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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BNB slipped 2.7% to $1,105 after a brief rally that followed BNB Chain’s largest‑ever quarterly token burn, which removed 1.44 million BNB and trimmed total supply to roughly 137.7 million. The decline was part of a broader 1.8% pullback across the crypto market, with traders fixated on technical cues rather than the burn’s deflationary impact. When the $1,128 support level failed, volume surged to over 308,000 BNB in an hour, pushing the price to an intraday low of $1,076 and establishing a bearish pattern of lower highs. Analysts note that a decisive break above $1,128 would be needed to restore bullish sentiment, despite a family‑office report framing BNB as a long‑term structural asset.

Unchained is LIVE today! At 1:30 ET, @Steven_Ehrlich sits down with @willem_buiter (former Chief Economist at Citigroup and member of the UK's Monetary Planning Committee) to discuss why central banks could find a place for bitcoin, being bullish on DeFi, and...
The markets are correcting down, which is standard pre-FOMC procedure. #Bitcoin & #Altcoins are always going down due to risk-off appetite. My advice? Don't trade leverage going into FOMC tonight. There will be a lot of fake moves taking place, before the actual...

MicroStrategy (MSTR) has shed about $18 billion in market value and fallen 40% since July as its bitcoin‑linked net‑asset‑value premium collapsed. 10x Research analyst Markus Thielen now expects the company to post a Q3 profit of roughly $3.6 billion from mark‑to‑market gains on...

Just so we're all clear in the future. If an L1 chain king makes a stablecoin and violates credible neutrality in order to capture some T-bill yield for token holders - it's a fintech company not a property rights system. I know...
Very impressed with both @monad & @megaeth marketing, branding, airdrop/sale respectively. Quite happy to see the industry moving into a new age where there is collective improvement on usability and experience. Means the tech in the industry has matured to...

Ethereum completed the final Hoodi testnet rehearsal of its Fusaka upgrade, clearing the path for a mainnet hard‑fork activation. The upgrade’s core feature, PeerDAS, lets validators verify only data segments, cutting bandwidth use and transaction costs after the earlier Pectra...

B. Riley reports that corporate crypto treasury activity remains subdued, but capital flows are beginning to rebound as U.S.-China trade talks improve sentiment. BitMine Immersion led the covered digital‑asset treasury companies by adding roughly $300 million of ether, raising its ETH concentration...

The $LOL contribution phase is live! You have 5 days until Sunday Nov 2nd - no need to hurry. You can only submit ONCE, so please make sure you have the desired points and $YGG before submitting. Good luck and good...

Zcash (ZEC), a long‑overlooked Bitcoin fork, surged 380% in market value to roughly $5.8 billion, marking the most dramatic crypto rally of 2025. The rally was fueled by renewed investor appetite for privacy‑focused assets as regulatory scrutiny tightens on transparent tokens...

In this episode, NLW analyzes a potentially pivotal week for Bitcoin, highlighting macro catalysts such as a dovish Federal Reserve, a possible U.S.-China trade thaw, and strong tech earnings from Microsoft, Meta, Google, Apple, and Amazon that could keep Bitcoin...
Privacy matters – Difference between TEE, ZK, MPC and FHE Everyone is talking about Privacy on-chain these days, and a lot of cryptographic terms are discussed. As co-inventor of ZK STARKs (post-quantum secure ZK systems) I’ll explain these technologies, what they’re...

TRON DAO, the community‑governed organization behind the TRON blockchain, took part in Europol’s 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets on Oct. 28‑29, 2025 at the UNODC headquarters in Vienna. The DAO’s delegation joined law‑enforcement officials, regulators and industry peers...

World Liberty Financial announced an 8.4 million WLFI token airdrop—about $1.1 million—to early participants in its USD1 Points Program, rewarding users who traded USD1 pairs or held balances over the past two months. The distribution will be executed across six...

"Timing" the market: Shifting your attention between BTC and altcoins is an important skill for any trader. I've used this to time my trades on $BNB and $ZEC in the past month. There are 3 market environments to rotate between: 1. Aggressive BTC ATH...
Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade passed its final test on the Hoodi testnet Tuesday, clearing the way for a planned Dec. 3 mainnet activation. The upgrade implements EIP-7594 Peer Data Availability Sampling, allowing validators to verify smaller data fragments from Layer 2...

Nvidia’s market value surged past the $5 trillion mark, underscoring the chipmaker’s outsized role in the AI boom. At the same time, Bitcoin’s year‑to‑date returns fell behind gold and slipped beneath the performance of both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. The...

Georgia’s reclusive power broker Bidzina Ivanishvili, who turned down a Bitcoin mining offer in 2014, now claims his former financial advisor stole roughly $1 billion in Bitcoin and has launched a campaign using courts, intelligence agents and an abduction to seize...
Major win for Polygon and for crypto! DeCard, powered by DCS (aka Diners Club Singapore) now lets you pay with USDT0 and USDC all over the world. Spending crypto is as easy as contactless cards This is what we meant when we...
Dear all Zcashers: please notice how the turnstile that we designed in 2016 as an added layer of defense is literally saving our bacon today: https://t.co/BazUJcxNfj This is a long game. Let’s continue to invest in long-term security. In particular: more...

In this episode, Geetha Panchapakesan, founder and CEO of Tesser, shares how her payments‑industry experience led her to develop a one‑stop‑shop platform that helps financial institutions, payment service providers, and money‑service businesses adopt stablecoins. She outlines the major shifts in...
PSA: Nexus Mutual UI currently down temporarily while we ship a big upgrade.
Stablecoins will fundamentally change consumer finance for the better Optimized liquidity and treasury management

Swiss crypto‑infrastructure provider Taurus opened a New York office, its second North American location after Vancouver, to serve U.S. banks and corporates entering digital assets. The firm appointed Zack Bender, formerly of Fiserv and Swift, to head U.S. operations. The move...
Bitcoin decentralized value, now Bittensor $TAO is decentralizing intelligence The Incentive Layer captures why that matters for those who want to learn more about the ecosystem and how it works

Very excited to join @rajgokal and @aeyakovenko and the broader Solana ecosystem for @SolanaConf in Abu Dhabi in December. Reflecting on 5+ years of building @usdc on @solana https://t.co/GJC9GpDopp

In the episode, Denelle Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, outlines Stellar’s privacy strategy leveraging zero‑knowledge proofs and its aggressive push to expand tokenization for institutional use. She highlights the growing demand from traditional finance for private, compliant blockchain...

BITCOIN BEARS KNOCKING ON THE DOOR!!!!!!!!!! https://t.co/gZlLwi3BpG
$BTQ added to Samsung’s Global Quantum Computing ETF 👀 APAC visibility + institutional recognition for one of the leaders in post-quantum security. Probably nothing…

European powers France and Germany are moving toward creating sovereign Bitcoin holdings, with France proposing a target of 420,000 BTC and Germany studying the feasibility of a national reserve. The French plan would lock in roughly $10 billion worth of the...
It’s a great time to get paid to issue stablecoins that won’t do anything for anyone.
Privacy via ZK proofs -- the easy part and the not-so-easy part The easy part: Creating ZK proofs to process transactions is easy. The not-so-easy part: UX. Achieving privacy with a friendly UX is still hard.
Fed rate announcement today China deal looking positive Solana ETF is live Blow off top incoming!
The only people thriving in this "bull market" are those who bought the top 100 altcoins & Bitcoin in 2023. 2023 Price examples: $20,000 Bitcoin $0.05 HBAR $0.40 XRP $20.00 SOL 2025 Current prices: $112,000 Bitcoin $0.20 HBAR $2.60 XRP $199.00 SOL The gains are there.
In my opinion, one of the most vital episodes of @new_era_finance until now. I'm personally actively trading the markets, so releasing an episode with a marketmaker: Wintermute, shortly after this monster crash was very valuable. Watch it here: https://t.co/pSgHor8Asa Great release, great...

Fund managers in 2032 https://t.co/rDDAwloZGY
Sky Frontier Foundation is looking for a Head of Business Development 🚀 Build and lead a lean BD team working with the worlds top institutions and blockchain projects Grow demand for USDS, the worlds 4th largest stablecoin, through integration deals https://t.co/d9jSNy9QAE

Over $500 million in leveraged positions have been liquidated ahead of the FOMC meeting. https://t.co/3wH81dNE9O
Excited to go on the air with @veorq and @apruden08 to talk about cryptography instead of cryptocurrency. We’ve devised a more efficient post-quantum digital signature algorithm. ☺️

this is the guy that is selling bitcoin before a rate cut https://t.co/tzXDSPBOhx

The Robots will want Bitcoin. https://t.co/yMbgAJIYol

$UEC Nice reaction on that dip. https://t.co/qQxOCzDeLP

AI + Crypto is heating up again and MWX just went live! Certik-audited, Base-built, and designed to bring AI utility to 400M+ SMEs. $MWXT powers the @mwx_ai marketplace with fixed supply, 20% fee burn and staking rewards. chart looks clean out the gate....
HAPPY 5th ANNIVERSARY to @custodiabank for receiving its bank charter + applying for a Fed master account on Oct 29, 2020. In this @AmerBanker article👇, an expert predicts Custodia will be the first #crypto company to obtain a Fed master...
Just in: Ondo Finance Global Markets expands tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs to BNB Chain

BLACKROCK'S $13T CEO LARRY FINK TELLS SAUDI ARABIA #BITCOIN HEDGES AGAINST "FIAT DEBASEMENT"! https://t.co/J2kfOgn0FW
Solana friends! Solana-based tokens can now be bridged to Starknet! SOL, DREAM, TRUMP, JUP, BONK, PUMP, FARTCOIN Love this new bridge by @hyperlane: Deeper liquidity, expanding DeFi, and strengthening the connection between Starknet and @Solana are all big wins. Great! Solana🤝Starknet
Today $GSOL launches on NYSE Arca, the latest in @Grayscale's suite of products with staking Institutional access to network rewards is a huge milestone for digital assets. Grayscale continues to pioneer the financial revolution
What are everyone's expectations going into the FOMC? Will this be the time when we'll have enough fuel for #Bitcoin & #Altcoins to surge?
Grayscale officially launches the $SOL ETF, giving investors direct exposure to $SOL with staking rewards. BULLISH!! https://t.co/sVUknmp2Iw