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Tron (TRX) Forms Textbook Bear Signal Despite Rally in the Altcoin Market

Tron (TRX) has been a sleeper cryptocurrency over the past few weeks. While it has rallied like many other digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum, TRX has not been focused on by many analysts. According to the Tom Demark Sequential, the popular altcoin is on the verge of reversing to the downside after a multi-day rally. Analysts beg to differ, arguing that Tron is actually on the verge of a massive upswing triggered by months of consolidation. Tron may be further suppressed by Bitcoin, which may lead the crypto asset

Ampleforth Down 66% — Welcome to Rebasing

The elastic supply token Ampleforth (AMPL) has lost two-thirds of its market cap in a matter of days. The atypical characteristics of the token attracted many investors that jumped in. After a dramatic surge in price and market cap, the tables have turned and Ampleforth has entered a corrective phase. The token is understood by many as just an experiment, and it may impact the way future tokens are created. AMPL: The Ultimate Digital Money? Ampleforth is not your typical cryptocurrency. It’s quite a complex token with some revolutionary ideas,

What is Serum? A DeFi Derivatives DEX Guide

DeFi-based exchanges have seen wild success in 2020 thanks to yield farming, which has incentivized hundreds of thousands of users to provide liquidity to these platforms. With that being said, DEXs are still a far-cry from centralized exchanges in both UI and UX. Serum is here to change all that. Serum is a protocol that claims to be “pure DeFi” as they have managed to address a lot of issues the space is facing. Most of the users in DeFi today are not traders but yield farmers. Yield farmers are

Ampleforth: A Guide to the AMPL DeFi Protocol

Imagine the possibilities of reinventing money. One that is powered by blockchain and crypto-based solutions. That is what Ampleforth hopes to achieve within and beyond the crypto community. Since the inception of decentralized finance (DeFi), various notable projects have spawned, giving life to a new sector in the cryptosphere. At the moment, investors and crypto traders alike are quite stoked with DeFi and liquidity mining. We have witnessed several protocols like Maker, Aave, and Compound attracting hundreds of thousands of users, enabling the DeFi ecosystem to proliferate far and wide.

Crypto Attorney Kyle Roche Discusses Class Action Lawsuit

Kyle Roche, a partner at law firm Roche Cyrulnik Freedman recently opened up about 11 class-action lawsuits against top crypto companies. The firm, alongside Selendy & Gay, has filed lawsuits against crypto exchanges as well as ICO tokens. Defendants include Tron, Status, Bancor, and Block.One alongside their executives.Bringing lawsuits against crypto head honchosThe 11 class action lawsuits follow the SEC’s guidance that ICOs are unregistered securities offerings in the US and all ICO issuers and exchanges must be registered with the SEC. The defendants in the case include Changpeng Zhao,

COVID-19 Has Reduced the Risk of a Post-Halving Price Dump

The recent COVID-19 market crash has reduced the risk of a halving price dump and could have set up a Bitcoin bullrun, some cryptocurrency experts believe.Earlier today Chainalysis brought together a group of industry experts for an online panel to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Bitcoin and what it means for the future.Chris Bendikson, Head of Research at CoinShares, said he believed the recent price crash in March had prepared miners early for the halving, which will reduce the sudden impact it could have had on their profitability. Those

Bitcoin Spikes by 2x in 26 Days: What’s Actually Behind the Big Rally?

The Bitcoin (BTC) price has increased by two-fold in less than a month, surging from $3,600 to over $7,350. While traders believe a combination of many factors caused the upsurge, there are three main factors that likely contributed to it.The three factors are a significant surge in spot buys, a massively overextended plunge below $4,000, and the immediate recovery of BTC to major support levels.Factor 1: Bitcoin spot buys on the riseCoinbase, Kraken, Binance, Bitfinex and other spot exchanges saw a substantial spike in buy volume following the March 13

Number of Bitcoin Addresses With Small BTC on the Rise Since March Sell-off

Despite the massive sell-off on March 12, Bitcoin (BTC) continues to record increases in the number of addresses holding small quantities of BTC, according to crypto data provider, CoinMetrics. In its “State of the Network Report,” on April 7, CoinMetrics noted that addresses holding from one billionth (1/1B) to one hundred millionths (1/100M) of the total supply of BTC increased by six percent in the last 90 days. Also, the number of addresses holding from one hundred millionths (1/100M) to one ten-millionth (1/10M) of Bitcoin total supply raised by about

Bitfinex Launches Staking in Response to Customer Demand

Major cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has become the latest exchange to offer staking services to customers.Announced April 3, Bitfinex will offer staking rewards up to 10% per annum on crypto assets underpinned by a Proof-of-Stake algorithm."We're committed to engaging our existing users and the wider community with new products and innovations," said Bitfinex’s CTO, Paolo Ardoino. "The Bitfinex Staking Rewards Program provides our users with another avenue to increase their holdings on our platform."Bitfinex introduces staking in response to customer demandArdoino states that Bitfinex’s clients asked for staking to be introduced,

Introducing the new Blockchain.com monthly newsletter — April Edition: “After the Dust Settles”

The quality of information and data in crypto has improved in recent years, so you may be asking why another monthly newsletter?There are still some big data and analysis gaps in crypto. Crypto markets are nowhere near as widely served with reliable research and data as traditional markets. Indeed, the March 12–13th crypto stress test demonstrated there are also still some very significant issues with the state of crypto exchange infrastructure.What you can expect from our monthly newsletterOur intention with this newsletter is to avoid repeating what you can find