Cardano Price Prediction for June 2021

Institutional investors are rushing to board the ADA boat with smart contracts coming soon… The post Cardano Price Prediction for June 2021 appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Cardano Price Analysis: 09 June

Cardano received a good boost from its tech updates: the platform will be adding smart contracts capabilities to the blockchain. ADA has been reaping the benefits of these developments as it hit a peaThe post Cardano Price Analysis: 09 June appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Chainlink to power TrustSwap SmartLock and SmartEscrow products

After its initial token launch in June, TrustSwap, a smart contracts payments platform announced in a blog that Chainlink's Price Reference Data – its decentralized oracle network – had been integThe post Chainlink to power TrustSwap SmartLock and SmartEscrow products appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Bitcoin derivatives are playing catch-up

The Bitcoin derivatives market was supposed to have its day in the sun last Friday, on the 26 of June 2020. Even with over 115,000 Bitcoin Options contracts expiring, the price has not budged. The larThe post Bitcoin derivatives are playing catch-up appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Mutual Insurance Takes off As Bitcoin Futures Market Matures

The crypto futures market is heating up. On June 30, Binance launched Compound perpetual contracts at 50x leverage, around the same time Beijing-based MCDEX debuted a novel decentralized ETH perpetual contract that has no expiry date.

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Bitcoin faces 'shift' as Options market confronts downturn

Bitcoin Options contracts worth over $1.7 billion expired on 26 June. Deribit BTC Options held close to $1.3 billion of the total contracts, but with Bitcoin's volatility preceding the expiry date, usThe post Bitcoin faces 'shift' as Options market confronts downturn appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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$1bn in Bitcoin options contracts expire today

June 26 marks the expiration of that largest batch of Bitcoin options, and the...

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Crypto Derivatives Platform, Delta Exchange, Rolls Out BNB and LINK Options Trading

Singapore-based crypto derivatives platform Delta Exchange has now launched trading options for the Binance coin (BNB) and LINK, a brainchild of enterprise oracle solutions Chainlink. The June 19th announcement highlighted that the BNB and LINK would be corresponding to contracts they have with Tezos (XTZ), Atomic Coin (ATOM), XRP, and Litecoin (LTC). According to the […]

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Massive Number of Bitcoin Options Set to Expire in June

The future of Bitcoin is anything but certain. For a number of investors, however, the future is now. More than 100,000 BTC options contracts are set to expire at the end of June. The staggering number compared with previous months is the result of an explosion in open interest in Bitcoin options.

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Bitcoin Options contracts worth $814M await expiry

The month of June is one looked at with anticipation by many Bitcoin traders. According to many, the impact of Bitcoin's halving is expected to be visible in the market by the end of the month. IntereThe post Bitcoin Options contracts worth $814M await expiry appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Yesterday, Ethereum Miners Received 60% More Fees Than Bitcoin Miners

Ethereum transaction fees have continued to spike as demand for smart contracts and ETH transfers have spiked. It has reached a point where yesterday, June 6th, Ethereum miners brought in more transaction fees (in aggregate) than Bitcoin miners for the first time in months.

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BitMEX to Launch BCHUSD Quanto Contracts that will Settle in Bitcoin

Crypto derivatives platform BitMEX will be launching a quanto perpetual swap contract with up to 25x leverage on 16 June 2020 at 04:00 UTC in an attempt to diversify their trading opportunities. Repeat after me “BCASH BCASH BCASH”.

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Optimism Takes Hold After Oil Futures Contracts Stabilize Above $20

Although oil prices were in free fall just a few weeks ago, most futures contracts seem to have stabilized. June futures are now trading well above $20. Could the worst of the oil price collapse be over? Analysts are feeling optimistic as oil futures continue to tick higher.

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Oil Futures for June Continue to Fall As Bitcoin Pushes Higher

Markets are predicting global oil demand to stay depressed into the summer as futures for June continue to drop. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has seen steady gains. Oil futures suffered a historic drop recently as traders struggled to liquidate their May futures contracts.

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Petro-Dollar System Crumbles: US Dollar Could Collapse from the World’s Oil Wars

During the last few days, people witnessed history when the price of crude oil dropped below zero to -$40 per barrel, and as time passes many analysts think the worst is yet to come. After West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil-based contracts dried up for May, contracts for June collapsed by 45%.

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Bitcoin Options volume drops, but trading of June contracts may spike IV

After lacking any substantial activity towards the end of March, Bitcoin's derivatives market registered a certain buzz around itself in the month of April. At the time of writing, Bitcoin's price The post Bitcoin Options volume drops, but trading of June contracts may spike IV appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Algorand Is Now Supporting Smart Contracts that Are Non-Turing-Complete

On Thursday, the Algorand Foundation has launched an update for its blockchain protocol. Algorand has added features for decentralized finance (DeFi) and smart contracts to its Algorand 2. 0. This is the largest expansion for the network, after its June 2019 launch.

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‘Trump Confusion Trades’ Netting Over $2 Billion Reeks of Insider Trading

Vanity Fair reported four mysterious trades that happened in June and September. These trades were out of the ordinary because the trader or group of traders responsible bought tens of thousands of S&P e-mini contracts minutes before the markets closed.

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Institutional Investors are Manipulating the Price of Bitcoin: Arcane Research Report

In September, Bitcoin price took a hit of over 19%. It went from its highest point of $10,930 on Sept. 6 and dropping to almost $7,730 on Sept. 26. On Sept. 27, the day CME BTC futures contracts settled, the price went under $8,000 for the first time since June. The drop in BTC price […]

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Economic Strategy Game “Prospectors” to be Released on EOS Mainnet

On June 29, 2019, the first Massive Multiplayer Real Time Economic Strategy (MMRTES) game called Prospectors. io will be launched on the EOS Blockchain. The game is completely developed on the EOS blockchain and all the activities within the game are linked with smart contracts.

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Bitmex Sees $500 Million Bitcoin Short Liquidation in 24hrs

Bitcoin trading activity is breaking all-time records in terms of volume and open interest in Bitcoin futures. The latest trading activity has caused Bitcoin’s value to reach an 18-month high, forcing a huge amount of Bitmex short-sellers to abruptly liquidate their positions.

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Waves Brings the Heat to Ethereum and EOS with Smart Contracts

Waves (WAVES) has finally added functionality for smart contracts to its network, deployable through the RIDE programming language. This will enable global developers to harness and utilize a fully-powered decentralized ecosystem to build dApps, as per a press release, June 25, 2019.

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U.S. CFTC Greenlights LedgerX Bitcoin Derivatives Contracts

The U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on June 25, 2019, approved LedgerX LLC’s application seeking to establish itself as a designated contract market that would offer retail investors spot and physically-settled derivatives contracts that pay out in bitcoin (BTC).

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Maltese Government to Store Rent Contracts Info with DLT

In a bid to ensure security and curb the activities of rogue actors, the Prime Minister of Mala, Joseph Muscat has announced that all rental contracts for property drafted in the country must be stored on a blockchain, according to a report by local news source MaltaToday on June 23, 2019.

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BaseFEX launches Tron [TRX] perpetual contracts

Justin Sun today announced the listing of Tron [TRX] perpetual contracts on BaseFEX, a cryptocurrency derivative exchange, via his official handle. He tweeted, #TRX is now available on @BaseFEX, $TRX perpetual contracts is launched on BaseFEX futures exchange.

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New Money Flowing in Bitcoin as CME Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Records a New All-Time High

The open interest on Bitcoin rose by a “record” 643 contracts on a single day, reported CME on twitter. This was a new all-time high established by the platform amounting to 5,311 contracts on June 17th.

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CME Bitcoin Institutional Interest Hits New Record – Up 80% YOY

CME Bitcoin futures reached a record all-time of 5,311 contracts or $250 Million this week, as new Institutional money flows into the Bitcoin derivative market. The Importance of Institutional Money According to a recent tweet from one of the world’s largest Bitcoin derivatives marketplace, the number of open BTC1! contracts reached a record $250 Million in notional spot value on June 17.

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Sneak Peak into TRON’s Latest Mainnet Upgrade

TRON has officially announced the details for their planned mainnet upgrade, Odyssey V3. 6, that incorporates added protocol features and utilizes a more lightweight version of the in-built servers, June 18, 2019.

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U.K Brokerage Firm TP ICAP to Trade Bitcoin Derivatives

According to a Bloomberg article published on June 17, 2019, financial services firm TP ICAP is set to enter the cryptocurrency industry starting with offering cash-settled futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).

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YAP CHAIN Foundation’s YAP STONE Announced its First Listing on Bitmax.io

YAP STONE will be listed and traded in Bitmax. io’s USDT/BTC pair at 10:00 a. m. EDT on June 21 YAP CHAIN is preparing to expand the base of the market by diversifying its cryptocurrency payment business, including entering contracts with the world’s top POS device company.

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Poland’s Bank Alior Adopts Ethereum Smart Contracts Blockchain

Alior Bank, the 10th largest bank in Poland, has launched a document verification system based on the Ethereum network, to enable its customers to seamlessly check on the authentication and integrity of official documents, according to a Forbes report on June 17, 2019.

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Layer 2 Blockchain Scaling Platform Matic Teams up with Chainlink

In a Medium post published on June 12, 2019, layer two blockchain scaling platform Matic Network (MATIC) announced its partnership with decentralized oracle platform startup Chainlink. Scalability with Smart Contracts Matic Network, a decentralized layer two blockchain scaling solution that uses a Plasma-powered sidechain network and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus protocol to secure digital assets, isRead MoreRead More.

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Discovery Network Testnet Goes Live on Enigma; Launch “Secret Contracts”

Privacy startup Enigma announced on June 11, 2019, the release of the Discovery Network Testnet for developers. The startup tested the Discovery Network privately for the last three months. They have now released the code on Github to allow anyone to begin developing so-called “secret contracts,” which are similar to smart contracts with the key differenceRead MoreRead More.

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Bitcoin Futures Will No Longer Be Traded On CBOE

Coinspeaker Bitcoin Futures Will No Longer Be Traded On CBOECBOE stops trading Bitcoin futures starting from June 19, while CME has recently enjoyed a record high volume of 33,700 contracts for cryptocurrency derivatives.Bitcoin Futures Will No Longer Be Traded On CBOE

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Zilliqa (ZIL) Mainnet Integrates “Scilla-Powered” Smart Contracts

Since the launch of the Zilliqa mainnet in January 2019, the project’s prime focus was integrating smart contracts with the help of a native smart language contract called “Scilla. ” Smart contracts are now live on the Zilliqa mainnet bringing a wealth of new functionality and marking the start of smart contract competitiveness, June 9, 2019.

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Scope of DAI Use Cases are Exponentially Widening

A recent report from MakerDAO digs into the growing adoption of the DAI stablecoin. Issuance of DAI may be done through Maker debt contracts, but usage is being leveraged across the Ethereum dApp ecosystem, June 8, 2019.

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CME Futures Hit ATH: Has the Institutional Bandwagon Arrived?

CME Bitcoin futures have hit an all-time high in liquidity with 5100 contracts of open interest as per the CFTC’s data sheet. The volume on their Bitcoin contracts has been surging since the $3100 bottom with most trading activity likely to have come from institutions, June 2, 2019.

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CBOE Won’t Issue New Bitcoin (BTC, XBT) Futures; Reassessing Approach to Digital Asset Derivatives

The CBOE futures will not see new contracts reissued, with the current futures expiring in June.

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In the Race for a Bitcoin ETF, Wall Street Has Plenty of Hurdles to Clear

In the latter half of 2018, few developments have occupied crypto investors’ headspaces like the industry’s indefatigable pursuit of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).

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Three Years Later, Ethereum’s Hottest DApps Are (Still) ICOs and Cats

With Ethereum’s launch in 2015 came a flurry of excitement over the future potential of smart contracts. Utilizing a more flexible scripting language than Bitcoin, the platform’s decentralized applications (DApps) were touted by proponents as unlocking a plethora of formerly untapped use cases for the blockchain.

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Goldman Sachs Puts Plans for a Crypto Trading Desk on Backburner (Updated)

Update (September 7): Goldman Sach’s CFO Martin Chavez has since called reports of dropping the bitcoin trading desk “fake news. ” (The original Business Insider report quoted unnamed sources as the basis of the information.

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Goldman Sachs Puts Plans for a Crypto Trading Desk on Backburner

Goldman Sachs is struggling to find a way to trade bitcoin. The financial services giant has scratched its plans to open a desk for trading cryptocurrencies, at least for the near term, according to a Business Insider report on September 5, 2018.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Challenging the Way It’s Always Been Done

This past week, we talked to three security experts about how to design smarter and more secure smart contracts. Google is dipping its toe in the blockchain waters by introducing integrations for applications built with Ethereum and Hyperledger.

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A Decentralized Exchange is Now Aggregating Decentralized Exchanges, Welcome to Smart Contracts as a Platform

Decentralized exchanges have attracted some liquidity recently, handling $22 million in combined trading volumes during the month of June, but some exchanges are seeing as little as half a million.

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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: ETFs and Expansions

ETF’s are back in the news this week with the Winklevoss twins of Gemini getting rejected again, while investment firm Direxion was delayed till September on a final decision.

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Yes, Stablecoins Can Secure Official Audits from Major Firms

“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.

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A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol

Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions.

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A Nuanced Look At Crypto Assets as Securities In Light of SEC Comments

On June 14, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) director of corporate finance made waves in the cryptocurrency space when he commented at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto that ether is not a security.

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Enjin Coin CTO Creates ERC-1155, a New Token Standard for Ethereum

Witek Radomski — co-founder and CTO of Enjin Coin — has developed ERC-1155, a new standard for defining video game tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. Radomski’s journey to improve the gaming experience began 12 months ago in June 2017, when he created code for the first non-fungible token.

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