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Scaling Ethereum Without Trade-Offs: Inside EIP 4488 December 8, 2021 – Last week, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin brought forth Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 4488, an upgrade that could drive down transaction costs for Ethereum rollups like Arbitrum, Optimism and zkSync. The proposal detailed the immediate steps for pushing gas fees down without sacrificing security, as well as the roadmap for moving forward post-Merge. Read the report here. |
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Can exchanges do something about cascading liquidations? December 9, 2021 – Last week an overheated derivatives market in crypto kicked-off a sharp sell-off. Can the exchanges do something?… The 24/7 nature of the crypto market mixed with the lack of guardrails imposed by exchanges means that traders have less time to digest information in the same way as traditional markets. Read the report here. |
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Chainalysis Launches Support for Bitcoin Lightning Network December 10, 2021 – Chainalysis announced product support for the Lightning Network, a layer 2 protocol built on the Bitcoin blockchain that allows faster, cheaper transactions. With Lightning, small, recurring transactions that wouldn’t be economical to carry out on the blockchain due to transaction fees become feasible, enabling new commercial use cases for Bitcoin. Read the report here. |
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Bitcoin & The Quantum Computing Risk* December 10, 2021 – Recent news of advances in quantum computing are stoking fears that Bitcoin’s wallet structure is vulnerable to exploits, theoretically undermining its security. Using quantum technologies to exploit the Bitcoin protocol is theoretically possible. However, it is exceptionally difficult to do in practice. To mitigate against such attacks, a soft fork with a commit–delay–reveal scheme could be implemented. *3iQ has a commercial relationship with CoinShares. Please review our disclosure below regarding third party content and websites. Read the report here.
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IMF Wants ‘Comprehensive, Coordinated’ Global Crypto Regulation
December 10, 2021 – The crypto market’s $2.5 trillion market cap could reflect “froth in an environment of stretched valuations,” argued the International Monetary Fund (IMF).. The The International Monetary Fund IMF has warned of “systemic” financial stability risks from the growing crypto sector and called for “comprehensive, consistent and coordinated” global regulation of the industry. Read the report here. |
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Bitcoin Exchange Outflows Resume as Stock Markets Get Over Fed Jitters December 13, 2021 – Crypto investors appear to have resumed bitcoin accumulation, a sign they expect the price to rise, after U.S. stock markets overcame concerns about the economy to post their strongest gains in 10 months last week… “Crypto going into exchanges may signal selling pressure, while withdrawals potentially point to accumulation,” Lucas Outumuru, an IntoTheBlock research analyst, said in a weekly research note published Friday. Read the report here. |
