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...
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...
BTSE has a full financial-services licence in Gelephu Mindfulness City. The company said on September 29 that the Gelephu Financial Services Office granted BTSE Exchange Pte...
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...
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...
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...
The week did not need a new all-time high. It needed licenses, fund wrappers, a withdrawal queue and a phone patch. Coinbase finished the U.S. derivatives...
The coin that ignored last week’s rate hike is listening to the 10-year again. Bitcoin slipped toward $83,000 on September 28, with session prints from 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...
TowerBFT just lost the testnet. On September 24 Anza confirmed the Alpenglow handoff on Solana’s public testnet: at slot 444625255 the Alpenglow genesis block formed, TowerBFT...
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...
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...
The pause is over. The first hike of the ETF era is on the books. On September 16 the Federal Open Market Committee voted 12–0 to...
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...
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 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...
The August risk rally ran into a wall that does not care about ETF streaks. A synchronized bond sell-off, an oil spike tied to a fresh...
XRP’s rally did not rebuild leverage. It moved the leverage that remained onto Chicago. CME Group is now the largest venue for XRP futures open interest...
Arbitrum just got something L2 tokens almost never get: a number you can annualize. ARB jumped about 25–30% in a day, breaking out of the 7–10...
The institutional bid did not leave with Friday’s bitcoin outflow. It just spread out. U.S. spot crypto ETFs took in about $2.07 billion in the week...
Corporate bitcoin buying did not restart with one ticket. It restarted with two. Strive, the Nasdaq-listed asset manager and bitcoin treasury that trades as ASST, bought...
Michael Saylor posted two words on Sunday. On Monday the filing filled them in. Strategy, the bitcoin treasury company formerly known as MicroStrategy, bought 4,603 BTC...