Bitcoin price traded near $80,500 most of Tuesday, holding above the $80,000 level that has become the market’s line in the sand. Prices ranged between roughly $79,400 and $80,800 over the day, according to Bitcoin Magazine Pro data, and the asset was up about 0.3% over the prior 24 hours by mid-afternoon Eastern time. The
Ripple Swell has drawn reports of a planned appearance by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, as the company has announced a Robinhood partnership covering RLUSD, institutional financing, and treasury management. Summary A social-media post says Bessent has joined the Swell speaker lineup. Ripple says RLUSD is live on Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp by Robinhood. The
OneKey data retention now deletes personal order records within 30 days. The wallet maker is cutting how long it keeps checkout data after recent industry breaches. It says its own systems were not hit. It already wiped older Shopify order files. That is the stake for Bitcoin wallet security. Names, emails, and shipping details can
Lynq and ZeroBeta have connected institutional borrowing and trading margin to tokenized U.S. Treasuries on Avalanche, allowing eligible pledged holdings to keep earning interest. Summary Institutions can use eligible Treasury holdings for secured borrowing and digital asset trading margin. BlueShift monitors collateral requirements and instructs Lynq to pledge, top up or release assets. Lynq reports
For two Mondays running, the most important line in Strategy’s 8-K filings was the one that read “$—”. This Monday, it reads $370 million. The latest disclosure, covering 24 to 30 August, shows the company buying bitcoin again: 4,603 BTC acquired for approximately $370 million, an average of about $80,400 per coin, taking total holdings
Midnight has passed one million mainnet transactions, with Input Output Group announcing the milestone after Midnight Explorer reported a total of 1,019,963 on Oct. 27. Summary Midnight Explorer reported 1,019,963 cumulative transactions, with Input Output Group amplifying the milestone on Oct. 27. Daily transactions reached 47,714 on Oct. 26, compared with 128 recorded on Sep.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta AI predicts something potentially enormous could happen to Solana (SOL) by January 1, 2027. When prompted, Meta says SOL could be set for a record move, based on a hypothetical landmark catalyst that isn’t impossible but remains highly unlikely. The concept involves a coordinated announcement by a consortium of major technology companies
Predict.fun has pledged to fully reimburse affected users after confirming unauthorized wallet transfers totaling approximately 400,000 USDT and identifying a possible compromise of its third-party API documentation site. Summary Approximately 400,000 USDT was taken from a small number of user wallets, according to Predict.fun. A third-party API documentation site may have been compromised during a
Janus Henderson, a London-based asset manager overseeing roughly $500 billion, is bringing one of Wall Street’s best-known stock indexes onto blockchain rails through an issuer-sponsored fund. The launch comes amid an escalating debate over who gets to tokenize traditional securities. The firm teamed up with tokenization platform Centrifuge to launch JQQQ, a fund tracking the
A new Ipsos survey has found that only 19% of Americans strongly endorse the security of the US financial system, while just 5% express high trust in decentralized platforms. Summary High trust in decentralized platforms stood at 5%, compared with 42% for large national banks. Lifetime crypto ownership or use reached 22%, while past-year participation
