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Crypto analysts mull over Ether’s price going “nuclear,” Ripple Labs seeks to buy $1 billion XRP tokens, and other news: Hodler’s Digest Several regional banks in the United States are facing renewed stress despite strengthening their finances after the 2023 banking crisis, and Bitcoin could benefit from any liquidity crisis that follows. Strike CEO Jack Mallers sees the banking stress as validation that Bitcoin is correctly pricing in an impending liquidity crisis, opining that the Federal Reserves inevitable response will drive BTC prices higher.  Bitcoin is accurately smelling trouble right now, he said on the Primal social media platform on Friday. The US is going to have to inject some of that sweet, sweet liquidity soon and print a ton of money or else their fiat empire goes kaboom. Read more

Crypto analysts mull over Ether’s price going “nuclear,” Ripple Labs seeks to buy $1 billion XRP tokens, and other news: Hodler’s Digest Several regional banks in the United States are facing renewed stress despite strengthening their finances after the 2023 banking crisis, and Bitcoin could benefit from any liquidity crisis that follows. Strike CEO Jack Mallers sees the banking stress as validation that Bitcoin is correctly pricing in an impending liquidity crisis, opining that the Federal Reserves inevitable response will drive BTC prices higher.  Bitcoin is accurately smelling trouble right now, he said on the Primal social media platform on Friday. The US is going to have to inject some of that sweet, sweet liquidity soon and print a ton of money or else their fiat empire goes kaboom. Read more

Crypto analysts mull over Ether’s price going “nuclear,” Ripple Labs seeks to buy $1 billion XRP tokens, and other news: Hodler’s Digest Several regional banks in the United States are facing renewed stress despite strengthening their finances after the 2023 banking crisis, and Bitcoin could benefit from any liquidity crisis that follows. Strike CEO Jack Mallers sees the banking stress as validation that Bitcoin is correctly pricing in an impending liquidity crisis, opining that the Federal Reserves inevitable response will drive BTC prices higher.  Bitcoin is accurately smelling trouble right now, he said on the Primal social media platform on Friday. The US is going to have to inject some of that sweet, sweet liquidity soon and print a ton of money or else their fiat empire goes kaboom. Read more

Crypto analysts mull over Ether’s price going “nuclear,” Ripple Labs seeks to buy $1 billion XRP tokens, and other news: Hodler’s Digest Several regional banks in the United States are facing renewed stress despite strengthening their finances after the 2023 banking crisis, and Bitcoin could benefit from any liquidity crisis that follows. Strike CEO Jack Mallers sees the banking stress as validation that Bitcoin is correctly pricing in an impending liquidity crisis, opining that the Federal Reserves inevitable response will drive BTC prices higher.  Bitcoin is accurately smelling trouble right now, he said on the Primal social media platform on Friday. The US is going to have to inject some of that sweet, sweet liquidity soon and print a ton of money or else their fiat empire goes kaboom. Read more

Hyperliquid spent $644 million repurchasing HYPE, which accounted for 46% of all 2025 buybacks.

Current laws in the United States do not explicitly protect open source software developers and create the risk of retroactive prosecution. Roman Storm, a developer of the Tornado Cash privacy-preserving protocol, asked the open source software community whether they are concerned with being retroactively prosecuted by the US Department of Justice for developing decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Storm asked DeFi developers: “How can you be so sure you won’t be charged by the DOJ as a money service business for building a non-custodial protocol?”  The DOJ could prosecute a case, arguing that any decentralized, non-custodial service should have been developed as a custodial service, as it did in the case against him, Storm added, citing his recent motion for acquittal, which was filed on September 30. Read more

The application includes language related to crypto and Web3, such as managing financial services, downloadable software, and SaaS tools for managing crypto-related functionality.

Bitcoin is once again caught in the crossfire of a high-stakes geopolitical standoff. This time, the knock-on effects are being felt across every corner of the crypto market. The script is familiar: The return of U.S.–China trade tensions has triggered a sharp correction in Bitcoin, echoing a pattern seen earlier this year. When escalating tariffs […] The post Trade wars and Bitcoin blues: déjà vu as U.S.–China tensions weigh on crypto appeared first on CryptoSlate.

In an X post, a respected pseudonymous crypto analyst said he bought a HYPE spot position under $34 and would "load up" closer to $28 amid a market downtrend.

In an X post, Ripple's Stuart Alderoty said two recent New York Times pieces wrongly cast crypto as only a tool for crime and corruption.

The Wikimedia Foundation revealed an unsettling trend: search engines and chatbots are providing Wikipedia's content directly to users without sending them to the site.

Jeremy Kranz, founder of Sentinel Global, a venture capital firm, said investors should be "discerning" and read the fine print on any stablecoin. Investors should exercise “discernment” when considering privately-issued stablecoins, which carry all the risks of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) plus their own unique risks, according to Jeremy Kranz, founder and managing partner of venture capital firm Sentinel Global. Kranz called privately-issued stablecoins “central business digital currency,” which feature all of the surveillance, backdoors, programmability, and controls as CBDCs. He told Cointelegraph: Overcollateralized stablecoin issuers, which back their blockchain tokens with cash and short-term government securities, can be subject to “bank runs” if too many holders attempt to redeem the tokens at the same time, Kranz added. Read more

Six hacker wallets dumped ETH during the Oct. 10 market crash, then rebought at higher prices, amplifying losses.

After a total liquidation, James Wynn reopened a 10x PEPE long, only to face another wipeout just hours later.

The token will be integrated into OpenSea, allowing users to stake behind favorite collections or projects, Finzer said.

Already losing favor with investors when bitcoin was in bull mode, companies built around stacking BTC are facing an even larger threat thanks to the price collapse over the past two weeks.

The token's price action is driven partly by Coinbase considering BNB for a listing and China Merchants Bank International tokenizing a MMF on the BNB Chain.

There’s a grim symmetry to every crypto boom: an idea born from freedom eventually gets packaged, securitized, and sold back to the masses, this time at a hefty premium. According to a new 10XResearch report, retail investors have collectively lost $17 billion trying to gain indirect Bitcoin exposure through listed “digital asset treasury” companies like […] The post The $17 billion lesson: how retail turned Bitcoin proxy plays into pain trade appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Projects such as Rootstock and Babylon may be perking institutional demand for Bitcoin-based yield and restaking

The proposed rule change relies on Nasdaq's vague understanding of how the Depository Trust Company (DTC) would handle post-trade settlement for these tokens.