The European Securities and Markets Authority on 8 October told national supervisors that MiCA-authorised crypto firms should stop providing services in stablecoins that do not meet...
Bitcoin closed at $83,275.93, down 2.67%, after Iran stepped up attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. Brent rose above $101 a barrel, the dollar...
Sellers turned Bitcoin away from $87,000 for the third time since 23 September. CoinDesk had it down 1.2% to about $85,600 in Tuesday Asian hours after...
Washington’s other move on 5 October was a retreat. The Treasury and FinCEN withdrew two unfinished proposals: the 2020 rule that would have required identification and...
With the Senate Clarity Act stuck, CFTC Chairman Michael Selig on 5 October launched an advance notice of proposed rulemaking for leveraged and margined retail crypto...
Bitcoin came within roughly $500 of an eight-month high on 5 October and then gave the move back, leaving the seasonal “Uptober” bid stalled under a...
Binance removed 334,879,422 Terra Luna Classic (LUNC) from circulation on October 1, the headline transaction in its monthly exchange burn and the figure that led community...
TOKEN2049 runs October 7–8 at Marina Bay Sands. Organisers expect more than 25,000 people, from more than 7,000 companies and about 160 countries, with 300-plus speakers...
South Korea is second only to the United States in cryptocurrency that can be measured sitting in wallets and on exchanges, according to Chainalysis figures cited...
HSBC named the stablecoin it has not yet issued. On September 30 the bank said the Hong Kong-dollar token will be called HSBC RedCoin, and that...
Hong Kong’s stablecoin law is already in force. The September policy address is the next step: the tokens those licences produce are meant to trade, and...
JPYC, the first yen stablecoin licensed in Japan, opened on Upbit on September 17 and briefly traded at about four times one yen. The token is...
Singapore is again the largest crypto economy in Central and Southeast Asia and Oceania. Chainalysis put activity there at $284 billion in the year to June...
The Financial Conduct Authority opened its crypto authorisation gateway on September 30, the first time UK crypto firms can apply for full permission under the new...
Robinhood used HOOD Summit in Houston to do what the brokerage has been signaling all year: stop being only a stock app and start being the...
Michael Saylor posted “even more orange.” The 8-K did the arithmetic. Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy, NASDAQ: MSTR) disclosed on September 28 that it bought 1,665 bitcoin...
Coinbase now lists, brokers and clears — as long as the trade is prepaid. On September 28 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission registered Coinbase Clearing LLC...
The ratings firm that scores the issuer just bought the firm that scores the code. On September 17, S&P Global (SPGI) said it had agreed to...
Watcher Guru’s post was the compressed version: X has partnered with crypto and stock venues so U.S. users can go from a cashtag to a trade...
Two different buyers showed up on the same tape. Only one of them can be liquidated. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs printed $999 million of net creations...
Eight days after a print under $75,000, the complex is back over three trillion. Bitcoin’s September 21–22 run tagged an eight-month high. Intraday extremes printed $87,000...
Saylor bought the dip. He also bought more of his own preferred. Strategy Inc. (MSTR), Michael Saylor’s bitcoin-treasury vehicle, disclosed in a September 21 Form 8-K...
The interesting work this week was not a token. It was who is allowed to hold one. While Washington failed cloture on CLARITY and the Fed...
At about 3:00 p.m. ET on September 15, cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, failed 49–50. The...
The bid that carried August paused when the price stopped going up. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs posted $462.7 million of net outflows across the four sessions...
For one session, bitcoin was not a tech stock with a ticker. On Monday, September 14, BTC ran from the mid-$77,000s toward $78,300, then as high...
Jack Dorsey’s payments company wants a federal vault, not a checking account. On September 8, Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) said it filed with the Office of...
The U.S. listed-product machine has left bitcoin and ether. Canary Staked TRX ETF started trading on Cboe BZX on September 9 under ticker TRXS. It is...
The largest bitcoin incident of 2026 did not steal a key. It printed coins that should not have existed, walked them through a working peg-out, and...
Bitcoin spent Tuesday in the high $78,000s, with prints from about $78,300 to $78,900 after briefly losing $79,000. Some sessions tagged the low $80,000s and gave...
Solana’s 1,232-byte transaction cap was a leftover from the UDP era. The network has been on QUIC for years. The cap is finally moving. Transaction v1...
The most common Ethereum failure is not a hack. It is a wallet full of USDC that cannot move because there is no ETH left for...
Bitcoin gave back the $80,000 handle after the U.S. August employment report landed hotter than Wall Street had any right to expect. Nonfarm payrolls rose 162,000,...