Category: Bitcoin News

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index finally clawed its way out of the “fear” zone on Sunday, resolving to neutral for the first time in more than two weeks as the price of Bitcoin surged back to around $115,000 over the weekend. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index, which measures overall market sentiment, is currently sitting in the “neutral” zone with a score of 51 out of 100.   It’s up 11 points from the fearful score of 40 on Saturday, and also up over 20 points since last week, marking…

Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès probably wishes he had access to today’s artificial intelligence when he bought Mt. Gox from its founder, Jed McCaleb, in 2011.  That’s because Karpelès has just fed an early version of Mt. Gox’s codebase into Anthropic’s Claude AI. What he got back was an analysis that broke down the key vulnerabilities that led to the defunct exchange’s first major hack, while labeling it “critically insecure.” In a Sunday X post, Karpelès said he uploaded Mt. Gox’s 2011 codebase to Claude, alongside various data, including…

Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash has surged 30% in the last 24 hours after crypto entrepreneur Arthur Hayes predicted the token would eventually reach $10,000.  Zcash rallied from $272 to a peak of $355 in the hours after Hayes’s “vibe check” post on X on Sunday with the bullish prediction, outperforming all other top 50 tokens by market capitalization over the same time frame. This isn’t the first time Hayes’ predictions have been linked to a token’s rise. At the August WebX 2025 conference in Tokyo, he stated that Hyperliquid’s HYPE token…

Financial services company Western Union is set to pilot a stablecoin-based settlement system to modernize its remittance operations for its more than 150 million customers. During Western Union’s third-quarter earnings call on Thursday, CEO Devin McGranahan said the pilot is “focused on leveraging onchain settlement rails to reduce dependency on legacy correspondent banking systems, shorten settlement windows, and improve capital efficiency.” “We see significant opportunities for us to be able to move money faster with greater transparency and at lower cost without compromising compliance or customer trust.” Western Union processes…

Kyrgyzstan has rolled out a new stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the Kyrgyzstani som, while confirming plans to issue a central bank digital currency and explore a digital asset reserve. The KGST stablecoin will run on the BNB Chain, and BNB (BNB) would be included in the crypto reserve if launched, according to former Binance CEO Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao, who attended the National Council for the Development of Virtual Assets and Blockchain Technologies’ second meeting on Friday with President Sadyr Japarov. The first meeting took place around April, when CZ became…