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 debt by 2029 while pursuing a global digital‑credit expansion, including new credit‑securities offerings in international jurisdictions. The firm qualified for potential S&P 500 inclusion for the second straight quarter and has raised $20 billion year‑to‑date across multiple securities, while confirming it will not face the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax on unrealized bitcoin gains.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Crypto M&A Heats Up as Big Banks and Fintechs Race to Scale: Citizens
Citizens Bank says crypto‑focused mergers and acquisitions are accelerating as banks and fintechs opt to buy rather than build blockchain infrastructure, driven by regulatory clarity and rising tokenization demand. The report highlights Mastercard’s advanced talks to acquire ZeroHash for up...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MegaETH Raises $450M in Oversubscribed Token Sale Backed by Ethereum Founders
MegaETH, a high‑speed Ethereum layer‑2 network backed by Vitalik Buterin and Joe Lubin’s MegaLabs, raised $450 million in an oversubscribed token sale, attracting 14,491 investors and 819 wallets that each contributed the maximum $186,000. The auction closed at nearly nine times its original...
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...
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...
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...
Core Scientific Holders Poised to Reject CoreWeave Merger, Jefferies Says
Jefferies expects Core Scientific (CORZ) shareholders to vote down the proposed merger with CoreWeave (CRWV) on Oct. 30, as CORZ shares trade about 18% above the implied offer price. The bank raised its price target to $24 from $22 and reiterated...
Bitcoin, Ether Brace for $17B Options Expiry Amid Fed Meeting, Tech Company Earnings
Bitcoin and Ether options with a combined notional value of about $17 billion are set to expire on Friday on Deribit, comprising roughly $14.4 billion of Bitcoin contracts and $2.6 billion of Ether contracts. Prices are hovering near the max‑pain levels of $114,000...
Deutsche Digital Assets and Safello to List Staked Bittensor ETP on SIX Swiss Exchange
Deutsche Digital Assets and Nasdaq‑Nordic broker Safello will list the Safello Bittensor Staked TAO ETP (ticker STAO) on the SIX Swiss Exchange within weeks. The exchange‑traded product gives investors regulated exposure to Bittensor’s TAO token, combines price appreciation with automatically...
DBS, Goldman Sachs Execute First Over-the-Counter Interbank Crypto Options Trade
DBS Group and Goldman Sachs announced they completed the first over‑the‑counter cryptocurrency options trade between banks, executing cash‑settled Bitcoin and Ether options. The deal provides both institutions with a hedging tool for crypto‑linked exposure, mirroring traditional finance risk‑management practices. DBS...
Recent Bitcoin Crash Has Put $1B in sUSDe Loop Trades at Risk, Research Firm Says
A flash crash on October 10 sent Bitcoin tumbling and triggered a sharp drop in DeFi rates, putting roughly $1 billion of leveraged positions that use Ethena's staked USDe (sUSDe) at risk, according to Sentora Research. The popular sUSDe loop trade—where...
Chainlink Underpins Balcony's $240B Real Estate Tokenization Platform
Balcony, a platform focused on tokenizing real‑estate assets, announced it will integrate Chainlink’s Runtime Environment (CRE) to feed more than $240 billion of government‑sourced property data onto its blockchain. The partnership leverages Chainlink’s decentralized oracle network to verify and deliver high‑quality,...
Western Union to Launch Stablecoin on Solana With Anchorage Digital
The U.S. dollar-pegged token is expected to become available in the first half of 2026.
Bitcoin's Offshoot, BCH, Edges Up 1% to Challenge Downtrend
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) edged up roughly 1% on higher-than-usual trading volume, hinting at underlying accumulation despite overall muted price action. The modest gain interrupts a recent downtrend and suggests that buyers are stepping in at current levels. Elevated volume reinforces...
Wealth Managers Scramble to Add Crypto as UAE's Ultra-Rich Demand Digital Assets
Swiss software firm Avaloq’s survey of UAE high‑net‑worth investors reveals a sharp rise in demand for digital assets, with more than half of respondents planning to allocate a portion of their portfolios to crypto. This surge is prompting private banks...
Heather 'Razzlekhan' Morgan's Release From Prison Wasn't Us, White House Says
Heather 'Razzlekhan' Morgan, a rapper and alleged Bitfinex hack participant, was released from prison earlier than her original sentence. She publicly claimed that former President Donald Trump intervened to secure her early release. A White House official refuted the allegation,...
XLM Gains 2.3% to $0.3314 as Payment Networks Drive Institutional Interest
XLM rose 2.3% in the past 24 hours to $0.3314, breaking a key resistance level as European‑session trading volume surged. The rally was fueled by heightened institutional interest in blockchain‑based payment networks, with several funds reportedly allocating capital to Stellar’s...
BNB Drops After $1.65B Token Burn, Eyes Resistance Near $1,150
Binance’s native token BNB slipped after the exchange announced a $1.65 billion token burn, pushing the price toward the $1,150 resistance level. The burn, which removed a sizable portion of circulating supply, is intended to make the token more deflationary and...
Hedera Jumps 25.7% Breaking Key Resistance as Spot ETF Launches
Hedera Hashgraph’s native token HBAR surged 25.7% to breach the $0.20 level, breaking a key resistance zone after Canary Capital’s HBAR exchange‑traded fund began trading on the NYSE. The launch was underpinned by institutional support from crypto custodian BitGo, providing...
