Quick Take
- Blockchain technology is introducing substantial efficiency gains to the insurance industry.
- Local regulations remain a significant hurdle for further product expansion in many countries.
Ripple paid its partner MoneyGram $9.3 million in XRP incentives in the third quarter of 2020.
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Crypto lending and trading firm Genesis continues to grow.
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Fidelity Digital Assets collaborated with Greenwich Associates to survey almost 800 investors in order to produce a deeper understanding of the preferences of major institutions and their behavior toward the digital assets industry.
Delphi Digital takes a close look at bitcoin’s metrics and evolution as macro policies set the stage for currency debasement and as the halving changes the economics of bitcoin mining.
Since its introduction in 2009, Bitcoin has steadily grown in popularity and today has expanded its reach to a broad mainstream audience. A joint survey from Grayscale Investments and Q8 Research provides a deeper level of insight into investors’ interests, perceptions, and misconceptions about investing in Bitcoin including the profile of potential Bitcoin investors, the messages that […]
CoinDesk Research covers crypto markets quarterly data including volatility, correlation, volume and returns of the CoinDesk 20 list of crypto assets. This quarter’s slides also cover derivatives markets, synthetic bitcoins, BTC versus ETH, central bank digital currencies and the return of aging bitcoin mining equipment; finally, we look at the relationship (or not) between online […]
The third bitcoin “halving” (2020) is expected in May, a programmed supply reduction that has in the past coincided with a strong run-up in the bitcoin price. In this paper, we explain what the bitcoin halving is, why it matters and why the market is so focused on this event. We attempt to reconcile the various models and theses around the potential bitcoin price reaction as the adjustment approaches, and look at metrics that will shed light on the technological impact. We finish with some input from miners themselves, who lend insight and perspective to the possible consequences of the protocol change.
Developers may punt a network feature two years down the road to avoid complicating ethereum’s transition to proof-of-stake (PoS).
