The market cleaned out overleveraged traders in a sudden move downwards yesterday before recovering in the afternoon hours on Monday. Altcoin traders lost over $1.7 billion in the past day as crypto markets took a hit on the back of high funding rates and overleveraged trading. Bitcoin dipped below $46,000 momentarily, while some altcoins fell…
On Valentine’s Day, the crypto market was infatuated with Bitcoin (BTC) as the coin broke yet another all-time high, reaching roughly $49,530, according to metrics platform CoinGecko. Bitcoin price chart. Image: CoinGecko Meanwhile, the week leading to February 14 was also quite eventful all by itself, with a slew of Bitcoin-related announcements and news exploding…
CryptoSlate obtained an update on Strix Leviathan, a Seattle-based crypto hedge fund, The team has been in business since 2018 and exclusively trades the crypto markets using proprietary trading tools and algorithms. Strix Leviathan’s Fund, which operates a systematic investment approach by taking long and short directional positions in the cryptocurrency markets. The Fund’s system…
Other DeFi-focused networks are surging as Ethereum congestion narrative spurs up Ethereum has been facing extreme network congestion once again, which has been made worse by the cryptocurrency’s rapidly increasing price. Nick Chong · 1 day ago · 2 min read
Yesterday saw the launch of an easy “shorting” provision for users of the DeFi app, shooting the prices of its token by 11%. You can now short on Synthetix Decentralized finance app Synthetix (SNX) saw the deployment of the “Bellatrix” update yesterday, as per a release. The update opens up newer on-chain capabilities for users….
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has just boosted “meme crypto” Dogecoin (DOGE) in the stratosphere by just tweeting a photograph of a rocket taking off and adding a single word to it: “Doge.” In just one hour, the price of DOGE surged by up to 75.6% and reached around $0.056. The coin’s 24-hour trading volume has…
Anonymous sources inside digital exchange Robinhood said that its plans for initial public offering (IPO) have been put on hold amid the fallout of the GameStop saga, according to Fox Business Network senior correspondent Charles Gasparino. SCOOP: Ppl inside @RobinhoodApp tell @FoxBusiness plans for an IPO are on hold to focus on surviving the current…
The ongoing silver price rally, allegedly sparked by retail traders from Reddit, could “tell us just how bullshit precious metals markets are,” said crypto exchange Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss last Sunday. The ramifications of a #silversqueeze cannot be underestimated. If it’s exposed that there are more paper claims on silver than actual silver, not only…
The metal gained over 11% in the past day, setting an eight-year high price. Meanwhile, synthetic crypto assets platform Synthetix launched the sXAG token, an ERC-20 issuance that tracks the prices of the shiny metal. Internet traders fuel silver rally Who said people on social media couldn’t influence markets? The latest price surges in a…
The price of now-embattled cryptocurrency XRP surged by up to 86%—just a day after Ripple Labs filed its response to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) $1.3 billion lawsuit hanging over the company’s head. At press time, XRP was trading at around $0.47 per token, up 55.1% on the day. Simultaneously, the crypto’s price…