🎯Today's Crypto Pulse
Updated 1h agoWhat'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.
Also developing:
By the numbers: Pepeto raises $7M in token presale
News•Oct 28, 2025
Heather 'Razzlekhan' Morgan's Release From Prison Wasn't Us, White House Says
Heather 'Razzlekhan' Morgan, a rapper and alleged Bitfinex hack participant, was released from prison earlier than her original sentence. She publicly claimed that former President Donald Trump intervened to secure her early release. A White House official refuted the allegation, stating the administration had no role in her freedom.
By CoinDesk
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Hayes Shifts From Tokens to Buying Crypto Companies
Arthur Hayes isn’t just trading tokens... he’s buying the companies behind them! ⚔️ On @unchained_pod, @CryptoHayes & Adam Schlegel reveal: 💼 Why Maelstrom is raising $250M to buy crypto’s cash machines 📈 The shift from tokens → venture capital → real revenue ⚔️ How...
By Laura Shin
News•Oct 28, 2025
XLM Gains 2.3% to $0.3314 as Payment Networks Drive Institutional Interest
XLM rose 2.3% in the past 24 hours to $0.3314, breaking a key resistance level as European‑session trading volume surged. The rally was fueled by heightened institutional interest in blockchain‑based payment networks, with several funds reportedly allocating capital to Stellar’s...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 28, 2025
BNB Drops After $1.65B Token Burn, Eyes Resistance Near $1,150
Binance’s native token BNB slipped after the exchange announced a $1.65 billion token burn, pushing the price toward the $1,150 resistance level. The burn, which removed a sizable portion of circulating supply, is intended to make the token more deflationary and...
By CoinDesk
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Starknet Poised to Lead Prediction Market Top Ten
A month ago y'all be "Hyperliquid is The Perps DEX". Today it's # 3, and 3 of top 10 are on StarkWare tech. So u better listen to me when I say "In 5 years Polymarket and Kalshi won't dominate Prediction...
By Eli Ben-Sasson
News•Oct 28, 2025
Hedera Jumps 25.7% Breaking Key Resistance as Spot ETF Launches
Hedera Hashgraph’s native token HBAR surged 25.7% to breach the $0.20 level, breaking a key resistance zone after Canary Capital’s HBAR exchange‑traded fund began trading on the NYSE. The launch was underpinned by institutional support from crypto custodian BitGo, providing...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 28, 2025
ICP Hovers Around $3.20 Resistance With 115% Volume Surge
Internet Computer (ICP) edged up 1.6% to $3.22, hovering just above the $3.20 resistance level. Institutional trading volume jumped 115%, confirming a bullish breakout. The price action, backed by strong institutional demand, suggests potential upward momentum for the token.
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 28, 2025
US Spot Bitcoin ETF Balances Are Negative without BlackRock
U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have drawn roughly $26.9 billion in net inflows this year, but the surge is heavily concentrated in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). After IBIT’s inflows slowed in late October, the remaining seven ETFs collectively posted net outflows,...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 28, 2025
Solana ETFs Could Draw Over $3B If Bitcoin, Ether ETF Trends Repeat
Three spot ETFs tracking SOL, HBAR and LTC went live under ’33 Act structure on Tuesday.
By CoinDesk
Social•Oct 28, 2025
ImpossibleFi Waives Fees, Guarantees Equal Terms for All
Investment platforms like @impossiblefi normally charge a small fee to facilitate the raise, this makes sense in normal token sales where it is capital in and token out. With @flyingtulip_'s capital allocation model, where the initial principal isn't used and...
By Andre Cronje
News•Oct 28, 2025
Bitcoin Miners Sit on Prime Power Assets as AI Pivot Accelerates: Canaccord
Canaccord notes that bitcoin miners continue to generate almost all revenue in the crypto‑mining sector, even as market attention pivots toward artificial‑intelligence applications. The firms own high‑quality power assets—often located near cheap, renewable energy sources—that position them to supply the...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 28, 2025
BOB Unveils Bitcoin Vault Liquidation Engine to Power BTC-Backed Stablecoin Lending
BOB launched a Bitcoin Vault Liquidation Engine that lets Bitcoin holders borrow stablecoins against their BTC while keeping the collateral secured on the Bitcoin blockchain. The engine automates liquidation of under‑collateralized positions through a vault mechanism, enhancing risk management and...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 28, 2025
Ethena-Backed DEX Terminal Finance Reaches $280M in Pre-Launch Deposits
Terminal Finance, a decentralized exchange incubated by Ethena Labs, has secured $280 million in deposits before its public launch, signaling strong investor demand. The capital, sourced from a mix of institutional and retail participants, will underpin the platform’s low‑fee, high‑liquidity trading...
By CoinDesk
Podcast•Oct 28, 2025•9 min
Bitcoin Surges on Hopes of a China Deal
The episode explains how a tentative U.S.-China trade framework—removing tariffs and rare‑earth restrictions—has reignited optimism in Bitcoin and broader risk assets. NLW analyzes the market implications, highlighting JPMorgan’s decision to accept Bitcoin and Ethereum as loan collateral as a watershed...
By The Breakdown
News•Oct 28, 2025
TeraWulf Stock Surges 22% After $9.5B Google-Backed AI Compute Deal With Fluidstack
TeraWulf, the former bitcoin miner now pivoting to AI infrastructure, announced a $9.5 billion partnership with Google‑backed Fluidstack to co‑develop a 168 MW data center in Texas. The agreement secures long‑term revenue streams for TeraWulf as the facility will provide AI compute...
By CoinDesk
Social•Oct 28, 2025
HBAR, LTC, SOL ETFs Approved, Triggering Massive Volume
HBAR LTC SOL ETFS APPROVED NOW! INSANE VOLUME 10/28/2025 #cryptowendyo #crypto #bitcoin #xrp #ethereum #solana #cryptocurrency #wendy #xrpcommunity #finance #hbar #hedera #litecoin #ltc
By Wendy O
Blog•Oct 28, 2025
Citi Partners With Coinbase to Pilot Stablecoin Payment Services
Citigroup has partnered with Coinbase to pilot stablecoin payment services, aiming to streamline client transfers between fiat and crypto and enable programmable, conditional and 24/7 payments. Citi raised its digital-dollar market forecast to $4 trillion by 2030 (from a current...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Oct 28, 2025
IBM Launches Digital Asset Platform for Banks and Governments
IBM unveiled Digital Asset Haven, a SaaS blockchain platform built with wallet provider Dfns to offer custody, transaction routing and settlement for banks, governments and corporations. The service will support more than 40 public and private blockchains and is slated...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Oct 28, 2025
Bitcoin Leverage Surges to $37 Billion Ahead of Fed Rate Cut Decision
Bitcoin derivatives open interest surged to $37.63 billion as traders amped positions ahead of an expected 25‑basis‑point Federal Reserve cut, lifting the price above $116,000 from about $107,600 last week. The jump in open interest from roughly $33 billion and...
By Laura Shin
Blog•Oct 28, 2025
Meme Stock Investor Sparks ETHZilla’s $40 Million ETH Selloff
ETHZilla sold about $40 million of ETH to fund a share buyback after activist investor Dimitri “Capybara Stocks” Semenikhin, who owns roughly 2.2% of the company, pushed for the strategy citing a roughly 50% discount to net asset value. CEO...
By Laura Shin
News•Oct 28, 2025
PEPE Holds Key Support Level as Volume Surge Points to Whale Trading Activity
PEPE token held a key support level as trading volume surged 72% above its daily average, reaching 2.70 trillion tokens. The spike points to large‑scale investors, or whales, actively managing their positions. This heightened activity comes amid broader market volatility and...
By CoinDesk
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Future‑Proof Tech: Choose Solutions That Scale Decades Ahead
The best tech is the tech that solves not only today’s problems, but also the problems we’ll face tomorrow, next year, and a decade from now. It takes into account the challenges you’ll face when your ecosystem grows by 10X,...
By Eli Ben-Sasson
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Polygon Partners with Manifold to Deliver Institutional Liquidity on DeFi
Polygon is bringing institutional-grade liquidity management to DeFi. Onchain finance faces a lot of challenges, like liquidity fragmentation, and high/inconsistent costs So we partnered with @ManifoldTrading to deploy quant market-making and onchain arbitrage across Polygon DEXs This will give the crypto community the...
By Sandeep Nailwal
News•Oct 28, 2025
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Hedera (HBAR) Surges 14.4% While Index Trades Lower
Filecoin (FIL) dropped 2.5% and Aave (AAVE) fell 2.2% from Monday.
By CoinDesk
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Zero‑Knowledge Camera Guarantees Authentic, Verifiable Photos
got my @roc_camera that proves photos are authentic with zk. your photos: arguably slop my photos: verifiable, attested, genuine, etc https://t.co/5lJVh968lr
By Nick Carter
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Luke Dash Misunderstands Lightning, Thread Exposes Knowledge Gap
This thread between @adam3us and @lukedashjr is very revealing. Luke does not understand how Lightning works. WTF. https://t.co/RZKWifrXpl
By Peter Todd
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Mono Simplifies Web3; Early Users Can Earn $400
Mono is making Web3 simple, one account, one balance, one click. $2.8M+ raised and the new Rewards Hub just launched. Earn up to $400 in $MONO + 200% promo rewards when you join early 👇 For information only, not financial advice. Rewards subject...
By That Martini Guy
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Oct 10 Crypto Crash Destroys $20B, Outpaces FTX
The $20B #Crypto market crash. It all happened on October 10th, and there were some rumours on Wintermute. What did really happen? Why was this crash 10x bigger than FTX? Watch the episode of @new_era_finance with @JO_wintermute here: https://t.co/yJwRK4RwyN https://t.co/hpVIwtkUud
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Oct 28, 2025
AVAX's MACD Cross Hints at 50% Surge
Keep an eye on AVAX. There was a MACD cross-up below the zero line. The last time it happened, $AVAX pumped by 50% Avalanche also partnered with TIS, the company that powers ~50% of Japan’s credit card payments. https://t.co/p6DkS6LeGT
By Lark Davis
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Digital Credit Outperforms Traditional Credit 2‑4× Efficiency
In my discussion yesterday at @Money2020 with @ScottMelker, I explained why Digital Credit instruments like $STRK, $STRF, $STRD, $STRC are 2–4x more efficient than Traditional Credit — and how Strategy has become the world’s most scalable, tax-efficient generator of fixed...
By Michael Saylor
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Block Aims to Turn Bitcoin Into Daily Currency
block is focused on making bitcoin everyday money
By Jack Dorsey
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Choose Meme Gains for 2x or Tech for 100x
Alpha from 2x ZK co-founder (Zcash, Starknet) Want 2x returns? outrun herd on latest meme, gud luk. 100x? Buy & HODL true tech innovation.
By Eli Ben-Sasson
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Bob Burnett Explains Bitcoin Knots vs Core V30
Bitcoin Knots vs Core v30 - Part III w/ Bob Burnett of Barefoot Mining https://t.co/KZEHc9GNxG
By Tone Vays
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Svrn_ai Accelerates NEAR Tech Into Global Financial Markets
Excited to work with @sal_ternullo to bring vision of NEAR to billions of people. @svrn_ai serves as an accelerant to bring NEAR's tech to financial markets, institutions and enterprises.
By Illia Polosukhin
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Earn Crypto by Relaying Traffic on First P2P VPN
Who would be interest in building first of it's kind peer-to-peer VPN built on top of Proof of Response & NEAR Intents to accept payments with $NEAR, $ZEC or any other currency. Users who are open to become relayers would earn...
By Illia Polosukhin
Social•Oct 28, 2025
LTC Hits Strong Rejection at 99‑SMA Resistance
$LTC Strong rejection so far today at 99smma resistance https://t.co/uP8slxB1VO
By Nebraskan Gooner
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Co‑founder Celebrates Zcash’s Birthday, Praises Its Resilient Vision
Happy Birthday @Zcash ! As a co-founder who's not involved in it anymore these days, I'm amazed by the grit, vision and integrity of the ecosystem and team. Glad to see the world recognizing this, and may you live long...
By Eli Ben-Sasson
Social•Oct 28, 2025
SOL Spot ETF Launches, Signaling Market Resurgence
The first $SOL spot ETF has gone live today! Does this mean the trenches are back?!
By Layah Heilpern
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Institutional $200M ETH Treasury Goes Verifiable via EigenCloud
$200M in ETH just went verifiable! SharpLink is deploying through EigenCloud. First institutional ETH treasury using programmable yield + cryptoeconomic trust. Big moment for $EIGEN.
By That Martini Guy
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Bitcoin's $115,400 Threshold Determines Next Move
#Bitcoin All eyes on that $115,400 level today. Hold above and we can push. Close below and things get dicey again. https://t.co/wCeDvl5cNm
By Nebraskan Gooner
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Providence Launches Token for AAA Player‑Owned Web3 World
Providence might be one of the most grounded projects in Web3 gaming. From the AAA team behind Expeditions: Rome, Viking & Conquistador, backed by Framework, CoinFund, Dapper Labs & AVAX. Four years of building a true, player-owned world. The Progressive Token Launch starts...
By That Martini Guy
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Circle's Arc L1 Testnet Gains Chainlink, 100+ Institutions
Circle launches Arc L1 blockchain public testnet with Chainlink and over 100 institutions involved, including BlackRock
By Wendy O
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Toggle Multiple Wallets on One Device with AquaBitcoin
Multi-wallet is an upcoming new feature for @AquaBitcoin so that you can have and toggle between multiple wallets on one device. One for personal use, one for conference spending, one to connect to your business via #SamRock, and so on....
By Samson Mow
Social•Oct 28, 2025
HGRAF Hits New ATH, Up 200% Since Entry
$HGRAF new ATH today up almost 200% from entry now 🎉
By Nebraskan Gooner
Social•Oct 28, 2025
HBAR ETF Launches, Hedera Community Celebrates
THE $HBAR ETF IS LIVE!!!! Congrats to the entire HEDERA community!!!
By Wendy O
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Live Debate: Bitcoin Knots vs Core V30 with Miner Insight
LIVE at 11am ET Today!!! #Bitcoin Knots vs Core v30 Part III w/ co-host @jimmysong & special guest @boomer_btc of @BarefootMining to get a Miner's view on the Debate: * If any C-Level from a public miner wants to join! DM...
By Tone Vays
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Hold Bitcoin, Don't Sell: Long‑Term Strategy
You do not sell your Bitcoin.
By Michael Saylor
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Submit Your Favorite Crypto and Stock Tickers for Chart Analysis
🚨 TUESDAY IS @BLOFIN CHART REQUEST DAY 🚨 Tomorrow I will take a look at your favorite #Crypto and #Stock charts! I'll share my analysis of as many as I can get to. Retweet and reply with your favorite...
By Nebraskan Gooner
Social•Oct 28, 2025
LINK Poised for 150‑200% Rally Against BTC
$LINK is ready for a new leg upwards. The trend is changing, the sentiment is changing, and that's why I expect to see a rally of 150-200% against $BTC in the coming 2-4 months. https://t.co/7DOzvGCDOp
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Oct 28, 2025
Securitize IPO Fuels Rapid Tokenization Acceleration
Major congratulations to @carlosdomingo and the rest of the Securitize team on going public 💪 Tokenization is accelerating rapidly, and this will be jet fuel that brings it about even more quickly.
By Robert Leshner