The Crypto Roundup: 29 October 2019

Latest price and news from the crypto space

Latest price from our hand picked list of digital assets

Top stories in today’s Crypto Roundup:

Full CryptoCompare Minute-Granularity Historical Data now available in CSV Format
Bakkt to launch crypto ‘Consumer App’ allowing users to buy Starbucks with bitcoin
Mining giant Canaan Creative files for $400 million US IPO

The bitcoin market has started to settle around the $9,400 mark after the intense 30% rally over the weekend. Despite the majority of assets following bitcoins cooling-off period, bitcoin cash has carried on the rally and BCH/USD up 8.86% in the last 24 hours with a top tier volume of $379.36 million - overtaking ethereum for the second spot in the volume rankings.

At the time of writing, bitcoin (BTC) is trading at $9,427 (–0.01%) with a daily trusted volume of $1.91 bn. As for ether (ETH), it is trading at $186.15 (1.32%) with a daily trusted volume of $306.93 mn. The MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 10 Index is currently tracking at 3,138.58 (1.85%).

Full CryptoCompare Minute-Granularity Historical Data now available in CSV Format

Analyze historical trends and backtest investment strategies with CryptoCompare’s minute-granularity historical dataset, now available on the API in a downloadable CSV format. This is a great way to get historical data in a format that can be easily imported into data analytics tools.

The new endpoint includes a full repository of minute-by-minute OHLCV data for all exchanges, including over 200 exchanges rigorously selected through CryptoCompare’s proprietary CCCAGG methodology. Contact data@cryptocompare.com to get access.

Bakkt to launch crypto ‘Consumer App’ allowing users to buy Starbucks with bitcoin

Bakkt, best known for launching physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts, has announced it’ll launch a crypto ‘consumer app’ in 2020. A blog post published by Bakkt’s Chief Product Officer Mike Blandina reads:

“We’ll be launching a consumer app to make it easy for consumers to discover and unlock the value of digital assets, as well as ways in which they can transact or track them. Merchants gain access to a broader set of customers with expanded spending power.”

The news comes at a time when Bakkt saw a record high in 24-hour trading volume of $10.3 million. Despite its slow start volume on the physically-settled bitcoin exchange is trending upwards.

Mining giant Canaan Creative files for $400 million US IPO

Canaan Creative, the mining company behind the popular Avalon bitcoin miner has recently (28 Oct) filed its initial public offering prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The mining company intends to be listed on the NASDAQ and seeks to raise $400 million. The filing shows that the mining company made a profit of $25 million in 2018 but a loss of $45.8 million in the first half of 2019.

This filing marks the third attempt of Canaan Creative to go public after its first and second attempts in China and Hong Kong respectively failed. The company has been tentatively valued at $2 - $3 billion by the Chinese media.

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