Category: Bitcoin News

How High Can Dash Price Go If It Copies October’s Zcash Rally?

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Key Takeaways: Dash’s technical setup mirrors Zcash’s pre-breakout structure, implying a potential for a multi-hundred percent rally. Failure to break out could trigger a correction toward $69 or even the $14–$16 range. Dash (DASH) has emerged as one of the top performers in the crypto market, rallying by more than 385% over the past month. DASH/USD vs. ZEC/USD year-to-date performance chart. Source: TradingView The privacy coin’s rally closely mirrors rival Zcash’s (ZEC) recent surge, suggesting Dash could be gearing up for a decisive breakout of its own, potentially replicating the…

TON Strategy Reprimanded By Nasdaq Over Toncoin Deal

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TON Strategy, a publicly traded company that accumulates Telegram-linked Toncoin tokens and previously operated as Verb Technology Company, has been reprimanded by Nasdaq over rule violations related to its Toncoin purchases. Nasdaq has issued TON Strategy a letter of reprimand in connection with its $272.7 million Toncoin purchase and associated private investment in public equity (PIPE) financing. According to Nasdaq, TON Strategy failed to obtain shareholder approval for stock issuance under the PIPE financing to purchase Toncoin (TON), Nasdaq stated in an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange…

How the Trump Family Turned Crypto Into an $800M Windfall

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Key takeaways Reuters estimates Trump-linked ventures earned $802 million in crypto in early 2025. Income came from WLFI tokens, the TRUMP coin and USD1 stablecoin yields. Alt5 Sigma’s deal and foreign buyers helped turn token value into cash. As US crypto enforcement eased, experts noted possible conflict concerns. In the first half of 2025, Trump-linked ventures booked roughly $802 million in crypto income, primarily from World Liberty Financial (WLFI) token sales and the Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin, dwarfing revenue from golf, licensing and real estate. Reuters’ investigation and methodology papers…

DeFi Needs Higher Certainty, Not Higher Yield

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Opinion by: Robin Nordnes, co-founder and CEO of Raiku Many decentralized finance (DeFi) diehards assume that the future of institutional adoption will be driven by sparkly, sky-high yields. The reality is that the mainstream will be most impressed with consistency and reliability. DeFi opened the door for ordinary people to access financial tools that were previously reserved for institutions. For the first time, anyone could invest their money in open markets from anywhere in the world. That was a massive step forward. The same openness that made this possible came…

Not All RWA growth Is Real, And The Industry Knows It

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Opinion by: Aishwary Gupta, global head of payments and RWAs at Polygon Labs Most of the eye-popping RWA numbers making headlines are smoke and mirrors. Unless the industry course-corrects, it risks eroding the institutional trust it has spent years trying to build. Every week brings another announcement claiming billions in tokenized assets. When institutional investors request basic details, however, the answers become mysteriously vague.  OpenAI was forced to distance itself from Robinhood’s claim that it was offering access to tokenized stock, clarifying that this did not represent real equity in…

DeFi Protocol Balancer Hit By Multimillion-dollar Exploit

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Update Nov. 3, 10:42 am UTC: This article has been updated to include a section on Berachain’s emergency hard fork. Update Nov. 3, 9:47 am UTC: This article has been updated to add the latest figures, Balancer’s white hat bounty offer and comments from Nicolai Sondergaard, research analyst at Nansen. Update Nov. 3, 9:21 am UTC: This article has been updated to include a section on the Balancer flash loan attack from 2020. The decentralized exchange (DEX) and automated market maker (AMM) Balancer has been exploited, with more than $116…

Animoca Plans Nasdaq Listing Via Reverse Merger With Currenc

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Animoca Brands, a major venture capital investor in the cryptocurrency industry, is planning a Nasdaq listing next year via reverse merger with the AI-focused public fintech company Currenc Group. Currenc has entered a non-binding term sheet with Animoca to acquire 100% of Animoca Brands’ issued shares via a reverse merger targeting a Nasdaq listing under the Animoca Brands name, according to a joint statement on Monday. “Upon completion of the reverse merger the shareholders of Animoca Brands would collectively own approximately 95% of the issued shares in the merged entity,”…

BTC price at Risk? Institutions No Longer Absorbing Newly Mined Bitcoin

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Key takeaways: BTC demand fell below daily mining supply for the first time in seven months. Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $1.67 billion in net outflows since Oct. 11. Bitcoin treasury firms trading below NAVs signal eroding confidence, potentially pressuring BTC prices further. Institutional demand for Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped below the daily amount mined, raising concerns about BTC’s long-term stability, according to an analyst.  Bitcoin supply-demand dynamics shift While Bitcoin mining output has remained relatively constant, demand from institutional buyers has “dropped below the daily mined supply for the first…

Bitcoin Gets Sub-$100,000 Target as BTC Price Cancels Weekend Gains

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Bitcoin (BTC) starts November with a dip to $107,000 as traders brace for further support retests. Bitcoin price action gives bulls a grim sense of deja vu as weekend gains evaporate and downside liquidity grows. November seasonality calls for serious BTC price gains, but so far, there is no sign of relief. US-China trade deal hopes are sustaining stocks, while crypto fails to join the party as Fed rate-cut nerves return. Institutional demand reaches seven-month lows compared to the newly mined BTC supply. Bitcoin retail investors are in retreat, as…

Zerohash Wins EU MiCA License As Mastercard Eyes $2 Billion Acquisition

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Stablecoin company Zerohash has secured a license under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), making it one of the first infrastructure providers authorized to offer stablecoin services across the EU.  Zerohash Europe announced Sunday that it acquired a license from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM). This allows the company to provide stablecoin and crypto products to banking institutions, financial technology firms and payment platforms across the 30 European Economic Area (EEA) countries. The AFM’s official registry confirmed that Zerohash has become a registered crypto-asset service…