Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights: China is pairing national blockchain and integrated computing networks with major manufacturing and data initiatives, including the East Data, West Computing program. The People’s Bank of China has added eight commercial institutions to its digital yuan ecosystem, scaling the total number of banking operators to 30. Authorities continue expanding cross-border digital yuan pilots ...
Key Highlights: Worldcoin ($WLD) rebounded roughly 19% from recent lows to trade around $0.55, reclaiming the pivotal $0.51 level and its daily Bollinger middle line. Technical indicators present mixed momentum: the 4-hour Supertrend shifted bullish at $0.4864 with an ADX of 27.31, while the daily Awesome Oscillator reflected weakening upside pressure. Overhead resistance and liquidation ...
Key Highlights: Samsung Wallet is preparing to integrate the USDC stablecoin, expanding consumer access to digital dollar payments. The initiative links the high-performance Solana blockchain to Samsung’s widespread global consumer base. Market analysts and traders anticipate the rollout could establish a precedent for mainstream tech-blockchain payment integrations. Samsung Wallet Prepares for USDC Stablecoin Integration The ...
Key Highlights Aerodrome’s native token, $AERO, climbed 7.6% over a seven-day stretch, outperforming Bitcoin and Ether as both major assets recorded losses. Trading volume on the Aerodrome decentralized exchange reached $3.51 billion over seven days and $14.61 billion over 30 days, supported by nearly half of the token supply being locked. A major seven-network rollout ...
Key Highlights: Blockchain security firm Salus revealed that the hacker behind the July breach of digital currency payments firm Triple-A transferred roughly $12.4 million in Ether into crypto mixer Tornado Cash. The illicit movement followed cross-chain bridging and token swaps, with the attacker routing 4,970 ETH across 56 total transactions on September 6. Triple-A previously ...
Key Highlights: The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) will intervene directly against unlicensed stored value facility (SVF) operations, coordinating with law enforcement when necessary. Hong Kong officials clarified regulatory boundaries covering SVFs, remittance providers, and Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) schemes following reports of merchant payment defaults. Parallel enforcement updates emphasize that institutional stablecoin issuers ...
Key Highlights Spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $678.9 million during the trading week of Oct. 5–9, snapping the prior week’s positive momentum despite a modest Friday rebound. Ethereum funds experienced relentless selling pressure, recording five consecutive sessions of net outflows totaling $542.2 million, heavily driven by BlackRock’s ETHA. Outflows also extended across altcoin investment vehicles, with ...
Key Highlights: Ethereum led the weekly NFT market with $17.60 million in sales, capturing roughly 44.2% of the global total despite an 85.84% drop in active buyer addresses. Polygon’s real-world asset project Courtyard dominated collection-level volume, generating $7.68 million across 133,068 transactions. A Bitcoin $8888 BRC-20 inscription recorded the week’s highest single transaction at $327,125.81, ...
Key Highlights: Castle Labs reports that roughly 95% of fees generated across HyperCore trading, Builder Codes, and HIP-3 markets fund $HYPE repurchases, while integrations have driven over $25 million in revenue to Phantom and over $10.5 million to MetaMask. Despite solid fee distribution mechanics, $HYPE fell to $84.41 on October 10—down roughly 13% from its ...
Key Highlights: XRPL has surpassed 13.4 million agentic payments, with AI-driven automated transactions now representing approximately 25% of all daily network activity. The network features 178 active AI agents operating across 166 x402 merchants and 2,289 payable services, utilizing both XRP and Ripple USD (RLUSD). Following the launch of the XRPL AI Starter Kit and ...
Key Highlights: Bitcoin’s order book depth within 1% of the mid-price reached roughly $11.7 million on Oct. 7, reflecting a 75% surge compared to crash levels from a year earlier. Ether demonstrated an even sharper liquidity turnaround, with order book depth within 0.5% of its price more than doubling to approximately $4.2 million. Market depth ...
Key Highlights Tokenized precious metals are expanding into institutional financing, offering holders yield through lending and leasing mechanisms. Theo Chief Investment Officer Iggy Ioppe forecasts that the tokenized commodities sector will surpass $100 billion within a decade. Energy assets are entering the on-chain ecosystem as EnSub bridges physical oil inventory, deploying its WTIC token on ...