Oct 5, 2026
Oct 5, 2026
Oct 5, 2026
Oct 4, 2026
Oct 4, 2026
Oct 4, 2026
Oct 4, 2026
Oct 4, 2026
Illinois officials and crypto trade groups filed a joint motion on Oct. 1 to delay the state's digital-asset tax from Jan. 1, 2027 to July 1, 2027. The court hasn't signed off yet, and the rule comment window closes Oct. 30.
Nina Patel · about 1 hour ago
cryptoabout 7 hours ago
Bitcoin's push back above $85,000 came from a short squeeze that started eight hours before the jobs report, not after it. With ETF flow data incomplete for Friday and spot volume near post-launch lows, the real demand question is still unanswered heading into Monday's ISM services print.
cryptoabout 7 hours ago
Mohsen Paknejad resigned Sunday with zero explanation from state media. Iran loaded no crude in September for the first time since 1979, and its last cargoes are gone by mid-October. So why is Brent still shrugging?
cryptoabout 8 hours ago
Bitcoin Core merged a safeguard on Sept. 25 that blocks a narrow signing mode from producing signatures that don't bind funds to the recipient a user approved. The keys stay safe. The coins might not. And as of Oct. 4, no production release carries the fix, which leaves wallet developers holding the bag.
cryptoabout 9 hours ago
Claude AI projects XRP at $25 by January 1, 2027, with a blow-off top of $35 if institutional adoption finally lands. XRP trades at $1.49 today, which means the model is calling for a 16.8x move and a $1.6 trillion market cap. The math is clean. The catalyst isn't.
cryptoabout 10 hours ago
The SEC approved Cboe BZX's listing proposal for VS Trust's 3x Bitcoin and 3x Ether ETFs, along with four commodity funds. Registration still isn't effective and no trading date is set, but the door just cracked open for truly wild crypto exposure.
cryptoabout 10 hours ago
Drift Protocol launched DFX claims on Oct. 1, quoting roughly 1.04 cents of USDT for every dollar of verified loss. The headline rescue commitment was $147.5 million. The pool held $3.1 million. That gap is the whole story.
cryptoabout 11 hours ago
Lido's proposed Community Staking Module 0x02 asks larger validators for a 32 ETH entry bond, more than 13 times the 2.4 ETH on its existing route. The capital efficiency math works at scale, but only for operators who can front the cash and cut the funding queue.
cryptoabout 11 hours ago
The Ethereum Foundation says zkAPI is live on mainnet, and the billing system coauthored by Vitalik Buterin does let users pull funds without server clearance. The catch is what happens when a user goes quiet and their notes expire. Those funds can end up in the protocol treasury.
cryptoabout 17 hours ago
ARK's Cathie Wood says the dollar is far stronger than most investors realize and could appreciate for years. That's a problem for gold, bonds, and Bitcoin positioning, and most traders are looking at the wrong index to see it coming.
techabout 19 hours ago
The backlash against AI data centers isn't a US story anymore. Residents in Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo and Malaysia are killing projects near their homes. Here's why the siting fight is the real bottleneck for the AI buildout, and where the alpha actually sits.
cryptoabout 19 hours ago
Goldman Sachs holds buy ratings on five stocks heading into earnings season, and four of them are down this year. Baker Hughes is the lone gainer. Here's what the split says about the thesis and what to watch when the reports land.
cryptoabout 20 hours ago
Stablecoins don't pull dollars out of the banking system. They move them from sticky retail deposits into flighty wholesale ones, and that shift is quietly raising the cost of credit for everyone. Here's the mechanics, the market impact, and what to watch next.
cryptoabout 20 hours ago
Russia's Finance Ministry handed out its first wages in digital rubles, moving the CBDC from pilot to budget process. It's a quiet milestone with loud implications for programmable money, sanctions, and the stablecoin flows Moscow has been leaning on for years.
crypto1 day ago
The Independent Community Bankers of America sued the OCC on Oct. 2, two weeks after the agency approved three crypto trust banks. The legal fight is narrower than the headlines suggest, but the delay it creates has real costs for the industry.
crypto1 day ago
Hedge funds have built a $1.2 trillion position in Treasuries financed with overnight repo. The carry is tiny. The funding risk isn't. Here's why this is the most fragile trade in US markets right now.
