As if to drive home the lesson that significant crypto adoption news and promising political developments won’t always necessarily coincide with celebratory price action, the two largest cryptocurrencies veered in separate directions this week.

With a CFTC-regulated futures market operated by the CME Group now accounting for the highest BTC-USD open interest, among other elements of a more mature crypto market place than existed in 2017, brave forecasts of what might happen next based on BTC’s trajectory then, are void

Several months into this barrage of records, their frequency has not abated to an extent for a serious correction—say $10,000-plus—to appear highly-probable in the near term.

Our latest proprietary research shows that the BRR achieves a quality that’s like a Holy Grail for institutional traders and providers of regulated products

Another week that Bitcoin failed to set an incremental new all-time high since notching a string of these in late November

Cryptocurrency markets have however amply demonstrated the same proneness to common behavioural patterns as any other financial markets, where consolidation manifests as profit taking, seasonality, and more

The most prevalent cryptocurrency by full market cap has yet to reach ardent peaks near $20,000 from December 2017, but aspects of the same heady atmosphere as then, around crypto, Wall St. and Main St, are making a return.

Broader market cheer that lifted the S&P 500 to its best levels in 10 weeks in recent days underscores the extent to which major crypto is now a part of the same sphere.

Volatility implied by patterns of trade in Bitcoin options indicated little expectation among sophisticated market of participants that prices would reach $20,000 by year end. Even so, anticipation across the broader market hasn’t entirely diminished.

When the history of cryptocurrencies’ slow but steady progress to the mainstream is written, it may contain a section covering former sceptics who underwent a damascene conversion.

Both the price and volume response warrant careful scrutiny, because to be sure, there was no ‘melt-down’.

Guess which DeFi-linked coin is now the biggest by market capitalisation? With a full market cap of around $10.9bn, LINK wins that accolade.

The importance for Bitcoin price sentiment was underscored by a spike in trading volume. The jump ought to be regarded as just as unequivocal as the price move. There was strong corroboration from CF Benchmarks’ regulated volume data.

• FCA makes its move • Not so Square Inc., buys BTC • Why crypto shrugs off BitMEX

The charges obviously have several major implications for the cryptocurrency industry. Even so, the market reaction speaks volumes about the dwindling influence of BitMEX on the Bitcoin market.

Though price-manipulation fears are among the last remaining misgivings institutional market participants have against investing in digital assets, methodologies are now available that go a long way towards neutralising those concerns

• Kraken becomes First Crypto Bank • DeFi still defying gravity, lifting ETH • How much Ether exists? Our take

What if your very existence depended on finding a practical answer to the question of how much Ether exists?