Cryptonews

Gold, that old glutton, even outshone the Euro in 2024, becoming the second-biggest reserve asset. But here’s the kicker: it’s not just mining anymore. Blockchain’s digital pickaxes are chipping away at the gold standard. Tokenized gold? It’s got a $2.59 billion pile of cash and a daily trade volume that could make Wall Street blush. Tether Gold and PAX Gold are the new sheriffs in town, trading like they’re selling moonshine in a speakeasy.

Loxley Fernandes, the man behind the curtain (or perhaps the blockchain), declares Myriad is “building the rails” for prediction markets to evolve from crypto’s eccentric cousin to DeFi’s new heir. One might call it alchemy, if alchemists accepted USDC instead of gold leaf.

Well, worry not, dear reader. BeInCrypto has meticulously dissected three top altcoins that seem to be holding their own-and might just have a shot at a glorious new ATH in September.

Ethereum, meanwhile, is having a moment. A long-time Bitcoin holder recently sold 4,000 BTC (which is roughly the weight of a small asteroid in crypto terms) and converted it into 96,000 ETH. This isn’t just a lunch break purchase-it’s the crypto equivalent of a wizard selling all their gold coins to buy a library of spellbooks. That wallet now holds over 837,000 ETH, which is enough to make even a dragon blush.

But, dear reader, while this digital Hecate cavorts in the abstract, in the realm of cold, hard cash, AI is decidedly less insidious-more like a benevolent librarian, if librarians wielded algorithms. Money management, that Herculean task now fraught with apps that malfunction, accounts that refuse to transfer, and fees that appear as if conjured by dark magicians-it’s enough to make you wanna toss your phone out the window.

According to CoinMarketCap-because who else are we going to trust these days?-Dogecoin is now trading at $0.2159, which is a 1.04% dip in the last 24 hours. What a tragedy! It once reached the lofty height of $0.2196 before the inevitable correction. And, spoiler alert, it’s not just a temporary blip. The poor thing has shed 2.07% in the last week. Oh, the humanity! 📉

In a chat with the Financial Times, the learned professor from the Toulouse School of Economics laid it on thick. He reckons that if people lose faith in the reserves backing these stablecoins, we could see a mad dash for the exits-forcing governments to shell out big bucks to keep the show on the road. 💸

Remember when Bitcoin’s price swings made a rollercoaster look like a stroll in the park? Those days are as gone as a wizard’s hat in a hurricane. 🌪️ Now, thanks to corporate hoarders like Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy, Bitcoin’s price behaves more like a sleepy tortoise than a hyperactive hare. 🐢💤 Companies from Tokyo to Timbuktu are stockpiling Bitcoin like it’s the last pie at a Discworld feast, and the result? Volatility has been shackled faster than a troll in a library. 📉🔒

CoinGlass, that omniscient oracle of the crypto realm, reveals a spectacle: WLFI’s trading volume, a grotesque $3.95 billion, has ballooned by 530% in the past 24 hours, while open interest, that fickle mistress, has climbed 60% to $931.9 million. Ah, the theater of it all! And for what? To unlock a mere 20% of tokens from the earliest purchase rounds, priced at a laughable $0.015 and $0.05. These tokens, a paltry 5% of the total supply, are the prize for which early investors-those poor souls-may only sell one-fifth of their allocations. A cage gilded with digital promises. 🦜💰

It is the ‘digital gold’ that has captured the hearts and wallets of institutions, governments, and retail investors alike. But, dear reader, despite its regal stature, Bitcoin cannot fulfill the grand visions of a truly global, programmable financial system. It is, after all, primarily a store of value, a fortress against the uncertainties of the modern economic landscape. 🤔