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A Dozen Digital Assets Record Double-Digit Gains as Crypto Markets Begin to Heal After FTX’s Collapse
27.11.2022
At the time of writing the global cryptocurrency market capitalization is hovering around $842 billion on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Bitcoin prices consolidated since the start of the week, as seven-day stats indicate the price of bitcoin has dropped by 0.02% this week. Meanwhile, while bitcoin prices...
Crypto Economy’s Market Cap Slides Below $800 Billion for the First Time Since December 2020
21.11.2022
The global cryptocurrency market capitalization has dropped below the $800 billion region for the first time in 691 days or since December 30, 2020. Bitcoin has dipped below the $16K region dropping 5.12% over the past 24 hours, and the second leading crypto asset ethereum shed 7.61% on Monday...
Crypto Market Rout Fuels Global Exchange Volumes — Kraken, Coinbase Report Connectivity and Latency Delays
9.11.2022
Amid the market carnage on Tuesday, Nov. 8, the top ten cryptocurrency exchanges have seen trade volumes soar. During the 24-hour period on Tuesday, the top five exchanges alone recorded more than $60 billion in trade volume. Out of the top ten crypto exchanges by trade volume, exchanges...
Uniswap’s $165 Million Series B Capital Raise One of the Largest by a Crypto Firm in 2022
14.10.2022
Uniswap Labs, the firm behind the Uniswap decentralized exchange protocol, announced on Thursday that it raised $165 million in a Series B funding round. According to one report, the capital raise, which sees Uniswap Labs’ valuation rise to $1.66 billion, is the largest by any crypto firm...
8 Years Ago Today: Bitcoin Traders Slayed the Infamous Bear Whale Who Dumped 30,000 BTC in a Single Trade
7.10.2022
Eight years ago today on October 6, 2014, while the price of bitcoin was coasting along at $330 per unit, an anonymous Bitstamp trader placed an order to sell 30,000 bitcoins. Moreover, the trader, now infamously known as the “Bear Whale,” sold the coins at $300 per unit, which...
Merge Flippening Predictions Fail as Ethereum’s Market Dominance Drops 13% in 30 Days
19.9.2022
During the last 35 days, ethereum has lost a significant amount of market dominance leading up to The Merge. On August 14, 2022, the second leading crypto asset by market capitalization, ethereum, had a market dominance of around 19.5% but three days after the transition to proof-of-stake (PoS)...
While Bitcoin and Ethereum Dominance Slides, Stablecoin Market Caps Reap the Rewards
28.6.2022
During the past 30 days, $285 billion has left the crypto economy and bitcoin’s USD value hit a 2022 low at $17,593 per unit on June 18. Moreover, last month’s statistics show bitcoin’s market dominance was 2.9% higher and ethereum’s market dominance was 2.1% higher than...
The Number of Tethers in Circulation Dropped by Over 12 Billion in 2 Months, USDC Grew by 9%
17.6.2022
During the last two months, the stablecoin tether has been one of the most traded crypto assets swapped against a myriad of digital currencies. 66 days ago on April 11, 2022, tether’s market valuation was over $82 billion with 82,694,361,442 tethers in circulation. Since then, more than...
NFT trading volume surges amid market and floor price crash
14.6.2022
Eight of the top 10 NFT projects have posted at least a 115% increase in 24-hour trading volume as the floor prices of many top NFT collections tumble
Stablecoin Market Nears 15% of the Entire Crypto Economy’s Market Valuation
12.6.2022
Roughly two months ago on April 11, the stablecoin economy was valued at $190 billion and was getting closer to surpassing $200 billion in value. However, after the Terra stablecoin fallout, the fiat-pegged token economy lost $16.31 billion in value since then. While that value was erased from...
DAI Takes the Reigns as the Leading Decentralized Stablecoin by Market Capitalization
29.5.2022
Following the demise of the Terra-based stablecoin UST, the fiat-pegged token DAI has become the largest decentralized stablecoin in existence today. Moreover, Makerdao has regained the decentralized finance (defi) protocol’s position as the top defi protocol in terms of total value locked...
Circle to Issue Weekly USDC Reserve Reports — Tether Publishes May 2022 Assurance Report
22.5.2022
The co-founder and CEO of Circle, Jeremy Allaire, has announced the cryptocurrency firm that issues the stablecoin usd coin plans to provide the public with weekly stablecoin reserve reports. Additionally, the company Tether has also released an assurance report on its stablecoin reserves via...
Catching the Falling Knife: Bitcoin, Ethereum Down 50% From All-Time Highs — Billions Leave Crypto Economy
8.5.2022
The crypto economy has dropped considerably in value during the last five weeks, slipping 23.28% from $2.19 trillion to today’s $1.68 trillion. Furthermore, both bitcoin and ethereum are awfully close to sinking 50% below the all-time highs recorded six months ago. Bitcoin Sinks Lower...
Value Locked in Defi Drops Below $200 Billion, April’s Dex Trade Volume Drops 21% Lower Than March
1.5.2022
While the crypto economy shed billions this week, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance protocols slipped under the $200 billion range to $196.6 billion. The TVL in defi lost roughly 3.16% during the last day, and the $592 billion in smart contract protocol tokens dropped in value...
The Floor Value of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s NFT Collection Taps 152 ETH
29.4.2022
The non-fungible token (NFT) collection Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) has seen its floor value jump to 152 ether ($430K) for the cheapest Bored Ape NFT. Since September 1, 2021, the floor value of the BAYC NFT collection jumped from 25 ether ($70K) to today’s 152 ether, climbing more than 500%...
Metrics Show Decentralized Exchange Volumes Continue to Slide This Year
22.4.2022
Decentralized exchange (dex) volumes have been dropping since December 2021 according to current statistics. However, last month dex trade volumes spiked 2.37% higher than the volumes recorded in February. Despite the brief spike and with only eight days left in April, metrics show this...
Data Shows Ruble-Denominated BTC Volume Rising, BTC-RUB Prices Jump as High as $46K
28.2.2022
Amid the conflict in Ukraine with Russia, bitcoin trade volumes tied to Russian ruble pairs have surged in recent days. Metrics recorded by the crypto analytics provider Kaiko indicate that ruble (RUB)-denominated bitcoin volume reached close to 1.5 billion rubles four days ago, on February...
Stablecoin Issuance Surged Last Year — UST Saw the Largest 12-Month Increase
30.1.2022
Stablecoins have become prominent payment rails in the world of cryptocurrencies commanding $177 billion in fiat value today. The top ten stablecoins by market capitalization represent the largest share of the value in the fiat-pegged coin economy and many of these tokens grew exponentially last...
Cardano Price Surges After Metaverse Project Launch, ADA Gains More Than 30% in 7 Days
17.1.2022
The smart contract token cardano has surged in value during the last 24 hours after a metaverse project called Pavia launched. Seven-day statistics indicate that cardano’s price has spiked 30.9% over the week and took over the fifth-largest crypto market cap position on Sunday evening (EST)....
Expanding Crypto Market Caps by 500% to 1,300%: Stablecoin Issuance Saw Significant Growth Last Year
11.1.2022
As crypto-assets grew immensely in value last year, the growth of the stablecoin economy swelled as well and today, there’s $170.24 billion worth of stablecoins in circulation. Data indicates that over the last 12 months, a slew of stablecoin valuations grew exponentially. 12-Month Stats...