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10.10.2024 | Crypto for Advisors: Bitcoin and the American Dream
Questions Loom Over Binance's Stablecoin Collateral | It's interesting to witness the evolution of crypto products as they integrate into real world use-cases beyond being a currency or a store of value.
In today's issue, Meredith Yarbrough, managing partner and co-founder, La Hoja Capital Par... |
26.06.2024 | First Mover Americas: Germany Moves 750 BTC, Altcoins Bleed Liquidity | This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.
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06.12.2022 | First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Falls on Inflation Fears but Continues Its Ride Above $17K | Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:
Prices: Bitcoin and other crypto prices fall along with other riskier assets amid concerns the U.S. economy isn't slowing enough.
Insights: Is Taiwan's technology manufacturer HTC betting too much on t... |
24.08.2022 | Ethereum: Here's Latest Attempt at ETH Price Rebound as Shown by Indicators | Ethereum is seeing a slight rebound in comparison with Bitcoin, up 1.94% in the last 24 hours at $1,634. Bitcoin was trading marginally down at $21,339 at press time. According to on-chain analytics firm Santiment, "traders have turned... |
30.07.2022 | Can VCs game crypto out of this downturn? | Welcome back to Chain Reaction.
Last week, we looked at Musk holding onto doge. This week, we’re talking about where all of this crypto VC money is possibly gonna go.
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25.07.2022 | Crypto valuations may sink until September as VCs play a waiting game | Tons of capital has been raised across the crypto industry in recent months, but there has been a noticeable pause in deployment. That might change in the coming months.
As it’s taken longer to close crypto VC deals, valuations across the i... |
16.05.2022 | Big-Money Investors Who Boosted Bitcoin’s Price Might Now Crash It | A key narrative in the crypto world in 2021 was the arrival of institutional investors to the space. Tesla (TSLA) bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin (BTC) and Wall Street banks like JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Morgan Stanley (MS), as well as... |
26.04.2022 | Crypto Market's Direction During a Recession Might Depend on Nasdaq | With inflation reaching new highs month after month, and the Federal Reserve taking an increasingly hawkish stance, the U.S. economy is exposed to an elevated risk of upcoming recession.
The COVID-19 recession that began in February 2020 an... |
18.04.2022 | First Mover Americas: Bitcoin's Exchange Balance Hits 3.5-Year Low | Good morning, and welcome to First Mover, our daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Sign up here to get it in your inbox each weekday morning.
Here’s what’s happening this morning:
Market Moves: Bitcoin dip... |
14.02.2022 | Why Investors Have Been Slow to Trust Security Tokens | Security tokens, seemingly poised for a comeback several months ago, have not been accepted by the wider investment community as quickly as some might have hoped.
Blockchain concepts such as digital wallets and smart contracts are not easil... |
03.02.2022 | Digital Asset Manager Arca Closes NFT Fund at $50 Million Cap | Arca, a compliant digital asset manager, has announced that it has closed its NFT fund, raising $50 million. The fund was said to be oversubscribed and access was limited to existing Arca LPs.
In a release, Arca said the NFT fund joins a gr... |
31.01.2022 | First Mover Asia: Crypto Finishes Bad Month on High Note | Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:
Market moves: Bitcoin ended a bad January on a positive note; DeFi trading volume grew steadily.
Technician's take: BTC's January sell-off could attract short-term buyers.
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22.01.2022 | Crypto is crashing—and experts predict more pain ahead | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
For HODLers of crypto, the last couple months have been quite the test of endurance.
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02.12.2021 | Bitcoin’s Bullish Trajectory Intact, but December Jump to $100K Looks Unlikely: Analysts | Bitcoin needs to chart a 77% rally in the next four weeks to reach the widely forecast year-end value of $100,000. While analysts are bullish on the cryptocurrency, they don’t foresee a rally to six figures in the short term.
“The latest Co... |
08.11.2021 | First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Hits Record High of Over $67.5K; Ether Also Sets New Mark | Good morning, Here’s what’s happening:
Market Moves: Bitcoin passes $67.5K
Technician’s Take: Indicators for bitcoin suggest an upside toward the $86K resistance level.
Catch the latest episodes of CoinDesk TV for insightful interviews with... |
12.10.2021 | Market Wrap: Bitcoin Declines as Indicator Shows Rally Could Lose Steam | Bitcoin’s price dipped below $57,000 on Tuesday as analysts said the extreme buying in the market could mean the rally may soon be running out of steam.
They pointed to the bitcoin Fear & Greed Index, which entered “extreme greed” terri... |
05.10.2021 | Crypto Asset Manager Arca Launches First Fund for Startup Investments | Asset management firm Arca has launched a new fund to invest in crypto startups.
“Right now, the fund is really focused on seed and SAFT investments, so early-stage valuations that are sub–$40 million in terms of pre-money valuation,” Arca ... |
05.10.2021 | 4 Factors Helping Bitcoin to Decouple From Falling Stock Market | Bitcoin has recently decoupled from the weak stock markets, reviving speculation that the cryptocurrency may be beginning to draw demand as a haven or inflation-hedge asset.
Since Sept. 29, the largest cryptocurrency by market value has ris... |
21.09.2021 | Is Ether's True Value Actually Closer To $1,500? | Several experts weigh in on a recent J.P. Morgan analysis. (Photo Illustration by Chukrut ... [+] Budrul/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images |
04.08.2021 | Why Web 3.0 Tokens Might Be the Next Hot Trade in Cryptocurrencies | With bitcoin prices stuck in a months-long holding pattern, some cryptocurrency traders are speculating on what might be the next hot market bet: digital assets associated with visions of a decentralized Internet, referred to colloquially a... |
28.07.2021 | Traders, Unswayed by Axie Infinity Hype, Are Aggressively Shorting AXS | Guess who may not be fans of the blazing Ethereum-based gaming platform Axie Infinity?
It’s crypto traders – surprising given that AXS, the governance token of Axie Infinity, has logged a year-to-date price return of over 7,000%, compared w... |
20.07.2021 | Blockchain or Blockbuster? The Choice Facing Financial Incumbents | Looking back at industries that have been disrupted by the introduction of new technology – media, e-commerce, travel – the transformation has affected virtually every aspect of that industry, from consumer behavior to infrastructure. We ar... |
02.07.2021 | Investors Cashing Out of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Might Bring Market Boost | The bitcoin market could get a boost this month from the expiration of investor restrictions on the sale of shares in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), the world's largest cryptocurrency fund.
Some digital-asset analysts and investors say... |
30.06.2021 | There's a 'Clearance Sale' on Bitcoin, but Institutions Aren't Rushing In | At the beginning of the year, the dominant narrative permeating cryptocurrency markets was that institutions were going to add large swaths of bitcoin to their assets. Big, established investors from hedge funds to Wall Street mainstays and... |
05.05.2021 | Valid Points: Eth 2.0 Validators Earn Record $3M as ETH Soars Past $3K | The ETH price topped $3,000 for the first time ever this past Sunday, May 2. By mid-afternoon the next day, ETH had exceeded $3,300. On Tuesday, May 3, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was changing hands around $3,... |
03.05.2021 | IoT Privacy Company IoTeX Is Envisioning the Future of NFTs | Dr. Xinxin Fan, head of cryptography at IoTeX, a company working to secure the Internet of Things (IoT), has been appointed Vice Chair of the Standard for the Framework of Blockchain Use in Internet of Things. A subset of the Institute of E... |
02.05.2021 | Crypto Long & Short: Bitcoin's Potential as a Collateral Class | Today I’m going to weave together three seemingly unrelated stories from the past week to highlight a trend that I believe we are largely overlooking. Ready?
First, Tesla’s Q1 earnings release revealed the company sold $272 million worth of... |
07.04.2021 | NFT Frenzy Shows Signs of Cooling but Don't Call It a Market Crash | Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have sold for millions and drawn the attention of mainstream publications from the New York Times to Vanity Fair.
Recently, however, the tokens' prices and trading volumes have declined, raising questions on wheth... |
09.02.2021 | Bitcoin Shows Resilience After Hitting Fresh High | Bitcoin has had a good start to this new year. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty Images |
02.02.2021 | First Mover: Federal Reserve Soup Now Includes Bitcoin, DeFi, Silver, GameStop | Bitcoin (BTC) was higher for a second day, pushing toward the upper end of the range between roughly $30,000 and $36,000 where it has traded for the past couple weeks.
Ether (ETH), the second-biggest cryptocurrency, rose toward a new record... |
01.02.2021 | Arca Welcomes CFO/CCO and New Head of Product for Arca Labs | Arca continues to attract strong and growing investor and distribution partner interest during this exciting phase of our expansion, and Vance will be critical to helping us pursue new opportunities in digital assets and continually evaluat... |
14.01.2021 | Arca Raises $10M in Series A Funding | Arca, a Los Angeles, CA-based asset management firm focused on investing and innovating in the digital assets space, closed a $10m Series A round of funding.
The round was led by RRE Ventures with participation from Alex Tisch, President of... |
13.01.2021 | Digital Asset Management Firm Arca Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding | “We believe that the introduction of digital assets as a capital formation and growth bootstrapping mechanism is the greatest innovation in financial services since the Dutch East India company issued shares of its business to the public in... |
19.12.2020 | What This Digital Asset Investment Firm Missed and Capitalized On in 2020 | At the onset of the year, we (Arca) released our annual digital assets predictions, which focused on a few themes we believed would ultimately drive the majority of digital asset investment gains in 2020. We obviously did not anticipate COV... |
17.12.2020 | Digital Assets Find Their Footing in Unstable Times | The British poet Alfred Tennyson once wrote: “Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
The majority of those reading that line hope it applies to 2021 because this past year has been one of the m... |
13.12.2020 | Crypto Long & Short: Bitcoin's Relationship With Gold Is More Complicated Than It Looks | Earlier this week, JPMorgan published a global markets strategy note that points out money has flowed out of gold and into bitcoin since October, and predicts this trend will continue over the medium to longer term.
The easy conclusion is t... |
07.12.2020 | Arca Labs Enters Into Custody Partnerships With Anchorage, Gemini, Komainu, Ledger, and TokenSoft | Collaborating with prominent custody partners in the industry has elevated the options and choices that token holders have while ensuring a seamless and secure experience, much like they would find within the traditional finance sector.
LOS... |
13.09.2020 | Crypto Long & Short: How Bitcoin Correlations Drive the Narrative | Every week there’s usually at least one article in CoinDesk, a blurb in a newsletter and several charts in the Twittersphere about bitcoin’s correlation with something or other.
This week, we were told that the 60-day correlation between go... |
08.09.2020 | Arca to Gnosis: Show Us a Turnaround Plan or Give Investors' Money Back | Hedge fund manager Arca is stepping up its campaign to overhaul Gnosis, claiming the decentralized exchange and prediction market platform has deviated from its original mission.
Over the summer, Arca discreetly asked Gnosis to make a tende... |
20.07.2020 | ‘A day in the life’ of a Chief Investment Officer- Jeff Dorman- Arca TALKS exclusively to BEQUANT | Jeff Dorman, CFA is a Co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Arca–an innovative digital asset investment company that combines traditional finance with blockchain technology to offer SEC-registered, 40-Act and hedge fund investment prod... |
19.07.2020 | Crypto Long & Short: Why the Twitter Hack Was Good for Bitcoin (and It’s Not the Media Attention) | Every year has a handful of days that you’ll never forget. Sometimes for great reasons, sometimes for awful ones, and sometimes because a level of noise and action coalesces into an awareness that something big has shifted.
Wednesday was on... |
06.07.2020 | Arca Uses Ethereum In First SEC-Registered Fund For Digital Shares | Arca has announced the availability of an SEC-registered fund offering digital assets. (AP ... [+] Photo/Andrew Harnik)ASSOCIATED PRESS |
16.06.2020 | If Crypto Is Anything Like Fixed-Income, It's Going to Need a Fatter Textbook | Jeff Dorman, a CoinDesk columnist, is chief investment officer at Arca where he leads the investment committee and is responsible for portfolio sizing and risk management. He has more than 17 years of trading and asset management experience... |
25.05.2020 | Crypto Long & Short: Innovation Cycles, Crypto Venture Funds and Institutional Investors | Famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) stirred up some discussion last week by dividing crypto history into cycles that look something like this: The price goes up, which leads to new interest, which triggers n... |
10.03.2020 | Crypto Needs a Rational Value Investing Model | Jeff Dorman, a CoinDesk columnist, is chief investment officer at Arca where he leads the investment committee and is responsible for portfolio sizing and risk management. He has more than 17 years of trading and asset management experience... |
06.10.2019 | What It's Like Being CIO of a Crypto Fund | Jeff Dorman, a partner at crypto asset management firm Arca Funds, spent 18 years on Wall Street and in fintech before turning his focus to developing crypto asset strategies and products.
This article originally appeared in ‘Institutional ... |
01.08.2019 | Arca: It’s All Speculation, Crypto No More So | The latest blog post from “full-service (digital asset) investment management firm” Arca contends that “crypto-asset” investing is not much more speculative than traditional sorts.
But Arca is not a neutral commenter. The company has invest... |
09.11.2018 | Arca Funds Files Registration Statement with SEC for US Treasury Fund Issued as Digital Security Using Stablecoins | This is a first.
Arca Funds, an institutional/high net worth investor – asset manager and fund creator for digital assets, has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the Arca US Treasury Fund. T... |
- | Arca | Arca - компания, инвестирующая в криптовалюты, объявила во вторник об открытии нового венчурного фонда Endeavour. Компания планирует вложить $30 миллионов в 14 проектов из сегментов NFT, онлайн-игр и Web 3.0.
В данный момент компания Arca у... |
- | The ‘merge’ has arrived — Wednesday is your last chance to buy ether before historic makeover | Ahead of a years-in-the-making upgrade to the ethereum blockchain, the token ether has been outperforming bitcoin in 2022 by a wide margin.
The so-called merge will result in much more energy-efficient transactions.
Some market experts say ... |
- | Ethereum’s massive software upgrade just went live — here’s what it does | Ethereum’s biggest-ever upgrade just took effect, in what industry experts are calling a game changer for the entire crypto sector.
Thus far, all signs suggest the so-called merge — which is designed to cut the cryptocurrency’s energy consu... |
- | Crypto is in a tailspin. Experts recommend these 27 books to anyone who wants to become a smarter investor and better understand digital currencies. | A collage of crypto book recommendations from experts Amazon This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Cryptocurrencies have become too big to ignore after the industry exploded in ... |