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Zcash Clears $1,600 After 21Shares Launches European ETP
The physically backed product trades in Paris and Amsterdam, while a 3:42 p.m. ET chain snapshot put shielded ZEC at 29% of supply.
Zoomex Prediction Markets Expand Long-Term Trading Across Major Crypto Industry Questions
Zoomex Prediction Markets has always carried a deep Long-Term category, a full slate of event contracts that let traders take a position on some of the industry's most debated multi-month and multi-year questions.
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Zoomex Prediction Markets Expand Long-Term Trading Across Major Crypto Industry Questions
Zoomex Prediction Markets has always carried a deep Long-Term category, a full slate of event contracts that let traders take a position on some of the industry's most debated multi-month and multi-year questions.
Cross-Border Stablecoin Flows Jump 77.5% but Remain Concentrated
Chainalysis identified 4,708 new country-to-country routes, but they carried just $2.64 billion of the $220.3 billion measured total.
Ondo Leads An Overnight Altcoin Bid As Bitcoin Holds Near $84,000
Ondo rose more than 20% after putting three BlackRock-designed portfolios onchain. Litecoin added 18% with no announcement behind it. Bitcoin and ether traded lower while 51 of 60 large-cap tokens screened on Kraken sat above their 00:00 UTC open. The 10-year Treasury par yield closed Wednesday at 5.11%, and Polymarket now prices an October rate increase at 68%.
Bitcoin Falls Through the $86,000 ETF Cost Basis as the Whole Market Turns Lower
Total crypto market value fell 2.27% to $2.96 trillion. XRP dropped 5.8%, Dogecoin 8.3% and Hedera 9.9%, and Uniswap gave back the entire spike it took on Tuesday's CME listing. Perpetual funding at OKX turned negative on both the bitcoin and ether swaps. U.S. equities and gold closed lower alongside.
Zcash Clears $1,600 After 21Shares Launches European ETP
The physically backed product trades in Paris and Amsterdam, while a 3:42 p.m. ET chain snapshot put shielded ZEC at 29% of supply.
Brazil Tops Redesigned Crypto Adoption Index as Latin America Defies Global Slump
Chainalysis measured $593.8 billion in regional activity, up 9.8%, even as the global crypto economy contracted 1.6% during the same period.
Bitcoin Cash Runs 27% on CME Futures Listing as Bitcoin Gives Up the Day
Bitcoin Cash gained 14% in the hour CME Group said it would list futures on the token and kept climbing through the afternoon, finishing the session up 27% on more than twice Monday's volume. Bitcoin SV rose 20% alongside it. Uniswap, named in the same release, spiked 11%, gave the whole move back within two hours, then recovered to close up 5.4%. Bitcoin ended lower. Of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens, 64 rose and 61 fell.
CME Group to List Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap Futures Oct. 19
The two contracts would take the exchange's single-token crypto lineup to eleven, seven of them added this year.
Your Swap Is Under Review: What Is Happening and What to Do
A practical guide to understanding swap reviews, transaction screening, KYC requests, and what happens next.
Bitcoin Reaches Its Highest Level Since January as Crude Sinks 8%
Bitcoin traded as high as $86,355 on Coinbase, its best level since Jan. 29, in a leg that started in the 8 a.m. UTC hour and extended through the U.S. open. West Texas Intermediate crude fell 8.1% and the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.6%. Perpetual funding sits near zero and the bitcoin and ether swaps trade below index. Of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens, 106 are higher.