Digital assets, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and currency news.
Key Highlights: Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP token fell more than 98% within minutes of its launch. Hunter Biden attributed the crash to a failed transition from a planned centralized-exchange listing to a decentralized exchange and a missed market-maker liquidity commitment. He also discussed Bitcoin adoption, crypto regulation, Michael Saylor’s Strategy, and his prediction for Bitcoin’s price ...
Key Highlights Solana funds hold $1.93 billion in net assets, above the $1.68 billion held by XRP funds. Solana has nine ETFs compared with five for XRP, while its ETF products represent a larger share of token market capitalization. Solana’s recent price momentum and ETF flows indicate stronger current institutional demand, although its footprint remains ...
Key Highlights A packed schedule of token unlocks spans September 28 through October 4, 2026, with DoubleZero (2Z) releasing 46.78% of its market value—the largest proportional unlock of the week. Major unlocks from Bitway (BTW) and Ethena (ENA) each exceed $25 million in absolute value, while Bitcoin gained approximately 3.90% last week despite macro headwinds ...
Key Highlights Strategy founder Michael Saylor unveiled a comprehensive policy framework advocating for Bitcoin’s integration into banking and insurance systems, including custody services and balance-sheet adoption. Saylor proposes a “digital rights declaration” establishing five fundamental rights for digital asset creation, issuance, holding, transfer, and use, alongside simplified disclosure rules scaled to project size. The framework ...
Key Highlights: Attackers from the Bitget security incident are moving stolen funds across chains using THORChain, according to SlowMist’s MistTrack platform. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen formally requested THORChain reject transactions from identified attacker addresses, arguing decentralization should not shield illicit fund flows. THORChain responded that its permissionless design mirrors Bitcoin and Ethereum, questioning how much ...
Key Highlights Ethena launched its RWA basis trading expansion on Binance, utilizing bStocks and USDT-denominated perpetuals to target an 11% average yield—nearly double short-term U.S. Treasury returns. The protocol’s basis trade allocation has surged from 1% during the 2024 crypto winter to approximately 20% of $USDe’s yield backing, with Ethena projecting the equity perpetuals market ...
Key Highlights Major institutions held crypto allocations through a roughly 50% market decline between October 2025 and April 2026, with none of the 15 interviewed by Bitwise reducing exposure and several increasing positions. Bitcoin serves as the universal first, largest, and longest-held crypto asset for every institutional holder surveyed, with allocations typically ranging from 1% ...
Key Highlights The Federal Reserve Board proposed two rules on September 24 to implement the GENIUS Act, requiring payment stablecoin issuers to fully back tokens with permissible reserve assets and meet new capital and risk-management standards. The first proposal mandates full reserve backing using short-term Treasury bills and other high-quality liquid assets, while the second ...
Key Highlights XRP posted its strongest third-quarter performance since 2022 with a +48.1% return, closing at $1.54 and erasing first-half losses. Historical CryptoRank data shows October is statistically XRP’s worst month, averaging a -5.14% return with the token closing lower in both 2024 and 2025. Analysts warn the futures market is overloaded with leverage, making ...
Key Highlights JTO price surged 16% as Jito’s Block Assembly Marketplace celebrated its one-year mainnet milestone and JitoSOL expanded access in Asia via PDAX in the Philippines and Naver Pay in Korea. Derivatives volume jumped 107.04% to $135.90 million and open interest rose 28.96% to $55.53 million, with Binance top traders showing a long/short ratio ...
Key Highlights SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, known as “Crypto Mom,” departs October 2, 2026, leaving a two-member commission (Chair Paul Atkins and Mark Uyeda) with no nominee yet named for the vacant seat. For investors in Germany, European law—specifically MiCA and the AMLR—governs crypto access, custody, and taxation; SEC staffing changes do not alter rights ...
Key Highlights Grayscale has filed a prospectus for the ZCSH High Income ETF, a new fund that would use options on its existing Zcash ETF (ticker: ZCSH) to target biweekly distributions. The proposed fund employs a synthetic covered call strategy—buying calls and selling puts for exposure while selling calls to collect premiums—rather than holding ZEC ...