A new report from OKX and Token Terminal says real-world-asset (RWA) futures on trade.xyz edged past crypto futures on Hyperliquid in July. The headline numbers were $107.6 billion of RWA-contract volume against $105.7 billion of crypto-contract volume. That was a selected-venue crossover, not an industry-wide change in market leadership. The underlying report treats trade.xyz and…
Bitcoin showed impressive resilience over the past several days, even as everything was seemingly going against it. From the CLARITY Act setback in the US Senate to the Fed and BOJ hiking rates, the cryptocurrency, being a risk-on asset, was expected to suffer. And it did for a bit, slumping to a three-week low at…
JPMorgan and Citi move billions in tokenized deposits, but only among their branches. A U.K. challenger bank is about to do something neither has done.
It was difficult to imagine, after the developments that took place in the middle of the week, what would transpire on Friday, but BTC’s price somehow skyrocketed past $81,000 for the first time in half a month. The altcoins have also turned green today, with ETH reclaiming $2,600, XRP bouncing above $1.40, and SOL rocketing…
Brazil’s central bank will bar virtual assets, including stablecoins, from settling one specific type of international payment flow starting Oct. 1. Resolution 561 targets the settlement leg between regulated foreign-exchange providers and their overseas counterparties, requiring that leg to run through a licensed FX transaction or a qualifying non-resident real account. Individual international transfers using…
Bitcoin hit an intraday high of $81,400 on Friday, approaching the low-$82,000 zone that has capped every recovery attempt since late August. US spot Bitcoin ETF shares stop trading once American markets close for the weekend. Any further push through that ceiling over the next two days would occur in continuously open crypto markets, without…
It was a massive week for the entire cryptocurrency industry, with essentially nothing going its way, and yet bitcoin managed to seemingly weather the storm, especially from the bigger blow – the failure of the CLARITY Act. The cryptocurrency’s price dropped to a multi-week low at $75,000 immediately after the US Senate voted against advancing…
The popular privacy coin has been unstoppable lately, briefly surpassing a 10-year high of $1,500. It currently trades at roughly $1,470 (per CoinGecko), up a staggering 190% in a month. Check out where the next bullish targets stand. Far From Being Done? Zcash has become crypto’s rock star after starting a major bull run over…
Fresh moves from the two largest regulators in the United States suggest the local crypto industry is still advancing on the regulatory front even without Congress. The CFTC’s move coincided with the broader market’s price resurgence on Friday, leading to the question of whether BTC and the alts jumped because of regulatory developments. SEC and…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says laptop AI is approaching a practical turning point. Wallet software still needs a much higher bar before it can hand an AI control over crypto assets. He said on Sept. 17 that Qwen 3.8 Flash and recent improvements in llama.cpp had brought local models close to handling a “large share”…