereum Classic delisting
First Mover: Litecoin and Mimblewimble, Ether Futures, Chainlink, Curve
17.8.2020
Litecoin's Mimblewimble upgrade sparks optimism, Ether futures hit records, Chainlink developers take profits
First Mover: As Wall Street Goes Topsy-Turvy, Crypto Traders Are Bullish as Ever
14.8.2020
Crypto traders are enjoying their own version of the market’s madness, from bitcoin’s bull run to the collapse of Yam to Dave Portnoy
First Mover: Ethereum Faces Inflation Problem as Gas Fees Soar
13.8.2020
Ethereum "gas" prices are soaring, and cryptocurrency traders say it's a reflection of congestion on the blockchain that's now starting to slow down transactions on decentralized exchanges