Will Fusaka Keep Users on L2? Upcoming Ethereum Upgrade Eyes up to 60% Fee Cuts
The next Ethereum upgrade, dubbed Fusaka—a blend of the consensus‑layer "Fulu" and execution‑layer "Osaka"—will revamp how the network processes data and calculates fees, targeting fee reductions of up to 60 percent while leaving the user‑facing experience unchanged. By shifting data handling to the base chain, Fusaka reaffirms Ethereum’s role as the ultimate settlement and data‑availability hub, even as most daily transactions continue on layer‑2 solutions. The change is a backend optimisation rather than a protocol overhaul, aiming to improve scalability and cost efficiency without disrupting existing applications.
XRP Plunges 8% as Fed Shock and Bitcoin Weakness Combine to Break $2.46 Floor
XRP fell about 8% on Thursday, sliding from $2.65 to $2.48 and breaking the key $2.46 support level that had anchored its month‑long range. The drop was fueled by intensified institutional selling and was accompanied by a volume spike of...
Cardano’s ADA Drops Amid Report of Whales Offloading $100M in Tokens
Cardano’s ADA token dropped over 6% in 24 hours, sliding from $0.642 to $0.605 and breaking the key $0.61 support level on volume that was 42% above its weekly average. The decline followed on‑chain data showing whale wallets—holding between 100 million...
SUI Slides as Token Unlock Concerns Trigger Breakdown to as Low as $2.27
SUI token fell to $2.27 after a 160% spike in trading volume triggered a cascade of stop‑loss orders. The plunge was driven by concerns that a sizable token unlock slated for November will flood the market with new supply. Despite...
Whales Awaken as Old SOL Hits Exchanges but $117M ETF Inflows Soak up Supply
Early Solana investors are now moving long‑held SOL onto exchanges, a pattern that typically signals selling pressure, but the impact is being offset by a surge of regulated inflows into Solana‑linked ETFs. Over the past month, Arkham Intelligence flagged a...
NEAR Cuts Inflation Rate by Half Despite Failed Community Vote
NEAR Protocol completed a network upgrade that slashes its annual token inflation from 5% to roughly 2.4%, cutting staking yields from about 9% to 4.5% and curbing the issuance of ~60 million new tokens per year. The change was enacted despite...
Social Engineering Scams Top Crypto Threats in 2025: WhiteBit
WhiteBIT’s 2025 security report finds social engineering scams remain the leading threat to crypto users, accounting for 40.8% of all incidents, while technical wallet hacks such as phishing and malware represent 33.7%. The report highlights that messaging platforms, especially Telegram,...
Why $13B in Bitcoin Options Expiring This Week Is a Price Nothing Burger
A $13 billion notional of Bitcoin options are set to expire this week on Deribit, which clears roughly 90% of the market’s open interest. Analysts say such expirations recur regularly and are largely priced in, limiting any immediate effect on Bitcoin’s...
Bitcoin Slides Below $108K, Crypto Stocks Sink as 'Uptober' Disappoints
Bitcoin slipped below $108,000 on Thursday, a 7% drop from its $116,000 peak three days earlier, setting up its worst October performance since 2014. Major altcoins such as Ethereum, XRP, Solana and Dogecoin fell 5‑7% in the same period, and...
WisdomTree Debuts 14 Tokenized Funds on Plume Network
WisdomTree has launched 14 tokenized funds on the Plume blockchain, a platform that embeds KYC and AML controls at the protocol level. The rollout includes the Government Money Market Digital Fund, to which Galaxy Digital will commit $10 million, and a...
Crypto for Advisors: AI Agents and Internet Money
AI agents are being integrated into wealth management, enabling automated, real‑time DeFi investments and portfolio rebalancing with tokenized assets. Early adopters such as ParaFi, Exodus and Andreessen Horowitz project agents will handle up to 90% of on‑chain transactions by decade’s...
Injective’s TVL Climbs 14% Amid Buyback Launch, But INJ Token Sinks 8%
Injective’s total value locked surged about 14% in the last 24 hours, signaling a wave of new inflows into the protocol, while its native INJ token slipped roughly 8% over the same period. The platform launched a Community Buy‑Back program...
CLANKER Jumps 350% After Farcaster Acquires the AI Token Launchpad
Farcaster acquired Clanker, an AI‑agent token launchpad on Base, sending the CLANKER token up more than 350% to an all‑time high near $143 before settling around $112. The deal will embed Clanker's token‑launching AI (tokenbot) deeper into Farcaster’s app, with...
Ondo Taps Chainlink to Power Data Feeds for 100+ Tokenized Equities
Ondo Finance has appointed Chainlink as the official oracle provider for price feeds of its tokenized stocks and ETFs, covering more than 100 equities across ten blockchains with over $320 million locked. Chainlink will deliver custom feeds that include corporate actions...
Fed Cancels December Rate Cut, 18% Chance of Hike, Slowing Bitcoin Rally
The Federal Reserve lowered its policy rate by 25 basis points to a target range of 3.75%‑4.00%, but futures markets have now erased expectations of an additional cut in December, leaving an 18% probability of a rate hike instead. The...
On-Chain Revenue Hits $20 Billion in 2025 as DeFi Drives Growth
On‑chain revenue hit $20 billion in 2025, with users paying $9.7 billion in fees in the first half of the year – a 41% YoY increase and the highest H1 total on record. DeFi generated 63% of those fees, led by DEX...
Crypto Privacy Shouldn't Be a Purity Test
Rob Viglione, CEO of Horizen Labs, warns that an uncompromising stance on crypto privacy is marginalizing the industry as regulators tighten rules, leading 73 exchanges to delist privacy coins and the EU to plan a ban on anonymity‑enhanced tokens by...
The $308 Billion Question: Can Stablecoins Thrive Amid China Ban?
China’s central bank reaffirmed its ban on stablecoins, with PBoC governor Pan Gongsheng warning that they pose a "new source of vulnerabilities" to the global financial system. He cautioned that stablecoins could erode monetary sovereignty in smaller economies and facilitate...
Circle’s USDC Overtakes Tether's USDT in Onchain Activity as Regulation Drives Shift: JPMorgan
JPMorgan reported that Circle’s USDC has surpassed Tether’s USDT in on‑chain activity as investors gravitate toward regulated stablecoins. USDC’s market cap jumped 72% this year to $74 billion, outpacing USDT’s 32% rise, buoyed by compliance with Europe’s MiCA framework and growing...
Plasma’s XPL Token Crashes 80% as Hype Fades Amid Woeful Debut
Plasma’s XPL token has plunged more than 80% since its September peak, falling from $1.67 to $0.31 and trimming its market cap to about $550 million, putting it at risk of dropping out of the top‑100 cryptocurrencies. The chain, billed as...
DeFi Set to Challenge TradFi With $2T in Tokenized Assets by 2028: Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered predicts tokenized real‑world assets will grow from $35 billion today to $2 trillion by the end of 2028, driven by a 2025 stablecoin boom that is accelerating DeFi adoption. The bank expects tokenized money‑market funds and listed equities to each...
MetaMask Advances Towards a Unified Crypto Wallet with Solana and Bitcoin
MetaMask, the dominant Ethereum browser extension with roughly 30 million monthly active users, has rolled out native support for the Solana blockchain, allowing users to manage SOL and associated tokens directly within the wallet. The upgrade marks the first major cross‑chain...
Analysis: Prediction Market Bettors Miscalculated Dutch Election Results
Prediction‑market platform Polymarket and rival Kalshi misread the Dutch Oct. 29 election, betting heavily on Geert Wilders’ PVV while underestimating a late surge by the D66 party that flipped the result. As D66 odds jumped from roughly 5% to 100% within...
Hedera Rallies on Canary Capital ETF Launch
Canary Capital launched exchange‑traded funds for Hedera (HBAR) and Litecoin (LTC) on Oct. 28, triggering a 22% rally in HBAR to $0.22 and a market cap of $9 billion, while LTC slipped up to 5% after an earlier 5% gain. The HBAR...
Former FTX US President Brett Harrison to Launch Perpetuals Exchange
Former FTX US president Brett Harrison announced the launch of Architect, a Bermuda‑registered perpetual derivatives exchange branded AX that will trade perpetual futures on stocks, indices, interest rates and commodities using a central‑limit‑order‑book model with centrally cleared, anonymous matching. The...
Chainlink Drops, Then Bounces 4% as FOMC Volatility Drives Crypto Market
Chainlink’s LINK token fell to $17.96 on Wednesday after breaking the $18 support level, with volume spiking 26% above its weekly average and a 178% surge in the 24‑hour token flow. The sell‑off was quickly reversed, and the price recovered...
Bittensor Rallies Ahead of First TAO Halving
Bittensor’s native TAO token is rallying ahead of its first halving scheduled for Dec. 10, gaining about 50% in the past 30 days and ranking as the second‑best‑performing top‑100 altcoin. The halving, modeled on Bitcoin’s supply‑cut mechanism, is expected to reduce circulating...
What Bitcoin Chart Says About BTC Price After Powell Casts Doubt on December Cut?
Bitcoin is trading around $111,000, staying above the 200‑day simple moving average but still below the Ichimoku cloud, signaling short‑term bearish pressure after Fed Chair Jerome Powell downplayed a December rate cut. The dollar index’s bullish 50‑/100‑day SMA crossover and...
Morpho Gets $775 Million of Pre-Deposits From Stable, Adds Support for Optimism
DeFi lending platform Morpho, now the eighth‑largest protocol with roughly $8 billion TVL, secured a $775 million pre‑deposit from Stable, the Bitfinex‑backed stablechain, to be allocated across Gauntlet‑managed vaults. The deposit will be split among multiple Morpho vaults, underscoring a broader shift...
AERO Soars 10% as Animoca Market Buys Aerodrome's Native Token
Animoca Brands announced it purchased an undisclosed amount of Aerodrome’s native AERO token on the Base network, buying at market price and immediately max‑locking the tokens as veAERO for voting power and long‑term staking rewards. The news lifted AERO more...
Fed Cuts 25 Bps, but There Is Another Hidden Macro Challenge Looming
The Federal Reserve lowered its policy rate by 25 basis points and signaled that the balance‑sheet runoff – the gradual reduction of its holdings – may soon conclude. With the overnight reverse‑repo facility now down to roughly $14 billion, any further...
Crypto Sale Moves From ETHZilla, Sequans Spark DAT Unwind Fears
Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla sold roughly $40 million of ETH and used $12 million to repurchase 600,000 shares, narrowing its market‑to‑NAV discount to 0.62 and lifting its Nasdaq price 5.4%. Bitcoin treasury company Sequans transferred about 970 BTC to a Coinbase Prime hot...
Crypto Market Loses $100 Billion in Market Cap While S&P Hits New Highs
Bitcoin slipped more than 4% to around $111,000 on Wednesday, contributing to a $100 billion erosion in total crypto market capitalization as the S&P 500 posted new record highs ahead of the Federal Reserve’s policy decision. The sell‑off was driven largely by...
Analysts Expect Strong Q3 for Coinbase But Disagree Sharply on Its Future
Analysts project a strong third quarter for Coinbase, with Barclays, JP Morgan and Compass Point all citing revenue upside from USDC stablecoin growth and higher trading volumes. Yet they sharply diverge on the outlook for Coinbase’s Base L2 network, the Deribit...
Investment Bank Mizuho Says Visa Is Becoming the ‘Stablecoin of Stablecoins’
Japanese investment bank Mizuho labeled Visa the “stablecoin of stablecoins,” arguing the payments giant has become core infrastructure for global stablecoin transactions. Visa now runs more than 130 stablecoin‑linked card programs across 40+ countries, with spend on those programs up...
HBAR Consolidates at $0.2010 as Volume Surge Signals Distribution
HBAR slipped 0.3% to $0.2010 as sellers re‑asserted control near the $0.2055 resistance level, keeping the token within a narrow $0.0124 range. Trading volume spiked to 249 million tokens, a 137% increase over the average, signaling heavy institutional distribution at the...
Are Ethereum ETFs a Price Headwind?
US‑listed spot Ethereum ETFs recorded sustained outflows in late September and mid‑October, a period that coincided with a relative decline in the ETH/BTC price ratio. Meanwhile, non‑US ETFs attracted fresh capital and staking participation continued to rise, cushioning the price...
Crypto Long & Short: Fast Money, Slow Money
The latest Crypto Long & Short newsletter contrasts a volatile "fast money" market—marked by a 24,000‑bitcoin whale dump, a brief Bitcoin all‑time high, and the worst crypto liquidation event triggered by President Trump's 100% Chinese tariff announcement—with a resilient "slow...
BNB Slips 2.7% As Traders Focus on Technicals During Crypto Market Drawdown
BNB slipped 2.7% to $1,105 after a brief rally that followed BNB Chain’s largest‑ever quarterly token burn, which removed 1.44 million BNB and trimmed total supply to roughly 137.7 million. The decline was part of a broader 1.8% pullback across the crypto...
Michael Saylor's Strategy Drops $18B in Value, but a Rebound May Be Near: 10X Research
MicroStrategy (MSTR) has shed about $18 billion in market value and fallen 40% since July as its bitcoin‑linked net‑asset‑value premium collapsed. 10x Research analyst Markus Thielen now expects the company to post a Q3 profit of roughly $3.6 billion from mark‑to‑market gains on...
The Protocol: ETH’s Fusaka Upgrade Goes Live on Hoodi, Mainnet Next
Ethereum completed the final Hoodi testnet rehearsal of its Fusaka upgrade, clearing the path for a mainnet hard‑fork activation. The upgrade’s core feature, PeerDAS, lets validators verify only data segments, cutting bandwidth use and transaction costs after the earlier Pectra...
Crypto Treasury Activity Still Tepid, but Capital Flows Rebound: B. Riley
B. Riley reports that corporate crypto treasury activity remains subdued, but capital flows are beginning to rebound as U.S.-China trade talks improve sentiment. BitMine Immersion led the covered digital‑asset treasury companies by adding roughly $300 million of ether, raising its ETH concentration...
Bitcoin Fork Zcash up 380% to $5.8B: Does Scarce Privacy Have Legs?
Zcash (ZEC), a long‑overlooked Bitcoin fork, surged 380% in market value to roughly $5.8 billion, marking the most dramatic crypto rally of 2025. The rally was fueled by renewed investor appetite for privacy‑focused assets as regulatory scrutiny tightens on transparent tokens...
TRON DAO Participates in Europol’s 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets
TRON DAO, the community‑governed organization behind the TRON blockchain, took part in Europol’s 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets on Oct. 28‑29, 2025 at the UNODC headquarters in Vienna. The DAO’s delegation joined law‑enforcement officials, regulators and industry peers...
Nvidia Hits $5T Market Cap as Bitcoin Now Trails U.S. Equities Year to Date
Nvidia’s market value surged past the $5 trillion mark, underscoring the chipmaker’s outsized role in the AI boom. At the same time, Bitcoin’s year‑to‑date returns fell behind gold and slipped beneath the performance of both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. The...
Georgia's ‘Shadow Ruler’ Is Trying to Claw Back a Bitcoin Fortune Worth $1B
Georgia’s reclusive power broker Bidzina Ivanishvili, who turned down a Bitcoin mining offer in 2014, now claims his former financial advisor stole roughly $1 billion in Bitcoin and has launched a campaign using courts, intelligence agents and an abduction to seize...
Swiss Crypto Infrastructure Firm Taurus Expands to U.S. With New York Office
Swiss crypto‑infrastructure provider Taurus opened a New York office, its second North American location after Vancouver, to serve U.S. banks and corporates entering digital assets. The firm appointed Zack Bender, formerly of Fiserv and Swift, to head U.S. operations. The move...
Is the EU Bitcoin Race Starting? France Targets 420k BTC as Germany Weighs Reserves
European powers France and Germany are moving toward creating sovereign Bitcoin holdings, with France proposing a target of 420,000 BTC and Germany studying the feasibility of a national reserve. The French plan would lock in roughly $10 billion worth of the...
Australian Regulator Signals Broader Digital Asset Oversight Ahead of New Licensing Regime
Australia's securities regulator ASIC said many digital assets already fall under existing financial‑services laws and will require licensing, expanding its guidance from "crypto assets" to "digital assets" with 13 practical examples. The regulator flagged fiat‑backed stablecoins as non‑cash payment facilities...
Ironlight Wins FINRA Approval for First U.S. Regulated ATS With Onchain Atomic Settlement
Ironlight Markets received FINRA approval to operate a U.S.-regulated alternative trading system (ATS) that handles both traditional and tokenized securities, becoming the first platform to offer atomic on‑chain settlement that clears and settles trades instantly. The system combines a centralized...