Bitcoin is trading at $86,767.30, up 1.1% over 24 hours and 14.6% over the past week, following a rally that pushed it to $87,000, its highest level in eight months. Over $1 billion in positions were liquidated in a single 24-hour stretch on the way there. Every Bearish Catalyst Fired At Once Three things happened
Circle Foundation has awarded its first U.S. grants to Accion Opportunity Fund and Pacific Community Ventures on Sept. 22, backing AI-enabled lending and data infrastructure for underserved small businesses. Circle announced the grants during the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York, identifying both recipients as Community Development Financial Institutions serving small-business owners who
The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, says broad AI adoption could represent an underappreciated source of demand for digital assets. In its latest research paper, “The Machine-Native Economy,” BlackRock said the rise of AI and machine-to-machine payments could increase demand for blockchains and other programmable payment infrastructure, including stablecoins and other on-chain assets. It also
Investor Ownership Retreats From Its 2025 Peak U.S. investors pulled back from cryptocurrency after ownership reached a record level in 2025. Gallup, the Washington-based research and analytics company, released its latest survey on Sept. 21, placing crypto ownership at 11% among investors with at least $10,000 in investable assets, six percentage points below last year’s
$XRP registered an intraday high of $1.60 on Sept. 22, with roughly $7.4 billion in reported volume. The move was strong, but the latest public data on regulated futures showed different positioning shifts across venues. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Sept. 15 snapshot showed leveraged funds cutting their net short in CME futures by the
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency advanced three stablecoin-focused firms toward federal trust-bank status on Sept. 18, using a recognizable regulatory perimeter across the decisions for Agora, Catena and Bastion. The decisions strengthen the case that the OCC is building a repeatable pathway for narrow, uninsured trust banks. That pathway still carries execution
Crypto lender Arch Lending plans to expand into loans backed by tokenized equities as the market for onchain stocks expands and lenders begin exploring new uses for the assets as collateral. Arch co-founder and chief revenue officer Himanshu Sahay told Cointelegraph’s Chain Reaction podcast that the lender plans to enter the market “pretty soon,” pointing
Michael Howell, CEO of CrossBorder Capital, known for his work on global liquidity, argued that a potential Fed interest rate hike doesn’t necessarily have to be negative for Bitcoin, contrary to popular belief. According to Howell, the determining factor in the modern financial system isn’t the level of the policy interest rate, but rather maintaining
Bitcoin is on track to record its strongest September performance in 14 years as the cryptocurrency extends its dramatic late-month recovery. Bitcoin has gained roughly 10% since the beginning of September, according to historical monthly-return data. At press time, the cryptocurrency’s September gains stand at approximately 10.1%. This is its best performance for the month