Crypto

  • European Central Bank to 'Accelerate' CBDC Plans, Eyeing 2029 Digital Euro Rollout
    Decrypt - 19:21 Oct 31, 2025
    Europe could see the digital euro issued continent-wide as early as 2029, after a potential CBDC pilot in mid-2027.
  • Caitlin Long’s crypto bank loses appeal over Fed master account
    Cointelegraph.com - 19:18 Oct 31, 2025
    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...
  • Caitlin Long’s crypto bank loses appeal over Fed master account
    Cointelegraph.com - 19:18 Oct 31, 2025
    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...
  • New prison report flouts claim FTX could have repaid customers from $25B in assets
    CryptoSlate - 19:00 Oct 31, 2025
    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.
  • Analyst Says Ethereum Is the Best Ecosystem and Ether Is Poised to Top $5,000
    CoinDesk - 19:00 Oct 31, 2025
    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.
    Tags: Ether
  • Saylor tips $150K Bitcoin in 2025 despite Trump tariff shocks: Finance Redefined
    Cointelegraph.com - 19:00 Oct 31, 2025
    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
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • Saylor tips $150K Bitcoin in 2025 despite Trump tariff shocks: Finance Redefined
    Cointelegraph.com - 19:00 Oct 31, 2025
    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
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • 'Dino' cryptos to soak up institutional funds bound for altcoins: Analyst
    Cointelegraph.com - 18:46 Oct 31, 2025
    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
  • 'Dino' cryptos to soak up institutional funds bound for altcoins: Analyst
    Cointelegraph.com - 18:46 Oct 31, 2025
    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 Regulator Fines Bitcoin ATM Operator Coinhub $675K for Violating Law
    Decrypt - 18:43 Oct 31, 2025
    California's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation fined Bitcoin ATM operator Coinhub $675,000 for violating digital assets law.
  • Chainlink's LINK Bounces 3.6% From Lows; Stellar Integration Expands RWA Reach
    CoinDesk - 18:39 Oct 31, 2025
    Stellar is integrating Chainlink’s CCIP, Data Feeds, and Streams to enable tokenized asset flow across chains.
  • Bitcoin’s Risk-Off Signal Weakens: Is the Market Finally Learning to Handle Volatility?
    CryptoPotato - 18:35 Oct 31, 2025
    Bitcoin absorbs volatility better than before, but the cost-basis zone remains crucial for continued upside.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • Tether Reports $10 Billion Profit in 2025 So Far—Here's How That Compares to the Big Banks
    Decrypt - 18:26 Oct 31, 2025
    Stablecoin giant Tether is making billions on its US Treasury reserves, putting it in league with some of Wall Street’s top earners.
  • Crypto Bank Custodia Suffers Another Court Rejection in Fed Master Account Pursuit
    CoinDesk - 18:17 Oct 31, 2025
    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.
  • Steak 'n Shake Bitcoin Burger Comes With Actual BTC as Firm Creates 'Strategic Reserve'
    Decrypt - 18:15 Oct 31, 2025
    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.
  • 70M daily transactions, $143B volume: How Solana won DeFi’s throughput race
    CryptoSlate - 18:00 Oct 31, 2025
    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.
  • Why Zcash and privacy tokens are back in the conversation
    Cointelegraph.com - 18:00 Oct 31, 2025
    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
  • Why Zcash and privacy tokens are back in the conversation
    Cointelegraph.com - 18:00 Oct 31, 2025
    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
  • The Bitcoin White Paper Offered a Blueprint for a More Reliable Financial System
    CoinDesk - 18:00 Oct 31, 2025
    Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin white paper did not describe the end of Bitcoin’s development but the beginning, argues Voltage’s Bobby Shell.
  • Brazilian Bitcoin Treasury OranjeBTC Buys Back Stock Instead of BTC
    Decrypt - 17:54 Oct 31, 2025
    The publicly traded company started trading on Brazil's stock market B3 earlier this month.