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By Juan M. Villaverde On August 28, 202002:59 PM Eastern
The drift that we discussed here last week accelerated into a short-term selloff before crypto asset prices settled into more sideways action as the seven-day trading week wore into Thursday.
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Synthetix (SNX) is a decentralized exchange where you can trade just about any asset with no broker or banker as a middleman — and therefore enjoy vastly lower transaction costs and far less time...
It’s not an exaggeration to say that “decentralization” is the whole point of cryptocurrency.
Satoshi Nakomoto published the famous “white paper” in October 2008 — in the midst of the Global...
By Juan M. Villaverde On August 21, 202002:17 PM Eastern
Crypto markets lacked clear direction over the seven trading days ended Thursday, Aug. 20. We saw significant rallies for each of our indexes as the week got started, but these gains were quickly...
DeFi stands for Decentralized Finance. Basically, it's borrowing, lending and trading financial assets on the blockchain.
With no traditional intermediary — bank, broker or stock-exchange —...
Chainlink (LINK, Availability/Liquidity Grade “B”) has gotten big, fast.
Maybe a little too fast. LINK is up more than 36% over the past week and 126% for the past month. It traded as high as...
By Juan M. Villaverde On August 14, 202001:33 PM Eastern
Big crypto names took a bit of a break from their runaway moves this week.
That said, when we get below the surface, we see that the same catalysts that have catapulted the asset class to new...
Several months ago, we introduced you to a payment services company that had recently branched out into buying and selling cryptocurrencies — Uphold.com.
Key things we liked about Uphold,...
Cardano (ADA, Tech/Adoption Grade “B-”) is up a modest 3.09% since the July 29 Shelley hard-fork.
As of this writing, among the top 10 crypto assets included in the Weiss Crypto Ratings, ADA...
By Juan M. Villaverde On August 7, 202002:57 PM Eastern
It was another display of double-digit gains for crypto assets over the seven-day trading week ended Thursday, as “safe haven” instruments new and old alike posted strong rallies.
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When econometrician and pro trader Juan M. Villaverde first applied his algorithms to Bitcoin years ago, he discovered a regular cyclical pattern. And he has since used it to build the world’s first crypto timing model based on cycles. Thanks to his analysis, the Weiss Ratings team has accurately picked the top and bottom of major crypto booms and busts.
