Bitcoin’s price might have held near $28,000 but the absence of shorts using margin and futures markers is a bullish indicator. Despite regulatory pressure and worsening macroeconomic conditions, Bitcoin demonstrated bullishness holding near $28,000 for the past week. Furthermore, professional traders have maintained leveraged long positions on margin and in futures markets, indicating strength. On…
Binance’s market dominance fell largely due to its decision to end zero-fee trading for some trading pairs and not the CFTCs lawsuit, says Kaiko. The dominance of cryptocurrency exchange Binance in trading volume market share has slipped over the past two weeks following a lawsuit from the United States commodities regulator and its decision to…
Crypto exchange OKX published its second proof-of-reserves report, a month after its first, in a continuing effort among crypto exchanges to provide evidence they are handling customer funds safely following the collapse of FTX. Meanwhile, the proof-of-reserves method used, following the collapse of FTX has been criticized by the SEC. In a statement, OKX said…
The European Union has confirmed a sweeping ban on providing crypto services to Russians as it tightens sanctions in the wake of what it calls “sham” secession votes in four Ukrainian regions. All transfers from Russians to European crypto wallet providers will be forbidden. Meanwhile, NFT creator Dapper Labs and crypto exchange OKX has also…
Cryptocurrency platform OKX has received a provisional virtual-asset license from the Dubai authority. The exchange plans to set up a regional hub in the city, Bloomberg said on Thursday. Crypto exchange OKX said on July 14 that it had been given a provisional virtual assets license by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), which…
On Tuesday, a Cloudflare outage knocked out numerous popular web services, including big crypto exchanges FTX, OKX, and Bitfinex. Users attempting to visit certain websites were met with a “500 Internal Server Error” notice, raising questions about the security of centralized crypto platforms. The content delivery network (CDN) confirmed via an update posted on June…