Crypto Long & Short


Markets

Who Bought $1.6B in Bitcoin Wednesday, and Why?

It’s an eerie coincidence that a trade of this size happened on exchanges with ties to Chinese customers during a week beset by that country’s capital market woes.

The skyline of Shanghai, China. (Li Yang/Unsplash)

Markets

It’s a Multi-Chain World, Bitcoin Just Dominates It

The original blockchain still reigns, but neither Bitcoin nor its closest competitor, Ethereum, can count on becoming the only game in town any time soon.

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Finance

How Investors Warmed to Chinese Blockchain Builder Red Date

Executives from Saudi Aramco and early FTX backer Kenetic Capital explain how they got comfortable with the Blockchain Service Network developer despite its Beijing ties.

The skyline of Beijing, China. (Zhang Kaiyv/Unsplash)

Markets

How the Prediction Markets Are Wagering on Canada’s Election

The odds favor a Trudeau reelection but not a Liberal majority, according to prices on blockchain-based Polymarket and centralized platform PredictIt.

Erin O'Toole, leader of Canada's Conservative Party, left, debates Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, during a federal leaders' debate in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. It will be a tight race between Prime Minister Trudeau and Tory Leader O'Toole as the campaigns enter the final stretch ahead of the Sept. 20 vote, which the Liberals triggered in hopes of regaining the parliamentary majority they lost in 2019's election. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Markets

DeFi and the 3 Cs

The purely collateral-based type of lending practiced so far in decentralized finance has limitations. Reputation systems may widen the possibilities.

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Markets

Crypto Long & Short: The Trouble With Ticker Symbols

Investors are apt to get confused when multiple projects can claim the same ticker without an industry standard for exchanges to assign identifiers.

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Markets

Crypto Long & Short: el fin del apalancamiento extremo

Un menor apalancamiento en todo el sistema sugiere que los mercados de criptomonedas, famosos por sus salvajes oscilaciones, podrían volverse un poco más moderados.

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Markets

Crypto Long & Short: The End of Extreme Leverage

Lower systemwide leverage suggests the crypto markets, famous for their wild swings, might become a touch tamer.

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Markets

Cuando China habló, bitcoin reaccionó. ¿Cuando lo hizo Estados Unidos? No tanto

Días después de que China reiterara medidas drásticas contra el segmento cripto, bitcoin cayó hasta 30%. Estados Unidos, por su parte, parece no ser el centro del universo cripto.

Crypto Long & Short Aug 22

Policy

Crypto Long & Short: When China Spoke, Bitcoin Reacted. America? Not So Much

It could just be the U.S. is not the center of the crypto universe.

Crypto Long & Short Aug 22