DOGE Holds Above 200DMA, Breakout Needs Daily Close Through $0.24

DOGE advanced intraday but couldn’t sustain above $0.24, fading into a tight post-rally coil. A 780M volume burst fueled the midday push; late in the session, supply re-emerged and price reset to the $0.23 shelf. News Background Large-holder flows turned net negative for the day, with whales offloading an estimated 40M DOGE, trimming aggregate balances … Read more

XRP Holds Above $2.90 as ETF Decisions Loom

XRP gained 2.1% during the 24-hour trading session from September 28 at 21:00 to September 29 at 20:00, climbing from $2.84 to $2.90 while moving within a $0.10 range that represented 3.47% of the opening price. News Background • Large institutional addresses holding between 10–100 million XRP tokens accumulated over 120 million coins across the … Read more

The Hidden Economics of Your Vacation: Why a 2-Hour Transfer in the Alps Can Cost More Than a Flight

We think of pricing as a simple logic of distance and quality. But after diving into a rare data-driven analysis of the €2 billion Alpine transfer market, I realized the real cost drivers are invisible forces: structural inefficiencies, information asymmetry, and the surprisingly high price of consumer trust. I’ve always been fascinated by markets that … Read more

AI Can Now Do Expert-Level Work (Almost). 5 Surprising Findings from a Landmark ‘GDPval’ Study

Introduction: Moving Beyond the Hype to See What AI Can Really Do The debate over AI’s impact on the job market is filled with speculation. But trying to measure its real-world effect using historical data like the adoption of electricity gives us only lagging indicators of a shift that’s already underway. What we’ve needed is … Read more

What the Battle of the Bitcoin Metaprotocols Means for the Future of Bitcoin

Who this is for: Bitcoin developers, indexer builders, and product teams evaluating Bitcoin-native DeFi architectures. The question that actually matters Bitcoin now has credible ways to represent assets. Runes gives a UTXO-native fungible token standard. Ordinals covers unique artifacts. The harder question is where execution should live. If execution moves into indexers (e.g., BRC20, Alkanes, … Read more

OKX SG Brings USDT and USDC Scan-to-Pay to Singapore’s Everyday Shopping

OKX SG, the Singapore-based unit of OKX, said it is bringing the crypto exchange’s integrated payments service, OXK Pay, to the city-state through a stablecoin-powered scan-to-pay service tie-up with Southeast Asia’s “everyday everything” app, Grab. OKX SG, which received a major payment institution license from the country’s central bank just over a year ago, will … Read more

Ripple CLO Stuart Alderoty Says ‘Washington Must Finish the Job on Crypto Clarity’

Washington has a narrow window to deliver clear U.S. crypto rules, Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty argues, urging lawmakers to “finish the job on crypto clarity.” In an op-ed published Monday on RealClearMarkets, Alderoty said the Securities and Exchange Commission has for the first time listed crypto clarity among its top priorities — signaling … Read more

Keel Debuts as Sky’s Solana-Focused ‘Star’ With a $2.5B Roadmap to Boost RWAs and DeFi

Keel, a new Solana-native capital allocator, debuted on Tuesday with a roadmap to channel up to $2.5 billion across decentralized finance (DeFi) and tokenized asset markets in the Solana (SOL) ecosystem. Keel is structured as being part of the Sky ecosystem, the long-running DeFi protocol formerly known as MakerDAO, as one of its autonomous units … Read more

SEC Willing to Engage with Tokenized Asset Issuers, SEC’s Hester Peirce Says

SINGAPORE — SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said Tuesday that the regulator is open to engaging with industry participants on tokenizing products, while emphasising the complexity of how these tokenized assets interact with their traditional counterparts. “We are willing to work with people who want to tokenize, we urge them to come talk to us,” Peirce … Read more