Bitcoin Rally Driven By Coinbase Users? Premium Would Say So

The Bitcoin Coinbase Premium Gap has been positive during the past few days, implying the surge above $27,000 may be driven by the platform’s users. Coinbase Users Have Been Participating In Aggressive Bitcoin Buying Recently In a new post on X, the CryptoQuant Netherlands community manager, Maartunn, has pointed out how there appears to have been buying going on at Coinbase recently. The relevant indicator here is the “Coinbase Premium Gap,” which keeps track of the difference between the Bitcoin prices listed on the cryptocurrency exchanges Coinbase and Binance. The…

Coinbase CEO stands up for DeFi, Polygon says $1B ZK-rollup paying off: Finance Redefined

Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. The past week in DeFi saw Coinbase CEO stand up for the nascent ecosystem amid growing calls for enforcement action, while Polygon CEO has said that its $1 billion zero-knowledge proof rollup bet is paying off. MakerDAO’s founder believes decentralized stablecoins could dominate crypto, while Solidus Labs says decentralized exchanges have become a magnet for wash trading. The top 100 DeFi tokens…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Says Crypto Exchange Will Now Support Bitcoin Lightning Network

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the largest US-based crypto exchange is adding support for Lightning Network, a layer-2 scaling solution for Bitcoin (BTC) that aims to address scalability issues. In a statement, Armstrong says Coinbase is working to add Lightning given the significance and importance of Bitcoin in the digital asset space. “We’ve made the decision to integrate Lightning. Bitcoin is the most important asset in crypto and we’re excited to do our part to enable faster/cheaper Bitcoin transactions. Will take some time to integrate so please be patient.” Coinbase…

Coinbase to Integrate Bitcoin Lightning Network

In a matter of weeks, Coinbase constituted a team to dig into the protocol and assess the feasibility of its integration. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has announced the exchange’s plans to integrate the Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN) into its infrastructure. LN is a layer 2 payment protocol that was created to improve the scalability of Bitcoin and allow cheaper and faster Bitcoin transactions. Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja proposed the protocol in a whitepaper published in January 2016. The protocol fast-tracks Bitcoin transactions by reducing the load on the Bitcoin…

Coinbase to integrate Bitcoin Lightning network: CEO Brian Armstrong

Crypto exchange Coinbase has confirmed its decision to integrate layer 2 payment protocol Lightning Network as users seek faster and cheaper Bitcoin (BTC) transactions.  Lighting Network (LN) was created to help solve Bitcoin’s scalability problem and to compete against newer cryptocurrency projects that promised comparatively faster and cheaper transactions.  Up until recently, major crypto exchanges, including Coinbase and Binance, revealed no intent to adopt the layer 2 solution as many community members argued that NL integration offered fewer incentives for exchanges’ income. The team did a great job digging into…

Coinbase (COIN) to Face ‘Reality Check’ as Retail Investors’ FOMO Is Fading, Mizuho Says

Mizuho says this indicates potential fatigue among retail customers, and in contrast to previous cycles, fear-of-missing-out no longer “entices investors to trade bitcoin when prices rise,” as it did in prior years. “This could prove problematic for COIN, as it generates around 95% of its transaction revenue from retail trades,” the note said, adding that the year-to-date rise in the shares is unsustainable. “We expect a reality check to follow.” Source