Traders scanning the order books got a surprise when AguilaTrades, after over six months of inactivity, decided to go long on Bitcoin. Unfortunately for him, this move came just before a market downturn, resulting in a staggering $331K loss. This incident highlights the unpredictable nature of trading in the volatile cryptocurrency market, as many are
Bitcoin faces a new macro headwind from the artificial-intelligence boom as massive infrastructure spending competes for long-term capital. Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s Sept. 15-16 meeting showed market participants citing heavy private debt issuance for AI infrastructure as one factor pushing Treasury yields and term premiums higher. Nominal yields rose about 35 basis points across
Bitcoin rebounded to $82,000 on Friday as the broader crypto market recovered from late-Thursday lows, with President Donald Trump’s comments easing fears of an imminent U.S. strike on Iran. Trump said the U.S. would not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections. “We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the
Strategy has unveiled an overview of its tokenized assets, prominently featuring STRCx and MSTRx. This development, highlighted by the crypto commentator @tokenterminal, indicates a growing trend in the tokenized asset space. The assets are issued by xStocksFi and leverage the Ethereum blockchain, which could attract more investor interest as the crypto landscape evolves. The Key
Partners Group’s Vincent Ng recently confirmed the vital role of utility in tokenized assets during a discussion with Bridget Li, CEO of AssetoFinance. This conversation, highlighted by crypto commentator @pendle_fi, underscores the importance of creating infrastructure for onchain assets as the market evolves. The implications of this discussion could shape future developments in asset tokenization.
TL;DR: OSL Group has tokenized the $USDGO Plus SP fund on-chain and is providing custody and distribution through its licensed Hong Kong platform. The product is a market-neutral digital asset fund built around $USDGO and is available only to eligible professional investors. Tokenization is moving from simple Treasury products into more complex investment strategies. OSL
Back in 2008, when Satoshi Nakamoto was getting ready to publish the white paper, the mysterious inventor apparently found time to sketch out a poker room inside Bitcoin’s codebase. Hidden inside Bitcoin’s earliest source code were buttons for dealing cards, folding, calling, and raising bets. There was just one problem. None of it actually played
Bitcoin Core has merged a privacy fix into its 32.x source branch addressing behavior that could correlate private-broadcast connections with ordinary node connections. The backport for 31.x remains open as of Oct. 8, leaving users who enable the feature on the latest stable release, 31.1, awaiting the repair. Private broadcast is disabled by default. The
TL;DR: Strategy will report third-quarter 2026 results after US markets close on October 29 and hold a live webinar at 5 p.m. Eastern Time. The update will give investors the next full financial snapshot of the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin treasury. The most closely watched corporate Bitcoin balance sheet has a date for its next
Pump.fun, a leading Solana token launchpad, keeps generating millions of dollars from memecoin trading even as most established tokens struggle to recover from steep losses. The platform produced about $18.6 million in protocol revenue over the seven days through Oct. 7, according to DefiLlama data. Separately, a Talos study found that 81% of a selected