03 Nov Bitfinex Alpha | Calmness Descends on BTC Posted on 3 November, 2025 in Bitfinex Alpha by Maria Lobusova Subscribeto Bitfinex Alpha! Want to receive Alpha from Bitfinex every week? Subscribe Bitcoin has spent the past two weeks confined within a narrow $106,000–$116,000 range. Despite a brief relief rally to $116,500 last week, BTC
Community organizers are the glue that holds the Ethereum ecosystem together, and whether they’re leading large-scale events, local meetups, hackathons or seminars, we might all be wandering in the dark forest of the analog world without them. But where’s the fun in relying on chance encounters with kindred spirits identified by a telltale laptop sticker,
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Bitcoin just pulled off a massive, nearly 10% rally, briefly touching $74,000 yesterday before settling around its current trading price of $72,890. Yet, despite this impressive surge from the market leader, the broader altcoin market hasn’t exactly followed suit. And Bitcoin dominance keeps rising. If you’re noticing a deafening silence on X and in Telegram
tl;dr Upgrade for London, yes you! The hotly anticipated upgrade to Ethereum mainnet — London — has a fork block scheduled, and mainnet client releases are out. As mentioned before, to allow for validator deposits, the beacon chain validators come to consensus on the state of the proof-of-work chain and process deposits sequentially from there.
ChangeNOW is widening its speed lead in the non-custodial swap market, with new benchmark data showing median settlement times of under one minute—dramatically faster than the industry median of roughly 45 minutes. Seven months ago, ChangeNOW was already pulling ahead of the pack. Swapzone’s mid-2025 speed benchmark clocked the exchange at a median of roughly
It’s always fun to hear about new grants as they’re awarded, but what happens after the announcement? In this series, we’ll check in on a couple of projects that are well underway – or already at the finish line. Read on to learn about some recent milestones and achievements by grantees! InterRep For a user
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist and former Facebook executive, recently argued that bitcoin has a “structural failing” that could limit its long term adoption by governments and central banks. Speaking on People by WTF podcast during the World Government Summit, Palihapitiya said that for a digital asset to become widely accepted at the
The launch of X Money has moved into a high-profile limited external beta, sparked by recent social media activity from Elon Musk and William Shatner. Summary X Money has entered a high-profile external beta, highlighted by posts from Elon Musk and William Shatner promoting early access. The initial version focuses on peer-to-peer fiat payments, a
Welcome to London! This is an exciting time for the Ethereum ecosystem, and the pace will only pick up further as we approach Altair [1] [2] and the Merge in the months ahead. The Beacon Chain now has 6.5+ million Ether staked, and 200K+ active validators online across five clients, and the network is now
