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The following article is a guest post and opinion of Mike Romanenko, CVO & Co-founder of Kyrrex. H2 2025 is crypto’s credibility check. With MiCA now shaping how exchanges operate across the EU, the advantage shifts from growth at any cost to licensed, auditable, and bank-connected rails. The winners will make compliance invisible, settlement programmable, […] The post Mid-year reset: what crypto should prioritize in H2 2025 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

YZi Labs has invested further into Ethena to push USDe adoption across more chains and platforms, while also assisting with the development of a new stablecoin. Tech-focused venture capital firm YZi Labs has increased its stake in Ethena, the stablecoin issuer behind USDe, which will assist the digital dollar’s adoption across decentralized and centralized platforms. The investment will assist Ethena USDe’s (USDe) expansion on BNB Chain while enabling Ethena to continue building its USDtb stablecoin and an institutional settlement layer, “Converge,” Changpeng Zhao’s YZi Labs said in a statement on Friday. USDtb is backed by short-duration treasury assets, including BlackRock's BUIDL, while Converge is an Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible chain focused on tokenizing real-world assets. The move supports YZi’s mission to “support open, scalable digital dollar infrastructures that can serve as a backbone of efficiency and liquidity for the entire financial ecosystem.” Read more

Kalshi’s weekly trading volume exceeded $500 million with an average open interest of around $189 million, surpassing Polymarket’s figures, according to Dune analytics data.

Liquidity is set to flow into private financial markets once the United States Treasury fills its General Account with $850 billion. Crypto markets will enter “up only” mode once the United States Treasury hits its target goal of filling the General Account (TGA), the Treasury Department’s bank account, with $850 billion, according to Arthur Hayes, co-founder of the BitMEX crypto exchange. “With this liquidity drain complete, up only can resume,” Hayes wrote on Friday as the US TGA’s opening balance crossed $807 billion. When the Treasury is filling its General Account, the funds are generally sequestered and do not flow into private markets. However, not all analysts were convinced by Hayes’ prediction that liquidity will flow to financial markets once the US Treasury hits its goal. Read more

North Korean hackers are increasingly targeting crypto firms by posing as job candidates, particularly for developer and security roles, CZ warns.

This could be the beginning of a new tech stack — one in which AI, not humans, becomes the primary developer of applications, says Dfinity founder Dominic Williams.

A new Pew Research survey reveals deepening anxiety about AI, with the majority of American respondents believing it will erode creativity and relationships.

BTC will continue to appreciate and gain adoption as the global financial and geopolitical system is reshaped in the coming decades. Bitcoin (BTC) is poised to grow in price and adoption regardless of the macroeconomic scenarios that will unfold in the coming years and decades, as the global financial system heads for a Fourth Turning-style reset, according to market analyst Jordi Visser. Visser told Anthony Pompliano that the average person has lost confidence in all legacy institutions, which should drive investment into BTC — a neutral, permissionless, global asset not tied to governments or traditional organizations. The Fourth Turning is a reference to a book written by William Strauss and Neil Howe that describes the cyclical rise and fall of nations due to predictable intergenerational patterns. Read more

Crypto markets have been somewhat muted as the U.S. Treasury drained liquidity from the system. But as it approaches completing its Treasury General Account (TGA) refill, something the former BitMEX CEO, Arthur Hayes, called a “liquidity drain,” the “up only” trajectory can get back on track. The TGA is basically the government’s checking account at […] The post With the Treasury General Account refill almost done, ‘up only can resume’: Arthur Hayes appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Other experts in the crypto community, such as Adam Back and Peter Todd, are less convinced of the near-term threat.

Japan’s financial markets are sending out a warning siren, not just for Tokyo, but for the rest of the world. The Bank of Japan (BOJ), once famous for almost endless money printing, is taking the first steps toward unwinding its massive interventions. In short, Japan’s debt dilemma is coming to a head. This week, the […] The post Crisis crossroads: Japan’s debt reckoning and the global economic warning appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin’s exchange supply ratio on Binance hits lows as Fed-driven volatility wipes out futures open interest, while price holds near $118K.

The rising network difficulty and the need to pay for energy are pushing out smaller players and even publicly traded corporations. The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty, a metric that tracks the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the ledger, climbed to a new all-time high of 142.3 trillion on Friday. Mining difficulty hit successive all-time highs in August and September, driven by an influx of freshly deployed computing power over the last several weeks. Bitcoin’s hashrate, the average of the total computing power securing the decentralized monetary protocol, also hit an all-time high of over 1.1 trillion hashes per second on Friday, according to CryptoQuant. Read more

A Tidal Financial Group application for the leveraged AltAlt Season Crypto ETF reflects issuers' widening array of digital asset-focused offerings.

Are you paying attention? If Adam Livingston, author of The Bitcoin Age and The Great Harvest, is right, the most urgent countdown of your life is already underway. According to Livingston, AI isn’t just another in a long line of technological upgrades; it’s poised to systematically replace human economic value. You have the next five […] The post According to Adam Livingston, you have 5 years to stack Bitcoin before AI takes your soul appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Arc is a new Layer-1 blockchain developed by USDC issuer Circle, designed specifically for stablecoin-native finance.

The episode comes amid growing frustration among Coinbase users, many of whom alleged they’ve faced similar issues retrieving account access.

XRP’s price is up 5% month to date in September at the time of this writing. But it could be setting up for a major pump through October.

The company plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BTGO.

Saylor says bitcoin’s volatility is easing as early holders cash out, clearing the way for institutions to step in and build a stronger market base.