News•Oct 21, 2025
The XRP Era: $1B Nasdaq Listing and 1,000% Liquidity Surge Mark a Sensational Comeback
XRP is staging a dramatic comeback as Ripple secures a $1 billion Nasdaq listing and trading liquidity has surged roughly 1,000%, reversing years of stagnation tied to its SEC legal battle. The resurgence follows partial legal clarity and relisting on major venues, prompting renewed institutional interest and higher on-chain activity. If sustained, the shift could reinsert XRP into mainstream crypto market-making and custody flows, intensify competition among settlement tokens, and pressure other exchanges and regulators to reassess listings.
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 21, 2025
Binance’s $33M Charity Gift Becomes Malta’s Political Minefield
Malta’s Finance Minister Clyde Caruana publicly supported a government-run charity’s decision to reject a $33 million donation from crypto exchange Binance, citing reputational risks. The move has turned the high-value gift into a political flashpoint, exposing tensions between Malta’s pro-business...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
The P2E Apocalypse Is Gaming’s Best News
The collapse of play-to-earn (P2E) gaming — marked by plunging token values, player churn and failing tokenomics — is framed not as an industry crisis but a corrective reset. It exposes unsustainable financial-extraction models and will pressure developers and publishers...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
Will Solana Price Bounce Below $180? Double Bottom Hints at 40% Rally
Solana appears to have formed a bullish double-bottom near $174–$180, signaling a technical buy-the-dip opportunity and setting a target rally to about $250—roughly a 40% upside from the recent low. Analysts point to price-action confirmation and momentum indicators supporting a...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
Maple and Aave Team Up to Bring Institutional Assets to DeFi Lending Markets
Maple Finance, which manages roughly $3.1 billion in assets, will integrate its institutional-grade syrup tokens (starting with syrupUSDT and syrupUSDC) into Aave’s $40 billion decentralized lending protocol to channel curated institutional yield into Aave liquidity pools. The partnership aims to...
By The Defiant
News•Oct 21, 2025
U.S. Surging in Crypto Activity Under Trump: TRM Labs Report
A TRM Labs report finds U.S. crypto activity surged under President Trump, with transaction volumes in the first half of 2025 topping $1 trillion—about a 50% increase year‑over‑year. TRM attributes the jump to a more favorable political and regulatory environment,...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 21, 2025
‘Keep Pace’ or Fall Behind: CryptoUK Says US-Aligned Rules Key to UK Crypto Revival
CryptoUK urged UK regulators to align new stablecoin rules with the US as the Bank of England launches a consultation mirroring Washington’s framework for fiat‑pegged crypto assets. The proposed rules target stablecoins used in payments and aim to provide clearer...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
Bitcoin Crash to $104K Was ‘Flush,’ Not Crypto Cycle ‘Failure’
Bitcoin plunged to $104,000 in a four-day sell-off that Glassnode characterizes as a “flush” rather than a failure of the crypto cycle, signaling a healthy market reset. On-chain data show increased selling by long-term holders, constraining momentum until that supply...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
SpaceX Moves $257M in Bitcoin, Reignites Questions over Its Crypto Play
SpaceX transferred roughly $257 million worth of Bitcoin from wallets linked to the company, marking its second large-scale BTC movement in three months and fueling speculation the firm may be monetizing crypto holdings. The move—timed amid renewed competition in the...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
Why Yat Siu Believes Altcoins Will Surpass Bitcoin
Animoca Brands co‑founder Yat Siu outlined a plan to tackle Web3’s identity and trust problems by building a reputation layer using zero‑knowledge proofs and a Mocaverse loyalty SDK that ties staking power and airdrops to verifiable, cross‑chain identities. He revealed...
By The Defiant
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 21, 2025
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....
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
$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...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
‘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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 21, 2025
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...
By The Defiant
News•Oct 20, 2025
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....
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By The Defiant
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 20, 2025
$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...
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By CoinDesk
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By Cointelegraph
News•Oct 20, 2025
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....
By CryptoSlate
News•Oct 20, 2025
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...
By CoinDesk