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Cointelegraph.com - 13:07 Oct 28, 2025
As Pi Network prepares to align with ISO 20022 by November 2025, can it truly stand beside the XRP Ledger and the Stellar Network in cross-border finance? ISO 20022 is a global standard that defines how financial institutions exchange information for transactions such as payments, securities and remittances. It replaces older, fragmented messaging systems with a unified, structured format that enables banks, fintech companies and payment networks across the world to communicate in the same digital language. Adopting ISO 20022 enhances cross-border compatibility by enabling secure and efficient sharing of richer, structured transaction data (such as payment purpose and sender and receiver information). This improves transparency, reduces the number of errors and accelerates the processing of international transfers. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:06 Oct 28, 2025
Coinbase has completed more than 40 high-profile mergers and acquisitions, investing billions of dollars in promising cryptocurrency startups and unicorns. With an estimated value of $100 billion, it’s hard to believe that a company like Coinbase needs to acquire new businesses to grow. But with $10 billion in cash on hand, the US’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange continues to seek out the next big opportunity in the sector. Coinbase has not been shy about writing checks in 2025. The exchange reportedly paid $2.9 billion in a cash-and-stock acquisition of cryptocurrency options trading platform Deribit in August. Then came its headline-grabbing $375 million acquisition of onchain capital raising platform Echo in October. Crypto Twitter was buzzing over the news, thanks to some genius marketeering involving Echo’s founder and influencer Cobie, who received $25 million from Coinbase as part of the deal to relaunch his long-dormant UpOnly podcast. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:53 Oct 28, 2025
As central banks ramp up their gold buying, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink referred to crypto and gold as the “assets of fear.” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said investors are turning to gold and cryptocurrency out of fear that their assets are losing value amid growing concerns over global financial stability. “Owning crypto assets or gold are assets of fear,” BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said at the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Saudi Arabia, according to a livestream by DWS News. “You own these assets because you’re frightened of the debasement of your assets,” Fink said, adding that investors are worried about the financial and physical security of their assets. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:01 Oct 28, 2025
Circle’s new Arc blockchain testnet launches with participation from more than 100 institutions, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Visa and Mastercard. Circle, the world’s second-largest stablecoin issuer, launched the public testnet for Arc, its open layer-1 blockchain network built to bring global financial infrastructure onchain. The rollout, which Circle calls the “Economic Operating System for the internet,” includes participation from over 100 major companies spanning banking, capital markets and fintech — among them BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard and State Street, according to a Tuesday announcement. “With Arc’s public testnet, we’re seeing remarkable early momentum as leading companies, protocols, and projects begin to build and test,” Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said. “Combined, these companies reach billions of users, move, exchange, and custody hundreds of trillions in assets and payments,” he added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:40 Oct 28, 2025
F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang criticized Bitcoin’s BIP-444 soft fork — seeking to curb arbitrary onchain data — as a “bad idea” that he will not support. Chun Wang, co-founder of major Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool, pushed back against a proposed temporary soft fork aimed at limiting data spam on the Bitcoin network. Wang wrote in a Monday X post that “BIP-444 is a bad idea.” He added that he, and presumably F2Pool, are “not going to soft fork anything,” whether it is “temporary or not.” He said, “Feel sad that some devs [are] moving further and further in the wrong direction.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:25 Oct 28, 2025
SOL analysts highlighted the potential of its price to surge to $400 and beyond, fueled by the launch of the first Solana ETF in the United States. Key takeaways: Solana continued its mainstream adoption with the launch of the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF. SOL price bull flag pattern targets more than 100% rally to $412. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:42 Oct 28, 2025
Fintech startup ZAR aims to use Pakistan’s corner stores and kiosks to make stablecoins accessible to millions of unbanked citizens. Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is leading a $12.9 million funding round for ZAR, a one-year-old fintech startup aiming to make dollar-backed stablecoins accessible to everyday consumers in Pakistan and other emerging markets. The round drew participation from Dragonfly Capital, VanEck Ventures, Coinbase Ventures and Endeavor Catalyst, according to a Tuesday report by Bloomberg. The startup is targeting Pakistan’s 240 million people, where the World Bank estimates over 100 million adults remain unbanked. Unlike many crypto companies focused on apps or global exchanges, ZAR plans to distribute stablecoins through local stores, phone kiosks and money agents, the same network used for mobile top-ups and remittances. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:25 Oct 28, 2025
Skipping cryp to taxes can trigger hefty fines and legal issues. Find out what really happens if you fail to report or pay taxes on your holdings. Tax authorities like the IRS, HMRC and ATO classify crypto as a capital asset, meaning that sales, trades and even swaps are considered taxable events. Tax authorities worldwide are coordinating through frameworks like the FATF and the OECD’s CARF to track transactions, even across borders and privacy coins. Authorities use blockchain analytics firms like Chainalysis to link wallet addresses with real identities, tracking even complex DeFi and cross-chain transactions. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:20 Oct 28, 2025
A pickup in Bitcoin price momentum and trading activity could push BTC above the next significant hurdle at $115,000 and secure a sustained recovery. Key takeaways: Bitcoin must hold support at $114,000 to confirm the recovery. Spot volume and trading activity must recover to ensure a sustained breakout in BTC price. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:51 Oct 28, 2025
Bitcoin’s diminishing returns and growing inaccessibility for average retail investors are threatening the predicted extension of the crypto market cycle, according to 10x Research. Bitcoin is becoming increasingly unattainable for average investors, raising questions about whether the current bull market can sustain its momentum beyond the traditional four-year cycle. Crypto market intelligence company 10x Research suggested Bitcoin (BTC) is becoming too expensive for sustained retail purchases, a development that may endanger the predicted extension of the current bull market cycle. Despite numerous calls for an extended market cycle, drawing on the conclusions of the four previous market cycles is “highly questionable,” according to 10x. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:25 Oct 28, 2025
Evernorth Holdings is progressing with its plan to launch a publicly traded XRP treasury vehicle on the Nasdaq by accumulating 388.7 million XRP. Evernorth Holdings, a new Ripple-backed digital asset company, has reportedly amassed $1 billion worth of XRP tokens as part of its strategy to establish an XRP treasury. As of Monday, Evernorth’s XRP (XRP) holdings totaled 388.7 million tokens, according to data from digital asset analytics platform CryptoQuant. With XRP trading above $2.60 at the time of publication, the company’s XRP holdings have surpassed the $1 billion mark — a significant milestone in XRP accumulation that came just days after Evernorth’s official debut on Oct. 20 as an institutional vehicle for XRP adoption. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:56 Oct 28, 2025
Crypto treasury companies tightened their purse strings after the Oct. 10 market crash, with one exception, said Coinbase’s David Duong. Public companies that buy and hold Bitcoin and Ether have largely stopped accumulating since the market tumbled earlier in October, a move signaling a recent lapse in confidence. Digital asset treasury (DAT) companies that buy Bitcoin (BTC) “have largely ghosted the post-Oct 10 drawdown and are yet to re-engage,” Coinbase Institutional global head of investment research David Duong said on Sunday. “Over the last two weeks, BTC buying by DATs fell to near year-to-date lows and has not meaningfully recovered, even on green days,” he added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 00:23 Oct 28, 2025
S&P Global Ratings said Strategy’s high Bitcoin concentration and low US dollar liquidity, among other factors, are weaknesses for the firm. S&P Global Ratings has given Michael Saylor’s Strategy a “B-” credit rating, placing it in the speculative, non-investment-grade territory — often referred to as a “junk bond” — although it said the Bitcoin treasury company’s outlook remains stable. “We view Strategy’s high bitcoin concentration, narrow business focus, weak risk-adjusted capitalization, and low US dollar liquidity as weaknesses,” the credit rating platform said in a review of Strategy on Monday. Strategy has accumulated its 640,808 BTC treasury mainly via equity and debt financing. The stable outlook assumes the company will prudently manage convertible debt maturities and maintain preferred stock dividends, potentially through additional debt issuance, it said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:11 Oct 27, 2025
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation. Today in crypto, Michael Selig confirmed his nomination to chair the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Meanwhile, cryptocurrency investment funds regained momentum last week amid improving investor confidence, and Australia’s crypto industry warned that the country’s draft digital asset laws still need significant work. US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official Michael Selig announced that President Donald Trump had nominated him to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), citing a focus on crypto policies. The move still requires Senate approval and comes as the agency operates with several open seats. In Saturday X posts, Selig and White House crypto and AI czar David Sacks confirmed reports that Trump would nominate him to chair the CFTC, setting the groundwork for the departure of acting Chair Caroline Ph... -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:04 Oct 27, 2025
The eight-hour outage occurred during the largest liquidation event in crypto history, prompting dYdX to propose community-governed reimbursements from its insurance fund. Decentralized exchange dYdX released a post-mortem and community update detailing plans to compensate traders affected by a chain halt that paused operations for roughly eight hours during last month’s market crash. The exchange said on Monday that its governance community will vote on compensating affected traders with up to $462,000 from the protocol’s insurance fund. DYdX wrote that the Oct. 10 outage stemmed “from a misordered code process, and its duration was exacerbated by delays in validators restarting their oracle sidecar services.” According to the DEX, when the chain resumed, “the matching engine processed trades/liquidations at incorrect prices due to stale oracle data.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:46 Oct 27, 2025
Amid a US government shutdown with no end in sight, a Republican lawmaker said Congress had only until January or February to pass crypto legislation. North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican member of the US Senate Banking Committee, reportedly warned that Congress has only a few months left to advance crypto legislation before election politics stall progress. According to a Monday Bloomberg report, Tillis said the 2026 midterm elections would likely hamper progress on any crypto bills currently moving through Congress, such as the market structure framework passed by the House of Representatives in July, which is currently under consideration in the Senate. Tillis said lawmakers should act “by the first part of January, February” to get any legislation passed in the current session, which ends in January 2027. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:30 Oct 27, 2025
Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas says exchanges have posted listing notices for Bitwise’s Solana ETF and Canary’s Litecoin and Hedera funds. Crypto markets may see another wave of exchange-traded fund debuts this week, with Solana, Litecoin and HBAR funds appearing in US exchange listings ahead of a potential launch on Tuesday. According to Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas, US exchange listing notices have appeared for Bitwise’s Solana (SOL) ETF and Canary’s Litecoin (LTC) and Hedera (HBAR) ETFs, with the funds slated to go live on Tuesday. In an X post on Monday, Balchunas said Grayscale’s Solana Trust is expected to convert to an ETF the following day. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 20:10 Oct 27, 2025
Citi partners with Coinbase to pilot stablecoin payments as the bank forecasts a $4 trillion market by 2030, signaling Wall Street’s growing crypto embrace. Citigroup could become one of Wall Street’s first major banks to offer stablecoin payment services, marking a potential milestone in the broader adoption of tokenized dollars following the passage of the GENIUS Act earlier this year. According to Bloomberg, Citi has partnered with crypto exchange Coinbase to expand its digital asset capabilities, initially focusing on making it easier for clients to move funds between fiat and crypto. Debopama Sen, Citi’s head of payments, said the bank’s clients are increasingly seeking programmability, conditional payments and greater speed and efficiency, alongside round-the-cock payment access. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:59 Oct 27, 2025
Just a few weeks after a Singaporean court approved WazirX's parent company's restructuring plan, a decision out of one of India's courts could impact users. An Indian high court issued a ruling that could impact how cryptocurrency exchanges handle claims filed by users following a hack or other incident potentially affecting their holdings. In a ruling delivered on Saturday, Justice N. Ananad Venkatesh of India’s High Court of Judicature at Madras ordered crypto exchange WazirX’s operator, Zanmai Lab, to furnish a bank guarantee for about $11,800 as part of arbitration proceedings brought by a user over 3,532 XRP (XRP) holdings. Zanmai has custody of the tokens, which were frozen after a 2024 cyberattack resulted in the loss of about $235 million worth of crypto. “Since the cyber attack took place, there are insufficient crypto currency tokens attributable to the platform’s user liabilities to satisfy unsecured crypto currency claims of its users,” said the Saturday filing. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 19:00 Oct 27, 2025
XRP could surge to $3 amid strong bullish signals, including Evernorth’s $1 billion accumulation and a growing supply shock at exchanges. Key takeaways: XRP fractal indicates a 12% to 18% rally in November. On-chain data reveals the highest XRP withdrawal on record, boosting its bullish odds. Read more
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