BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) began trading in the UK on Oct. 20, opening a market that could funnel between $1.5 billion and $2 billion into the fund over time as UK retail investors gain regulated access to Bitcoin (BTC) exposure. The launch capitalizes on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) recent reversal of its ban […]
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OpenAI has set in motion a $300 billion hardware expansion that binds its chip suppliers, financiers, and energy providers into a single feedback loop. The company has locked in multi-year agreements with AMD and Broadcom to deliver tens of millions of AI accelerators between 2026 and 2029, deals that together represent roughly 16 gigawatts of […]
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When Amazon Web Services (AWS) faltered this morning, much of the internet went dark, and crypto was no exception. Several major blockchains and trading platforms, including Coinbase, Robinhood, and some Ethereum layer-2 networks, reported disruptions after AWS suffered an operational failure linked to its DynamoDB database service. According to Amazon’s status page, the issue began […]
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Florida is back with another attempt to put Bitcoin on the state’s balance sheet. The new bill, HB 183, revives last year’s failed effort but with sharper teeth and broader reach. It once again sets a ceiling of 10% of certain state funds that could be allocated to digital assets, including Bitcoin and regulated ETFs. […]
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Visa just dropped a roadmap for the future of finance, and it runs on programmable money. In a comprehensive new report, the payments giant is stating to its network of over 15,000 financial institutions that the $670 billion stablecoin lending market is no longer just an experiment in crypto. This market is the foundation for […]
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Bitcoin miners are running out of room to breathe. In the wake of a $19 billion market rout, operators have begun moving massive volumes of Bitcoin onto exchanges, a classic signal that sell pressure is building. Data from CryptoQuant shows that between Oct. 9 and Oct. 15, mining wallets sent 51,000 BTC, worth more than […]
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Ripple’s $1 billion acquisition of GTreasury marks a new step in its corporate expansion and a direct challenge to the stablecoin distribution problem. While Ripple USD (RLUSD) has shown an impressive 987% growth since its December 2024 launch, reaching a supply of $839.9 million, it still captures only 0.27% of the $301.9 billion stablecoin market. […]
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Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent correction from its all-time high of $126,100 to current levels around $104,500 may mask a more constructive macro environment that could accelerate the path toward the higher upside. While derivative markets underwent historic deleveraging with $19 billion in futures open interest wiped out, several macro developments are aligning to support crypto’s next […]
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No one has a crystal ball, but if Bitcoin continues to behave according to its past cycles, then we’ve most likely already reached the peak. Bitcoin printed an all-time high on Oct. 6, but it failed to extend the move as the post-halving clock approaches the peak zone seen in prior cycles. The 2024 halving […]
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Elon Musk recently revived the “51 % renewables” benchmark, stating that the energy backing Bitcoin “can’t be faked.” The reference is to his earlier promise that Tesla would resume accepting Bitcoin payments once at least half of mining energy came from clean or low-carbon sources. However, now that the latest data suggests the network may […]
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Nansen and Sanctum have launched a new liquid staking framework on Solana designed to make staking SOL as easy as swapping a token. The system, dubbed the “universal staking router”, links multiple liquid staking tokens (LSTs) such as mSOL, jitoSOL, and bSOL into one standardized route. Instead of users choosing individual validators or juggling different […]
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Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 opens perpetual futures listing to anyone willing to stake $20 million. The question isn’t whether this democratizes the DeFi, but whether the safeguards can handle what comes next. Hyperliquid launched HIP-3 on mainnet in October 2025, introducing a model where any builder can deploy perpetual futures markets without committee approval. Deployers must stake 500,000 […]
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams just built a new power center for crypto inside City Hall. On Oct. 14, he signed Executive Order 57 and created the Office of Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology, a unit that sits in the Mayor’s Office, reports to the city CTO, and is led by Moises Rendon. City […]
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Loyalty points are worth billions, but most never leave the accounts they’re earned in. Webus International, an XRP-focused treasury company, wants to change that. Last week, the Nasdaq-listed firm announced plans for a tokenized travel-reward exchange powered by the XRP stablecoin system. According to the press statement, the Singapore-based firm is targeting the global loyalty […]
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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 822 into law on Oct. 11, making it the first state in the US to prevent the forced liquidation of unclaimed crypto. The statute updates California’s Unclaimed Property Law to require that dormant crypto turned over to the state be held as crypto, not automatically converted to cash. The […]
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Bhutan is rebuilding the core of its digital identity framework on Ethereum. The initiative, confirmed by Ethereum Foundation’s Aya Miyaguchi, is part of the Himalayan kingdom’s wider experiment with emerging technologies. It signals that blockchain, once confined to trading and tokens, is now being tested as public infrastructure. According to Miyaguchi, the move will see […]
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UC San Diego and the University of Maryland researchers have reported findings showing that roughly half of GEO satellite downlinks carry data without encryption. Further, data interception can be reproduced with just $800 of consumer hardware. Per WIRED, the team captured telco backhaul, industrial control traffic, and law-enforcement communications, and reported fixes to affected providers […]
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For almost as long as Bitcoin has been trading, Korea’s “kimchi premium” has been one of the market’s favorite ghost signals. When spot prices in South Korea climb faster than those in the US, traders interpret this as a sign of retail demand surging, capital trapped, and liquidity tilting East. When the spread collapses, the […]
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Bitcoin ETFs saw a surge in trading activity on Friday and Monday, with combined volumes reaching $9.7 billion and $6.7 billion as tariff headlines rattled risk markets. BlackRock’s IBIT alone handled over $6.9 billion on Oct. 10 (its second-highest day ever), as investors repositioned around the day’s price volatility. Bitcoin ETF volume surge This dramatic […]
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Crypto markets absorbed approximately $19 billion to $20 billion in forced liquidations within 24 hours on Oct. 10, marking the largest single-day deleveraging event on record. Hyperliquid processed more than $10 billion, while Binance accounted for roughly $2.4 billion. Altcoins bore the brunt of selling pressure while Bitcoin’s drawdown remained comparatively contained. Bitwise portfolio manager […]
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XRP fell about 15 percent intraday on Friday during the tariff scare tied to White House remarks, then recovered about 9 percent on Monday as risk appetite stabilized, providing a live read on how the token tracks Bitcoin in macro stress and relief. The Monday bounce saw Bitcoin up about 3.7 percent, Ethereum up about […]
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Crypto-based funds attracted $3.17 billion in new capital, even as markets reeled from tariff-related tensions between the United States and China, according to CoinShares weekly report. On Oct. 10, President Donald Trump announced that the US could raise tariffs in response to China’s new rare-earth export restrictions. The statement triggered a broad sell-off across risk […]
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“Number go up” is not a retirement strategy. Long-term planning needs explicit assumptions, clear knobs to turn, and a way to translate a BTC balance into annual spending power. CryptoSlate’s Bitcoin retirement calculator does exactly that, marrying a transparent price path with macro toggles and two spending frameworks so you can think in dollars, years, […]
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Tether’s accumulation of United States Treasuries puts the stablecoin issuer on a path to enter the top five foreign holders by 2033 under a realistic acceleration case, based on current balances, stated purchase activity, and the moving threshold set by the U.S. Treasury’s TIC data. The projection assumes Tether continues adding to its book at […]
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Institutional demand for Bitcoin is accelerating as spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) inject between $5 billion and $10 billion into the market each quarter. This wave of fresh capital is helping to tighten the asset’s supply and reinforce its long-term bullish structure. Bitwise Chief Technology Officer Hong Kim, citing Farside Investors’ data, said ETF inflows have […]
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Bitcoin’s exchange withdrawals have climbed to their highest sustained level since 2022, even as the asset trades near record highs. While current outflows remain below the 2023 accumulation peak, the renewed withdrawal trend highlights a behavioral shift in how investors gain exposure to Bitcoin. Institutional demand increasingly flows through spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) rather than […]
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Behind every rally and every crash lies an invisible engine: options dealers rebalancing billions in Bitcoin exposure. As open interest pushes past $57 billion, it’s the hedging flows, not sentiment, that now dictate price. For most of Bitcoin’s history, price discovery happened in the spot market. Retail traders and long-term holders set the tone, while […]
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Investor activity in US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) surged sharply on Oct. 6, mirroring BTC’s continued price gains and growing institutional interest. According to data from SoSoValue, the twelve approved funds collectively absorbed about $1.2 billion in inflows. This is their second-largest single-day haul since launching in 2024 and the strongest performance this year. […]
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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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XRP is entering a new development phase as its ecosystem embraces DeFi products and strategically moves into real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. These steps aim to give the long-standing digital asset practical roles beyond cross-border payments, a shift that could determine its future relevance in global finance. XRP DeFi expansion The introduction of mXRP, a liquid […]
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