Monat: Oktober 2022

The crypto market has seen some recovery today with the prices of the majority of cryptocurrencies registering significant price surges. Bitcoin (BTC) price had, for example, surged by more than 6% to trade above $20,600 at press time. Ethereum (ETH) price on the other hand had gained 14% over the last 24 hours to trade above $1,500.

In general, the global crypto market cap had increased by about 7.29% over the last 24 hours to about $996.83B.

Over $1.1 billion worth of liquidations

The sudden surge in crypto prices has resulted in massive liquidations mostly from traders who had shorted the bear market.

In total, contracts worth about $1.1 billion according to Coinalyze have been liquidated over the past 24 hours. Perpetual contracts accounted for a majority of the total liquidations with about $1 billion worth of liquidations. Futures contracts only saw liquidations worth about $6.8 million.

In terms of the type of trades, the bulk of these liquidations were from short positions which saw liquidations worth over $908.1 million in the last 24 hours with perpetual short positions seeing liquidations worth about $901.6 million.

Long positions from traders who mistimed the bull rally also saw their positions liquidated due to the return of volatility. In total, according to Coinalyze, about $142.1 million worth of long positions have been liquidated over the past 24 hours.

FTX sees the most liquidations

Crypto exchange FTX registered over $745 million in short liquidations and over $115 million in long liquidations. Binance follows in the second position with over $56 million in short liquidations and over $14 million in long liquidations.

OKX exchange has seen $39.58 million worth of short liquidations and $4.40 million worth of long liquidations. Bybit comes at position four with $31.30 million worth of short liquidations and $4.46 million worth of long liquidations.

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Seba Bank has launched a regulated Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) platform that will enable retail and institutional investors to store their Ethereum-based NFT collections like CryptoPunks and Bored Apes. The decline in the NFT market doesn’t seem to be much of a problem for the Swiss crypto-focused bank.

The bank however maintained that it has not integrated any NFT marketplace yet and that it will follow due diligence upon clients’ request before allowing custody for any NFT collection. It also clarified that the custody service is not restricted only to top NFT collections.

Seba Bank NFT custody platform features

The NFT custody platform will provide customers with secure storage of their NFTs without managing their private keys. Clients can integrate the custody platform into their bank accounts to include their NFTs in the total wealth portfolio and manage them just like any other of their assets.

The custody platform makes Seba Bank the first regulated bank to offer NFT custody and the bank sees a bright future for NFTs. Seba Bank is regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and has made significant steps into cryptocurrency.

A representative of the bank was quoted by a popular media outlet saying:

“We believe that in the coming years, digital assets, including NFTs, will gain adoption and will be increasingly accepted even by traditional finance operators.”

Seba’s NFT custody launch, however, comes amid a tough time for the NFT market which has seen its trading volume decline by as much as 98% since the beginning of the year and the weekly NFT trading volume decline by about 30%.

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