Bitcoin Fees Soar Above Ethereum’s As Investors Flock To Ordinals-Backed Assets
CryptoFees data shows that Bitcoin daily fees averaged $10.65 million from November 16 to November 18, surpassing Ethereum’s average fee of nearly $7 million for the same period. Until 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is deferring decisions on several Bitcoin ETF applications, despite the market’s increasing optimism about the approval of a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the US. This hesitation has coincided with a remarkable surge in the top crypto’s average transaction fees, soaring over 1,000% to reach a peak of $18.67 on November 16,....
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The crypto market has been on a recovery trend lately. Even with the market crash, it had already marked a year of massive returns for investors in the space. As is expected with a space with high volatility, crypto assets had begun to crumble in value. But despite the profitable year for cryptocurrencies, a subset of crypto tokens had made their mark as the assets with the highest returns, and they don’t look to be stopping anytime soon. Gold-Backed Tokens Surge These gold-backed assets have helped to increase the liquidity of gold by enabling the ownership of small fractions of gold.....