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$500M BTC credit: Is Metaplanet proving crypto treasuries are momentum trades?

Yesterday, Oct. 28, Metaplanet authorized a share buyback program disclosing a Bitcoin (BTC)-secured credit facility of up to $500 million. This capital allocation tool works best when the stock trades below its market-to-net-asset-value ratio, amplifying gains...

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Bitcoin fork Zcash up 380% to $5.8B: Does scarce privacy have legs?

Zcash (ZEC) was little more than a historical footnote for most of the past years. The digital asset was seen as a relic of crypto’s cypherpunk age, forgotten amid the rise of AI tokens, restaking...

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Does a weaker dollar drive Bitcoin price now?

Bitcoin breached $116,000 for the first time in two weeks, and the usual narrative surfaced: inflation hedge. But the data tells a different story. This cycle, Bitcoin trades less like a consumer-price shield and more...

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US spot Bitcoin ETF balances are negative without BlackRock

Over the past year, Bitcoin’s exchange-traded fund (ETF) boom has been celebrated as proof that Wall Street has finally embraced crypto. Yet the numbers reveal something far more fragile. On Oct. 28, Vetle Lunde, head...

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The worst bull run ever? How institutions, memes, and macro turned crypto’s glory cycle into a grind

For a market supposedly in a bull run, it doesn’t feel like one. Sure, Bitcoin may have set a couple of record highs this cycle, but the rallies have been uneventfully yawn-inducing, and the corrections...

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Bitcoin rally smashes past $116k on softer Fed bets: What changes next?

Crypto markets started this new week with a surge powered by a rare alignment of favorable macroeconomic shifts. According to CryptoSlate data, Bitcoin climbed to a fresh intraday high above $116,000 before stabilizing near $115,587...

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New US company completes $1 billion XRP purchase as Ripple celebrates price surge

Less than a week after its debut, Evernorth, a newly formed XRP-focused treasury company, has emerged as one of crypto’s most profitable institutional entrants. The firm’s swift accumulation of nearly $1 billion worth of XRP...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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