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Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation. Today in crypto, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent praised Singapore’s approach to digital asset regulation. The Bitcoin white paper, published by Satoshi Nakamoto, turned 17 years old, but a struggling BTC price has marred the occasion, as it faces its first red October in seven years. Elsewhere, Michael Saylor said that Strategy is unlikely to look at acquiring other Bitcoin treasury firms as there’s too much uncertainty. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has praised Singapore’s proactive approach to digital assets and stablecoin regulation, highlighting what he described as a model for effective and secure innovation in financial technology. Speaking at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in South Korea, Bessent met with Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong to discuss financial cooperation and the future of digital ...

Singapore authorities seized $150 million in assets connected to Chen Zhi as U.S. and UK prosecutors pursue criminal charges over an alleged $14.4 billion Bitcoin fraud operation involving forced labor and cryptocurrency laundering. The post Singapore Freezes $150M in Assets Tied to Alleged Bitcoin Fraud Kingpin appeared first on Cryptonews.

Custodia said it may request a rehearing on the matter, after a panel of judges ruled 2-1 to affirm a district court’s prior ruling denying the crypto bank Fed access.

Europe could see the digital euro issued continent-wide as early as 2029, after a potential CBDC pilot in mid-2027.

Custodia said it was “actively considering” petitioning the appellate court for a rehearing following the Tenth Circuit judgment, filed more than five years after its application. A US appellate court has ruled against Custodia Bank, the crypto-friendly institution founded by Caitlin Long, siding with the Federal Reserve in a lower court decision. In a Friday judgment in the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, three circuit judges affirmed a lower court ruling in the District of Wyoming. The appeal, filed in April 2024 after the court ruled against granting Custodia a US Federal Reserve master account, was the latest setback since the crypto-friendly bank first submitted its application in October 2020. “This case comes clothed in 21st Century terms: cryptocurrency, digital assets, instant wire transfers, and master accounts,” said the Friday judgment. “But there is nothing new about this issue. Courts have probed the legality of our nation’s central bank and interpreted the relevant statutes since the...

Custodia said it was “actively considering” petitioning the appellate court for a rehearing following the Tenth Circuit judgment, filed more than five years after its application. A US appellate court has ruled against Custodia Bank, the crypto-friendly institution founded by Caitlin Long, siding with the Federal Reserve in a lower court decision. In a Friday judgment in the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, three circuit judges affirmed a lower court ruling in the District of Wyoming. The appeal, filed in April 2024 after the court ruled against granting Custodia a US Federal Reserve master account, was the latest setback since the crypto-friendly bank first submitted its application in October 2020. “This case comes clothed in 21st Century terms: cryptocurrency, digital assets, instant wire transfers, and master accounts,” said the Friday judgment. “But there is nothing new about this issue. Courts have probed the legality of our nation’s central bank and interpreted the relevant statutes since the...

Sam Bankman-Fried is again challenging the core narrative of his downfall: that FTX was insolvent when it collapsed in November 2022. In a 15-page report written from prison and dated Sept. 30, the convicted founder claimed the exchange “was never insolvent” but merely trapped in a “liquidity crisis” after customers pulled $5 billion in two […] The post New prison report flouts claim FTX could have repaid customers from $25B in assets appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Ether rose on heavier trading, then slipped after an upper-band rejection, leaving a tighter range and a clear set of checkpoints above and below.

Michael Saylor still foresees a $150,000 Bitcoin price by the end of the year, despite temporary concerns with import tariff escalations. This week started with a promising cryptocurrency market recovery after a $19 billion market crash earlier in the month, as demand for digital assets started rising with a potential end to the tariff wars on the horizon. Crypto investor attention was largely focused on US President Donald Trump’s meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping, aimed at securing a trade deal to avert new import tariffs. However, the positive momentum took a sharp turn on Wednesday, when Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted $470 million in outflows despite the US Federal Reserve decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points. Read more

Michael Saylor still foresees a $150,000 Bitcoin price by the end of the year, despite temporary concerns with import tariff escalations. This week started with a promising cryptocurrency market recovery after a $19 billion market crash earlier in the month, as demand for digital assets started rising with a potential end to the tariff wars on the horizon. Crypto investor attention was largely focused on US President Donald Trump’s meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping, aimed at securing a trade deal to avert new import tariffs. However, the positive momentum took a sharp turn on Wednesday, when Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted $470 million in outflows despite the US Federal Reserve decision to cut interest rates by 25 basis points. Read more

Older, more established altcoins are likely to be the focus of institutional interest and investment, Maen Ftouni told Cointelegraph. Older cryptocurrencies with an exchange-traded fund (ETF) or expected to receive an ETF will soak up much of the capital deployed during the next altcoin season, according to Maen Ftouni, CEO of CoinQuant, a company that produces algorithmic trading tools.  “Not every single coin is going to have massive returns; the liquidity is going to be concentrated into certain places, dinosaurs being one of them, of course,” Ftouni told Cointelegraph at the Global Blockchain Congress 2025 in Dubai, UAE. Ftouni said institutional capital will be directed toward “dinosaur” coins, and attributed the 2024 rally in older cryptocurrencies like XRP (XRP) and Cardano (ADA) to this phenomenon. He said: Read more

Older, more established altcoins are likely to be the focus of institutional interest and investment, Maen Ftouni told Cointelegraph. Older cryptocurrencies with an exchange-traded fund (ETF) or expected to receive an ETF will soak up much of the capital deployed during the next altcoin season, according to Maen Ftouni, CEO of CoinQuant, a company that produces algorithmic trading tools.  “Not every single coin is going to have massive returns; the liquidity is going to be concentrated into certain places, dinosaurs being one of them, of course,” Ftouni told Cointelegraph at the Global Blockchain Congress 2025 in Dubai, UAE. Ftouni said institutional capital will be directed toward “dinosaur” coins, and attributed the 2024 rally in older cryptocurrencies like XRP (XRP) and Cardano (ADA) to this phenomenon. He said: Read more

California's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation fined Bitcoin ATM operator Coinhub $675,000 for violating digital assets law.

Stellar is integrating Chainlink’s CCIP, Data Feeds, and Streams to enable tokenized asset flow across chains.

Bitcoin absorbs volatility better than before, but the cost-basis zone remains crucial for continued upside.

Stablecoin giant Tether is making billions on its US Treasury reserves, putting it in league with some of Wall Street’s top earners.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Custodia nine months after hearing arguments in the company's effort to secure a Federal Reserve master account.

Buy a Bitcoin burger, get BTC: Fold is offering Stake 'n Shake customers $5 in BTC if they nab the restaurant chain's crypto-burger.

Solana (SOL) processes approximately 70 million transactions per day and recorded over $143 billion in monthly DEX volume as of Oct. 30, according to DefiLlama. The network operates with 1,295 consensus validators across 40 countries, and a Nakamoto Coefficient of 20, according to the Foundation’s June 2025 Network Health Report. Production throughput runs at approximately […] The post 70M daily transactions, $143B volume: How Solana won DeFi’s throughput race appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Zcash’s rise mirrors a shifting mood toward privacy in an increasingly monitored online world. Cryptocurrencies focused on privacy have come onto investors’ radar recently, ranking among the most popular token categories. According to CoinGecko, which tracks a combined market capitalization of almost $22 billion across privacy coins, their value rose 52.2% in the past 24 hours. Rival data aggregator CoinMarketCap places the category at nearly $55 billion, with Zcash (ZEC) now leading the pack. One of the early privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, Zcash launched in October 2016. It traded below $80 at the start of this October but exploded 375% over the month to reach $380 by Halloween, flipping Monero (XMR) as the largest privacy token by market cap. Read more