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What Is NFT Wash Trading?

The shadowy practice is often used to manipulate markets and create a false sense of high demand.

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Markets

Crypto Markets Stabilize After Steep Weekly Declines, Traders Show Near-Term Bearish Bias

Bitcoin could slide to “summer lows near $18,700,” one trader said.

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Markets

Shiba Inu, Dogecoin Jump as Risk-On Behavior Returns to Crypto Markets

Futures tracking the two tokens saw over $25 million in liquidations in the past 24 hours.

Shiba Inu dog (Anastasiia Cherniavskaia/Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin $24K Breakout Elusive as Treasury Yields Balk at Peak Inflation Narrative

Traders of risk assets, including bitcoin, might be wrong to conclude that inflation in the U.S. has peaked, the bond market activity suggests.

Bond markets question the bullish crypto market narrative concerning inflation. (geralt/Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Crypto Fund QCP Capital Says Options Trading Is Next Institutional Growth Driver

Institutional investors are much more likely to engage in options trading than other crypto-centric niches, co-founder Darius Sit shared at an event in Seoul.

QCP Capital co-founder Darius Sit speaking at Korea Blockchain Week. (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)

Markets

DeFi Protocol Voltz Could Bring 150% Interest Rate on Ether Deposits

As the Ethereum blockchain's Merge approaches, traders and venues are seeing the event as an opportunity to pocket fat yields – possibly signaling a renewed appetite for risk in crypto just months after its big market crash.

With memories still fresh from this year's crypto market crash, the Voltz protocol is already looking for ways to let traders use leverage to take more risk. (Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

BNB, Solana Lead Gains in Majors; Traders Point to Dollar Strength for Further Upside

Market recovery will also be contingent on the wider macro environment, one trader said.

Un dólar fuerte podría correlacionarse con el mercado cripto y continuar su recuperación. (Shutterstock).

Finance

Lender Babel Finance Lost $280M Trading Customer Funds: Report

The firm is looking to convert hundreds of million in debt into equity after a series of trading losses.

Flex Yang, co-founder of Babel Finance (Babel)

Finance

Santander Brazil to Launch Crypto Trading Feature in Coming Months, CEO Says

The financial institution will join fintech companies entering the crypto segment, such as Nubank, Mercado Libre and PicPay.

Banco Santander lanzará función de trading cripto en Brasil. (Cristina Arias/Getty Images)

Opinion

How Is Being in Crypto Like Playing a Sport?

A panel of experts examines the shrewdness needed in fencing and trading, the thrill of being on a team and the feeling of being picked last in gym class.

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (Keith Allison/Wikimedia Commons)