BNC and BTSE bring robust pricing to a fractured market
The lack of robust pricing in the markets hinders crypto derivatives and an ETF. Brave New Coin has been the flag-bearer for price data industry standards and this week launched its first customized basket index in conjunction with the BTSE exchange.
2018 Q4 Review – A Violent Decline
The total market cap for all cryptocurrencies at the end of Q4 stood at ~US$130 billion. The middle and end of Q4 was marked with a violent drop in all cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin dominance, which can be used as a market wide confidence index, held steady at around 50% throughout most of the quarter. As ICOs or coins are continually added to the ecosphere, Bitcoin is unlikely to ever return to >80% market cap dominance.
SEC announces ‘Cyber Unit’ to investigate ICOs and DLT
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a new initiative that it says will address “cyber-based threats and protect retail investors”. Branding its new division the Cyber Unit, the SEC says it will focus on offenses related to misconduct using the dark web and violations involving distributed ledger technology and initial coin offerings
Ethereum Price Analysis – Fundamentals battle technicals
Ether now has a US$27 billion market capitalization, while exchange traded volume trailing Bitcoin on most days. Price action over the last week has also closely followed that of Bitcoin, with a heavy correction and fast retracement.
Blockchain Industry Report Q1 2017
Blockchain funding is higher than ever, and despite being a smaller market, Europe has a strong focus on the technology, according to a new industry report from Funderbeam.
Disruptive Innovation: ‘New Markets New Metrics’
This paper explores some of the broad thematic research areas upon which ARK Investment Management is focused today. These subjects fit squarely in the macro realm that portfolio managers should understand when analyzing investment opportunities. Like changes in economic policy, nonlinear changes in technology can have dramatic effects on industries across the globe.
Six Blockchain application verticals, opportunities for your next project
We see six key verticals where blockchains are being applied. Each of these has many business opportunities. We’re still in the early days of blockchain and the broader decentralization movement, which means there is still plenty of opportunity in each vertical.
Investment Outlook from Bill Gross: Doubling Down
Bill Gross, Portfolio Manager of the Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, shares his outlook on the global financial markets.
Emerging Markets Driving the payments transformation
In this paper, we examine the current state of the payments industry across the emerging markets, identify key drivers and developments already underway and determine what is required to realise the market potential between now and 2030. A key focus of the paper is the steps being taken by merchants, customers, payment companies, regulators and PSPs towards creating a successful electronic payments infrastructure.
P2P markets need P2P justice
Peer-to-peer marketplaces are forcing change on the systems we use for dispute resolution. Algorithmic dispute resolution, software-guided settlement negotiation, and even full-service stepped mediation to arbitration online dispute resolution (ODR) projects [all existed](http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1073&context=dltr) in 2002–2003. Yet despite the promise of lower costs, faster speed, and jurisdictional autonomy, most of those projects have long been abandoned. They simply didn’t catch on. Now, with the invention of bitcoin, open blockchains, and smart contracts, there’s a renewed interest in these services.
A brave new world? What impact will distributed ledger technology have on the financial industry?
One of the more recent technological developments that holds potential for the financial industry is distributed ledger technology, or DLT. This article looks briefly at what exactly this new technology is and what the potential implications are for Europeâs financial market infrastructure.
The Use of Distributed Ledger Technologies in Payment,Clearing,and Settlement
This paper will focus on newly emerging distributed ledger technologies and related protocols, which were inspired originally by Bitcoin, and their potentially important applications to payment, clearing, and settlement in the wholesale markets.
In Brief: The tangle and the blockchain
Has the conversation evolved already? Amid the blockchain technological push, another variation has emerged — the “tangle.” The tangle or Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) chain essentially means a collection of nodes or vertices, while allowing connectivity between nodes but with no circular edgings. In other words, you cannot start at one vertex and eventually loop back to that same vertex via a sequence of edges (connections).
German youth is arrested for darkweb trades, while decentralised markets come online
A German court jailed a young man last week who allegedly ran a multi-million-euro drugs business on the darknet. Almost a tonne of illegal narcotics were sold from his bedroom.
Bitcoin Price Analysis: Volume Decreasing
While debates over the Block Size issues appear to have died down, the problem has not yet been resolved. The most likely outcome will be an announcement that there will be a small block size increase, while a more permanent solution is being put together.
Money is no object: Understanding the evolving cryptocurrency market
The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of what cryptocurrency is and how much consumers know about it. In addition, we discuss potential positive uses of this new instrument.
