A study of Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, showed that new institutional investors are coming into the industry, which may affect the rise in Bitcoin prices.

According to analysts, a significant number of new investors are entering the market, which have a large amount of funds.

Founder of the Ikigai cryptocurrency hedge fund Travis Kling believes that a small group of wealthy traders can push the Bitcoin rate to new heights.

Kling based on data from its own analysis and information from other institutional investors. In his opinion, there is a small group of "risky whales", which caused the recent take-off of the first cryptocurrency course.

CMA project is building an Ecosystem for New Era of Decentralized Marketplaces.

CryptoMarketAds.com is the first fundamental product. It is a new marketplace which solves all crypto advertising and marketing problems by connecting crypto market publishers (influencers, social media, marketing companies, etc.) and advertisers (crypto companies) in one place (marketplace is working already and got over 600+ offers for sale just in 7 weeks after the launch). Also, this will help crypto companies to promote their decentralized marketplaces which they will build using other CMA products.

David Chaum said that the most stunning application for the industry would be a privacy-oriented message-sending system, integrated with payments.

The digital currency pioneer said this in an interview with Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast. David Chaum is the creator of the predecessor of Bitcoin, e-currency Ecash, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement. Chaum told Bloomberg that raising awareness of privacy and digital sovereignty in the modern era paved the way for blockchain and cryptocurrency, which can make a breakthrough and go into mass use. 

Co-founder and CEO of Kenetic Capital, Jehan Chu expressed the opinion that the rate of the first cryptocurrency by the end of this year will exceed $ 30,000.

Chu made a statement in an interview with Bloomberg. According to the head of Kenetic Capital, one of the main factors for the growth of Bitcoin will be the launch of the Fidelity and Bakkt platforms, the emergence of Facebook's own cryptocurrency. In addition, the recent unsuccessful share offerings conducted by Uber and Lift may attract investors to "new technology companies."

According to the Chepicap portal, an unknown sender transferred a transaction in the amount of 8.88 LTC (~ $ 1000) in the Litecoin network and paid a fee of 200 LTC (more than $ 22000).

Thus, the size of the commission exceeded the amount sent by 22 times. The transaction was added to the block, mined by the Chinese mining pool LTC.TOP.

The ICO and IEO industry is showing signs of growth due to positive investor sentiment, obviously spurred by a recent cryptocurrency rally.

These data published in the new report of the rating agency ICObench. As of May 21, the ICO's success rate has increased, reflecting an improvement in the quality of projects. 85% of all funds raised in May were received by projects with a high rating (3-3.5), while in April, the share of these ICOs accounted for 68% of the funds raised.

The world's largest social network Facebook plans to release its own cryptocurrency called GlobalCoin next year.

According to the BBC, Facebook will launch a system of cryptocurrency payments in the "dozen countries" by the first quarter of 2020. The company intends to begin testing the system by the end of this year. More information about Facebook plans will appear in the coming months.

Telegram Company informed in a letter to investors that it plans to launch its project Telegram Open Network (TON) in the 3rd quarter of this year.

Representatives of Telegram said in their letter to investors that the network is being tested successfully: the test blockchain works fine, and the consensus algorithm is consistent with the goals stated in the Whitepaper of the project.

The head of the cryptocurrency investment company Morgan Creek Capital, Mark Yusko said that Bitcoin is "a great asset" that should be in the portfolio of every competent investor.

Yusko also stressed that in 10 years, Bitcoin significantly outperformed any funds based on traditional assets.