BNY in talks with Kraken parent Payward over infrastructure partnership
The potential agreement could span digital assets, custody, trading, payments and other financial-market infrastructure.
XRP Price, $300M ETF Demand, and 45% Q3 Supply Overhang
XRP price rose more than 45% in Q3 as U.S. spot XRP ETFs attracted about $307.9 million, yet the token entered October near $1.50 after repeated failures around $1.70. Cumulative ETF inflows approached $1.8 billion, but that buying has not established a higher clearing price. The price response shows that fund demand has not yet…
Once a $2 billion Ethereum layer-2, Blast is shutting down after assets plunge 98%
Once home to more than $2 billion in crypto assets, Blast is shutting down as activity fades, costs rise, and bigger platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood build networks of their own.
Possible next crypto czar, Jay Clayton, began crypto’s regulation-by-enforcement at SEC
The former SEC chairman who may be tapped to oversee the Trump administration’s AI work has a potentially divisive history as a watchdog of tech innovation.
Why Strategy’s STRC calculator shows $210 for a share it can redeem at $101
Strategy’s Bitcoin credit calculator produced an illustrative STRC price of $210.90 on Oct. 2, while displaying a market-price input of $99.50 for the perpetual preferred stock. The issuer also retains the option to redeem shares at $101, or a higher amount it chooses, plus applicable unpaid dividends. That gap exposes the limits of the calculation.…
NEAR Intents Identifies $3.8M Hacker, Gives Them 48 Hours to Return Funds
NEAR Intents GM Alex Shevchenko has identified the attacker behind a $3.8 million exploit and given the hacker 48 hours to return the stolen funds, after a bug in its Omni deposit and withdrawal infrastructure was exploited. The platform has restored most services and plans to compensate affected users in full while investigators trace the…
Unpatched Eclair Bitcoin Lightning nodes could crash again every time they restart
A newly disclosed unfunded-channel flaw could leave Eclair, a Bitcoin Lightning implementation, crashing repeatedly without an attacker spending BTC on-chain. The flaw affected reachable nodes running v0.14.0 and earlier, with saved channel records making a restart insufficient to restore service. Researcher Erick Cestari published the persistent-crash finding Sept. 30 and explained it alongside a separate…
Bitcoin Rejected at $87K Despite Soft PCE and Jobs Data as QNT, NIGHT Explode: Weekly Crypto Recap
It was another major week for the crypto market, which ended with what was supposed to be good news for risk-on assets, but it hasn’t delivered the expected outcome for now. First, let’s explore what happened at the end of the previous business week when BTC tried to take down the $85,000 resistance but was…
Ethereum Price Analysis: ETH Bulls Eye $3K Again – Can They Finally Break Through?
Ethereum is trading around $2.75K after holding a multi-week consolidation above $2.4K. The broader structure remains constructive, but ETH is now pressing into an important resistance area where the reaction could determine whether the current advance extends toward the next major supply zone. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart The daily chart shows a clear…
Why an $88 billion bank reserve drop doesn’t prove a Bitcoin liquidity squeeze – yet
Bitcoin’s quarter-end liquidity signal changes direction depending on which reserve measure is used. Federal Reserve data released Oct. 1 show bank reserves falling $88.236 billion between Sept. 23 and Sept. 30 Wednesday snapshots, while their weekly average rose $17.897 billion. Reserves are balances banks hold at the Federal Reserve to make and receive payments. Their…