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A fixed-rate crypto-backed loan lets you borrow against BTC, ETH, or SOL while keeping your coins. Here's how they work.

The proposed reverse split can address the $1 bid-price rule, but it cannot replace operating cash. The post After selling 832 BTC to clear debt, this Nasdaq-listed crypto firm is using a 1-for-50 reverse split to mask its shrinking treasury appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The tamest U.S. inflation print in months left crypto markets flat, with Bitcoin shrugging off the data hit. Here's why.

Bitcoin price action did not reflect relief in US CPI inflation numbers matching expectations amid a warning over $63,000 failing as support. Bitcoin (BTC) saw weakness around Wednesday’s Wall Street open as markets reacted to key US inflation data. Key points: Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD dropping below $63,500, erasing the day’s gains. Read more

USDCx will let users transact without publicly exposing balances, counterparties or transaction histories, while allowing selective disclosure for compliance.

Can PI stretch all the way to $0.15, or is another pullback on the way?

In this week's Crypto Long & Short, LMAX Group's Jenna Wright argues that markets break down not from too little capital but from capital stuck in the wrong place, trapped by settlement cycles while risk reprices by the minute. She makes the case that stablecoins and tokenization are quietly becoming the plumbing that lets money move as fast as the risk it supports.

July crypto trades fell to 1.4 million and average ticket size halved, while quarterly profit rose and eToro expanded into active US stock trading. The post As retail crypto trades collapse 73%, eToro drops $231 million to capture active US stock traders appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Congress moved the funding deadline to December, lowering October shutdown odds but leaving Bitcoin traders focused on unresolved fiscal risks. The post Congress Pushes Odds of a Government Shutdown to December as Bitcoin Watches appeared first on Cryptonews.

A 70% rally from here would only get XRP to the middle of Perplexity’s target range. Perplexity AI predicts XRP can reach $1.60-$2.20 by the end of 2026, with its latest XRP Price Prediction settling on $1.75 as the most likely bullish target.That is a bold reversal call with XRP sitting at $1.0235. Perplexity co-founder […] The post Perplexity AI Predicts an XRP Scenario Few Analysts Are Discussing appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin has already been cut nearly in half from its 2025 peak. ChatGPT AI predicts the punishment may end with an explosive reversal, with its latest Bitcoin price prediction targeting $120,000 by the end of 2026 and a stretch toward $140,000.The call from Sam Altman’s OpenAI chatbot asks Bitcoin to nearly double from $63,593. That […] The post ChatGPT AI Predicts Bitcoin Will Test This Level Before The End of 2026 appeared first on Cryptonews.

A malformed default route at a single hosting provider took almost 29% of staked SOL offline, against a 33% threshold.

The service gives trading firms access to Kalshi’s sports and crypto order books over DoubleZero’s fiber network.

Kalshi launched access to its sports and crypto perpetual data feed through DoubleZero’s dedicated fiber network to bolster institutional data access. Prediction market Kalshi’s live order book is now available through data provider DoubleZero Edge’s dedicated fiber network, the two companies said in a Wednesday announcement shared with Cointelegraph. Kalshi said this makes it the first prediction market to distribute its real-time order book data on sports and crypto perpetuals event contracts, which will be available to new DoubleZero Edge subscribers. Users looking for a machine-readable view of prediction market data can access these capabilities via the dedicated feed, instead of building this infrastructure from order books and application programming interface (API) responses themselves. Read more

Slovenia entered the EU’s MiCA stablecoin register through electronic money institution Dinaro, as the update also added two new CASPs. Slovenia has appeared for the first time in the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) register of electronic money token (EMT) issuers. Dinaro, a Slovenia-based electronic money institution supervised by the Bank of Slovenia, joined the EMT list in the latest European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) register update on Wednesday. According to its website, Dinaro provides payment services, including card issuing and acquiring, and says it holds Mastercard principal membership. Its addition marks the first appearance of a Slovenia-based issuer in ESMA’s EMT dataset. Read more

XRP slipped below $1 as leverage rebuilt and selling pressure deepened across the market. Data from CryptoSlate showed that the digital asset fell as low as $0.99 during the session, its weakest level since November 2024, when Donald Trump won the US presidential election. The move unwinds one of the most important thresholds from XRP’s post-election […] The post XRP loses $1 for the first time since Trump’s 2024 election as bearish bets surge and 200,000 XRP stolen appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Five years after El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender, the experiment has fallen short of its original promises for locals, but it’s been great for Bitcoin’s global profile. It’s been five years since El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. President Nayib Bukele announced the plan at the Bitcoin conference in Miami on June 5, 2021, to the jubilant cries and applause of the Bitcoin community, who hailed the tiny Central American nation as living proof that BTC could be sovereign money. Bukele sold the experiment as a way to bank the unbanked, slash remittance costs, and attract investment to the impoverished nation. Read more

XRP's price has struggled significantly this year, but its biggest wallets are telling a different story.

Wintermute will reportedly invest $1 billion in AI infrastructure and high-frequency trading as part of its expansion into traditional finance. Crypto market maker Wintermute reportedly plans to invest up to $1 billion in artificial intelligence (AI) data center infrastructure and high-frequency trading over the next five years. The plans include scaling up Wintermute’s non-crypto market activity to account for over 50% of its business by the end of 2027, up from the current 10%, Wintermute CEO Evgeny Gaevoy told Bloomberg. Wednesday’s report said that as part of the plans, Wintermute will also double the staff in its 17-person New York office next year and expand its global headcount by about 40%. Cointelegraph has approached Wintermute for more details surrounding its expansion plans. Read more