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Bitcoin is holding steady in the $110,000s today, a little over a week after surging to a new all-time high above $126,000. Bitcoin price slipped from 24-hour highs near $113,600 to the low $110,000s today. This price action follows a rough weekend that saw over $19 billion in leveraged positions liquidated, forcing more than 1.6 million traders out of their positions as cascading margin calls swept across exchanges. The bitcoin price fell to the low $100,000s on Friday, October 10, as U.S. and China trade tensions rattled global markets. President Donald Trump announced new 100% tariffs on Chinese goods after…
As the crypto market is resting in the emergency room, traders are wondering if ETH USD will see a new ATH in 2025. What does this massive sell-off and liquidation event mean for the rest of this bull-run? With Ethereum ETH $4,147.37 4.26% dropping 30% in just three days, investors are left wondering: Will there be an altcoin season as usual or will “apes” be left hanging? Join our analysis and follow along! $ETH – #Ethereum: Looking for a bounce on one of these levels. pic.twitter.com/YKEA0a6a8t — Crypto Caesar (@CryptoCaesarTA) October 14, 2025 Crypto Caesar is a trader who has…
Bridge, the stablecoin infrastructure company acquired by payments giant Stripe, applied for a national bank trust charter with the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), co-founder Zach Abrams said on Wednesday.The move would put the firm under federal regulatory oversight if approved by the regulator. Through the bank, company would provide services including custody, stablecoin issuance, management of stablecoin reserves, Abrams said.”We’ve long believed stablecoins will be a core, regulated financial building block,” Zach Abrams said in a Tuesday X post. “This regulatory infrastructure will enable us to tokenize trillions of dollars and make this future possible.”Bridge…
The ICO raised 200x its $750,000 minimum, and more than 50x its hard cap. With the privacy token meta in full swing, the native asset of a new privacy protocol, Umbra, is trading almost five times higher than its initial coin offering (ICO) price, after launching on Friday. Just a few days after its ICO, which priced UMBRA at $0.30, the token is currently changing hands around $1.30 with a fully diluted valuation (FDV) above $36 million, and reached as high as $2.48 yesterday, per data from CoinGecko.UMBRA all-time price chart. Source: CoinGeckoOversubscribed Token SaleIncubated by MetaDAO, Umbra’s ICO experienced…
Bitcoin’s weekend was a classic macro hit-and-run. On Friday, tariff threats toward China knifed through risk assets and shoved BTC through $110,000, with roughly $7 billion in crypto positions liquidated as leverage unwound into a thin tape.By Sunday night and into Monday, the tone softened as Trump posted a calming message about China, and US markets steadied while China ADRs bounced. BTC followed with a morning pop, retracing part of the slump.The main question arising from this weekend’s volatility is whether the US spot ETF complex, led by BlackRock’s IBIT, functioned as a shock absorber that kept Bitcoin price from…
Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade has been activated on the Sepolia testnet, marking the next major step in the network’s ongoing push to improve scalability and performance.The upgrade marks the second phase of a three-step rollout under Ethereum’s Fusaka roadmap, following the Holesky testnet activation on Oct. 1. The Sepolia deployment focuses on stress testing the network’s new data-availability system and higher block gas limit before developers push the code to the final Hoodi testnet later this month.Fusaka’s rollout is introducing a suite of performance and consensus improvements. The full upgrade aims to increase Ethereum’s block gas limit to 60 million, allowing…
Rebeca Moen Oct 14, 2025 17:33 Explore the transformation of markets into sophisticated information systems, driven by prediction markets and decentralization, to address the knowledge problem and enhance credibility. In an era where trust in traditional institutions is waning, the evolution of markets into advanced information systems is gaining momentum. This transformation, characterized by the rise of prediction markets and the decentralization of data, offers a new form of credibility, according to a16z crypto editorial. Addressing the Knowledge Problem The concept of markets as information systems is not new. Friedrich Hayek, decades ago,…
Elon Musk appears to be publicly paying attention to bitcoin again after years of silence. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO broke a three-year quiet streak on bitcoin early Tuesday, commenting on an X post from financial outlet ZeroHedge that tied surging gold, silver, and Bitcoin prices to global monetary “debasement” driven by artificial intelligence spending. “True,” Musk replied. “That is why Bitcoin is based on energy: you can issue fake fiat currency, and every government in history has done so, but it is impossible to fake energy.” Musk’s bitcoin mention drew immediate market attention on X, with traders seeing it…
Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest corporate owner of bitcoin BTC$114,431.52, appeared to miss out on capitalizing on last week’s market rout to purchase the dip in prices.According to Monday’s press release, the firm bought 220 BTC at an average price of $123,561. The company used the proceeds of selling its various preferred stocks (STRF, STRK, STRD), raising $27.3 million. That purchase price was well above the prices the largest crypto changed hands in the second half of the week. Bitcoin nosedived from above $123,000 on Thursday to as low as $103,000 on late Friday during one, if not the worst…
XRP fell about 15 percent intraday on Friday during the tariff scare tied to White House remarks, then recovered about 9 percent on Monday as risk appetite stabilized, providing a live read on how the token tracks Bitcoin in macro stress and relief.The Monday bounce saw Bitcoin up about 3.7 percent, Ethereum up about 9 percent, and Solana up about 8.2 percent, with XRP outpacing Bitcoin on the rebound. Friday’s selloff arrived alongside one of the largest derivatives liquidations this year, with about $19 billion in positions wiped out across crypto.XRP vs Bitcoin betaDaily price tables for Oct. 10 through…