Wintermute said clear SEC guidance would keep US markets competitive, foster regulator dialogue and support innovation in digital assets.
Ondo Finance and the Ondo Foundation, leaders in tokenized real-world assets, have launched Ondo Global Markets. This new platform lets investors outside the U.S. easily access over 100 U.S. stocks and ETFs on Ethereum. Ondo Global Markets Takes Wall Street On-Chain Ondo Global markets was previously revealed in February to offer exposure to NYSE and …
Japan’s Financial Services Agency proposed moving crypto oversight from the Payment Services Act to the stricter Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.
The crypto exchange CEO has set a target for 50% of daily code to come from AI as the trend towards AI-assisted coding grows.
Strategy’s valuation cycle top came as BlackRock’s IBIT options launched, underscoring the interplay between equity-driven and ETF-based bitcoin exposure.
Internet Computer defends critical support after sharp swings, with institutional activity visible in volume spikes
Pokémon trading cards may be the next real-world asset (RWA) class to move on-chain as blockchain technology extends its reach beyond traditional markets. Over the past year, tokenization has transformed access to traditional markets like gold and US treasuries, which are primarily operated on efficient digital rails. However, collectibles like Pokémon cards remain tied to […]
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Bitcoin is entering a fragile stage after days of selling pressure and uncertainty pushed the price into consolidation around the $110,000 level. Bulls are working to defend this key area, but momentum has clearly faded. The market now finds itself in a holding pattern, with investors cautious about whether Bitcoin will stabilize or break lower in the sessions ahead. Related Reading: BNB Chain Surpasses 650M Unique Addresses – Binance Adoption Continues Despite the weakness, there are no clear signals yet of a deeper correction. Historically, retracements within ongoing bull markets often serve as resets rather than trend reversals, but the pressure on Bitcoin has nonetheless sparked debate about its short-term direction. Holding above current levels is becoming increasingly important, as failure to do so could shift sentiment further in favor of the bears. Top analyst Axel Adler described the current environment as a neutral-bearish base, meaning flows and price action lack the conviction needed for a decisive bullish push. Until stronger demand emerges, Bitcoin’s recovery is likely to be limited to technical bounces rather than sustained rallies. Bitcoin Stuck In Neutral-Bearish Base According to top analyst Axel Adler, Bitcoin’s current structure remains fragile as both price and derivative flows sit below 50, signaling weakness across critical indicators. Adler emphasizes that while short-term rebounds are possible, the market lacks the conviction required for a sustained uptrend. With taker flows still negative and weak, any recovery from present levels is likely to be a mean-reversion bounce toward $113K, aligning with the Fair Value and mid-30-day range, rather than the beginning of a new bullish phase. This environment suggests that risk appetite remains absent, leaving the market vulnerable to further tests of lower boundaries. Adler notes that unless flows shift meaningfully, price rallies will likely remain capped and quickly fade as selling pressure reemerges. The nearest bullish setup would require stabilization of flows that could push BTC toward the $113K–$115K region, a technical recovery zone that would ease immediate bearish sentiment but still fall short of confirming a regime shift. For a true change in market structure, Adler points to two key thresholds: Flow >55 and Price Index >50. Only when both conditions are met will Bitcoin have the foundation for a stronger, trend-confirming rally. Until then, the market faces an elevated risk of repeated retests of support zones, with traders closely monitoring whether BTC can hold above $110K or slip further into correction territory. Related Reading: Bitcoin And Ethereum Exchange Inflows Overshadow Stablecoin Demand – Details BTC Holding the Line Above $110K Bitcoin continues to consolidate around the $110K–$111K zone, showing resilience after weeks of sharp selling pressure. The chart highlights how BTC has bounced from recent lows near $108K but still struggles to reclaim higher momentum. The 50-day moving average now acts as resistance, capping the upside attempts and reflecting waning bullish strength. Despite the pullback from the $123K all-time high, the structure remains intact above the 200-day moving average near $101K, which has consistently served as a long-term support. The current price action shows a market caught in balance: bulls are defending demand, but bears maintain pressure as rallies face rejection around the $112K level. Related Reading: Ethereum Demand Spikes As Whales Add 260K ETH In 24 Hours The flat trajectory of the 100-day moving average reinforces the consolidation phase, suggesting that a decisive breakout is needed to confirm direction. If Bitcoin closes above $113K in the short term, it could set up a retest of $118K, the mid-range level that has acted as both support and resistance. Failure to hold the $110K level could expose BTC to repeated tests of $108K and, ultimately, the psychological $105K zone. For now, Bitcoin’s fate hinges on whether buyers can stabilize flows and absorb ongoing selling pressure. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView
ReversingLabs uncovered a cybercriminal campaign that used Ethereum smart contracts to hide malware instructions and push tainted npm packages.
Portal Debuts Solana Support with First Non-Custodial BTC-to-SOL Atomic Swaps on Mainnet. San Francisco, 4 September 2025 – Portal to Bitcoin, a custody-less interoperability protocol for Bitcoin, has added Solana (SOL) as its first mainnet L1 integration for native BTC cross-chain swaps. The milestone enables trust-minimized, self-custodial SOL-to-BTC and BTC-to-SOL transactions while maintaining full user …
Ukraine’s parliament has taken a big step toward regulating digital assets. On Wednesday, the Verkhovna Rada approved the “Crypto Legalization and Taxation Bill” in its first reading, aiming to bring clear rules for crypto taxation and strengthen the country’s digital economy. Ukraine’s Crypto Legalization and Transaction Bill The country’s parliament passed the bill at first …
Bitcoin should start its next bear market next month if four-year BTC price cycles are still valid — and hit bottom a year later at $50,000.
The WLFI token became the ninth-most-bearish by investor sentiment, as whales lost millions on its more than 40% post-launch decline.
Bitcoin’s recent price moves are not just about supply and demand, it’s about where the real buying power is coming from. On-chain data shared by CryptoQuant shows Asia often sparks the first push, while U.S. institutions decide whether that momentum lasts. Add to this the growing influence of spot ETFs in America and Hong Kong, …
Top blockchains in 2025, based on active users, range from DeFi stars to gaming chains. Growth notwithstanding, these blockchains are facing stiff competition.
Singapore-based crypto trading firm QCP Group has received regulatory approval to operate in Abu Dhabi, marking an important step in its global expansion. The license, granted by the Abu Dhabi Global Market’s (ADGM) Financial Services Regulatory Authority, allows QCP to offer spot and derivatives trading, market-making, and structured products to professional investors. With this approval, …
Ripple and SWIFT’s battle for dominance is once again making rounds as the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of SWIFT, Tom Zschach, made a comment about XRP. He explained why it is hard for businesses to trust Ripple despite the SEC lawsuit dismissal. Why Are Businesses Unlikely To Trust Ripple? An exchange began on LinkedIn, where …
Ripple has identified Africa as the next major growth market for its US dollar-backed RLUSD stablecoin. On Sept. 4, Ripple announced that it has partnered with fintech firms Chipper Cash, VALR, and Yellow Card to make RLUSD more widely accessible across the continent. This initiative marks Ripple’s latest move to position RLUSD as a practical […]
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Crypto Twitter is buzzing after a sharp exchange between Ripple CTO David Schwartz and Litecoin influencer @jonnylitecoin reignited an old ‘rivalry’. What started as a few tweets has now turned into a full-blown debate over proof-of-work, token creation, and which crypto has the stronger future. Let’s dive in. XRP Is a “Psychological Operation” The influencer …
Matthew Mežinskis, the analyst behind Porkopolis Economics and co-host of the “crypto_voices” podcast, told Marty Bent on TFTC that Bitcoin’s late-cycle upside remains larger than most models imply, arguing that price action continues to track a long-standing “power trend” that has governed every prior boom. Anchoring his view in percentile “bands” around that trend, he contends the market can still deliver a two-to-three-times move into year-end, placing a $250,000 to $375,000 range in play. Bitcoin 4-Year Cycle Still In Play? Mežinskis frames the thesis in stark, testable terms. “Bitcoin has traditionally during the booms very easily gotten above the 80th percentile each time,” he said, noting that the strongest phases in earlier cycles climbed “very easily” above the 90th as well. He defines the 80th percentile as roughly 1.3× the trend and the 90th as 2×. On his model, the end-2025 trend value sits near $125,000, which fixes the 80th-percentile validation line at about $170,000 and the 90th at $250,000. “If we don’t get above 170k by year end or into like the first couple months of next year then I would…rethink the idea of the four-year cycles,” he said, before stressing that “it hasn’t been invalidated yet.” Related Reading: Bitcoin In Trouble? Exchange Reserve Spikes To Highest In Months The centerpiece of his outlook is a simple rule-of-thumb extrapolation from those bands. “The 90th is 2x…so 2x is $250k,” he explained. He then extends the historical envelope to the mid-90s percentiles to size a more aggressive—but still precedent-based—target. “In 2021…it was a 96th percentile…the 2.8x—round it here—3x,” he said. “Totally base case, totally possible…would be 2 to 3x the trend…$250k to $375k Bitcoin.” Even as he embraces that range, he tempered expectations for a blow-off beyond it. “I would be very surprised if Bitcoin went above $350 or $375k by the end of the year, but I think it’s possible.” His framework is deliberately non-technical in the chartist sense. “We’re just looking at the power trend and where the price typically is over or under trend every four years,” he said. The model—represented by a “black line” he’s tracked since 2016—has, in his telling, proved more durable than the once-fashionable stock-to-flow approach: “It’s like the best trend line in all of finance…certainly better than the old stock-to-flow ratio.” The percentile overlays are frequency-based markers: the 90th denotes a level above which only 10 percent of observations sit, the 99th above only 1 percent. Historically, he observed, the most explosive cycles—2013 and 2017—briefly reached the 99th percentile, roughly 4.6× trend, a zone 2021 never touched. That “softer top” dynamic is consistent, he argues, with maturation: “As Bitcoin gets more adopted, these peaks do come down.” Pushing beyond the base case, Mežinskis addressed the outlier narratives circulating on social media. He acknowledged hearing projections in the “$444,000 in November” neighborhood and mapped them to his high-percentile bands: “400,000 is the 97th…[between] the 97th and 98th percentile, it’s pretty rare.” Those levels, at about 3½× trend, are—by definition—levels the market spends very little time above. Related Reading: Bitcoin Flashes Rare Buy Signal Not Seen Since $49,000 And $74,000 Bottoms None of this, he emphasized, is a timer. The framework “doesn’t tell you the time…we’re just assuming the four-year cycle.” If the cycle extends or compresses, the model won’t predict that path; it only sketches the altitude the market has historically achieved once a boom is underway. “If the market gets heated…if grandma’s getting excited this Thanksgiving…and giving her grandchildren money to buy Bitcoin, then perhaps it could happen again,” he quipped, before reiterating: “Absolutely possible that we have lower highs and even possible that we get out of the four-year cycle, but I’m still not seeing it based on the price action.” Mežinskis also flagged the hazards that often follow euphoria, warning that narrative shifts at elevated plateaus can coincide with leverage-driven fragility. Should Bitcoin treasury companies lever short-dated convertible debt to chase higher prices, a downturn could expose maturity and liquidity mismatches. “You could see absolutely a cascading [of] liquidations of these Bitcoin treasury companies,” he said, adding that reflexive waves can “go as high as the White House” in terms of policy attention if the cycle crescendos at scale. He was careful not to present that as a base case—“I’m not saying that it will”—so much as a reminder that what climbs on leverage can unwind through the same channel. The test he sets for the market over the next few months is crisp. A move above the 80th-percentile line—about $170,000 given his end-2025 trend—would keep the four-year template intact; a run into the 90th-percentile band would align with prior booms and mechanically prints a ~$250,000 spot price; an excursion toward the mid-90s percentiles would extend the tape to roughly $375,000, a level he calls the “max” he would expect this cycle—even if, as history shows, brief overshoots cannot be ruled out. For now, the structure that’s guided Bitcoin since 2016 “hasn’t been invalidated yet,” and until it is, Mežinskis’ message is unambiguously bullish: the bands are there, the tape has visited them before, and the upper ones still sit far above spot. At press time, BTC traded at $110,397. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
Ethereum, the backbone of crypto apps and DeFi projects, is increasingly being used as a tool for cyberattacks. Researchers at ReversingLabs have found two npm packages that hid malicious commands inside Ethereum smart contracts, marking a new twist in software supply chain attacks. Read on to know how this was carried out. Simple Packages With …
World Liberty Financial’s token, WLFI, has been under heavy selling pressure since its debut, sliding from its presale price of $0.33 to near $0.20. Some traders are calling this a red flag, but others argue the token is still in its infancy and that the real story hasn’t even started yet. WLFI Price Predictions Crypto …
The SEC’s Crypto Assets Task Force is reviewing a roadmap to protect Bitcoin, Ether and other digital assets from future quantum computing threats.
Ethereum has just seen one of its biggest corporate accumulation moves in recent months. Bitmine Immersion Technologies, under the leadership of strategist Tom Lee, has made headlines by acquiring a massive 80,325 ETH worth about $358 million on September 4, 2025. Meanwhile, the massive purchase quickly pushed ETH up 1.6%, with the token trading around …
Gold’s 33% surge cements its role as the benchmark asset, while bitcoin’s long-term structure against gold signals a decisive move ahead.
Crypto may be entering its final calm before a storm of regulatory activity in Washington. According to Ron Hammond, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Wintermute, this week could be the last “quiet week” before Congress returns with a packed agenda that directly impacts the digital asset industry. Congress Returns With Heavy Agenda After a …
Over the last few weeks, both Bitcoin and Ethereum have seen an interesting wave of price action with high volatility. Naturally, this volatility has spurred a wave of trading as crypto traders see this as a time of opportunity due to the fluctuations. The result of this has been a rapid rise in the open interest of both Bitcoin and Ethereum during this time. While this, on its own, is significant, looking at the previous performances, it could suggest where the Bitcoin and Ethereum prices are headed next. Bitcoin And Ethereum Open Interest Remain Very High Toward the end of the month of August, the Ethereum price began rising rapidly, fueled by large buys from Ethereum treasury companies such as Bitmine and SharpLink. This push would eventually see the Ethereum price reach a brand new all-time high, beating out its $4,800 peak from 2021 after climbing above $4,950. Related Reading: Shiba Inu Descending Channel Breakout Shows Where Price Is Headed Next In the same vein, the open interest had risen rapidly, and this metric, too, rose to new all-time highs. By August 23, amid the frenzy, the Ethereum open interest climbed above $70 billion for the first time in history, marking a major milestone. Since then, the Ethereum open interest has retraced. But it is still sitting above $55 billion at the time of this writing, suggesting that interest in the altcoin is still high. While the Bitcoin open interest did not hit new peaks in the month of August like Ethereum, it also remained at very high levels. Data from Coinglass shows that the Bitcoin open interest is still averaging at a high $80 billion, still close to the $86 billion all-time high that was recorded back in July. What The Open Interest At ATHs Could Mean Looking at previous performances when the Bitcoin and Ethereum open interest have been at all-time high levels, there is usually a period of consolidation that follows, especially as price retraces. This was seen after the first all-time highs of the year back in February, which was followed by a few months of consolidation. Related Reading: Ethereum price Crash To $4,081: Why The Bears Are In Charge Then again, the peaks in June were followed by short consolidations, which ended in July. And then, another consolidation before the open interest started to rebound in August. This shows that the period of consolidation is not always long, but at the end of it is always another rise in open interest that coincides with a rise in price. From here, if the Bitcoin and Ethereum open interest were to hit new peaks, it would probably mean that their prices are ready to hit new highs as well. Following the trend of the last few months, the open interest could start to pick up again toward the end of September, propelled forward by price recoveries. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com
ECB President Christine Lagarde said the EU should hold non-EU stablecoin issuers to the same standards as EU issuers.
The financial world is rapidly entering a new era where traditional assets like stocks and bonds can be represented on the blockchain. Tokenization is gaining momentum worldwide, and the U.S. is under pressure to keep pace. Trading firm Wintermute has submitted recommendations to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), urging rules that support innovation instead …
Simple-looking code tapped Ethereum’s blockchain to fetch hidden URLs that directed compromised systems to download second-stage malware.