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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...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 19, 202011:43 AM Eastern
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 —...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 17, 202002:35 PM Eastern
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...
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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...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 12, 202010:19 AM Eastern
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,...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 10, 202003:41 PM Eastern
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...
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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.
Gold and...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 5, 202011:16 AM Eastern
We previously showed you how to open accounts and buy crypto on Coinbase and Uphold.com. But we're always on the lookout for better deals on the infrastructure and services you need to invest in...
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Dr. Bruce Ng and
Juan M. Villaverde On
August 3, 202002:30 PM Eastern
Bitcoin (BTC, Tech/Adoption Grade “A”) is trading higher today, as it continues to streak past the $10,000 barrier on rising awareness of its existence, continuing central-bank assaults on...
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Juan M. Villaverde On
July 31, 202003:39 PM Eastern
This week was one of the most bullish in all of 2020 for crypto assets.
It was great follow-through from last week, when I noted that Ethereum (ETH, Tech/Adoption Grade “A”) seemed isolated in...