and its peers traded lower on Saturday, marking the sixth consecutive day of modest price action for digital assets as a whole. This time last weekend, crypto traders were orchestrating the largest pump-and-dump of 2019, with a peak-to-trough of $16 billion.
The combined value of fell almost $2 billion on Saturday to $129.9 billion, according to CoinMarketCap. The asset class peaked near $133 billion on Friday before turning lower at the start of the weekend. Trade volumes have remained fairly constant over the past 24 hours, with daily turnover hovering just north of $24.6 billion.
’s price dipped 0.9% to $3,852.13, though its dominance rate climbed to 52.1%. returned , snapping a brutal six-month losing streak.
fell 3% to $133.84, as demand for the so-called developer’s continued to ebb following two system-wide upgrades earlier in the week. Constantinople and St. Petersburg went live Thursday at block number 7,280,000.
The value of XRP declined 2.5% to $0.3138, where it remains well above vital support tracking near $0.3000.
At $3.49, dropped 4.8% on Saturday. The Enterprise Operating System has a total capitalization of near $3.2 billion, some $800 million shy of its ICO market cap.
’s price fell 0.8% to $48.21. cash lost 1.4% to trade at $132.27.
Coin continued to defy the odds, gaining 1.4% to $11.61 and flipping for eighth spot on the crypto market index. The native of the exchange recently .
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Institutional Adoption on the Rise
Crypto prices have largely discounted the wave of institutional sweeping the market, but according to Blocktower chief investment officer Ari Paul, that discount is unlikely to continue for much longer.
At the beginning of February, Paul issued the following :
“I’ve been too optimistic about the pace of institutional in the past. It’s coming, but I can’t estimate which quarter (Whether that’s this year or 2022) that we’ll see a big spike. As a humble guess, something like Q3 2019,”
Weeks later, Morgan Creek Digital’s Anthony Pompliano announced that two Virginia pension plans have become anchor investors in a venture-capital fund.
But it doesn’t stop there.
Fidelity Investments is scheduled to launch its crypto custody service by the end of March, a move that could open the door to institutional investors who wanted to invest in but were unwilling to deposit money on virtual exchanges. Julius Baer, one of Switzerland’s largest private banks, is also providing clients with access to .
Governments are also making a bigger splash in the crypto ecosystem through regulatory changes and key investments. The U.S. state of Wyoming has passed three bills designed to lure investors and businesses to the region. It has also come to light that Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund has invested in .
Published at Sat, 02 Mar 2019 22:05:02 +0000
