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David Lawant: Bitcoin Entering New “Bullish Regime” According to Options Market
Bitcoin Magazine David Lawant: Bitcoin Entering New “Bullish Regime” According to Options Market Bitcoin futures open interest is back above $50 billion for the first time this year. Is that healthy leverage or a warning sign? David Lawant, head of research at Anchorage Digital, says it's a sign of...
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McDonald's AI ‘Pricing Engine’ Gauges What Customers Will Pay for a Big Mac: Report
Machine-learning models set an 'optimal price' per item per restaurant, and have widened the gap between branches two miles apart.
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A single market worth protecting: Getting the MiCA review right
As the European Commission’s MiCA review consultation closes, Europe must decide whether its crypto rulebook is protecting the market without making it too costly to build in.
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Anthropic’s IPO doubles the price of its own books
Four months ago, accredited investors in Anthropic’s Series H round were able to buy equity in the company at a $965 billion post-money valuation — a figure based on its 2025 book of financials. The company’s new prospectus, leaked this week, however, shows the Claude AI owner preparing a November...
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US Senator Blumenthal Calls Tether's USDT a 'Superhighway' for Iranian Sanctions Evasion
The Connecticut Senator's subcommittee released its report on Monday and referred the findings to Treasury and the Justice Department.
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Gate BEN Market Logs 92 Liquidations After Scheduled Dividend Adjustment
Gate’s BENUSDT perpetual market logged 92 liquidation orders in the 65 seconds after a scheduled stock-dividend adjustment on Sept. 30, according to the exchange’s public liquidation feed. Gate’s Sept. 28 announcement assigned a $0.33 Franklin Resources dividend adjustment to BENUSDT, payable at...
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Live updates: Bitcoin below $84,000 ahead of PCE inflation data, Micron earnings
Traders are waiting on the Fed's favored inflation gauge after a month of oil-driven rate-hike bets that sent 30-year Treasury yields to their highest since 2002.
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Bitcoin ETFs stretch $3.1B inflow streak as Ether funds turn red
Ether ETFs shed $3 million Tuesday after seven days of inflows, following an $8 million outflow from Zcash funds at the start of the week.
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Bitcoin stalls near $83,000 while lighter drops 17% on Robinhood perps plan
Bitcoin held near $83,000 as the 30-year Treasury yield topped 5.6%, while DeFi tokens reversed and lighter fell after Robinhood unveiled U.S. perps.
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Kalshi to end liquidity incentive program amid wash trading allegations
Its monthly volume reached $52.98 billion in September as of Sept. 29, marking an all-time high, even as September data remains incomplete.
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Bitcoin bulls have one price level to defend
Here's the level analysts are watching and what a break below it could mean for the bulls.
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Morgan Stanley Sets Up Lab to Test Stablecoins and DeFi
Morgan Stanley has established an internal Digital Asset Lab to test stablecoins, tokenization and decentralized finance applications without exposing its core systems to the experiments, executives told Bloomberg. Megan Brewer, who leads market innovation and labs, said the initiative sits...
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Kalshi in Advanced Talks for $1B Raise at $40B Valuation: Reuters
Prediction-market exchange Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise about $1 billion at a roughly $40 billion valuation from existing and new investors, including Tiger Global Management and Dragoneer Investment Group, Reuters reported Sept. 29, citing people familiar with the matter. Existing...
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Kalshi in advanced talks to raise new funding at $40B valuation: Reuters
The prediction market was valued at $22 billion in a $1 billion funding round just four months ago, after doubling its valuation from December.
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Bitcoin rally shows signs of cooling even as a 'bull score' gauge nears its perfect score
A trend guage tracked on onchain analysis firm CryptoQuant is near its ceiling. The buyers who drove BTC to an eight-month high are already pulling back.
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Dan Tapiero: “We’ve Begun a Bull Phase” in Bitcoin
Bitcoin Magazine Dan Tapiero: “We've Begun a Bull Phase” in Bitcoin Dan Tapiero says a new bull phase has begun in the core assets of the digital asset space. The founder and CEO of 50T Funds explains where he's seeing real revenue growth underneath the hood, from stablecoins and tokenization to...
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OpenAI valuation could hit $1.4T in new funding round: Report
OpenAI is reportedly seeking another $30 billion from investors as the ChatGPT developer pushes its long-awaited public market debut into 2027.
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Balancer Sets Shutdown Dates After BAL Holders Approve Wind-Down
Balancer will move pausable pools to withdrawals-only on Oct. 30 and pause its V3 Vault on Nov. 30, the decentralized asset management protocol announced on Sept. 29, after BAL holders approved its wind-down. The BIP-928 vote approved the shutdown and treasury distribution. Balancer said BIP-929,...
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Balancer Holders Approve Wind-Down, Reject Official Fork
Balancer token holders approved winding down the DeFi liquidity protocol and distributing its treasury to BAL holders, while rejecting a separate proposal to fund an official fork. “BIP-928 passed and BIP-929, the fork proposal, did not,” Balancer said on Sept. 29. “Pools keep working as usual......
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Crypto ETFs Surge as Bitcoin Funds Add $2.95 Billion in 30 Days
Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to eight straight days on Monday, bouncing back from the Clarity Act sell-off in a big way.
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Stretched Profits and Cooling Demand Put Bitcoin Rally on Pause — For Now: Report
Bitcoin Magazine Stretched Profits and Cooling Demand Put Bitcoin Rally on Pause — For Now: Report Bitcoin’s recent run may be slowing down — but that doesn’t mean it isn’t in a bull market. That’s according to a new report by data analytics firm CryptoQuant , which said signs of profit-taking were...
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Bill Pulte’s tweet cost FICO shareholders $4 billion
Bill Pulte, Donald Trump’s appointed Federal Housing Finance Agency director who oversees US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has shaved off $4 billion in market cap from credit giant FICO with a single post to X. The government-backed mortgage giants will now price mortgages using...
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Alkanes Asian Market Drove 61% of Bitcoin Transactions for 90 Days, SUBFROST Data Shows
Bitcoin Magazine Alkanes Asian Market Drove 61% of Bitcoin Transactions for 90 Days, SUBFROST Data Shows A Bitcoin metaprotocol similar to Ordinals accounted for most Bitcoin transactions over a 90-day stretch ending in September, according to figures published by SUBFROST, which maintains the...
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Bitwise launches first US spot NEAR ETF after token’s recent surge
Bitwise’s NEAR ETF begins trading on NYSE Arca as the token rallies more than 160% over the past month and activity on NEAR Intents grows.
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House Oversight Expands Prediction-Market Probe to Hyperliquid
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer expanded his prediction-market insider-trading inquiry to Hyperliquid Labs, Crypto.com and PredictIt owner Aristotle Exchange, sending document-request letters on Sept. 29, according to CNBC, which first obtained them. The letters ask each company...
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Bitcoin tests long-term holder supply cluster as leverage clears, analysts say
Bitcoin traded near $84,000 on Tuesday, near Glassnode's largest long-term holder cost-basis cluster price range.
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Bitcoin Hovers at $84K as Treasury Yields Hold Near Multi-Year Highs
Analysts point to crude prices capping non-yielding assets, while spot ETFs have taken money in for eight sessions running.
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André Dragosch: Why Bitcoin’s Fair Value is $197,000
Bitcoin Magazine André Dragosch: Why Bitcoin's Fair Value is $197,000 The 10-year Treasury yield is spiking, and Bitwise's André Dragosch has a rule of thumb for when that becomes dangerous: 80 basis points in 20 trading days. He explains why the speed of the move matters more than the level, how a...
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MongoDB CEO quits to join Meta, stock crashes $6 billion behind him
MongoDB CEO CJ Desai resigned at 8:30am yesterday morning to join Meta, abandoning tens of millions of dollars in unvested compensation. MongoDB shareholders lost more than $6 billion in market capitalization within eight hours of his departure. The disastrous sequence of events made it one of the...
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Bitcoin ETF inflows leave institutional demand unclear: CoinShares
CoinShares says IBIT offers clues to institutional buying, but basis trades mean inflows are not necessarily bets on rising Bitcoin prices.