Central Bank of Ireland Fines Coinbase $24.6M for Anti-Money Laundering Failures
The Central Bank of Ireland has fined Coinbase Europe €21.4 million ($24.6 million) for AML and counter‑terrorist‑financing breaches spanning 2021‑2025, after a configuration error left more than 30 million transactions—worth over €176 billion—unmonitored for a year. The regulator said it took nearly three years to complete retroactive monitoring, resulting in 2,708 suspicious‑transaction reports covering alleged money‑laundering, fraud, drug trafficking, cyber‑attacks and child‑exploitation. The penalty follows Coinbase’s recent move of its European regulatory base from Ireland to Luxembourg under the MiCA framework. The case highlights ongoing friction between crypto firms and traditional banks, exemplified by earlier disputes with the Bank of Ireland.
Trump Says He Wants U.S. To Be ‘The Bitcoin Superpower,’ Cites Competition From China
President Donald Trump used the America Business Forum in Miami to declare that the United States will become a "Bitcoin superpower," announcing historic executive orders that end the federal "war on crypto" and emphasizing crypto’s role in easing pressure on...
How Deep Are Bitcoin Traders Hedging After Recent Price Dip Below $100K?
Bitcoin slipped below $100,000, marking an 18% decline from its recent $126,000 peak, as macro‑driven weakness curbed spot ETF inflows. On Deribit, the world’s largest crypto options venue, open interest in $80,000 puts topped $1 billion and $90,000 puts neared $1.9 billion,...
Robinhood’s Crypto Trading Revenue Soared 339% in Q3 as Company Tops Street Earnings Estimates
Robinhood reported third‑quarter crypto trading revenue of $268 million, a 339% year‑over‑year jump, driven by $80 billion in crypto volume and the addition of prediction‑market and Bitstamp businesses that together generate roughly $100 million in annualized revenue. Adjusted earnings per share came in...
Citi and DTCC Say Tokenized Collateral Works and Now Regulators Must Keep Pace
Citi’s Token Services platform is already live in the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore, moving billions of dollars in real‑client cash transactions, while DTCC’s recent “Great Collateral Experiment” proved tokenized treasuries, equities and money‑market funds can serve as...
The Protocol: ZKSync Aims to Revamp Its Tokenomics Model
ZKSync’s creator has lodged a community proposal to convert the ZK token from a pure governance instrument into a utility token that captures direct economic value from network activity. The plan would channel two new revenue streams—on‑chain interoperability fees for...
Monad Foundation Sets Nov. 24 Airdrop Date for Users
The Monad Foundation announced on X that its MON token airdrop will occur on November 24, after opening a claim portal on October 14 for users to verify eligibility. The portal accepted registrations across five tracks, targeting roughly 5,500 core...
Chainlink, Apex Group Test Onchain Stablecoin Compliance With Bermuda Regulator
Chainlink and Apex Group completed a pilot with the Bermuda Monetary Authority to test an on‑chain compliance system for stablecoins, leveraging Chainlink’s Proof of Reserve, Secure Mint, and Automated Compliance Engine. The solution gives regulators real‑time visibility into a stablecoin’s...
Crypto’s Anti-Surveillance Boom: Zcash, Monero and the Return of Anonymity
Privacy-focused cryptocurrencies have surged in the second half of 2025, with Zcash rallying over 700% since late September to overtake Monero as the largest privacy coin by market cap. About 25% of ZEC’s circulating supply now resides in shielded addresses...
Bitcoin Bulls' Last Stand? $95K, According to This Well-Followed Analyst
Analyst James Check (known as Checkmate) notes that roughly 57% of all capital ever invested in Bitcoin is now underwater at the $100,000 level, translating to about $20 billion in losses—about 3% of Bitcoin’s market cap. He warns that a slide...
Citi Says Crypto’s Weakness Stems From Slowing ETF Flows and Fading Risk Appetite
Citi attributes the recent dip in crypto markets to the October 10 liquidations that dented risk appetite, a sharp slowdown in U.S. spot bitcoin ETF inflows, and weakening on‑chain fundamentals. The bank notes that large‑holder (whale) bitcoin addresses are shrinking while...
Hut 8’s Tuesday Tumble Misguided and a Buying Opportunity: Benchmark
Hut 8’s shares fell nearly 13% after the Q3 earnings call failed to announce a hyperscaler tenant for its River Bend data centre, but Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer called the sell‑off short‑sighted and kept a buy rating with a $78 price target....
Britain’s Digital ID Push Is Premature and Dangerous
On September 26 the UK government unveiled a mandatory digital identity scheme called BritCard, initially targeting all employees and slated to expand to driving licences, welfare, banking and tax services. Critics warn the system could enable mass surveillance and create...
Crypto Markets Today: Altcoins Struggle as Bitcoin Tests Key $100K Support
Bitcoin steadied near the $99,000 support line on Wednesday, edging up 1% to $103,281 after a sharp sell‑off that pushed it to its lowest level since June. Ether recovered modestly, rising 2% to $3,372 despite a 20% plunge over 48...
Dinari Taps Chainlink to Tokenize S&P DJI's Upcoming Crypto Market Index
Dinari is partnering with Chainlink to tokenize S&P DJI’s forthcoming Digital Markets 50 Index, creating on‑chain "dShares" that represent a basket of 35 blockchain‑related equities and 15 leading cryptocurrencies. Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network will feed verified, real‑time pricing and performance data to...
Bitcoin, Ether Under Pressure as Altcoins Reel, Futures Flash Caution: Crypto Daybook Americas
Bitcoin briefly fell below $100,000 for the first time since June, slipping more than 20% from its early‑October peak and triggering a broad crypto sell‑off that saw the CoinDesk 20 index drop 2.6% in 24 hours. Over $1.7 billion in long...
Gemini Prepares to Offer Prediction Market Contracts: Bloomberg
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini (GEMI), which went public on the Nasdaq in September, is preparing to launch prediction‑market contracts, a form of event‑driven derivatives. The move follows a surge in the sector, highlighted by Polymarket and Kalshi handling more than $8 billion...
Hong Kong Charges 16 in Alleged $205M JPEX Crypto Fraud as Interpol Hunts 3 More Suspects
Hong Kong prosecutors have charged 16 individuals, including former lawyer and influencer Joseph Lam, in connection with the JPEX cryptocurrency fraud that allegedly defrauded more than 2,700 investors of HK$1.6 billion ($205.8 million), making it the city’s largest financial fraud on record....
This Bitcoin Price Pattern Has Emerged 3 Times Since Late 2023, Triggering Corrections
Bitcoin slipped below $100,000 on Tuesday, touching $98,951 and testing the 365‑day simple moving average ($102,055) and exponential moving average ($99,924) that have acted as support in the current bull cycle. The dip marks the third notable profit‑taking wave by...
Adam Back and Switzerland’s FUTURE Secure 28M Swiss Francs to Build Bitcoin Treasury
Future Holdings AG, a Zurich‑based Bitcoin treasury firm, secured CHF 28 million ($35 million) in a funding round led by Fulgur Ventures, Nakamoto and TOBAM. The capital will expand its balance‑sheet‑driven model that combines BTC treasury management, analytics, secure infrastructure and advisory services,...
Bitcoin at Make or Break Level as China Suspends 24% Tariff on U.S. Goods
Bitcoin is hovering near its 50‑week simple moving average around $102,900, a historically strong support level that has propelled three prior rallies in its three‑year uptrend. China announced it will suspend the 24% additional tariff on U.S. goods for a...
Biggest Loser of NYC Election Polymarket Contract Is Down Almost $1M Betting Against Mamdani
Polymarket’s New York City mayoral election contract recorded a record $424 million in betting volume as Zohran Mamdani defeated Andrew Cuomo. Trader “fuxfux007,” a newcomer with only two positions, lost $969,169 betting against Mamdani, while “debased” netted $188,487 on the winning side....
Animoca Brands' Public Market Ambition Aims at Providing Crypto Access to 'Billions'
Animoca Brands announced a plan to list on Nasdaq through a reverse merger with Currenc Group, targeting a late‑2026 debut pending regulatory and shareholder approvals. The combined entity will launch an altcoin index vehicle that offers institutional and retail investors...
Ether's 20% Freefall Triggers $1B Liquidation Cascade as Crypto Losses Accelerate
Ether plunged more than 20% over two days, sliding from just under $4,000 to around $3,250 and triggering roughly $970 million in liquidations of leveraged long positions. The sell‑off exhausted the buying capacity of BitMine, the largest ETH treasury, which holds...
Ripple's Stablecoin Hits $1B Milestone; Company President Discusses M&A Strategy to Fuel Growth
Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin surpassed $1 billion in market capitalization within a year of its December 2024 launch, making it the 10th‑largest U.S. dollar‑backed stablecoin. The token, issued by Ripple’s regulated subsidiary Standard Custody & Trust, splits its supply between Ethereum ($819 million)...
XRP Ledger’s Dual Utility Could Make It a Breakout ETF Play, Experts Argue
XRP Ledger’s dual functionality—supporting both value transfer (XRP) and payments via RLUSD on a single ledger—was highlighted by Bitnomial CEO Luke Hoersten as a structural advantage for a spot XRP ETF. Bitwise and Canary Capital have filed no‑delay amendments that...
Appeals Court Seems Unmoved by Sam Bankman-Fried’s Claims of an Unfair Trial
A three‑judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit expressed skepticism toward Sam Bankman‑Fried’s bid for a new trial, questioning his claim that FTX was solvent at the time of its 2022 bankruptcy. His lawyer, Alexandra...
Coinbase Faces Flak From Traditional Bankers on Its Push for Trust Bank Charter
Coinbase’s request for a U.S. federal trust charter has been met with a formal objection from the Independent Community Bankers of America, which argues the exchange fails multiple statutory standards, lacks sound risk controls and may not be profitable in...
Chainlink's LINK Tumbles 6% as Technical Breakdown Trumps UBS, FTSE Partnership
Chainlink’s native token LINK fell 6% to $14.59, breaking the key $15.26 support level on a volume surge of 57.8% above its seven‑day average. The decline unfolded despite high‑profile institutional news, including UBS’s world‑first tokenized fund transaction using Chainlink’s Digital...
DOGE Prints Lower-Low Sequence as $0.17 Resistance Locks In
Dogecoin slid 6.7% to $0.1605, breaking the key $0.17 resistance level as large‑holder selling intensified. Trading volume spiked 76% above the weekly average, highlighted by a 59 million DOGE sell‑off that pushed the price to a low of $0.1600. Technical analysis...
Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman Outlines 3 Ways Blockchain Can Fix Finance
Nasdaq chief executive Adena Friedman told a Swell conference that blockchain can reshape finance in three ways – by streamlining fragmented post‑trade settlement, by enabling faster, cross‑border collateral mobility, and by modernizing sluggish payment infrastructure. She warned that large amounts...
Bitcoin Careens Toward $100K as Morning Bounce Fails
Bitcoin slid to $104,608, breaching the $102,000 mark and marking its weakest level since late June, down 4.5% in 24 hours and 11.8% over the past week. Ethereum and other major tokens fell 5‑7% each, while crypto‑related equities such as...
Chainlink Introduces CRE to Fast-Track Institutional Tokenization
Chainlink has launched the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE), a software platform that lets institutions write and deploy smart contracts across public and private blockchains with built‑in compliance, privacy and data‑integration tools. The company cites adoption by Swift, Euroclear, UBS and...
Olas Launches Pearl V1, the First 'AI Agent App Store'
Olas unveiled Pearl v1, the first decentralized “AI agent app store,” allowing users to own and control autonomous AI agents with on‑chain transparency while using familiar Web2 logins and card funding. The platform blends Web2 ease of access with Web3...
HBAR Drops 4.2% to $0.173 as ETF Buzz Fades on Technical Selling
HBAR slipped 4.2% to $0.173, breaking the $0.1740 support level as volume surged 28.7% above its weekly average. The sell‑off created a classic downtrend pattern with lower highs and lower lows, while resistance held around $0.1783. The price move came...
Toncoin Falls Below $2 as Broader Market Conditions Weigh on Price
Toncoin (TON) slipped below $2, trading at $1.96 after a 5.5% drop in the past 24 hours, driven by an 89% surge in volume and more than $1.4 billion of long‑position liquidations across the crypto market. The sell‑off pushed TON through...
Stellar’s XLM Slides 7.7% as Key Support Break Sparks Heavy Sell-Off
Stellar’s XLM tumbled 7.7% in 24 hours, sliding from $0.2945 to $0.2728 after breaching the critical $0.2800 support level on Nov 3. The breakdown sparked a volume surge of 483%—about 262.9 million tokens—while resistance at $0.2857 held firm and new support around $0.2720‑$0.2740...
U.S. Sanctions North Korean Bankers Over Crypto Laundering Tied to Cyberattacks
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned eight North Korean individuals and two entities on Tuesday for laundering cryptocurrency proceeds from ransomware, crypto thefts and fraudulent IT‑worker schemes that fund Pyongyang’s weapons programs. The designations include bankers Jang...
Bitcoin Treasury Firm Bubble Comes Full Circle as Sequans Unloads BTC to Cut Debt
Sequans (SQNS) sold 970 Bitcoin at $104,608.94 each to redeem half of its July 2025 convertible debt, slashing total liabilities from $189 million to $94.5 million and cutting its debt‑to‑net‑asset‑value ratio from 55% to 39%. The sale leaves the Paris‑based firm with 2,264 BTC,...
BNB Drops Below $950 as Market Sell-Off Deepens, Privacy Coins Surge
BNB slumped 7.8% to $940, breaking key support at $980 and $940 amid a 72% surge in trading volume that points to large‑holder sell‑offs. The drop followed a failed breakout above $1,020 and coincided with a broader market downturn that...
Cleaning Up Crypto ATMs Isn’t Anti-Crypto
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird sued crypto‑ATM operators CoinFlip and Bitcoin Depot, underscoring growing consumer‑protection concerns about the devices. Law‑enforcement agencies and state attorneys general, from DC’s Brian Schwalb to Arizona’s Kris Mayes, have targeted operators such as Athena Bitcoin, while the FBI estimates...
MARA Holdings Outlines AI and Energy Shift with MPLX LOI; Q3 Results Impress
MARA Holdings and MPLX signed a letter of intent to build integrated power‑generation and data‑center campuses in West Texas, beginning with a 400 MW gas‑fired facility that can scale to 1.5 GW, with MPLX supplying natural gas from its Delaware Basin plants....
Wall Street's Biggest IREN Bull Hiked Price Target to $142 After $9.7B Microsoft AI Deal
Wall Street analysts have sharply raised price targets for IREN after the bitcoin miner secured a $9.7 billion AI infrastructure deal with Microsoft to provide 200 MW of data‑center capacity. Cantor Fitzgerald’s Brett Knoblauch lifted his target to $142 from $100, Bernstein to...
UBS, Chainlink Execute First Onchain Tokenized Fund Redemption in $100T Market
The transaction involved the tokenized UBS USD Money Market Investment Fund Token (uMINT) on Ethereum, with DigiFT as the onchain distributor.
Bitcoin Nears Lowest Since June as U.S. Government Shutdown Hits Joint Longest
Bitcoin is sliding toward $103,000, its lowest level since late June and about 20% below the October 6 record high of $126,500. The dip coincides with the U.S. Dollar Index breaking above 100 for the first time since August, a...
Strategy Introduces a Euro-Denominated Preferred Stock Stream, Following Q3 Earnings
MicroStrategy (MSTR) has launched a euro‑denominated perpetual preferred security, Stream (STRE), shortly after its Q3 earnings, issuing shares at €100 with a 10% annual dividend payable quarterly. The non‑voting instrument is listed on the Euro MTF Luxembourg and targets professional...
Bitcoin’s Last Support Before $100K Breaks as 'Mag 7' Skew Flips, Oracle CDS Surges
Bitcoin slipped below the $106,000 support level, exposing the cryptocurrency to a test of the $100,000‑$101,000 zone and a possible deeper decline toward $94,000 or the $85,000 “maximum‑pain” area. At the same time, the put‑call skew for the Magnificent 7 tech...
Bitcoin, Ether, Solana Traders Liquidated for Over $1B as Prices Dump 5-10%
Bitcoin’s price slipped from $112,000 to below $106,000, sparking more than $1.27 billion in leveraged futures liquidations across crypto markets, with long positions accounting for roughly 90% of the wipes and $1.14 billion of bullish bets erased. The biggest single loss was...
Dogecoin Plunges 8% as Price Action Points to Brief Technical Bounces
Dogecoin slumped 8% to $0.1697 on Tuesday as whales dumped roughly $440 million worth of tokens, pushing 24‑hour volume to 3.37 billion tokens – about 426% above its daily average. The price broke through the $0.18 support zone, confirming sustained institutional selling...
XRP Triangle Tightens as Token Falls 6%, Watch This Price Level For Further Breakdown
XRP rose 2.75% to $2.34 on Monday but lagged the broader crypto market, with 24‑hour volume 6% below its seven‑day average, indicating cautious accumulation. The token found resistance at $2.44 and established a support base around $2.33, while traders eye...
