The former FTX CEO is currently serving a 25-year sentence in federal prison, but has the opportunity to get a new trial.
Sequans sold 970 Bitcoin to redeem half of its convertible debt, reducing total liabilities from $189 million to $94.5 million.
MARA is deepening its shift from pure bitcoin mining toward energy ownership and AI-focused infrastructure, mirroring broader sector trends.
Ripple Swell 2025 is underway in New York City, bringing together global financial leaders, blockchain innovators, and institutional partners. At the event, the Nasdaq CEO announced that over 17 crypto companies are waiting for IPO approval once the U.S. government shutdown ends, showing rising institutional demand for digital assets. She said this marks the next …
Sequans' strategy highlights a growing trend of using Bitcoin for debt management, enhancing financial flexibility amid market volatility.
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Sam Bankman-Fried is back in the spotlight as new legal developments unfold in this case. Recent developments around this case have reignited a debate over his role in one of the biggest financial scandals in crypto history. Appeal to Overturn Conviction According to a report from Reuters, lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the …
BNB faces technical resistance at $1,000 and $980, with analysts watching to see if it can hold above $940, as privacy coins like DASH and Zcash outperform.
Forward Industries, which has accumulated more than $1 billion worth of Solana, saw its share price plunge Tuesday morning.
The layer-1 token broke key support levels and saw 68% above-average volume as traders dumped risk.
The $ORDER buyback program empowers community governance, aligning incentives with long-term growth and enhancing value distribution flexibility.
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Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, such as Monero, are roaring back, with the total market capitalization of these coins surpassing the $62 billion mark for the first time since 2021. Related Reading: Rare Chart Formation That Led To An 87% XRP Price Crash Has Resurfaced Leading the charge are Dash (DASH) and Zcash (ZEC), which have soared 75% and 21%, respectively, in the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko. Their weekly gains of over 200% for Dash and 45% for Zcash reflect the sector’s renewed momentum even as Bitcoin slipped below $105,000. Data from Artemis reveals that privacy coins have outperformed the broader crypto market, delivering nearly 80% monthly returns, while Bitcoin and Ethereum struggled amid a broader market correction. Analysts attribute this surge to a rising preference for transactional anonymity and self-custody. XMR's price trends upwards with small losses on the daily chart. Source: XMRUSD on Tradingview Monero (XMR) Poised for Breakout With Dash and Zcash dominating headlines, attention is now shifting to Monero (XMR), which has long been regarded as the gold standard for privacy in the crypto space. Monero rebounded from its $339 support level, triggering buy orders and renewed interest from both retail traders and privacy advocates. Currently priced around $346.56, XMR is up 1.48% daily with trading volume surging 38% to $230.96 million, signaling strong buyer conviction. Technical indicators paint a cautiously bullish picture: the RSI at 59.7 suggests healthy momentum, while a positive MACD histogram (+1.53) supports a potential move toward the $361 resistance level. Analysts warn, however, that a break below $339 could expose the coin to downside risk near $320. Sustained volume above $226 million is seen as key to validating any breakout attempt. The Return of Privacy in Crypto The revival of privacy coins signals a deeper narrative shift within the cryptocurrency ecosystem. As compliance frameworks become stricter, investors appear to be rediscovering the core ethos of decentralization and privacy. Monero’s stability in network essentials, such as rising hashrate and shielded transaction adoption, cements its position as a frontrunner in this comeback story. Industry analysts suggest that if current momentum continues, Monero could reclaim its dominance and push the privacy sector’s valuation even higher. Related Reading: From Greed To Terror: Bitcoin’s Fall Below $104K Sparks Extreme Fear In a market dominated by regulation and surveillance, privacy coins like Monero, Zcash, and Dash are demonstrating that financial anonymity remains a need in the blockchain future. Cover image from ChatGPT, XMRUSD chart from Tradingview
For nearly a decade, the rivalry between Zcash (ZEC) and Monero (XMR) defined the crypto privacy movement. The two digital assets promised what Bitcoin couldn’t, true transactional anonymity, but they took very different paths to achieve it. Monero made privacy mandatory, encrypting every transaction by default. Zcash made it optional, allowing users to choose between […]
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The louder these companies protest regulation, the clearer it becomes that something’s off, argue Paradigm’s Katie Biber and Dominique Little.
IREN's ownership of its 2.9 GW power portfolio gives it a cost and scalability advantage over rivals like CoreWeave, the analysts said.
MPLX will supply natural gas from its Delaware Basin processing plants to MARA’s planned gas-fired power facilities.
The appeal could impact legal precedents in financial fraud cases and influence future regulatory measures in the cryptocurrency sector.
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Led by Polymarket and Kalshi, prediction markets have become a high-growth sector within digital assets as they let users wager on events.
The company will become the first U.S.-regulated clearinghouse to accept stablecoins as margin collateral.
Jailed former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is back in court as he looks to get a redo after being found guilty on multiple fraud charges.
UBS has announced the successful completion of the world’s first in-production, end-to-end tokenized fund transaction using Chainlink’s Digital Transfer Agent (DTA) standard. Automating Fund Operations On-chain The transaction involved the UBS USD Money Market Investment Fund Token (uMINT), a tokenized money market fund built on the Ethereum blockchain. DigiFT acted as the on-chain distributor in …
Cronos (CRO) fell 3.6% and Aptos (APT) dropped 3.4%.
The bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure play received three price target raises following yesterday's news, including from Bernstein, which lifted to $125.
What to Know: The crypto market fell sharply in early November after long-term holders sold $44B in Bitcoin, while ETFs absorbed just $4B in inflows. From Samourai Wallet’s alleged xpub logging to Iran’s mining raids and Stream Finance’s $93M loss, causing its stablecoin depegging, fear is widespread. Despite bearish momentum and weak sentiment, Bitcoin remains above $100K, and November has historically delivered the strongest monthly returns (+42.11% on average) Presales like $PEPENODE stand out as stable entry points amid volatility, offering incremental price stages, high staking yields, and a gamified ecosystem built around virtual mining and meme culture. The crypto market just faced its roughest start to November in a long time. The total crypto market cap is down to $3.46T, after being as high as $4.3T at the start of October. $BTC is down around 6% this week and $ETH is struggling to hold $3.5K. The picture is bleak. A turbulent October, which didn’t go the way traders wanted, saw long-term holders of Bitcoin offload roughly $44B $BTC, while ETFs and digital asset trusts (DATs) absorbed only about $4B in net inflows. For the first time in seven years, October wasn’t ‘Uptober’ and instead, ended red for Bitcoin. Much of the current drawdown is stemming from a cluster of confidence shocks. Samourai Wallet sentencing hit the privacy meta hard. Prosecutors are seeking five-year prison terms for its founders for laundering over $237M in funds. This sets a chilling precedent for developers. But they also revealed that the wallet allegedly logged users’ xpubs on its servers. If true, a tool marketed for privacy was actually tracking user data. This would be a huge blow to trust in non-custodial wallets and truly put into question ‘privacy’ in crypto. Then came the Iranian crackdown on mining. According to data, 95% of Iran’s crypto miners are operating illegally and putting a massive strain on the country’s power grid. So, authorities dismantled over 100 mining farms and seized 1.4K machines. This naturally sparked fresh FUD around global mining stability. Finally, Stream Finance’s $93M DeFi loss caused its stablecoin $XUSD to depeg. This naturally caused a lot of suspicion and anger amongst crypto users. Technicals mirror the panic. Bitcoin’s RSI is deep in oversold territory, and bearish MACD points to weak short-term momentum. Yet despite all this fear, $BTC has held above $100K (so far). History favors patience: November has delivered an average +42.11% return for Bitcoin since 2013. This is actually the highest average return of any month on the calendar year. So traders remain hopeful. Which brings us to where smart money is looking for the best crypto to buy – presale projects like PepeNode ($PEPENODE), where utility, yield, and meme culture collide just as the market readies for its next move. The Bigger Picture – Fear vs Fundamentals Most market drops start with panic, not fundamentals. What looks like a collapse is actually just a sentiment reset after overheated months. Traders are just concerned that stocks and gold have been ripping all-time highs in October, while crypto lagged. On-chain data still looks positive. Whales are accumulating through OTC desks, while ETF inflows remain steady (even if they’re smaller than in summer). Exchange balances are at multi-year lows, meaning long-term holders are still locking coins away. So structurally, the market looks quite strong. It’s just that the confidence is weaker than ever. But that creates opportunity. Capital rotates into presales because they move in structured price stages, increasing incrementally instead of swinging with market sentiment. That steady progression gives investors a clearer entry point, even when broader markets are red. One standout example is PepeNode ($PEPENODE), a utility-based meme ecosystem blending DeFi yield mechanics with a game-style mining experience. PepeNode ($PEPENODE) – Turning Meme Coins into a Virtual Mining Game PepeNode ($PEPENODE) is the first mine-to-earn meme coin built on Ethereum. Instead of relying on power-hungry GPUs or ASIC rigs, it introduces virtual mining through digital nodes that generate yield based on how you build and optimize your setup. Every user will begin with a virtual server room. This is essentially an empty space waiting to be filled with Minder Nodes. You can buy, upgrade, or sell your nodes at any time, fine-tuning your layout to boost output and maximize your earnings. Everything runs inside an interactive, gamified environment that rewards strategy and participation. Leaderboards track top miners, and high performers earn bonus rewards in trending crypto coins like $PEPE. It’s part mining simulator, part yield engine, and even part social competition. And that’s resonating with investors. So far, the project has raised over $2M+ in its presale, with tokens priced at $0.0011317 and staking rewards of over 629% on offer. Our PepeNode price prediction believes $0.0077 is possible in 2026. That’s almost a 6x from today’s price. ???? Discover how to buy PepeNode in our easy step-by-step guide. $PEPENODE is a fresh take on meme coins. In a market craving new forms of utility, this balance between fun and function may prove to be its real strength. ⛏️???? Join the PepeNode presale today and start mining for rewards. This article is not financial advice. Crypto and presales carry inherent risks. Please do your own research (DYOR) and never invest more than you are willing to lose. Authored by Aaron Walker, NewsBTC — www.newsbtc.com/news/analysis-why-crypto-market-is-down-best-crypto-to-buy-pepenode
Bitcoin’s technical structure remains decisively negative and will stay that way “until” a key resistance level is reclaimed, according to veteran analyst Josh Olszewicz in his latest video published today. Pointing to the Ichimoku Cloud and a stack of trend signals, Olszewicz said, “Below the cloud we’re bearish, above we’re bullish. We are currently below… [and] fully bearish on price and the expectation is lower lows.” The fulcrum, in his view, is a reclaim of roughly $115,000. “I don’t really have anything bullish to say here at all until we’re back above $115,000 on BTC and $4,200 on ETH,” he said, adding that Ethereum’s setup is comparatively less negative—trading “in the cloud,” with what he still characterizes as “certainly not a long entry signal.” For Bitcoin, he flagged a confluence of bearish cues: a bearish Chikou span on the weekly, moving-average crosses to the downside, and head-and-shoulders patterns both at larger and smaller scales. While he acknowledged a possible “falling channel” and even a broader “megaphone” that could complicate pattern reads, Olszewicz underscored directional risk in the near term: “If I were to randomly wake up and see price at $103k, $102k, that would not surprise me here,” even warning that “it’s possible we flirt with… below $100,000.” The deterioration in derivatives premia underscores that message, he argued. “If you look at the basis on CME we are making multi-month lows here… you go to ETH [and it’s] also making significant lows. So there’s certainly no froth in this market based on premiums.” Spot flow doesn’t help either: “On BTC we’ve still got people sending hundreds of millions to exchanges seemingly every day… my guess is they are [selling] because you don’t send coins to an exchange for fun.” Macro Headwinds For Bitcoin Beyond crypto-native signals, Olszewicz tied the setup to a macro regime shift that has turned unhelpful at the margins. He highlighted a still-ongoing US government shutdown as a potential kink in liquidity transmission—“maybe when the government comes back… the pipes start moving again”—and warned of rising near-term volatility around a data drought: “We do have ADP employment on Wednesday… very, very closely paid attention to because there is a data drought on employment numbers.” Related Reading: Bitcoin Bull Run: Over Or Just Paused? CryptoQuant CEO Presents The Data Since last week’s FOMC, he noted, rate-cut odds tightened materially “after Powell mentioned a comment about the fog. Got to slow down on the fog, he says,” with risk assets reacting poorly: “Equities didn’t like that… crypto certainly didn’t like that.” He also flagged the inflation now-casting mix as a swing factor. “Trueflation [is] ticking higher consistently… you don’t want to be in this position where we are cutting into rising inflation,” he cautioned, while contrasting that with the Fed’s nowcast, which “doesn’t look as dire.” A CPI headline beginning with a ‘3’ would be problematic in his view: “I suspect if we do get a three handle on headline CPI, markets aren’t going to like that.” Under the hood, he pointed to falling gasoline and used-car prints and easing rents as disinflationary, but called out sticky components like insurance. Liquidity optics remain mixed: the reverse repo facility has seen periodic end-month spikes yet is “running on fumes,” and, crucially, the long-observed link between global liquidity gauges and BTC “has not reconnected in any regard since May, June, July.” Dollar strength is an additional pressure point. “The dollar continues to look good, continues to push higher… and this chart looks phenomenal… a real problem” for Bitcoin if that uptrend persists, he said. In classic cross-asset contrast, he described the 60/40 US bonds/equity mix as technically constructive—“above the cloud, bullish TK cross, bullish cloud”—and noted that risk proxies like high-yield credit are diverging from the S&P 500, which he reads as consistent with crypto’s underperformance: “With BTC struggling, you see riskier parts of the market also pulling back to a greater degree than equities.” Equities Need To Remain Strong In equities, he argued there is “nothing to short” on the major indices right now—“SPY… looks great,” with the Nasdaq and semis echoing the same message—creating an awkward asymmetry for BTC: “If Bitcoin can’t find its way when the SPY and the Q’s look like this, we’re certainly in trouble because if this does reverse, that’s going to take BTC with it almost certainly.” Related Reading: Bitcoin Price Poised For A Bullish November: Key Catalysts That Can’t Be Ignored On crypto-equity linkages, Olszewicz observed that miners have outperformed for reasons outside of Bitcoin’s fundamentals: “If you look at the Bitcoin miners, those have been bullish. Why? Because of AI and not because of Bitcoin… anybody following that story has done very well this year.” He extended the caution to other high-beta tech themes—quantum names “look very tired… more and more like a head and shoulders”—while acknowledging individual standouts like Palantir, which he said is “breaking out of its own cup and handle,” even if near-term price action was choppy after hours. The broader market psychology, in his view, is shaped by cycle age and wealth preservation. “A thousand days from the bottom, more and more people are just saying, okay, this is enough… if they’re rich, they want to stay that way… it makes some sense to take a little bit off the table.” Until the technicals change, he sees no reason to force trades: “Honestly, not much, probably just sit around and collect some cash. Wait for those A-plus setups to emerge.” The trigger for a regime shift is unambiguous in his framework. As he put it at the outset, “Below the cloud we’re bearish… not a bullish expectation.” The condition for flipping that view is equally clear: “Back above $115,000 on BTC and 4,200 on ETH,” or, in this headline terms, reclaim the level—or remain “fully bearish.” At press time, BTC traded at $103,634. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
Upexi also reported an 82% increase in adjusted SOL per share and a 96% return for investors since its April private placement.
AAVE price prediction 2025 turns increasingly optimistic as the protocol continues to strengthen its fundamentals through new integrations and strong financial performance. The latest partnership with Chainlink and a $50 million DAO buyback highlight how Aave is evolving from market corrections toward a more sustainable, institution-ready DeFi ecosystem. Aave Horizon Integrates Chainlink ACE for Institutional-Grade …
XRP price charts are showing a hidden bullish divergence that has a history of preceding 50%-70% rallies in recent years.
Ripple’s US dollar-pegged RLUSD has entered the top 10 stablecoins by market cap, reaching $1 billion less than a year after launch.
The incident highlights potential ethical concerns and conflicts of interest in the intersection of politics and the cryptocurrency industry.
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Extending ESMA jurisdiction to include financial markets threatens to slow innovation for crypto and fintech companies, but some policy experts see a silver lining.