Richard Heart Arrested, XRP DAT Rings Nasdaq Bell, And More – Weekly Recap
This week’s stories included crypto treasuries, legal drama, AI infrastructure and exchange fundraising. Evernorth showcased its 473 million XRP treasury...
Bitcoin News
Bitcoin and Ether ETFs Lose $152M as Blackrock Drives Friday Selloff
U.S. crypto ETFs closed Friday under renewed selling pressure, with bitcoin funds losing $82.39 million and ether ETFs shedding another...
Arthur Hayes Says OpenAI and Anthropic Are Worthless and Bitcoin Wins
Bitmex co-founder Arthur Hayes says the artificial intelligence boom is burning cash on a government backstop, and that the bigger...
Bloomberg Sees Bitcoin Price at $10K and Cryptoquant’s CEO Doesn’t Agree
Bloomberg Intelligence strategist Mike McGlone has put a $10,000 target back on bitcoin, and within hours, Cryptoquant CEO Ki Young...
Binance Offers Nearly 8% in XRP for RLUSD But the Base Rate Keeps Falling
Binance is advertising up to 7.77% in XRP rewards for holding Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin, but its own payout table shows...
Strategy Sinks Nearly 10% on MSCI News But Saylor Is Still $5B Up
Strategy shares lost 9.6% on Friday in the first full session after MSCI’s index ruling, even though the company’s 848,250...
A North Carolina Woman Won $100,000 on a Scratch-Off. Then She Won It Again on the Exact Same Game
LuAnn Chico of Lexington, North Carolina, has won a $100,000 prize twice on the same $20 scratch-off game, Ruby Red...
Nine Blockchain Groups Unite as Quantum Threat Hangs Over Bitcoin
A new coalition of nine blockchain organizations is tackling a problem that could eventually put roughly 6.4 million bitcoin at...
Judge Refuses to Erase Gemini’s $5M Settlement Despite CFTC Reversal
In a rare courtroom reversal, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) joined cryptocurrency exchange Gemini in asking a federal judge...
Solana Apps Generate $193M in 30 Days Amid Real-World Assets Surge
Solana generated $193.1 million in application revenue over the past 30 days, nearly twice Hyperliquid’s total, according to Castle Labs...
Wall Street Veterans Unveil DeFi Platform for 77 TradFi Markets
Decentralized perpetual futures exchange Deepsigma has launched a live paper-trading platform across 77 traditional financial markets, including U.S. equities, indexes,...
Solana Abruptly Postpones Shanghai Event as Registrations Quadruple
The Solana Foundation stated that the Accelerate event was canceled due to a surge in registrations, with people overwhelming the...
Visa Moves Massive Stablecoin Payments Pilot Into Production Phase
The company has moved its initiative from pilot to commercial deployment in partnership with Inyo Global, a payments infrastructure firm,...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Jumps 5.92% in Third-Largest Hike of 2026
On Friday, at block height 971712, bitcoin mining grew considerably more demanding as the network’s latest difficulty adjustment climbed 5.92%...
Bitcoin Price Hovers Near $81K as Analysts See Potential Market Bottom
Bitcoin slipped below $81,000 on Oct. 16 amid heightened market volatility, but analysts remained cautiously optimistic, suggesting a potential local...
