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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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EToro warns users it's running out of crypto to trade due to 'unprecedented demand'

Exchange platform eToro is struggling amid surging demand for crypto, sending an email to all users warning of possible trading limitations this weekend.

Israel-based exchange platform eToro is struggling to keep up with the demand from crypto traders according to an email sent to users earlier today.

“The unprecedented demand for crypto, coupled with limited liquidity, presents challenges to our ability to support BUY orders over the weekend.”

As a result, the platform is warning of “possible limitations to crypto BUY orders” and that “spreads on crypto assets may also be much wider than usual.”

EToro has become a victim of its own success. Yesterday marketing manager Brad Michelson revealed that in the previous 11 days, 380,000 new users had opened accounts and that trading volumes had surged 25 times higher than the same time in 2020. As of January 9, eToro boasted more than 17 million registered users.

Quantum Economics founder Mati Greenspan — formerly a market analyst for eToro — told Cointelegraph that the warning notice was “a symptom of a potential upcoming liquidity crunch.” He advised users on Twitter against trying to move funds off the platform.

Should eToro implement the foreshadowed measures, users will be restricted on their maximum exposure per cryptocurrency, and potentially be unable to place new buy orders. Greenspan explained that it simply means some users “might need to wait in order to buy in.”

Last week, the exchange restricted European users from margin trading due to increased market risks and increased the minimum deposit amount by 400% to $1,000 in an attempt to get on top of new user registrations.

Other exchanges are also seeing surging trade volumes, with Coinbase’s daily volume reaching $9.5 billion on January 12, up more than 50% from its previous all-time high of $6.5 billion on January 9. Binance has also powered past its peak of $23.7 billion, recording over $30 billion on January 12.

It is only a matter of time before we see other exchanges start to hit liquidity issues Greenspan believes, saying it is “highly likely” that we will see this situation occurring on other platforms in the near future.

Concerns around the limited Bitcoin supply available have risen to the foreground over the last six months with investment giant Grayscale snapping up Bitcoin at an alarming pace. The firm now has $20 billion under its control as its Bitcoin (BTC) buys outstrip mining production by almost three to one throughout December 2020.

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