Anticipating Cryptocurrency Prices Using Machine Learning

Anticipating Cryptocurrency Prices Using Machine Learning

Machine Learning (ML) and AI-assisted trading have attracted growing interest over the past few years. Recently, a team composed by Italian researchers among the others (Alessandretti et al. 2018) have used this approach to test the hypothesis that the inefficiency of...
Detecting Bot Activity in the Ethereum Blockchain Network

Detecting Bot Activity in the Ethereum Blockchain Network

The Ethereum blockchain network is a decentralized platform enabling smart contract execution and transactions of Ether, its designated cryptocurrency. As is well known by academicians and practioners alike, Ether is the second most popular cryptocurrency with a...
What determines cryptocurrencies’ price?

What determines cryptocurrencies’ price?

Uncertainty surrounding cryptocurrencies has been widely increased by news spread and high variance with bubbles followed by strong bursts particularly in late 2017 and early 2018. This uncertainty has made it particularly demanding to find definitive evidence on...
Cryptocurrency valuation and the role of tokens

Cryptocurrency valuation and the role of tokens

Blockchains can be seen as an innovative tool in FinTech and the sharing economy: they allow the creation of set of networks, and the reduction of market power concentration. A majority of blockchains use cryptocurrencies and cryptography-secured tokens. Over 1000...