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At Ripple's Swell conference in New York on Tuesday, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent placed digital assets alongside artificial intelligence and semiconductors as key areas of US-China technological competition, saying America will win the contest over digital asset infrastructure and emerge

According to Foresight News, Anchorage Digital announced expansion of its custody services for Bitso's MXNB Mexican peso stablecoin, with Anchorage Digital Bank now providing custody across Arbitrum, Base, Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche,

According to COINOTAG, Bitcoin's Taproot soft fork upgrade activated today (Oct 28) at block 709,632. Wallet support for the upgrade is optional, leaving it to exchanges, hardware signers, and wallet providers to decide whether to accept bc1p addresses and enable Taproot's benefits for

According to Bitplanet, approximately $19 billion in leveraged crypto positions underwent forced liquidation within a single 24-hour window on October 10, 2025, after U.S.-China tariff tensions triggered a sharp decline in risk appetite. One year later,

According to COINOTAG, Polymarket's August rule change to its settlement procedures has significantly reduced Bitcoin last-10-second trading activity. Previously, high volumes concentrated in the final ten seconds of five-minute contract windows; the updated settlement rules have cut this to 3.02% o

According to Foresight News, Genius, an on-chain trading platform, launched its mobile app on October 28, now available on Apple's App Store and Google Play. The app, built on the BNB Chain ecosystem, integrates trading, social, and token creation

According to Predict.fun's statement on October 27, the prediction market platform pledged to fully repay 400,000 USDT that was stolen from 29 users' wallets in an unauthorized wallet incident. The company said it would provide full compensation to all affected users.

According to COINOTAG, Sophon (SOPH) fell 17% over the past seven days while trading volume surged 75%, marking the top performer on the weekly sell-pressure list as of October 28.

According to AhnLab Security Intelligence Center, 12 fake websites impersonating South Korean brands including Doosan Robotics and Chum-Churum soju were found today to solicit USDT transfers on TRON.

According to daily issuer flow disclosures, Ethereum ETFs recorded a net inflow of $33.1 million on Tuesday, marking a reversal from the previous session's $88.6 million outflow. Fidelity's FETH drove the rebound with $28.6 million in creations, while Grayscale's ETH fund contributed an

According to COINOTAG, Base is preparing to reduce block intervals from 2 seconds to 200 milliseconds under the Denim upgrade, with mainnet activation targeted for November 2026. The upgrade is already live on the Base Sepolia

According to an SEC filing submitted on Oct. 26, Strategy bought and sold no Bitcoin during the week ended Oct. 25, marking a halt to its consecutive weekly purchase streak while Bitcoin traded below $80,000.

Coinbase will automatically convert 14 stablecoins held in European Economic Area retail accounts to USDC on October 30, according to the company's help-center notice. The affected stablecoins include USDT, PYUSD, and others from major

According to COINOTAG, Super League Enterprise purchased 4 Bitcoin (BTC) on October 26, worth approximately 50.93 million yen, adding to the treasury of the Nasdaq-listed gaming advertising and marketing company. The purchase was disclosed via Form 8-K filing, the U.S. Securities and Exchange

According to its S-1 filing submitted on Monday, October 28, Anthropic disclosed $131.7 billion in total cash, comprising $112.4 billion in cash and cash equivalents plus $19.3 billion in additional liquid reserves. The filing marks the formal opening of the company's countdown to a Nasdaq initial p

According to Mizuho Securities, on October 28, the firm cut its price target for Circle (CRCL) to $43. The Japanese investment bank's bearish call is based on concerns that artificial intelligence assistants that automatically manage yield for users could reduce demand for USD Coin

According to COINOTAG, Chainlink launched CustodySync on October 27, a service enabling regulated institutions to borrow in DeFi markets while their collateral is held by a qualified custodian. Anchorage Digital Bank is the launch partner and will manage assets through its Atlas collateral

According to COINOTAG, Standard Chartered has cut its year-end Bitcoin target to $100,000 from $150,000 on October 28, marking the sharpest reduction among major banks as BTC retreated from record highs. Bernstein also lowered its own year-end target in the same review

According to COINOTAG, Bitcoin held near $81,300 on Oct 27 as Israel's parliamentary election ended without a majority outcome. BTC gained approximately 1% in the 1.5 hours following the close of polling

According to COINOTAG, decentralized exchange daily trading volume reached $8.4 billion on Wednesday, up 39% from the prior day and up 11% compared to a week earlier.