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Bitcoin options market cautious as traders hedge against volatility

The Bitcoin options market has quietly become one of the most revealing arenas for gauging trader sentiment. And right now, it’s flashing mixed but telling signals. While Bitcoin has clawed its way back from the...

Decentralized exchanges surpass $1 trillion monthly volume as volatility spikes

Perpetual decentralized exchanges (perp DEXes) registered $1.049 trillion in monthly volume as of Oct. 24, marking the first time on-chain derivatives markets crossed the $1 trillion threshold and establishing a new benchmark for decentralized trading...

How XRP’s renewed role is driving crypto-fiat settlement and innovation worldwide

For nearly a decade, XRP has been the underdog of the digital-asset world, overshadowed by Bitcoin’s narrative dominance, Ethereum’s developer gravity, and Solana’s speed headlines. Yet while most of the market debated ETFs and exchange...

Inflation to set up Bitcoin melt-up as rates to fall to 2.75% by next October

US inflation ticked up to 3.0% year over year in September, and futures markets still price a Federal Reserve rate cut next week. Headline CPI printed 3.0% on the year and 0.3% on the month,...

Bitcoin is trading at a 30% discount relative to Nasdaq fair value

Bitcoin is currently trading at a roughly 30% discount compared to its Nasdaq 100-implied fair value. While any high-conviction Bitcoiner already knows how cheap the asset is right now, this ratio highlights the knock-down BTC...

How high would Bitcoin price need to go to erase US $38 trillion debt?

The US has never owed more money that it does today, and some believe the solution isn’t political reform or higher taxes but Bitcoin itself. America’s national debt has crossed $38 trillion, surpassing the country’s...

JustLend DAO Completes First JST Buyback and Burn, Ushering In a Revenue-Driven Deflation Cycle

On October 21 (SGT), JustLend DAO—the flagship DeFi protocol of the TRON ecosystem—reached a major milestone with the successful completion of its first large-scale JST burn. This marks JST’s evolution from a fully circulating token...

If tokenized gold is just a “trust-me-bro” IOU, what’s really on-chain?

We audit popular gold tokens against five trust tests, then compare them with BTC ETFs and native BTC settlement. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao recently claimed tokenized gold is not on-chain in response to Peter Schiff...

How retail altcoin traders lost $800 billion betting against Bitcoin

After two years of waiting for an “altcoin season” that never came, retail crypto traders have missed out on roughly $800 billion in potential gains by betting against Bitcoin’s dominance. A new report from 10x...

Bitcoin ETFs break 4-day, $1B outflow streak as BTC holds $108K

After four straight sessions of redemptions that pulled over $1.2 billion from spot Bitcoin ETFs, US issuers saw a sharp reversal on Oct. 21, bringing in $477.2 million in new inflows. It was the first...

Bitcoin vs. Gold: Does October’s near zero correlation shatter ‘digital gold’ myth?

Bitcoin and gold have told two different stories so far in October, and neither matched what traders expected. For most of October, Bitcoin and gold looked like they were living in different markets. Gold climbed...

Is Coinbase bringing crypto ICOs back through this $375 million deal?

After years of venture-funded dominance, Coinbase is reviving the idea that crypto projects can raise money directly from their users. The US-based exchange announced on Oct. 21 that it acquired Echo, a community-fundraising platform founded...

Why did MetaMask show $0 on Ethereum when AWS went offline?

An Amazon Web Services disruption on Oct. 20 knocked out MetaMask and other ETH wallets displays and slowed Base network operations, exposing how cloud infrastructure dependencies ripple through decentralized systems when a single provider fails....

From $4B peak to shutdown: What Kadena’s fall teaches other L1 blockchains

When Kadena Organization, the company behind the Kadena blockchain, announced it was shutting down operations on Oct. 21, the message was formal, quiet, and devastatingly simple. The company thanked its community, cited “market conditions,” and...

The Un-Dead Internet: AI catches irreversible ‘brain rot’ from social media

The internet is not dead, but it may be rotting. New research by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, and Purdue University finds that large language models exposed to viral...

BlackRock’s $40B IBIT options: Is Bitcoin’s volatility now the market’s favorite income play?

The leverage era in Bitcoin trading has faded into something more deliberate. What once resembled a perpetual motion casino now behaves more like a bond desk. Options activity has overtaken perpetuals, realized volatility has narrowed,...

Bitcoin surges above $110k, Ethereum rises over $4k amid renewed ‘buy the dip’ fervor

Bitcoin and Ethereum staged a strong rebound this week as fresh capital returned to crypto markets following the US–China tariff shock. Bitcoin surged past $110,000 for the first time since early October, reaching roughly $111,000...

Altcoin season is cancelled this year: Alts fail to match last cycle $1.6 trillion ceiling

Bitcoin set an all-time high near $126,000 in early October while the altcoin market (excluding stablecoins), measured by TradingView’s TOTAL2ES index, remains below its November 2021 top, around $1.6 trillion, keeping the cycle confirmation test...