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Bitcoin Cash Prices Spikes to 4-Month High; Open Interest Rises to 77%

Bitcoin Cash Prices Spikes to 4-Month High; Open Interest Rises to 77%

CoindeskCoindesk2023/06/23 15:53
By:Oliver Knight

Bitcoin Cash was one of four assets listed on Citadel-backed exchange EDX this week.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has surged by 36.5% in the past three-days after EDX, the , listed the token alongside bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and litecoin (LTC).

In the past 24-hours it has increased by more than 10% to $143, its highest level since February, according to .

Open interest, a metric used to assess the nominal value of open trades on a specific asset, has risen by 77% to a nine-month high $135 million according to

The rise in open interest suggests a shift in positive sentiment with hopes that the asset can experience institutional adoption after being listed on EDX.

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Bitcoin Cash was issued in July 2017 after it forked the original Bitcoin's blockchain. It made a record high of $2,947 during the peak of the 2017 bull market. However, despite early optimism, adoption of Bitcoin Cash as a payments network has paled into insignificance compared to its sibling.

Over the past seven days, the total amount of transactions on the Bitcoin Cash network worth more than $100,000 is at . Bitcoin, meanwhile, has facilitated $75 billion in transactions during the same period, according to.

Edited by Parikshit Mishra.

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