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Bitcoin Beats Equities, Real Estate Among Wealthy Investors: Survey

Another survey of investors with deep pockets signals strong interest in digital assets, especially bitcoin, as these assets were the most common pick for the best long-term performer among wealthy respondents in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany—ahead of equities and real estate. However, bitcoin still needs to compete for space in digital asset portfolios. […]

Projects

Crypto Long & Short: Zcash and the case for privacy in the age of AI

AI has made it cheap to link wallet addresses to the people behind them, and the permanence of the blockchain means records don’t age out. Michael Zhao of Grayscale Research explains how Zcash’s shielded transactions address this problem, and why close to 29% of all ZEC ever mined now sits in the shielded pool.

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Solana x402 Lets AI Agents Batch USDC Payments, Slashing Fees

Solana has rolled out batch payments for the x402 standard with PayAI Network and BlockRunAI, allowing AI agents to make many USDC payments before settling them in a single onchain transaction. BlockrunAI Saves $20K a Month Using Solana x402 Payments Solana is trying to solve a payments problem humans rarely encounter, but artificial intelligence (AI) […]

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Bitcoin Price Slides to $83K as Short-Term Bears Take Control

Bitcoin’s price range is trading near the floor of its 24-hour range after an overnight selloff dragged the BTC/USD pair to $83,404. The 1-hour picture is firmly bearish, with price below every listed moving average and the relative strength index (RSI) at 27, but the daily structure hasn’t completely cracked. Bulls now need to defend […]

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Why is Stacks (STX) going up?

Stacks has gained more than 100% over the past 90 days, backed by institutional Bitcoin Staking that is creating a new use for STX that could grow as more BTC enters future bonding periods. According to CoinGecko data, STX was…

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Blackrock Pulls $122M Into Bitcoin ETFs as Ether Loses $202M

U.S. bitcoin ETFs returned to positive territory Tuesday with $118.86 million in net inflows, led almost entirely by Blackrock’s IBIT. Ether funds suffered a sixth consecutive day of withdrawals, while XRP and HYPE attracted modest buying. Bitcoin ETFs Flip Positive With $119M Inflow Institutional positioning split sharply across the crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) market Tuesday. […]

Ethereum

The shrinking economics of Ethereum layer 2s

Ethereum made rollup transactions cheaper by giving them lower cost data space. The savings helped users and applications, but they also made it harder for a small chain to earn enough from transaction fees to support a sequencer, bridge, security…

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Cardano put issuer controls inside its tokens. Who can use them?

Cardano’s new programmable token framework lets an issuer make transfers depend on its own rules, including identity checks, allowlists and, where selected, freezes or forced transfers. The public chain enforces those rules for the particular asset, but the entity that…

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Bitcoin Price Slips Under $84K as Tom Lee Eyes Biggest Bull Market Ever

Fundstrat’s Tom Lee told a Singapore crowd that crypto is “2 days past the bottom” on the same morning a flash crash liquidated more than $400 million in longs, while his treasury company Bitmine said it will stop buying ether at 5% of supply. What Did Lee Say? Lee, chairman of ether treasury company Bitmine […]

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Bitcoin funds are buying again. Why is spot demand still weak?

U.S. spot Bitcoin funds took in billions of dollars in late September, yet an onchain estimate of demand for coins across the wider market remained negative. The figures measure different things, and their divergence has become central to judging whether…

Regulation

Russia approves first crypto exchanges and custodians under new rules

Russia has registered its first four cryptocurrency exchange operators and five digital custodians under the regulated crypto market that opened on Sept. 1. According to the Bank of Russia, the first companies were admitted under transitional provisions of the country’s…

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Ledger adds Bitcoin-backed loans through Morpho to its wallet app

Ledger has introduced Bitcoin-backed borrowing through Morpho in its wallet app, allowing eligible users to pledge cbBTC or wBTC for USDC or USDT loans. Ledger, in a press release dated Oct. 7, said Crypto Loan would begin a gradual rollout…