Cryptocurrency News

Bitcoin’s price ripped from the mid-$76,000s to nearly $81,000 on Friday at 10:45 a.m. ET, after traders spent the week absorbing a failed U.S. Senate crypto vote and two central-bank rate hikes. The final leg wasn’t simply buyers charging in. Roughly $192 million in leveraged crypto positions vanished in one hour, including more than $183…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine The Next 3-5 Years of Bitcoin Lending SALT Lending CRO Hunter Albright explains how bitcoin-backed lending and stablecoins could reshape liquidity for long-term Bitcoin holders. This post The Next 3-5 Years of Bitcoin Lending first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Josh Plischke.Read More

SBI Digital Practice and Kyobo Life completed a cross-border pilot that directly converted yen-linked test tokens into won-linked tokens. The trial examined whether stablecoin infrastructure could reduce delays, conversion steps, and costs in institutional transfers. SBI and Kyobo Test Direct Yen-Won Settlement Cross-border institutions could eventually move funds between Japan and South Korea without routing…Read More

Binance traders now hold more XRP in futures contracts than they did before the Senate sank the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, even with XRP still about 65% below its all-time high. The Number That Came Back Open interest, i.e. the total amount of futures contracts still open, is the cleanest read on how much…Read More

A small team of researchers chained three bugs with Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and ended up inside OpenAI’s private code repository. The whole job took under 72 hours, and OpenAI paid $6,500 for it. The Chain, Link by Link A vulnerable ‘libheif’ library inside Discourse, the forum software, allowed remote code execution (RCE) on the…Read More

The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde personally intervened to keep Binance out of the European Union. Three months after the bid collapsed, the world’s largest exchange is still locked out of the bloc. The Announcement That Never Shipped By late May, Binance’s paperwork was effectively done, so much…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Dan Hillery: Digital Credit Could Rival BTC’s $1.5 Trillion Market Cap Two years ago, Bitcoin credit barely existed. Today, UTXO’s Dan Hillery breaks down how a $16B market could one day rival the network itself. This post Dan Hillery: Digital Credit Could Rival BTC’s $1.5 Trillion Market Cap first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Treasury Sanctions Iranian Crypto Exchange BitBank Over Bitcoin Transfers to IRGC The U.S. is targeting Iran’s use of crypto — specifically bitcoin. This post Treasury Sanctions Iranian Crypto Exchange BitBank Over Bitcoin Transfers to IRGC first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew Di Salvo.Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Unlikely To Be Bothered by Interest Rate Hike: Grayscale The Federal Reserve hiked interest rates on Wednesday — and may do so again this year — but bitcoin’s price is unlikely to be hurt, Grayscale argued. This post Bitcoin Price Unlikely To Be Bothered by Interest Rate Hike: Grayscale first appeared…Read More

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin ETFs Could Triple Gold Counterparts as Asset Matures: Expert Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said the younger generation could be drawn to bitcoin. This post Bitcoin ETFs Could Triple Gold Counterparts as Asset Matures: Expert first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Mathew Di Salvo.Read More