Category: Price Watch
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Yearn.finance faces capitulatory decline as investors remove the “Cronje premium”
The price of Yearn.finance’s governance token – YFI – has been plummeting as of late, with the sell-side pressure overwhelming the cryptocurrency’s bulls as it shatters multiple key support levels that were previously boosting its outlook. This has struck a blow to the community sentiment that has been so pivotal for incubating its growth, which…
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Bitcoin plunges below $10,500 as U.S. government peruses BitMEX owners
Bitcoin’s price has been rocked by news of the Commodities and Futures Trading Commission bringing charges against popular margin trading platform BitMEX. One of the platform’s co-founders, Samuel Reed, was arrested at his home in Massachusetts earlier today, potentially facing a maximum prison sentence of five years for violating the Bank Secrecy Act and conspiring…
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YFI, Aave, Maker surge up to 30% overnight, what’s fueling the DeFi recovery?
Yearn.finance (YFI), Aave (LEND), and Maker have surged 12% to 30% overnight. The decentralized finance (DeFi) market strongly rebounded in a short period, lifting the overall market sentiment. Two factors primarily triggered the resurgence of DeFi in the last 24 hours. First, Bitcoin and Ethereum rallied overnight ahead of the quarterly close. Second, the DeFi…
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Why analysts are concerned with Yearn.finance (YFI) following EMN debacle
YFI – the governance token of the Yearn.finance ecosystem – has been plunging lower throughout the past 24 hours, with it reverting nearly all of its recent gains as buying pressure begins evaporating. Yesterday, the drama surrounding one of the external projects being developed by Yearn.finance founder Andre Cronje helped fuel the token’s ongoing downtrend. This…
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Ethereum was $11 during the last Presidential election—now it’s $355
Four years ago, during the last presidential election, the price of Ethereum was hovering at $11. Today, fast forward four years, ETH is valued at $355. Within four years, ETH recorded a 3127% increase against the U.S. dollar. Evan Van Ness, an Ethereum researcher, said: “Four years ago during the #PresidentialDebate, the price of Ether…
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Synthetix Network Token (SNX) rebounds as on-chain strength flourishes
Synthetix Network Token’s price has seen some volatility over the past couple of days, with inflows of selling pressure coming about due to the massive amount of SNX tokens stolen due to the recent KuCoin hack. Buyers were aggressive with absorbing this selling pressure, however, and have since pushed the cryptocurrency higher as its mid-term…
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Analytics firm: Bitcoin investor sentiment reaches 2-year low as momentum stalls
Bitcoin’s price action has been fairly boring in recent weeks, with it establishing a wide trading range between $10,200 and $11,200. Both of these levels have sparked noticeable reactions from BTC’s price each time that they are visited. This has offered investors with little insight into the crypto’s near-term outlook, and it does seem as…