Aggregated funding on SOL perpetual futures has climbed to its highest level since September 2025, according to Velo data. Solana’s futures open interest sits near $1.8 billion, equal to roughly 23.1 million SOL in notional exposure at current prices. Most major venues, including Binance, Bybit, Hyperliquid and OKX, show positive funding near 0.01% every eight…
A company with staff in four or five countries and customers in over twenty has a payments problem its bank was never built to solve. It can be messy, with factors like wire transfers clearing in several days, or maybe the correspondent bank taking a cut at every hop. Or a contractor in Buenos Aires,…
BIP-110, a proposed temporary soft fork restricting some uses of arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions, entered its mandatory-signaling window with miners producing 59 consecutive non-signaling blocks. Nodes enforcing the proposal were left on a two-block branch, 57 blocks behind Bitcoin’s dominant proof-of-work chain. As of 6:34 a.m. UTC on Aug. 9, direct explorer data put…
Bitcoin’s dull price action continues over the weekend, as the asset has barely moved from the $65,000 range, currently trading inches below that line. Most larger-cap alts have remained sideways as well, but BNB has been able to reclaim the $600 psychological mark, while SOL and ZEC are up by just over 2%. BTC Slips…
Only 1.32 million coins remain unmined, while another 4 million sit permanently lost. Claude Fable 5 AI predicts that the shrinking float becomes the story of H2, and the price prediction runs to $150,000 by December from $64,600 today. The catalyst list is unusually long. CLARITY Act regulatory clarity leads it, with the GENIUS Act…
At 1:30 p.m. UTC on Feb. 21, 2025, Bybit began moving funds from an Ethereum cold wallet to a warm wallet, the sort of routine transfer designed to make custody look boring. Authorized signers reviewed the destination on their screens and approved it, unaware that their screens were actually lying. Bybit later said the signing…
China made its largest monthly gold purchase in nearly three years and continues a massive accumulation streak, while other central banks have refocused on the precious metal. This is among the reasons behind the asset’s price resurgence over the past week, in which it gained 8% from bottom to top. China Buys Big Data provided…
Perhaps due to the delay of the CLARITY Act at the end of the week, Ripple’s cross-border token slipped to a major support level at just over $1.00, and questions arose whether a dip below that line is only a matter of time. However, it has managed to remain above it during the weekend, and…
The CLARITY Act got stuck in political limbo at the end of the business week until lawmakers return from their August recess, and Grayscale laid out a potential plan ahead for the US crypto industry if Congress ultimately fails to deliver the highly anticipated market structure this year. There’s no need to sugarcoat it: it…
The breakaway chain inherited bitcoin’s mining difficulty with only a tiny share of hashpower, leaving blocks hours apart while both chains still accept the same transactions.