The firm's SVP of Finance and Strategy Shiv Verma said that the company's management is "constantly" discussing the possibility of a Bitcoin treasury.
Keonne Rodriguez, a 37-year-old developer of the Samourai Wallet, has been sentenced to five years in prison. Rodriguez was also fined $250,000 and is expected to forfeit $237 million tied to illegal activities as part of the plea deal. Notably, he pleaded guilty in July 2025 to a conspiracy count for operating an unlicensed money-transmitting …
Stablecoins have emerged as a store-of-value asset in emerging market economies at a rate no one predicted, Wood said on Thursday.
Following a stormy week that erased over $1 trillion in crypto market capitalization, signs of recovery are emerging, with the XRP price leading the way. While Bitcoin struggled to hold the $104,000 mark and Ethereum remained under pressure near $3,400, the XRP price rallied nearly 5% to trade around $2.31, outpacing both majors. Related Reading: Galaxy Digital Slashes Bitcoin EOY Price Target To $120,000 Analysts attribute this strength to robust fundamentals, including Ripple’s strategic partnership with Mastercard and renewed institutional interest following a $500 million investment round. The Mastercard collaboration marks one of the first instances of a U.S.-regulated bank testing real credit card transactions on a public blockchain through Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin. The move underscores the growing shift from speculative crypto use cases to enterprise-grade payment infrastructure. BlackRock XRP ETF Speculation Adds Institutional FOMO Momentum also intensified after BlackRock’s Director of Digital Assets, Maxwell Stein, hinted at Ripple’s Swell conference that “trillions are definitely coming on-chain.” The comment reignited speculation around a potential BlackRock XRP ETF, a development that could reshape institutional exposure to the asset. Analysts note that such a product would provide regulatory recognition and attract billions in inflows, potentially revving the long-term value growth of the XRP price. The buzz comes as Ripple’s valuation climbs to $40 billion following its latest funding round, led by Fortress Investment Group and Citadel Securities. Major firms, such as Pantera Capital and Galaxy Digital, also joined, backing institutional confidence in Ripple’s blockchain-based payment systems. Observers say that this backing, blended with the growing utility of the network, positions XRP as a frontrunner for the next institutional adoption wave. XRP's price trends downwards on the daily chart. Source: XRPUSD on Tradingview On-Chain Growth Signals Accumulation and XRP Price Recovery Despite the broader market’s volatility, on-chain data reveals growing conviction among XRP holders. Glassnode reported that more than 1.4 billion XRP tokens have been withdrawn from exchanges since September, the fastest accumulation pace since 2022. Similarly, network activity surged, with over 21,000 new wallets created within 48 hours, marking the highest growth since January. This combination of reduced exchange supply, rising wallet creation, and expanding institutional partnerships paints a bullish picture for XRP’s medium-term trajectory. If the asset maintains support above $2.30, analysts expect a possible move toward the $2.60–$3.00 range. Related Reading: Analyst Predicts Bitcoin Price Crash To $87,000 If This Happens As Bitcoin and Ethereum consolidate, XRP’s growing real-world utility and corporate adoption suggest that the XRP price recovery may not just be a relief bounce, but the start of a new leadership phase in the next crypto cycle. Cover image from ChatGPT, XRPUSD chart from Tradingview
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With the spotlight this cycle fixed on corporate Bitcoin treasuries, ETF inflows, and shifting global liquidity, Bitcoin’s miners have become the overlooked backbone of the network. Yet, as block rewards shrink and energy costs rise, many are being forced to reinvent themselves, branching into AI hosting, energy arbitrage, and infrastructure services, just to keep their […]
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The update brings real-time forecasting data from Kalshi and Polymarket to Google Finance, as more major platforms move into the growing prediction markets space.
Bitcoin is once again at a pivotal moment after briefly dipping below the $100,000 level on Tuesday, testing one of the most important psychological and structural supports of the cycle. The market remains tense as bulls attempt to defend this zone amid rising volatility and persistent selling pressure. Momentum has clearly slowed, and traders are now looking for signs of stabilization as the next directional move takes shape. Related Reading: ‘Bitcoin $100K Break Was Emotional’ – On-Chain Data Shows No Structural Damage According to top analyst Darkfost, a major shift is unfolding beneath the surface — Bitcoin’s open interest across major centralized exchanges continues to struggle to recover. Since the mass liquidation event on October 10, when over $10 billion in leveraged positions were wiped out, the use of leverage has cooled significantly. This has resulted in the largest 30-day decline in open interest of the entire cycle, signaling a widespread de-risking among futures traders. While this sharp decline reflects shaken confidence, it may also serve a constructive purpose. The unwinding of excessive leverage often precedes healthier, more sustainable price action, helping to flush out speculation and rebuild stronger market foundations. Leverage Flush Deepens as Exchanges See Billions in Open Interest Wiped Out Darkfost highlights that Binance has been at the center of this leverage unwind, recording a massive $4 billion decline in Bitcoin open interest over the past month. Other major platforms have faced similar drawdowns, with Bybit losing over $3 billion and Gate.io more than $2 billion. This widespread contraction underscores how aggressively leverage has been removed from the market following October’s liquidation shock. Back on October 10, global open interest dropped by more than $10 billion within hours, one of the most severe leverage resets of the cycle. Historically, after such dramatic events, traders rebuild positions quickly as volatility cools. However, this time the rebound has been notably absent — open interest remains depressed, suggesting that market confidence is still fragile. The ongoing correction continues to discourage over-leveraged activity, forcing traders to adopt more conservative positioning. While this has amplified short-term downside pressure, Darkfost notes that these deleveraging phases are ultimately healthy. They wash out excessive speculation, allowing stronger hands to reaccumulate and laying the groundwork for the next sustained rally. In the medium term, this compression of leverage tends to create a more stable, organic market structure — one driven by spot demand rather than derivatives-driven momentum. Related Reading: Anti-CZ Whale Flips Bullish: Now Long $109M In Ethereum While Holding Massive Meme Shorts Bitcoin Retests Key Support After Heavy Selling Bitcoin is showing signs of stabilization after a sharp sell-off that briefly pushed prices below the critical $100,000 level earlier this week. As of now, BTC trades around $103,000, attempting to recover but facing persistent resistance from the short-term moving averages. The chart shows that Bitcoin remains well below the 50-day (blue) and 100-day (green) moving averages — both now acting as dynamic resistance zones around $110,000. The 200-day MA (red) near $102,000 currently serves as the key support level, and a sustained close below it could open the door to deeper downside, potentially toward $95,000. Related Reading: Balancer Hacker Now Converting Loot to Ethereum: Stolen Funds Surge To $116.6M The recent bounce reflects short-covering and some dip-buying activity, but momentum remains weak. The market structure suggests a shift from bullish to corrective, as lower highs continue to form. For bulls to regain control, Bitcoin would need to reclaim the $110,000–$112,000 region — where heavy liquidity and previous breakdown levels align. Focus remains on whether buyers can hold the $100K–$103K zone. Losing this range would likely trigger another wave of liquidations, while a successful defense could provide the base for a mid-term recovery rally. The market remains fragile, with sentiment still leaning cautious. Featured image from ChatGPT, chart from TradingView.com
Whale accumulation suggests potential market recovery, highlighting institutional confidence despite retail investor panic and market volatility.
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Sports betting giants FanDuel and DraftKings are changing their playbooks, racing to catch up to the prediction markets disrupting the industry. Are they already too late?
DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones.
Sprinter is a crosschain “solving-as-a-service” infrastructure startup that provides access to collateral-free credit.
JPMorgan has predicted a parabolic rally for Bitcoin (BTC) in the next 6-12 months. According to Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, a strategist at JPMorgan, the Bitcoin price would need to rally towards $170,000 to match Gold’s private investment value. Since hitting $4,377 per ounce, the gold price has dropped around 10% and formed a potential reversal pattern. …
Marathon’s third-quarter filing carried a quiet but definitive policy change, in which the company stated that it will now sell a portion of newly mined Bitcoin (BTC) to fund its operations. The shift occurred as MARA held approximately 52,850 BTC on Sept. 30, paid around $0.04 per kilowatt-hour at its owned sites, and recorded a […]
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Cardano (ADA) is staging a cautious rebound after testing the critical $0.52–$0.57 support range, a zone that has historically triggered major reversals. Related Reading: Galaxy Digital Slashes Bitcoin EOY Price Target To $120,000 Market analyst Ali Martinez highlighted that every touch of this area since late 2024 has resulted in a sharp upside reaction, signaling strong buyer interest. ADA now trades around $0.53, with bulls aiming to defend this zone to avoid retracements. The rebound coincides with improving on-chain sentiment and growing accumulation around long-term supports. Analysts say that as long as ADA maintains this base, the path toward $0.72 and $1.15 remains valid. A close below $0.52, however, could reintroduce bearish pressure and delay recovery hopes. ADA's price trends to the downside on the daily chart. Source: ADAUSD on Tradingview TD Sequential Buy Signal Hints at a Cycle Bottom Adding to optimism, the TD Sequential indicator recently printed a buy signal on ADA’s three-day chart, a pattern known for marking potential market bottoms. Historically, similar setups have preceded strong bullish reversals, suggesting that sellers may be losing control. Trading volume and long/short ratios also support the bullish view. According to Coinglass, long positions now represent 52% of open interest, reflecting renewed trader confidence. A breakout above $0.60 could confirm the reversal, paving the way for a wider rally toward the $0.72 resistance level identified by several analysts. Can Cardano (ADA) Sustain Its Momentum? While ADA’s short-term charts show potential for recovery, longer-term indicators remain cautious. Cardano continues to trade inside a descending parallel channel formed since December 2024, with resistance sitting near $0.72. Analyst Valdrin Tahiri noted that unless ADA reclaims the $0.60 zone, the broader trend remains bearish. Regardless, the combination of strong support, bullish confluence signals, and improved trader sentiment paints a cautiously optimistic picture. Related Reading: Analyst Predicts Bitcoin Price Crash To $87,000 If This Happens If the rebound holds and momentum strengthens above $0.65, ADA could confirm a new accumulation phase, setting the stage for a possible mid-term breakout above $0.72 and a retest of the $1 psychological level. Cover image from ChatGPT, ADAUSD chart from Tradingview
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Google Finance will tap into prediction market data from Polymarket and Kalshi as the platform enhances its feature offering with AI.
Internet Computer soars to $7.02, climbing 34% in a breakout move that confirms renewed bullish momentum backed by exceptional trading activity.
The US Treasury Department accepted comments related to the implementation of the stablecoin bill until Tuesday as part of the law’s planned rollout.
Bitcoin’s slide toward $100,000 accelerates as ETF outflows, weak earnings, and macro uncertainty rattle traders, leaving bulls hesitant to reenter the market.
Virtuals Protocol Agentic Fund of Funds uses Butler AI agent to optimize DeFi yield by automating deposits and on-chain performance reports.
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JPMorgan's potential stablecoin collaboration could accelerate financial innovation and reshape banking partnerships in the digital currency era.
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Samourai Wallet co-founder Keonne Rodriguez was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay a quarter-million dollar fine on Thursday.
Current fiscal and monetary policies will cause hard asset prices to rise, but both are signs of late-stage economic decay, Dalio said.
Google partners with Polymarket to display prediction odds in Search and Google Finance, widening access to market based forecasting data.
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Stellar (XLM) slid 2.2% amid heavy selling at the $0.2815 resistance level, confirming continued bearish momentum as volume spiked.
Google said prediction markets data from leading platforms Polymarket and Kalshi will roll out over the coming weeks.
Hedera’s native token rebounds after a sharp 2.6% drop, with rising volume and a confirmed double-bottom pattern signaling potential upside toward $0.1730.
Crypto analyst VisionPulsed says Dogecoin’s window for a cycle-defining advance has narrowed to weeks, arguing that a failure to pivot higher in November would likely end the current bull-side setup and shift the conversation to downside risk in 2026. In a late-November 5 video, the analyst framed Bitcoin’s weekly moving average as the near-term arbiter of trend and, by extension, Dogecoin’s fate: “By the end of the week, we need to see Bitcoin back over $103,000–$104,000. If that ends up happening, then you could start pushing the idea… we could start talking about a Dogecoin rally. If we close below $102k, 100k even, that’s your first confirmation that it is actually a bear market. Dogecoin Needs Immediate Reversal VisionPulsed anchored the Dogecoin outlook to a broader read on market structure and cross-asset momentum. He noted that when mapping the “top-10 dominance” basket ex-stablecoins, the market has “fully retraced the alt season from 2021.” Hitting the upper band of that multi-year channel “doesn’t mean it’s the top,” he cautioned, but it reinforces how mature the advance has become. The analyst emphasized that he is not declaring the start of altseason based on this single indicator; rather, he is situating Dogecoin risk in a market that has already re-tested a critical historical boundary. Related Reading: Dogecoin Faces Breakdown Risk Below $0.15 While Whales Exit and ETF Hype Fades The immediate gating factor, he said, remains Bitcoin’s weekly moving average and a cluster of corroborating signals. “All eyes are still on $103,000,” VisionPulsed said, pointing to a supertrend read that, so far, mirrors a March episode when price briefly broke below but never closed under it, avoiding a formal sell trigger. He contrasted that with 2021, when confirmed closes below the same tool delivered unambiguous sell signals. The distinction matters because Dogecoin’s high-beta behavior to Bitcoin tends to compress timelines for both rallies and retracements, and any decisive break and close beneath the moving average would erase the already tight window for a Dogecoin impulse. Momentum, in the analyst’s framing, is “so bearish that it’s screaming the end of the market cycle is near,” even though the monthly MACD has not crossed down yet. That lag on higher-timeframe oscillators leaves room for a “very little rally,” which in previous cycles still permitted outsized alt moves. “In this bull market… every time we’ve bounced off the moving average, we’ve broken the prior high,” he said, making the conditional case that if the trend holds and Bitcoin reclaims the level into the weekly close, a final Dogecoin push remains possible. But he refused to extend the timeline beyond the near term: “I would argue that if we don’t actually go back up in November, it’s probably not happening.” Related Reading: Dogecoin Must Defend This Level To Avoid A $0.07 Meltdown, On-Chain Data Shows The calendar overlay is doing heavy lifting. VisionPulsed explored a scenario in which Dogecoin could peak in January, but stressed the math now strains credibility unless upside starts immediately. “Eighty-one days from now would be January… it’s starting to get to the point where it’s almost unachievable because you don’t want to keep stretching this out to January, February, March. At some point, you have to say it’s not happening.” The refusal to “move the goalposts” defines his base case: the bull thesis survives only if November prints a directional turn. From a pattern perspective, he flagged a head-and-shoulders-like structure on Dogecoin and introduced a vivid downside marker he has used in prior updates. “That’s why this little pig is down here,” he said, referring to a graphic that labels a potential capitulation zone around $0.05 to $0.06. If Bitcoin loses the weekly moving average and confirms the breakdown with a close, “the pig only is in play once Bitcoin is below that moving average,” and Dogecoin’s primary target would revert to “five to six cents.” On the Bitcoin side, he framed a bear-market base case of 40,000–50,000 on the assumption that both upside and downside retracements are shrinking versus prior cycles, implying “not 77%… you’d probably get 65% to 70%,” which would align with a mid-40k trough. For Dogecoin specifically, he drew a clean decision tree. If Bitcoin reclaims $103,000–$104,000 into the weekly close and confirms above the moving average, the Dogecoin rally window reopens, with a shot at a late-Q4 to January run. If Bitcoin closes below roughly $102,000 and sustains weakness, “it’s bear market time,” Dogecoin likely gravitates to the “pig at 5 cents,” and “it might even break the pig honestly” depending on the severity of Bitcoin’s drawdown. At press time, DOGE traded at $0.16297. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
Robinhood’s crypto revenue rose 300% to $268 million in the third quarter, helping drive higher overall revenues of $1.27 billion.