Jobless claims beat expectations by an even wider margin than in the initial report, after a revision Thursday. Crypto investors largely ignored the change, although the increasing jobless figures bode well for the market.
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First Mover Americas: Ether Options Tilting Bearish
The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for April 10, 2023.
Ether Holds Near $1.9K as Shanghai Fork Approaches
ETH’s price slid 1.5% on Thursday, the day after reaching its nine-month high. The Ethereum upgrade is expected to occur April 12.
Bitcoin Faces Low Risk of 'Liquidations-Induced' Price Volatility After 70% Surge
Liquidations refer to the forced closure of bullish long and bearish short positions in leveraged perpetual futures markets. They often exacerbate price moves.
Lido Considers Using Its ARB Airdrop to Boost Activity on Arbitrum
Under a new proposal Lido would accept its $1.2 million in ARB tokens and reward them to liquidity providers in wrapped staked ether pools.
Yearn's Staked Ether Token yETH Gets Mixed Results on Govenance Poll
The non-binding poll seeks to do a temperature check of sentiment toward launching yETH.
Payments Firm Nuvei’s Ties With FTX Questioned in Spruce Point Capital Report
Nuvei's shares fell by as much as 6% in premarket trading after Spruce Point warned of a 50% downside, but rebounded into positive territory mid-morning.
A ‘Super App’ May Be Web3’s Super Power
Elon Musk has a vision to turn Twitter into an all-in-one app, like WeChat. Turns out, permissionless and composable crypto platforms together form something better than the sum of its parts.
USDC Boasted Transparency but It Didn't Help When Silicon Valley Bank Got Into Trouble
The stablecoin offers greater transparency than competitors like USDT but that proved of little value as it was depegged during the recent banking crisis, says J.P. Koning.
U.S. Treasury Warns DeFi Is Used by North Korea, Scammers to Launder Dirty Money
The department's first analysis of illicit finance risks associated with DeFi recommends the U.S. look at enhancements to its existing anti-money laundering regime.