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A gauge used by options traders for predicting the direction of bitcoin (BTC) is now exhibiting the strongest bullish bias in 31 months.Bitcoin's 25-delta one-month call-put skew, which assesses the relative price of calls versus puts expiring in four weeks, has risen above 10%, reaching the highest since April 2021, according to data tracked by

Investment management giant BlackRock (BLK) has created a fund called the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, according to a document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).The fund, incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, will be launched in partnership with asset tokenization firm Securitize.The filing does not reveal what assets the fund

Jan 24, 2020 at 09:00 UTCHarry Halpin image via CoinDesk Video.In this video from the WEF 2020, Nym Technologies CEO Harry Halpin speaks to CoinDesk's Leigh Cuen in Davos, Switzerland, about the World Economic Forum, privacy and the future of blockchain. Halpin pulled no punches when it came to describing the scene at Davos."I do…

OKX, one of the 10 largest crypto exchanges by trading volume, is planning to enter India and recruit local employees to explore potential Web3 applications, the firm's chief marketing officer told CoinDesk on Wednesday.The company, which doesn't have a global headquarters, has regional hubs in Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and the Bahamas. It plans to

markets Views Bitcoin’s interaction with the 100-period moving average on the daily and weekly charts have provided strong regions of support in the past and may do so again. Exhaustion caused by low levels of total daily volume and market activity raises doubts about the direction for the mid-term. Should the bulls lose the on-going…

Jun 15, 2020 at 19:00 UTCUpdated Jun 15, 2020 at 19:20 UTCCredit: Volodymyr Maksymchuk / ShutterstockSorry, Bloomberg: Here Are 6 Reasons Why 2020 Is a Great Year for BitcoinA Bloomberg senior editor today argued there were six reasons why 2020 was bad for bitcoin. Here’s the opposite case. For more episodes and free early access before our…

May 1, 2020 at 21:21 UTCUpdated May 1, 2020 at 21:31 UTCBUSY: A recent surge in mining power may have overcome the difficulty rate. (Credit: Shutterstock)In an unusual deviation from the norm, bitcoin miners just produced 16 blocks in 63 minutes, according to the Blockstream bitcoin block explorer. Four of the new blocks were mined…

U.K. based fintech bank Revolut has partnered with Fireblocks, a digital asset transaction and storage platform, to provide a secure payments infrastructure for the digital bank’s new cryptocurrency services. Announced Thursday, Revolut will use Fireblocks’ wallet and network infrastructure when it offers new crypto services for its 13 million global retail customers.The firm did not share…

Funding rates on the futures of major tokens have started to revert to normal levels after recent euphoria led to traders paying unusually high fees to remain in their long positions.Large movements in spot markets led to open interest surging to over $35 billion over the weekend, indicating highly leveraged bets from traders hoping for