Bitcoin returned to $110,000 after bouncing at the weekend's CME futures gap, contrasting with 5.5% daily losses and a potential double top for gold. Key points: Bitcoin stays volatile into the Wall Street open with $110,000 making a reappearance. Liquidity conditions thicken around price as the 21-week moving average now important to reclaim. Read more
BTE offers epochless, constant-size decryption shares (as small as 48 bytes) that can help layer-2 rollups to achieve pending transaction privacy. Batched Threshold Encryption (BTE) builds on foundational concepts such as threshold cryptography, which enable secure collaboration among multiple parties without exposing sensitive data to any single participant. BTE is an evolution of the earliest TE-encrypted mempool schemes, such as Shutter, which we have covered previously. For now, all existing work on BTE remains at the prototype or research stage, but it could shape the future of decentralized ledgers if successful. This creates a clear opportunity for more research and potential adoption, which we will explore in this article. On most modern blockchains, transaction data is publicly viewable in the mempool before it is sequenced, executed and confirmed in a block. This transparency creates avenues for sophisticated parties to engage in extractive practices known as Maximal Extractable Value (MEV). MEV ex...
Fake “Cointelegraph” accounts are scamming crypto users. Learn how to spot impostors, verify identities and stay protected in 2025. If you’re a tier-1 crypto media sales representative in 2025, chances are you have an impersonator. These are often fake Telegram, X or LinkedIn accounts offering “Tier-1 PR” to unsuspecting businesses, only to share a personal USDT wallet address when it’s time to pay. Cointelegraph has seen plenty of such cases. In October 2025 alone, a Telegram profile styled as “Tobias Vilkenson | Cointelegraph” messaged BNB Chain to “set up a time to chat and feature BNB Chain in a Cointelegraph article,” linking to an X account under the same name with more than 6,000 followers. It’s a textbook impostor play: borrowing a newsroom’s credibility, promising coverage and moving targets into private direct messages (DMs) where the scam continues. Read more
Malta’s Finance Minister Clyde Caruana backed a government-run charity’s decision to reject a now $33 million Binance donation due to reputational concerns. Malta’s finance minister backed a government-run charity’s decision to reject a multimillion-dollar crypto donation from Binance Charity, saying the refusal was the right call despite the funds’ ballooning value, according to the Times of Malta. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana reportedly said Tuesday he supported the Malta Community Chest Fund’s decision to decline a 30,644 BNB (BNB) donation, worth about $200,000 in 2018 but now valued at roughly $33 million. “You either give to charity or you don’t,” he told the Times of Malta. “Don’t dance around it.” Read more
Play-to-earn gaming’s collapse isn’t a crisis; it’s a necessary reset that will force developers to prioritize fun over financial extraction mechanics. Opinion by: Tobin Kuo, founder and CEO of Seraph Play-to-earn (P2E) had a moment — “had” its moment — but that’s the problem. Its time has passed. The thrill was the payout, not the play, not the result, which looked less like a game and more like shift work with a user interface. To be fair, the experiments weren’t worthless. They proved that wallets can be controllers, assets can be portable, and communities can co-own the worlds they love. But it shouldn’t — and can’t — be denied that subsidies bent every design choice toward leeching mechanics. Everything was extraction: recruit, inflate, cash out and repeat. Read more