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Founder of OKX, one of the biggest crypto exchanges, blames bitcoin’s October crash on Binance

Months after Oct. 10’s flash crash and liquidation cascade, a fresh spat has opened between exchange executives and market watchers over whether a leveraged yield loop, thin liquidity, or busted market plumbing did the real damage.

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Binance pins crypto's worst-ever liquidation day on macro risks, not exchange failure

Binance says October 10’s crypto flash crash was driven by a macro risk-off shock, cascading liquidations and thin liquidity, while acknowledging two platform-specific issues that occurred after most losses had already hit.

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Markets

Silver's 35% plunge ends up beating bitcoin in a rare crypto liquidation shock

Tokenized silver futures recorded the largest liquidations across crypto markets over the past 24 hours, overtaking bitcoin and ether as a sharp pullback in metals collided with leverage-heavy trading on crypto venues.

Blocks of silver (Scottsdale Mint)

Markets

Bitcoin, ether fall as shutdown clock hits and markets brace for a messy Monday

Bitcoin fell toward $83,000 as the U.S. entered a partial shutdown, with traders leaning defensive ahead of a House vote expected Monday.

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Policy

Polymarket, Kalshi contract limits demonstrated in latest U.S. government shutdown fight

The U.S. government is likely to shut down Saturday morning until the House votes on a funding package, raising the importance of specificity in prediction market bets.

Shayne Coplan, founder and CEO of Polymarket (CoinDesk/Jesse Hamilton)

Finance

Tether's gold holdings top $17 billion as net profits surpassed $10 billion for 2025

The stablecoin giant saw sharp growth in its USDT token's supply, and was one of the world's largest U.S. government debt holder with $141 billion Treasury exposure.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino at White House

Markets

SpaceX-Tesla merger talks puts nearly 20,000 bitcoin in focus

Any deal involving SpaceX and Tesla would quietly consolidate one of the world’s largest corporate bitcoin holdings under a single roof.

Elon Musk (jurvetson /CC BY 2.0./Modified by CoinDesk)

News Analysis

A Reddit-like social network for AI agents is getting weird, and memecoin traders are cashing in

Moltbook’s viral posts and strange user behavior memecoins, including MOLT soaring more than 7,000%.

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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says bitcoin could hit $6.5 million in 20 years

After a bruising 2025, Hougan sees sideways Bitcoin trading, rising institutional interest and early central bank curiosity setting up the next cycle.

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Policy

U.S. government seizes $400 million Helix allegedly made from drug-linked transactions

The Department of Justice said it now holds legal title over crypto, real estate and monetary assets tied to darknet mixing service, Helix

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Markets

Anatomy of bitcoin's plunge this week: The dollar's bottom was BTC's top

It seems like ages ago, but bitcoin rose to just shy of $91,000 on Wednesday. Then the U.S. dollar started to strengthen.

Dolar rises, bitcoin falls

Markets

Precious metals crash, with silver plunging 35%, gold falling 12% while bitcoin holds at $83,000

Crypto bulls who have theorized that bitcoin can't begin rising until money flows out of red-hot precious metals are about to find out if they were correct.

A soap bubble suspended mid-air (Unsplash/Braedon McLeod/Modified by CoinDesk)
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Finance

Visa and Mastercard aren’t buying the stablecoin hype for everyday payments

Despite crypto’s promise of faster, cheaper transactions, the payments giants aren’t buying the stablecoin pitch, at least not in developed markets.

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Policy

Brian Armstrong was snubbed by top executives from the biggest U.S. banks in Davos

Stablecoin rewards and the Clarity Act widen the divide between crypto and TradFi, according to people who spoke with the WSJ.

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Policy

Bitcoin is the 'newest, coolest software': Inside Kevin Warsh’s complicated crypto history

The former Federal Reserve governor has invested in crypto firms, criticized bitcoin’s role as money and argued for a U.S. digital dollar.

Kevin Warsh. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images/Modified by CoinDesk)

Markets

Hedge fund billionaire Stan Druckenmiller on Warsh as Fed chair: ‘no one better equipped’

The conventional wisdom on Trump's pick for Fed chair says he's a hawk. Stanley Druckenmiller, who made billions fading conventional wisdom, suggests that's not necessarily so.

Kevin Warsh with Stanley Druckenmiller
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