Strategy reported $3.89 billion in unrealized gains on Bitcoin (BTC) during the third quarter of 2025, propelling the company to surpass Coinbase’s market cap. The company’s holdings surpassed $80 billion in value for the first time as Bitcoin trades above $125,000. As of press time, bitcoin traded at $125,420.83, valuing the company’s digital asset portfolio […]
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Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones reaffirmed his growing preference for Bitcoin over gold as a hedge against inflation, while also signaling optimism about further market gains. Jones, founder and chief investment officer of Tudor Investment Corporation, which oversees roughly $40 billion in assets, made the remarks during an appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box on […]
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BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) has approached $100 billion in assets under management, making it the firm’s most profitable ETF despite its launch just 435 days ago. Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas noted on Oct. 6 that IBIT now generates more revenue for BlackRock than funds that have been operating for decades. The […]
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Bitcoin hit a new all-time high after breaching $125,000 over the past weekend. The headline is familiar and the kind of round-number milestone that drives retail back into the charts. However, something else happened under the surface: the blockchain quietly recalibrated its accounting. Realized price, which represents the average cost at which every existing coin […]
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Bitcoin has smashed through the $125,000 level, setting a new Bitcoin all-time high in one of the most subdued rallies the market has ever witnessed. Sure, the barrier was broken on a sleepy Sunday, but still, the notable lack of memes, comments, and euphoria was palpable. As Vijay Boyapati, author of The Bullish Case for […]
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Just as Amazon laid the rails for the digital economy, Metaplanet president Simon Gerovich says his company is building the new financial infrastructure. And he argues that the market often misprices companies in periods of structural change, obsessing over price while missing the power beneath the hood. Like Jeff Bezos’ famous remark during Amazon’s dot-com […]
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Ever get the feeling that the world is spinning faster than at any point in living memory? If you haven’t, you’re not looking at the right data. In today’s new economic order, holding real, tangible assets isn’t a preference; it’s a necessity. As the Fed cuts rates into persistent inflation and the deficit spending sits […]
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JPMorgan is calling Bitcoin the “debasement trade,” which means you’re probably not bullish enough. The world’s biggest investment bank doesn’t hand out nicknames for speculative assets lightly. But Bitcoin has notched 17 years of unstoppable block-after-block resilience, and Wall Street has finally conceded what the cypherpunks have known all along: there is no alternative when […]
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REX-Osprey filed prospectuses for 21 crypto funds and Defiance lodged six more products on Oct. 3. Bloomberg’s James Seyffart shared the filings on X, with REX-Osprey’s roster spanning single-asset strategies, including AAVE, ADA, ATOM, and ENA. Some of the filings included staking features. Defiance’s submissions included six leveraged funds related to crypto, three of them […]
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Six spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) await SEC approval in the US, with final deadlines for October, and they can reshape market conditions following their debut. The regulatory backdrop underwent a significant change on Sept. 17, when the SEC approved generic listing standards for crypto-related ETFs across major exchanges. As a result, Bloomberg senior ETF […]
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Crypto and gaming apps built with Unity are facing a security issue, as a vulnerability allows a malicious app already on devices to coerce a vulnerable Unity app into loading hostile code. Unity revealed the vulnerability CVE-2025-59489 on Oct. 2, noting that code runs with the game’s own permissions on Android, enabling local code execution. […]
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Standard Chartered’s head of digital assets research, Geoffrey Kendrick, reaffirmed his year-end Bitcoin (BTC) price target of $200,000 on Oct. 2. According to Kendrick, fresh ETF inflows and the U.S. government shutdown could drive the crypto to further highs in the weeks ahead. In a note to clients, Kendrick said Bitcoin is poised to break […]
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An unknown crypto trader has made one of the most unlikely fortunes of the year, turning a $68,700 bet into roughly $9.4 million by backing a token that originated from a social media hack. On Oct. 3, blockchain analytics firm Lookonchain reported that the trader bought 63.07 million units of a Binance Smart Chain token […]
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Bitcoin (BTC) set a new record on Oct. 3, clearing its Aug. 14 peak of $123,731.21 and resetting the ceiling for this cycle. The move follows a steady October grind that accelerated as macro and flow tailwinds aligned. The spot market tone heading into October has been constructive. Bitcoin reclaimed the $120,000 threshold on Oct. […]
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CME Group will extend its Bitcoin and Ethereum futures to round-the-clock trading in early 2026, pending regulatory approval. The move brings the largest US-regulated futures market in line with the always-on nature of crypto exchanges, a structural shift that could reshape how liquidity flows between traditional finance and crypto-native venues. CME futures currently trade Sunday […]
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BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust has taken in $23.8 billion in net inflows this year, while the firm’s tokenized U.S. Treasury fund, BUIDL, has expanded roughly 800 percent over 18 months. IBIT’s 2025 haul places it among the largest asset gatherers in the ETF market. Daily flow prints remain the fastest way to track whether that […]
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World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the blockchain venture associated with the Trump family, is reportedly advancing plans to tokenize portions of Donald Trump’s multi-billion-dollar real estate portfolio. The project aims to convert some of the most recognizable Trump properties into digital investment products, opening access to retail investors who would otherwise be shut out of high-value […]
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Swedish opposition MPs from the Sweden Democrats filed a parliamentary motion on Oct. 2, urging the government to explore a national Bitcoin (BTC) reserve. The proposal is framed as diversification alongside kronor and gold, seeded partly with seized crypto. Additionally, it holds explicit skepticism about central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). On the same day, Rep. […]
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The European Central Bank has selected several firms to provide core services for a potential digital euro, advancing preparations for a central bank digital currency that could one day complement cash in the eurozone, according to a release dated October 2. The move comes amid calls to accelerate the development of a euro central bank digital currency, […]
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Bitcoin (BTC) traded at $120,367.71 as of press time, near its all-time high of $124,000, driven by expectations of a rate cut and a market structure reset. Softer US labor signals and a live government shutdown have traders leaning heavily toward another Fed cut this month, lifting risk assets across the board. At the same […]
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Avalanche (AVAX) is suddenly the target of a planned billion-dollar buying spree from public market digital asset treasury (DAT) vehicles. AgriFORCE said it will rebrand to “AVAX One” and accumulate roughly $700 million of AVAX. Meanwhile, Avalanche Treasury Co. (AVAT) unveiled a $675 million SPAC deal that seeds about $460 million in balance sheet assets […]
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Will the UK sell 61,000 BTC, or pay victims the gains? The United Kingdom is holding 61,000 Bitcoin worth roughly $7.2 billion after pleading guilty to fraud, and a January High Court test will determine who will capture the upside from assets seized in 2018. Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, pleaded guilty on […]
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Bitcoin price traded near $118,500 on Thursday as a U.S. government shutdown boosted rate-cut odds, the dollar eased, and a visible short squeeze accelerated across derivatives venues. Gold printed fresh record highs around $3,895 per ounce as rate-cut pricing firmed and the dollar index hovered near 97.6. These conditions historically align with stronger performance in […]
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Pi Network has rolled out two new capabilities on its testnet, including a decentralized exchange (DEX) and an automated market maker (AMM), according to a Sept. 30 statement. These additions create a sandbox for token swaps, liquidity pools, and other DeFi experiments without putting the mainnet at risk. The update arrives as the Pi Coin faces […]
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Bitcoin (BTC) was trading at $117,00 as of press time, up 3.3% over the past 24 hours, driven by a weakening US dollar amid a government shutdown. Unsettled investors are inclined toward a more dovish rate path, which led BTC to reclaim $114,000 and continue climbing as an “instability hedge” bid that often appears when […]
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Prediction markets made a significant appearance in the spotlight in September, with monthly volume more than doubling to $4.28 billion, while memecoin trading on Solana cooled. The question now circling crypto’s risk-taking corners is whether these markets are becoming the new trenches for degens hunting edge and adrenaline. Prediction markets rise Across the prediction market […]
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The US government shutdown delayed the approval of exchange-traded fund (ETF) filings by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which puts the “altcoin ETF floodgates” on hold. Under its “Operations Plan Under a Lapse in Appropriations & Government Shutdown” published in August, the SEC says it “will not review and approve… new financial products,” will […]
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Bitcoin may be positioned for a steep rally in the final quarter of 2025, with prices potentially climbing as high as $200,000 if demand momentum continues, according to onchain analytics firm CryptoQuant. The firm stated that spot demand has been rising sharply since midsummer, averaging more than 62,000 BTC in net inflows per month. It […]
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Japanese mining pool operator SBI Crypto has suffered a $21 million theft in a breach that investigators are linking to North Korea attackers. On Oct. 1, blockchain researcher ZachXBT identified unusual outflows from the firm involving Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. According to his findings, the funds moved quickly through five instant exchanges […]
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October opened with a risk spike as the US government shut down, yet Bitcoin (BTC) pushed higher alongside other majors while gold printed fresh records. As of press time, Bitcoin traded at $117,402.84, up by 3% in the past 24 hours. The immediate read is classic “chaos bid.” Yet, beneath the knee-jerk, there’s a more […]
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