Bitcoin Nudge Higher on Binance Settlement Talk
By Laxmikant Khanvilkar
Leading virtual digital assets (VDAs), nudged higher during the last 24-hours and have managed stay the course on optimism, the overhang on the world’s largest crypto exchange – Binance – may end soon.
The likelihood has driven Bitcoin (BTC) and the Binance native token BNB higher.
Not to forget, the Thanks giving week in the U.S. which coincides with market optimism is keeping crypto maximalist fairly active.
BTC has rallied above $37,500 mark amid fresh bouts of positive trades. The world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap is recently seen changing hands at $37,395, up 0.3%.
Ether (ETH) has also steadied the ship above $2,000 level. It was currently offered at $2,023 adding 0.9%.
As per Bloomberg report, Binance by month’s end might be paying $4 billion to make multiple criminal charges in the U.S. go away. Importantly, however, the settlement reportedly would allow the exchange to continue operations.
Large altcoins, on the other hand, are witnessing selling pressure. It seems, the recent run-up has opened up an opportunity to take some profits of the table. Except for Binance native token BNB, which has rallied nearly 4.2% to $257, all other tokens such as Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), XRP are sitting in losses.
As a result, the global crypto market cap increased 0.13% to $1.42 tn, in the last 24-hours. On the other hand, the total crypto market volume increased 39.9% to $54.7 bn. The total volume in DeFi is currently $5.1 bn and all stablecoins $49.2 bn, representing 9.4% and 89.9% respectively, of the total crypto market 24-hour volume. Bitcoin’s dominance is currently 51.6%, up 0.2% over the day.
IC15 index, the barometer of top fifteen tokens, 0.7% to 47,477.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed lawsuit against Kraken, alleging that the crypto exchange commingled customer and corporate funds while operating as an unregistered broker, clearing agency and dealer. The regulator claimed that the San Francisco-based company violated federal securities laws in a repeat of its suits against other crypto trading platforms.
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