Wednesday night’s episode of South Park promises to tackle the crypto-fueled prediction market ecosystem, weeks after skewering figures including President Trump and Charlie Kirk.
Bitcoin’s bullish divergences on the RSI metric, along with record-low volatility, were early signs that the rally to $113,900 was in the making. Is the sell-off over?
Jiuzi Holdings announced plans for a $1 billion crypto treasury focused on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BNB—garnering mixed signals from investors.
The region was the fastest growing for on-chain activity, a new Chainalysis report observing transaction data found.
The prediction market protocol is now offering revenue sharing, with USDC rewards for users who share using their personal referral link.
At least three other candidates may be in the running to chair the CTFC after the Winklevoss twins reportedly soured on Trump’s first pick, Brian Quintenz.
Seven-month-old Solana meme coin PWEASE spiked on Wednesday, after U.S. VP JD Vance posted the meme on social media.
Stellar’s native token XLM weathered intense volatility over the past 24 hours, plunging to key support levels before staging a robust rebound. The moves, marked by unusually heavy institutional trading activity, underscored the market’s focus on the $0.36–$0.37 support zone as traders weigh the prospects of a breakout toward higher targets. During the Asian trading … Read more
Validators on BNB Chain have proposed lowering the minimum gas price from 0.1 Gwei to 0.05 Gwei while reducing block intervals from 750 milliseconds to 450 milliseconds. The goal is to drive average transaction costs down to around $0.005, making the network competitive with low-cost chains such as Solana and Base. The proposal follows a … Read more
Solana treasury firm DeFi Development Corp. saw shares pop after announcing it was increasing its share repurchase program to $100 million.
Whales rotated heavily into ASTER and dumped HYPE as smart money bets on a shift toward the new DEX token associated with Binance’s CZ.
Melee, a new prediction market startup that says speculation and betting should be as open as online discussion, has raised $3.5 million from Variant, DBA and a group of angel investors to roll out what it calls “Viral Markets.” Crypto native companies have witnessed the runaway success of Polymarket, the digital asset betting platform that … Read more
More than ever we are at the mercy of platform-based giants like Google and Amazon, who act as digital landlords. We have become cloud-serfs, giving our data and producing trillions in value for algorithms we will never own. Over 80% of Netflix viewing is dictated by its recommendation algorithm, and Amazon is far from a … Read more
Private credit, namely asset-backed finance (ABF), is among the fastest-growing corners of global finance. Already a $6.1 trillion market, Apollo Global Management sizes the addressable opportunity at over $20 trillion. Yet despite its scale and growing role in financing businesses and consumers worldwide, the industry still runs on excel sheets. The result? Middle- and back-office … Read more
HBAR traded with sharp volatility over a 23-hour window from September 23 to 24, gaining just 0.90% despite wide intraday swings. The token ranged between $0.217 and $0.225, with the critical 04:00 session on September 24 marking a steep drop to $0.217 before a strong rebound. That zone now acts as support, while $0.225 remains … Read more
Bitwise Asset Management says ether (ETH) is rapidly cementing its place as a treasury asset. Digital asset treasuries (DATs), once largely bitcoin-centric, are now allocating to ether at scale, creating structural demand that exceeds net new supply, the firm said in a Monday report. “ETH treasuries are no longer a side story. They are becoming … Read more
Matt Price, Elliptic’s director of investigations and strategic advisory, delves into the world of on-chain analytics, outlining the role of AI in crypto analytics, an evolving game of cat and mouse on-chain, and the challenges faced by law enforcement in tackling sophisticated financial crimes.
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Margaux Nijkerk, a reporter at CoinDesk. In this issue: Ethereum Developers Target December for Fusaka Hard For Plasma to Launch Mainnet Beta Blockchain for Stablecoins XRP Holders Can Now Earn Up to 8% Through New Liquid Staking Token … Read more
Franklin Templeton’s tokenized money market fund was worth $742 million on Wednesday.
Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has refuted a report by the Financial Times which said YZi Labs could be opened up to external investors. Zhao said the Tuesday report was “false news…with with fake/wrong/made-up info and negative narrative,” in a post on X. “As far as I know…YZi Labs is not raising an external fund,” … Read more
The price of bitcoin (BTC) remains stuck in the mud and corporate bitcoin treasury firms have gone through a full boom-and-bust cycle in a matter of weeks, but the BTC miners have been in major bull mode thanks to artificial intelligence and high-performance computing as a new growth driver. The action continued on Wednesday, with … Read more
Paxos’ USDH plan brings PayPal/Venmo links, a $20-million fund and yield sharing. Could it turn Hyperliquid into DeFi’s next liquidity hub?
Acting CFTC Chairman Caroline Pham said stablecoins and other digital assets could usher in “America’s Golden Age of Crypto.”
Solana is underperforming Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP this week as analysts cite deleveraging pressure, priced-in corporate purchases, and upcoming FTX distributions.
After crypto titans fought over the ticker, the USDH stablecoin is now live on Hyperliquid—but HYPE is down as BNB-based rival Aster rises.
Bitcoin Core proponents defend OP_RETURN changes as neutral, while critics warn of spam and capture.
Coinbase Ventures led a $14.6 million round for Bastion, a startup providing white-label stablecoin issuance with backing from Sony, Samsung, A16z and others.
Bitcoin traders supplied BTC price levels to cause “max pain” around a giant $17.5 billion options expiry, while Bollinger Bands set new records.
While crypto focuses on US and EU markets, real adoption is happening in Argentina, Nigeria and the Philippines, where digital assets solve survival needs.
IREN (IREN), one of the largest self-operated bitcoin (BTC) miners in the U.S., is breaking away from the pack, and Wall Street is taking notice. Bernstein analysts raised their price target on IREN to $75 from $20, implying about 80% upside, as the miner doubles down on building its own AI cloud business rather than … Read more