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Solana decentralized exchanges processed about 208 million spot trades in the week ending Sept. 13, surpassing the NYSE’s roughly 190 million transactions for the first time. The milestone does not make Solana larger than Wall Street in economic value, but it shows how quickly onchain trading activity is scaling. Solan
According to the European digital investment platform Bitpanda, the 99-year-old financial institution, Raiffeisen Bank International, is preparing the plumbing that could put crypto trading inside banking apps used by as many as 18 million customers across 11 Central and Eastern European markets. Bitpanda Enterprise wi
Stablecoin issuer Circle is courting crypto-owning institutions, launching a lending service on Monday that lets them borrow USDC against their bitcoin holdings. Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, has launched a service that lets institutional customers borrow dollar-pegged tokens against their bitcoin hol
U.S. crypto ETFs closed the week with a broad surge in demand, led by $433.03 million flowing into bitcoin funds. Ether, solana, Zcash and HYPE products also attracted fresh capital, while XRP ETFs posted a marginal outflow. Bitcoin Leads as Crypto Funds Rally Broadly Institutional money returned with force on Friday,
Bitcoin derivatives traders are carrying more than $56 billion in futures exposure and roughly $42 billion in options open interest, while bitcoin sits near $81,273. The stranger part is where the options money is leaning. Market data shows that calls control 60.74% of open interest, the biggest contracts cluster aroun
Bitcoin surged past $81,000 on Friday, hitting an intraday high of $81,238, before settling around $80,800 with a $1.62 trillion market cap. CFTC Draft Rules Spark Rally Beyond $81,000 Bitcoin’s price breezed past $81,000 Friday amid reports that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) sent crypto market rules
Bitcoin’s price ripped from the mid-$76,000s to nearly $81,000 on Friday at 10:45 a.m. ET, after traders spent the week absorbing a failed U.S. Senate crypto vote and two central-bank rate hikes. The final leg wasn’t simply buyers charging in. Roughly $192 million in leveraged crypto positions vanished in one hour, inc
The new measures aim to strengthen the central bank’s AML/TF oversight over digital asset transactions where wallets are under complete user control, a situation that the bank says “can reduce the availability of information for monitoring and risk assessment purposes.” Central Bank of Brazil Eyes Self-Custody Wallets
What began as hundreds of millions of dollars mysteriously moving from Bitget-labeled wallets now has an answer. Bitget founder Gracy Chen disclosed Thursday that the crypto exchange suffered unauthorized transfers from portions of its hot and warm wallet infrastructure, with the damage estimated at approximately $351.
Ark Invest is putting its roughly $1.3 billion ARK Venture Fund on Ethereum through Securitize, giving eligible investors a blockchain-based representation of a portfolio that includes OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe and Databricks. The fund’s NAV has roughly tripled from near $20 at its 2022 launch to about $60.50 on Sept.
The Federal Reserve is proposing a rulebook for bank-issued payment stablecoins that gets strikingly specific. Basically, every $1 of tokens must be backed by at least $1 of permitted reserves, customers generally must be redeemable within two business days, and an issuer that stays short of required capital could ulti
A bitcoin momentum indicator has crossed a threshold that Glassnode also observed near the start of the 2019 and 2023 bull markets. The historical comparison strengthens the case for a recovery, though bitcoin still faces a test of demand. Bitcoin Signal Recalls Earlier Bull Markets Bitcoin has regained a momentum thre
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