20% Freefall in Two Days Amid $1B Liquidation Cascade
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Ethereum’s ether ETH$3,236.79 just tumbled more than 20% by Tuesday in a two-day rout that almost look like the October 10 crash. Trading just below $4,000 early Monday, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap tumbled to nearly $3,000 by Tuesday afternoon U.S. hours, touching its weakest level since mid-July. That’s the second severe correction in […]

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BTC Mining Profitability Slumps as Hashprice Falls to Multi-Month Low
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Hashprice has plunged to its lowest level since April, when bitcoin was trading around $76,000, now sitting at $43.1 per petahash/second (PH/s). Hashprice, a term coined by Luxor, refers to the expected value of one terahash per second (TH/s) of hashing power per day, representing how much a miner can earn from a specific amount […]

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CIFR Higher on AWS Deal
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Cipher Mining (CIFR) jumped 19% on Monday after signing a $5.5 billion lease agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), pushing deeper into the red-hot artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. The 15-year agreement will see Cipher deliver 300 megawatts (MW) of power capacity to AWS by late 2026, with the first phase starting in July, according to […]

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ASTER Zooms 20% as Binance’s CZ Purchases 2M Tokens
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DEX token ASTER surged as Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) purchased approximately 2 million of them, sending a wave of speculative demand across the market. Investors interpreted the purchase as a signal of confidence from one of crypto’s most influential figures, and ASTER climbed nearly 20% in response. The underlying project behind ASTER is a […]

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Bitcoin Broke the Uptober Streak, but a Handful of Altcoins Managed to Finish Higher
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Bitcoin closed October lower, snapping its six-year “Uptober” streak while BNB eked out a gain as a mid-month jolt left most majors stuck below early highs. The shock landed Oct. 10, when President Donald Trump threatened steep new tariffs on China amid rare-earth tensions, touching off a broad risk-off move. Bitcoin slid from roughly the […]

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‘We Do See Significant Revenue Potential From Arc Over Time’
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Speaking with CNBC’s Sara Eisen at the sidelines the 2025 edition of the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Circle Internet Group (CRCL) Jeremy Allaire described Arc as “an economic OS for the internet,” arguing that core financial workflows are moving on chain and need predictable costs and performance. He said Arc is built […]

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Praises Bitcoin’s Resilience
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent marked the 17th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper on Friday with a post on X praising the network’s resilience and adding a jab at Senate Democrats, saying the system “never shuts down” and implying lawmakers could “learn something from that.” The comment doubled as a policy signal and a […]

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Analyst Says ‘$ETH Is on Edge of Having a New All-Time High North of $5,000’
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According to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis data model, ether ETH$3,856.66 advanced on heavier-than-usual trading, then slipped late after an upper-band rejection, leaving a tighter range and a clear set of checkpoints above and below. Analyst comment Crypto analyst Michaël van de Poppe said on X that Ethereum is the best ecosystem to invest in and […]

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T3 Financial Crime Unit, Backed by Tron, Tether, TRM Labs, Has Now Frozen $300M in Assets
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T3 Financial Crime Unit, a crypto task force said it froze $300 million in tainted funds in its first year of operation, earning praise from international law enforcement and showing the stablecoin industry is capable of policing itself. Formed in late 2024 by stablecoin issuer Tether, the Tron blockchain and TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence […]

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Drops 8% Amid Crypto Weakness Despite RWA DeFi Momentum
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Aave AAVE$213.08, the governance token of the decentralized lender, posted sharp declines through Thursday, dropping 8% to $208. Since Monday’s $248 high, the token shed over 16%. The DeFi bluechip token carved out consecutive lower highs and lower lows, establishing clear bearish momentum while peers advanced, CoinDesk Research’s market insight tool showed. Trading activity surged […]

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Polymarket Traders’ Biases Can Lead to Irrational Results
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Until the final hours of the Netherlands’ Oct. 29 election, Polymarket traders were convinced Geert Wilders’ nationalist Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom) would cruise to victory. The market barely budged as Rob Jetten’s social liberal Democraten 66 (Democrats 66) climbed in every major poll. Then, within minutes of the first exit poll, D66 […]

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