Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights: On-chain metrics—including subdued exchange reserves, rebounding Apparent Demand, and whale holdings near 3 million BTC—point toward a Bitcoin market bottom. Macroeconomic tailwinds such as falling Brent crude oil prices and reduced expectations for an October Federal Reserve interest rate hike are supporting market recovery. A definitive, sustained bull run still hinges on consistent ...
Key Highlights: Ripple is advancing efforts to establish its $RLUSD stablecoin as a key settlement and collateral asset across institutional trading systems. Following a $150 million financing deal with LMAX in January, Ripple aims to integrate $RLUSD directly into collateral infrastructure rather than restricting it to spot settlement. Global banking giant Standard Chartered continues its ...
Key Highlights: Stablecoin issuer Tether froze illicitly transferred funds following an exploit, with onchain analytics firm Bitquery reporting that approximately $81 million remained traceable as of October 11. Hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger faced public criticism after attempting to isolate the incident to authorized reseller CryptoBilis, despite the vendor being officially listed on Ledger’s platform. Unlike ...
Key Highlights: Standard Chartered provides digital asset custody services to eligible corporate clients via its Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) branch. The bank is collaborating with Ripple and LMAX Group to enable Ripple’s $RLUSD stablecoin to serve as collateral under its Collateral Mirroring model. The initiative allows institutional investors to access trading liquidity and mitigate ...
Key Highlights Canton Network is expanding its operational presence in South Korea through new institutional partnerships. Major domestic enterprise and finance giants Shinhan Financial Group, Hanwha, and LG CNS have aligned with the network. The collaboration targets the development and scaling of institutional-grade financial services and digital assets. Canton Network Broadens Footprint Across South Korea ...
Key Highlights: Jeonbuk Bank has become the first commercial bank in South Korea to issue loans backed by Bitcoin collateral to corporate clients. Loans are issued in Korean won and are strictly restricted to covering enterprise operating costs, with custody handled by a registered crypto service provider. Default recovery relies on newly revised Civil Enforcement ...
Key Highlights: Chainlink (LINK) surged from a low of $12.09 to trade near $13.34 as it targets key technical resistance at $13.50. LINK-focused exchange-traded funds registered a year-to-date record daily inflow of $9.48 million, capping five consecutive weeks of net buying. Large-scale wallet holdings grew to represent 65.6% of the token’s circulating supply, signaling increasing ...
Key Highlights: Zcash developers are advancing quantum-resistant protections using hash-based signatures, targeting initial technical milestones as early as January without a confirmed mainnet activation date. The initiative initially focuses on Zcash’s transparent transaction pool, which holds approximately 11.96 million out of 16.98 million circulating ZEC (around 70 percent). Independent privacy enhancements are also progressing, including ...
Key Highlights: A proposed architectural update aims to enable Solana to produce five blocks per second by targeting a 200-millisecond block generation time. Individual block compute limits will decrease from 37.5 million to 30 million units, meaning throughput gains rely on frequency rather than larger capacity per block. Faster block creation introduces tradeoffs, including higher ...
Key Highlights U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Producer Price Index (PPI) releases will gauge inflation trajectories ahead of the Federal Reserve’s October gathering. Third-quarter bank earnings from financial heavyweights BlackRock and BNY will provide clarity on corporate lending, trading activity, and capital flows. The crypto ecosystem faces a busy calendar with Ethereum developer meetings, ...
Key Highlights: Security researchers discovered an 11-year-old integer overflow bug in the XRP Ledger that theoretically could have allowed the creation of new XRP tokens out of thin air. Discovered on September 22 by researcher Cayden Liao and Veria AI, the flaw went unnoticed because typical transaction activity never approached the threshold needed to trigger ...
Key Highlights: Ethereum is experiencing a notable surge in its real-world asset (RWA) market capitalization. Investors are increasingly choosing Ethereum’s established smart contract infrastructure for tokenizing tangible assets. Market participants are monitoring Ethereum’s momentum alongside broader cryptocurrency volatility and rival platform reactions. Ethereum Sees Notable Surge in Real-World Asset (RWA) Market Cap Ethereum is recording ...