Crypto news
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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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Comer presses Crypto.com, Hyperliquid and PredictIt on identity checks and suspicious trades
Comer’s expanded probe seeks records on government insiders, employee trades and suspicious activity referrals.
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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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BBC Director-General Deems AI-Generated Doctor Who Episode 'Pretty Good'
Matt Brittin, who joined the BBC from Google, argued that "not all creativity is bad," while noting that the technology won't replace humans.
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New Survey Shows American Banks Rapidly Embracing Blockchain to Offer Faster, Cheaper and Better Financial Services
Read the full story at The Defiant
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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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Is the Red September Curse Over? Bitcoin Set for Best September on Record
Bitcoin is up 7.33% in September, edging past 2024 as the best September on record, with one day left before the monthly candle closes.
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Bitcoin gives back gains as long-term holder supply keeps $85K out of reach
Bitcoin failed to make another run at $85,000 as sellers held the line above current levels, while surging US bond yields weighed on stocks and precious metals.
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Bitget CEO ‘not very optimistic’ on recovering funds from $388M breach
Gracy Chen said she saw the 2025 Bybit hack as a “good reference point” for Bitget’s security breach, noting that only a small percentage of funds had been frozen or recovered.
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Morgan Stanley Has ‘Digital Asset Lab’ To Test Crypto Products: Report
Bitcoin Magazine Morgan Stanley Has ‘Digital Asset Lab’ To Test Crypto Products: Report Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley has launched a “digital asset lab” to test crypto products, according to reports. Bloomberg on Tuesday reported that the bank was using the lab to test products like stablecoins,...
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Aztec relaunches zk.money privacy wallet on its Ethereum Layer 2
Aztec Labs has relaunched zk.money, a self-custodial privacy wallet, on Aztec Network after discontinuing the original product in 2023.
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Ethereum users get another way to pay privately as zk.money returns after three years
The relaunched wallet hides payments made on the Aztec Network, while deposits from Ethereum remain visible.
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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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Coinbase Adds HYPE and ZEC as Collateral for Loans of Up to $100,000
Coinbase added Hyperliquid’s HYPE and Zcash’s ZEC as collateral for USDC loans, saying on Sept. 29 that customers can now “instantly borrow up to $100k” against the assets. The announcement makes the borrowing option available to eligible U.S. users outside New York through Morpho on Base. The......
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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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Bitwise launches first US spot NEAR ETF with staking rewards
Bitwise's NRR is the first U.S. NEAR ETP, charging a 0.75% fee and staking its NEAR in-house, with rewards flowing to shareholders via NAV.
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Sentora Seeks Aave V4 Markets With 50% Revenue Share for DAO
Sentora has proposed operating independently curated lending markets on Aave V4, starting on Ethereum, with half of the instance's protocol revenue going to the Aave DAO. The Aave Request for Final Comments, or ARFC, remains at the community-feedback stage. It calls for a Snapshot vote followed,...
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Democrats killed the Clarity Act
Democrats should remember the people they represent and do what's best for them, not what's best for their political calculus, consultants, and special interests, writes Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.).
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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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Modveon Unveils El Salvador’s Sivar App for Dollar Transfers on Base
Modveon said its Sivar app is live in El Salvador, offering a government-backed service for holding and sending dollar stablecoins on Base, including transfers between the U.S. and El Salvador. The app’s terms of service identify Circle’s USDC as a supported stablecoin and describe...
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NEAR Intents Says It Froze $503,000 in Bitget Hack Funds
NEAR Intents' SHIELD risk system detected more than $50 million in attempted transfers linked to Bitget's Sept. 24 hack and blocked most from proceeding, according to general manager Alex Shevchenko. About $503,000 was frozen mid-execution. Roughly $166,000 passed through, Shevchenko wrote in...
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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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Peter Brandt says Bitcoin may hit $600K by 2029, calls XRP a ‘fool coin’
An October pullback could offer a buying opportunity before Bitcoin’s next cycle peak, which Brandt expects between $300,000 and $600,000. He’s not sold on “fool coin” XRP.
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Ari Paul says Coinbase lost his $25M, covered up $1B in hacks
BlockTower Capital founder Ari Paul has accused Coinbase of losing $25 million of his company's funds while covering up over $1 billion worth of “massive and repeated hacks.” Paul claims that at least a dozen firms are affected by the alleged cover-up, and that Coinbase “still wouldn’t return our...
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Solari Capital Founder Scaramucci: Betting on Bitcoin & Exponential Technology
Bitcoin Magazine Solari Capital Founder Scaramucci: Betting on Bitcoin & Exponential Technology Solari Capital just came out of stealth with $350 million deployed across AI, biotech, and Bitcoin. Founder AJ Scaramucci explains his “programmable reality” thesis: exponential computing power is...
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Hunter Biden on Bitcoin, Operation Chokepoint 2.0, and $LAPTOP
Bitcoin Magazine Hunter Biden on Bitcoin, Operation Chokepoint 2.0, and $LAPTOP Hunter Biden's $LAPTOP token dropped more than 98% within minutes of launch, and now he's explaining what happened. In this interview, he walks through the plan to list on a centralized exchange, the switch to a...
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Gary Cardone: Wall Street Is Taking Over Bitcoin — For Good
Bitcoin Magazine Gary Cardone: Wall Street Is Taking Over Bitcoin — For Good The Clarity Act cloture vote failed, and Bitcoin rallied anyway. Gary Cardone, co-founder of Chargebacks911, explains why bad news has been bullish, why he thinks $75K will hold, and why he still has bids set at $66K and...
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Dr. Pippa Malmgren: Investing in Bitcoin in the Age of Abundance
Bitcoin Magazine Dr. Pippa Malmgren: Investing in Bitcoin in the Age of Abundance The US–Greenland security deal isn't really about ice or minerals. Dr. Pippa Malmgren says it's about the space race. The former White House economic advisor and founder of the Geopolitica Institute explains why...
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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.