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A crazy few hours sees volatility return, with spot buyers noticeably in charge over leveraged traders. 1400 Total views 26 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) retook $57,000 on April 30 as a surprise bullish end to month took traders by surprise.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView$4.2 billion expiry gives way to big Bitcoin gainsData from Cointelegraph…

Chris Ko, CEO and co-founder of Fenix Games, considers Fenix Games “like a VC fund” for powering the next generation of blockchain games. 365 Total views 2 Total shares Web3 game publisher Fenix Games raised $150 million in funding to acquire, invest and distribute blockchain games. The fund will be used to create a game…

China’s answer to Facebook’s Libra digital currency could help the central bank attract business away from Alipay and WeChat Pay.Speaking to mainstream media outlet the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on Aug. 19, Cindy Wang, an analyst at DBS Group Research, said Beijing could profit from the appeal of its state-issued digital currency to merchants.Bringing…

A new DeFi and enterprise blockchain app protocol, AVA Labs, will distribute 2 million tokens in a final testnet before mainnet launch in summer. 1895 Total views 42 Total shares AVA Labs, a blockchain protocol founded by Cornell’s Emin Gün Sirer, is planning to distribute 2 million tokens in its final testnet before the project’s…

Blockstack PBC, a decentralized computing network, announced that it managed to raise more than $23 million in the first-ever U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)-approved token offering.Participation from U.S. retail investorsMuneeb Ali, co-founder and CEO of Blockstack PBC wrote in a blog post on Sept. 10 that the blockchain-based startup Blockstack has raised more than…

Editor’s noteLadies and gentlemen, it is bittersweet to welcome you to the final installment of Law Decoded, at least with yours truly at the helm. Though someone may pick this newsletter back up at some point, there are no plans to do so now.Taking advantage of the rose-tinted glasses or maybe the graduation goggles that…

The report alleges that Binance tried to insulate itself from regulatory scrutiny — a suggestion which the exchange denies. 154 Total views 2 Total shares On Monday, a new report published by Reuters alleged that cryptocurrency exchange Binance "swerved scrutiny" from regulators in the U.K. and U.S. The main spearhead of the allegations arises from…

Exchange inflows gauge potential selling pressure, with high inflows suggesting high sell pressure and low inflows suggesting low pressure.

Most crypto investors probably never heard of Wintermute Trading before the Sept. 20 $160 million hack, but that does not reduce their significance within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The London-based algorithmic trading and crypto lending firm also provides liquidity to some of the largest exchanges and blockchain projects.As a crypto-native trading firm, meaning digital assets have…