Bakkt physically-settled BTC futures contract hit a new volume record yesterday. The platform saw a demand of $4.5 Million volume in the Bakkt BTC futures contract. Till now the total futures contract executed in Bakkt’s platform stand at approx. $20 Million, an average per day of $0.89 Million since its...
The recent developments hint Facebook may be moving away from Libra Association. As one of the association members confirmed the BBC: “We’ve seen Facebook start to move away from the association a little bit, maybe, but it’s still a challenge for them, definitely.” When asked about Libra testnet by the...
The much anticipated Korea Blockchain Week took place in Seoul, South Korea, from Sep. 27, 2019 to Friday, Oct. 4, 2019. During the event, the city hosted blockchain luminaries, startups and entrepreneurs. The main conference of the event, known as D.FINE, took place between September 30th and October 1st at...
PayPal withdraws its application from Facebook’s Libra association, a group of members to oversee the governance of Libra network. Since the announcement of Facebook’s Libra project, policymakers around the world have backlash the project claiming that it could risk destabilizing the monetary system. Addressing the rumors, a PayPal spokesperson said...
After a year of wait, Bakkt, the first to get regulatory approval for trading Bitcoin futures went live on September 23. Bakkt which many see as a gateway for Bitcoin widespread adoption, so far the volume shows little interest from institutional investors. Bakkt Bitcoin futures contract volume in the first...
Just days after the significant drop in the Bitcoin hash rate, several monitoring sources confirm that the hash rate shows signs of recovery. Data from monitoring source ‘Blockchain’ estimate that on 26 Sept hash rate reached a new all-time high of 108 quintillion hashes/sec. This year, the hash rate in...
Binance, the leading global cryptocurrency exchange launched this year Binance DEX, a decentralized exchange built on Binance Chain. The platform uses Delegated Byzantine Fault Tolerance (dBFT) as its consensus mechanism. It has 11 pre-selected validators who produce blocks and ensures the stability of the network. Given the popularity of Binance...
Rakuten group on Monday 19th Aug 2019 announced the launch of their cryptocurrency wallet. The wallet will support the spot trading for following crypto assets – BTC, ETH, and BCH. As per the press release, there will be no fees for purchasing or selling crypto assets or depositing money. So...
Last month a draft bill titled “Banning of Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2019” circulated. The draft bill has proposed up to a 10-year prison sentence for individuals who mine, generate, hold, sell, transfer, issue or deal in cryptocurrencies. It is expected that the Indian Government will...
Recently U.S. treasury yield curve inverted to flag a possible future economic recession. Economists are getting nervous due to inverted yield curve historical correlation which accurately indicated the previous 7 recession cycles. The cause of this can often be attributed to a weak economy which causes inflation to drop below the...
