ZkSync announced Airbender Prime, a prover that Matter Labs says handled 99% of 7,200 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds each on a single NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU. The announcement came five days after Starknet said it is actively considering becoming an independent layer-1 (L1) blockchain, targeting full quantum resistance in
The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects East Coast diesel and heating-oil inventories to stay unusually low this winter, potentially keeping transport and household costs elevated. For Bitcoin, that fuel pressure matters if it delays broader inflation and financing relief. Its October 6 outlook put September distillate stocks 32% below their 2021–2025 seasonal average and forecast
Bitcoin’s two biggest buyers both stepped back last week. US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded their largest weekly outflow in almost four months, and Michael Saylor’s Strategy made its smallest Bitcoin purchase of the year. Yet Bitcoin has held above $80,000 for a full week. One analyst dug into the data to find out who is
Standard Chartered says stablecoin transaction activity continues to grow even as the market’s overall value has stalled, suggesting existing stablecoins are circulating more frequently rather than new supply driving growth. In a report shared with Cointelegraph, the bank said it now expects stablecoin market capitalization to reach $2 trillion by 2030, two years later than
The SpaceX stock price has continued to stay in the red, despite a flurry of bullish outlooks for the SPCX stock. Notably, it appears that today’s decline was mostly due to a selloff recorded in the broader financial markets, after the US CPI inflation data exceeded Wall Street forecasts. Know when yourcoins moveAlerts, real-time prices,
Bitcoin ($BTC) fell below $82,000 after Wednesday’s Wall Street open as US consumer inflation beat expectations. Key points: Bitcoin dropped to $81,926 on Bitstamp after US September CPI inflation came in at 3.7% versus expectations of 3.6%. Fuel-price increases accounted for the lion’s share of the gain at 9.1% year-on-year. US bond yields spiked on
In brief U.S. consumer prices rose 3.7% year over year in September, above the 3.6% forecast, as gasoline jumped 9.1% in a single month. Odds of an October Fed rate hike roughly doubled from 22% after the report, and the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to about 5.3%. Bitcoin fell 1.5% to $82,142 and is holding
EasyA, a platform that helps developers build blockchain and artificial intelligence applications, reached a $1.1 billion valuation as it prepares to go public in the first half of next year, co-founder and CEO Philip Kwok told CoinDesk in an interview Tuesday. The platform, which was founded by brothers Philip and Dominic Kwok, plans to pursue
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BlackRock’s crypto funds had a much better third quarter than first half of the year but they still have a long way to go to recover the assets lost during the broader crypto market downturn. The asset manager reported $79.6 billion in digital assets under management at the end of September, a 63% jump from