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Bitcoin price traded near $110,000 today as ETF flow streaks and the $107,000 support take focus.
Spot ETF demand remains the pivot. BlackRock’s IBIT is approaching $100 billion in assets, roughly 799,000 BTC, as the largest U.S. fund complex continues to concentrate supply.
U.S. spot products printed fresh net inflows of $102 million yesterday and just two days of outflows over the last 10 days...
Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 opens perpetual futures listing to anyone willing to stake $20 million. The question isn’t whether this democratizes the DeFi, but whether the safeguards can handle what comes next.
Hyperliquid launched HIP-3 on mainnet in October 2025, introducing a model where any builder can deploy perpetual futures markets without committee approval.
Deployers must stake 500,000 HYPE...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams just built a new power center for crypto inside City Hall. On Oct. 14, he signed Executive Order 57 and created the Office of Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology, a unit that sits in the Mayor’s Office, reports to the city CTO, and is led by Moises Rendon.
City Hall calls it the nation’s first municipal office focused on digital assets. The order takes effect...
Ant Group is betting that the next leap in digital finance will not happen in a bank but on Ethereum.
On Oct. 14, the Chinese fintech giant behind Alipay’s 1.4 billion-user payment network launched Jovay, a new Layer-2 (L2) blockchain built atop Ethereum to move real-world assets (RWAs) on-chain at institutional scale.
What is Jovay?
Ant Digital, the blockchain division of Ant Group, describes...
On Oct. 14, the SEC received a set of filings containing math that can destroy portfolios overnight.
Volatility Shares, the issuer behind the first leveraged Bitcoin ETF, wants to launch a suite of 5x funds tied to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP.
If approved, these ETFs would magnify daily returns by a factor of five, or, more precisely, reset that exposure every single trading day. For...
Loyalty points are worth billions, but most never leave the accounts they’re earned in.
Webus International, an XRP-focused treasury company, wants to change that.
Last week, the Nasdaq-listed firm announced plans for a tokenized travel-reward exchange powered by the XRP stablecoin system.
According to the press statement, the Singapore-based firm is targeting the global loyalty market, one of...
Previously on The Big Bitcoin Short: a trader shorted Bitcoin minutes before President Trump’s tariff post and booked about $160 – $200 million.
Eye, a crypto investigator who helped frame the story by tracing wallets and proposing that Garrett Jin could be a front for a broader network, has now stepped back, citing safety concerns.
Eye suspended work on the Bitcoin short case after...
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 822 into law on Oct. 11, making it the first state in the US to prevent the forced liquidation of unclaimed crypto.
The statute updates California’s Unclaimed Property Law to require that dormant crypto turned over to the state be held as crypto, not automatically converted to cash.
The policy addresses a friction point in digital asset escheatment,...
Bitcoin (BTC) miner MARA Holdings purchased 400 BTC for approximately $46 million on Oct. 13, capitalizing on the market collapse three days earlier while most miners remained defensive.
The acquisition increases MARA’s Bitcoin treasury to 53,250 BTC, valued at over $6 billion at current prices, according to Bitcoin Treasuries data.
The timing reveals a strategic calculation. MARA disclosed 52,...
At a London conference this week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage cast himself as “your champion” for digital assets and sketched a platform that includes a flat 10% capital gains tax on crypto, creation of a roughly £5 billion state Bitcoin reserve anchored in seized coins, a halt to the Bank of England’s digital pound project, and optional tax payments in crypto.
The pitch mirrors three policies...