Crypto Long & Short: Traditional and Crypto Markets are Starting to Converge

The OKEx drama shows just how immature crypto markets are compared to traditional ones, but it also highlights their overall resilience.

It won’t be easy to bring DeFi to be on par with traditional finance, but tokenization can help it along, says Liquefy’s CEO. Nonfungible tokens could become a bridge to connect the legacy financial system to the emerging fintech world in the near future. During a recent interview, Adrian Lai, CEO of Liquefy — an investment firm and an incubator for decentralized finance platforms — told Cointelegraph China that synthetic assets, NFTs and digital securities are redefining the way capital markets operate. Lai especially believes that the value of synthetic assets could give each individual....

In a recent call with investors, executives from the crypto hedge fund Pantera Capital said they believe DeFi assets such as Ethereum could soon break out of their current correlation to traditional macro markets. The market has seen increasing similarities between these two spaces recently. But there’s no guarantee it will continue or even last for very long at all, given how quickly things change in this industry. Pantera Capital believes the crypto market will be able to “decouple” traditional macro assets even when interest rates go up. In the interview on February 1,  CEO Dan....

One of the biggest misconceptions surrounding Bitcoin is how investing in the popular digital currency will result in overnight riches. Similar to any other type of investment, Bitcoin is a long-term plan. The day of major gains and losses in a short period of time seem to be over, and investors need to keep in mind that Bitcoin is here to stay. From a traditional investor point of view, every decision made has to pay off in the shortest amount of time possible. The pressure to deliver short-term results is mounting, and long-term investments are no longer part of the day-to-day....

What do the traders on r/WallStreetBets have in common with cryptocurrency traders? Both are using technological breakthroughs to skirt processes inherent in traditional financial systems. The success of the GameStop short squeeze in pumping the price above $370— and the reaction from centralized authorities and markets to it — has highlighted the need for decentralized finance, according to some in the crypto industry.The stock, which was trading at less than $20 per share earlier this month, was deemed by members of the r/WallStreetBets subreddit to be under attack by a hedge fund which....