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After years of tension between crypto and traditional finance, a symbolic shift is taking shape inside the world’s largest bank.
JPMorgan Chase...
During the U.S. federal government shutdown that began on October 1, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) went into contingency staffing mode. Almost a hundred crypto ETF decisions got stuck in approval limbo as a result, and key economic-data releases from agencies such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau were paused.
For crypto, that blackout became an...
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 early-October washout that vaporized tens of billions in leveraged bets, the options data suggests investors are still hedging their excitement with caution.
Term structure flattens after...
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller proposed a new payment account on Oct. 21 that would grant stablecoin issuers and crypto firms direct access to Fed payment rails without full master account privileges.
The announcement at the Fed’s inaugural Payments Innovation Conference marked a reversal from the central bank’s guarded stance toward digital asset firms.
Waller described the concept...
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 price in proportion. And it’s a divergence that has historically implied a deep undervaluation.
According to data from ecoinometrics, based on its long-term correlation...
For years, many UK crypto holders have flown under the HMRC tax authority’s radar. They convinced themselves that digital assets somehow sit outside the country’s tax regime. Well, if you’re a UK resident residing in a river near Egypt, it’s about time you came up for air. Crypto tax is on the agenda, and the surveillance powers of the state are omnipotent.
Now, with new data-sharing powers and a...
Crypto is nothing if not cyclical. Every cycle births icons, wrecks them, and sometimes resurrects them.
What was once written off as dead can roar back to life with a vengeance, reshaped by regulation, technology, or sheer market gravity.
From courtrooms to codebases, from bankrupt exchanges to blockchains that refused to quit, the industry’s best comeback stories reveal something deeper than...
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, while core CPI held at 3.0% year over year and 0.2% month over month. Gasoline rose 4.1% on the month and shelter inflation stayed near 3.6%. The Bureau of Labor Statistics published on schedule to meet...
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 listings, XRP’s core network, the XRP Ledger (XRPL), kept quietly evolving in the background.
It is now re-emerging as an infrastructure layer blockchain network...
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 Research shows that altcoins have lagged Bitcoin by that amount this cycle, marking one of the largest relative underperformances since 2017.
The data highlights a profound shift in market...