During the recent crypto market sell-off that was triggered by Trump’s tariffs on China, the crypto market witnessed significant declines. The market saw over $19 billion in liquidations, marking one of the largest single-day losses in crypto history. While Bitcoin dropped below $105k levels, major altcoins also saw steep declines. Solana Handles High Volume Despite …
Crypto ATMs, once seen as a convenient bridge between cash and digital money, are now facing major scrutiny in Australia. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has announced plans to give its financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC new powers to ban high-risk products like crypto ATMs, which have become a growing tool for scams and money laundering. …
The token's recent addition to Coinbase's listing roadmap has failed to boost its price, but corporate treasury accumulation continues.
The slowdown in DAT demand could be a factor in the stall in bitcoin's bull run.
Institutional adoption of diverse crypto derivatives signals growing confidence in regulated markets, potentially stabilizing the crypto ecosystem.
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Kraken bought Small Exchange for $32.5 million in cash and $67.5 million in stock, IG announced on Thursday
With the ACRA submission complete, the exchange enters the implementation phase, or a period during which users will receive distributions and Recovery Tokens (RTs) under the scheme.
As crypto matures, expands, and attracts more institutions and enterprises, launchpads play an increasingly important role in identifying and nurturing innovative projects before they reach end users. The sheer volume of new tokens, protocols, and other infrastructure creates additional challenges for investors attempting to differentiate between hype and genuine potential. As gatekeepers of quality, launchpads …
Credible Crypto, a widely followed market technician with 479,900 followers on X, turned decisively upbeat on XRP in an October 15 video, arguing that the token’s high-time-frame structure “still looks absolutely freaking fantastic” despite “the most devastating and most significant liquidation event in the history of crypto.” He framed last Friday’s cross-market crash—“around 10 times more than the FTX collapse”—as a bottom-forming anomaly and said XRP’s key support held on closing bases, keeping his double-digit price outlook intact. XRP Targets Double-Digits The analyst’s core claim is straightforward: the violent wick to fresh lows across many venues did not invalidate XRP’s high-time-frame uptrend. He points to a monthly demand band at roughly $2.00–$2.40, noting that even after the flash-liquidity cascade “we did not get any 4-hourly closes below $2.30,” and that the deeper prints to $1.17 on some exchanges were byproducts of forced liquidations rather than organic selling. “Ultimately on the high time frames once again it looks fantastic,” he said, adding that XRP’s prior five-wave advance began at ~$0.49; as long as price holds above the origin of that impulse, he views the recent selloff as a mid-cycle correction, not a cycle top. In his words: “This is not the end of the bull run for XRP… we have much higher to go.” Related Reading: Why This Pundit Believes It’s “Game Over” For XRP Following The Crash He lays out clear tactical markers. On the USD pair, the first meaningful supply band sits around $2.70–$3.11; acceptance above that region would suggest the next impulse has begun. On relative pairs, he highlights a now-familiar horizontal he calls “Gandalf’s grave” on XRP/BTC—a prior multi-touch resistance that recently flipped to support and was respected on hourly closes even during the crash. The path forward, in his telling, splits into two equally plausible tracks. In the first, Bitcoin runs hot toward $130–$150k in a parabolic extension while XRP chops sideways; that rotational dynamic would push XRP/BTC lower toward a deeper, high-time-frame demand zone even as XRP/USD holds a higher base above ~$1.90–$2.30. In the second, XRP stabilizes here and rips sooner, with XRP/BTC launching directly and “the minimum move… a 50% move up against Bitcoin,” which would place XRP/USD at new all-time highs. He cautions that a drift lower on XRP/BTC would be a feature, not a bug: “If you’re not fully loaded on XRP, that is when you should get fully loaded,” he said. Crucially, Credible Crypto ties the XRP roadmap to Ethereum’s next leg. He argues ETH showed “one of the cleanest impulsive movements” in years—a full five-wave advance from ~$2,000 to ~$4,700—then sketched two scenarios. In scenario one (the more aggressive), that $2,000–$4,700 move is wave one of a much larger sequence to $10,000+, with the current drawdown constituting wave two before a $5k–$6k expansion leg. Related Reading: $26 XRP Price Target Remains Technically Valid, Says Expert In scenario two (less aggressive), ETH is missing a final wave-five push to new highs just above $5k, and then would undergo a broader, deeper wave-two correction. He even provides a hard invalidation for scenario two: if ETH fell to ~$2,700–$2,800, the overlap with wave-one territory would scrap it, implicitly favoring scenario one. Either way, he says, “sub-$2,000 Ethereum is likely gone for the rest of the cycle.” Why does this matter for XRP? Because if ETH makes a clean run to and through $5k first, XRP/ETH likely bleeds into a deeper green demand band before reversing—timing that would map to XRP/USD basing while the ETH leg completes. He sees that as constructive signal, not weakness: a final dip in XRP/ETH toward higher-time-frame demand would “tell us when we may be seeing good risk-reward opportunity for long trades on XRPUSD,” and the longer the base, “the greater the expansion.” Credible Crypto’s playbook for confirmation is explicit. On XRP/USD, watch for an impulsive five-wave thrust off the lows and for clean acceptance above $2.70–$3.11. On XRP/BTC, either a swift reversal from the “Gandalf’s grave” retest or a controlled bleed into a deeper, pre-identified demand block that would time a stronger USD-denominated breakout later. On XRP/ETH, a drift to the green demand area would likely coincide with ETH’s final push past $5k, after which he expects the cross to reverse hard in XRP’s favor. At press time, XRP traded at $2.42. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) recently shared his thoughts on promoting openness and inclusivity across the crypto industry. In a recent post on X, he suggested that Coinbase should consider listing more projects from the BNB Chain ecosystem. CZ pointed out that Binance has already listed several projects built on Base, while Coinbase has yet …
The payments giant’s latest report rebrands decentralized finance as “onchain finance” and positions Visa as the data and custody layer connecting banks to a $670B stablecoin credit market.
The recent crypto crash has shaken the Chainlink price rally, which appears to have lost its bullish track. The price plunged heavily to a single-digit figure, and despite a rebound, the bears seem to have a strong grip over the rally. Currently, the price continues to face significant upward pressure, and on the other hand, …
Picture a scene: a crypto startup celebrates raising millions through a dazzling token sale. Their whitepaper is a masterpiece, filled with clever tokenomics, bold governance plans, and an ambitious timeline. Yet, half a year later, the token trades actively, the bank account is full, but actual users? Nowhere to be found. This isn’t an isolated …
OKX will remove several spot trading pairs, including SLERF, ALPHA, BADGER, OAS, MLN, and AIDOGE, on October 23, 2025, between 08:00 and 16:00 UTC. Users should manage their funds and cancel any open orders before the deadline to avoid losses. OKX urges everyone to act early and stay informed to protect their assets during the …
Tron price has emerged from a turbulent September and October with a renewed sense of optimism, delivering a 1.12% price gain in the past 24 hours to $0.322. This short-term bounce stands out against a week-long pullback of -5.07% and a steeper monthly loss of -6.93%, signaling potential for a technical rebound. What’s driving this …
Recently, social media and crypto forums have been flooded with sensational claims that Alibaba founder Jack Ma is “building a strategic Ethereum reserve.” The news rapidly took hold across X, YouTube, and crypto influencer channels, with many asserting that Ma’s reported ETH holdings could mark one of the largest corporate or private accumulations of Ethereum …
On October 20, 2025, the crypto market saw a major flash crash that sent Bitcoin down 20%, and altcoins suffered between 50% and 80% losses as a result. Reports from data trackers show that more than $19 billion in leveraged positions were liquidated as a result. This led to the largest liquidation event in the crypto industry up until that point, leading to comparisons and speculations that this could be a repeat of the infamous COVID-19 crash of 2020. What It Means For Bitcoin And Crypto If This Is A Repeat Of 2020 One of the key crypto players who has pointed out that the current cycle could be similar to that of 2020 is crypto analyst Rekt Fencer. Fencer took to X (formerly Twitter) to share with their over 330,000 followers, a side-by-side chart showing the 2020 performance compared to what is happening now in 2025. Related Reading: Bitcoin Price Crash Below $100,000 Coming? Factors That Highlight Another Decline To put this in perspective, back in 2020, the crypto market suffered a flash crash where the Bitcoin price fell by more than 50%, and the altcoin market followed. This was a result of the COVID-19 lockdowns that were announced around the world in a bid to curb the spread of the virus. In response to the shutdowns, the stock market had crashed, taking Bitcoin and the crypto market down with it. This led to over $1.2 billion in daily liquidation, which at the time was the most significant liquidation in crypto history. However, this figure now pales in comparison to the over $19 billion in liquidations that were recorded last week. Despite the disparity in the liquidation volumes, crypto analyst Rekt Fencer believes that this could lead to a repeat of what happened after the COVID-19 crash. Back then, the bounce from the crash had been rapid. By 2021, one year later, the entire crypto market had risen to new all-time highs. Related Reading: Pattern That Led To Dogecoin Price 36,000% Surge In 2021 Has Emerged Again, Will History Repeat? Taking that performance and using it to map out the Bitcoin and crypto market performance after last week’s crash, it would mean that the market is ready for another bull run. It would also put the market at the bottom of the bull run, meaning that the Bitcoin price is far from its all-time high price. Rekt Fencer explains that “History is about to repeat itself” and “The real move starts when everyone thinks it’s over.” Thus, another explosive rally could be right on the horizon, if this isn’t the start of a bear run. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
Bitfarms share price has soared over 315% year to date, due to AI/HPC pivot.
Following new strategic funding and the upcoming mainnet launch, PlayAI has now raised $6.3 million, accelerating its mission to make AI-powered automation native to the blockchain. Dubai, UAE – [16 October 2025] – PlayAI, the programmable automation layer for AI and crypto, announces the forthcoming launch of its mainnet alongside a new $2 million community …
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SEC Chair Paul Atkins said the US is a decade behind on crypto and that building a regulatory framework to attract innovation is “job one” for the agency.
After acquiring NinjaTrader for $1.5 billion, Kraken expands its derivatives offerings in the US with a $100 million acquisition of Small Exchange.
AUSTRAC said that the majority of high-value crypto ATM transactions were directly associated with scams or moving money to high-risk jurisdictions.
The model allows institutional clients to trade on OKX while maintaining custody of their assets with Standard Chartered.
The United States could still claim another $2 billion worth of Bitcoin linked to the defunct LuBian mining pool, despite already announcing the largest crypto seizure in its history. On October 15, blockchain investigator Sani reported that nearly 16,237 BTC, worth around $1.8 billion at current prices, remains in motion across addresses linked to LuBian. […]
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Long-term holders and whales continue to offload BTC as profit-taking intensifies and the four-year cycle narrative shows signs of weakening.
As the market volatility continues, Ethereum (ETH) has dropped 3.1% in the daily timeframe and is attempting to hold a key price area as support once again. Despite the dip, some analysts have suggested that the King of Altcoin is set to start a new expansion phase soon. Related Reading: Bitcoin (BTC) ‘Uptober’ Rally On Pause Until This Level Is Reclaimed Ethereum Retests Major Support Zone On Wednesday, Ethereum fell below the $4,000 level for the third time this week, retesting a crucial area before bouncing. The cryptocurrency has been trading within the $3,800-$4,800 price range in the daily timeframe since the early August breakout. During the recent market correction, ETH briefly lost its local range, reaching a two-month low of $3,435 last Friday. Nonetheless, the price quickly bounced from the lows, reclaiming the $4,000 area over the weekend. Since then, the King of Altcoins has been hovering around the lows, attempting to reclaim the range’s mid-zone but ultimately failing. As the price retested the $3,900 area, Daan Crypto Trades noted that Ethereum has been able to maintain daily closes above the $4,100 area despite this week’s volatility, suggesting that a recovery of this level is still possible today. Nonetheless, failing to hold this area in the daily timeframe could propel a drop to the $3,800 support and risk a potential dip to the $3,400 mark. The trader also warned that the cryptocurrency must also hold the $4,100 region on the weekly timeframe to maintain its current structure and target a climb to the range highs around $4,800. He affirmed that “the real fun starts if this can trade and close above $5K. Until then, we’re range-bound within those two levels.” Similarly, Ali Martinez highlighted that ETH could see a 28%-53% rally based on Ethereum’s MVRV Extreme Deviation Pricing Bands. According to the analyst, if the price holds the $3,900 level, which is a major support, “the Pricing Bands point to a move toward $5,000 or even $6,000.” Is A Repeat Of ETH’s 2021 Playbook Coming? Other market watchers have also shared a positive long-term outlook for ETH, suggesting that investors shouldn’t worry about the recent price pullbacks. Analyst Crypto Jelle pointed out the 18-month descending broadening wedge formation on Ethereum’s chart, which was broken out of during the Q3 rally. Jelle noted that the cryptocurrency is “just holding the breakout area as support,” consolidating between the breakout area and the last cycle’s ATH. To the analyst, ETH looks “very ready for a rapid expansion higher” once it breaks out of the accumulation range. Meanwhile, Crypto Kaleo emphasized the structural similarities between the beginning of the last bull market’s breakout and Ethereum’s current price action. Per the chart, the King of Altcoins traded within a two-year range during the previous cycle, retesting the range’s resistance twice and briefly deviating below the range’s low before breaking out. Related Reading: Chinese Investment Bank Eyes $600 Million Raise For BNB Treasury Company Then, ETH saw a multi-month accumulation period above the breakout level before continuing its rally toward new highs. Kaleo’s post highlighted that the cryptocurrency appears to be repeating a similar playbook, currently consolidating before potentially resuming its run toward higher targets in the next few months. As of this writing, ETH is trading at $4,001, a 11.3% decline in the weekly timeframe. Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com
The month of October has been extremely volatile for the cryptocurrency market. With geopolitical tension and fear of escalating US-China trade war, the market uncertainty peaked. However, this may be the best time to scoop up some altcoins. As the Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran revealed that he expects two more rate cuts by the …
Shareholder Terry Tran filed a lawsuit against Semler Scientific and its board, accusing them of misleading shareholders about the financial fairness of their merger with Strive.