U.S. crypto ETFs closed the week with a broad surge in demand, led by $433.03 million flowing into bitcoin funds. Ether, solana, Zcash and HYPE products also attracted fresh capital, while XRP ETFs posted a marginal outflow. Bitcoin Leads as Crypto Funds Rally Broadly Institutional money returned with force on Friday, Sept. 18, spreading well …
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On Saturday, the Lightning Network payments platform Blink Wallet, which provides both custodial and non-custodial services, revealed that an attacker had infiltrated a limited number of custodial accounts and moved the funds. Blink Wallet Says Every Affected Custodial Account Will Be Made Whole Lightning Network applications and platforms cannot get a break these days, and …
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For anyone worried that AI would eliminate every profession except the one sending messages about your frozen crypto account, there’s unwelcome news for that last bastion of human enterprise. Fraud has found an automation budget. Scamming has always required a surprising amount of manual labor. Romance scams need someone to keep a conversation going for …
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Grayscale’s Zcash ETF is closing in on $1 billion in assets less than a month after its Wall Street debut. The fund, which trades as ZCSH on NYSE Arca, has accumulated $914.53 million in net assets and $270.95 million in cumulative net inflows, SoSoValue data shows. Its rapid expansion has coincided with Zcash’s value roughly …
President Donald Trump’s new Russia sanctions law gives Bitcoin traders another macro deadline to watch: Oct. 18. On Sept. 18, Trump signed H.R. 5334, starting a 30-day clock for his administration to determine tariffs that could disrupt Russian energy trade and potentially feed into inflation, Treasury yields, and the dollar. Those channels matter for Bitcoin …
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A new report from OKX and Token Terminal says real-world-asset (RWA) futures on trade.xyz edged past crypto futures on Hyperliquid in July. The headline numbers were $107.6 billion of RWA-contract volume against $105.7 billion of crypto-contract volume. That was a selected-venue crossover, not an industry-wide change in market leadership. The underlying report treats trade.xyz and …
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This week, Japan’s first licensed yen stablecoin, JPYC, landed on South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, and promptly shot higher, briefly reaching the equivalent of more than 3 yen. At present, the JPYC/KRW pair ranks among the trading platform’s most active markets. JPYC’s 1:1 Yen Peg Meets Upbit’s Retail Rush Launched under strict national regulations, …
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Turkey’s lira has fallen to a fresh record low near 48.8 per dollar, while bitcoin’s price now costs roughly 3.95 million lira. Five years ago, a dollar bought about 8.3 to 8.9 lira. Today it buys nearly six times as many. Behind that slow-motion erosion sits inflation still running above 31% officially, while Turkish households …
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The Federal Reserve waited 1,148 days to raise interest rates again, and speculators are already betting it won’t stop at one. Polymarket, Kalshi, and CME futures now lean toward another quarter-point hike at the Oct. 28 meeting, while CME puts the odds of rates being higher by December at 90.1%. Just one month ago, futures …
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Bitcoin derivatives traders are carrying more than $56 billion in futures exposure and roughly $42 billion in options open interest, while bitcoin sits near $81,273. The stranger part is where the options money is leaning. Market data shows that calls control 60.74% of open interest, the biggest contracts cluster around September strikes from $70,000 to …
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A wallet linked to BIT, the firm formerly known as Matrixport, dropped another 1,000 BTC worth $81.06 million into Binance on Saturday, its second large deposit to the exchange this week. The Wallet in Question The address, which begins with ‘bc1qsz,’ sent the coins to Binance early Saturday, tracker Lookonchain reported. Other outlets carried and …
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Brazil’s central bank will bar virtual assets, including stablecoins, from settling one specific type of international payment flow starting Oct. 1. Resolution 561 targets the settlement leg between regulated foreign-exchange providers and their overseas counterparties, requiring that leg to run through a licensed FX transaction or a qualifying non-resident real account. Individual international transfers using …
Bitcoin hit an intraday high of $81,400 on Friday, approaching the low-$82,000 zone that has capped every recovery attempt since late August. US spot Bitcoin ETF shares stop trading once American markets close for the weekend. Any further push through that ceiling over the next two days would occur in continuously open crypto markets, without …
South Korean police spent five months identifying individual Polymarket traders through public blockchain records and booking them on suspicion of illegal gambling, all while the platform was still legally accessible in the country. The platform is now blocked in Korea entirely. The Nature of Predictions Remains Contentious The Gangwon Provincial Police Agency’s cyber investigation unit …
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Vietnam has built a pilot legal framework and plans to license its first crypto-asset service providers in 2026. Building Guardrails Vietnam reportedly plans to license its first crypto-asset service providers in 2026 under a pilot legal framework as the Southeast Asian country seeks to modernize its financial market oversight. Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Nguyen …
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