The publicly-traded company MicroStrategy now holds just over 90,000 BTC on its balance sheet.
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Bordier & Cie SCmA, a Swiss private bank founded in 1844, now offers trading in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
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Alameda Research, the crypto trading firm, has led a $40m investment in Oxygen, a Switzerland-based DeFi prime brokerage. MultiCoin, Genesis Capital and CMS also participated in the round.
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The Reserve Bank of India is concerned about cryptocurrencies, but it is working on the digital rupee, governor Shaktikanta Das has said.
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UK-based bitcoin payments app Bottlepay has closed an £11 million seed round from investors including acclaimed fund manager Alan Howard.
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The Jack Dorsey-led payments company said that for the fourth quarter of 2020, it sold $1.76 billion in bitcoin via its Cash App.
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Quick Take
- The CEO of Curve argues that the future of finance is a one-stop-shop that aggregates the services of different financial institutions.
- The company, which operates in 31 countries in the UK and Europe, is now planning to expand into crypto — and into the United States.
The stocks of U.S.-listed crypto mining and miner manufacturing firms followed bitcoin’s downward movement Monday’s trading session, market data shows.
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The crypto futures market saw the highest amount of liquidations in its history on Monday, triggered by a sharp fall in bitcoin’s price.
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Quick Take
- Uniswap is the most used decentralized exchange, with a 55% market share on trade volume and 10x the number of active users (addresses) compared to its closest competitor
- Uniswap v3 is expected to bring significant improvements to capital-efficiency and can kick-off a migration to a scalable L2 environment for many Ethereum applications
- Information on Uniswap v3 is scarce. This research piece extrapolates and makes guesses as to potential features based on publicly available information
