Traders ‘aggressively’ bought XRP after market crash sent prices under $2 — Analyst

CME is gaining presence in Bitcoin options in a market still dominated by Deribit and exchanges, new data reveals. 2394 Total views 31 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives interest is putting in “fast” growth this quarter — and CME Group is leading the way for options, new data shows.According to monitoring resource Skew, the past…

A United States congresswoman has said that she will keep working to brand Facebook’s planned stablecoin Libra a security.Facebook and the Libra Association may well have to deal with the SECIn an April 16 announcement, Representative Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) denied that recent updates to Libra’s whitepaper had substantively changed the yet-to-be-released stablecoin’s status as a…

Bitcoin (BTC) price was testing support at $10,500 on Sept. 4 after its latest move upwards began to stabilize.Market visualization. Source: Coin360Bitcoin primed for fresh bull marketData from Coin360 showed BTC/USD coming off local highs around $10,750 to float around $10,520 on Wednesday, still up almost 10% versus the start of the week. Markets reacted warmly…

“We need to make sure that folks can have confidence when they’re using these systems and we need to make sure we’re poised to root out abuse that can take hold on them," said Lisa Monaco. 272 Total views 2 Total shares An official from the Office of the Attorney General has said the United…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published a memorandum, dated Oct. 9, from a meeting regarding the Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded-fund (ETF) proposal from VanEck and SolidX.As stated in the memorandum, VanEck is a New York-based investment management firm with $46 billion in assets under management and SolidX is a provider of blockchain software…

Global auditing giant Ernst & Young has released the third iteration of its zero-knowledge proof Ethereum scaling solution. 583 Total views 3 Total shares Ernest & Young's (EY's) attempts to promote secure and private transactions over public blockchains at cheaper costs has culminated in the release of Nightfall 3.The company announced the news via a…

The upgrade is part of a series of reforms meant to increase modularity in the OP Stack, allowing developers to spin up their own networks using the software. 61 Total views 1 Total shares The Optimism network concluded its “Bedrock” upgrade on June 7, reducing deposit times, lowering layer-1 fees and enacting additional security features,…

While Bitcoin critics claim this means that BTC is losing its first-mover competitive advantage, others are anticipating the “altcoin season” is just around the corner, or might even be already underway. 1692 Total views 14 Total shares Bitcoin’s market dominance has continued to fall, bottoming out below 40% this week. That’s very close to the…