Adam Morgan McCarthy, head of research at LO:TECH, a London-based crypto trading and market data firm, is more cautious. His base case is an $85,000–$95,000 trading range into year-end. “Macro has gone against Bitcoin all year, with the Fed hiking in September and a December hike priced at roughly 75%,” McCarthy said. “This will continue […]
Archives for October 18, 2026
Crypto audits give investors false sense of security as Q3 hacks cost $1.18 billion, Hacken says
Crypto investors may be putting too much faith in security audits that fail to cover the systems hackers actually target, according to blockchain security firm Hacken. In a report released on Thursday, Hacken found that hackers stole $1.18 billion across 107 incidents during the third quarter, 55% more than in the previous quarter. Of that […]
XRP ETFs End 13-Week Inflow Run With $1.84 Million In Withdrawals
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Crypto exchanges Binance, Coinbase join West Africa scam sweep that flagged $11 million
Authorities in Ghana and Nigeria arrested 28 people in a crackdown on West African scam networks that included cryptocurrency investment fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. The operation also identified 117 trafficking victims in Ghana who were awaiting repatriation to Nigeria, according to the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA), and saw […]
Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Slips To $7.68 Billion As Traders Keep Funding Positive
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Ethereum ETFs Lose $320 Million In A Week As Bitcoin Outflows Slow
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Chip-stock bets lost $52 million in 10 minutes with Wall Street shut
The selling started on Binance, according to a review of the trades by David Jeong, chief executive of trading firm Tread.fi, who placed the first large SanDisk and Micron sell orders on Binance at 21:21:59 UTC. Less than a second later, orders hit Hyperliquid, a crypto exchange where Trade XYZ lists stock-tracking contracts, and roughly […]
