What's happening: Bitcoin ETF Custody Concentrates Power, Raising Systemic Risk
Spot Bitcoin exchange‑traded funds now hold over $54 billion, roughly 1.5 million BTC. The ETF structure places the underlying coins in a trust controlled by a handful of custodians, with Coinbase identified as the dominant custodian, creating a single point of operational failure.
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H.C. Wainwright upgraded Coinbase (COIN) to a buy rating from sell and lifted its price target to $425, up from $300, just before the exchange released its third‑quarter results. Coinbase reported $1.9 billion in revenue, beating the $1.8 billion consensus, driven by higher trading volumes, a rebound in crypto prices and growth in its subscription and services business. The bank cited a bullish outlook for crypto prices, rising institutional demand and the prospect of U.S. market‑structure legislation as catalysts, projecting 2025 revenue of $7.4 billion and adjusted EPS of $4.99. It warned that reliance on retail trading, asset‑price volatility and regulatory uncertainty remain risks.
I keep seeing takes like this and I basically agree. if you want volatility go trade publicly traded quantum sh*tters. but it also conveys a deeper truth. crypto is boring because so many of the open questions have been answered....

GoDark, launched by GoQuant and backed by custodians Copper, GSR and a roster of institutional investors, is the first dedicated institutional dark pool for crypto, offering ultra‑low‑latency spot trading with plans to add futures, options and other derivatives. The platform...
Major digital transformation happening in India! So bullish on local governments using Polygon to improve security and transparency 🇮🇳 By putting land titles, property records, tax data etc on chain, Amravati will: - improve administrative efficiency for bureaucrats - make it easier for citizens...

The April 2024 Bitcoin halving cut block rewards from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC, slashing the hash‑price and squeezing miner margins. In response, leading mining firms are repurposing excess hash power and data‑center capacity for artificial‑intelligence workloads, signing long‑term power‑lease contracts...
Only 2 months left in 2025. If you've spent the year waiting for "altseasons" or chasing hyped memecoins, you're likely still unprofitable. Here’s how to make more progress now than you did all year: - Start fresh - Journal 30-100 trades on a small...

Bitcoin slipped 0.2% to just under $110,000 while the CoinDesk 20 Index fell 1.7% as a broader sell‑off in U.S. equities was triggered by Meta and Microsoft raising AI‑spending forecasts, sparking overspending concerns. Ether dropped 1.3% to $3,871 and a...

Strategy (MSTR) reported record operating income of $12 billion and net income of $8.6 billion for the first nine months of 2025, delivering earnings per share of $27.71 and reversing last year’s losses. CEO Phong Le reaffirmed a plan to retire all convertible...

Bitcoin hovered around $110,000, slipping 0.3%, while ether dropped 1.3% to $3,840 as AI‑spending forecasts from Meta and Microsoft sparked broader equity sell‑offs and macro‑risk aversion. Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $600 million of outflows this week, with ETH ETFs losing $184.3 million,...

Solana’s Digital Asset Treasury (DAT) firms are postponing the registration of private‑investment‑in‑public‑enterprise (PIPE) shares after a recent unlock by Solana Company (HSDT) triggered a 40% stock plunge. Forward Technologies (FORD), which raised $1.65 billion, and Solmate Infrastructure (SLMT), with a $300 million...

Matt and Nic dissect a packed week of finance news, highlighting Mastercard’s $2 billion acquisition of Zerohash, Fiserv’s disastrous day, and Bitwise’s launch of a Solana staking ETF. They debate the looming regional banking crisis, the ethics of DAT‑driven activism, and...

October has historically been Bitcoin’s strongest month, delivering average gains of about 22.5% thanks to post‑summer liquidity, year‑end portfolio rebalancing and robust demand from U.S. investment products. In 2024, however, Bitcoin posted a loss, marking its first red October in...

The T3 Financial Crime Unit, a task force funded by stablecoin issuer Tether, the Tron blockchain and blockchain‑intelligence firm TRM Labs, announced it has frozen $300 million in illicit crypto assets in its first year of operation. Launched in September 2024, the...

D3 is launching an Ethereum L2 platform that tokenizes real DNS domains such as .com, .ai and .xyz, making them fully ICANN‑compliant and granting true ownership rights. The system enables fractionalization, fungible trading, collateralization and revenue‑sharing of domain assets, eliminating...

Sam Bankman‑Fried posted a 30‑page document on X asserting that FTX was never insolvent and that its assets, if marked‑to‑market, would be worth over $100 billion today, shifting blame to bankruptcy lawyers for the collapse. The filing includes tables of hypothetical...
Had a very fruitful and engaging discussion at Business Standard's BFSI Summit yesterday with Dilip Chenoy, Seker -., and G Padmanabhan. My 5 key learnings and takeaways: 1️⃣ The time to act is now: The best time to regulate crypto was...

We had a very fruitful and engaging discussion at @bsindia's BFSI Summit yesterday on the future of crypto in India. My 5 key learnings and takeaways: 1️⃣ The time to act is now: The time to regulate crypto was yesterday; today is...

The episode covers three major crypto developments: a bullish shift from JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon toward digital assets, an updated S‑1 filing by Canary Funds that could launch an XRP spot ETF as early as November, and the debut of...
i don’t really own stocks atm (mostly in crypto), but be careful assuming AI is a bubble and we have to go down in calamitous fashion soon there is a lot of money in the system and it has to find...
Buenos Aires showed me fireworks on Christmas eve medialunas > croissants dinner 9pm, previa 1am, club 3am, y el after?? That governments can snap their fingers and wipe out your savings, by printing money (inflation) and banning USD purchases (currency controls)...

The article examines three leading real‑world asset (RWA) tokenization platforms—gold‑backed tokens, Ondo Finance and ConstructKoin—to forecast which will dominate the market by 2025. It notes that the RWA sector has more than doubled, expanding from $15.7 billion in January to $35.5 billion...
Stretch your income. $STRC https://t.co/RuBZOUYjNt
I was mistaken... the mint is still live for the ground breaking Visions series by @orkhan_art ! Mint page below 0.075ETH is basically stealing fine art...

In this brief episode, Deezy examines Solana’s new partnership with Western Union and contrasts it with recent setbacks for XRP, noting that Visa and Western Union have reportedly rejected Ripple’s services. He reviews the latest XRP price charts to assess...
Happy #whitepaper birthday, #bitcoiners!🎂 https://t.co/5JV1QMDzfb

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What a candle on the #Altcoin market capitalization. The trend remains upwards. We're still facing the all-time high breakout --> happening in the coming months. What's after? The biggest bull run ever. https://t.co/UMsw1TLAMb

#BTC Bitcoin is successfully retesting the Macro Range Low as support Bitcoin continues to occupy this Macro Range $BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin https://t.co/ouHX9ODh99
$ZEC price action is the biggest validation for building a product that’s actually useful as the secret for saving your coins rather unholy pacts with market makers
What holding altcoins feels like in this cycle https://t.co/TiCcJaIZSx
Chain abstraction is real
Europe on the brink, key moment to get things right on regulatory simplicity and uniformity for stablecoin issues and firms dealing with them.

$ETH is in such a tremendous spot to be added to portfolios. Testing the 20-Week MA and confluence with a strong higher timeframe support level. Corrections don't last forever. https://t.co/nKnJxyr4On

BULLISH 🚨 Venezuela moves to integrate Bitcoin into national the banking network, allowing banks to handle $BTC for customers countrywide! https://t.co/BATw8TLOmN

BITCOIN JUST RECLAIMED $110,000! 🚀 https://t.co/iRixnxo10f
Zcash > Monero On more than one front.

Well, The thesis on #Bitcoin remains the same. It needs to break the $112K level, and then we're good to go. Good bounce back upwards, zero confidence in #Altcoins. Break that level and we're going into happy land. https://t.co/wH9KwNF4zt
It's crazy that a KOL with 140k following will photoshop fake images and post it publicly. Just click baiting, fud, or trying to buy low himself? These people/liars don't care about their own reputation. They will likely be poor. The blockchain is...

Let me jinx this... $ZEC to $400 and beyond. Happy Halloween Bitches! https://t.co/SQ95OmlfSJ

UPDATE 🚨 STRATEGY MOVES 22,704 BITCOIN WORTH $2.45B TO NEW WALLETS IN THE LAST 9 HOURS! https://t.co/lij31v2Dsu
The $LOL VIP staking is explained here! 👇

BREAKING 🚨 OVER $3B IN $BTC SHORT POSITIONS SET FOR LIQUIDATION IF PRICE HITS $112,600! https://t.co/K6w3zRXOsX
Good morning everyone, Still surviving these #Altcoin markets?

TODAY MARKS 17 YEARS OF BITCOIN! On this day in 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published the #Bitcoin whitepaper! https://t.co/MwuHxBG8XI

The Bitcoin whitepaper was released on October 31, 2008, and what a global revolution it has sparked! Happy #WhitepaperDay everyone! How many times have you read it? Do share! Or tag that friend who still hasn't read it! https://t.co/Q7H1I0KFSy

4. Fake news! Unfollow the guys posting fake news. https://t.co/Os8dF0dSjh

SAM BANKMAN-FRIED CLAIMS: “FTX WAS NEVER BANKRUPT, EVEN WHEN ITS LAWYERS FILED FOR BANKRUPTCY.” https://t.co/lnGehAgifj

JPMORGAN CEO JAMIE DIMON DECLARES, “CRYPTO IS REAL. IT WILL BE USED BY ALL OF US TO FACILITATE BETTER TRANSACTIONS.” The exec who once called Bitcoin a “pet rock” now seems to embrace crypto! https://t.co/Ix8fEXVzfj

BULLISH 🚨 COINBASE INCREASED ITS BITCOIN HOLDINGS BY 2,772 $BTC IN Q3! CEO Brian Armstrong declares “Coinbase is long Bitcoin.” https://t.co/FY5an9Jzbj
I like this take. Bitcoin’s predictability is a unique feature, and one that Zcash can’t and (I hope!) won’t match. We can all benefit from Bitcoin being Bitcoin.