
Investors are becoming more adept at identifying weak or poorly structured Bitcoin treasury strategies, increasing pressure on firms to demonstrate a clear competitive edge, David Bailey says. As debate over a possible Bitcoin bubble intensifies, treasury operators without differentiated risk management, custody, or yield-generation models face greater scrutiny and funding challenges. The trend raises the bar for new entrants and could concentrate market share among firms that can prove durable returns and governance, with implications for capital flows and counterparty risk in crypto corporate treasuries.

A new “Bitcoin for Signal” campaign is urging encrypted messaging app Signal to integrate Bitcoin, with high-profile backers including Jack Dorsey and developer Peter Todd publicly supporting the push. Advocates argue adding BTC would enable private, peer-to-peer payments and broaden...

Dubai has partnered with DePIN builder peaq to regulate and build infrastructure for a nascent “machine economy,” integrating onchain robotics, AI and tokenized real-world assets. The collaboration centers on deploying peaq’s decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) to enable connected machines...

Bitcoin options markets are signaling rising fear as traders brace for further downside, with the spot price repeatedly testing $107,600 amid elevated implied volatility. The pullback has been exacerbated by miner outflows and broader macroeconomic pressures, prompting heavier demand for...

Tether has nominated an executive to join Juventus’ board of directors, confirming plans to deepen its stake in the Italian football club roughly eight months after making an initial investment. The move formalizes the stablecoin issuer’s bid to build a...

Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr warned regulators and the crypto industry to avoid repeat mistakes as they prepare rules under the new GENIUS Act, flagging run risk from stablecoins redeemable at par but backed by assets that may be questioned...

Senior executives from Gemini, Coinbase and Ripple attended a White House fundraising dinner hosted by President Trump to solicit pledges for a proposed $250 million, roughly 90,000-square-foot ballroom expansion. The Wall Street Journal reported the crypto firms were among a...

Retail long positions in Ether jumped to about 94%, signaling broad optimism among small traders, even as technical indicators show warning signs of a potential reversal. Despite the retail euphoria, institutional investors have continued to buy dips, providing some support...

Bitcoin’s fear index has fallen to its lowest level of the year, reflecting a significant slump in investor sentiment, but Bitwise argues the drop should prompt accumulation rather than panic. The asset manager frames the subdued sentiment as a potential...

Ethereum is showing a bearish technical signal — a moving-average cross that historically preceded steep declines — which last occurred before ETH fell between 46% and 60%. The same cross has reappeared this October, raising concerns among traders about renewed...

CoinDesk’s Crypto for Advisors highlights Litecoin as a resilient, pragmatic crypto asset—trading at about $92.51 and serving as “silver” to Bitcoin’s gold—built in 2011 as a faster, lower-fee fork of Bitcoin. Key technical differentiators include a 2.5-minute block time, 84...

Grayscale has introduced regulated crypto staking yields to mainstream Wall Street investors by integrating staking rewards into its new spot crypto ETFs, marking the first broad offering of this kind in regulated U.S. markets. The product pairs traditional ETF structures...

Bitcoin briefly slipped below $110,000 before retesting support as on-chain data showed smaller retail investors buying the dip while large holders (whales) dialed back an extended sell-off. The move highlights renewed demand around the $110k level and a cooling of...

A public feud between Ocean Protocol and Fetch.ai escalated into legal threats after Fetch.ai CEO Humayun Sheikh accused Ocean of mishandling ASI tokens and pledged to bankroll class-action suits to “expose the truth.” The dispute intensified as Binance temporarily restricted...

Babylon Labs says it has built a BitVM3-based system that lets native Bitcoin serve as trustless collateral for borrowing on Ethereum, claiming cross-chain Bitcoin lending without wrapped tokens. The design reportedly enables direct BTC-backed loans on Ethereum but has raised...

France’s Lightning Stock Exchange announced plans to launch the first tokenized IPO in Q1 2026 as it seeks to become Europe’s first fully tokenized equity exchange. The platform will trade blockchain-based shares, promising faster settlement, 24/7 trading and broader retail...

California has enacted a law barring the state from immediately selling abandoned Bitcoin, pausing escheat sales and creating a clearer path for owners to reclaim crypto assets. The measure obliges state agencies to hold digital assets rather than liquidate them,...

Wealth managers face a pivotal shift as an estimated $83 trillion in assets will transfer to digital-native generations, forcing firms to adopt tokenization and other digital asset capabilities or risk losing business to more tech-savvy competitors. The scale of the...

Zcash and Dash have posted some of the largest recent rebounds among cryptocurrencies as a renewed privacy-coin narrative helps these older “dinosaur” tokens break multi-year downtrends. Traders are rotating into ZEC and DASH amid broader altcoin strength and speculation that...

Blockchain privacy is entering a new phase as encrypted computing, zero-knowledge proofs and multiparty computation enable “Privacy 2.0” — shared encrypted states that let chains compute over sensitive data without exposing it. Arcium CEO Yannik Schrade says this approach can...

OKX has struck a custody arrangement with 170-year-old Standard Chartered to hold its institutional clients’ cryptocurrencies in Europe, marking a major traditional bank entry into crypto custody for institutional flows. The tie-up comes after October’s market crash and is positioned...

Memecoin prices plunged nearly 40% intraday before a modest rebound, wiping gains back to levels last seen in July as broad market sentiment remains weak. Major tokens Dogecoin and Shiba Inu led the declines, trading deep in the red and...

A report says the Trump family’s cryptocurrency ventures—centered on World Liberty Financial and memecoins such as TRUMP and MELANIA—have generated more than $1 billion in profits. The gains stem from token launches, trading activity and ancillary services tied to the...

By 2025 Bitcoin, Ether and XRP have moved from niche assets to practical payment options across coffee shops, fast-food chains, major retailers and travel services, supported by gift-card schemes and third-party processors. Notable examples include Starbucks via Bitrefill, Sheetz and...

SEC Chair Paul Atkins warned the U.S. is roughly a decade behind in crypto development and said establishing a clear regulatory framework to draw innovation and capital back to the country is “job one” for the agency. He called for...

Bitcoin is perched just above a critical $107,000–$110,000 support zone around the $111,700 mark, and analysts warn that failure to hold that band could trigger a sharp sell-off and volatile price swings. A break below the zone would likely force...

Analysts warn Bitcoin needs a fresh catalyst to push past recent resistance and avoid a "deeper correction," with the cryptocurrency facing potential volatility in the coming month. Market observers point to slowing momentum after failed attempts to reclaim key levels...

Australia’s government is not seeking an immediate ban on crypto ATMs but is proposing draft laws to give financial watchdog AUSTRAC the discretionary power to prohibit them. Minister Tony Burke said the change would allow a targeted ban where ATMs...

Paxos accidentally minted $300 trillion of its PayPal USD stablecoin on Oct. 15, an "internal technical error" that the blockchain made visible and allowed to be fully burned within 22 minutes. Industry executives say the episode underscores blockchain’s advantage over...

The Bank of England said its proposed limits on stablecoins are temporary, seeking to reassure markets after industry groups warned the measures would stifle innovation and signal the UK is unfriendly to crypto. The draft limits would have constrained stablecoin...

Corporate buyers concentrated 95% of their Ether purchases in Q3, a surge market observers say, alongside growing ETF accumulation and rising volumes of ETH locked in staking. Crypto executives are projecting up to 200% upside for Ether by year-end, citing...

Nasdaq-listed Zeta Network raised $230 million in a private share sale in which investors paid with Bitcoin and SolvBTC, adding those crypto assets to the company’s corporate treasury. The deal marks a direct infusion of digital-asset exposure onto Zeta’s balance...

Pseudonymous high-leverage crypto trader James Wynn was liquidated for about $4.8 million one day after opening new positions, Lookonchain reported. Wynn had deployed $197,000 in stablecoins into a 40x long on 34 BTC (~$3.85M), a 10x long on 122 million...

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse urged regulators and the press to hold crypto firms to the same AML, KYC and sanctions standards as banks while granting them equivalent access to banking infrastructure such as Fed master accounts, as Ripple awaits an...

After last week’s flash crash that wiped out about $74 billion in leveraged positions and triggered roughly $19.2 billion in reported liquidations, CME’s futures open interest in BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP climbed to $28.3 billion—surpassing Binance’s $23 billion and...

Bitcoin has held above $110,000 driven by sustained US buying that has produced a noticeable Coinbase-US premium, but market structure signals rising risk: long-dormant coins are re-entering circulation and derivatives activity—open interest and leverage—has surged. Those flows have kept prices...

Two brothers, Anton and James Peraire-Bueno, appeared in U.S. court this week over allegations they used a miner-extractable-value (MEV) bot to exploit the Ethereum blockchain and siphon roughly $25 million. The case centers on whether their trading strategy constituted criminal...

Bitcoin’s upside through October is contingent on shifting Federal Reserve rate-cut expectations, fresh BTC ETF inflows and whether the Nasdaq and large-cap tech stocks continue to rally. Traders are watching Fed pricing and ETF flows as the main drivers of...

Voltage executive Bobby Shell argues that corporate Bitcoin treasuries should shift from passive holdings to active use on the Lightning Network, deploying idle BTC into liquidity channels to earn native, noncustodial yield via routing fees and transaction-volume rewards. The move...

Thiel-backed challenger bank Erebor won U.S. regulatory approval to operate, marking one of the most significant new bank charters tied to digital assets since the 2023 regional banking crisis. The approval positions Erebor to compete with Silicon Valley Bank-style lenders...

Dogecoin holders have been accumulating after a 66% flash crash on Oct. 10 that wiped out $365 million in long positions, and onchain metrics suggest the market has not reached euphoric top conditions. Short-term holder accumulation, rising share of coins...

Omnichain versions of Tether’s USDT and tokenized gold XAUT — labelled USDT0 and XAUt0 — have launched on Solana via the Legacy Mesh protocol, enabling native transfers of dollar and gold tokens across multiple blockchains. The move aims to aggregate...

Bitcoin traders warned of a potential plunge to as low as $102,000 after price action signaled a need to ‘fill’ local lows on Binance, reigniting sell-side pressure in the crypto market. At the same time, gold surged to record highs...

The Monad protocol opened its airdrop portal as it prepares for an imminent token launch, enabling users to claim allocations ahead of distribution and signaling a key milestone in its rollout. The announcement comes alongside broader crypto infrastructure updates—Ethereum’s Sepolia...

If Ether reached $100,000, Ethereum’s market capitalization would swell to roughly $12 trillion, reshaping the crypto asset landscape and challenging equities-sized asset classes. Key drivers cited include potential spot-ETF inflows, continued Layer-2 scaling that boosts throughput and lowers fees, and...

SoloTex, a platform built by Texture Capital and Sologenic, has secured FINRA approval to offer tokenized, on‑chain stock ownership to U.S. retail investors, executives said. The move aims to let retail users hold real digital representations of equities on blockchain...

A wallet linked to crypto laundering service LuBian moved roughly $1.3 billion in Bitcoin a day after the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment against Prince Holding Group and disclosed a related $15 billion forfeiture case. The DOJ alleges...

Bitcoin miner stocks rallied as BlackRock, Nvidia and Microsoft joined a roughly $40 billion investment to build AI data centers, marking the first deployment by the newly formed Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership. The move is part of a broader plan...

A new primer explains how beginners can read crypto charts in 2025 by combining price patterns, technical indicators and charting tools to better spot trends and anticipate market moves. It highlights practical elements such as candlestick patterns, moving averages, RSI,...

BNB is showing a bearish 'double top' technical setup that analysts warn could precipitate a roughly 30% decline in price. The downside pressure is compounded by reports of $21.75 billion in outflows from Binance and accusations of an exploit in...