MEXC is ending services for users in Russia and Belarus, a short service update confirmed on Oct. 20, citing nothing more specific than “global compliance.” Four Paragraphs but No Clear Reason The notice was posted late yesterday and states: [Affected users] will receive individual notifications outlining the applicable timelines and procedures for closing positions and […]
U.S. bitcoin ETFs attracted another $23.16 million on Tuesday, keeping the week firmly positive after Monday’s $526.60 million surge. Ether remained under pressure, while solana extended its losing streak to 12 sessions. Bitcoin ETFs Stay Green After Monday’s $527M Surge Monday’s flood of bitcoin money became a trickle on Tuesday. The important part was that […]
Bitmine staked another 159,728 ETH worth about $390.6 million, lifting the share of its treasury put to work to 86.5%. One Transaction, Nine Figures Onchain analysts reported on Oct. 21 that Tom Lee’s Bitmine had staked another 159,728 ETH, worth about $390.6 million, taking the company’s staked position to 5.23 million ETH, valued near $12.78 […]
Three brand-new wallets received 1,090 BTC worth about $90.38 million from market maker Wintermute, the second near-identical haul in a week. The Blockchain Trail, Examined Onchain sleuths spotted the move early today morning, reporting that whales had been “continuing to accumulate” after three newly created wallets received 1,090 BTC from Wintermute. The first wallet holds […]
Madrid, September 2026 – Stablecoins are no longer an exclusive tool of the crypto ecosystem; they have become a strategic priority for banks, fintechs, and global payment companies. Santander, BBVA, Trade Republic, and Western Union will participate in MERGE Madrid 2026 to analyze how this new financial infrastructure will transform payments, international transfers, investment, and […]
Tron founder Justin Sun says AI and quantum computing have made him more bearish on bitcoin than before, while Bitmex co-founder Arthur Hayes says nobody should sell over the quantum threat. Sun’s Bear Case Sun made his case in an interview last week, arguing that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and quantum computing have […]
Strategy founder Michael Saylor has added another 267 bitcoin to the company’s enormous treasury, bringing its holdings to 848,517 BTC. The $22.1 million acquisition comes alongside a $193.1 million repurchase of preferred shares and an expansion of Strategy’s digital credit securities repurchase program to $3 billion, revealing a company simultaneously accumulating bitcoin and reshaping its […]
Kucoin recently unveiled an artificial intelligence assistant incorporating strict context isolation and risk controls to prevent prompt-injection attacks and market volatility risks. Addressing Security and Market Risks in Crypto AI As cryptocurrency exchanges scramble to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) across their trading ecosystems, the industry faces an escalating wave of novel security vulnerabilities and operational […]
The Hyperliquid trader behind a $98 million bitcoin long has dumped the position at a loss and moved into $46 million of leveraged Tesla and chip-stock bets, two days before Tesla reports earnings. The Nitty Gritty of the Matter Bitcoin.com News first covered this wallet on Sunday, when it held a 40x bitcoin long worth […]
A photo of a man standing guard in his smashed-up store during France’s riots turned into PIERRE, a Solana meme coin that ran 155x in about nine hours on Sunday. The Photo The image is hard to forget, i.e. a long-haired man in a black T-shirt stands in the doorway of a gutted video game […]
Strategy founder Michael Saylor delivered an ambitious vision for bitcoin at ParaFi Investor Day 2026, arguing that bank lending, tokenized securities, and bitcoin-backed credit could eventually support a $100 trillion financial system. Speaking alongside ParaFi Capital partner Jeff Park, Saylor discussed Strategy’s multibillion-dollar bitcoin treasury, its 12% preferred stock, artificial intelligence (AI), and the financial […]
This editorial is from this week’s edition of the newsletter Week in Review, sent to subscribers on Friday. Subscribe to the newsletter to get this weekly editorial the second it’s finished. The newsletter also includes the biggest stories of the week, with a comment on each story. Bitcoin is roughly flat in the past seven […]
The Central Bank of Russia clarified that transactions between Russian citizens using self-custody wallets or from a regulated broker to a self-custody wallet will be banned starting July 1, 2027. The institution stressed that these transactions can only be made using regulated brokers. Bank of Russia Bans Transactions Going to Self-Custody Wallets The Russian government […]
XRP’s price is fighting to hold $1.29 as its $2.77 billion futures market loses momentum and sellers maintain control. Technical indicators favor further weakness, yet oversold readings suggest a recovery isn’t entirely off the table. Meanwhile, Polymarket traders assign a 50% probability to XRP touching $1.20 before November, while Kalshi’s October contracts reflect fading expectations […]
Ethereum’s price has spent the week bouncing between $2,324 and $2,575, but beneath the price swings, derivatives traders are carrying $30.59 billion in futures exposure while options bulls command nearly 62% of outstanding positions. The catch is that futures positions are contracting, short-term liquidations favor longs, and major options exchanges disagree on where ethereum’s fiat […]
Bitmex co-founder Arthur Hayes says the artificial intelligence boom is burning cash on a government backstop, and that the bigger it gets, the higher bitcoin goes. The Arguments Put Forth by Hayes Hayes laid out the convictions on the Convergence podcast with Luke Martin, with his four key talking points being: Money is being wasted. […]
Bloomberg Intelligence strategist Mike McGlone has put a $10,000 target back on bitcoin, and within hours, Cryptoquant CEO Ki Young Ju replied that the onchain floor sits much closer to $30,000. McGlone’s Domino Theory McGlone laid out the call in an X post yesterday, previewing a Bloomberg Intelligence report titled “A Bitcoin $10,000 Reversion Path […]
Binance is advertising up to 7.77% in XRP rewards for holding Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin, but its own payout table shows the base rate has dropped three weeks in a row. The Number Explained Binance promoted the campaign on X early Saturday, adding: Hold RLUSD and share in $800,000 worth of XRP rewards! Earn up to […]
U.S. bitcoin ETFs eked out a $5.06 million inflow on Thursday, offering only limited relief after another volatile stretch of institutional positioning. Ether remained under sustained pressure, while selling intensified across solana, HYPE and zcash funds. Blackrock Adds $17M to Bitcoin ETF as Rivals Stay Weak The headline was green for bitcoin, but the underlying […]
Vaneck has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to let it withdraw its Lido Staked Ethereum Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF), a year after filing for it. The One-Line Exit The filing was short, and in a Form RW dated Oct. 14, Vaneck Digital Assets vice president Matthew Babinsky asked the SEC to consent to […]
A wallet tied to Hut 8 has pushed nearly 2,000 BTC toward exchanges and trading desks in seven days, emptying itself by early Friday. Following the Coins The trail starts in custody, and Arkham labelled the source addresses as Hut 8’s Coinbase Prime custody wallets. From there, the coins hopped to a single intermediary address […]
XRP topped Upbit’s spot volume in snapshots taken more than seven hours apart, beating bitcoin and ether in won trading even as its price drifted lower subsequently. The Numbers The first snapshot circulated yesterday evening (U.S. time) ranked Upbit’s top three spot pairs by 24-hour volume: XRP/KRW: $145.57 million, 11.74% of Upbit’s volume BTC/KRW: $126.50 […]
The U.S., a global supplier of USD-pegged stablecoins, has once again “imported” more bitcoin than it “exported,” becoming a net importer for the first time since 2022, according to blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. The firm reached this conclusion by analyzing data for the year ending in June 2026. “Transfers under $10,000 ran net outbound every […]
A Wall Street Journal investigation alleges that Tether paid approximately $6.3 million to a consulting firm partly owned by Bo Hines while he served as a senior White House cryptocurrency official. Hines helped advance the GENIUS Act, legislation with major implications for Tether, before leaving government to become the stablecoin issuer’s U.S. chief executive. His […]
Stack Infrastructure is reportedly seeking an A$8.6 billion ($6 billion) loan to finance a data center project in Melbourne, as investors grow more cautious about the borrowing underpinning the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom. This article first appeared in The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. The Energy Mag (formerly The Miner Mag) […]
U.S. crypto ETF flows improved sharply on Tuesday as bitcoin funds attracted $175.62 million and ether snapped a 10-session losing streak with $24.84 million in inflows. Fidelity Pulls in $103M as Bitcoin ETFs Flip Back to Inflows Institutional buyers returned with more conviction on Tuesday, but they were selective about where they put money. Bitcoin […]
Bitcoin whales now hold 3.03 million BTC, their largest stash since November 2025, according to Cryptoquant. Meanwhile, an unidentified investor pulled 1,162 BTC ($96.77 million) from Wintermute into five fresh wallets. Whale Balances Hit an 11-Month High Holders of at least 1,000 BTC are buying again per a research note by Cryptoquant. To elaborate, bitcoin […]
Ledger has told resellers and distributors in six Southeast Asian countries and Hong Kong to stop selling its hardware wallets and pull them from shelves while it investigates tampered devices. Seven Markets Go Dark In an incident update posted Oct. 13, the French hardware wallet maker said: [We are] asking resellers and distributors in Southeast […]
Robinhood Chain has cleared $100 billion in cumulative trading volume just 3.5 months after its July 1 mainnet launch, and over the past 30 days it has outtraded Coinbase’s Base network. From Testnet to $100 Billion in a Single Summer The milestone was flagged earlier today via Defillama’s DEX dashboard, which put Robinhood Chain’s cumulative […]
A wallet holding 4,582 BTC ($377.6 million) moved its entire balance on Monday, the same day a second whale sold 837.8 BTC at a loss to buy 27,500 ether. Whale No. 1: What Woke Up? Onchain tracker Lookonchain reported that another Bitcoin OG had woken up, transferring out all of their 4,582 BTC ($377.58M). The […]
Curaçao’s gambling regulator says the online portal it uses to license offshore casinos will not return after the hack it disclosed in September. It aimed to give details of interim arrangements by Oct. 9, but had published none by Tuesday morning. No Portal and No Interim Plan The Curaçao Gaming Authority (CGA) announced on Oct. […]
South Korea has ordered domestic access blocks on 27 unregistered offshore crypto exchange websites, including Kucoin, MEXC and BingX, extending an earlier ban on their mobile apps to the web. What Exactly Got Blocked? Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), the anti-money laundering arm of the Financial Services Commission, announced on Oct. 13 that the country’s […]
Evernorth named former Coinbase Asset Management co-CIO Hugo Jeandesboz to run its 473 million XRP treasury on debut day, and XRPN still closed at $16.91, 68% below its $53 high. The Hire Nobody Was Pricing in Evernorth used its first day as a Nasdaq-listed company to name Hugo Jeandesboz as its chief investment officer (CIO). […]
Bitcoin’s price hovered around $82,550 to $83,000 on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, as technical indicators painted a largely neutral picture with a modest bearish tilt. The cryptocurrency traded within a 24-hour range of $82,550 to $84,231, while repeated failures to reclaim $84,000 kept bullish momentum in check. Despite near-term weakness, bitcoin remains above several longer-term […]
Michael Saylor’s Strategy has expanded its bitcoin treasury to 848,250 BTC after acquiring another 250 BTC for approximately $21.5 million. The purchase, disclosed Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, followed Saylor’s Sunday teaser about adding more bitcoin. Strategy also repurchased $192.4 million of its STRC preferred stock, while its combined U.S. dollar reserves and cash holdings stood […]
A Hyperliquid trader who went long 5.76 million NEAR at $2.35 in September is now sitting on roughly $20.55 million in unrealized profit, and the same account is short seven of the market’s biggest coins. The Position, Line by Line The trade was first flagged by onchain analysts, who noted that the trader’s NEAR long […]
U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) pulled in a net $11.31 million last week, even as XRP lost about 8% over the same five trading days. A Green Week on a Red Chart Data compiled by Sosovalue shows XRP spot ETFs booked net inflows of $11.31 million between Oct. 5 and Oct. 9. That more […]
Strategy could expand its bitcoin holdings after Michael Saylor posted another orange-themed buying hint. His latest message follows a $28.7 million acquisition, while the company balances cryptocurrency purchases with cash commitments to shareholders and creditors. Saylor Signals There Is Room for More Bitcoin Another bitcoin acquisition may be coming from Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR), following […]
Coldcard is confronting another security controversy after its official X account published a phishing link on Oct. 11, 2026, falsely warning customers about a critical firmware vulnerability. The company deleted the post and insists its credentials and two-factor authentication remain secure. The incident follows July’s devastating seed-generation failure, which reportedly exposed thousands of wallets and […]
This editorial is from this week’s edition of the newsletter Week in Review, sent to subscribers on Friday. Subscribe to the newsletter to get this weekly editorial the second it’s finished. The newsletter also includes the biggest stories of the week, with a comment on each story. Bitcoin is finally showing signs of fatigue after […]
In 1960, mathematician Heinz von Foerster and colleagues published a population-growth model in the journal Science that mathematically blew up to “infinity,” a result that later got pinned to Nov. 13, 2026 as an overpopulation doomsday. Today, with the world at about 8.3 billion people in 2025, United Nations projections instead see population peaking around […]
Prediction markets are flashing warning signs for the cryptocurrency industry ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. Polymarket gives Democrats a 62% chance of sweeping both chambers of Congress, while Kalshi puts the odds at 61%. Such an outcome could complicate efforts to revive the CLARITY Act and reshape Washington’s cryptocurrency regulations. Prediction Markets See a […]
Bitcoin’s price traded at $82,816 on Saturday, Oct. 10, as the market continued consolidating following its retreat from the $87,000 region. While the hourly chart shows signs of recovery, the four-hour and daily charts remain range-bound, with bulls defending support near $82,200. Technical indicators offer a mixed picture, with neutral oscillators, stronger, longer-term moving averages, […]
Strive’s SATA preferred stock generated an estimated $55 million this week, enough to buy about 638 BTC, even though the shares spent three of five trading days below the price at which new issuance stops. How the 638 BTC Was Acquired The number comes from a weekly dashboard snapshot which shows three figures for the […]
The XRP Ledger quietly patched a 2015-era payment engine flaw that could have let an attacker create spendable XRP beyond the network’s fixed supply for just a few hundred XRP in reserves. What Was Actually Broken? The problem sat inside the code that settles payments across the XRP Ledger’s built-in decentralized exchange (DEX). According to […]
A Hyperliquid whale lost 28,716 ETH worth $69.69 million to forced liquidation in the overnight crash. Within half an hour it had wired in fresh margin and opened a new ether long. The Position Before the Drop The whale first surfaced on Oct. 7, when onchain trackers traced margin deposits into three Hyperliquid addresses. Together […]
An address tied to F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun sold 235.5 WBTC worth $19.31 million for 7,848.5 ETH right after bitcoin’s overnight drop to $80.5K. It is the latest move in a months-long bet that sees ETH outrunning BTC from here on out. The Swap Explained Onchain analyst EmberCN flagged the trade early on Oct. 9 […]
U.S. District judge has dismissed a digital privacy class action against a Crypto.com operator over third-party tracking cookies. Plaintiffs Alleged Comprehensive Profiling and Deceptive Tracking A U.S. court dismissed a digital privacy class action against Foris Dax, the operator of the exchange Crypto.com, over third-party cookie tracking, ruling that allegations of online profiling and broken […]
Glassnode says 6.26 million BTC, or 31.2% of supply, now sits in addresses whose public keys are already visible onchain. The count is rising just as an AI-driven cryptography scare hits the market. How Much Bitcoin Is Exposed? The number seems to be rising at a rapid pace, so much so that in a thread […]
The U.S. government transferred approximately 9,261 BTC, valued at $770 million, to Coinbase Prime on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Galaxy Research. While much of the bitcoin originated from known criminal seizures, researchers identified another 2,456 BTC from previously unrecognized holdings. The discovery adds a new wrinkle to Washington’s cryptocurrency inventory, which includes billions in […]