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Zcash Just Voted 2.38M ZEC to 22K to Keep Its Halvings

Sep 18, 2026

CoinShares Says Bitcoin Won't Touch $80K. I'm Not Buying It.

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JPMorgan Just Admitted It Can't Model the Iran War. That's a Big Deal.

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Ethereum's Glamsterdam Upgrade Just Cleared Testing. Here's What 200M Gas Means for ETH at $2,495.

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Crypto Volume Just Woke Up. That's a Problem for the Bears.

3 days ago

Crypto Volume Just Woke Up. That's a Problem for the Bears.

Spot trading volume hit roughly $75 billion on August 21 while perpetual futures printed about $336 billion, per CryptoQuant. The analytics firm reads the August rebound as an early crack in the bear market downtrend, and the fact that it came with a rally instead of a selloff is the part that matters.

XRP and XLM Jump 8% as the CLARITY Act Heads for a 60-Vote Test

3 days ago

XRP and XLM Jump 8% as the CLARITY Act Heads for a 60-Vote Test

XRP climbed to $1.47 and XLM to $0.1949 on September 14, both up more than 8%, as traders bet on a Senate procedural vote for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Bank groups, 18 state attorneys general, and Senator Elizabeth Warren are all pushing back.

Strategy Spent $2.57 on Its Own Stock for Every $1 of Bitcoin

3 days ago

Strategy Spent $2.57 on Its Own Stock for Every $1 of Bitcoin

Strategy's STRC buybacks have hit $950.8 million since July 20, more than double what it spent on Bitcoin over the same stretch. That ratio tells you where management thinks the better trade is right now, and it isn't more coins.

CLARITY Act Odds Crash to 16% as Democrats Reject the GOP's Final Offer

3 days ago

CLARITY Act Odds Crash to 16% as Democrats Reject the GOP's Final Offer

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act cleared the House 294-134 last July. Now prediction markets have it at 16% and two unrelated fights, stablecoin rewards and tribal gaming, are holding the whole thing hostage. Here's who wins if it dies.

AI Safety Panic Is a Trade, Not a Thesis

3 days ago

AI Safety Panic Is a Trade, Not a Thesis

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's weekend call to slow AI development sent tech stocks lower Monday and pushed money into J&J, Eli Lilly, Kimberly-Clark, and Costco. But the defensive rotation looks like a hiding spot, not a real thesis. Cybersecurity is the one corner of the move I'd bet sticks.

Ethereum and Base Split Over EIP-8141 and EIP-8130. Wallets Pay the Bill.

3 days ago

Ethereum and Base Split Over EIP-8141 and EIP-8130. Wallets Pay the Bill.

Ethereum's Frame Transactions proposal and Base's competing account-abstraction design walked away from each other on Sept. 14. The technical fight is about how much freedom accounts get. The real fight is about who owns the wallet experience on the networks where users actually live.

CoinEx Is Shutting Down: You've Got Until December 22 to Get Your Coins Out

3 days ago

CoinEx Is Shutting Down: You've Got Until December 22 to Get Your Coins Out

CoinEx is winding down after nine years. New registrations stop Tuesday and the platform closes entirely on December 22. The Hong Kong exchange blamed thin trading volume, weak liquidity, and compliance costs that no longer pencil out.

Ethereum Builders Face a Cold Choice: Lock Up Cash or Trust a Broker

4 days ago

Ethereum Builders Face a Cold Choice: Lock Up Cash or Trust a Broker

A Lido forum debate over ePBS exposed three real costs of protocol-backed payments: idle capital, failed delivery, and un-cancellable offers. Those costs could push builders back toward relays, and relays might not be the villain everyone thinks they're.

XRP's Next Upgrade Could Move the Token Into Bank Vaults, Not Your Wallet

4 days ago

XRP's Next Upgrade Could Move the Token Into Bank Vaults, Not Your Wallet

A pending XRP Ledger amendment, XLS-68, would let banks and fintechs pay user fees and lock reserves on their behalf. That removes friction for adoption, but it also shifts XRP supply onto institutional balance sheets. The exit rules are where this gets interesting.

The Clarity Act Stalled in the Senate. Banks Kept Building Anyway.

4 days ago

The Clarity Act Stalled in the Senate. Banks Kept Building Anyway.

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act passed the House in July 2025 and then went quiet in the Senate. That's a problem for smaller builders, but it won't stop the banks that already spent billions on crypto infrastructure. Here's who actually wins if the bill dies.

XRP Yield Is Coming. The Exit Door Takes 60 Days.

4 days ago

XRP Yield Is Coming. The Exit Door Takes 60 Days.

Firelight is rolling out a coverage phase that turns deposited FXRP into underwriting capital for DeFi protocols, and it pays holders for the risk. The tradeoff is brutal for anyone who likes fast exits: withdrawals could stretch to 60 days, and claims can haircut the collateral trying to leave.

18 State AGs Just Built a Second Wall in Front of the CLARITY Act

4 days ago

18 State AGs Just Built a Second Wall in Front of the CLARITY Act

The crypto market structure bill cleared its ethics hurdle in Washington, but 18 state attorneys general are now arguing the revised text guts state oversight. That fight, not the Trump family drama, is the one that decides whether this bill becomes law.

Aave's Monad Pool Pays 6.10% With Only $4.4 Million Free to Withdraw

4 days ago

Aave's Monad Pool Pays 6.10% With Only $4.4 Million Free to Withdraw

Aave's USDT0 reserve on Monad shows a 6.10% headline yield, but $51.5 million of its $55.9 million balance is borrowed. That leaves roughly $4.4 million available for exits, and the gap between those two numbers is the whole story for anyone sizing a position.

Strive Adds 469 Bitcoin, Hits 25,000 BTC With Preferred Stock Funding

4 days ago

Strive Adds 469 Bitcoin, Hits 25,000 BTC With Preferred Stock Funding

Strive bought 469 Bitcoin and now holds 25,000 BTC, with the entire purchase funded through its SATA preferred stock. The coin count is the headline, but the capital structure behind it's the real signal for anyone tracking corporate Bitcoin treasuries.

Tesla Sneaks Into Vietnam With $3 Million and No Announcement

4 days ago

Tesla Sneaks Into Vietnam With $3 Million and No Announcement

Tesla's Vietnam unit showed up in a business filing with about $3 million in capital and zero fanfare. That's a beachhead, not a bet, and it says more about Tesla's Asia strategy than Vietnam's EV race.

Bitcoin's Liquidity Test Lands the Same Day the Fed Decides

4 days ago

Bitcoin's Liquidity Test Lands the Same Day the Fed Decides

Tuesday's estimated tax deadline pulls cash into the Treasury and drains bank reserves, just as the FOMC wraps its September 15-16 meeting. The collision is a plumbing story, but plumbing is what drives risk appetite, and bitcoin sits at the far end of that curve.

S&P Global Just Backed a $110M Bet That Data Beats Tokens

4 days ago

S&P Global Just Backed a $110M Bet That Data Beats Tokens

Kaiko's Series B closed at $110 million with S&P Global on the cap table, and the money isn't going into a token or a chain. It's going into price feeds. That tells you where the smart money thinks the value actually sits in onchain markets.

Bitmine Stakes 5 Million ETH for $334M a Year. The Implied Yield Is 2.1 Percent.

4 days ago

Bitmine Stakes 5 Million ETH for $334M a Year. The Implied Yield Is 2.1 Percent.

Bitmine now has more than 5 million ETH staked and projects $334 million in annual staking revenue from a $15.8 billion treasury. The math works out to roughly 2.1 percent, which is less than a T-bill pays. The real story isn't the yield, it's the concentration and how visible every coin is.

BlackRock's Staking ETH ETF Pays You Yield. Investors Still Want ETHA.

4 days ago

BlackRock's Staking ETH ETF Pays You Yield. Investors Still Want ETHA.

BlackRock's ETHB hands holders staking rewards, yet the older, yield-free ETHA still holds roughly $9 billion and keeps winning the volume battle. September 11 data show both funds pulling demand with similar median spreads, which tells you liquidity beats basis points.

Strategy Skipped Bitcoin Again and Spent $139M on Its Own Preferred Stock

4 days ago

Strategy Skipped Bitcoin Again and Spent $139M on Its Own Preferred Stock

Strategy repurchased 1.42 million STRC preferred shares for $139.3 million between September 8 and September 13, its latest move away from routine bitcoin buying. The company still holds 845,050 BTC and $6.4 billion in dollar assets, but MSTR is down more than 75% from its 2024 peak. Here's what the shift actually signals.

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