USDT and USDC dominate $46B in quarterly stablecoin inflows
Stablecoin net inflows jumped from $10.8 billion in Q2 to $45.6 billion in Q3, a 324% surge led by USDT, USDC and the rise of Ethena’s USDe. Stablecoins recorded more…
Swift partners with Consensys to build blockchain settlement system
Swift is teaming up with Consensys and over 30 unspecified institutions to build a blockchain-based settlement system for 24/7 real-time cross-border payments. The Swift interbank communication network is working with…
Ethereum (ETH) Price: Trading Above $4,000 After Recent Bounce From $3,812
TLDR Over $11 billion worth of shorts face potential liquidation if ETH price rises above $4,200 ETH has shown recovery signs after last week’s pullback, trading around $4,054 A bullish…
Report: Under 20,000 Addresses Hold More Than 60% of Bitcoin’s Supply
Sani, co‑founder of Time Chain Index, a bitcoin onchain metrics platform, studied the bitcoin address dataset to estimate the number of network users. He found fewer than 20,000 addresses hold…
ECB Advocates Digital Euro as Shield for Freedom, Autonomy and Security
Piero Cipollone, member of the ECB Executive Board, delivered a keynote at the Baltic conference “Payments & Policy in a Changing Environment,” arguing the digital euro is essential to preserve…
Capital B Finalizes 12 BTC Acquisition; Holdings Reach 2,812 Bitcoin
Capital B (The Blockchain Group, ISIN: FR0011053636, ticker: ALCPB) has completed an “ATM‑type” capital increase with TOBAM at €1.70 per share, raising €1.2 million ($1.4 million) to acquire 12 BTC.…
Dating-App Deception Leads to $1.4M Crypto Loss — Colorado Bureau of Investigation Sounds Alarm
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation is investigating a case in which a man lost $1.4 million in retirement savings to a crypto-romance scam. How the Scam Unfolded The Colorado Bureau…
October is ‘ETF month’ as 16 crypto funds await final decision
NovaDius Wealth Management president Nate Geraci said it will be an “enormous next few weeks for spot crypto ETFs” as the SEC is due to decide on 16 applications. The…
Bitcoin ‘bull market is not over’ as it recovers above $112K
Bitcoin briefly surpassed $112,000 in a sign of recovery after a volatile week, prompting one analyst to say the cryptocurrency was still in an uptrend. A Bitcoin analyst has argued…
Nick Szabo joins fray as controversial Bitcoin Core update nears release
Cypherpunk Nick Szabo has posted on X after five years of silence, adding his views to a fierce debate between Bitcoin purists and maximalists. Bitcoin Core developers have released the…
New York’s pro-crypto mayor Eric Adams drops reelection bid
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is officially out of the mayoral race, plunging the city’s pro-crypto push into limbo. New York’s crypto hub ambitions could be set for uncertainty…
Bitchat searches, downloads spike in Madagascar amid protests
Protests erupted in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, last Thursday over ongoing water and power cuts, with demonstrations later spreading across the country. Block CEO Jack Dorsey’s decentralized peer-to-peer messaging service Bitchat…
Crypto treasury mNAV metric ‘needs to be deleted’ — NYDIG
NYDIG’s Greg Cipolaro argues that a popular metric for valuing crypto companies should be retired as it misleads investors. The crypto industry should stop using the popular market to net…
Early Hyperliquid user sells airdropped Hypurr NFT for $467K
Early Hyperliquid users have been rewarded with a massive Hypurr NFT airdrop, with the free digital cats now worth over $64,000. Early adopters of the perpetuals-focused layer-1 blockchain Hyperliquid were…
The End of Retail Banking as a Place to Store Your Money
For generations, retail banks were seen as the safest place to keep money. Checking accounts offered convenience, savings accounts promised growth, and branches stood as symbols of security. That model…