Bitcoin (BTC) continued to target $84,000 at Tuesday’s Wall Street open as US stocks attempted to shake off South Korea’s latest tech rout. Key points: Bitcoin approached $84,000 once more at the start of US trading on Tuesday, still up by around 2%. US equities avoided a copycat sell-off after Korea’s KOSPI index finished the … Read more
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is seeking approval from its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) to activate an upgraded naming protocol on the Ethereum mainnet. ENS founder Nick Johnson submitted an executable draft proposal to activate ENSv2, the next version of the protocol. If approved, the upgrade would freeze new registrations on the original ENS registrar while … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded toward $84,000 on Tuesday as crypto markets skirted fresh losses for South Korean stock markets. Key points: Bitcoin diverged from plummeting Asian tech stocks on Tuesday, rebounding from a low near $81,000. Semiconductors led an exodus from South Korea’s KOSPI amid ongoing investors’ nerves over AI and Chinese competition. BTC price upside … Read more
Nonfungible token marketplace Blur, which once overtook OpenSea as the largest NFT marketplace by trading volume, says it is shutting down its website next month — and some NFT collectors couldn’t be happier. Blur made the announcement on X on Monday, its first post on the platform in more than a year. It said the … Read more
What a day for crypto! The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has just announced another delay in its decision on the highly anticipated Bitcoin ETF. This is not good news for the market. We were all hoping for a green light today, October 13, 2026. But the SEC says it needs more time to … Read more
South Korean authorities have approved measures to block domestic access to 27 websites operated by unregistered crypto exchanges and other virtual asset service providers, including KuCoin, MEXC, Phemex and Bitrue. In an announcement on Tuesday, South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) said the decision followed reviews by the Korea Media and Communications Standards Commission on … Read more
A new report from Stripe-backed blockchain Tempo argues that a proposed US accounting change could remove a major barrier to corporate stablecoin adoption by allowing qualifying tokens to be classified as cash equivalents on company balance sheets. The report examines an Accounting Standards Update the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) proposed in August that could … Read more
Affiliate entities of Fairshake, the US political action committee (PAC) funded largely by contributions from investment banking company Cantor Fitzgerald, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and Ripple Labs, reported millions of dollars worth of ad buys to support candidates they considered in favor of pro-digital asset policy with the country’s midterm elections less than a month away. … Read more
Bitcoin mining companies expanding into artificial intelligence and high-performance computing face sharply different borrowing costs as lenders scrutinize large-scale data center projects, adding to the industry’s growing financing challenges. According to the latest Miner Weekly newsletter from BlocksBridge Consulting, securing major AI customers has only been part of the challenge for miners. Companies must also … Read more
The newly discovered Ledger exploit has stirred broad industry debate over the safety of hardware wallets compared to effectively custodying Bitcoin holdings through exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Bitcoin analyst Plan B said his then-controversial decision to move his Bitcoin (BTC) holdings to ETFs in 2025 was the right call in light of the recent Coldcard and … Read more