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A Bitcoin technical indicator has squeezed to its tightest ever level as volatility diminishes and the asset remains rangebound despite recent peaks.  “Bitcoin’s weekly Bollinger Bands recently hit record tightness,” reported chartered market technician Tony Severino on Wednesday. For now, the cryptocurrency has failed to break out above the upper band with strength, despite reaching an all-time high of $126,000 earlier this week. According to past local consolidation ranges, “it could take as long as a hundred days to get a valid breakout (or breakdown, if BTC dumps instead),” he said. Bollinger Bands are a technical analysis tool used…

Shayne Coplan, founder and CEO of the blockchain-based prediction market Polymarket, has become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The milestone follows Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) announcing Tuesday that it would invest as much as $2 billion in the company at an $8 billion pre-money valuation. ICE owns the New York Stock Exchange, one of the world’s most powerful financial institutions.Coplan, now 27, launched Polymarket in June 2020 after spending a year studying how prediction markets could improve decision-making. The platform lets users wager on real-world outcomes, from elections to sports to economic indicators, using cryptocurrency.Polymarket’s…

Ethereum’s staking network is under growing strain as validator withdrawals climb to record levels, testing the system’s balance between liquidity and network security.Recent validator data shows that over 2.44 million ETH, valued at more than $10.5 billion, are now queued for withdrawal as of Oct. 8, the third-highest level in a month.This backlog trails only the 2.6 million ETH peak recorded on Sept. 11 and 2.48 million ETH on Oct. 5.According to Dune Analytics data curated by Hildobby, withdrawals are concentrated among the leading liquid staking token (LST) platforms like Lido, EtherFi, Coinbase, and Kiln. These services allow users to…

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The XRP price dropped 4% in the past 24 hours to trade at $2.856 as of 3:37 a.m. EST even as trading volume rose 12% to $2 billion. This comes as veteran trader Peter Brandt, with 810k followers on X, said he sees the altcoin plummeting to  $2.22163 if it closes below $2.68743. Brandt’s analysis is based on a descending triangle, which has been forming over time for the XRP price. In support of the bearish outlook, another market veteran, Ali Martinez, also predicted that XRP could…

The Ethereum Foundation, which oversees the development of the Ethereum network, announced the “Privacy Cluster,” a team of 47 experts across the blockchain industry tasked with bringing privacy features to the layer-1 smart contract network.Ethereum’s privacy cluster brings together researchers, engineers and cryptographers to develop protocol-level privacy features, including private payments and private decentralized identity solutions, according to a Wednesday announcement.The Foundation introduced Privacy Stewards for Ethereum (PSE), a privacy-focused research and development initiative, in September, and the Privacy Cluster will work closely with PSE to build out privacy-preserving enhancements.These privacy-preserving developments include developing zero-knowledge infrastructure, a way of verifying…

Crypto wallet MetaMask will tap Polymarket later this year to expand its offerings to prediction markets, aiming to get in on the booming sector that has caught Wall Street’s attention. The integration will make Polymarket directly available through MetaMask’s wallet, enabling users to buy and sell “shares” to bet on real-world events from elections and sports to a company’s earnings results.MetaMask’s global product lead, Gal Eldar, told Cointelegraph that the partnership is part of the firm’s goal to evolve from a crypto wallet into a gateway to global, democratized finance. “Each new feature expands what users can do with their financial assets:…

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In answer to Wall Street bank lobbying, crypto group Stand With Crypto said it enlisted its online members to send a message more than 250,000 times to the U.S. senators in their states, pushing back on the bankers’ attempt to stymie the avenue for stablecoin rewards in the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act.The letter crafted by Stand With Crypto — a U.S. pro-crypto member organization initially established by Coinbase — urges lawmakers to ignore the banking advocates who launched an August effort to rewrite the law to completely shutter stablecoin issuers’ ability to offer yields…

Bitcoin BTC$123,377.52 regained ground on Wednesday, climbing back to nearly $124,000 after a flush to $120,000 the day before. It was recently trading at $123,500, up 1.5% over the past 24 hours.Altcoins followed the move higher but didn’t reclaim the levels seen earlier in the week. Ethereum ETH$4,528.54, Ripple’s XRP$2.8807, Solana SOL$229.14, DOGE$0.2556 and AVAX$28.82 each added between 1% and 3%. The CoinDesk 20 Index, which tracks a basket of major digital assets, rose 2%.Looking at crypto-related stocks, BTC miners tied to high-performance computing infrastructure once again led gains. Cipher Mining (CIFR) and Bitfarms (BITF) jumped 11%–12%, while CleanSpark (CLSK)…

US crypto exchange Gemini is set to expand its offerings in Australia with the launch of a new locally registered entity, and is taking a wait-and-see approach to recent draft laws expected to broaden oversight of the crypto sector.Gemini’s head of Asia Pacific, Saad Ahmed, told Cointelegraph that Australia’s crypto penetration is “quite significant, somewhere in the range of 23 to 25%” which leaves the exchange with “headroom for growth.”On Thursday, the exchange said it created a local entity registered with the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), the country’s financial intelligence agency, enabling it to provide access to…