$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
Even if Bitcoin eventually adopts post-quantum protections for on-chain outputs, five parts of the Lightning Network’s off-chain payment system would still need separate upgrades, according to a Sept. 12 research preprint. The paper proposes PQLN, a hybrid post-quantum extension implemented as a rust-lightning research prototype. It targets gossip, which distributes node and channel information; encrypted
Crypto analyst Ali Martinez shared some notable technical levels following the recent strong price increases in Bitcoin ($BTC) and $XRP. According to Martinez, a break above $1.60 in $XRP could open the door to a new upward movement, while for Bitcoin, $100,000 has once again become a significant target. $XRP gained 27.6% in value, rising
Strategy has spent recent weeks rebuying 5,553 of the $BTC it sold over the summer. After selling low in the summer and re-buying high this autumn, the opportunity cost of its roundtrip trade exceeds $100 million. Despite years of promises that he’d never sell, Michael Saylor’s company sold 6,948 $BTC between May and August for