The Clearing House, the bank-owned company that operates the core U.S. payments networks, said on September 24 that it selected Quant to build the technology behind its On-Chain Money Initiative, a planned network that will let financial institutions of all sizes clear and settle tokenized deposit transactions. The selection was announced in a statement on
In a recent interview, Brandt said there is a “very good chance” Bitcoin reaches around $500,000 in the next major bull cycle, while outlining a broader potential peak range of roughly $300,000 to $600,000 by late 2029. At today’s price near $84,700, a move to $500,000 would represent almost a 6x increase, while the top
Chainlink has recently announced a significant milestone, revealing 14 integrations of its standard across six different services and four unique blockchains. This wave of adoption includes notable names such as Aave, Infosys, and Paxos, as reported by the crypto commentator @chainlink. This growing trend highlights Chainlink’s increasing relevance and potential impact within the decentralized finance
The cryptocurrency market experienced a turbulent week amid concerns over the possibility of peace between Iran and the US, a major Bitget hack, and the possibility of the Fed raising interest rates again. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, has gained over 4% in value over the past week, while most altcoins, with a few exceptions,
Capital B is converting traditional capital-market funding into direct Bitcoin purchases, including through ATM equity issuance. The U.S. reserve primarily changes potential sell-side supply because its initial $BTC came from government forfeitures rather than market purchases. Corporate $BTC can look structurally scarce until financing conditions change, making dilution, conversion terms and refinancing risk part of
Bitcoin’s BIP138 wallet-backup proposal was merged into the Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository on Sept. 21, but the specification remains Draft. It aims to preserve information that a seed phrase may not restore in a complex wallet. The tradeoff is that a third party could read that information if it already holds an eligible extended public
In brief A quantum computer could someday derive private keys from exposed public keys and drain Bitcoin wallets—the hypothetical “Q-Day”—though no such machine exists and timelines vary widely. Fixes fall into three buckets, all in the news this week: quantum-safe transactions under current rules, protocol upgrades like a soft fork, and custody-layer defenses. Nothing shipped
Saylor’s Orange Chart Puts Another Bitcoin Buy in Focus Another bitcoin purchase may be coming from Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR), after Executive Chairman Michael Saylor shared a chart of the company’s holdings on Sept. 27. His message about adding more orange accompanied a graphic that marks Strategy’s bitcoin purchases with orange circles. Saylor wrote: “Even
One-Hour Chart: Bitcoin Takes Another Crack at $85,000 The one-hour chart shows bitcoin’s price steadily clawing back ground following its Sept. 23 retreat into the low-$83,000s. After spending Sept. 24-25 trading between approximately $83,300 and $85,300, $BTC has worked its way toward $84,870, putting the $85,000 threshold squarely in the spotlight. $BTC/USD 1-hour chart via