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Bybit Just Listed a 25x Perp on Oura Before the Company Has a Stock Ticker

Sep 23, 2026

Bitcoin ETFs Erased a $5.7 Billion Hole in 30 Days. Now Profit-Takers Want Their Turn.

Sep 23, 2026

Solana's Alpenglow Hits Testnet: 150ms Finality, a 99% Cut, and a $58B Question

Sep 23, 2026

The NYSE Closed Every Wednesday in 1968. BitGo's CEO Says Tokenization Finishes What That Fix Started

Sep 23, 2026

Quantum Threat to Bitcoin: 1.7 Million Exposed Coins, $130B in ETFs, and the Custody Question Gulf Funds Aren't Asking

Sep 23, 2026

Bybit Puts 25x use on UiPath and Hut 8 Shares. Asia Just Got a New Playbook.

Sep 23, 2026

MoonPay Paid $60M in Stock for a Broker-Dealer. The All-Stock Part Is the Real Story.

Sep 23, 2026

Stablecoins Up 78%, Crypto Down 37%: Why the Gap Is an Emirates Story

Sep 23, 2026

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SEC Order IC-36333 Gives ARK a Tokenized Share Class. Liquidity Is Still the Bottleneck

about 8 hours ago

SEC Order IC-36333 Gives ARK a Tokenized Share Class. Liquidity Is Still the Bottleneck

The SEC just handed ARK Venture Fund a legal structure for two share classes, one on a national exchange, one recorded on a distributed ledger. It's the boring plumbing that decides whether tokenized funds are real. But permission isn't a market, and the hard part starts now.

LBank's Order Books Look Deep. That's Not the Same as Executable Liquidity.

about 8 hours ago

LBank's Order Books Look Deep. That's Not the Same as Executable Liquidity.

New BeInCrypto research shows LBank topped five of six order-book depth tests against Binance, OKX, Bybit, Gate, Bitget and MEXC. The numbers are real. But displayed depth and executable liquidity are two different things, and that gap is where traders get hurt.

Bessent May Get a Second Job as AI Czar. The Overlap Is the Problem

about 9 hours ago

Bessent May Get a Second Job as AI Czar. The Overlap Is the Problem

Reuters reports Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could add an AI czar role to his plate. The real question isn't whether he can do both jobs, it's whether anyone should.

Apple's Printing Records While NVIDIA Gets Cheaper. Here's What's Really Going On

about 9 hours ago

Apple's Printing Records While NVIDIA Gets Cheaper. Here's What's Really Going On

Apple touched a fresh all-time high near $345 on September 21, 2026, while NVIDIA sits near records with a forward multiple that keeps shrinking. One company's getting more expensive, the other's getting cheaper, and the reason says a lot about where this market is headed.

Bessent for AI Czar: The $280 Billion Question Crypto Isn't Asking

about 10 hours ago

Bessent for AI Czar: The $280 Billion Question Crypto Isn't Asking

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is the frontrunner to become Trump's next AI czar, a role David Sacks vacated after hitting his 130-day service cap. That's a bigger deal for crypto than most people think, because Bessent already controls stablecoin oversight. Here's what's actually at stake.

Solana Topped Ethereum on Fees With $23.6M in 30 Days. The Burn Tells a Different Story.

about 10 hours ago

Solana Topped Ethereum on Fees With $23.6M in 30 Days. The Burn Tells a Different Story.

Solana out-earned Ethereum on chain fees across every window in DefiLlama's Sept. 22 snapshot, but Ethereum still burned slightly more. The split exposes how little of that fee revenue actually reaches a token holder.

FomoPeek Slips Past Apple's Sandbox, Drains $580K From Crypto Users

about 10 hours ago

FomoPeek Slips Past Apple's Sandbox, Drains $580K From Crypto Users

SlowMist says malicious versions of an iOS app called FomoPeek made it into Apple's App Store and used kernel exploits to break out of the sandbox. The campaign is tied to $580,000 in stolen crypto, and it didn't require a jailbreak or a sideload.

Bitcoin's 10x Days Are Over, Says CryptoQuant CEO. Here's What Replaces Them

about 10 hours ago

Bitcoin's 10x Days Are Over, Says CryptoQuant CEO. Here's What Replaces Them

CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju says Bitcoin's current cycle won't deliver the explosive multiples of 2017 or 2021. The reason sits in who owns the asset now, and that shift changes what the next bear market looks like too.

XRPL Patched Its Signer Flaw. The Client Layer Is Still Exposed.

about 11 hours ago

XRPL Patched Its Signer Flaw. The Client Layer Is Still Exposed.

XRP Ledger validators have BatchV1_1 on a conditional path to activate at 14:06:41 UTC on Sept. 29, with 30 of 35 trusted validators backing it. The amendment closes a disclosed signer gap at the protocol level, but wallets, explorers and custodial platforms have to patch themselves, and nobody's forcing them to hurry.

Circle Pays Binance Millions While Its Margins Get Crushed

about 13 hours ago

Circle Pays Binance Millions While Its Margins Get Crushed

Circle just signed a five-year deal with Binance and handed over a slice of its reserve income, right as Fed rate cuts eat into the interest that funds its entire business. USDC balances on Binance nearly quintupled since the first agreement. The growth is real. So is the squeeze.

Circle Paid Binance $152 Million Last Year. Now Binance Owns a Piece of Circle.

about 13 hours ago

Circle Paid Binance $152 Million Last Year. Now Binance Owns a Piece of Circle.

Binance dropped $100 million on a 0.5% stake in Circle and locked in five more years of USDC distribution. The fee rate behind that deal is still undisclosed, and the math suggests Circle is handing over most of the upside.

Circle Is Paying Millions for Binance Reach, and the Margin Math Is Getting Harder

about 13 hours ago

Circle Is Paying Millions for Binance Reach, and the Margin Math Is Getting Harder

Circle locked in five more years of Binance distribution on Sept. 22, backed by a $100 million equity investment from the exchange. USDC balances on Binance have nearly quintupled, but the cost of that growth lands directly on Circle's reserve income at the worst possible moment in the rate cycle.

Copilot Says Bitcoin Hits $180K by 2027. My Calculator Says Maybe.

about 15 hours ago

Copilot Says Bitcoin Hits $180K by 2027. My Calculator Says Maybe.

Microsoft's Copilot AI is calling for Bitcoin at $140,000 to $180,000 before January 1, 2027, with a blow-off top pushing past $200,000. The setup is real, but the forecast is a scenario dressed as a prediction, and that distinction matters more than the number.

Bitcoin's Back Above Its 365-Day Line. The Fed's New Risk Gauge Has Other Ideas.

about 16 hours ago

Bitcoin's Back Above Its 365-Day Line. The Fed's New Risk Gauge Has Other Ideas.

Bitcoin reclaimed its 365-day moving average and CryptoQuant says the bear market is over. But the Fed's new Financial Vulnerability Index tracks a slower, nastier problem: funding risk building under a rally that looks perfectly healthy.

Three Trust Charters, $26 Million in Capital Floors, and the Part the OCC Didn't Approve

about 18 hours ago

Three Trust Charters, $26 Million in Capital Floors, and the Part the OCC Didn't Approve

The OCC advanced Agora, Catena and Bastion toward federal trust-bank status on Sept. 18, but none of them can open a door yet. The approvals come with tight deadlines, six-figure monthly burn requirements, and a hard reminder that a charter isn't a customer base.

Bitcoin ETFs Pull In $999M in a Day, Biggest Haul Since October's Record Run

about 20 hours ago

Bitcoin ETFs Pull In $999M in a Day, Biggest Haul Since October's Record Run

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in $999 million on Monday, the largest single-day total since October 6. BlackRock, ARK, and Fidelity did nearly all the work, and the average ETF buyer just climbed back above water for the first time since January.

Animoca's Nasdaq Backdoor Closed on Sept. 22. The 95/5 Split Ran Out of Time.

about 20 hours ago

Animoca's Nasdaq Backdoor Closed on Sept. 22. The 95/5 Split Ran Out of Time.

Animoca Brands and Currenc Group shelved a reverse merger that would've handed Animoca 95% of a Nasdaq-listed shell and Currenc investors a 5% sliver. The economics of going public just got more expensive, and the clock was the whole story.

Bitcoin Hit $86,000 While the Fed's Vulnerability Gauge Sat at 0.83

about 21 hours ago

Bitcoin Hit $86,000 While the Fed's Vulnerability Gauge Sat at 0.83

BTC ripped past $86,000 on Sept. 21 on short liquidations and hot funding. Meanwhile the Fed's Financial Vulnerability Index shows financial borrowing at 0.83, deep in its elevated band. One measures today. The other measures how bad tomorrow gets.

Bitcoin Defends $86K as Oil Slips Below $90: The Iran Trade Isn't the Real Story

about 23 hours ago

Bitcoin Defends $86K as Oil Slips Below $90: The Iran Trade Isn't the Real Story

Bitcoin held its $86,000 support while crude dropped under $90 a barrel, and the President tied an Iran deal to the November midterms. The market's reaction tells you something important about what actually drives digital assets right now, and it isn't geopolitics.

Russia's Digital Ruble Is Live While Retail Crypto Gets Capped at $3,556

about 23 hours ago

Russia's Digital Ruble Is Live While Retail Crypto Gets Capped at $3,556

Russia opened its central bank digital currency for transactions on September 1, and almost nobody outside Moscow flinched. The same law that launched the digital ruble caps retail bitcoin holdings at 300,000 rubles a year and keeps crypto payments banned. Here's the gap between the speech and the statute, and why it matters beyond Russia's borders.

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