Despite the dual shocks of the “Black Saturday” geopolitical escalation in Iran two weeks ago, combined with a disappointing United States Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP) print showing the loss of 92,000 jobs, the $60,000–$64,000 floor for bitcoin has demonstrated unexpected resilience. Oil prices moving nearly 80 percent higher since then will likely play a role in
Circle opened the public mainnet for Arc, its USDC-centered Layer 1 blockchain, on September 16, 2026, with 11 founding validators drawn almost entirely from traditional finance, creating a talking point about the firms involvement with Ripple XRP. Among them: SBI Group, which has held roughly 9% of Ripple since 2016 and is described as Ripple’s
The concern extends to banks. Van der Chijs believes AI could expose vulnerabilities in legacy banking software, threatening confidence in institutions that depend on interconnected systems. Within crypto, he sees exchanges and other businesses built around bitcoin as more vulnerable than the underlying network. His concerns have not displaced an expansive view of AI’s economic
Quantum computing is a risk to Bitcoin but the community recognizes the issue, according to asset manager VanEck’s Head of Digital Assets Research. Speaking to CNBC on Friday, Matthew Sigel said that while progress on addressing the issue may be slow because of the crypto network’s decentralized nature, the community was working on it. The
Lemon will close Brazilian accounts on October 16 after exiting over licensing costs. Brazil’s PSAV rules require capital ranging from 10.8 million to 37.2 million reais. Lemon will redirect resources toward Argentina, Peru, and Colombia after leaving Brazil. Argentine crypto platform Lemon will shut down its Brazilian operations after determining that new licensing capital requirements
What actually moved the tape The week opened with markets pricing in a fragile ceasefire in Iran and a 10-year Treasury yield of 4.6 percent. Sentiment shifted rapidly as Donald Trump took to his social media channels to post on potential military action. Diplomatic interventions from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE pulled the reversal
The biggest item in Ethereum news today isn’t the price tape, with ETH changing hands around $2,586 after a 5.7% daily move, it’s the calendar. Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade now has a firm date attached to it: the Sepolia testnet fork is scheduled for October 6, 2026. That’s genuine progress toward one of the network’s most
The Clarity Act would have cleared that up and also elevated the SEC’s sister agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to new authorities — most importantly full supervisory powers over the crypto commodity spot markets. Spot markets are where commodities trade directly, and since bitcoin and Ethereum’s ether were eventually determined to be commodities, it
Bitcoin’s price on Friday shot above $81,000 — despite a week of setbacks for the crypto industry. The biggest coin was recently trading for $80,982, after jumping as high as $81,055 at one point Friday morning in New York. Over the past 24 hours, it has risen by nearly 6%. Its surge comes after lawmakers
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