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Bitcoin ETFs Shed $1.3B in a Week, and BlackRock's IBIT Lost $1.21B of It

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One Linux Bug Froze $120M of tBTC on Aave. The Bridge Is Back. The Money Isn't.

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Cipher Digital Booked Its First AI Lease Revenue. The $9.1 Billion Headline Is Mostly Noise.

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Warren Wants the Banking Gavel. Your Bags Should Be Paying Attention.

3 days ago

Warren Wants the Banking Gavel. Your Bags Should Be Paying Attention.

Elizabeth Warren is set to chair Senate Banking in January 2027 after Democrats take both chambers in the November 2026 midterms. That puts payment for order flow, stablecoin yield, and retail day trading squarely in her crosshairs. Here's the timeline, the fallout, and the dates that matter.

Warren Takes the Banking Gavel. Bitcoin Shrugs. Smaller Tokens Won't.

3 days ago

Warren Takes the Banking Gavel. Bitcoin Shrugs. Smaller Tokens Won't.

Elizabeth Warren is set to chair the Senate Banking Committee in January, handing crypto's loudest congressional critic subpoena power, a hearing calendar, and a say over stablecoin legislation. Bitcoin probably doesn't care. The long tail of token issuers and exchanges should.

Chainalysis Took Two Tries to Admit Live Tokens and Password Hashes Were Exposed

3 days ago

Chainalysis Took Two Tries to Admit Live Tokens and Password Hashes Were Exposed

Chainalysis first said the breach touched only non-sensitive customer data. Then it admitted password hashes and live tokens were in the blast radius. The company that sells surveillance to governments just failed the most basic test of disclosure, and the retraction is the real story.

Ben Cowen's $58K Bitcoin Call: Right Direction, Wrong Floor

3 days ago

Ben Cowen's $58K Bitcoin Call: Right Direction, Wrong Floor

Ben Cowen says the Nasdaq has erased its post-midterm gains, and a 2018-style slide could drag Bitcoin back to $58,000. The level is real, near Bitcoin's June low. But the timeline and the floor deserve a harder look.

Services Inflation Hit 73 and Refused to Crack. That's Why Bitcoin's Rate Cut Trade Stalled.

3 days ago

Services Inflation Hit 73 and Refused to Crack. That's Why Bitcoin's Rate Cut Trade Stalled.

October's services prices index eased to 73, but the 12-month average climbed to 69.2, the hottest since April 2023. That single detail is quietly repricing the Fed path, and it's the reason crypto's cut-driven rally ran out of buyers before it ran out of hope.

Apple Hit a Record High While the Nasdaq Crashed 5.52%. Here's Why.

3 days ago

Apple Hit a Record High While the Nasdaq Crashed 5.52%. Here's Why.

Apple posted its best session in 18 months and touched a record $354.50, then held up while the Nasdaq lost 5.52%. The rotation out of AI hardware is the real story, and $340 is the level to watch.

Anthropic's $1.5 Trillion Ask Meets a Skeptical Bid

3 days ago

Anthropic's $1.5 Trillion Ask Meets a Skeptical Bid

Investors reportedly doubt Anthropic can open its IPO roadshow in the week of November 9, with four people familiar with the talks telling Reuters they want a more attractive price before committing. The pushback isn't really about one deal. It's about where the ceiling sits for every AI valuation behind it.

Coinbase Says 99% of Your Crypto Is Offline. Now Show Me the Audit.

3 days ago

Coinbase Says 99% of Your Crypto Is Offline. Now Show Me the Audit.

Coinbase and Gate both rushed out cold storage ratios in the wake of the Binance attack. The numbers sound reassuring, and that's the problem. A storage ratio tells you where the keys sit, not whether the exchange can cover what it owes you.

15,000 Lightning Nodes, One Unpatched Bug: The Channel-Draining Math Nobody Wants to Do

3 days ago

15,000 Lightning Nodes, One Unpatched Bug: The Channel-Draining Math Nobody Wants to Do

A new Lightning release, v26.06.10, quietly patched channel checks and remote-command handling, then told operators to replace any credential they can't explain. Most node runners will ignore it. That's the whole problem. Here's who pays when they do.

WLFI's Buyback Might Be Funded by Stablecoin Yield. That's a Big Deal.

3 days ago

WLFI's Buyback Might Be Funded by Stablecoin Yield. That's a Big Deal.

World Liberty Financial kicked off a WLFI buyback on Thursday, and the initial funding could come from income on the reserves backing its USD1 stablecoin. If that's the case, stablecoin growth becomes the token's price floor, which is clever, fragile, and worth watching closely.

Kalshi's CEO Just Offered Congress a Rulebook. Democrats Might Ban the Game Instead.

3 days ago

Kalshi's CEO Just Offered Congress a Rulebook. Democrats Might Ban the Game Instead.

Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says he backs insider trading bans for members of Congress and administration officials. That's a real concession, but it lands the same week Democrats won both chambers and started talking about banning election contracts outright. The smarter bet is a disclosure regime, not prohibition.

Gate's 104% Cold Reserve Number Isn't the Problem. The Two Different Snapshot Dates Are.

3 days ago

Gate's 104% Cold Reserve Number Isn't the Problem. The Two Different Snapshot Dates Are.

Gate is touting 104% cold reserve coverage, and the headline number looks great. But the assets and liabilities behind it don't share a timestamp, the new hot-wallet loss test runs on its own separate basis, and independent verification of the current PoSEC data is still in progress. Here's why that combo is a bigger deal than the 4% cushion.

Core Scientific Is Quitting Bitcoin Mining. Mining Is Now Just 7.5% of Revenue

3 days ago

Core Scientific Is Quitting Bitcoin Mining. Mining Is Now Just 7.5% of Revenue

Core Scientific plans to stop mining Bitcoin by the end of the year and come back in 2027 as a pure-play data center company. Mining is down to 7.5% of quarterly revenue, which tells you everything about where the money actually went. Here's who wins, who loses, and why the plumbing matters more than the narrative.

Treasury's $6B Buyback Was 82% One Bond. Crypto Should Care.

3 days ago

Treasury's $6B Buyback Was 82% One Bond. Crypto Should Care.

Treasury hit the full $6 billion cap on its Nov. 4 buyback, but a single bond accounted for $4.9 billion of it. Dealers say size isn't the problem. That matters for anyone holding T-bills as collateral, which increasingly includes crypto.

Asia's Exchanges Are Turning Into Bunkers as AI Hacks Get Cheaper

3 days ago

Asia's Exchanges Are Turning Into Bunkers as AI Hacks Get Cheaper

Exchanges across Asia are adding withdrawal delays, rotating key signers, and hiring security teams at bank-like pace, all while their own regulators push tokenization and stablecoin rules forward. The security budget is quietly becoming the moat, and the small players can't fund it.

Solana's Hidden Client Risk Gets a Draft Fix, but Three Loose Ends Stay Open

3 days ago

Solana's Hidden Client Risk Gets a Draft Fix, but Three Loose Ends Stay Open

Solana developers have circulated a draft that would give every independent client the same convergence target. It's real progress on a risk that's been sitting under the network for years. But the trust assumptions, the testing regime, and the upgrade review process are all still unresolved, and that's where the actual danger lives.

French Hill Wins Reelection but Loses the Gavel. Crypto's 279-Vote Coalition Loses Its Architect

3 days ago

French Hill Wins Reelection but Loses the Gavel. Crypto's 279-Vote Coalition Loses Its Architect

French Hill kept his Arkansas seat but loses the House Financial Services Committee chairmanship when Democrats take the chamber in January. The man who built the 279-vote FIT21 coalition becomes a ranking member with a microphone and no markup authority, and that changes the timeline for every piece of crypto legislation still in the pipe.

Bitcoin Holds $75,400 as Nasdaq's Correction Wipes Out $1.08 Billion in Longs

3 days ago

Bitcoin Holds $75,400 as Nasdaq's Correction Wipes Out $1.08 Billion in Longs

Bitcoin doesn't have its own bid this week. It has Nvidia's. The $75,400 shelf is the only thing between here and a September low retest, and the forced selling that drove Thursday's 5% slide was mechanical, not conviction. Here's what the weekly chart and the miner tape are actually telling us.

Gate Posts 104.58% Cold Storage Coverage in Industry-First 'Proof of Security' Disclosure

3 days ago

Gate Posts 104.58% Cold Storage Coverage in Industry-First 'Proof of Security' Disclosure

Gate just became the first exchange to publish a cold storage coverage ratio, disclosing that 88.26% of assets sit offline against an 11.74% hot wallet allocation. The 104.58% headline sounds bulletproof, but the thin cushion and the still-pending audit are where the real story sits.

Bitcoin's $2.7B Options Expiry Leaves a Five-Hour Hole Right Before Payrolls

4 days ago

Bitcoin's $2.7B Options Expiry Leaves a Five-Hour Hole Right Before Payrolls

Deribit's Friday settlement lands 08:00 UTC. The jobs number lands 13:30 UTC. That five-and-a-half-hour gap means $2.7 billion of bitcoin options are dead before the biggest macro print of the month even prints. Here's who pays for the blind spot.

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