How Crypto Investors Protect Wealth with a Family Office
As crypto holders cross seven-figure thresholds, many are turning to family offices to safeguard gains, manage taxes, address custody and legal risks, and formalize governance and succession. The trend reflects demand for bespoke services—asset diversification, institutional custody, regulatory compliance and philanthropy—that traditional wealth managers often lack. The shift signals growing institutionalization of crypto wealth, raising stakes for service providers, custodians and regulators as high-net-worth crypto portfolios seek professional risk management and long-term preservation.
Tether’s $181B Paradox: How USDT Keeps Growing as Its Market Share Collapses Under MiCA
Tether’s USDT has seen its market share slide from about 70% in November 2024 to 59.9% by October 2025 even as its total supply hovers near $181 billion, while Circle’s USDC rose from 20.5% to 25.3% over the same period....
How to Use Grok 4 for Smarter Crypto Research Before You Invest
XAI's Grok 4 offers crypto investors a workflow to turn noisy social and on‑chain data into repeatable, ranked investment signals by combining real‑time X mentions, DeepSearch web context and higher‑reasoning summaries. The tool automates sentiment and velocity scans, white‑paper and...
Crypto, Fintech Push Back Against Banks’ War on Open Banking
Major crypto and fintech trade groups including the Blockchain Association and the Crypto Council for Innovation urged the CFPB to finalize an open-banking rule that would ensure consumers — not banks — control access to their financial data. The letter...
U.S. Crypto Coalition Warns Bank Data Fees Could Cut Off Stablecoins and Wallets
A coalition of crypto, fintech and retail groups urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to preserve strong open‑banking protections in pending Rule 1033, warning that big banks’ efforts to charge for customer data access or narrow who qualifies as a...
$2B to Flow Into BlackRock’s UK Bitcoin ETF: How UK Traders Could Recycle Into IBIT
BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) began trading in the UK on Oct. 20, opening a regulated route for British investors to gain Bitcoin exposure after the FCA reversed its prior ban. Analysts and market-watchers estimate the new market could channel...
US Political Turmoil Tests ‘Institutional Confidence’ as Crypto ETFs Bleed
US political turmoil — marked by widespread “No Kings” protests, a prolonged government shutdown and deep partisan division — has eroded institutional confidence and driven investors away from crypto exchange-traded funds. The sector has seen sustained outflows as risk appetite...
‘Corpo Chains’ Doomed Unless They Embrace Crypto’s Ethos: StarkWare CEO
StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson warned that while corporate blockchains can accelerate mainstream crypto adoption, “corpo chains” that keep centralized control will be abandoned unless they adopt crypto’s permissionless, decentralized ethos and interoperable technologies like zk-rollups. He argued enterprises should embrace...
Canadian Province to Ban New Crypto Mining Connections
British Columbia will ban new cryptocurrency mining connections to its Hydro power grid, citing grid protection and reliability concerns. The move immediately curtails expansion by energy-intensive miners and aims to preserve capacity for other customers amid rising electricity demand. Industry...
How to Turn Crypto Headlines Into Trade Signals with ChatGPT
Guide explains how traders can use ChatGPT to convert crypto headlines into actionable buy/sell signals by feeding specific prompts and iterating with follow‑ups. It emphasizes prompt quality and blending news signals with broader market context—illustrated by a Pi Network example...
Polygon Boss Says He’s Been ‘Questioning His Loyalty’ Toward Ethereum
Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal publicly said he’s been “questioning his loyalty” to Ethereum after criticizing the Ethereum community for underappreciating Polygon’s role as a Layer-2 scaling solution, drawing a direct response from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The exchange highlights escalating...
Coinbase to US: Embrace Blockchain if You Want to Fight Crime on It
Coinbase urged the U.S. Treasury to embrace blockchain-native tools—blockchain analytics, AI, APIs—and create legal safe-harbors so firms can deploy them to modernize anti-money-laundering efforts. The company argues these measures would enable real-time transaction monitoring and better information-sharing between industry and...
Crypto’s Next Bear Market Will Have a Brand-New Trigger: Willy Woo
On-chain analyst Willy Woo warned that the next crypto bear market may be triggered not by crypto-specific events but by a macroeconomic business-cycle downturn similar to 2008 — a type of broad recession that predates Bitcoin. Woo argues such a...
US Gov Shutdown ‘Likely’ to End This Week: Trump Adviser
White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said the U.S. government shutdown is likely to end this week, signaling a quick return to normal federal operations. The expected reopening could revive stalled regulatory work, notably on cryptocurrency policy and oversight that...
BitMine’s Lee Says Ether’s ‘Price Dislocation’ Is a Signal to Buy
BitMine chairman Tom Lee urged investors to view Ethereum’s recent “price dislocation” as a buying opportunity, saying the token is poised to enter a long-term supercycle. Lee characterized current levels as an attractive risk/reward entry ahead of anticipated structural upside...
Meteora Trades at $1 Billion Pre-Market Valuation Ahead of TGE
Meteora is trading at an implied $1 billion fully diluted pre‑market valuation ahead of its token generation event Thursday, down from a $1.8 billion opening on Oct. 10 and reflecting gradual pullback since the broader altcoin sell‑off. The Solana DEX—third‑largest...
Ethereum Needs Paradigm, VCs, Despite Value Extraction Concerns: Joseph Lubin
Ethereum co‑founder Joseph Lubin acknowledged that venture capital firms — including Paradigm — often seek to "extract" maximum value from the protocol, but argued they remain indispensable as conduits for global capital, expertise and infrastructure needed to scale the ecosystem....
Bitcoin Bounce Stalls as XRP, Zcash Lead Gains; Arca Says Rally Not a Dead-Cat Bounce
Crypto’s weekend rebound showed signs of durability on Monday even as Bitcoin’s intraday rally faded — BTC traded around $111,000 and Ether slipped below $4,000 while XRP, Chainlink and privacy token Zcash (up 17%) led gains. Arca said the move...
HumidiFi Tops Monthly Solana DEX Volumes and Teases Airdrop
HumidiFi, a proprietary AMM launched in June, topped monthly Solana DEX volumes with about $34 billion traded—surpassing Meteora’s $31.5 billion and Raydium’s $21.4 billion. The exchange’s prop-AMM model, which reduces slippage by eliminating adverse flow, appears to be drawing market‑maker...
Wise Hints at Stablecoin Ambitions with New Digital-Asset Product Lead Hire
Wise has posted for a London‑based digital‑asset product lead focused on stablecoins, a hire that signals the payments platform may expand into crypto rails for faster, lower‑cost cross‑border transfers. The LinkedIn listing—which has already drawn 100+ applicants—seeks experienced consumer digital‑asset...
CleanSpark Shares Soar as Bitcoin Miner Announces AI Expansion
CleanSpark said it is expanding into artificial intelligence services, a strategic pivot that sent its shares sharply higher as investors priced in new revenue opportunities beyond Bitcoin mining. The move follows a broader industry trend of large miners leveraging excess...
US Shutdown Enters Third Week as Senate Democrats Plan Crypto Roundtable
The US government entered its third week of shutdown as Senate leaders prepared a vote aimed at ending the impasse, heightening risks to federal services and economic confidence. Separately, Senate Democrats scheduled a Wednesday roundtable with crypto industry leaders to...
AAVE Bounces Over 10% in Strong Weekend Recovery Amid RWA Integration Plans
Aave’s governance token AAVE jumped more than 10% from Friday lows to trade around $228–$230 on Monday, briefly topping $230 before meeting resistance near $231 and consolidating above $225. The price bump coincides with Grove’s plan—pending Aave governance approval—to supply...
Patent Troll Wins Bitcoin Logo Trademark, Now Claims Online Copyright Infringement
A Spain-based trademark registration for the Bitcoin logo (recorded as ES5020240 M4296236 in the WIPO Global Brand Database) has prompted Amazon and Etsy to remove Bitcoin-branded merchandise worldwide after takedown requests, forcing immediate disruption for sellers. The filing—described by affected...
Centralized Exchanges Are Still Criminals’ Favorite Crypto Money Laundering Tool
Despite high‑profile convictions like Tornado Cash co‑founder Roman Storm, criminal proceeds in 2024 flowed primarily through regulated centralized crypto exchanges, which function as the main on‑ and off‑ramps to fiat, Chainalysis data show. Enforcement actions — including Binance’s publicized 2023...
Crypto's Half-Finished Legislative Agenda Teeters as CEOs Set Meeting With Democrats
Top crypto executives, including leaders from Coinbase, Chainlink, Uniswap, Kraken and Galaxy Digital, are meeting this week with up to 10 Senate Democrats to try to revive stalled U.S. market‑structure legislation after contentious Democratic draft language and a federal funding...
Avail Integration Enables TRON dApps and Users to Access Cross-Chain Liquidity and Unified Markets
Avail announced integration with the TRON network via its Avail Nexus, enabling TRON dApps and users to access cross-chain liquidity and unified markets spanning 10 additional blockchains. The move leverages Avail’s modular infrastructure for horizontal scalability, cross-chain connectivity and unified...
Monad’s Fast EVM Chain Promises ‘Night and Day’ Performance Gains
Monad, a new EVM‑compatible layer‑1 gearing up for a token airdrop and mainnet launch, says its reengineered virtual machine can deliver “night and day” performance gains that could rival the fastest blockchains. The team cites four technical levers—parallel execution, asynchronous...
$1.2B Exits US Bitcoin ETFs Just as London Makes Crypto Comeback
U.S. investors pulled $1.2 billion from the 12 spot Bitcoin ETFs last week, marking the funds’ second-largest weekly outflow since their January 2024 launch and ending a two-week inflow streak that had added over $5 billion. The retreat comes as...
Bolivia’s New President Backs Blockchain to Tackle Government Corruption
Bolivia’s president-elect Rodrigo Paz announced plans to deploy blockchain technology in public procurement and to require cryptocurrency disclosures in asset declarations as part of a new sovereign fund initiative. The move targets corruption by creating immutable records for tenders and...
Blockchain.com Has Held Talks to Go Public Via SPAC Deal: Sources
Blockchain.com has held talks to go public in the U.S. via a SPAC and has appointed Cohen & Company Capital Markets as an adviser, according to sources; the company says it is preparing to be a public company when markets...
Michael Saylor’s Strategy Takes Another Small Step Toward 700K Bitcoin
After a modest new purchase, Michael Saylor’s Strategy now sits about 59,582 BTC shy of reaching a 700,000 BTC target, implying current holdings of roughly 640,418 BTC. The latest incremental buy underscores the programmatic accumulation approach that has driven sizable...
Decentralized Science Will Bring the Brain Onchain
As brain-computer interfaces such as Neuralink advance, concerns are growing that mental control and neural data will be concentrated in corporate hands; proponents say decentralized science (DeSci) can put the brain “onchain” to redistribute governance and access. DeSci models propose...
New Film ‘Code Is Law’ Explores Moral Quandary Behind Crypto Hacks
Directors James Craig and Louis Giles have released Code Is Law, a documentary that probes infamous cryptocurrency hacks by focusing on the moral reasoning and reckonings of those who carried them out. The film traces how attackers justify or confront...
Elon Musk Posts His Pet Dog Floki on X; Memecoin Pumps 29%
Elon Musk posted a video on X of his Shiba Inu dog Floki being treated as the platform’s “CEO,” triggering a near 29% surge in the Floki memecoin. The spike underscores Musk’s outsized ability to move crypto markets with social...
XRP Price Targets $3 as Whale Wallet Count Hits New All-Time Highs
XRP staged a sharp rebound—rising as much as 13% to $2.48—driven by record whale accumulation and dwindling exchange supply, with wallets holding at least 10,000 XRP hitting an all‑time high of about 317,500 and on‑exchange supply falling to 3.9% from...
Bitcoin Mining Profitability Declined More Than 7% in September: Jefferies
Jefferies said bitcoin mining profitability fell more than 7% in September as a roughly 2% drop in BTC price and a ~9% rise in network hashrate pushed margins lower. Public North American miners produced 3,401 BTC in September (down from...
Grok, DeepSeek Outperform ChatGPT, Gemini with Epic Crypto Market Long
In a viral trading competition, XAI’s Grok 4 and DeepSeek outperformed rival chatbots by correctly timing a crypto market bottom and switching to leveraged longs, with Grok reporting a 500% one‑day portfolio spike and DeepSeek logging the highest unrealized profit...
Altcoin Season Is Cancelled This Year: Alts Fail to Match Last Cycle $1.6 Trillion Ceiling
Bitcoin surged to an intracycle peak near $126,000 in early October, but the broader altcoin market (TOTAL2ES, excluding stablecoins) has failed to reclaim its November 2021 ceiling of about $1.6 trillion, keeping the expected rotation from BTC to alts unconfirmed....
BNB Climbs as Crypto Markets Rebound on Potential Fed Policy Shift
BNB climbed 1.4% in 24 hours, trading between about $1,077 and $1,144 during a volatile session that saw volume spike to 128,847 tokens—nearly double the daily average—while bitcoin rose 2.6% and the CoinDesk 20 index gained 2.5%. The rally was...
Crypto Funds’ Two-Week Inflow Streak Ends: Here’s What Went Wrong
Crypto fund inflows halted after a two-week streak as on-chain investors turned more bearish in response to a Binance liquidity cascade, while exchange-traded product (ETP) traders largely shrugged off a sharp Friday crash, CoinShares reports. The split in market behavior—heightened...
Wall Street Bank Citi Sees Stablecoins Powering Crypto’s Next Growth Phase
Citi says stablecoins are set to power crypto’s next growth phase, noting they have risen alongside the market after the GENIUS Act and prompting the bank to lift its 2030 digital‑asset market‑cap outlook to $1.9 trillion. The bank finds stablecoins...
Crypto Markets Today: BTC Reclaims $111K, ETH Tops $4K After Last Week’s Sell-Off
Bitcoin and ether rebounded Monday, with BTC trading near $111,000 and ETH back above $4,000 after last week’s $500 billion sell‑off, sparking a broader market lift that drove LINK up 14% and FLOKI 27%. Derivatives flows show persistent bullish conviction—BTC...
BlackRock Launches Bitcoin ETP After UK Lifts Trading Ban
BlackRock launched its iShares Bitcoin ETP on the London Stock Exchange after UK regulators eased a ban on trading crypto-linked investment products, marking the asset manager’s first mainstream Bitcoin-listed offering in Europe. The debut opens a regulated, exchange-traded route for...
Amazon AWS Outage Knocks Coinbase Mobile App Offline, Robinhood Disrupted
An Amazon Web Services outage in the Northern Virginia (us‑east‑1) region disrupted multiple platforms on Monday, knocking Coinbase’s mobile app and Base offline and causing trading delays and API issues for Robinhood. AWS reported increased error rates and latencies and...
Dead Cat Bounce to $118K? 5 Things to Know in Bitcoin This Week
Bitcoin staged a rebound at the start of the week, with bulls trying to force short-covering while defending a critical $102,000 wick on Binance. Traders are eyeing a potential retest of the $118,000 level, though analysts caution the move could...
What Is Bitcoin if Not Crypto? Rumored Satoshi Nakamoto Weighs In
Jack Dorsey—long rumored to be Satoshi Nakamoto—stoked industry debate by asserting "Bitcoin is not crypto," arguing BTC should be seen as a distinct monetary network rather than part of the broader token and smart-contract ecosystem. The remark underscores growing splits...
Bitcoin Reaches $111K as Classic Chart Pattern Projects 70% Gains Next
Bitcoin jumped to $111,000 after closing the week above $108,000, a technical milestone that analysts say confirms a classic chart pattern projecting roughly 70% upside from current levels. The bullish setup has revived speculative interest and could propel BTC toward...
Bitcoin Surges Above $110k, Ethereum Rises over $4k Amid Renewed ‘Buy the Dip’ Fervor
Bitcoin rallied past $110,000 to about $111,000 — a roughly 4% one-day gain — while Ethereum climbed above $4,000 as renewed “buy the dip” flows entered crypto markets after a US–China tariff shock. The rebound signals short-term risk-on sentiment as...
Aster’s Quiet Relisting on DefiLlama Leaves ‘Big Gaps’ in Data: Exec
Aster has been quietly relisted on analytics site DeFiLlama, but the token’s historical data and time-series metrics are incomplete, creating “big gaps” in the project’s visible track record. Key on-chain indicators such as past TVL and transaction histories appear unpopulated...