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So far this year, the rise of crypto prices has mostly been in BTC and a small number of other popular assets. Out of the 20 assets in the CoinDesk 20 index, only six were in the green as of Nov. 1 (Bitcoin Cash, Render, Near, Bitcoin, Ether, Solana). Read the full article here
Kelly Ye, portfolio manager at Decentral Park Capital and Andy Baehr, head of product at CoinDesk Indices, trade views, active manager vs indexer, on what steps are most important to shape the capital markets and investment landscape for digital assets in a post U.S. election world. Read the full article here
Additionally, funding rates for UNI have doubled over the last day from approximately 5% to 10%, with a positive funding rate meaning traders who are long have to pay short traders to keep their position open. Other things being equal, higher funding rates mean traders are anticipating further price advances. Read the full article here
The U.S. election result should improve regulatory clarity for digital assets, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Senate Banking Committee becoming more crypto friendly following Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race and the Republican party securing control of the Senate, broker Bernstein said in a research report Thursday. Read the full article here
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Crypto equities climbed by more than 10% in pre-market trading. MicroStrategy added 12%, approaching $255, just a few percentage points away from a record that would be almost 280% higher year-to-date. Coinbase is also 12% higher, approaching $220 a share. Bitcoin miners Riot, Marathon and IREN all gained more than 10%. Other notable mentions include Metaplanet which rose 24% and is now up over 1,100% year-to date. This comes after Semler Scientific saw a 30% increase in its share price yesterday, taking the shares to $39. André Dragosch, head of research in Europe at Bitwise, told CoinDesk that the initial…
MicroStrategy (MSTR), the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, added 12%, approaching $255 and is just a few percentage points away from a record high that would represent a 280% climb this year. Crypto exchange Coinbase also gained 12% as did crypto miner Riot Platforms (RIOT). Other miners also rallied, with Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA) rising 11% and IREN (IREN) 12%. Read the full article here
One of the biggest trends of 2023 among the leading layer-2 projects on Ethereum was the emergence of “blockchain in a box,” where the teams encouraged developers to clone their code to spin up new layer 2s. Now, it appears, one project in particular, Optimism, appears to be pulling away as the clear leader. Read the full article here
Over the past five years, the ratio has risen from 0.02 to a peak of above 0.08 in early 2022, meaning ETH quadrupled in value relative to BTC at the time. Since then, it’s been on decline. Even as BTC set a lifetime high, ether has yet to break through its high from 2021 and is down 46% from its peak. Read the full article here
Along with Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and the cryptocurrency industry, prediction markets are a clear winner of the U.S. election. The GOP’s surprisingly strong showing Tuesday night came as a shock to those who only got their information from mainstream media, pollsters and pundits. Read the full article here