Is November the New October? Analyst Says It’s Bitcoin’s Strongest Month — Here’s the Data
Crypto analyst Lark Davis touted November as Bitcoin’s strongest month, citing a 42.5% average gain since 2013, a figure heavily skewed by the 449% surge that year. The CoinGlass heat map shows the median November return is only about 9%, reflecting a far more modest typical outcome. Recent Novembers have produced both double‑digit losses and gains, illustrating wide dispersion and limiting the predictive power of the seasonality narrative. The article also explains the slang terms “Uptober” and “Moonvember,” which circulate each autumn regardless of actual market performance.
SEC Just Gave Crypto Lawyers a New Way to Win in Court
The SEC issued an exemptive order on Oct. 31 delaying compliance deadlines for Regulation NMS rules until February and November 2026, citing regulatory uncertainty and a funding lapse. The order, aimed at traditional equity exchanges, creates a precedent that crypto...
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire Calls Arc ‘an Economic OS for the Internet’
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told CNBC that the company’s new Arc platform is an “economic OS for the internet,” offering dollar‑priced fees, sub‑second settlement and configurable privacy for stablecoin‑native finance. The public testnet went live on Oct. 28 and a mainnet...
Bitcoin: The Dawn of a New Monetary Era
Seventeen years after its 2008 white paper, Bitcoin has evolved from a cryptographic experiment into a global network embraced by corporations, institutional investors, and users seeking financial sovereignty. The article highlights Bitcoin’s origins as a response to the 2008 financial...
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Trolls the Prediction Markets
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong admitted on the company’s Q3 earnings call that he was monitoring prediction‑market bets about which buzzwords would be spoken, and he deliberately inserted “Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Staking, and Web3” to satisfy those wagers. Bloomberg said roughly...
Bitcoin’s ‘Red October’: What Happened to the Widely Anticipated Uptober Crypto Rally?
Bitcoin closed October 2025 8.5% lower, snapping a six‑year streak of positive "Uptober" performance that had persisted since 2019. The decline was sparked by a mid‑month risk‑off rally after President Donald Trump announced steep new tariffs on China, leading to...
Latin American Crypto Exchange Ripio Launches Argentine Peso Stablecoin 'wARS'
Ripio, the Latin American crypto exchange with over 25 million users, has launched wARS, an Argentine peso‑pegged stablecoin on Ethereum, Coinbase’s Base and World Chain. The token lets users send and receive funds globally without banks or converting to U.S. dollars,...
State of Crypto: The Government Shutdown Nears a Record
The U.S. government shutdown, now in its second‑longest stretch, could become the longest at 35 days, halting progress on crypto legislation. Congress has already missed key deadlines, including the Oct. 20 markup hearing for market‑structure reform, and any movement now depends...
ARK Invest’s Crypto Exposure Tops $2.15B as Bullish Holdings Rise Across 3 Funds
ARK Invest boosted its position in crypto‑exchange Bullish by 105,000 shares, a $5.3 million purchase that lifts its holding to 2.27 million shares worth $114 million. The addition brings the firm’s combined exposure to blockchain and crypto‑related companies across its three actively managed...
T3 FCU Has Frozen Over $300 Million in Illicit Funds
T3 Financial Crime Unit (FCU), a joint effort by Tether, Tron and TRM Labs, reported freezing more than $300 million in illicit on‑chain assets since its September 2024 launch, highlighted by a cooperation with Brazil's Federal Police to seize 4.3 million USDT tied...
MiCA Won’t Save Us From a Stablecoin Crisis. It Might Be Building One
Europe’s MiCA framework imposes micro‑prudential safeguards on stablecoins—proof‑of‑reserves, capital buffers and redemption rules—but it fails to address the macro‑prudential danger of billions of euros shifting from bank deposits to crypto‑backed tokens. The Bank of England has warned that such a...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says X Chat's New P2P Encryption System Is Similar to Bitcoin's
Elon Musk announced that X will launch a standalone X Chat app in the coming months while retaining an integrated chat experience within the X platform. The new service employs a peer‑to‑peer encryption model that Musk likens to Bitcoin, emphasizing the...
‘Bitcoin Never Shuts Down’: U.S. Treasury Secretary Marks Anniversary, Needles Democrats
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent used a Oct. 31 X post to celebrate the 17th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper, lauding the network’s "never shuts down" design and taking a jab at Senate Democrats amid a partial federal shutdown. The...
How the Ethereum vs Solana War Ended Quietly Not with a Bang but a Whimper
The long‑running rivalry between Ethereum and Solana has faded as the two layer‑1 protocols pursued fundamentally different architectures in 2025. Ethereum abandoned the monolithic‑chain race years ago, repositioning its base layer as a settlement infrastructure for modular rollups that prioritize...
When the CEO Reads the Script: Did Coinbase Brian Armstrong Manipulate a Market?
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong closed the company’s Q3 earnings call on Oct. 30 by admitting he was watching prediction‑market bets on what the call would contain and then deliberately uttered the words “Bitcoin, Ethereum, blockchain, staking, and Web3.” The remark...
Does Bitcoin Power Law Model Still Work in 2025 After S2F Failed?
The live Bitcoin power‑law channel, built on a log‑log regression of price versus days since genesis, places spot BTC around $109,700—about 20% below its fair‑value estimate of $136,100 and well above the model’s floor near $48,300. Recent ETF activity, including...
The First AI Launchpad on Sui: Empowering Retail Investors to Invest Like VCs
Surge, the first AI launchpad on the Move‑based Sui blockchain, aims to give retail investors VC‑style access to AI agent projects by redesigning token launches. The platform locks 90% of insider tokens until specific Fully Diluted Valuation or technical milestones...
Invisible Lightning: Why Exchange Channels Break a Favorite Bitcoin Metric
The Bitcoin Lightning Network’s public capacity has slipped to about 4,132 BTC, with nodes falling 6.8% and channels down 2.5% day‑over‑day, but the decline reflects a shift toward private, custodial and exchange‑controlled routes rather than a loss of utility. Major exchanges...
New Prison Report Flouts Claim FTX Could Have Repaid Customers From $25B in Assets
In a 15‑page report drafted from prison, Sam Bankman‑Fried argues that FTX was never insolvent, claiming the exchange and Alameda held roughly $25 billion in assets and $16 billion in equity against about $13 billion in liabilities, enough to repay customers in full...
Analyst Says Ethereum Is the Best Ecosystem and Ether Is Poised to Top $5,000
Ether rose 1.5% to $3,822.60 on volume 19% above its seven‑day average before slipping after an upper‑band rejection near the $3,860‑$3,880 range. Analyst Michael van de Poppe argues that Ethereum’s developer activity and network effects make it the premier ecosystem...
Crypto Bank Custodia Suffers Another Court Rejection in Fed Master Account Pursuit
An appeals court in the 10th Circuit rejected Custodia Bank’s bid to compel the Federal Reserve to grant it a master account, upholding a lower‑court decision that the Fed has statutory discretion to deny such access. Custodia, a Wyoming‑chartered crypto‑focused...
70M Daily Transactions, $143B Volume: How Solana Won DeFi’s Throughput Race
Solana is handling roughly 70 million transactions per day and generated about $143 billion in monthly DEX volume as of Oct. 30, surpassing Ethereum’s $138 billion despite processing far fewer base‑layer transactions. The network’s throughput of ~1,100 TPS is supported by 1,295 validators in 40...
The Bitcoin White Paper Offered a Blueprint for a More Reliable Financial System
Seventeen years after its release, the Bitcoin white paper is framed not merely as a technical milestone but as a blueprint for a more reliable financial system, highlighting longstanding weaknesses in global payments such as costly intermediaries, delayed settlements, and...
'Do Not Fear Ghosts of Fiat,' Says Bitcoin Policy Institute, as Bears Lurk at Resistance
Bitcoin hovered near $109,400 on Oct 31, 2025, rebounding from a $106,400 support floor to a $110,700‑$114,500 resistance cluster before settling into a tighter range as volume cooled. The CoinDesk technical model recorded a high‑volume sell‑off of 19,395 BTC, a V‑shaped rebound of...
Maple’s SYRUP Stakers Vote to End Staking Rewards, Launch DAO Treasury
Maple Finance’s SYRUP stakers voted overwhelmingly—over 99% of voting power—to end staking rewards and allocate 25% of ongoing protocol revenue to a newly created Syrup Strategic Fund (SSF). The SSF will serve as a DAO treasury holding SYRUP, Bitcoin and...
Bitcoin Scrambles to Close October in Green as 2018 Sell-Off Shadows Loom
BTC is back above $110,000, but it’s still not enough to close the "Uptober" in the green.
Bitcoin Cash Breaks Above $550 as Volume Surges; Range Tightens Near Support
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) surged 2.6% to $554.52, breaking above the $550 barrier after a 130,078‑unit volume spike that pushed trading activity 328% above its average. The price then settled into a tight $553‑$556 consolidation box, with fresh support identified at...
Can Asia’s Mid-Caps Absorb 30% of New BTC Supply?
Asia’s mid‑cap companies are emerging as a new source of demand for Bitcoin, with Japan’s Metaplanet now holding more than 30,000 BTC and Korea’s Bitplanet launching a supervised, rules‑based accumulation program. These moves follow earlier corporate treasury experiments by firms...
Tether Profits Topped $10B in First Nine Months of Year; Starts Share Buyback Program
The stablecoin issuer saw strong growth in the third quarter, reporting a $17 billion increase in circulating USDT and $135 billion exposure to U.S. Treasuries.
Filecoin Rises Over 4%, Rebounding From Thursday's Drop
Filecoin (FIL) jumped 4.3% to $1.4792, rebounding from Thursday's sharp decline as the broader crypto market rallied. Trading volume spiked to 5.46 million tokens, a 98% increase over the 24‑hour average, confirming strong buying at the $1.41 support level. Technical analysis...
Wall Street Divided on Coinbase’s Path Forward After Q3 Earnings Beat
Coinbase reported third‑quarter transaction revenue of $1.05 billion and adjusted EBITDA of $801 million, both beating consensus estimates. While analysts agree the beat was driven by derivatives, subscription services and the Deribit integration, they diverge sharply on outlook: bullish analysts cite expanding...
Core Scientific Upgraded to Outperform Following Failed CoreWeave Merger: Macquarie
Macquarie upgraded Core Scientific (CORZ) to Outperform from Neutral and lifted its price target to $34, roughly a 90% increase from the prior $18, after the CoreWeave merger collapsed. The failed deal gives the bitcoin‑miner‑turned‑AI‑infrastructure firm flexibility to lease its...
If Web3 Is Decentralized, Why Do DeFi dApps Still Break when the Cloud Goes Down?
On Oct. 20 a failure in Amazon’s US‑EAST‑1 region cascaded through the crypto ecosystem, causing degraded service at Coinbase, timeouts at Infura and Alchemy, and stalls in several roll‑up sequencers. The outage did not affect blockchain consensus but exposed the heavy...
Brazil’s OranjeBTC Joins Wave of Struggling Crypto Treasury Firms Turning to Buybacks
Brazil's OranjeBTC, the country's largest bitcoin treasury firm, repurchased 99,600 shares for 1.12 million reais (about $220,000) to narrow the discount between its market price and the net asset value of its 3,708 bitcoin holdings, worth roughly $409 million. The buyback follows...
H.C. Wainwright Turns Bullish on Coinbase, Double Upgrades to Buy With $425 Target
H.C. Wainwright upgraded Coinbase (COIN) to a buy rating from sell and lifted its price target to $425, up from $300, just before the exchange released its third‑quarter results. Coinbase reported $1.9 billion in revenue, beating the $1.8 billion consensus, driven by...
Unveiling GoDark: Crypto’s New Institutional Dark Pool Backed by Copper, GSR, Others
GoDark, launched by GoQuant and backed by custodians Copper, GSR and a roster of institutional investors, is the first dedicated institutional dark pool for crypto, offering ultra‑low‑latency spot trading with plans to add futures, options and other derivatives. The platform...
Are Bitcoin Miners Becoming AI Utilities? The Math Says Yes
The April 2024 Bitcoin halving cut block rewards from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC, slashing the hash‑price and squeezing miner margins. In response, leading mining firms are repurposing excess hash power and data‑center capacity for artificial‑intelligence workloads, signing long‑term power‑lease contracts...
Crypto Markets Today: Bitcoin Slips, Altcoins Slide as AI Spending Concerns Hit U.S. Equities
Bitcoin slipped 0.2% to just under $110,000 while the CoinDesk 20 Index fell 1.7% as a broader sell‑off in U.S. equities was triggered by Meta and Microsoft raising AI‑spending forecasts, sparking overspending concerns. Ether dropped 1.3% to $3,871 and a...
Strategy Eyes Global Credit Expansion With Focus on International Markets
Strategy (MSTR) reported record operating income of $12 billion and net income of $8.6 billion for the first nine months of 2025, delivering earnings per share of $27.71 and reversing last year’s losses. CEO Phong Le reaffirmed a plan to retire all convertible...
Bitcoin Slips, Weekly ETF Outflows Hit $600M on Macro Jitters: Crypto Daybook Americas
Bitcoin hovered around $110,000, slipping 0.3%, while ether dropped 1.3% to $3,840 as AI‑spending forecasts from Meta and Microsoft sparked broader equity sell‑offs and macro‑risk aversion. Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $600 million of outflows this week, with ETH ETFs losing $184.3 million,...
Here Is Why Bitcoin Registered Its First Red October in 7 Years
October has historically been Bitcoin’s strongest month, delivering average gains of about 22.5% thanks to post‑summer liquidity, year‑end portfolio rebalancing and robust demand from U.S. investment products. In 2024, however, Bitcoin posted a loss, marking its first red October in...
T3 Financial Crime Unit, Backed by Tron, Tether, TRM Labs, Has Now Frozen $300M in Assets
The T3 Financial Crime Unit, a task force funded by stablecoin issuer Tether, the Tron blockchain and blockchain‑intelligence firm TRM Labs, announced it has frozen $300 million in illicit crypto assets in its first year of operation. Launched in September 2024, the...
The Next $100B DeFi Market: Real DNS Domains
D3 is launching an Ethereum L2 platform that tokenizes real DNS domains such as .com, .ai and .xyz, making them fully ICANN‑compliant and granting true ownership rights. The system enables fractionalization, fungible trading, collateralization and revenue‑sharing of domain assets, eliminating...
Sam Bankman-Fried Posts Lengthy 'FTX Was Never Insolvent' Document
Sam Bankman‑Fried posted a 30‑page document on X asserting that FTX was never insolvent and that its assets, if marked‑to‑market, would be worth over $100 billion today, shifting blame to bankruptcy lawyers for the collapse. The filing includes tables of hypothetical...
Gold vs Ondo vs ConstructKoin: Which RWAs Will Dominate 2025 and Beyond?
The article examines three leading real‑world asset (RWA) tokenization platforms—gold‑backed tokens, Ondo Finance and ConstructKoin—to forecast which will dominate the market by 2025. It notes that the RWA sector has more than doubled, expanding from $15.7 billion in January to $35.5 billion...
FourMeme Surpasses Pumpfun With $43 Million in Monthly Revenue
FourMeme, the Binance Smart Chain memecoin launchpad, generated $43 million in fees over the past 30 days, outpacing Solana‑based Pumpfun by 13% and becoming the fourth‑largest DeFi revenue source after Hyperliquid, Circle, and Tether. The platform’s surge came as overall memecoin trading...
Do ETFs Risk Centralizing Solana, and Who Actually Gets the Yield?
Solana’s ecosystem has long relied on a robust staking culture, with more than two‑thirds of its circulating supply delegated to validators and generating roughly a 6% annual return from inflation and transaction fees. New exchange‑traded funds (ETFs) that hold Solana...
ETH Selloff Meets Late Bounce as Volume Climbs; Range Tightens as Risk Appetite Plunges
Ethereum slipped to a session low of $3,731 before bouncing 1.35% to $3,772, with trading volume 32% above its seven‑day average. The price broke down through the $3,880 resistance level, then reclaimed the $3,760 checkpoint, tightening the near‑term range to...
Coinbase Tops Expectations as Transaction Revenue Hits $1B
Coinbase reported Q3 2025 revenue of $1.9 billion, a 58% year‑over‑year increase, driven by transaction revenue that more than doubled to $1 billion and adjusted EBITDA of $801 million. Trading volume hit $295 billion, with retail volume up 37% and institutional revenue more than...
NFTs Crater as Farmers Abandon OpenSea
NFT volumes on OpenSea have slumped 48% in the past week following the first XP chest‑farming campaign, with legacy collections such as Bored Ape Yacht Club and Pudgy Penguins falling over 50% since the summer rally. Prices are also tumbling—BAYC...