The stablecoin economy continues to deplete as more than $3 billion has been erased from the stablecoin market ecosystem over the last 44 days. While statistics show that tether’s market valuation has risen by 2% over the last 30 days, usd coin’s market cap slid by 2.9%, BUSD valuation shed 7.2% over the last month and gemini dollar’s market capitalization slid by 1.5%.

$3 Billion in Dollar-Pegged Tokens Erased in 44 Days as Stablecoin Swaps Represent Nearly 80% of Global Crypto Trade Volume

The overall value of the top stablecoins by market capitalization has shed roughly $3 billion during the last 44 days or since Dec. 15, 2022. At that time, the stablecoin economy was worth $141.07 billion. On that day, stablecoin swaps represented $44.55 billion of the $53.91 billion in global trade volume.

After losing more than $3 billion, the stablecoin economy is valued at $138.07 billion, and stablecoin trades equate to $46.33 billion of the $58.76 billion in global trades on Jan. 28, 2023. Out of the top ten stablecoin assets, three market capitalizations have lost value during the last 30 days.

Statistics show that usd coin (USDC) has shed 2.9% in the past month, and BUSD lost the most with a 7.2% reduction in 30 days. The Binance-affiliated and Paxos-managed dollar-pegged token BUSD has seen a significant number of redemptions over the last few months. At the time of writing, BUSD’s overall market cap in U.S. dollar value is $15.8 billion.

USDC’s market capitalization on Saturday is around $43 billion. On Dec. 15, 2022, the valuation was around $45 billion. Similarly, gemini dollar’s (GUSD) market cap was around $591 million 44 days ago, and today it is around $571 million. While there were a few stablecoin projects that saw market capitalizations slide, tether, DAI, trueusd (TUSD), and pax dollar (USDP) saw increases.

Tether (USDT) saw a 2% increase in coins in circulation over the last 30 days. Makerdao’s DAI increased by 1%, and trueusd (TUSD) climbed 25.3% higher. Pax dollar (USDP) rose by 5.1% and Tron’s USDD saw a small increase of around 0.6% over the last 30 days. Liquity usd (LUSD) managed to rise by 24.4% over the past month, and Abracadabra’s stablecoin MIM jumped 3.9%.

While tens of billions in stablecoin assets have been removed since last year, they still represent a dominant force in the crypto economy. Since May 2022, three stablecoin assets have remained in the top ten market cap positions: USDT, USDC, and BUSD. Both USDT and USDC have been in the top ten positions for much longer.

Furthermore, the entire stablecoin economy, valued at $138 billion, represents 12.71% of the entire crypto economy’s value of $1 trillion. In trade volume alone on Saturday, Jan. 28, stablecoins equated to 78.85% of all crypto asset trades worldwide on both centralized and decentralized exchange (dex) platforms. That means more than seven out of ten crypto asset trades today, have been swapped with a stablecoin.

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The blockchain network Litecoin’s computational power reached an all-time high (ATH) on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, at block height 2,411,048, reaching 798.43 terahash per second (TH/s). In addition, Litecoin’s difficulty also reached an all-time high this week, hitting 23,505,031 the following day.

Litecoin’s Computational Power Climbs 38% in 30 Days

A significant amount of hashrate has been dedicated to the Litecoin (LTC) network over the last 30 days as the blockchain’s computational power climbed 38% higher from 576 terahash per second (TH/s) on Dec. 28, 2022, to the all-time high of 798 TH/s recorded on Jan. 25, 2023. Currently, Litecoin’s hashrate on Jan. 28, 2023, is around 691 TH/s, which is 20% higher than the hashrate last month. Litecoin’s price has also been climbing higher as LTC’s value increased by 34% against the U.S. dollar in the past 30 days.

The all-time high hashrate of 798 terahash per second (TH/s) is roughly 202 TH/s away from a single petahash per second (PH/s), which equates to 0.798 PH/s. Viabtc is the top Litecoin mining pool with 192 TH/s, or 27% of the total Litecoin hashrate. The crypto mining pool Viabtc is followed by F2pool (121 TH/s), Antpool (104 TH/s), Litecoinpool.org (77 TH/s), and Binance (69 TH/s), respectively. All five Litecoin mining pools also participate in dogecoin (DOGE) merge mining through a process called auxiliary proof-of-work (AuxPoW).

Litecoin will be the first of a few proof-of-work (PoW) cryptocurrencies to halve its mining reward, as its network precedes protocols like Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Bitcoinsv (BSV), and Bitcoin (BTC). The LTC network is expected to reduce its reward from 12.5 LTC to 6.25 LTC on or around Aug. 3, 2023. Litecoin’s difficulty increased to 23.50 million on Jan. 26, and it was 3.28% higher over the last three days. Like Bitcoin, Litecoin’s difficulty adjustment occurs every 2,016 blocks, but LTC blocks are discovered at a rate of about 2.5 minutes per block.

This means Litecoin’s difficulty adjustment retargets every three days to keep the block time at a consistent rate. In the last month, the difficulty increased by 14.80%, and it rose 32.41% in the last 90 days. LTC has lost much of its market dominance since its early days, as it was once the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization at the end of Jan. 2014. By the next year, around the same time, it was knocked down to the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap. In the years following, LTC has gradually dropped to its current 17th position.

Interest in LTC has also dropped since 2013, as data from Google Trends (GT) indicates that, out of a score from 1-100, the search term “Litecoin” reached a score of 6 in 2013. In Dec. 2017, the term reached the highest score of 100, but today the score is half of what it was in 2013, at 3. GT data further shows that the search term “Litecoin” saw a rebound at the end of 2020, and a much larger spike throughout 2021. Most interest in Litecoin comes from Nigeria, the Netherlands, Czechia, the United States, and Slovenia.

What do you think the future holds for the Litecoin network as it approaches its next mining reward halving in August 2023? Share your thoughts and predictions in the comments below.

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The now-defunct crypto exchange FTX has published its list of creditors, with the names unredacted. The comprehensive list, which is over 100 pages long, shows that FTX owes a lot of money to well-known institutions, including Binance, Airbnb, Apple, Amazon, Linkedin, Coindesk, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), and more. U.S. government entities, such as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), are also included.

FTX Creditor List Reveals Wide Range of Businesses Owed Money

On Jan. 24, 2023, FTX published the bankrupt firm’s creditor ledger, which contains more than 100 pages of names. The creditors’ list includes government agencies from Switzerland, Hong Kong, the U.S., and Japan. In addition, the ledger features a myriad of well-known businesses, including Alibaba, Allied Sports, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Twitter, Google, Blue Bottle Coffee, Bonham Capital, Bitstamp, Bitgo, Infura, Inca Digital, Lightspeed Strategic Partners, Long Watch Security, Mercedes-Benz, Messari, Nomura, and O’Leary Productions. Bankruptcy documents filed last year indicate that the top 50 FTX creditors are owed an estimated $3 billion.

The FTX creditors’ list includes U.S. government agencies, such as the IRS, FinCEN, and various state tax collectors from a number of different states. The list showcases three major airlines, hotels, apartments, nonprofits, and software companies that provide cloud services. However, around 9.69 million FTX customer names are redacted from the creditor ledger. The list also highlights a great deal of businesses stemming from The Bahamas, where the FTX inner circle operated. Creditors further include banks, Stanford University, Fox News, Coindesk, and the Wall Street Journal.

The court filing shows monies owed to a large number of creditors, but it does not mean the entity or individual leveraged the FTX exchange to trade crypto. For instance, a spokesperson from the Swiss regulatory entity FINMA told Reuters that it did not understand why it was on the list. FINMA “was not a client of FTX and had not acted on its platforms,” the spokesperson told the news outlet. Reuters reporter Noele Illien also reached out to Airbnb for comment, but the company did not respond.

What are your thoughts on the creditor list released by FTX and the extent of the debts owed to well-known institutions and government agencies? Share your comments below.

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