Dogecoin Slides 5.5% as $0.1940 Support Cracks on Volume Spike
The immediate focus is whether Dogecoin can stabilize above $0.18 and avoid further declines.
XRP Drops 5% to $2.47 as Bears Break Key Support Level
The breach of the $2.50 level triggered significant trading activity, with a 158% increase in volume.
Bitcoin Braces for Fed Balance-Sheet Shift as Liquidity Cycle Turns
Analysts say the Fed’s pivot from quantitative tightening could propel Bitcoin to $200,000, citing key differences from 2019.
Nordic bank that once shunned crypto to soon offer a Bitcoin ETP
Nordea announced in 2018 that it would ban employees from buying and holding Bitcoin due to concerns that the crypto market was unregulated.
Palantir Sues Ex-Engineers Over Plans to Launch ‘Copycat’ AI Startup
Palantir’s lawsuit alleges the defendants downloaded sensitive client data days after resignation, then kept new roles secret for months.
Revolut rolls out 1:1 USD-to-stablecoin swaps as fintechs warm to crypto
Revolut has made on and off-ramping to crypto easier by removing fees, spreads and other costs, allowing users to convert USD and stablecoins at a 1:1 ratio.
ANTML: Anthropic’s Markup Language
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Saylor says Strategy unlikely to buy up rivals as there’s too much uncertainty
Strategy is unlikely to make deals to acquire its Bitcoin-buying rivals, with founder Michael Saylor saying it’s too risky.
Scenes from TechCrunch Disrupt
Thanks to everyone who made this year’s San Francisco event what it was — and to the 10,000 of you who filled the halls, made the connections, and left with more than you came with. Couldn’t make it? These images tell part of the story.
SBF’s X Account Says FTX Was Never Insolvent—And FTT Would Be $22 Billion Today
A document posted to the disgraced crypto mogul’s X account has reprised arguments from his trial, arguing FTX was never insolvent.
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Protect Bitcoin Exposure with Ether Shorts: Research Firm
The relative weakness in ETH is evident from host of factors, including DATs and options.
Bitcoin not the ‘end goal’ says Riot as BTC production jumps 27%
Riot sees Bitcoin mining as a “means to an end,” planning to pivot its power resources to build a 1-gigawatt AI data center campus.
New York Court Extends Asset Freeze to Aid Singapore’s Multichain Liquidation
A U.S. court is now handling claims tied to $63 million in frozen Multichain USDC as New York and Singapore coordinate.
Coinbase CEO’s bizarre final words on Q3 call just paid off a lucky few
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong rattled off a bunch of crypto buzzwords at the end of its Q3 earnings call — resolving all prediction market bets on them to a “yes” in one swoop.
John Carmack on mutable variables
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Retail throws $1.4B into ‘oversubscribed’ MetaETH, zkPass, Momentum ICOs
MegaETH blew past its fundraising cap with over $1.3 billion committed, achieving a theoretical valuation of over $27 billion after closing on Thursday.
Asia Morning Briefing: Bitcoin Trades at $109K as U.S. ETF Demand Fades and Powell’s Hawkish Tone Hits Risk Assets
CryptoQuant data shows U.S. spot ETF flows turning negative while Glassnode flags heavy long-term holder selling. Solana’s new spot ETFs drew inflows but failed to lift prices as sentiment weakened after large on-chain transfers.
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Saylor’s Strategy boosts after hours as firm posts $2.8B Q3 income
Strategy’s third-quarter net income was down from its record $10 billion in Q2, but still lifted its shares after the bell.
ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon
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Microsoft’s agent platform play
Jay Parikh in 2018. | Photo: Andrej Sokolow / Getty Images This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. To understand how Microsoft sees its role in the AI race, look at what was announced at the … Read more
An investigation into Substrate
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Coinbase adds $300M Bitcoin as it pushes ‘Everything Exchange’ vision
Coinbase recorded another profitable quarter with $432.6 million in net income in Q3 on the back of $1.9 billion in revenue, while Coinbase’s Bitcoin holdings rose by 2,772 BTC.