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US inflation ticked up to 3.0% year over year in September, and futures markets still price a Federal Reserve rate cut next week. Headline CPI printed 3.0% on the year and 0.3% on the month, while core CPI held at 3.0%

The US has never owed more money that it does today, and some believe the solution isn’t political reform or higher taxes but Bitcoin itself. America’s national debt has crossed $38 trillion, surpassing the country’s annual GDP by nearly 31%. Notably, the

On October 21 (SGT), JustLend DAO—the flagship DeFi protocol of the TRON ecosystem—reached a major milestone with the successful completion of its first large-scale JST burn. This marks JST’s evolution from a fully circulating token into a continuously deflationary asset. As

We audit popular gold tokens against five trust tests, then compare them with BTC ETFs and native BTC settlement. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao recently claimed tokenized gold is not on-chain in response to Peter Schiff arguing tokenized gold can outcompete Bitcoin. Saying

An Amazon Web Services disruption on Oct. 20 knocked out MetaMask and other ETH wallets displays and slowed Base network operations, exposing how cloud infrastructure dependencies ripple through decentralized systems when a single provider fails. AWS reported a fault in its

When Kadena Organization, the company behind the Kadena blockchain, announced it was shutting down operations on Oct. 21, the message was formal, quiet, and devastatingly simple. The company thanked its community, cited “market conditions,” and confirmed that it would cease all

The internet is not dead, but it may be rotting. New research by scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, and Purdue University finds that large language models exposed to viral social media data begin to suffer

The leverage era in Bitcoin trading has faded into something more deliberate. What once resembled a perpetual motion casino now behaves more like a bond desk. Options activity has overtaken perpetuals, realized volatility has narrowed, and the largest Bitcoin fund in

Bitcoin is bracing for the release of the September US Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Oct. 24, the first major data point since the federal shutdown began. Analysts at The Kobeissi Letter emphasized the importance of this update, noting that it

After four straight sessions of redemptions that pulled over $1.2 billion from spot Bitcoin ETFs, US issuers saw a sharp reversal on Oct. 21, bringing in $477.2 million in new inflows. It was the first positive print since Oct. 14

Bitcoin set an all-time high near $126,000 in early October while the altcoin market (excluding stablecoins), measured by TradingView’s TOTAL2ES index, remains below its November 2021 top, around $1.6 trillion, keeping the cycle confirmation test open for rotation beyond BTC. TOTAL2ES

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) faltered this morning, much of the internet went dark, and crypto was no exception. Several major blockchains and trading platforms, including Coinbase, Robinhood, and some Ethereum layer-2 networks, reported disruptions after AWS suffered an operational failure

The 12 spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETFs) in the United States reversed sharply last week, recording $1.2 billion in net outflows. According to SoSoValue data, this was their second-largest weekly setback since launching in January 2024. The pullback snapped a two-week run

When the annals of 21st-century finance are written, there will be a special chapter (messy, political, and deeply consequential) dedicated to the saga of “debanking.” For much of the last three years, anyone working in crypto, from lean web3 startups to

Bitcoin and Ethereum staged a strong rebound this week as fresh capital returned to crypto markets following the US–China tariff shock. Bitcoin surged past $110,000 for the first time since early October, reaching roughly $111,000 as of press time, according to

For years, Bitcoin has been hailed as “digital gold,” a hedge against inflation and policy excess. Yet, as geopolitical tensions rise and trade disputes return to the headlines, the original store of value, gold, is stealing the spotlight. According to TradingView data,

Bitcoin is once again caught in the crossfire of a high-stakes geopolitical standoff. This time, the knock-on effects are being felt across every corner of the crypto market. The script is familiar: The return of U.S.–China trade tensions has triggered

Grayscale, one of crypto’s largest institutional asset managers, published a research note on Oct. 10 calling Solana (SOL) “crypto’s financial bazaar.” This characterization goes well beyond the usual speed-and-throughput pitch. The report positions SOL as the category leader in users, transactions,