After Microstrategy, another company is allocating part of its liquid assets to Bitcoin. The financial services and mobile payment company Square, headquartered in San Francisco, announced that it has purchased 50 million USD of the cryptocurrency. Founded in 2009 by Jack Dorsey (Twitter co-founder) and Jim McKelvey, the company launched its first service in 2010 […]
Contactless payments are increasingly being used even for small amounts. For this reason the European Central Bank is considering the introduction of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). A comprehensive report on the possibilities of the digital Euro appeared on Friday. The European Central Bank is continuing its work on the digital Euro. Internal tests […]
DeFi has significantly improved token design and distribution compared to the ICO era. Still, the current yield farming trend does not seem sustainable. It’s likely that only bigger protocols, which have added value and have defensibility, will survive in the long term. While not yet complete, this year can already be classified as unexpected and […]
This is part 1 of the long-term analysis of the bitcoin price chart based on the technical perspective provided by the Elliott Wave Principle (EWP). This article is an introduction to EWP while part 2 will apply the principle for price and date targets. EWP was proposed by Ralph N. Elliott in his 1938 book […]
Bitcoin is rather hard to classify as an asset class. It shares some similarities with already existing classes but due to its unique collection of similar yet often non-overlapping attributes, it never quite fits any established mould. We explore the history and future of Bitcoin as an asset class. Since its creation following the financial […]
CfC St. Moritz announced the dates for the fourth annual Crypto Finance Conference, complete with a COVID-19 safety strategy validated with the Swiss health authorities. There will be speakers from Winklevoss Capital, Swiss National Bank, European Parliament, and more. Crypto Finance Conference (CfC St. Moritz), one the biggest digital asset and blockchain conference for investors, will return to […]
Up to now, assets such as land, art, wine, etc. have been limited either to geographical boundaries or accredited investors. Through ” tokenization “, assets can be made available to a wider audience. A practical example. Asset tokenisation enables the use of smart contracts to automate processes such as settlement, compliance, distribution, reporting, etc. Global […]
Bitcoin USD – Renewed assertion above 10’000 USD The reported week started with a drop in the Bitcoin price, which brought Bitcoin back to the 10,150 zone on Monday. The USD 11,000 zone of the previous week was thus rendered void in an instant. Until the middle of the week Bitcoin held its ground in […]
Uniswap, currently the largest decentralized exchange, launched its “UNI” token last week. They celebrated this by granting 400 tokens to each user – nearly 3’000 US dollars for a short period of time. We explain the latest events concerning Uniswap and its competitor, SushiSwap. Decentralized Exchanges (DEX), together with the DeFi space, have recently experienced an incredible […]
The Zug-based crypto and blockchain investment company CV VC announced that it is investing in the new Finka Token. The security token gives investors access to a cattle farm in Bolivia as an asset class. CV VC has signed an agreement to invest in the Finka Token as part of a newly introduced Digital Assets category, in addition […]
