Investors continue to trade the LUNA token despite its enormous fall, seeing the coin lose 99% of its value from $62 on May 9 down to less than a cent by May 14. However, on May 20, LUNA remains the most trending cryptocurrency searched on CoinMarketCap. With a market cap of $918 million, LUNA is trading at $0.00013 per coin. The coin has gained 1% in the last 24 hours and 75% last week. Related Reading | Bitcoin Selling Pressure Continues As Long-Term Holder SOPR Spikes Up It’s worth noting…
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Bitcoin Options Data Suggests Bearish Sentiment Among Investors
Put options are a contract that gives the option buyer the right, but not the obligation, to sell a specified amount of an underlying asset at a given price. Call options, on the hand, allow call buyers to purchase the asset at a predetermined price in the future. Source
Contrarian Bitcoin investors identify buy zones even as extreme fear grips the market
Bitcoin (BTC) support at the $30,000 level has proven to be quite resilient amidst the turmoil of the past two weeks with many tokens in the top 100 now showing signs of consolidation after prices bounced off their recent lows. Fear & Greed Index. Source: Alternative.me During high volatility and sell-offs, it’s difficult to take a contrarian view and traders might consider putting some distance from all the noise and negative news-flow to focus on their core convictions and reason for originally investing in Bitcoin. Several data points suggest that…
Institutional Investors Flood Over $300 Million In Bitcoin Fund, BTC To Reverse Above $30k?
Last week saw one of the largest losses of value in the history of cryptocurrency. Bitcoin and the general crypto market crisis was hit by the Terra ecosystem’s collapse. Bitcoin plummeted to under $30,000. Obviously, institutional players took advantage of the circumstance. Investors Flood Bitcoin Institutions reportedly invested $300 Million into exchange-traded Bitcoin funds last week, according to reports. According to CoinShares, the previous week recorded record weekly crypto inflows for the year 2022. The net weekly inflows were $274 million in the previous week. While North American investors pumped…
Dutch Finance Official Wants to Ban Retail Investors From Trading Crypto Derivatives
“I maintain that the trade in crypto derivatives should be restricted to wholesale trade,” said Paul-Willem van Gerwen, head of Capital Markets and Transparency Supervision at the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (AFM). He cited the risks of markets that are opaque, and prone to manipulation and other criminal activity. Source
Big-Money Investors Who Boosted Bitcoin’s Price Might Now Crash It
“Client interest [is] concentrated more heavily onto the two main crypto assets, BTC and ETH,” analysts at data provider VandaTrack wrote, according to the newspaper. ETH stands for ether, the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain. ”This matters because, as more institutions await the first results of the White House executive order on crypto regulation and the ETH merge to ETH 2.0, current price behavior will continue to be driven by TradFi assets.” (ETH 2.0 is shorthand for a planned upgrade of the Ethereum network, and “TradFi” is crypto-industry jargon…
MakerDAO price rebounds as DAI holds its peg and investors search for stablecoin security
Its been a rough couple of weeks for the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin (BTC) price is nowhere near the price estimates of most analysts, multiple stablecoins lost their peg and the demise of one of the top decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms sparked an event that resulted in $900 billion vanishing from the total crypto market capitalization. In the midst of the widespread fallout, MakerDAO (MKR) managed to turn crisis into opportunity and the collapse of TerraUSD (UST) has brought renewed attention to DAI, the longest-running decentralized stablecoin. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro…
Australian Tax Office Warns Crypto Investors on Capital Gains Obligations
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has published a guideline that sets out warnings for crypto investors on tax obligations around digital assets and NFTs. Source
Investors Make For Stablecoin Hills As USDT Volume Touches All-Time High
With the market in turmoil, crypto investors are beginning to turn to stablecoins such as USDT and USDC to provide cover from losses. These stablecoins which are pegged to the U.S. dollar have been the obvious winners from the recent crash but it seems that investors are taking it one step further this time around. USDT volume across the Ethereum blockchain shows that investors are ramping up their activities in these stablecoins. USDT Provides Much-Needed Cover Through the crypto market downtrend, only a handful of cryptocurrencies have managed to retain…
Galaxy Digital Investors’ Concerns About LUNA Exposure Are Overblown, Says BTIG
In its recent management discussion and analysis filing for the quarter ending March 31, Galaxy said the largest contributor in the quarter to its $355 million in net realized gains on its digital assets came from sales of LUNA. Galaxy had previously said in its fourth-quarter earnings release that it held $407.6 million worth of LUNA as of Dec. 31. Source