Crypto Research

* A rare CryptoPunk NFT called "Covid Alien" was sold at Sotheby's on Thursday for $11.8 million. Created by Larva Labs, CryptoPunks were among the first NFTs available on the Ethereum blockchain and consist of 10,000 unique, pixelated characters.Ledger, a manufacturer of hardware wallets for crypto, completed a $380 million Series C financing led by 10T Holdings on Thursday, implying a $1.5 billion valuation for the company. This new raise...

Bitcoin and crypto markets have been hit with a wave of bad news headlines over the past couple months and prices have taken a sharp hit in response. China’s regulatory crypto crackdowns have been some of the largest contributors to the market action. This morning, news of further crackdowns started circulating after the major Chinese internet service providers Baidu and Weibo started censoring searches for the three largest Asian crypto...

Crypto markets have remained relatively quiet (although Elon Musk hasn’t) and stable this week. Last week, we wrote several notes about why we thought the market may have found a bottom due to the massive deleveraging, that a falling BTC VIX is indicating peak fear fading, and how news getting “less bad” is good for the market. We didn’t expect the weekend sell-off that many were fearful of, and once...

Ethereum on-chain transaction volume and miner revenues reached monthly all-time highs in May, with monthly mining revenues hitting $2.3 billion, and miner transaction fees surpassing $1 billion for the first time. On-chain transaction volume was over $650 billion, nearly doubling the preceding month's total.

But unlike past weekends, Bitcoin barely responded to these headlines (see below).  In fact, Bitcoin is indeed flat/rising over the long weekend: - at 4pm ET Friday (5/28), Bitcoin was ~$34,900 - at 3:50pm ET Sunday (5/30) when FT story "broke" Bitcoin was ~$36,000 - as of this writing at 4:30pm ET (5/31), Bitcoin is $36,900, +$900 vs FT headline In other words, despite another set of "negative headlines" Bitcoin...

_PS: HOW DOES BITCOIN SPILL OVER INTO EQUITIES?_ These crypto sell-offs have potential impacts on equity and broader markets, for several reasons: - many US crypto holders also own equities (ala Robinhood) - Bitcoin futures are traded by macro funds, hence, drawdowns/limit down moves impact macro markets - Bitcoin has become somewhat loosely connected to the equities, because both are "risk-on" assets -- more apparent these days

With so many recent events in May 2021, has anything affected David's thesis on crypto? Carrie Presley chats with David Grider, FSInsight's Lead Digital Asset Strategist, to get insight on crypto current events.

David simplifies how liquidation through forced selling is currently affecting crypto markets. Carrie Presley chats with David Grider, FSInsight's Lead Digital Asset Strategist, to get insight on current events in crypto.

The weekly returns for the Rebel coins was obviously poor but do not overlook the returns achieved over the first 5 months of the year. ☀️Have a good long weekend, BitDigest will be back on Tuesday June 1st. THE HEADLINES MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS MARKET DATA THOUGHTS ON THE ECOSYSTEM DAILY CARTOON

THE HEADLINES EXCHANGE, CUSTODY AND PRODUCT NEWS THOUGHTS ON THE ECOSYSTEM DAILY CARTOON Note: Zcash (ZEC) and Monero (XMR) are privacy coins

Given the recent crypto market volatility, we are writing a bit more frequently to help ourselves and our readers better assess where the market may be headed. In our Sunday night note, we discussed how the market may be seeing an exhaustion of sellers. In our Monday night note, we discussed how that may have driven the market bounce we saw. On Tuesday and Wednesday (today), crypto markets have calmed...