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The world’s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, vaulted above $111,000 after a steep dip earlier this week, triggering sharp gains across major tokens including Ethereum, XRP and Solana. On-chain metrics signalled accumulating momentum while traditional equity markets in Asia registered fresh highs, boosting risk-assets overall.

Bitcoin climbed to around $111,223, representing a gain of approximately 3.7% within 24 hours, after briefly touching a low near $103,602. Other digital assets followed: Ethereum reached roughly $4,062,

Astra Nova has secured USD 48.3 million in a funding round aimed at accelerating its development of no-code, AI-driven tools for creators in the Web3 entertainment space. The capital will bolster expansion into new regions and deepen integrations among its ecosystem of mini-apps, games and community tools.

The bulk of the funding, approximately USD 41.6 million, came through a strategic investment round, building on prior backing from firms including

Bitcoin’s price dropped below $105,000 early Friday in London trading, recovering marginally later but signalling mounting pressure in crypto markets. Bloomberg data showed a fall of as much as 3 percent before a modest bounce. The slide comes after a week of heightened volatility that has dragged digital-asset valuations lower.

The crypto sector has shed billions. Total market capitalisation fell to its lowest point since July, as institutional

Over $250 million has been wiped out from leveraged positions across major cryptocurrency markets within the last 60 minutes, according to real-time tracker alerts. The bulk of the liquidations hit long bets, triggering a sharp lash of volatility that rattled traders across exchanges.

Data from multiple crypto-analytics feeds show that Bitcoin and Ethereum bore the brunt of the forced closures, with long positions cascading under mounting downward pressure. The

Citizens Bank has launched coverage of SharpLink Gaming, assigning it a “market outperform” rating and a price target of $50, implying upside in excess of 200 percent from current levels.

The bank’s analysis hinges on SharpLink’s positioning as a publicly traded entity that actively manages an Ether treasury, combining yield-bearing deployment strategies with equity-market mechanisms to enhance value. Citizens projects that ETH’s long-term price trajectory, together with SharpLink’s

CJ Hetherington, CEO of Limitless Labs, has accused Binance of demanding 8 per cent of his project's token supply and a multimillion-dollar deposit as conditions for listing. Binance, in a forceful rebuttal, called the allegations false and defamatory, and hinted at legal recourse.

Hetherington shared purported internal communications that outlined Binance’s demands: 1 % of the token supply for a day-one airdrop, 3 % for subsequent airdrops over six

Multiple posts flooding social media demand accountability—users call for a regulator-led probe, the CEO’s arrest, and deep scrutiny of Binance’s internal systems. The outcry follows recent chaos around synthetic tokens USDe, BNSOL, and wBETH, which lost their pegs on Binance amid massive liquidations. Compensation is flowing, but the narrative now centers on whether the crash was a desperate scramble or a deeply orchestrated exploit.

When Binance announced it would

South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit has authorised a change in GOPAX’s executive leadership, clearing the way for Binance’s acquisition of 67 per cent of the local exchange and formally restoring its presence in the country. The decision comes after over two years of regulatory review and internal scrutiny.

The executive registration approval by the FIU establishes Binance as the controlling shareholder of GOPAX, resolving a key hurdle that

A new wave of supply-chain assaults has seen North Korean hackers publish more than 300 malicious npm packages, infecting developer systems with sophisticated malware that steals credentials and crypto assets. The campaign, known as “Contagious Interview,” exploits the trust developers place in open-source tools by cloaking malware inside packages mimicking legitimate ones.

The Socket Threat Research Team disclosed that attackers uploaded 338 malicious npm modules, collectively downloaded over 50,000

Traders on the U. S. prediction market Kalshi are assigning a 55 percent chance that Bitcoin will exceed $130,000 by the end of 2025, with probabilities of 34 percent for surpassing $140,000 and 24 percent for topping $150,000. That places the market’s expected annual high at roughly $132,000.

Those figures reflect a steadily intensifying optimism about Bitcoin’s trajectory, drawing attention from institutional and retail participants alike. Kalshi’s “How high

BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink asserted that cryptocurrencies carry a role akin to gold in investment portfolios, calling Bitcoin “a decent tool for diversification” while warning that it should not form a major slice of one's holdings.

Speaking on 60 Minutes on CBS, Fink said: “There is a role for crypto in the same way there is a role for gold … For those looking to diversify, it is

OwlTing, a Taiwan-based fintech focussed on stablecoin infrastructure, is set to begin trading its Class A common shares on the Nasdaq via direct listing on 16 October under the ticker “OWLS”. The move marks what the company calls a milestone in its evolution from hospitality and e-commerce into a compliance–led blockchain payments firm.

In its public filings, OwlTing reported revenue of US 7.6 million in 2024 and a payment

Roughly $706 million in leveraged crypto positions were liquidated over the past 24 hours, with long bets accounting for $456 million and shorts making up more than $249 million, according to Coinglass data. Ethereum led by asset class with $234 million in liquidations, Bitcoin followed with $168 million, and other altcoins totaled about $68 million. Meanwhile, U. S. spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs recorded sharp capital withdrawals of

Tether has agreed to pay $299.5 million to the Celsius Network bankruptcy estate, resolving long-standing disputes over Bitcoin collateral transfers tied to Celsius’s collapse in 2022. The deal was announced by the Blockchain Recovery Investment Consortium, a joint venture between GXD Labs and VanEck, acting as litigation administrator and asset recovery manager for Celsius’s creditors.

The settlement brings closure to adversary claims filed in August

The Bank of North Dakota and payments firm Fiserv have unveiled plans for a dollar-backed digital token dubbed “Roughrider,” to be deployed among banks and credit unions in 2026 as a new instrument for interbank settlement. The token, restricted initially to participating financial institutions, aims to accelerate and modernise bank-to-bank transactions within the state.

Under the agreement, Roughrider will be built on Fiserv’s digital asset infrastructure, leveraging the

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has asserted that only Bitcoin, gold and land will endure as reliable monetary instruments as fiat systems unravel. He framed those three assets as hedges against systemic collapse and said they will outlast any rival currency, reflecting Tether’s ongoing pivot from pure stablecoin backstop to diversified asset allocator.

Speaking during appearances at Bitcoin 2025 and in media interviews, Ardoino has emphasised that Tether will continue

Binance has pledged $283 million in compensation for users whose holdings suffered from token de-pegging during Friday’s extreme market turmoil. The capital injection is aimed at covering verifiable losses directly caused by platform anomalies.

The move follows a dramatic period of volatility that triggered sharp deviations in stablecoins and staking tokens, with some altcoins registering drastic steep declines or even

Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the New York Stock Exchange, is committing up to $2 billion in Polymarket, valuing the event-prediction platform at about $8 billion before the investment. ICE will serve as a global distributor of Polymarket’s event-driven data and will collaborate on tokenisation and related infrastructure.

Polymarket is gearing up for its return to U. S. markets following a multi-year regulatory hiatus. The firm acquired QCEX, a derivatives

Gold-backed digital tokens such as Paxos’s PAXG and Tether’s XAUT have shown greater resilience than much of the crypto market during a sweeping $19 billion liquidation event that struck major cryptocurrencies. While Bitcoin and Ether tumbling inflicted heavy losses across leveraged positions, these gold-pegged tokens either held value or gained modestly, driven by the ongoing rally in physical gold.

Bitcoin dropped about 8.5 per cent

Ethereum’s value slipped beneath the psychologically and technically significant $4,000 mark today, intensifying fears that the second-largest cryptocurrency may be entering a deeper correction. On Binance, ETH dipped to $3,988.89, down almost 8 per cent in 24 hours.

The abrupt drop triggered widespread liquidations, especially among leveraged positions. On-chain liquidation trackers show nearly $188 million in crypto was liquidated in just one hour during the sharp

A coalition of leading banks including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Santander, Barclays, TD Bank, MUFG, UBS and Citi has unveiled a joint exploratory effort to design a blockchain-based stablecoin pegged to G7 currencies. The banks say the asset would maintain a fixed 1:1 value relative to existing fiat currencies, issued on public blockchains.

The initiative enters a financial landscape intensely focused on regulation, institutional

Luxembourg’s Intergenerational Sovereign Wealth Fund has placed 1 per cent of its assets into Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, making it the first sovereign fund in the Eurozone to adopt such exposure. The move was unveiled during the presentation of the 2026 national budget by Finance Minister Gilles Roth.

Under a new investment mandate approved in July 2025, the FSIL is authorised to allocate up to 15 per cent

Analysts at JPMorgan are forecasting that U. S. spot Solana exchange-traded funds will attract only about $1.5 billion in net inflows during their first year, substantially lagging behind the inflows seen in Ethereum-linked ETFs. The expectation comes even as the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission is widely seen as poised to approve multiple Solana ETF applications in the days ahead.

JPMorgan’s projection, led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, rests on

The cryptocurrency market has experienced a sharp downturn, with over $100 million worth of positions liquidated in the past 60 minutes. This sudden plunge has sent shockwaves through the sector, with both retail and institutional investors facing severe losses. The volatility underscores the unpredictable nature of the crypto landscape, where prices can fluctuate wildly, often within short time frames.

At the heart of the market's rapid decline is a