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The document describes a reported sale of 80,000 BTC, valued at about $9 billion, from wallets said to have been dormant for 14 years. Galaxy Digital reportedly helped distribute the Bitcoin across exchanges and retained part of the holdings. The article…
This guide explains how to attach take-profit and stop-loss conditions to an OKX X-Perps order before opening a position. Traders can enter percentage moves or specific price levels, select a long or short position, and review the displayed liquidation price…
The guide lays out a beginner path for learning crypto trading: study market and order basics, select an exchange carefully, practice with simulated funds, and only then consider small live trades. It introduces day trading, swing trading, holding,…
The announcement describes an expanded integration that lets institutional clients trade on OKX through CoinRoutes. The platform combines exchange access with algorithmic execution, market data dashboards, and transaction cost analysis. It supports automated…
This article explains Lightning Network capacity as the Bitcoin held in payment channels and distinguishes publicly visible channels from private, unannounced ones. It uses public capacity milestones and declines to illustrate that the visible metric can…
The document describes Eclipse as an Ethereum Layer 2 that combines the Solana Virtual Machine for execution with Ethereum for settlement, Celestia for data availability, and RISC Zero for cryptographic proofs. It presents this modular arrangement as a way…
The document presents QuickSwap as a decentralized exchange operating within Polygon’s DeFi ecosystem. It links Polygon’s lower transaction costs and faster processing with the possibility of cheaper trading, and describes QuickSwap’s liquidity partnerships,…
The document examines Arthur Hayes's reported transfer of 700 ETH to market maker B2C2 amid sales of other tokens. It uses the event to discuss how large wallet movements can affect trader sentiment and possibly coincide with short-term volatility. It also…
The document explains high-frequency trading as automated execution of many orders over very short intervals, using high-frequency data and algorithms to identify signals and act faster than manual traders. It describes colocation near exchange servers as a…
This guide outlines the steps for trading X-Perps, described as expiry perpetuals, on OKX for eligible EEA users. It covers prerequisites such as account verification, funding, and an appropriateness assessment, then walks through selecting a listed market,…
The document explains a design for linear digital-asset futures that consolidates trading into one USD order book while allowing settlement in fiat USD, USDC, or USDG. It presents this structure as a response to liquidity fragmentation across separate…
The article surveys cryptocurrency arbitrage methods, then focuses on peer-to-peer trading across currencies, payment methods, platforms, and regions. It describes simple cross-platform trades, cross-border price differences, payment-method premiums,…
The document describes 1inch as a decentralized exchange aggregator that searches liquidity across venues and can split orders among pools to seek better execution and reduce slippage. It also outlines the 1INCH token’s stated governance and liquidity…
The document explains cross-exchange crypto arbitrage: buying an asset where its price is lower and selling where it is higher, while accounting for whether the spread survives execution. It illustrates the idea with a Bitcoin price difference across two…
The article compares decentralized and centralized crypto exchanges through the themes of trading activity, custody, privacy, technology, and regulation. It reports a DEX-to-CEX volume ratio of 0.23 and interprets this as evidence of growing interest in…
The article describes Tron’s planned feature that would let USDT cover transaction fees, removing the need for users to hold TRX for that purpose. It frames the change as a response to Tron’s energy-and-bandwidth fee model and compares the costs cited for…
The document describes maximal extractable value as profit gained by changing transaction order, insertion, or censorship. It focuses on bots that front-run, back-run, or sandwich trades, arguing that their speculative transactions consume blockspace and can…
This guide explains how to move crypto from an OKX exchange account to a private wallet. It covers preparing a wallet and backing up its recovery phrase, locating the exchange withdrawal flow, entering a receiving address, choosing a compatible blockchain…
Uniswap’s Permit2 is presented as a shared contract for managing ERC-20 token permissions across decentralized applications. Instead of repeating on-chain approvals for each interaction, users can sign permission requests, while developers can integrate a…
The document describes Ripple’s cross-border payments model, focusing on RLUSD as a dollar-pegged settlement asset and XRP as a bridge for converting between fiat and digital currencies. It presents stablecoins as a way to reduce currency-conversion friction…
The document introduces Orca as a Solana-based decentralized exchange and describes its focus on lower-cost, faster token swaps. Its main trading mechanism is Whirlpools, concentrated liquidity pools that allocate liquidity within selected price ranges. The…
The article uses a reported Pi Network website access incident to illustrate a basic security tradeoff for crypto platforms. Users reportedly encountered automated security blocks after submitting certain text or malformed data. The platform’s reliance on an…
The document offers a brief checklist for buying the FLUID token through a decentralized exchange. Its most concrete guidance is to verify the token’s contract address against official project sources and a blockchain explorer before trading, since a ticker…