At a five month high, the crypto market capitalisation has reached $185bn, showing a slow and steady increase since the start of the year.

On April 16th Copper will be co-hosting an event with Eversheds-Sutherland in London. It will examine hedge funds and crypto-assets, with panelists from EisnerAmpner, Hedgeguard, Eversheds, and Copper. Space is very limited, so if you would like to attend please let us know.

Copper will also be speaking at the Digital Asset Summit in New York on the 15th of May. More details to follow, but we will have some VIP passes to give away to those interested.

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Latest Industry News

CME Group reveals futures volume

• The CME showed figures from April 4th that indicate a new all time high in the volume of Bitcoin Futures contracts
• The BTC equivalent nearly doubled to reach 112,710. This was helped in no small part by the 27% gain Bitcoin saw in Monday-Wednesday trading

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The future of futures

• The global derivatives market exceeds $800 trillion. By comparison, the crypto contribution is tiny, at less than $3 trillion
• US regulators currently have the largest impact on this, particularly while rumours the UK’s financial watchdog is still contemplating an outright ban

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Gazprom will move to Blockchain

• The Russian gas giant will move its contracts operations onto a blockchain, following successful trials at subsidiary organisations
• The system being built will provide automated arbitrage and also calculate payments for gas usage

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Latest Coin News

BTC

• Price analysis
• Surge of activity
• Can lightening strike twice? What happens when
• reaches its limit?

ETH

• Price analysis
• AI tool launched by MIT grads to offer insights on
• Ethereum Classic saw 30% gains in 24 hours, following

XRP

• Price analysis
• Co-founder
• to San Fransisco university
• Global IT consulting behemoth
• integrates with RippleNet

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