Veteran financial adviser Ric Edelman is making one of his most aggressive bitcoin allocation calls yet, arguing that investors should consider holding 10% to 40% of portfolios in BTC depending on risk tolerance. He also sees a path toward $500,000 bitcoin by 2030 if global adoption continues to deepen. Ric Edelman Raises Bitcoin Allocation Call […]

Prediction-market operator Kalshi is reportedly negotiating a fresh $1 billion funding round at a $40 billion valuation, an eightfold increase from its $5 billion valuation in October 2025. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management are discussing leading the investment, with Tiger Global and Dragoneer also participating in talks. The potential deal […]

House Oversight Chairman James Comer has expanded Congress’s prediction market insider trading investigation to Hyperliquid, Crypto.com, and Predictit, demanding records by Oct. 13. The inquiry follows allegations that a U.S. Army master sergeant earned more than $409,000 betting with classified intelligence on Polymarket. Lawmakers are also examining a suspiciously timed $1.1 billion leveraged crypto trade […]

Geneva, Switzerland, September 29, 2026 — TRON DAO, the community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet through blockchain technology and decentralized applications (dApps), will ring the closing bell at Cboe Global Markets’ trading floor in Chicago today, September 29, to celebrate the listing of TRXS, an exchange-traded product offering staked exposure to […]

Moonpay launched its South Korean subsidiary on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, leveraging preexisting partnerships with Kakaobank, Woori Bank, and KB Financial Group to bring stablecoins into everyday banking. The plans include international payments, won-backed digital currencies, and a remittance service targeting transfers to U.S. bank accounts in under one hour. South Korea will also serve […]

The Zano team announced on Tuesday that a hot fix has been applied and the “network is stable on the updated chain” following the inflation bug that occurred last Friday. The latest update explains that third-party providers need to update their nodes to the updated chain before processing ZANO and Zano-issued asset transfers. Zano Team […]

Bitwise has launched a U.S.-listed NEAR ETF offering spot exposure to the token alongside staking rewards of roughly 5%. The fund gives traditional investors a new way to bet on the intersection of crypto infrastructure and the emerging AI-agent economy. Why Bitwise Is Bringing NEAR to Wall Street Bitwise is taking the AI-meets-crypto trade to […]

Treasury management firm Capital B acquired 13 bitcoin with $1.1 million raised from the issuance of 172,978 new shares priced at $6.45 each, boosting the value of its bitcoin treasury to about $294 million.   ATM Contract Terms and Execution French treasury management firm Capital B confirmed Sept. 28 that it has raised $1.1 million […]

The price of bitcoin experienced a turbulent 24 hours, fluctuating between $82,807 and $84,545 before settling near $83,150. Analysts noted that while tighter financial conditions and energy costs are temporarily capping non-yielding assets, bitcoin’s underlying technicals still suggest short-term consolidation within an uptrend rather than a structural reversal.   Intraday Charting Points to Sharp Reversals […]

U.S. bitcoin ETFs opened the week with $31.07 million in net inflows, extending their winning streak to eight sessions even as the pace of buying slowed sharply. Ether, solana, and XRP funds also attracted capital, while Zcash ETFs returned to outflows.   Bitcoin ETFs Stay Positive as Daily Inflows Cool The torrent of exchange-traded fund […]

Goldman Sachs is making its $100 billion Financial Square Treasury Instruments Fund available through Lynq, a private Avalanche Layer 1 network used by more than 30 institutional digital-asset firms. Avalanche Lands Goldman Sachs Treasury Fund Through Lynq Goldman Sachs is pushing one of its largest cash-management products onto blockchain-linked market infrastructure, giving institutional investors another […]

Bitcoin’s price reclaimed $84,000 on Tuesday, Sept. 29, climbing approximately 1% over 24 hours as buyers attempted to repair the damage from a retreat off the $87,374 high. With BTC trading between $83,960 and $84,341 during the morning snapshot, the daily moving averages continue to favor the bulls, although shorter timeframes reveal a recovery still […]

Anthropic’s initial public offering (IPO) prospectus shows the Claude maker lost about $42 billion in 2025 on $4.59 billion in revenue while signing up for $518 billion in computing commitments. Wait, Has Anthropic Even Filed? The simple answer is, not publicly; however, what the artificial intelligence (AI) giant has done is confidentially submit a draft […]

Kalshi traders pushed the odds of bitcoin hitting $100,000 in 2026 from 17% to 43% in under a week, and now, with bitcoin’s price slipping yesterday, that bet is hovering around 34%. The Round Trip, Date by Date The contract in question is Kalshi’s “How high will Bitcoin get in 2026?” market, and its $100,000 […]

Jamaican lawmakers are debating the Virtual Assets Service Providers Act, a proposed law that would establish a licensing and supervisory framework for digital currency businesses. Defining Virtual Asset Businesses The Jamaican House of Representatives recently began debating legislation that aims to create a formal licensing and regulatory framework for digital currency exchanges and other virtual […]

A Quant (QNT) holder who pulled coins off exchanges in 2019 sent 9,000 QNT worth roughly $2 million to Coinbase and Kraken earlier today, booking an 884% gain on a $22.57 cost basis. The Alert That Lit up QNT Twitter Onchain trackers flagged the deposits early Tuesday, calling the wallet a seven-year position and pegging […]

Onchain trackers have recently caught Michael Saylor’s Strategy moving 3,568 BTC, worth about $297 million, in nine hours, but Arkham analysts revealed not a single coin was sold. What Does the Data Actually Show? The alert came from prominent blockchain sleuth Lookonchain, listing 12 outbound transfers over nine hours, ranging from 137.643 BTC to 452.122 […]

The institution has placed crypto-assets and distributed ledger technology as a pillar of its 2027 work program, focusing on achieving supervisory convergence for crypto-asset service providers under MiCA and deepening its understanding of the impact of digital assets on financial markets. ESMA to Focus on Crypto Assets Supervision and Surveillance in 2027 The European Securities […]

Roughly $500 million in leveraged crypto bets were liquidated in a single day as the bitcoin price slipped under $83,000, and the push came from outside crypto, namely oil, bonds and a rare gold rout. It Started With Oil The chain reaction began on Monday, Sept. 28, when President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal […]

A federal appeals court ruled Sept. 25 that Ohio and Tennessee can enforce their gambling laws against Kalshi’s sports contracts. The court built part of its reasoning on things Kalshi had said in court. The company’s multi-state litigation footprint already produced a circuit split, and its reply to New Jersey’s Supreme Court petition is due […]

Lithuanian businessman Vilhelm German has secured two favorable developments in the Foxpay investigation. Prosecutors dropped money laundering and bribery suspicions against him after determining that insufficient evidence remained and further investigative avenues had been exhausted. Separately, a Vilnius court upheld procedural objections in his €23 million cryptocurrency mining case, identifying improper machine translations and unexamined […]

As Gen Z weighs the $108,584 average cost of a four-year degree, Walmart has been expanding paid, debt-free pathways that move frontline associates into higher-paid roles, including truck drivers, skilled technicians, and licensed opticians. Its Associate to Driver program, launched in 2022, pays workers while they earn a commercial driver’s license, and graduates can make […]

Brazil banned sports betting and online casino games on Sept. 25, nine days before the first round of its presidential election. The decision ends a licensed market that opened in January 2025; the government is nevertheless keeping the $492 million (R$2.55 billion) operators paid for their licenses. A Seismic iGaming Change Just Before Presidential Vote […]

Spanish institutional custodian Cecabank is expanding its regulated crypto-asset custody services to Luxembourg via the MiCA European passporting process. Strategic Push via MiCA Passporting Spanish institutional custodian Cecabank has reportedly launched a push to extend its regulated crypto asset custody services into Luxembourg, about 18 months after opening its branch in the Grand Duchy. Cecabank […]

The Circle Foundation, the philanthropic initiative of Circle Internet Group, has announced new grant initiatives with the United Nations Development Program and the World Food Program to modernize international aid delivery using regulated stablecoins. Accelerating UNDP Program Delivery The Circle Foundation announced two new grant initiatives in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) […]

China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) stressed that while criminals have promoted cryptocurrency as a way to escape oversight, this anonymity is a false premise, as transactions leave digital traces that can potentially be followed to the user’s identity.   China Warns Cryptocurrency Transactions Are Not Untraceable The Chinese government has clarified that while cryptocurrencies […]

The warning comes as there is a significant imbalance between the yields of fintech companies and those paid by FDIC-insured banks, which could cause massive withdrawals from the latter as agents reallocate their users’ savings to accrue higher benefits. An Agentic Bank Run Might Be Brewing, Says Apollo Chief Economist The introduction of agentic technology […]

Michael Saylor wants banks to custody bitcoin and lend against it, giving owners more ways to use their holdings. He also calls for an insurance industry path and a review of the capital rules applied to certain crypto exposures. What Saylor Wants Banks to Offer Bitcoin Owners Bitcoin owners could gain more ways to borrow […]

Robert Kiyosaki warns that a market crash could drain baby boomers’ retirement savings and leave some without homes. In a Sept. 27 post, he repeated his long-running call to buy bitcoin, gold, and silver as he renewed his criticism of stock-and-bond portfolios. Kiyosaki Warns Boomers Could Run Out of Money A steep market decline could […]

Bitcoin’s rebound has raised the prospect that the broader crypto market has passed its bear-market low. A Sept. 28 analyst report puts the probability of a cycle turn at 75%, while acknowledging that earlier recoveries have failed. Why the Analyst Thinks the Crypto Cycle Has Turned Crypto investors may have seen the worst of the […]

Tokenized stocks generated $20.9 billion in decentralized exchange (DEX) volume over the past 30 days, with Uniswap handling roughly $12.6 billion of the activity. The surge is turning tokenized equities from a niche crypto experiment into a fast-growing battleground for DeFi liquidity, collateral, and market infrastructure. Uniswap Handles $12.6B as Tokenized Stock Trading Surges Tokenized […]

Following Bitget’s $387.5 million hack, attackers attempted to move more than $50 million through Near Intents, but its SHIELD security system detected the activity and prevented most of the attempted transfers. Just $166,000 slipped through, while another $503,000 was frozen mid-execution. Aurora co-founder Alex Shevchenko said the protocol will waive its recovery bounty, drawing praise […]