Pete Thiel-backed ETHZilla plans to stake 10,600 ETH from its corporate treasury to grow yield and increase its holdings.
Google has acquired a 5.4% stake in Bitcoin miner Cipher Mining by backstopping $1.4 billion of Fluidstack’s obligations in a $3 billion, 10-year AI data center deal.
Solana futures’ open interest rose to new all-time highs of 72 million SOL as the technical structure displayed weakness, putting $120 back in play.
SharpLink, one of the world’s largest public holders of ETH, has notified the SEC of its plans to tokenize its common stock on Superstate’s Open Bell tokenization platform.
The deal could significantly enhance federal operations, setting a precedent for AI integration in government services and boosting efficiency.
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Partnership targets deep liquidity for PayPal USD on SparkLend, with $100M already deposited
Blockchain Builders Fund, GSR, Kindred Ventures, Rocket Pool, and the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, are among the other notable backers.
Bitcoin volatility has stayed below 50% on 60-day measures since early 2023, extending through 2025. According to Kaiko, the drawdown in realized volatility has persisted even as liquidity conditions and market participation changed, placing the asset in its longest low-vol regime on record. Price appreciation has occurred alongside that compression Bitcoin price delivered a steep […]
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Telegram’s rich ecosystem offers a wide range of opportunities for implementing a variety of projects: from simple bots that send memes to full-fledged apps with their own game mechanics and built-in monetization. In 2024, the Telegram messenger was overwhelmed with a wave of crypto apps. Many of them reached tens of millions of monthly active …
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose applauded the progress, while continuing to support the creation of an Ohio Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserve.
ETH’s breakdown from a key chart pattern can now lead to more losses for Ether price, targeting the $3,600–$3,400 zone in the short term.
CoreWeave's deal with OpenAI highlights the escalating demand for AI infrastructure, potentially reshaping the cloud computing landscape.
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The crypto market is buzzing with ETFs, regulatory clarity, growth in institutional adoption, and upgrades in various platforms. All these factors are contributing to a bullish market, which is highly expected in October 2025. Crypto Jon has revealed a list of top altcoins to buy. His list covers a range of trending and promising tokens, …
Goat Network is building a ZK rollup-based Bitcoin Layer 2 that preserves Bitcoin’s security while enabling faster withdrawals, decentralized sequencers, and sustainable native BTC yield.
Bitcoin is approaching a decisive inflection in its four-year cycle, with a euphoric “blowoff” advance likely to begin within days—or the market having already printed its peak at month 33—according to cycle analyst Bob Loukas. In a video published on September 24, 2025, Loukas told viewers he remains “heavily” inclined toward an imminent upside resolution into a cycle high during Q4, while outlining the risk markers that would instead confirm the top is already in. Bitcoin Blowoff Top Imminent Or Already In Loukas framed the present as the late stage of Bitcoin’s rising phase, noting that the advance from the bear-market low has been “a pretty consistent uptrend marked by these periods of outperformance that make up the majority of the gains in this cycle.” He argued that the current multi-month range resembles “one big foundation, one big solid block” built amid sustained distribution from long-term holders offset by persistent institutional demand. “We’ve seen a significant amount of whales selling… and that’s been kind of the pressure,” he said, adding that “significant buying support that we see from institutionals… has held the price in this range.” The central pillar of his bullish case is the absence of a terminal mania phase that has historically characterized cycle peaks. “What’s absent more importantly here is a blowoff to a high,” Loukas said. “In every cycle that we’ve had for Bitcoin into the four-year cycle high, we’ve had this three-month period… of euphoric buying and a significant price appreciation… and that leads to a peak.” With the market now around month 34 from the prior four-year-cycle low and seasonality turning favorable, he believes the conditions for that late surge are in place: “We really should be looking for a blowoff phase that is imminent, that is just about to begin in my opinion… We are at the most opportune time in the four-year cycle for such a move.” Related Reading: Bitcoin Will Soak Up Trillions From China And Russia, Billionaire Predicts Loukas placed the recent August high at month 33, a timing band that “pretty closely” echoes prior cycles and, in his words, makes a bearish interpretation “credible.” He stressed he is not ignoring the relative underperformance versus equities and the powerful rally in gold. From a purely structural standpoint, the move from the bear-market low to the month-33 high amounts to “a very healthy 700% rise,” and—under a diminishing-returns framework—could be a complete cycle in itself. “I give it an outside chance that it peaked on month 33… maybe 10% to 20%,” he said. Still, he argued that attempting to sidestep risk at this exact juncture is unwise “on the eve of a possible move up.” If the blowoff materializes, Loukas expects it to follow the established template of late-cycle weekly advances that compound rapidly over eight to fifteen weeks. He will not commit to a hard target, but he illustrated the magnitude with prior doubling moves. “A doubling from the lows here in the last few months—let’s call it $105k—gets us up to $210k… getting to the $200,000 level by December, although it sounds extremely optimistic… there is a pretty clear path to that possibility,” he said. He emphasized that execution should be guided by sentiment and overextension rather than round-number targets: “I think we want to be a little flexible… looking at how stretched this market can get.” Risk management was a major focus. Loukas flagged the 10-month moving average—“around about the $100,000 level”—as a late-cycle guardrail: “Closing a month out under the $100,000 is a major warning sign at this point.” He also marked the prior “big weekly cycle decline down at $75,000” as a line that “Bitcoin shouldn’t be anywhere near,” implying that a breach would be consistent with a bear market already underway. What To Expect Next On the upside, he wants confirmation via fresh all-time highs that establish clear invalidation below. “Ideally, what I want to see is a move back above the $120,000 level… if we get a move to new all-time highs, then that certainly would become my floor,” he said, adding that a subsequent reversal “back below the $105,000 level” after printing a new high would “indicate a change in trend and a likely top.” Related Reading: The ‘Once A Decade’ Bitcoin Moment No One Sees Coming Loukas also explored a third path: a more extended cycle that peaks in early 2026 with a shorter-than-usual bear phase. That scenario, he said, would probably not feature a classic blowoff and might advance in a “controlled rise” toward the $140,000–$160,000 area before consolidating and attempting a final push. Under that path, he would “play it week by week and month by month and give Bitcoin a chance to continue extending into Q1 of ’26 and beyond,” waiting for unmistakable euphoric conditions before distributing. While acknowledging that “everybody” is watching Q4 seasonality and four-year-cycle dynamics, Loukas cautioned against overthinking the consensus. “Historically… it ends up still unfolding in a similar way,” he said. For now, his base case is that the market is “on the cusp of a significant start to a final leg into the bull market high,” with a peak most likely in the 35–37-month window from the prior cycle low. If the market fails to deliver a sustained breakout and instead rolls over through his predefined levels, the analyst says he will treat that as confirmation that the cycle topped at month 33 and will pivot accordingly. “The point,” he concluded, “is we’re not trying to time an hourly or a daily or a weekly move. We’re in this [on] a four-year-cycle time frame.” The plan from here is simple, if not easy: “Stay humble… let the price action unfold… and try and capitalize on what I think will be the last move of this four-year cycle.” At press time, BTC traded at $111,740. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
The Ethereum-focused treasury firm is also exploring compliant trading of tokenized shares on decentralized markets as part of its partnership with Superstate.
Bitcoin’s proof-of-work drove hardware innovation from GPUs to ASICs that are 100,000x more efficient. AI networks need the same competitive incentives.
The inclusion of diverse crypto assets in ETFs may accelerate mainstream adoption and reshape investment strategies in the evolving crypto market.
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Bitcoin (BTC) declined 1.9% and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fell 2.1%, leading the index lower from Wednesday.
XRP price prediction is increasingly in focus as Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin achieves significant milestones. With integrations into BlackRock’s BUIDL fund and VanEck’s VBLL, alongside strong institutional interest via the XRPR ETF, XRP crypto finds itself at the center of a new wave of adoption that could reshape its price trajectory. RLUSD Integration Strengthens Ripple’s Ecosystem …
Solana’s price has faced tremendous upward pressure in the past few days, which has dragged the levels close to the psychological barrier at $200. The broader market sentiments do not favour the bulls, due to which the prices are struggling to find stability. Moreover, the token has been failing to reclaim key resistance levels, which …
Stablecoin giant Circle is exploring ways to let users “reverse” transactions, a step which is almost unheard of in the crypto world. This move could challenge some of crypto’s core principles and has already sparked a debate across the industry. Let us explore what this means and what are its implications for the industry. Circle …
The fund is a feeder into Apollo's private credit strategy, which includes corporate lending and dislocated credit. It's open only to qualified investors.
Programmable yield, automated compliance, and access to FedNow could bring decentralized finance, or “DeFi,” into the financial mainstream.
Community members questioned whether the surge in trading volume reflected market conviction or aggressive incentive farming.
Cipher Mining signed a 10-year AI hosting agreement with Fluidstack, backed by a guarantee from Google, who will receive a 5.4% equity stake.
Robinhood's listing of WLFI may accelerate the integration of traditional finance with DeFi, potentially reshaping financial ecosystems.
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Naver Financial, the fintech arm of South Korea’s largest search engine, is weighing a potential share-swap agreement with Dunamu, the operator of Upbit. Earlier today, reports from local outlets suggested that the talks had already advanced into merger territory, but Naver’s regulatory filing clarified that no binding terms have been confirmed. The disclosure, submitted to […]
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The world is drowning in debt, and traditional systems seem unable to handle the weight. With governments and institutions borrowing more than ever, experts are starting to look at new ways to manage the crisis. Black Swan Capitalist founder Versan Aljarrah believes the answer lies in restructuring, with XRP playing a key role in creating …
Fundstrat’s Tom Lee drew a crowd at Korea Blockchain Week 2025 with a bold call: Bitcoin could reach as high as $250,000 by year-end, and Ethereum could climb toward $12,000. Related Reading: Dogecoin Warning: Double Top Formation Hints At Decline – Analyst According to reports, Lee gave a range for Bitcoin of $200,000 to $250,000 and said Ethereum might hit $10,000 to $12,000, with upside to $12,000 to $15,000 under favorable conditions. His case rested on macro tailwinds and growing institutional interest in crypto assets. Market Drivers And Timeline Reports have disclosed Lee’s timing is tied to a mix of factors. He pointed to a possible shift in US monetary policy from a hawkish stance to one that is less aggressive, which he thinks would be positive for risk assets. BitMine Chairman and Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee said Ethereum is a “truly neutral chain” poised to be Wall Street and the White House’s top choice, predicting a 10–15 year “super cycle.” He expects Bitcoin to reach $200K–$250K and Ethereum $10K–$12K by year-end, with ETH… — Wu Blockchain (@WuBlockchain) September 24, 2025 He also mentioned that fourth quarters have traditionally had high performance for Bitcoin. Lee explained Ethereum as embarking on a “super cycle” of 10 to 15 years based on its function in tokenized systems and possible interest from institutions and developers. Lee’s View On Ethereum Ethereum’s long-term attractiveness, Lee said, extends beyond the short-term volatility of price movements. He contended the network’s neutrality and widespread developer base position it well for future use in AI, finance, and tokenized real-world assets. That argument underpins his higher price scenario for ETH, where steady flows and adoption could push the token toward the upper end of his range. Skeptics Point To Fees And Competition Not everyone agrees with that outlook. Some industry figures have pushed back. For instance, critics say Ethereum has not seen fee growth that would match the scale Lee predicts, and that some institutional activity is migrating to alternative chains and layer-2 solutions. Those voices warn that competition, scaling challenges, and shifts in developer activity could limit upside for ETH in the near term. Macro Risks And What Could Break The Call Lee’s predictions assume markets stay friendly. A sudden return to tighter US policy, an unexpected economic shock, or harsh regulatory moves could derail a rapid move to $200,000 or higher. Liquidity matters here. For prices to hit Lee’s top targets by year-end, demand would need to be broad and sustained across spot markets, exchanges, and institutional channels. Related Reading: XRP Price Chatter Heats Up After Developer’s $4 Hint – Details What To Watch Next According to market coverage, a few clear signals to track: central bank guidance from the US Federal Reserve, trading flows into spot Bitcoin products, large on-chain movements, and institutional custody announcements. Each of these could either support rapid gains or cool investor appetite quickly, analysts say. Featured image from BCB Group, chart from TradingView