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Yearn Finance’s YFI Hits $50K Before Bitcoin as Grayscale Shows Interest

Yearn Finance’s governance token YFI reached a new milestone on Friday as its price crossed over the $50,000-mark for the first time in history. The gains appeared as Grayscale Investments, a New York-based cryptocurrency management firm, registered an LLC for a prospective Yearn Finance Trust. That prompted traders to raise their

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Record $584M Litecoin futures open interest signals institutional inflow

Litecoin (LTC) might be 60% below its December 2017 all-time high at $420, but that hasn't stopped its futures contracts open interest from reaching a record $584 million. This makes LTC the seventh-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization and it ranks third in derivatives, behind Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH).Litecoin futures

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Gemini Earn: New Banking-like Interest Earning Opportunity on Crypto Deposits

The new Gemini Earn crypto-interest product seamlessly integrates with some of the company offerings like Gemini custody and exchange services.On Tuesday, February 2, cryptocurrency exchange Gemini announced its new interest-earning product Gemini Earn on cryptocurrency deposits. The new product allows investors to take a 7.4% annual-percentage-yield (APY) on the crypto

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Weekly Recap: Bitcoin and Ethereum Lose Interest While Technicals Spell Trouble

Konstantin Anissimov, Executive Director at CEX.IO, shares his insights about the Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) weekly price movements.Bitcoin Enjoys Crucial Endorsement Closing the Week In the GreenBitcoin opened Monday’s trading session, January 25th, in a good posture. Its price quickly rose by 8.04% from a low of $33,569.60 to

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FTX Token (FTT) rallies 105% as interest in derivatives trading grows

FTX is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange backed by Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm and crypto liquidity provider. The exchange launched in April 2019 and offered the usual spot trading, inverse swaps and futures contracts that can be found at other major platforms. By early 2020, the exchange launched its daily

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Institutional Interest in Bitcoin is Bigger Than You Think

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor says institutional interest in Bitcoin is snowballing. He predicts the coming year will see a flood of companies follow MicroStrategy’s lead to acquiring Bitcoin as a treasury strategy. More interestingly, Saylor claims contact with at least a hundred private companies that have already implemented this strategy. However,

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