Liquidity


Videos

E-CNY App Downloaded 16 Million Times, Kazakhstan Outages Hit Miners

E-CNY app sees 16 million downloads. Miners hit by continuing Kazakh internet outages. Unlocking liquidity in private markets. We’ll have more on those stories and other news shaping the cryptocurrency and blockchain world in this episode of “The Daily Forkast.”

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Markets

Fitch Says Germany's ‘Spezialfonds’ Investing in Crypto Face Liquidity Risk

A law passed earlier this year allows Spezialfonds, open only to institutional investors, to invest up to 20% of assets in cryptocurrencies.

Frankfurt, Germany

Markets

Disruption in Tether's Value Could Be Crypto Equivalent of 'Breaking the Buck': Former CFTC Chairman

Timothy Massad compared the hypothetical occurrence to the collapse in NAV of the Reserve Primary Fund in September 2008.

Timothy Massad, a former chairman of the CFTC

Markets

Bitcoin Liquidity 'Likely to Remain Resilient' After Volatility Shock, JPMorgan Says

JPMorgan expects bitcoin liquidity should recover, though it may take a few days as market conditions stabilize.

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Finance

Lightspeed, Pantera Join $20M Raise for Crypto Market Maker Wintermute

The Series B will fund a push into Asia and the launch of a derivatives business.

The Wintermute team

Markets

Crypto Buyers Face 'Possible Limitations' on eToro This Weekend

The company cited issues relating to poor liquidity in the face of heightened demand.

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Markets

Crypto Long & Short: What We’re Getting Wrong About Druckenmiller and Bitcoin

Stanley Druckenmiller’s comments about bitcoin were blown out of proportion. They were positive for crypto, but not for the reasons most believe.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Markets

New Non-Custodial Crypto Exchange 'Brings Bitfinex Liquidity to EOS'

Eosfinex has launched a beta version of its mainnet, saying it brings liquidity from the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange to the EOS community.

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Finance

This DeFi Group Wants to Bring Maturity to the Yield Farming Craze

The Chicago DeFi Alliance, launched in April 2020, is now poised to help members profit from yield farming and the liquidity mining craze.

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Finance

Veteran Commodities Trader Chris Hehmeyer Goes All In on Crypto

Hehmeyer Trading is ditching its non-crypto businesses to focus solely on being a market maker in a space its founder, longtime trader Chris Hehmeyer, calls "liberating."

Veteran commodities trader Chris Hehmeyer is steering his firm to full-time market making for the crypto space. (Courtesy Chris Hehmeyer)