Archives for October 14, 2026

Nearly $483 million in bitcoin and ether futures positions were closed over the past 24 hours as cryptocurrency prices fell Thursday, with ether traders taking the largest hit. Crypto losses worsened on Thursday morning as uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s next interest-rate decision weighed on markets. Bitcoin traded around $81,000, down roughly 3% over 24 […]

Miners have about four weeks to direct their machines elsewhere. After the cutoff, Binance will stop crediting mining shares, the records of work used to calculate payouts. Pool Savings users must redeem their positions, while anyone awaiting a final payout should complete required identity checks by 11:59 p.m. UTC that day. Pool pages will disappear […]

Markets have quickly repriced the odds of a Fed move. On prediction platform Polymarket, the probability of an October rate hike briefly spiked to nearly 50% after the CPI release before easing to about 30%. CME’s FedWatch tool showed a similar pattern: odds initially jumped to almost 47% from roughly 22%, before retreating to 26% […]

ARLINGTON, Va. — The CEO of Kalshi, the company at the center of a high-profile legal battle over the future of prediction markets in the U.S., said the clash won’t ultimately decide whether the rapidly growing industry is overseen by states or a federal agency, but whether it’s overseen by the feds here or is […]

Among wallets first funded in the second quarter of 2026, 89.3% received additional funding within 30 days, compared with 70.6% for wallets first funded in the Q3 2025. The analysis excluded wallets that made payments on one only one day. The time between a wallet receiving funds and making its first x40 payment also fell […]

On that bet, gold and bitcoin aren’t racing against each other — they’re at different points on the same course. Gold already has the custody, legal and reserve-eligibility infrastructure that lets central banks act on a debasement and reserve-currency diversification thesis today. Bitcoin doesn’t yet — at least not fully. Gold’s lead reflects decades of […]

“Given we are going public, and we’re going public via a direct listing, that means that we of course need to have an independent valuation,” Phil Kwok said. He explained that the $1.1 billion figure was determined by a third party using audited financial statements, operating performance, growth plans and comparisons with publicly traded companies. […]

BlackRock’s crypto funds had a much better third quarter than first half of the year but they still have a long way to go to recover the assets lost during the broader crypto market downturn. The asset manager reported $79.6 billion in digital assets under management at the end of September, a 63% jump from […]

Gruhn co-founded Digital Assets AG, a Swiss-based tokenization company that worked with German investment firm CM-Equity to bring digital tokens linked to stocks such as Tesla and Coinbase to crypto traders. Digital Assets AG was later acquired by FTX Group, becoming part of FTX Europe, which Gruhn led before the crypto exchange group’s collapse in […]