May 21, 2017 @ 9:54 am By Jonathan Nieh A year ago, Numerai premiered itself as a “new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists.” Unlike a traditional fund that makes trades based on human decision, Numerai lets anonymous programmers write open source trading algorithms based on data provided by Numerai.  They pay their programmers/data scientists bitcoin based on how well the programs perform in the market. This obviously creates competition amongst the data scientists as programs that are better able to make accurate predictions will outperform others and earn more bitcoin. A few months ago, Numerai debuted their very own cryptocurrency in order to not only combat the competition within their own fund but to destroy the very competitive nature of Wall Street itself. Called Numeraire, the new cryptocurrency is in essence very similar to bitcoin. However, the system in which it gets paid out creates new incentives for the data scientists. Numerai initially distributed 1,000,000 Numeraire tokens to 12,000 data scientists. The data scientists can then “bet” their coins on how well their algorithms perform. If an algorithm does well, the data scientist gets paid in bitcoin, like before, but also gets their Numeraire tokens back. If the algorithm does poorly, the data scientist loses their Numeraire and doesn’t get paid anything. Here’s the interesting part: when an algorithm does poorly, not only does the data scientist who created lose their Numeraire, the tokens are actually destroyed permanently. Through the betting system, everyone is incentivized to build good algorithms because if the fund does well as a whole, the value of Numeraire will go up and everyone will profit. Data scientists are thus encouraged to not only program good algorithms but to also bring in more outside programmers to improve the overall ecosystem. Here is where Numerai hopes their cryptocurrency develops into a strong network effect: the phenomenon whereby a product or service gains additional value as more and more people utilize it. There’s one problem, however: if the goal is to create an entire market built on the collaboration of data scientists, Numerai will need more and more data scientists to take part in their betting system. The vast majority of individuals willing to take part in trades are not computer programmers and the vast majority of computer programmers are not willing to take part in trades. Traders outside Numerai’s system will see an advantage of not taking part and competition will remain. It’s been a few months since the debut of Numeraire so it may be too early to tell. One thing remains clear: there’s hope that a collaborative market can exist, so long as adequate incentives are in place. Contact Us Crowdfund Insider Fintech Insider® Disclosure Quest C/O Crowded Media Group, LLC PO Box 221196 Beachwood OH 44122 USA Info: info@crowdfundinsider.com Support: support@crowdfundinsider.com Advertising: advertising@crowdfundinsider.com CI on Twitter CI on Facebook CI on LinkedIn CI on Google+ CI on Telegram Categories Featured Headlines General News Crowdfunding Portals Politics Strategy Offerings Global Fintech Real Estate Asia Women Changing Finance Services Submit a Tip Advertise on Crowdfund Insider About Us Crowdfunding Guide FAQ Terms of Service Privacy Policy Admin © 2018 Crowded Media Group. All Rights Reserved.

If you are new to the world of cryptocurrency and don’t know where to start, Learn and Earn programs can be a good launchpad. To succeed while investing, you need to learn about how crypto works. Now, the best thing about Learn and Earn programs is that you get free crypto upon completing courses. 

Previously, we have written on ways to earn cryptocurrencies, in general, and to earn with DeFi, in particular. In this article, we present a tenable method for you to start gaining knowledge about the crypto industry while earning free tokens. 

Learn and Earn programs are specially designed programs, where users are rewarded with cryptocurrency for learning and answering questions on certain topics. For instance, you’ll learn about a crypto-project by watching videos and then take a short quiz. If you can successfully answer the questions asked, you’ll receive a certain amount of tokens as a reward. 

To set you off on your journey, the following are the top 4 Learn and Earn programs available for users. 

CoinMarketCap Earn is a Learn and Earn program where, after watching videos, you test the depth of your knowledge. It’s a simple, fun, and low-risk way of earning crypto. To participate, you’ll need a KYC-verified Binance User ID and a CoinMarketCap account. 

Upon successfully answering the quiz, rewards get algorithmically allocated to your connected wallet. However, the token distribution begins after the completion of the campaign and takes about one month to complete. 

To offer its Learn and Earn program, CryptoMarketCap partners with projects like Nervos Network, 1inch, The Graph, and several others. By participating, you can earn CKB, GRT, SAND, OXT, HNT, LUNA, KAVA, and BAND. Nevertheless, you should check whether your country is among the unfortunate ones that restrict this program. 

Coinbase Earn is another similar video-quiz Learn and Earn program. While learning about blockchain-based projects, you get rewards in their native tokens. Through this program, you can earn as much as $160. 

However, to be able to participate, you must fulfill certain eligibility criteria. First, you’ll need a fully KYC-verified Coinbase account. Second, your account must comply with Coinbase’s internal fraud detection system which authenticates its uniqueness. 

As we write this, you can learn about Numeraire, NuCypher, The Graph, Celo, Compound, and several other leading crypto-projects. Consequently, you can earn NMR, NU, GRT, CGLD, COMP, XLM, and so on. Like CoinMarketCap Earn, this program is also restricted in some countries, so you’ll have to check. 

Earnathon is unique, as it’s a dedicated Learn and Earn platform with a single focus. Because there’s only one offering, you are incentivized for better and consistent learning about technical and non-technical aspects of cryptocurrencies. 

To build an educational model that is impactful and effective, it provides the user with crypto tokens to use in real transactions. On its journey, Earnathon aims to impart knowledge of blockchains to at least 10 million people by 2025. By 2050, the target is 1 billion. Presently, in 2021, it has 339,000+ active users. 

Learners earn the native ENA token, usable for staking, yield farming, and launching products on the platform. At the time of writing, a course on the ‘Evolution of Money’ is live on Earnathon. By taking this course, you can earn up to $20 in equivalent ENA. Soon, there’ll be other interesting courses, such as Celo (CELO), Bantu (BNR), Abit Network (TAT), ChainLink (LINK), and Binance Smart Chain (BNB). 

EarnCrypto offers a Learn and Earn program, alongside other ways of earning cryptocurrencies. Apart from completing additional micro-tasks, you can watch videos and answer surveys to get crypto-rewards. 

As such, learners on this platform can earn unlimited amounts of over 100 cryptocurrencies. Moreover, EarnCrypto aims to give its users the first-hand experience of handling small amounts of crypto. Tokens get credited to your wallet, which you can then send to exchanges. 

To date, it has completed almost 56,000 payments to its users. Through EarnCrypto, you can earn cryptocurrencies like Ravencoin, Tron, Litecoin, Digibyte, Komodo, Bitcoin Cash, and Waves, among others. To begin, you simply need to create a free account and get going. 

Of course, airdrops have been around for years now. And you’ve probably collected a few of your own. Airdrops have the ability to attract new users to the cryptocurrency space. Users, who get their first crypto in their wallets for free. To receive their tokens, they have to learn a few things about blockchain and crypto.

All the things every beginner goes through. Like how do I store my cryptocurrency? Or what is a private key?

At Airdrop Alert we helped millions of users receive their first cryptocurrency. Don’t forget to share this with your friends so they can learn about it to.

Besides regular airdrops, we now see a lot of airdrops in the DeFi and NFT industry. Again, a new opportunity to learn about it.

In merely over a decade since their introduction, crypto has become the 5th most-circulated currency. Its market value has already crossed $1 trillion in early 2021 and is steadily on the rise. If not anything else, this speaks significantly of the sector’s potential for the future. 

Needless to say, delays in joining such a prospective domain are time lost in vain. Yet, as an amateur, you must take baby steps. Learn and Earn programs are arguably the best way to enter the space. You have nothing to lose, but only to gain—both in knowledge and in crypto. It’s a win-win situation for you, so get set, and go. 

After dabbling and oscillating around $16K – $17K for a few days, bitcoin has reclaimed the $18,000 level. Many of the alternative coins have also increased in value, adding about $30 billion to the total market capitalization within 24 hours. After the vigorous price dips from earlier in the week that resulted in bitcoin losing $3,000 in hours, it consolidated around $17,000 for several days. Bitcoin dropped several other times below the level but the situation has changed this weekend. The flagship crypto went ablaze smashing above $17,000 and has not looked back since then. A few hours ago, it has spiked above $18K and fundamentals indicate that the coin might move further upwards. Notably, the significant 16% price drop earlier this week did not affect the bitcoin social media sentiment. According to Santiment crypto analytics firm, the positive commentaries have remained mainly optimistic despite the price developments. The company stated: The altcoins performed even worse than bitcoin during the Thanksgiving price drops. Ethereum plummeted from its yearly high of $620 to $485. Ripple surged as high as $0.80 before tanking to around $0.46. Nevertheless, both of these assets, and most of the other altcoins, saw a nice recovery over this weekend. On the 24-hour charts, ETH has gained an additional 6% and is currently trading around $550. XRP is also surging and it is back above $0.60 currently trading around $0.61. Litecoin (7%), Polkadot (4%), Bitcoin Cash (4.5%), and Chainlink (4%) are also in the green from the top ten. Nonetheless, Cardano has trumped many of the other coins with ADA taking the 7th spot in terms of market capitalization, based on data from CoinGecko. As is expected, the lower and mid-cap saw even steeper increases. Horizen leads the way with a 25% price surge. Zilliqa gained (23%), Dash (18%), Nexo (18%), Numeraire (15%), IOTA (13%), Orchid (11%), Qtum (11%), and Ocean Protocol (10%) follow. In general, the cumulative crypto market cap has surged to $535 billion. That is a $30 billion surge since Saturday and $50 billion since the Thanksgiving plunge.

Bitcoin’s volatility continued over the weekend with a few $1,000 moves taking it from a high of $18,800 to $17,700 and back. The altcoins, however, have kept their recent momentum going and have reduced BTC’s dominance over the market to about 63%.

The primary cryptocurrency displayed increased signs of volatility during the weekend. It started with charting a fresh yearly high on Saturday at nearly $19,000.

After coming just inches away from breaking the 2017 all-time high, BTC headed south with a vigorous nosedive of more than $1,000, resulting in a new intraday low at $17,650 (on Bitstamp).

The fluctuations intensified, but this time in the opposite direction as BTC jumped back to $18,700 a few hours later. After a subsequent retracement, Bitcoin sits now just above $18,400.

The technical indicators suggest that the cryptocurrency has to overcome the resistance lines at $18,950, $19,400, and $19,660 before potentially breaking the current ATH.

On the other hand, the support levels at $18,200, $18,000, and $17,700 could assist in case of another price breakdown.

The alternative coins have enjoyed the past several days. Ethereum has experienced another 7% increase and has risen above $580 as staking interest has been expanding lately.

Ripple has also doubled-down on its recent impressive price performance. XRP has added 4% of value and sits above $0.45.

Bitcoin Cash (1%), Binance Coin (1%), Chainlink (1%), Polkadot (3%), and Litecoin (3.5%) are also in the green. However, the most notable performer from the top 10 is Cardano. ADA has surged by 20% and has neared $0.15. Just a few days ago, ADA was struggling with staying above $0.10.

The double-digit price increase club has several representatives from mid and lower-cap altcoins. Waves leads the way with a 37% increase on a 24-hour scale and a 77% surge in the past week.

Horizen’s daily gains are next with 30%. Numeraire (20%), VeChain (12%), Yearn.Finance (11%), and Celo (10%) follow.

Consequently, the altcoins have managed to decrease Bitcoin’s dominance over the market. The metric comparing BTC’s market cap with all alternative coins has dropped to 63.2%, while it hovered over 68% on November 19th.

According to a report by Nick Chong, the investment firm Three Arrows Capital (3AC) has invested an estimated $10 million in LINK. The firm made the purchase during Bitcoin’s flash crash when the cryptocurrency lost nearly $1,000 in less than an hour and then recovered back to $18,000. LINK had a drop from $14 to $12, an opportunity that 3AC took to make its investment. The firm bought, according to Nick Chong, 351,147 LINK initially. Later, 3AC picked up an additional 400,000 LINK to accumulate 751,147 LINK. In total, it is estimated that Three Arrows Capital has an estimated $14 million in LINK placed at the address shown below. It appears that the funds acquired by 3AC are used as collateral in Ethereum’s DeFi protocol Aave in conjunction with 275 YFI. Regarding the investment in LINK, Chong notes that the collateral is used to acquire stablecoins: The firm is also part of the decentralized exchange SUSHI yield farming with $1.5 million allocated to the protocol’s governance token. In Compound, 3AC is a provider of $50 million in ETH, $6 million in DAI, and $100 million in WBTC. On the same line, investment firm Polychain Capital was the largest purchaser of the Yearn.finance protocol governance token (YFI) in the last five weeks with a purchase of 570 YFI. Some analysts believe that YFI could recover after its recent decline and reach a new all-time high of $100,000. Another important player who is making a strong bet in the DeFi sector is Jump Trading. According to Chong, the firm has an approximate 39,000 ETH or $18.5 million accumulated during the last weeks. The firm also maintains tokens of the protocols Compound, Keep Network, Serum, HXRO, Numeraire, Orchid, Maker, and Huobi token. About the transactions of Jump Trading, Chong stated: In a separate report from June, Coindesk revealed that 3AC has become the largest investor in Grayscale’s Bitcoin fund with the purchase of $200 million or approximately 6.5%. The report indicates that 3AC could employ a strategy that would allow it to benefit from Grayscale’s product (GBTC). The strategy is to buy the shares at a certain price and then hold them for the 6-month period required by Grayscale. Once that is completed, 3AC can sell its shares at a premium rate that could range from 20% to 133%, according to the product’s fluctuation in 2020.

Founded in mid-2012, Coinbase is a digital currency exchange available in 32 countries around the globe. It brokers exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litcoin, Ethereum, and others. Here’s more about the company and why you should consider using it to trade.

Considered the leading mainstream cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, Coinbase features a range of products, including cryptocurrency investing, an advanced trading platform, custodial accounts for institutions, a wallet for retail investors, and its own U.S. dollar stable-coin. Fully regulated, the company first got its start trading Bitcoin. However, it quickly added additional digital currencies as the overall market continued to grow. To date, the online broker offers over 30 cryptocurrencies for investment, trading, and staking.

To date, Coinbase users can trade these cryptocurrencies: Cosmos, Algorand, Band Protocol, Basic Attention Token, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Satoshi Vision, Celo, Compound, Dai, Dash, EOS, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Kyber Network, Chainlink, Loopring, Litecoin, Maker, Numeraire, OMG Network, Orchid, Augur, Stablecoin, UMA, Uniswap, Stellar Lumens, Ripple, Tezos, yearn.finance, Zcash, and 0x.

Further, a Pro membership adds trading for  Civic, district0x, Golem, Loom, and Decentraland. It includes a different fee schedule and includes advanced functions and trade abilities. 

For trades, the San Francisco-based company charges fees based on the total trade amount and payment type. Fees range from 0.5% and 4.5%. You can make payments through ACH, a U.S. bank account, your Coinbase wallet, Debit card, or wire transfer.

With Coinbase Pro, fees are based on your monthly trading volume and the asset’s liquidity at the time of purchase. Purchases and withdrawals are only available through a bank account, and wire transfer fees apply. Coinbase transactions can range from $2 to $25,000 per day; those using Coinbase Pro have a withdrawal limit of $25,000 per day.

Like other investment opportunities, neither the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) or the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) protects trades made in cryptocurrency exchanges. Therefore, understand your entire investment is dependent on what happens in the market. In other words, you could lose your entire investment.

Coinbase operates in 42 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. It’s not currently available in California, Hawaii, Indiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana, Utah, and Wisconsin.

In terms of securing your investment, Coinbase has implemented various safeguards. First, it stores up to 97% of bitcoins in encrypted, geographically separated, offline storage. Additionally, bitcoins stored in online computers are insured.

Coinbase explains:

Coinbase prioritizes the security of our customer’s digital currency through a combination of online “hot storage” and offline “cold” storage. Coinbase maintains 98% or more of customer digital currency in cold storage, with the remainder in secure hot servers as necessary to serve the liquidity needs of our customers. All digital currency that Coinbase holds in its online hot storage is insured. If Coinbase were to suffer a breach of its online hot storage, the insurance policy would pay out to cover any customer funds lost as a result.

And yet, the company also notes the insurance doesn’t cover breaches to individual Coinbase accounts. Instead, it only covers losses related to physical security, cybersecurity, or employee theft.

It is your responsibility to use a strong password and maintain control of all login credentials you use to access Coinbase.

Several factors will determine whether digital currency trading is for you. However, the biggest question to ask is whether you want to put your money into something highly speculative and known for its volatility. For more information, be sure to read our Beginner’s Guide To Using The Cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Learning more about blockchain is also recommended.

Regardless, if you decide to invest in cryptocurrency, Coinbase is a great way to do so. It’s been around for many years and is the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States by trading volume. Additionally, it’s also one of the top crypto exchanges in the world by traffic, liquidity, and trading volumes, according to the market research website, CoinMarketCap.com.

To get started, visit the Coinbase website, then create a free account using your name, email address, and user-created password. After verifying your email address, you must enter a verification code sent to your phone, which you’ll need to enter on the website to sign in to your new account. From there, fund your account, and then your cryptocurrency journey can begin!

The privacy-focused web browser Brave Browser announced its plans to enable token swaps in its software by launching its own decentralized exchange (DEX) and Layer-2 solution to facilitate access to its users to Decentralized Finance (DeFi).

The addition of a DEX to the Brave ecosystem aims to provide added value to both Brave and Basic Attention Token (BAT), Brave’s native cryptocurrency, by providing discounts when using BAT to pay for transaction fees, discounts for BAT holders, and multichain support for multiple cryptocurrencies.

The new feature is part of the recently published Roadmap 2.0, which also includes the addition of the Brave crypto wallet, the THEMIS protocol, R&D around the decentralized web (Web3), and increasing community outreach.

Despite having integrated with Gemini, Binance, and Crypto.com in the past, the new Brave wallet will work as a means to unify the existing Brave rewards program, custodial accounts, and best-in-class non-custodial into a single solution.

R&D around Web3 will be focused on the potential applications of BAt in search engines, e-commerce, VPNs, rewards for content verified on InterPlanetary Naming System (IPNS), and its uses for content pinning on InterPlanetary File System (IPFS).

Brave has been one of the most active contributors to the development of Web3 by integrating new protocols and technologies, with other blockchain projects like Ocean Protocol, Filecoin, Siacoin, and Numeraire being some of the major contributors in the cryptocurrency space.

Ever since the booming of DeFi back in 2020, DEXs like Uniswap, 1Inch, PancakeSwap, and others, have continued to rise in popularity while becoming a major threat to centralized exchanges that have dominated the crypto market for most of its history.

Coinbase, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, stated in its recently published S-1 form that DEXs and DeFi, in general, represent a risk to the dominance of the company:

“However, we do face significant competition from parties ranging from large, established financial incumbents to smaller, early-stage financial technology providers and companies native to the cryptoeconomy, such as decentralized exchanges.”

The exchange then added that the growing number of decentralized and non-custodial platforms could result in their business model being “adversely affected” if they fail to compete with the low entry costs they offer, as well as the advantage that their lack of regulation implies.

While Centralized Exchanges like Coinbase and Binance facilitate the transition to Crypto by allowing new and old users to convert fiat into cryptocurrencies and providing an added level of trust and simplicity, they are seen by many as antagonistic to the principles of crypto due to their decentralized nature.

Centralized Exchanges are well aware of the risks that the DeFi movement and its DEXs imply for their future.

Keeping in line with this, they have adapted their strategies by facilitating the listing of new cryptocurrencies, improving community outreach, developing new technologies, and more importantly, directly taking advantage of DEXs growing popularity.

Coinbase has actively invested in DeFi platforms such as Compound due to it being a “substantial business opportunity” for the exchange and resulting in a partnership that began back in 2018 when Coinbase invested in the company behind the protocol.

On the other hand, exchanges like Binance have developed their own blockchain networks to allow the creation of dApps and decentralized platforms, which has seen increasing popularity among DeFi projects.

Back on Thursday the 25th of February, the popular DEX aggregator 1inch announced that it would be expanding to Binance Smart Chain (BSC) by running its own validator node in the network.

The move comes at a time when the Ethereum Network has been unable to deal with the increasing gas prices which have caused struggles for investors and DeFi platforms alike.

Sergey Kunz, 1inch co-founder and CEO, referred to the integration by saying:

“We see a significant opportunity for 1inch Liquidity Protocol to become the biggest liquidity protocol on Binance Smart Chain, as it’s already the most efficient AMM protocol in the market,

A total of 10 million 1INCH tokens, about $4 million at the time of publishing, were minted on BSC to be used as liquidity in Binance bridge to connect the BSC and Ethereum networks.

This AI-focused cryptocurrency is up 300%, but on-chain fundamentals spell trouble While the global financial markets were melting down as coronavirus spread throughout the planet, there was one cryptocurrency that managed to weather the storm. Numeraire, an altcoin brought to life to incentivize scientists to predict financial models using encrypted data, was able to enter a parabolic advance that has seen its price skyrocket over 3x in the past three months. The AI-centric cryptocurrency went from trading at a low of $6 in late January to recently hitting a high of $24. The bull run that NMR experienced in such a short period of time is quite impressive given the current economic environment. However, everything could be part of a pump-and-dump scheme, according to Santiment. The behavior analytics firm argued that Teeka Tiwari and his Palm Beach Research Group could be behind Numeraire’s sudden bullish impulse. Dino Ibisbegovic, head of content and SEO at Santiment, explained: Even though it is impossible to determine how much of the pump can be attributed to Tiwari, on-chain data reveals that one massive whale was preparing for this price action. Indeed, a few weeks before Numeraire began surging there was a significant spike in the token’s exchange inflow. One address sent 100,000 NMR, worth roughly $620,000 at the time, to a Bittrex wallet on Jan. 26. This transfer represents one of the biggest single-day moves in Numeraire’s history, affirmed Ibisbegovic. Now that the AI-focused altcoin is up more than 300 percent, there are not any fundamental metrics that support a further increase in its price. Ibisbegovic pointed out that the number of active addresses is declining as well as the network growth. The downtrend in these on-chain indexes can be considered as a negative sign. Ibisbegovic said: Given the state of Numeraire’s network, the entities behind the exponential upswing could now be preparing to dump their tokens as Marcel Burger, founder of digital assets consultancy BurgerCrypto.com, stated: Even if NMR continues surging, market participants must remain cautious about what is happening behind closed doors to avoid getting caught on the wrong side of the trend. Numeraire, currently ranked #76 by market cap, is up 5.94% over the past 24 hours. NMR has a market cap of $53.96M with a 24 hour volume of $1.02M. Chart by CryptoCompare Numeraire is up 5.94% over the past 24 hours. Posted In: Altcoins, Analysis, Price Watch Published at Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:26:56 +0000

Digibyte and Vechain are among several crypto assets that are outperforming Bitcoin and Ethereum in the past 24 hours The past 24 hours have seen a dozen or so altcoins gain more than 10% on news that US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was looking to add support for nearly 18 digital assets. Digibyte, Bancor and Vechain are among several tokens outperforming major altcoins after Coinbase’s announcement. According to Coinbase, its team would use its Digital Asset Framework evaluate and decide on the listing of any of the following crypto assets: Aave, Aragon, Arweave, Bancor, COMP, DigiByte, Horizen, Livepeer, NuCypher, Numeraire, KEEP Network, Origin Protocol, Ren, Render Network, Siacoin, SKALE Network, Synthetix and VeChain. In the past, Coinbase listings have been bullish signals for digital assets. Digibyte has surged over 19.5% on the day, from lows of $0.016 to $0.0197. Digibyte is trading up by more than 24% then on its price a week ago. Vechain’s price has gained more than 18% to see its price rise from $0.0081 to $0.0098 on intraday volumes of more than $101 million. The altcoin is up 38% in the weekly charts. Another top gainer due to the Coinbase announcement is Bancor; spiking by close to 20% in the past 24 hours on rising volumes. The crypto asset is now more than 47% up over the past seven days. Siacoin, ranked 59th on CoinMarketCap, has gained over 13% on the day to see its value increase more than 7% on weekly charts. As altcoins rally, the crypto community has not relented in its call for a mass exodus from Coinbase. This follows the recent outages and reports that the company was likely to offer its intelligence platform to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

Now, the exchange is delving deeper into DeFi by listing wBTC — an Ethereum-based version of Bitcoin, created to allow BTC to participate in decentralized finance.

According to its official announcement, Coinbase is still getting a large number of requests from its users to list more assets on the platform. Of course, the exchange is doing everything in its power to meet and grant these requests, while still staying true to the terms of its listing process.

It has already added a number of coins, including Balancer (BAL), Band (BAND), Ren (REN), Compound (COMP), Celo (CGLD), Maker (MKR), yearn.finance (YFI), Uniswap (UNI), Loopring (LRC), Numeraire (NMR), UMA (UMA), and OmiseGo (OMG).

In addition to that, it also supported some additional UK and European order books. However, now it aims to add more coins and tokens, with WBTC being the next in line.When is Wrapped Bitcoin coming?

The announcement reveals that support for wBTC will arrive on Monday, October 19th, while trading will start on Tuesday, at around 9 am Pacific Time (PT) — provided that liquidity conditions are met, of course. At this time, Coinbase Pro will start accepting inbound transfers of the coin.

As soon as the platform establishes a sufficient supply of Wrapped Bitcoin, it will launch trading on wBTC-BTC and wBTC-USD, which will roll out in four phases — transfer-only, post-only, limit-only, and full trading.

The exchange warns that it will keep the book in one state for a longer period if the order books do not meet the exchange’s assessment for an orderly and healthy market. If this doesn’t happen even after a prolonged period, it is possible that it will even suspend trading completely, which is also in its Trading Rules.

Users can follow the progress of the phases on Twitter, by following Coinbase Pro’s official account.

Coinbase is considering adding a new range of digital assets, including VeChain, Aragon, Bancor, Siacoin, Origin Protocol, and Ren to its potential listings.     Coinbase has been evaluating potential digital assets under its Digital Asset Framework, to review the project’s security and compliance before completing the listing on the exchange.   Other projects on Coinbase’s list include Arweave, COMP, DigiByte, Horizon, Livepeer, NuCypher, Numeraire, Render Network, SKALE Network, and Synthetix.   “Our decision to support any asset requires significant technical and compliance review and may be subject to regulatory approval in some jurisdictions,” the Coinbase blog read. “As per our listing process, we will add new assets on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis, subject to applicable review and authorizations.”   With the announcement of the potential listing of the cryptocurrencies on the Coinbase exchange has led to a rise in digital asset value before dumping shortly after the listing has been confirmed.   Most assets have seen a jump in price between 8 to 25 percent, with an average of 17 percent, according to data from Messari. Vechain (VET) price has seen an increase of 12.34% after Coinbase’s announcement.    However, the US exchange did not give a timeline for listing the mentioned cryptocurrencies.    Coinbase recently faced outages during Bitcoin price surges which have led to some members of the crypto community refusing to use the exchange. Coinbase users withdrew 22,000 more Bitcoins than they deposited on June 7, which was worth around $214 million.    The US exchange has also faced skepticism when news came out of Coinbase’s intention to sell a blockchain analytics software, named  “Coinbase Analytics” to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). 

This is a guest post from Voyager, a crypto brokerage firm with a commission-free trading app. Remember when we asked you to guess the price of Bitcoin (BTC) at the moment of the Halving? Of the 1,000+ responses we received, the average estimate of our ever-so-optimistic community was $17,138.50. With the Halving now just days away, the OG cryptocurrency fought to make honest men and women out of you this week. On Thursday, Bitcoin soared above $10,000, gaining nearly 10% in 24-hours. The price action came as a storm of positive news began to brew, highlighting Bitcoin as a safe-haven hedge to traditional markets and global currencies at risk of inflation. At the same time, Bitcoin’s hashrate and mining difficulty hit near all-time highs, a sign that miners are increasing production ahead of the Halving. From late March, BTC’s hashrate has risen from around 95 TH/s (terahashes per second) to 116 million TH/s. var td_screen_width = window.innerWidth; if ( td_screen_width >= 1140 ) The top three altcoins, Ethereum (ETH), XRP (XRP), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH), have yet to react to Bitcoin’s momentum, all ending the week nearly flat. DigiByte continued its parabolic streak, gaining another 18% this week. 0x (ZRX) also added a whopping 104.5%. If this was any market other than crypto, I would call your collective Bitcoin Halving guesses impossible. Stay tuned. This is about to get interesting Top movers: 0x (ZRX) +104.5% Numeraire (NMR) +56.8% Neo (NEO) +21.1 Verge (XVG) +16.3% Bitcoin isn’t the only thing booming ahead of the Halving. The market cap of all stablecoins catapulted to $9.5 billion this year, with Tether minting over a billion dollars in April alone. Also, $3 billion worth of stablecoins was deposited on exchanges, a sign many in the crypto community call bullish. As Ryan Selkis pointed out, investors may be holding their stablecoins on exchanges so they can quickly be put to work in the market as the Halving approaches. Others are pointing to the increased use of stablecoins in Asian. Darius Sit, the managing partner of QCP Capital, an over-the-counter trading firm based in Singapore, told DeCrypt that ninety percent of its spot-trading business is in stablecoins. He added that they see an average of ten-to-twenty million dollars in stablecoin transaction volume every day. Bitcoin got the backing of Wall Street legend Paul Tudor Jones this week. Much to the crypto community’s delight, Jones, the founder and chief executive officer of Tudor Investment Corp, is reportedly buying bitcoin as an inflation hedge as central banks around the world print money. “The best profit-maximizing strategy is to own the fastest horse,” Jones said in a market outlook note entitled ‘The Great Monetary Inflation.’ “If I am forced to forecast, my bet is it will be Bitcoin.” According to Bloomberg news, his fund holds a single-digit percentage of Bitcoin futures. Finance Magnates: USD-Backed Stablecoins Are Booming Amid the Coronavirus Crisis Coindesk: 9 Reasons Why Bitcoin Has Never Been Stronger Going Into a Halving Medium: Steve Ehrlich of Voyager Digital: “Investing During The Pandemic; What Should I Do With My Money Considering All of the Volatility and Uncertainty Today” The original Voyager post can be read here. You can earn $25 in BTC by signing up for the Voyager app and trading $100 (or use code SLUDGE25). BTCUSD Rates by TradingView

Bitcoin has recouped from yesterday’s dip to below $11,200, but most altcoins are significantly outperforming the primary cryptocurrency. Several impressive price increases, including new all-time highs for Chainlink and Tezos, have reduced Bitcoin’s dominance to below 60%.

As CryptoPotato reported yesterday, 24 hours ago, the entire market lost about $20 billion of its capitalization after a violent retrace from most coins. Today, however, the situation appears much greener with some notable increases.

First and foremost, Chainlink has registered yet another ATH. LINK has been dominating the market lately and frequently charts a price higher than the previous top. During yesterday’s price dip, LINK dropped to $12.5, but it pumped by almost 40% to its fresh ATH of nearly $17 (Binance).

Tezos is another impressive gainer, which has followed LINK’s footsteps. XTZ reached $4.4 a few days ago, but it dropped rather quickly to $3.6. Yet, bulls didn’t allow it to stay long beneath $4 and pumped the price to its new high of $4.5 (on Binance).

The most notable gainer in the past 24 hours, however, is Numeraire (NMR). The native cryptocurrency coming from the hedge fund company Numerai has skyrocketed by over 150%, mainly because the largest US-based exchange Coinbase announced listing the asset.

Aragon has also exploded by nearly 90% since yesterday, after the leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance said it would add it on its platform.

BitShares (42%), XinFin Network (40%), IRISnet (34%), Swipe (32%), Algorand (27%), Waves (25%), Band Protocol (21%), Bancor (20%), are also part of the double-digit increase club.

Very few coins are retracing against the dollar today – JUST is down by 2.5%, while Aave loses 1% of its value.

The primary cryptocurrency is also in the green today since it bottomed below $11,200 yesterday and has recovered to the $11,500 area at the time of this writing.

Interestingly, Bitcoin’s performance continues to resemble that of the two most popular precious metals and safe-haven assets – gold and silver. The increased correlation between the two asset classes was evident again during the last 24 hours as gold and silver have also recovered to some extent, following a few consecutive days of price losses.

However, Bitcoin’s 2% increase since yesterday can’t compete with the massive price pumps among most altcoins. Consequently, the metric comparing BTC’s total market cap against all other coins has decreased. According to data from CoinMarketCap, for the first time since July 2019, Bitcoin’s dominance has dropped below 60% to 59.5% as of writing these lines.

Markets: BTC/USD has regained ground above $7,200 during early Asian hours to trade at $7,220 at the time of writing.  The coin has grown by 1.5% since the beginning of the day and stayed unchanged on a day-to-day basis. If the gains proved to be sustainable, we may see an extended recovery towards the next strong barrier of $7,500. At the time of writing, ETH/USD is changing hands at $186.00. The second-largest coin hit the intraday high $186.67 but failed to hold the ground. Despite the correction, it is still 3.5% since the start of the day and mostly unchanged on a day-to-day basis. ETH/USD is moving in a short-term bearish trend. The volatility is shrinking. XRP/USD is changing hands at $0.1950 during early Asian hours, close the intraday high of $0.1948. The coin has gained 2.9%  since the beginning of the day.  From the short-term perspective, XRP/USD is trading within a bullish trend amid low volatility. Among the 100 most important cryptocurrencies,MaidSafeCoin (MAID) $0.1888 (+170.9%), Numeraire (NMR) $0.2354 (+16.6%) and Zcoin (XZC) $$.22 (12.4%) are in the green zone. The day’s losers are Synthetix Network Token (SNX) $0.7563 (+3.8%), Verge (XVG) $0.0027 (-3.6%) and Cosmos (ATOM) $2.43 (-3.5% Chart of the day: XRP/USD, 30-min chart Market: A record-high demand for stablecoins forced Tether to issue new coins. As a result, the market capitalization of USDT surpassed $7 billion and hit $7,6 billion, which is a record high. Moreover, the token trades with a premium at some cryptocurrency exchanges. The cryptocurrency tracker Skew tweeted: Other analytical services, for example, CoinMarketCap show less impressive figures like $6.4 billion. Industry Another DeFi protocol was hacked on the weekend. The thieves drained the money pool of Lendf, one of the decentralized protocols supported by dForce Foundation. The Chinese-based project lost 99% of its funds or $25 million. Lendf is currently unavailable, while the company says it is investigating the accident. Late on Sunday, the founder of dForce published a report on what had happened. He said that hackers contacted them and they chose to enter the discussion. Regulation Researchers from the Bank for International Settlements believe that Bitcoin loves regulation. They carried out research and found out that the cryptocurrency tended to grow on the news of clear regulations. The working paper published by the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank’s Globalization Institute suggests that the cryptocurrency market may dip if governments ban digital assets, but clear rules are viewed as a positive signal. The British police will be trained to deal with cryptocurrency crime. Digital assets, like Bitcoin, has been widely used by criminals to sell drugs online or finance illegal activities; however, the traditional enforcement agencies have little experience and technical knowledge to deal with this new type of crime. The National Police Chief Council’s (NPCC) Cybercrime program has prepared experts that will now support police forces across the UK by coordinating training, offering guidance and providing resources. Bitcoin ATM operators registered the increased transactions volume, despite world-wide lockdowns and quarantines. Experts believe that it is another signal of Bitcoin’s role as a safe-haven asset as people use Bitcoin ATMs (BTMs) to buy digital coins as it is the most familiar and the most straightforward way to join the market. Thus, DigitalMint increased its park of kiosk and teller services by 5.6% in March. LibertyX also installed several hundred ATMs, according to the company’s CEO & co-founder Chris Yim. Quote of the day James Loop, Co-founder and CTO of CasaHODL FX Street

Markets: BTC/USD is changing hands at $8800, having recovered from the intraday low of $8,650. amid strong rally during early Asian hours. The first digital coin has lost 5% in the recent 24 hours and gained 1.8% since the beginning of Friday. Now it is trading within the strong short-term bearish bias amid expanding volatility. At the time of writing, ETH/USD is changing hands at $213.50. The price tested area above $215.00 during early Asian hours and the upside momentum remains strong. The second-largest coin increased by 3.8% since the beginning of Friday. Now ETH is moving within a short-term bullish trend. The volatility is growing. XRP/USD is hovering below $0.2200. The coin has recovered from Thursday’s collapse to $0.2000 and gained nearly  4% since the start of the day.  From the short-term perspective, XRP/USD is trading within a bullish trend amid high volatility. Among the 100 most important cryptocurrencies, Hyperion (HYN) $0.3005 (+13.8%), Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) $0.3908 (+7.6%), THETA (THETA) $0.1278 (+5.8%). The day’s losers are Numeraire (NMR) $20.73 (-14.2%), ), Hive (Hive) $0.4067 (-14.2%), Nervos Network (CKB) $0.0047 (-10.2%). Chart of the day: ETH/USD, 1-hour chart Market Due to the rising cryptocurrency trading volumes and Bitcoin price increase, the mempool of the first digital coin got overcrowded with unconfirmed transactions. By press time, their number reached 75k, the highest since June 2019. The aggregate volume of the unconfirmed transactions surpassed 76 MB. Industry The US-based Bitcoin ATM operator CoinFlip has announced a partnership deal with Monarch Wallet. The deal will allow to offer advanced crypto features for not tech-savvy people and those who do not have access to banking services. Monarch Wallet is a decentralized cryptocurrency wallet that seeks to educate their users and help them to take advantage of the blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies. Due to the partnership, Monarch’s users will get access to over 580 CoinFlip ATMs around the USA, while CoinFlip’s customers can use Monarch Wallet to store their coins. Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Bitfinex, believes that the recent growth of Bitcoin price proves its value and its status of a digital gold. The CTO of one of the world’s largest exchanges also pointed out that the cryptocurrency requires a reliable trading infrastructure that would not fail during high volatility periods. Notably, the US-based Conbase, known for its stability, suddenly went offline amid the recent Bitcoin rally. The technical issues angered the community and gave rise to concerns about the reliability of the exchange. Regulation Japan’s financial regulator – Financial Services Agency (FSA) –  certified two cryptocurrency industry associations as Certified Financial Instruments and Exchange Associations. The FSA recognized the Japan STO Association and the Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Business Association (JVCEA) as self-regulatory bodies for the operations with derivative instruments and security token offerings, according to the announcement made on April 30. JVCEA will be renamed as “Japan Crypto Asset Trading Business Association” as of May 1. The Brazilian government made a step towards further legitimizing the role cryptocurrencies in the Brazillian economy and validated the circulation of the new type of asset in the country. According to the recent announcement, starting from the next May, cryptocurrency exchanges located in the country, will operate under a designated code that refers to the “brokerage and possession of crypto-assets.” FX Street