Cosmos (ATOM) Elliott Wave Summary (2019

Cosmos ($ATOM) is the coin that powers the entire Cosmos ecosystem. It consists of a variety of projects from different spheres such as finance, decentralized exchanges (DEX), and cloud computing. The earliest price data I can find for $ATOM is from Kraken, starting in April 2019. Using this price data, the remainder of the article represents my best efforts to apply Elliott Wave Theory (EWT) to isolate its placement in market structures. I will assume that you have some knowledge of EWT to understand the terms, but I have also…

US SEC Files Motion for Summary Judgment in Do Kwon Case

The legal battle surrounding Terraform Labs is not without controversy. Terra co-founder Daniel Shin’s lawyer has blamed the “unreasonable operation of the Anchor Protocol and external attacks carried out by Do-hyung Kwon” for the Terra ecosystem’s collapse.  The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not backing down in its pursuit of justice regarding Terraform Labs’ alleged violations. Despite a jury’s conclusion that appeared to show leniency towards Do Kwon, the SEC has made a bold move by demanding a summary judgment on all the claims. A Jury’s Controversial…

SEC seeks summary judgment in Do Kwon and Terraform Labs case

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has refuted the jury’s conclusion regarding Terraform Labs’ alleged violations and has demanded a summary judgment on all the claims.  A court filing from Oct. 27 showed the SEC’s reluctance to accept the jury’s leniency on Do Kwon and his involvement in facilitating the frauds that eventually led to the collapse of Terraform Labs. The filing, directed to the U.S. district court – Southern District of New York, read: “No rational jury could conclude that Kwon was not liable for Terraform’s violations…

SEC Asks Court for Summary Judgement Against Do Kwon, Terraform

Terraform and Kwon also engaged in fraudulent conduct and made misleading statements, the SEC reiterated in the filing, re-emphasizing that they committed fraud by deceiving investors about the stability of UST, falsely crediting their algorithm for its price stabilization while secretly arranging third-party intervention, making their claims about the algorithm’s efficiency misleading and materially omitting crucial information. Terra collapsed in May last year, destroying billions of dollars in investor wealth. Source

Tornado Cash lawsuit judge sides with US Treasury in motions for summary judgment

A federal judge in Texas has sided with the United States Department of the Treasury by granting a motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit concerning Tornado Cash brought by six individuals backed by crypto exchange Coinbase. In an Aug. 17 filing in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Judge Robert Pitman denied a motion filed in April by plaintiffs Joseph Van Loon, Tyler Almeida, Alexander Fisher, Preston Van Loon, Kevin Vitale and Nate Welch requesting partial summary judgment in a case over controversial mixer Tornado…

Cointelegraph Markets Pro VORTECS Report summary — 179% gains from 4 alerts

In Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s latest VORTECS™ Report, the institutional-grade crypto alerts platform displayed how its members could have captured a cumulative 179% gain by following four trades based on four different Markets Pro indicators. The report depicts trading alerts generated between Feb. 26 and March 4, 2023.  The potential gains available to Cointelegraph Markets Pro subscribers significantly outperform a simple buy-and-hold strategy during the same period, which would’ve suffered a loss of 5% holding Bitcoin (BTC) and a loss of 4% holding Ether (ETH). Cointelegraph Markets Pro used a variety…

Ripple, SEC case heads for conclusion after ‘summary judgment’ filed

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple Labs have both called for a federal judge to make an immediate ruling on whether Ripple’s XRP sales violated U.S. securities laws. In separate motions filed on Sept. 17 by Ripple and the SEC, both have called for a summary judgment in the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York.  Summary judgments are submitted to the courts when a party involved believes there’s enough evidence at hand to make a ruling without the need to proceed to trial. Both parties…

Summary Of The Contagion Event That Brought On The Bear Market

Are we in a bear market? Opinions vary, but it certainly feels like one. Markets across the board and across the world are in the red, and the bitcoin and crypto ones are no exception. If you’ve been paying attention, you know how all of this happened, but a refresher course wouldn’t hurt. Using ARK Invest’s latest Bitcoin Monthly report as a guide, let’s go through the tragic sequence of events and evaluate the bitcoin market as it stands. According to ARK, the road to the bear market went like…

Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin White Paper: A 12-Year Old Summary of Robust Unstructured Simplicity

Cryptocurrency supporters all around the world are celebrating the fact that today is the 12th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper, a summary of the invention created by the pseudonymous inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin’s inventor published the paper on metzdowd.com’s Cryptography Mailing list and ever since then, the financial world hasn’t been the same. 12 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto decided to let the world in on Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer electronic cash system that took the world by storm. The very first time Nakamoto published the paper was at 2:10 p.m.…