Andy Baehr, GSR’s managing director of asset administration, says bitcoin’s $80,000 breakout marks a new market regime. He argues the crypto buying and selling agency watched a stagnant summer time flip into actual momentum inside days. Baehr spent 25 years on Wall Street derivatives desks, together with Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, earlier than crossing…
BingX, the world’s main multi-asset buying and selling platform, at this time introduced that its TradFi suite has surpassed 500 listed perpetual futures belongings, additional strengthening its place in multi-asset buying and selling. The milestone offers eligible customers entry to an expanded vary of shares, commodities, indices, and foreign exchange markets alongside digital belongings, all…
XRP is buying and selling at a $1.40 worth vary after a run that noticed the token outperform each different top-10 crypto asset by a large prediction margin. A 50% surge, pushed largely by Korean change turnover and heavy Binance positioning, put XRP again on dealer radars this week. However, overbought alerts are flashing now,…
The Smarter Web Company, which reported holding 2,712 BTC earlier this month, mentioned Jesse Myers, Head of Bitcoin Strategy, will depart on Sept. 1 whereas its Bitcoin Treasury Policy stays unchanged beneath board oversight. The Aug. 25 discover didn’t give a purpose for Myers’ departure, title a successor or say how his duties can be…
Most Americans don’t need cryptocurrency close to their retirement cash, a brand new National Institute on Retirement Security (NIRS) survey reveals. The ballot finds 77% name crypto in retirement plans dangerous, and 46% say it is vitally dangerous. Eighty % now say the US faces a retirement disaster, up from 67% in 2020. Meanwhile, 61%…
Bitcoin’s security-budget debate normally starts with one complete: how a lot miners gather in transaction fees as the block subsidy shrinks. A July 2026 NBER working paper by Fabian Schär, Dario Thürkauf, and David Yermack factors to a second variable. Using information from 2017 via 2025, the authors report that bigger charge variations between adjoining…
BlackRock has facilitated greater than $5 billion in Bitcoin-for-ETF-share swaps from personal wallets into its IBIT fund, after slicing the minimal measurement for such in-kind transactions to $1 million in July. The shift offers buyers a option to preserve Bitcoin publicity whereas shifting custody right into a regulated ETF construction, with safety issues round self-custody…
Ethereum’s subsequent massive improve is Glamsterdam, at the moment deliberate for This fall 2026. It consists of protocol modifications designed to make bigger blocks simpler to course of and put together Ethereum for considerably increased L1 throughput. Ethereum builders have recognized a post-upgrade gasoline restrict round 200 million as a goal, in contrast with 60…
Banks defend themselves towards stablecoins by saying they’re constructing tokenized deposits to modernize funds, with programmable money and around-the-clock settlement. Falcon Finance chief RWA officer Artem Tolkachev advised CryptoSlate that the clarification covers solely half the cause: “It is the stability sheet, not the know-how.” A tokenized deposit retains the money a stablecoin would transfer…
Blockstream Research has printed a full report on lattice-based signatures for Bitcoin. This submit summarizes what we examined, what we discovered, and what we suggest. The report itself is obtainable on ePrint. Digital signatures are the core mechanism in Bitcoin that authorizes transactions, and the Schnorr and ECDSA signatures doing that job immediately are remarkably…