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cryptoabout 20 hours ago
Blockstream's Liquid Network says it's entering the final stage of recovery after a September inflation bug drained 4,000 bitcoin from its federation wallet. Swaps are back on, but roughly 600 BTC is still sitting with the so-called white hats who took it. The part nobody's answering: was there a settlement?
cryptoabout 20 hours ago
Switzerland's regulator approved the country's first retail bitcoin ETF on October 20, but the headline hides the actual news: FINMA carved out an exemption to its own diversification rules to make it legal. That precedent matters far more than the fund itself, and it tells you where the European ETF race is heading next.
cryptoabout 20 hours ago
JPMorgan's strategists built a 10-to-15-year bull case that puts bitcoin at $385,000. Then the same firm declined to recommend an allocation. That gap between the model and the memo is the whole story, and it tells you more about where we're in the adoption curve than any price target could.
cryptoabout 20 hours ago
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.
cryptoabout 21 hours ago
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.
cryptoabout 23 hours ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
crypto1 day ago
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.
