Bitcoin Copies 2023 Regional Bank Rout With $105,000 BTC Price Dive

Key points: Bitcoin falls to its lowest levels since June as familiar US banking turmoil returns. Traders see $100,000 as possibly failing as support. Gold comes off fresh all-time highs as Peter Schiff sees it beating Bitcoin to the $1 million mark. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to 15-week lows on Friday as a US banking rout added to BTC price pressures. BTC/USD four-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView Bitcoin risks “going straight to $98,000” next Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed Bitcoin dropping under $106,000 for the first time since June.…

Tough year for blockchain gaming, but there’s a ‘shimmer of hope’

Blockchain gaming projects have struggled to attract funding this year compared to 2024, but analysts argue there’s a sliver of hope as studios release new games aimed at tapping into the mainstream gaming audience.  In Q3, the blockchain gaming industry saw $129 million of venture capital flow in, its strongest quarter this year, bringing the total for the year so far to $293 million.  However, the total is only a fraction compared to last year. In 2024, DappRadar recorded over $1.8 billion flowing into the blockchain gaming industry, and 2025…

Florida Lawmaker Introduces Fresh Crypto Reserve Bill

A Florida House Republican has filed a revised bill to allow the state to invest in digital assets, such as Bitcoin and crypto ETFs, after Florida’s operations subcommittee withdrew his initial attempt in June. The Florida House Bill 183 would let the state and certain public entities invest up to 10% of their funds in digital assets like Bitcoin (BTC), crypto exchange-traded products, crypto securities, non-fungible tokens, and other blockchain-based products, according to the new bill introduced by Florida lawmaker Webster Barnaby on Wednesday. The new crypto reserve bill is…

Ethereum Ecosystem Added 16k New Developers In Nine Months.

More than 16,000 new developers joined the Ethereum ecosystem between January and September this year, according to the Ethereum Foundation, citing data from Electric Capital. Solana was the second most preferred destination for new developers, with more than 11,500 developers writing code for the ecosystem; however, a Solana Foundation representative said the data may be outdated.  Meanwhile, Bitcoin saw nearly 7,500 new developers. Source: Ethereum Foundation This makes the Ethereum ecosystem home to the biggest active developer base across all blockchain projects, with 31,869 developers. In comparison, Solana has the…

Gold Market Cap Hits $30 Trillion As Prices Surge To Record

Gold’s market capitalization reached a record $30 trillion on Thursday as the commodity surged to a new all-time high of $4,357 per ounce.  The milestone market cap peak means that gold is now 14.5 times larger than Bitcoin’s market capitalization, which is around $2.1 trillion. It is also 1.5 times larger than the market capitalization of the “Magnificent 7” largest tech companies on the planet, Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Tesla, whose combined market capitalization is just around $20 trillion. Unlike a company’s stock market cap, which is…

Wealth Managers Must Adapt To The Greatest Capital Transfer In History

Opinion by: Anthony Agoshkov, co-founder of Marvel Capital The world is witnessing the largest wealth handoff in modern history.  Over the next 20 years, Millennials and Gen Z will inherit around $83 trillion, and some bullish forecasts suggest as much as $4 trillion of that could be tokenized onchain by 2030. The bigger story isn’t the size of the transfer; it’s how that capital will be steered.  While family offices lean on real estate, trade and energy, a new generation is already asking for something else. They’re chasing tokenized portfolios,…

Bitcoin Options Shift As Traders Watch BTC Turn Bearish

Key takeaways: Rising demand for put options and miner BTC deposits highlights growing caution among traders despite price resilience near $108,000. Analysts at Bitwise argue that deep drops in market sentiment often precede rebounds, framing the correction as a “contrarian buying window”. Bitcoin (BTC) fell to $107,600 on Thursday, prompting traders to question whether Friday’s flash crash signaled the end of the bull run that peaked at an all-time high on Oct. 6. A warning signal in Bitcoin’s options market has put traders on edge, especially amid rising miner outflows,…

peaq, VARA partner to regulate the Machine Economy in Dubai

Decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) protocol peaq has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) to develop a regulatory framework for onchain robotics and tokenized machines. According to a Thursday press release, the memorandum centers on peaq’s Machine Economy Free Zone, with additional areas of collaboration including guidance for projects seeking VARA licenses, joint training initiatives in technology and compliance, and data sharing to support research and regulation. Launched in July, the Machine Economy Free Zone is a controlled environment to test how robotics and AI…

A16z crypto invests $50 million in Solana liquid staking protocol Jito

A16z Crypto, the blockchain investment arm of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, has invested $50 million in Jito, a liquid staking protocol that underpins the Solana network. The deal will grant a16z an undisclosed allotment of Jito’s native tokens at a discounted rate, according to a Fortune report Thursday. Brian Smith, executive director of the Jito Foundation, told Cointelegraph that the Jito Foundation has “an exceptionally long time horizon,” and the investment “will allow the Foundation to work to make Solana the home for internet capital markets well into the…

Coinbase, Ripple, and Gemini Attend Trump’s Ballroom Fundraiser: Report

US President Donald Trump hosted a dinner for companies pledging funds to build a new ballroom in the White House, with attendees reportedly including Gemini co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and executives from Coinbase and Ripple. According to a Wednesday Wall Street Journal report, among the donors and attendees of the dinner at the White House were the Winklevosses and representatives from Coinbase Global and Ripple Labs. The dinner was reported to be aimed at funding for the White House ballroom proposed by Trump in July, which was estimated to…