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Cointelegraph.com - 13:56 Sep 15, 2025
A bullish signal from Solana’s SuperTrend indicator projected a major rally, though SOL price could drop to $220 before taking off. Key takeaways: Solana’s Supertrend indicator sent a “buy” signal that has led to a 1,300% price rally in the past. Resistance at $250 and overbought conditions show a risk of SOL retesting $220. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:35 Sep 15, 2025
Bitcoin Core 29.1 cut the default minimum relay fee from 1 sat/vB to 0.1 sat/vB, making Bitcoin transactions significantly cheaper while keeping DoS protection. Bitcoin’s core software lowered the default minimum relay fee for transactions, marking one of the most significant changes in years for economically moving funds across the network. Bitcoin Core 29.1, released on Sept. 4, sets the default minimum relay fee rate to 100 satoshis per thousand virtual bytes (0.1 sats/vB), a 90% reduction from the previous default rate of 1 sat/vB. Users pay their fees in satoshis (the smallest unit of Bitcoin) multiplied by the size of their transaction. While every individual node operator can change this setting, most are expected to stick with the default value. Nodes do not relay and mostly ignore transactions with fees lower than the value they set for the minimum relay fee rate. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 Sep 15, 2025
Second-generation stablecoins separate yield from principal, enabling holders to earn returns while keeping liquidity and turning static dollars into productive assets. Opinion by: Reeve Collins, co-founder of Tether and chairman of STBL Stablecoins have become the universal backbone of digital markets. Every month, trillions of dollars flow through them. Globally, they clear trades, settle remittances and provide a safe harbor for cash onchain. Yet despite their broad adoption, the original design has barely changed since 2014. The first generation of stablecoins solved one problem: how to put a reliable digital dollar on the blockchain. Tether USDt (USDT), and later USDC (USDC), delivered precisely that. Simple, fully reserved and redeemable, they gave crypto the stability it needed to grow. But they were also static, like dollars locked in a vault. Holders earned nothing while issuers captured all the yield. That structure fit the market 10 years ago. In 2025, it is no longer enough. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:19 Sep 15, 2025
Helius said it will explore staking and lending opportunities to further leverage its SOL treasury, which it plans to build over the next 24 months. Nasdaq-listed Helius Medical Technologies is launching a $500 million corporate treasury reserve built around Solana, making it one of the largest Solana-focused treasury initiatives to date. The company announced Monday that it priced an oversubscribed private investment in public equity (PIPE) offering of common stock at $6.88 per share, along with stapled warrants exercisable at $10.12 for three years. The deal includes $500 million in equity and up to $750 million in warrants, assuming full exercise. Helius said it will use the net proceeds of the offering to establish a crypto treasury strategy with the Solana (SOL) token as its main reserve asset. The company said it will “significantly scale holdings over the next 12-24 months via best-in-class capital markets program incorporating ATM sales and other proven strategies.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:44 Sep 15, 2025
Crypto ETPs recovered last week, recording $3.3 billion in inflows and lifting the overall assets under management to $239 billion. Crypto investment products reversed their recent outflow trends last week, with Bitcoin, Ether and Solana exchange-traded products (ETPs) recording significant inflows. Global crypto ETPs saw $3.3 billion in inflows last week, lifting overall assets under management (AUM) to $239 million, near the record high in August. Last month, crypto ETPs saw an all-time high AUM of $244 billion. The inflows came as underlying assets showed modest gains over the week. Bitcoin (BTC), which traded at $111,900 on Sept. 8, rose 3.3% to $115,600 on Friday. Ether (ETH) went from $4,300 to $4,500 last week, a 4.6% gain in five days. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:30 Sep 15, 2025
France’s securities regulator is considering attempting to ban European license “passporting” over concerns related to MiCA regulation enforcement gaps in other EU countries. France warned it may try to block cryptocurrency companies operating locally under licenses obtained in other European countries, raising enforcement gap concerns regarding the European Union’s crypto regulatory framework. France’s securities regulator, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), told Reuters Monday that it is concerned about potential regulatory enforcement gaps related to Europe’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), the world’s first comprehensive crypto regulatory framework. Concerned that some crypto companies may seek licenses in more lenient EU jurisdictions, the AMF is considering a ban on operating in France under MiCA licenses obtained in other member states. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:06 Sep 15, 2025
Polkadot said that under the old tokenomics model, the total supply of DOT could have swelled to more than 3.4 billion tokens by 2040. Polkadot’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) passed a referendum approving a hard cap on the network’s native token for the first time. The decision set the maximum supply at 2.1 billion Polkadot (DOT) tokens, a significant pivot from the previous tokenomics model, under which new tokens were indefinitely issued yearly. Under the old inflationary model, Polkadot minted about 120 million DOT tokens annually, with no limit on the token’s total supply. The project said the supply could have swelled to more than 3.4 billion tokens by 2040 under the old model. The new framework introduces a gradual issuance reduction every two years. At the time of writing, Polkadot had a total supply of about 1.5 billion tokens. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:05 Sep 15, 2025
Bitcoin braced for further gains toward $120,000 after finishing the week in the green above $115,000, new price analysis concluded. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s weekly close above $115,000 signals bullish strength. BTC’s bull flag breakout could trigger a rally to $120,000. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:42 Sep 15, 2025
UK crypto and payments groups urged the Bank of England to drop plans to cap individual stablecoin holdings, claiming the move would be costly and hard to enforce. United Kingdom-based cryptocurrency industry advocacy groups called on the Bank of England not to proceed with plans to limit individual stablecoin holdings. In a November 2023 discussion paper, the bank floated setting individual caps on digital pounds between 10,000 British pounds ($13,558) and 20,000 pounds and asked for feedback on a possible lower limit of 5,000 pounds. According to a Monday Financial Times report, industry groups criticized the plan, saying it would be difficult and expensive to implement and could leave the UK lagging behind other jurisdictions. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:08 Sep 15, 2025
Atkins signaled a departure from the enforcement-first approach of the SEC during Gensler’s leadership, including preliminary notices prior to enforcement actions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair continued steering the regulatory agency in a different direction than its previous enforcement-first policy toward the crypto industry. In an interview with the Financial Times published Monday, SEC Chair Paul Atkins said the agency is departing from the aggressive enforcement actions common during the administration of former President Joe Biden and former SEC Chair Gary Gensler. US cryptocurrency businesses can now expect preliminary notices of technical violations before any agency enforcement actions, Atkins told the FT. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:51 Sep 15, 2025
Bitcoin headed into the Fed interest-rate cut with analysis bullish on the macro outlook, but traders split over new BTC price highs. Bitcoin (BTC) traders geared up for volatility as crypto heads into the US Federal Reserve interest-rate decision. Bitcoin bulls have a clear resistance level to overcome at $117,000 as the week gets underway. All eyes are on the Fed as markets unanimously expect the first interest-rate cut of 2025 to come on Wednesday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:26 Sep 15, 2025
Yield-bearing stablecoins promise steady income onchain, but regulation, taxes and risks make them more complex than cash. Here’s what you need to know in 2025. Yield-bearing stablecoins include treasury-backed, DeFi and synthetic models. US and EU law ban issuer-paid interest; access is often restricted. Rebases and rewards are taxed as income when received. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:25 Sep 15, 2025
Shiba Inu’s DeFi team offered a $23,000 bounty to the Shibarium bridge attacker after a $2.4 million exploit, urging the return of stolen funds. Shiba Inu’s decentralized finance platform on its Shibarium layer-2 network offered a 5 Ether ($23,000) bounty to the attacker behind a recent bridge exploit, urging the return of stolen assets. On Monday, the DeFi platform sent an onchain message to the attacker saying that the bounty offer will remain open for 30 days. The protocol added a deadline and a condition that the bounty will begin decreasing in seven days. “Settlement is atomic when we call recoverKnine(). If you call accept() we cannot cancel the deal. Code is law,” K9 Finance wrote. “Bounty is live. Please, act fast.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 07:39 Sep 15, 2025
The London Stock Exchange launched a Microsoft-powered blockchain platform for private funds, marking the first such initiative by a global exchange. Update Sept. 15, 7:58 am UTC: This article has been updated to include another section on LSEG and Microsoft’s collaboration. The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) launched a blockchain-based infrastructure platform for private funds, making it the first major global stock exchange to use such a system. The platform, called Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), supports the full lifecycle of digital assets, from issuance and tokenization to post-trade settlement. It was developed with Microsoft and runs on Microsoft Azure, the exchange said on Monday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:20 Sep 14, 2025
Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology can modernize the entire capitalist system and are not just a niche internet development. Calling crypto “Web 3.0”, the third layer of the internet that enables permissionless asset ownership on the Web, “undermines” crypto’s true significance, which is a complete overhaul of the capitalist system, according to Mert Mumtaz, CEO of remote procedure call (RPC) node provider Helius. Mumtaz said that crypto supercharges all the necessary ingredients for capitalism to function properly, including the free flow of information in a decentralized way, immutable property rights, incentive alignment, transparency, and “frictionless” capital flows. Mumtaz added: In September, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), two US financial regulatory agencies, released a joint statement teasing the possibility of 24/7 capital markets in the country. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:07 Sep 14, 2025
Native Markets claimed the US dollar-pegged stablecoin ticker following a heated bidding war closely watched by the crypto community. Native Markets, one of the teams that submitted a proposal to issue and manage the Hyperliquid crypto exchange’s US dollar stablecoin (USDH), officially claimed the USDH ticker on Sunday, following a community vote. The project will deploy the inaugural Hyperliquid Improvement Proposal (HIP) for USDH and an ERC-20 token, the token standard for the Ethereum network, in the coming days, Max Fiege, founder of Native Markets, said in an X post. He also outlined the next steps: Native Markets’ odds of winning the ticker spiked to over 99% on Saturday, on prediction market Polymarket, following synthetic stablecoin issuer Ethena’s withdrawal from the race on Thursday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 18:43 Sep 14, 2025
The ratio compares the price of ETH to BTC; a higher ratio indicates ETH is gaining strength against BTC, while a lower ratio signals weak ETH. The Ether-Bitcoin (ETH/BTC) ratio, which measures the price of Ether (ETH) against the price of Bitcoin (BTC), has failed to reclaim 0.05, despite adoption of ETH by institutions and the historic price rally in July and August that took ETH to new all-time highs. ETH/BTC has remained below the 0.05 level since July 2024, and the ratio peaked in June 2017 when it hit the all-time high of 0.14, according to CoinGecko. The ratio current sits at 0.039, down from the 0.04 reached in August. The ratio fell to a 5-year low in March, collapsing to 0.02, amid macroeconomic uncertainty and rising trade tensions between the United States and its trading partners. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 17:15 Sep 14, 2025
Bitcoin lacks momentum into the weekly close as a trader says now is the "time to pay attention" to BTC price behavior ahead of the Fed rate-cut decision. Key points: Bitcoin drifts toward $115,000 into the weekly close ahead of a key macro week. BTC needs a weekly close above $114,000 to stay “bullish,” analysis says. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:30 Sep 14, 2025
Football’s transfer system is plagued by delays and barriers. Blockchain technology offers faster settlements and global market access. Opinion by: Przemysław Kral, CEO of zondacrypto The football transfer market has long been seen as a world of discrete backroom deals and negotiations. The transfer window brings immense excitement to supporters wanting to see how clubs prepare for the season ahead. It’s not always smooth sailing, given the huge capital requirements and tight deadlines the clubs face to complete the deals. There is an option that could overcome these issues.The answer has come to the fore in recent years, and the football industry is beginning to embrace it. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:11 Sep 14, 2025
Yala’s Bitcoin-collateralized YU stablecoin dropped as low as $0.2046 after an attempted protocol attack, failing to restore its $1 peg. Yala’s Bitcoin-backed stablecoin YU has failed to regain its dollar peg following an “attempted attack” early Sunday that sent the token plummeting to $0.2046. The Yala team confirmed the incident in a post on X, noting that it “briefly impacted YU’s peg.” The team added that they are working with blockchain security firm SlowMist and other security partners to investigate the breach. “Update: All funds are safe. Bitcoin deposited to Yala remains self-custodial or in vaults, with none lost,” the team wrote in their latest post on X. “We’ve identified issues and, as a precaution, paused some product features. Please wait for our green light before re-engaging,” they added. Read more
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