Porsche has pulled the plug on its Web3 project and PIONEERS CIRCLE, nearly four years after unveiling a 7,500-piece NFT collection built around the 911. The exit comes with a peculiar wrinkle. Holders keep their PORSCHE 911 NFTs onchain, but the Discord community becomes an archive and the project’s X account goes dark. A collection […]

Bitcoin’s price spent Saturday trapped close to $85,000 after Friday’s charge above $87,000 collapsed, but the forecasts surrounding it were anything but quiet. Polymarket traders give bitcoin a 39% chance of touching $100,000 before 2027, Kalshi’s year-end forecast stands at $86,240, Claude Opus 5.5 predicts $91,500, and ChatGPT-6 Astra goes higher at $94,000. Bitcoin’s price […]

The Ministry of Finance announced it is already allowing its employees to receive wages in digital rubles, using accounts opened on the Bank of Russia platform. Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, also hinted that ATMs will process digital ruble withdrawals next year. Ministry of Finance Pays Wages in […]

Bitcoin’s recovery is drawing support from softer employment figures and renewed investment demand, according to 21shares. The firm’s strategist views reduced expectations for further monetary tightening as favorable for cryptocurrencies heading into the final quarter. Softer Jobs Data Put Bitcoin’s $87K Barrier in Focus Bitcoin broke through $85,000-$86,000 overnight and was testing $87,000 on Oct. […]

According to data, Bitcoin’s blockchain logged an extremely modest difficulty adjustment at block height 969696, dropping by a mere 0.03%. Hashprice has held above $40 per petahash, while the network’s computational power has remained below 1,000 exahash per second (EH/s). Bitcoin Difficulty Barely Budges With 0.03% Reduction Bitcoin difficulty is an automatic setting that makes […]

While August set a record for dormant bitcoin spending, September still saw a healthy batch of long-idle coins stir, with 5,419.45 BTC valued at $457.23 million shifting to new addresses. Although the pace cooled, dormant spending last month remained comfortably above July’s tally. Sleeping Bitcoin Stirs Across 93 Transfers A great deal of so-called sleeping […]

Flare and Doppler are partnering on an integration to bring direct FXRP vault access to XRP holders through Doppler’s platform. The collaboration will add investment strategies from outside providers as Doppler expands beyond its own yield products. Doppler Plans a Direct Route to Flare Vaults XRP holders using Doppler could soon reach Flare’s vaults from […]

The issuer of the second-largest stablecoin in the crypto world proposed a new regime for foreign-regulated stablecoins, where international issuers would be primarily supervised in their home jurisdiction with measures equivalent to those applied in the EU, allowing locally licensed institutions to handle distribution. Circle Proposes New Foreign Stablecoin Regime Under MiCA Circle, the issuer […]

Bitcoin traded between $84,614 and $84,887 on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, after a sharp rejection from a 24-hour intraday high of $87,085, leaving the market wedged between short-term consolidation and a broader bullish structure. The immediate tape has cooled, but every tracked moving average remains bullish while the oscillators are largely neutral, creating a technical […]

Road Town, Virgin Islands October 3, 2026 — BloFin, a top-tier cryptocurrency exchange built for ambitious traders and serious capital, is returning as title sponsor of TOKEN2049 Singapore, marking a major milestone for the company as it celebrates its third anniversary and enters its NEXT WHALE ERA. For BloFin, over the past three years, the […]

Bitcoin advocate and Strive executive Adam Livingston has mapped out a path for Strategy’s 847,666 BTC to reach $161.8 billion, about $90 billion more than today. The Claim Strategy’s stack is worth about $71.6 billion at the moment. Bitcoin priced in gold peaked at 40.1 ounces around December 2024 and now sits near 20.4 ounces […]

Four South Korean lenders shared one panel with Ripple at XRP Seoul 2026 earlier today, in front of a crowd of more than 5,000 people. One Panel, Many Chairs The session was titled “From Cross-Border Payments to Tokenized Deposits,” and the lineup on the slide said more than the title did. A floor-level photo shared […]

Spot XRP exchange-traded funds (ETFs) logged a $3.28 million net outflow on Oct. 2, all from Bitwise, while their combined assets dropped about $37 million. The Breakdown According to Sosovalue data, U.S. spot XRP ETFs ended Oct. 2 with total net assets of $1.658 billion. One session earlier, on Oct. 1, that figure was $1.695 […]

This week’s stories spanned institutional forecasts, security failures and new crypto products. Citi raised its 12-month bitcoin target to $113,000 and projected $5 billion in crypto fund inflows. NEAR Intents disclosed a $3.8 million exploit, while Zano rewound its chain by 30 days after more than $200 million in illicit token minting. Bitwise launched a […]

Law and Ledger is a news segment focusing on crypto legal news, brought to you by Kelman Law – A law firm focused on digital asset commerce. The opinion editorial below was written by Michael Handelsman for Kelman.Law. You funded a crypto project under a token purchase agreement or a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens […]

Crypto’s rally after a major legislative setback has an unexpected explanation, according to a new Bitwise analysis. Matt Hougan identifies four areas where the outcome created advantages, alongside one risk that could reverse them. Stablecoin Platforms Preserve Customer Rewards Four areas of crypto gained business advantages after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act […]

Arthur Hayes thinks artificial intelligence (AI) is unquestionably a bubble, but he’s betting its eventual reckoning could be rocket fuel for crypto. The Managing Partner of Maelstrom expects stressed AI companies and data-center debt to eventually force a government rescue worth multiple trillions of dollars. Meanwhile, his new Flop Labs project is wagering that the […]

Strategy’s bitcoin holdings underpin a business that raises capital and pays investors dollar dividends. Michael Saylor outlined how the company manages cash, financing costs, and different shareholder rights to sustain that income while pursuing bitcoin accumulation. Strategy Uses Bitcoin for Capital and Dollars for Income Investors seeking income from Strategy’s bitcoin-focused business depend on the […]

The Guardian reviewed a contract showing that a racing and esports content supplier majority-owned by three of Britain’s biggest bookmakers signed a revenue-sharing deal with Santeda, an offshore operator whose brands include Mystake. The deal surfaced in documents from the “Casino Secrets” leak of Curaçao’s gambling regulator. An 18% Cut of Offshore Revenue Filed under […]

The couple revealed chilling details of an attack that took place in December, saying that a group of thieves forced their way into the home and stole hundreds of thousands of pounds in cryptocurrency after threatening to kill the pregnant woman and her unborn child with a knife.   Criminals Threatened to Kill Pregnant Woman […]