A token represents an asset, such as a stake, voting right or some other form of subjective value. Real estate and commodities, for instance, can be traded as security tokens. Token issuers can create a token by leveraging functions on certain blockchains, such as Ethereum and its native smart contract…

Creating sell walls is an age-old tactic for big players in the financial markets, and crypto is no different. …

Utility tokens provide users access to apps or decentralised apps (dapps). They are not speculative tools and should only provide value in the app for which they were designed. Users might earn the token by doing work, completing tasks, sharing resources or otherwise. …

An Introduction To Day Trading Crypto One of the most popular trading strategies is day trading. Day traders are active in stocks, forex, commodities, cryptocurrency, and essentially all financial markets. The concept of a “day trader” stems from the stock market where trading only takes place during business days and hours. …

Sweetbridge’s CEO Scott Nelson, Aleksandr Bulkin, and Michael Zargham proposed the discount token model, in which token holders get perpetual discounts on services. The idea was first defined in the Sweetbridge discount token whitepaper, “Raising Social Capital: Tokenizing a Customer-Driven Business An Introduction to Discount Token Economics.” …

Once upon a time, when you purchased stock in a company, you received a piece of paper representing your ownership. Fire, robbery, or any other misfortune could befall you and your proof of ownership over the stock. In the twentieth century, there has been a worldwide push to dematerialise— that…

By DxOne Exchange on The Capital — Cryptocurrency exchange platforms are inflating their Bitcoin trading volumes, or ‘wash trading’ to earn higher profits. Last year Bitwise Asset Management issued a report on Bitcoin (BTC) trading figures that stated that 95 percent of Bitcoin trading volume, as seen on CoinMarketCap (CMC) was due to so-called wash trading. Wash trading has always been a serious pressure point for the cryptocurrency markets. Though exchanges have taken…

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Technical analysis and charting are invaluable tools in helping to predict direction, momentum, support & resistance of the coins with a surprisingly high level of accuracy. — In this article, we discuss the most common technical trading patterns and simplify the beginner-friendly indicators along with some anecdotes for rookies. Although cryptocurrencies are incredibly different from traditional assets yet the versatility of technical trading and charting allows us to chart them in the same way with the price action identified by the open, high, low, and close (OHLC).