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Bitwise and Hyperliquid Ask the SEC the Same Two Questions. The Answers Decide Who Lists the Next 500 Tokens.

4 days ago

Bitwise and Hyperliquid Ask the SEC the Same Two Questions. The Answers Decide Who Lists the Next 500 Tokens.

Bitwise and Hyperliquid both used the final days of the SEC's public comment window to demand clarity on token classification and secondary-market trading. The filings look technical. They're actually a fight over whether US-regulated funds can ever hold anything beyond Bitcoin and Ether, and whether an airdrop is marketing or an unregistered securities sale.

82 Crypto Projects Shut Down in 2026. The Math Was Never Going to Work

4 days ago

82 Crypto Projects Shut Down in 2026. The Math Was Never Going to Work

Eighty-two crypto projects have closed up shop in 2026, and the reasons are boringly consistent: revenue that never arrived, treasuries that ran dry, and security bills nobody budgeted for. The shutdown wave isn't a mystery. It's arithmetic, and it's been running since 2022.

Strive Closes $630M Raise With 7,372 BTC in Play and No Allocation Number

4 days ago

Strive Closes $630M Raise With 7,372 BTC in Play and No Allocation Number

Strive just banked $630 million and still won't say how much bitcoin it's buying. Analysts model roughly 7,372 BTC, which would push it past Metaplanet. The disclosure gap matters more than the dollar figure.

Injective and BDACS Want a Won Stablecoin. Korea's Banks Have Other Ideas

4 days ago

Injective and BDACS Want a Won Stablecoin. Korea's Banks Have Other Ideas

Injective and Korean custodian BDACS are planning KRW1, a won-backed stablecoin built for tokenized asset settlement. The tech is the easy part. Seoul's banks, the Bank of Korea, and a two-year regulatory stall are the actual boss fight.

Stablecoin Transfers Hit $891B, Four Times Last Year, With No New Money Behind It

4 days ago

Stablecoin Transfers Hit $891B, Four Times Last Year, With No New Money Behind It

Stablecoin transfer volume quadrupled to $891 billion in a year while the total market cap barely moved. That gap matters more than the headline number, because it says stablecoins have quietly become settlement rails instead of trading chips, and US banks are the ones plugging in.

Hyperliquid Wants 5 Fixes to the SEC's Crypto Rules. Only One Actually Matters.

4 days ago

Hyperliquid Wants 5 Fixes to the SEC's Crypto Rules. Only One Actually Matters.

The Hyperliquid Policy Center filed comments on October 19 telling the SEC its proposed crypto framework is close to workable, with five specific changes needed. Four of those asks are paperwork. The fifth decides whether the whole thing survives contact with reality.

Glassnode's Skew Crossed Zero, and the Data Doesn't Prove What You Think

4 days ago

Glassnode's Skew Crossed Zero, and the Data Doesn't Prove What You Think

Glassnode's spread slipped below zero and downside skew rose, which got read as a wave of hedging demand. But skew is a relative measure, and a ratio can't tell you what a put actually cost or whether anyone selling it made money.

Bitcoin Hit $83,300 and Got Rejected. The 21-Day Line Is Running This Tape.

4 days ago

Bitcoin Hit $83,300 and Got Rejected. The 21-Day Line Is Running This Tape.

Strong Q3 earnings lifted US stocks and dragged bitcoin to $83,300, where sellers were already waiting. The reversal at the 21-day trend line tells you more about positioning than any headline from earnings season. Here's what matters for the next leg.

110 Bot Wallets Dominate RLUSD Payments on the XRP Ledger, and the Bigger Number Is Being Ignored

4 days ago

110 Bot Wallets Dominate RLUSD Payments on the XRP Ledger, and the Bigger Number Is Being Ignored

A 30-day Bitquery study of RLUSD activity on the XRP Ledger found 110 automated wallets driving the bulk of payment counts. Strip those out and you're left with billions in larger transfers, including issuer flows that say nothing about real demand. Transaction counts were never a health metric, and this is the clearest proof yet.

Bitmine Holds 6 Million ETH. The Staking Is the Only Part That Matters.

4 days ago

Bitmine Holds 6 Million ETH. The Staking Is the Only Part That Matters.

Bitmine Immersion Technologies now controls roughly 4.9% of Ethereum's circulating supply, and more than five million of those tokens are staked. That makes it a yield vehicle wearing a treasury's clothes, and the market hasn't figured out how to price it yet.

Metaplanet's $3.4 Billion Bitcoin War Chest Just Cleared Its Shareholder Vote

4 days ago

Metaplanet's $3.4 Billion Bitcoin War Chest Just Cleared Its Shareholder Vote

Shareholders signed off on a condition tied to Metaplanet's $3.4 billion financing, and the company becomes Superplanet with the ticker SUPA once the deal closes in Q4. The real story isn't the name change. It's that the treasury-company trade is now a Wall Street product, and that tells you exactly which capital markets can play this game and which ones still can't.

Drift's Exploiter Moved $61M Through Tornado Cash and Still Holds $194M

4 days ago

Drift's Exploiter Moved $61M Through Tornado Cash and Still Holds $194M

The Drift hacker isn't running. He's washing stolen ETH in public, $61 million at a time, while $194 million sits untouched. The real story isn't the hack anymore. It's that nobody can touch the money.

Michael Howell Wants a 50/50 Bitcoin-Gold Split, and $70K Is the Line That Decides It

4 days ago

Michael Howell Wants a 50/50 Bitcoin-Gold Split, and $70K Is the Line That Decides It

Crossborder Capital's Michael Howell calls bitcoin the most liquidity-sensitive asset on the planet and says the real answer to gold versus bitcoin is both, weighted by volatility. Here's the math behind that 50/50 target, why Treasury issuance now does the Fed's job, and why $70,000 is the level every holder should have on their screen.

UK Banks Log Thousands of Crypto Transfer Complaints Before 2027 Rules Land

4 days ago

UK Banks Log Thousands of Crypto Transfer Complaints Before 2027 Rules Land

Stand With Crypto says it has collected thousands of complaints from UK customers whose crypto transfers were blocked or capped, with Lloyds and Barclays among the lenders named most often. The timing is awkward for banks, since the country's crypto regime doesn't take effect until 2027. The complaint file is becoming the evidence base regulators will read.

Hedge Funds Dumped Tech at the Fastest Pace Since 2016. Bitcoin Beat the Nasdaq Anyway.

4 days ago

Hedge Funds Dumped Tech at the Fastest Pace Since 2016. Bitcoin Beat the Nasdaq Anyway.

Hedge funds slashed tech exposure at a clip not seen in roughly a decade, and the Nasdaq-100 paid for it with a 5.49% haircut. Bitcoin gave up ground too, but less. That single fact breaks a narrative half of crypto has been repeating for two years.

Visa Just Put 175 Million Merchants Behind Your Crypto Wallet

4 days ago

Visa Just Put 175 Million Merchants Behind Your Crypto Wallet

Visa and Mesh are wiring crypto wallet balances into Visa's acceptance network, and the reach number is 175 million merchant locations. The orchestration layer is the real story here, not the press release. Wallets stop being vaults and start being accounts, which squeezes every middleman whose only product was a conversion bridge.

Kazakhstan Cut Six Exchanges Off at the App Store. Nine Others Left First.

4 days ago

Kazakhstan Cut Six Exchanges Off at the App Store. Nine Others Left First.

A Kazakh court ordered app access restrictions on Coinbase, BingX and four other exchanges. Nine more platforms blocked themselves before the order arrived, and the regulator dropped its claims against them. That split, six forced and nine voluntary, tells you exactly where exchange regulation is heading.

Mastercard Wants to Score Stablecoin Payments Before They Settle. The 60% Number Explains Why

4 days ago

Mastercard Wants to Score Stablecoin Payments Before They Settle. The 60% Number Explains Why

Mastercard's new Stablecoin Security API returns a risk score on a transfer before the money moves, and the research behind it says almost 60% of 2025 stablecoin transfers took multi-step routes. That stat is the real story, because every hop is a place where provenance gets thinner. The product launches in North America now and goes commercial in 2027, which tells you how much work is left.

6 Billion XRP Hit Exchanges in 30 Days, the Heaviest Print Since March

4 days ago

6 Billion XRP Hit Exchanges in 30 Days, the Heaviest Print Since March

Whales parked more than 6 billion XRP on exchange wallets in the 30 days to Oct. 19, the biggest inflow since March. I dug into what the metric actually tracks, why it's rarely a bullish tell, and what I'm watching before I touch this chart again.

Mt. Gox Just Moved the Deadline to 2027. That's Six Extensions and Counting

4 days ago

Mt. Gox Just Moved the Deadline to 2027. That's Six Extensions and Counting

The Mt. Gox trustee pushed creditor repayments to 2027, citing incomplete procedures and payment processing issues. It's the sixth extension since the rehabilitation plan was confirmed. Creditors are still waiting, and the market keeps pricing in coins that mostly already moved.

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