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Two large dice—one Kalshi green and one Polymarket blue—sit on NHL center ice beside a cracked puck as golden coins rise under bright arena lights.

Crypto

Why $8.2B prediction markets’ NHL backing is huge blow to legacy betting

Licensed betting markets to become DeFi's next big on-ramp.

3 months ago

Crypto

Did Vitalik just pick a side? Inside Ethereum’s layer-2 loyalty test

Base and Arbitrum earn most profits; where does Polygon fit?

3 months ago

Crypto

Why did MetaMask show $0 on Ethereum when AWS went offline?

DNS/load-balancer fault in us-east-1 exposed RPC single-points; expect multi-cloud pivots.

3 months ago

shows a colossal gold Bitcoin erupting from scorched earth as fiery debris and dust explode outward under storm-lit skies pierced by golden sunlight.

Crypto

$740M wiped out: Did Bitcoin just clear the leverage overhang?

Funding, open interest, and perp skew after today’s flush, and what would confirm a real reset.

3 months ago

Stablecoins

Tether’s $181B paradox: How USDT keeps growing as its market share collapses under MiCA

The shift coincides with Europe's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation enforcement, but the dynamics tell a more complex story than simple regulatory displacement.

3 months ago

a clear underwater pipeline carrying glowing Bitcoin coins from London’s skyline to a neoclassical Wall Street facade, with sunbeams illuminating coral and teal water beneath.

Crypto

$2B to flow into BlackRock’s UK Bitcoin ETF: How UK traders could recycle into IBIT

IBIT wrapper launch in the UK opens a market that could funnel between $1.5 billion and $2 billion into the fund over time.

3 months ago

Hyper-realistic 16:9 image of a sunlit Tokyo skyline where a stainless steel safe engraved “MT.GOX” is battered by a golden wave of coins, with a detailed Bitcoin and nearly empty hourglass in the foreground.

Crypto

Mt. Gox repayments due Oct. 31: Will a supply wave hit BTC?

Mt. Gox repayment deadline raises questions about whether exchanges will absorb a late-month supply wave or creditors will route coins through custody and over-the-counter channels.

4 months ago

Analysis

Grayscale calls Solana ‘crypto’s financial bazaar’: Does the data back it up?

We test the thesis on users, fees, and UX—and the SVM moat using primary datasets.

4 months ago

A hyperrealistic 16:9 outdoor scene at golden hour: a giant gold Bitcoin is stretched between frayed crimson climbing ropes yanking from a storm-lashed cliff with crashing teal waves and toppled red dominoes, and thick steel mooring cables anchoring it to a vault on a sunlit waterfront skyline, with bright cinematic rays cutting through dramatic clouds.

Market

How crypto-native leverage drove Bitcoin sell-off while ETFs barely flinched

JPMorgan identifies crypto-native leverage unwinding as the primary driver of the Bitcoin and Ethereum market downturn.

4 months ago

A bright, cinematic 16:9 scene shows a glossy Visa card transforming into glowing blockchain rails that route programmable stablecoin payments to a phone wallet and point-of-sale terminal, with USDC-like coins flowing through vivid blue, cyan, gold, and magenta nodes.

Crypto

Can Visa’s $670B bet on programmable money rewrite global credit?

Visa’s new paper pitches stablecoin-powered lending to over 15,000 banks: here’s what the data says and what would have to change next.

4 months ago

glowing blue RLUSD coins streaming through a polished golden pipeline from a Ripple-branded server room into a grand GTreasury-style corporate treasury building against a bright teal-and-gold city skyline

Crypto

Ripple’s $1 billion purchase creates RLUSD pathway into Fortune 500 treasuries

The treasury management system resides within the cash workflows of thousands of Fortune 500 companies, providing Ripple with immediate access to corporate treasurers.

4 months ago

a golden Bitcoin rolling up a luminous path as an oil barrel and red arrows fall left, an icy dollar symbol cools right with downward DXY lines, and a Japanese central bank facade with a yen sign hints at easing policy under bright teal and gold skies.

Crypto

Oil down, dollar cools, BoJ signals rate cut: How will this affect Bitcoin?

While derivative markets underwent historic deleveraging with $19 billion in futures open interest wiped out, several macro developments are aligning to support crypto's next leg higher.

4 months ago

Gino Matos

Why $8.2B prediction markets’ NHL backing is huge blow to legacy betting

Did Vitalik just pick a side? Inside Ethereum’s layer-2 loyalty test

Why did MetaMask show $0 on Ethereum when AWS went offline?

$740M wiped out: Did Bitcoin just clear the leverage overhang?

Tether’s $181B paradox: How USDT keeps growing as its market share collapses under MiCA

$2B to flow into BlackRock’s UK Bitcoin ETF: How UK traders could recycle into IBIT

Mt. Gox repayments due Oct. 31: Will a supply wave hit BTC?

Grayscale calls Solana ‘crypto’s financial bazaar’: Does the data back it up?

How crypto-native leverage drove Bitcoin sell-off while ETFs barely flinched

Can Visa’s $670B bet on programmable money rewrite global credit?

Ripple’s $1 billion purchase creates RLUSD pathway into Fortune 500 treasuries

Oil down, dollar cools, BoJ signals rate cut: How will this affect Bitcoin?

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