Dogecoin ripped nearly 9% higher, breaking through resistance on more than a billion tokens traded. Support reset to $0.242 after an early breakout, while late-session flows pushed DOGE into the $0.254 zone before consolidation. Traders pointed to SHIB’s parallel 6% rally — underpinned by record trillion-token turnover and exchange balances at two-year lows — as […]
Copper Research says usage of the Canton Network, a blockchain built for regulated finance, has quietly surged, with validator activity now including major U.S. exchanges alongside banks and infrastructure firms. Just over a year after launch, Canton has reached a scale unmatched by prior institutional blockchains, thanks to backing from Goldman Sachs (GS), HSBC (HSBC)and […]
MEXC Ventures has doubled down on its investment in the Ethena ecosystem, bringing its total exposure to $66 million, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk. The latest move includes a $14 million investment in ENA, the governance token of the Ethena protocol, building on a $16 million ENA purchase and $20 million acquisition […]
Stellar’s XLM token faced pronounced bearish pressure over a 23-hour span between September 29 at 15:00 and September 30 at 14:00, falling 4% from $0.38 to $0.36. The decline came within a narrow $0.01 range, underscoring the token’s struggle to sustain momentum. Early resistance at $0.38, coupled with heavy trading volume of 38.6 million, signaled […]
OKX SG, the Singapore-based unit of OKX, said it is bringing the crypto exchange’s integrated payments service, OXK Pay, to the city-state through a stablecoin-powered scan-to-pay service tie-up with Southeast Asia’s “everyday everything” app, Grab. OKX SG, which received a major payment institution license from the country’s central bank just over a year ago, will […]
Stellar’s native token XLM posted a strong rally over the past 24 hours, climbing 3.7% from $0.36 to $0.37 on heavy trading activity. The move was fueled by two distinct breakout phases: an evening surge on September 28 at 22:00 that carried prices to $0.37 on volume nearly double the daily average, followed by a […]
The world of Digital Asset Treasury (DATs) has entered a new era, after Strive (ASST) announced an all-stock deal to acquire Semler Scientific (SMLR) this week. The deal marked the first merger of two publicly traded bitcoin treasuries, and according to a Wall Street banker familiar with the situation, this is just the start of […]
Analysts mapped a slow-grind path for bitcoin and flagged $112,000 as the trigger while gold advocate Peter Schiff revived the gold-versus-bitcoin debate by challenging Michael Saylor’s BTC treasury bet for his firm. CoinDesk Senior Analyst James van Straten said bitcoin’s market structure has shifted alongside gold’s repricing. He expects a slow, stair-step advance supported by […]
Crypto treasury firms that stockpile tokens could evolve from speculative wrappers into long-run economic engines for blockchains, argues Syncracy Capital co-founder Ryan Watkins. Digital asset treasury (DAT) firms are publicly traded companies that raise capital to acquire and manage crypto on their balance sheets. In a Sept. 23 blog post and an accompanying thread on […]
BTC News: Hard Fork Chatter Disputed
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Debates over Bitcoin’s future are nothing new, but this week the discussion took on a sharper edge. One of Bitcoin’s long-serving developers was at the center of a storm about immutability, censorship and what it means to “save” the protocol. The controversy escalated on Sept. 25, following an article published by The Rage claiming to […]
MGX, a fund backed by Dubai’s ruling family, will take a 15% stake in TikTok’s U.S. business as part of a restructuring meant to increase American control of the popular video app, the Washington Post reported Friday. The investment, led by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, brings MGX into a partnership with Oracle, the […]
Avalanche’s native token AVAX fell 8% over the past 24 hours to $27.72, extending a weeklong slide that erased nearly 18% of its value. The drop occurred alongside a broad plunge in crypto markets that’s seen ETH, SOL, DOGE also post double-digit percentage declines over the past week and BTC fall 6%. AVAX has struggled […]