Crypto Derivatives Reload as Bitcoin Price Puts Traders on Edge Bitcoin derivatives have become a rather expensive tug-of-war, with futures and options exposure rebuilding rapidly as bitcoin’s price stands around $84,000 per unit at 2 p.m. EST on Sept. 23, 2026. The strange part is what’s happening beneath that number. Before a large expiry coming
Cosmos and Balance Canada have entered a new partnership aimed at pushing tokenized deposits deeper into mainstream banking, a move that signals how quickly institutional players are warming up to blockchain-based financial tools. The Cosmos Balance Canada partnership was announced via a post on X, and it comes at a moment when Canadian banks are
Rejection at Key Resistance Bitcoin’s latest rally snapped Wednesday as the cryptocurrency dipped below $84,000 for the first time since Monday. The reversal came just hours after it breached $87,000 for the second time this week, following a gradual climb that saw the cryptocurrency add nearly $2,000 in under 12 hours. Before its sharp downturn,
European Union financial supervisors warned Wednesday that advances in quantum computing could threaten the cryptography securing blockchains. The European Banking Authority, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and European Securities and Markets Authority said in a joint risk update that quantum computing could undermine systems used to secure transactions, communications and databases. The warning follows
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) will make AI and tokenization the initial focus of a new supervisory priority on digital innovation starting in 2027. Across the European Union, supervisors will identify where tokenization is emerging and document how firms use or plan to use AI and tokenization in products and processes that directly
Coin Metrics corrected more than 19 months of Bitcoin ETF-related on-chain data, leaving users of its identified-wallet series to reassess any analysis built on the affected history. The Sept. 22 status notice says the correction covers Bitcoin data from Feb. 7, 2025 through Sept. 17, 2026. Coin Metrics listed 35 affected daily series and 25
Crypto’s downturn over the last year has done little to slow stablecoins at the border, with cross-border stablecoin flows rising 77.5% in the year to June 2026 as the broader market lost more than a third of its value, according to new research from Chainalysis. In its newly released 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index, Chainalysis
Bitcoin ($BTC) was rejected near $87,000 on Wednesday as onchain data showed negative spot demand. Key points: Bitcoin suffered a correction below $84,000 around Wednesday’s Wall Street open, causing $280 million in long liquidations over the course of four hours. Analysis saw $82,000 as key support to hold in the event of a further breakdown.
Visa released the results of a survey signaling that bank-level fraud protection and insurance could drive adoption in stablecoins for cross-border transactions among US users. In a survey of 2,192 US-based customers published on Wednesday, Visa said that the “adoption intention” of stablecoins among US users could climb from 36% to 56% “in a hypothetical