First Mover Americas: Ether-Bitcoin Volatility Spread Slides, Bitfinex Shorts Surge
The spread between the six-month ether and bitcoin implied volatilities fell to a two-year low of 13%, perhaps indicating that the cryptocurrencies’ fortunes are more strongly tied to each other than before. Implied volatility refers to investors’ expectations for price turbulence over a specific period.
Bessemer Commits $250M to Web 3, Launches DAO
The firm has also launched BessemerDAO, a Web 3 community for founders, creators and operators. BessemerDAO is meant to connect members of the crypto community for idea sharing, business development and tokenomics. The effort won’t be decentralized at first with Bessemer partners making decisions for the DAO, but the firm plans for the effort to […]
FTX Picks Stripe to Build Payments and Risk Mitigation Feature
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FTX.US Derivatives Seeks CFTC Approval to Clear Margin Trades Directly for Customers
“As market-moving news over the last two weeks has demonstrated, large amounts of time between margining periods causes risk to build up in the system, resulting in market swings at next open and lack of clarity over participants’ ability to cover their capital requirements,” Harrison wrote.
EBay Teases ‘Digital Wallet’ in Investor Presentation as Crypto Rumors Swirl
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Popular Denim Brand Diesel to Drop First NFTs on Rarible
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Blockdaemon Acquires Crypto Onramp Company Gem
“We aim to provide the full node stack for institutions, which includes dedicated instances, high availability clusters, abstraction APIs, yield earning nodes via staking and liquidity.” Blockdaemon CEO Konstantin Richter told CoinDesk in an interview. “The other area that we think nodes should cover, and that are very relevant to our institutional customer base, are […]
VanEck Launches Crypto Mining ETF
The largest weighting is Riot Blockchain (RIOT) at about 11%, followed by Hut 8 Mining (HUT) at 9.1%, Marathon Digital (MARA) at 8.3%, Iris Energy (IREN) at 7% and Canaan (CAN) at 6.5%. Rounding out the top 10 holdings are Hive Blockchain (HIVE) at 6.3%, Northern Data (NB2.GR) at 5.8%, Block (SQ) at 5.7%, Bitfarms […]
Si vivieras en Cuba bajo un embargo económico, entenderías Bitcoin
Los cubanos no tienen Visa ni Mastercard, pero cuentan con PayWithMoon, plataforma que les permite cargar una tarjeta prepaga virtual con bitcoin (BTC). No pueden usar bancos, pero encontraron en bitcoin un banco que no requiere intermediarios y que funciona entre individuos. No son aceptados por Stripe, la omnipresente red de pagos por internet, pero […]
Crypto.com Tells Loan Customers in ‘Excluded’ Countries to Repay by March 15
“Please be informed that Lending is no longer supported in your jurisdiction. For this reason, we are required to cancel your current loans,” the exchange told two customers, one French, one German, via emails reviewed by CoinDesk. Neither had lending accounts open with the company, they said.