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DEX Trading Volume Tops $4 Billion in July 2020

The meteoric growth in the trading activity for decentralized exchanges (DEX) is not slowing down as the total volume for July exceeds $4 billion. Monthly DEX volumes have been on a tear since the start of 2020 with increasing returns seen in the last three consecutive months. DEX platforms continue to attract massive trading volume and their native tokens are reportedly providing greater returns than centralized exchange (CEX) counterparts. DEX July 2020 Volume Sees 12x Year-on-Year Growth According to data from on-chain analytics platform Dune Analytics, the total DEX volume

Stratis Falls Inside Previous Range After Failed Breakout

At the beginning of July, the Stratis (STRAT) price broke out from an almost yearlong resistance area. However, it could not sustain the rally and has fallen back into the previous range. Until the price reclaims the breakout level, the price movement cannot be considered bullish. Stratis Failed Breakout Leads To Deviation In the period measuring from August 2019 to July 2020, the × BeInCrypto Premium - Register for FREE now. Want to know more? Join our Telegram Group and get trading signals, a free trading course and daily communication

Weekend Market Action Signals DeFi-Driven Bull Market Has Arrived

This weekend’s epic crypto market momentum has been a remnant of the volatile action witnessed in late 2017. Ethereum has been in the driver’s seat, but instead of the ICO-saturated market of yesteryear, DeFi platforms are now dominating the sector in 2020. Cryptocurrency markets have reached their highest levels this year in terms of total market capitalization. Trouncing February’s highs of $300 billion, the total market cap surged to $360 billion this past Sunday. The figure has yet to top the 2019 peak in mid-June when the total cap exceeded

Ampleforth: A Guide to the AMPL DeFi Protocol

Imagine the possibilities of reinventing money. One that is powered by blockchain and crypto-based solutions. That is what Ampleforth hopes to achieve within and beyond the crypto community. Since the inception of decentralized finance (DeFi), various notable projects have spawned, giving life to a new sector in the cryptosphere. At the moment, investors and crypto traders alike are quite stoked with DeFi and liquidity mining. We have witnessed several protocols like Maker, Aave, and Compound attracting hundreds of thousands of users, enabling the DeFi ecosystem to proliferate far and wide.

Why Bitcoin’s 3-Day Candle Close Could Lead to a “Parabolic Advance”

Bitcoin is currently expressing intense signs of strength as its price pushes up towards the $12,000 region. Although it has yet to breach this key level successfully, its strong overnight upswing does seem to indicate that a move higher is imminent in the near-term. This strength is likely rooted in the bullish monthly close that the benchmark cryptocurrency was able to post yesterday. This was the first time in three years that Bitcoin was able to close its monthly candle above $10,700. Many analysts are now noting that this may

Bitcoin Reddit Roundup – July 2020

Welcome to the second edition of Reddit Roundup by Nik and Flip of Bitcoin Magazine! This roundup contains 45 links to the best quality content that was uploaded to Bitcoin Reddit this month. Most links come from the popular r/bitcoin, but we also retrieved posts from other forums as well, such as r/BitcoinMining. In this roundup there are 10 different categories of links: Privacy, Adoption, Development, Security, Mining, Business, Education, Regulation & Politics, Archaeology (Financial Incumbents) and, last but not least, Memes, Fun, And Other. Big shoutout to Sam Wouter,

Bitcoin breaks $11,500 as sentiment metrics show it’s still undervalued

The DeFi-induced bullrun has arguably pushed the crypto market upwards the past week, with Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other major cryptocurrencies giving gains of over 10-15 percent to investors.Data feeds from one quantitative on-chain data provider prove the above, with sentiment metrics, in particular, paving the path for even higher prices.Bitcoin public sentiment increasesData on The TIE — a provider of alternative data for digital assets that quantifies investor perceptions on hundreds of digital assets — shows Bitcoin is showing bullish action in both short- and mid-term trades.The chart below maps

Crypto Tidbits: Bitcoin Explodes Past $11k, Ethereum 2.0 Nears, Cardano’s Shelley Launches

Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. It’s been an explosive week for the Bitcoin and crypto market, to say the very least. Bitcoin surged from under $10,000 to as high as $11,500 this week. Over the past seven days, the asset has gained approximately 20% — the best weekly performance in many months. Chart of BTC's price action over the past two weeks from TradingView.com Bitcoin’s recent price action comes as a breath of fresh air for crypto traders, which had to deal with BTC flatlining in the $9,000s for