Token2049 – CoinFi Interview with Wayne Trench, Octagon Strategy CEO

CoinFi Interview with Wayne Trench
Wayne Trench, CEO of Octagon Strategythe largest digital asset brokerage in Asia, is fascinated by the creative minds that are working on disrupting traditional industries with blockchain, with tokenization. Wayne also thinks that professional money managers like family offices have started adopting the crypto market in 2018. Followed by proper regulatory frameworks in place, institutional demand will come in the future. Watch our interview with Wayne at Token2049 to learn more. 

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How We Earned 31% Profit by Buying Bytecoin (BCN) on HitBTC & Selling on Binance

Bytecoin Binance Listing
Bytecoin (BCN) listed on Binance (BNB) yesterday - arguably the leading exchange in the world, and the price & volume effect was staggering. In a day where Bitcoin (BTC) traded in a 2.7% range, the action in BCN was certainly a stark contrast. Prior to the listing, BCN was hovering around $0.007 (0.7 cents), which implied a market cap of $1.28 billion based on the coin supply of 183.88 billion. And when the listing started, the price went bananas, as you can see in the Binance market chart below.

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How Many Investors HODL Post-ICO? A Look at Token Retention

Token Retention-3
One of the beautiful things about Ethereum is that every single transaction happening on its blockchain is open to the world. From a data perspective, this means that there is an abundance of interesting analyses we can perform, and insightful metrics we can calculate from these transactions. In particular, one area that has not yet received much attention yet is token retention - that is, what % of wallets hold onto their tokens over some time. Given the popularity of “HODL”, it’s quite surprising that we haven’t seen many hard metrics on token retention yet (although Dhruve Bansal did perform an excellent piece of analysis on Bitcoin’s “HODL Waves”). After all, the transactional data of ERC20 tokens are readily available for us to study. Dealing with Ethereum data is not exactly plug-and-play, but at CoinFi we ingest these transactions as a part of our data warehouse, allowing for easy access and analysis. But before digging into the data, let’s look at how we define retention.

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Did Bitcoin Hit Rock Bottom? Here’s A Potential Timeline For Recovery

Did Bitcoin Hit Rock Bottom

Summary:

  • We just experienced/witnessed the 3rd largest Bitcoin drawdown of -65.81% from the highs.
  • In absolute dollars, this is the largest drawdown in Bitcoin history.
  • The current price rut also happens to be the slowest sell-off we have ever faced.
  • Bitcoin took on average 1.5x more days to recover to the previous highs than the NASDAQ Composite did during the tech boom.
  • Based on the “Recovery to Trough Ratio” of 1.69 and 111 days peak to trough for the current drawdown, it may take another 188 days from the low (not until mid-October 2018) before we might near the $20K level again.
  • Bitcoin drawdowns are sharper and faster than drawdowns during the NASDAQ tech bubble, but also take a shorter time before we reach a new peak.

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CoinFi Partners with HybridBlock to Expand Crypto Intelligence Offerings

CoinFi partners with HybridBlock
HONG KONG - April 24, 2018 - CoinFi, a leading market intelligence platform offering Wall Street-caliber trading tools, signals, and analysis on the cryptocurrency market, today announced a strategic partnership with HybridBlock, a crypto e-learning hub, trading platform, and global exchange. The joint venture enables CoinFi to syndicate HybridBlock research and analysis and integrates smart order routing through HybridExchange, HybridBlock’s web-based trading platform. HybridBlock will incorporate CoinFi’s trading tools and data feeds for its intermediate and advanced users as well as curate original research by CoinFi’s analysts.

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