Bitcoin’s Price Dived Slightly on the Settlement of July Options, Could it Be Price Manipulation? The last decade has been pretty eventful for the crypto market as innovations popped up following Bitcoin’s debut in 2009. What started as a revolution against the traditional financial ecosystem has grown into a $1.6 trillion market as of press time. This trajectory is expected to continue, with analysts predicting Bitcoin could go as high as $100K by December 2021. Some of these predictions are based on Bitcoin options contracts that expire at the end of 2021. While not everyone agrees that Bitcoin options expiry affect market prices, historical price action shows that Bitcoin’s price has been volatile around option expiry dates. Most of the options contracts in crypto are settled on the last Friday of the month – at this time, the market is volatile, at least for the previous few months.

Binance Is Shutting Down Its Crypto Futures And Derivatives Trading In Three European Countries Embattled cryptocurrency exchange Binance has moved to shut down another of its crypto products in response to the ongoing global scrutiny from regulators. The exchange will no longer be providing crypto-based futures and derivatives offerings across three European countries. Binance Winds Down Derivatives And Futures In EuropeIn particular, the exchange announced on July 30 that the new change will initially affect customers in the Netherlands, Italy, and Germany — who will essentially not be allowed to open new accounts for futures or derivatives. #Binance will wind down its futures and derivatives products offerings in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands.https://t.co/DhLdyk6Q7w

Analysts Differ On Where Bitcoin Will Go Soon Some analysts think that the price volatility that has been plaguing bitcoin over the past few months is about to get a whole lot crazier. The Bitcoin Volatility Is About to Get BiggerIn mid-April of this year, bitcoin – the world’s number one digital currency by market cap – hit a new all-time high of approximately $64,000 per unit. Everyone thought that the currency was untouchable and that things were likely to keep heading north. Unfortunately, this has not been the case. Bitcoin is now stuck dealing with a series of heavy losses – losses that have brought its value and price down to about half what they were three months ago. And according to many analysts, we are not out of the woods yet. In fact, the price volatility is about to become much stronger. This could be a good thing in that volatility can move in either direction. BTC could find itself falling further, or things could improve heavily over the next couple of weeks. Either way, financial experts are quite certain that interest in bitcoin remains high, and thus the currency could wind up making its mark on the financial industry all over again.

Dogecoin’s 200-day MA Holds the Key to DOGE Retaining a Top 10 Ranking The popular meme-coin of Dogecoin has had an eventful first half of 2021 that saw DOGE become the fourth most valuable digital asset in terms of market capitalization. The latter milestone was the result of DOGE hitting its most recent all-time high of $0.74 as a result of the hype surrounding Elon Musk appearing on Saturday Night Live back in early May. Dogecoin is Now Ranked 7th on CoinmarketcapHowever, since then, Dogecoin (DOGE) has slowly been losing value and ranking in the top 10 digital assets on Coinmarketcap. Dogecoin is now ranked 7th as seen in the following screenshot courtesy of the tracking website. Dogecoin’s 200-day MA Holds the Key to DOGE Retaining its Top 10 RankingDoing the math, Dogecoin has dropped 3 spots on Coinmarketcap in a span of roughly two months. The drop in rankings also coincides with Dogecoin’s pullback from the aforementioned all-time high of $0.74. At the time of writing, Dogecoin is trading at $0.21 with the 200-day moving average offering an area of solid support at the $0.17 price area, as highlighted in the following daily DOGE/USDT chart.

World’s First DeFi Neobank, Scallop, is launching soon Cryptocurrency has grown tremendously over the past years, with decentralized finance (DeFi) becoming one of the emerging high-value subsectors. According to DeFi Pulse, the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi protocols reached a peak of $87bn in 2021, up 8300% since 2020. This exponential growth caught the attention of many; acknowledging the potential that DeFi has, a recent report from the world-renowned Wharton Business School noted that it can “transform global finance”. This may be why, even since the pandemic-fuelled global financial regression, venture capital is still pouring into forward-thinking DeFi projects. One such startup is Scallop – The World’s First DeFi Powered Neobank. A Unique Addition to CryptoAccording to its roadmap, Scallop is geared up for launch in September this year. It will initially launch in the EU and UK, with expansion into Asia scheduled for Q1 2022. Scallop will also introduce the Scallop coin, SCLP, which will empower their DeFi banking ecosystem. The IDO is expected prior to the product launch. Scallop is unique in that it is providing the first interface for fiat and cryptocurrency/DeFi under a single roof. Currently users must deposit fiat on to an exchange or wallet from their bank account and then use the wallet to interact with DeFi protocols or purchase coins. Scallop, instead, will provide FCA regulated banking accounts which can directly interact with DeFi protocols such as Compound, Aave and dYdX. What does Scallop offer?Scallop is the first FCA-regulated neobank that conjoins traditional banking services with decentralised functionalities. It is a solution to the challenges faced by the crypto industry, such as friction between moving crypto assets, high transaction costs of converting crypto to fiat, and the high volatility of the market. Scallop is a multi-layered solution combined with superior technology and the latest financial trends in a single place. Among several other DeFi projects, Scallop shows the most potential to achieve the true goal of DeFi, which is mass adoption. It is specifically designed products that rival the traditional financial services and will provide users with all the pros of traditional banking with added security and decentralisation. Scallop offers ten “X” products: Scallop Earn, Scallop NFT, Scallop Banking Accounts, Scallop Cards, Scallop Pay, Scallop Multi-Currency Wallets, Scallop Money Transfer, Scallop Exchange, Scallop Cold Wallet, Scallop Chain All of these products are powered by Scallop’s native token $SCLP, an ERC 20 token. Scallop CoinScallop Coin (SCLP), is an ERC 20 utility token and acts as the primary means for transactions. It powers all the products in the Scallop Ecosystem and has multiple uses such as:

Kim Kardashian Shills Ethereum Max on Instagram, Media Questions Socialites Motive The celebrity influencer Kim Kardashian posted about a project called Ethereum Max on Instagram this week by sharing an advertisement with her 228 million followers. The project Ethereum Max has also been promoted by former Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce and professional boxer Floyd Mayweather. Kim Kardashian Follows Mayweather and Pierce by Shilling Ethereum Max on InstagramThe American reality television personality, socialite, model, and businesswoman Kim Kardashian posted about a cryptocurrency project called Ethereum Max. The Ethereum Max project (emax or ETH max) is an ERC20 project built on the Ethereum blockchain and launched roughly 30 days ago. There are many questions, reports, and forum posts with people who are skeptical of the project asking whether or not emax is “legit or a scam.” The recent Instagram Ethereum Max post wasn’t the first time Kardashian posted about emax as she posted about the project last month as well. Kardashian’s Instagram post which clearly notes it is an “#AD” said: “Are you guys into crypto???? This is not financial advice but sharing what my friends just told me about the Ethereum Max token! A few minutes ago Ethereum Max burned 400 trillion tokens—literally 50% of their admin wallet, giving back to the entire e-max community. Swipe up to join the e-max community.” Of course, as soon as Kardashian posted the emax advertisement, the crypto community was up in arms about the post. Almost as if they haven’t noticed the swarm of celebrities who have been paid to advertise certain crypto projects in 2021. Even Newsweek gave Kardashian’s Instagram emax shilling attention when columnist Aatif Sulleyman wrote about how Safemoon fans have been trying to court Kardashian. The famous socialite Kardashian also shared an ad on her Instagram timeline last month which also featured the emax website domain. Hall of Fame Boston Celtics champion forward Paul Pierce tweeted about emax too at the end of May. When Pierce declared he was leaving ESPN he noted that he made more money with Ethereum Max and he didn’t need them. “I made more money with this crypto in the past month then [sic] I did with y’all in a year,” Pierce tweeted at the time. Then the undefeated professional boxer Floyd ‘Money’ Mayweather also wore an Ethereum Max t-shirt at the Bitcoin 2021 conference in Miami. Mayweather was booed at the event when he said he believes another crypto will be “just as large as bitcoin someday.” The ERC20 token team is also responsible for sponsoring Mayweather’s bout with Logan Paul. The emax token (EMAX) is currently swapping for $0.000000155041 and it hasn’t really seen a huge lift from Kardashian’s post. Although on Tuesday EMAX is up close to 5% and 234.1% during the last 30 days according to Coingecko stats.

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