Many Wall Street veterans are in agreement. The returns from stocks and bonds over the next decade will be sluggish. Time to add crypto to your savings plans?

• Tezos has a bullish short-term and medium-term trading outlook
• The four-hour time frame shows that a bearish reversal may start to take place
• The daily time frame continues to show the presence of a large bullish pattern

Tezos is starting to correct lower after the cryptocurrency recently rallied to its highest trading level since August this year. Technical analysis suggests more downside may occur before the XTZ/USD pair starts to push higher again.

The broader cryptocurrency market came back under downside pressure on Tuesday, as Bitcoin and other major cryptocurrencies gave back early week trading gains.

Matic Network is under heavy bearish pressure, following a flash crash late-Monday night. Matic had rallied by over 190 percent since November 22nd before the sudden reversal occurred.

Matic Network, a sidechain-based scaling solution for public blockchains, saw its native token skyrocket over 300 percent since late September. The move appears to be correlated with a wave of developments that were intended to expand the token’s utility. Over the last few hours though, its price crashed over 70 percent amid fears of an exit scam.

Research outfit Matter Labs announced a Zero-Knowledge Proof-based scaling solution, which leverages many of the changes from Instanbul. Critics from the Bitcoin camp claim it’s just another “shitcoin.”

Achieving scale has long been the Achilles heel of public blockchain networks.

Lending and borrowing crypto, a subset of DeFi applications, has quickly boomed into an almost billion-dollar industry. But does it pose a threat to Proof of Stake networks?

The DeFi landscape includes lending protocols, security tokens, derivatives, and exchanges, and threatens to usurp traditional financial models into trustless protocols that leverage decentralized networks.

Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the Bakkt Exchange, is launching two derivatives products for its clients. Institutional investors in the U.S. will now be able to access Bitcoin Monthly Options, while Singaporeans will have access to cash settled futures.

• STPT/USD has a bullish short-term and medium-term trading outlook
• The four-hour time frame shows that a bullish reversal pattern has formed
• The daily time frame shows that a bullish double-bottom pattern has formed

Standard Tokenization Protocol is starting to show positive technical signs on both the lower and higher time frames, with the cryptocurrency stabilizing above its key moving averages.

Bitcoin continues to consolidate around the $7,500 level in early Monday trading, as traders and investors await the launch of Bakkt’s Bitcoin options trading offering.

The broader cryptocurrency market is trading sideways as the top 10 cryptocurrencies struggled to find a strong directional bias in early-week trading.

Blockchain companies flock to Switzerland for its favorable outlook towrad cryptocurrency. Recently, Switzerland’s Crypto Valley Association released a paper providing a framework for asset tokenization under Swiss law. We decided to take a deep dive.