Gate Cryptocurrency News and Market Analysis

Bitcoin set its 2024 low on July 1 at $57,850, breaking from a historical pattern of forming bear-market bottoms shortly after U.S. midterm elections, CoinDesk reported on October 23. The cryptocurrency recovered to approximately $81,455 by October 22, marking a roughly 40% gain from the July 1 bott

US banks including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan, and Wells Fargo have detected AI agents accessing customer accounts and attempting transactions in breach of policy, according to Axios. The institutions are blocking the technology and changing terms of service because AI agents

Bloom Energy closed at $217.77 on Thursday 22 October 2026, down 8.70% from $238.53, before the company filed its third-quarter earnings report with the SEC at 16:09 Eastern. The statistical price projection through 31 December 2026 sets a bull target

The New York Attorney General is pursuing $1.37 billion from NovaTech founders Cynthia and Eddy Petion over allegations of operating a Ponzi scheme. The claim includes $1.13 billion in disgorgement and $232.5 million in prejudgment interest. Between 2019 and 2023,

Chainlink, the blockchain oracle network behind LINK, partnered with LG CNS, the IT services arm of South Korea's LG Group, to build infrastructure for won-denominated stablecoins, announced on Oct. 22. The partnership aims to expand the domestic market for won-pegged stablecoins and lay the

QCP Capital reported on Oct. 23 that rising funding costs for artificial intelligence infrastructure companies are weighing on technology stocks and the broader cryptocurrency market. CoreWeave bond yields surged to 15%, with credit strains spreading across the AI infrastructure sector. CoreWeave

Ethereum developers postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade on the Hoodi testnet after researchers identified potential security risks involving existing smart contracts, canceling the activation scheduled for October 26. The Ethereum Foundation announced the delay last night, stating developers need

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang concluded a week-and-a-half European tour at the company's GTC conference in Berlin, where he met with U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. During a Thursday morning media Q&A, Huang announced new products a

Elon Musk endorsed a potential merger between SpaceX and Tesla during SpaceX's third-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, telling investors he thinks it 'would be a good idea' and revealing that both companies have formed special committees to explore a transaction. On Wednesday's Tesla earnings call,

CyberCartel used Claude and Grok AI agents to automate attacks on over 400 Latin American financial institutions including banks and mobile payment apps, stealing passwords and customer data. The hacking group bypassed AI safeguards by telling the models they were operating in test environments,

Bloomberg expanded its Crypto Exposure Analytics service to help customers identify and classify crypto-asset and tokenized real-world asset exposures under the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's prudential framework for banks. The update aims to connect exposure detection with

London Stock Exchange Group has agreed to acquire Octus for $3.535 billion in cash, expanding its credit intelligence and data services across public, private, illiquid and distressed debt. Octus is being sold by funds advised by Permira and its management, including founder Kent Collier. The

Heatbit announced Bitwater on Thursday (October 22), a water heater element with 20 Bitcoin mining chips that screws into existing electric tanks in the U.S. and Canada. The element produces up to 34 TH/s on up to 600 watts, with the first batch priced at $899 for preorder and later batches at up to

S&P Global reported on October 23 that the Eurozone's October composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) preliminary reading stood at 51.9, marking the fourth consecutive month above the 50.0 expansion threshold but declining from September's 53.1 to a four-month low. The slowdown was driven by

JPMorgan Asset Management expanded two tokenized money market funds, MONY and JLTXX, to Solana blockchain, announced last night. The expansion provides qualified U.S. investors access to these funds through Morgan Money, the firm's liquidity management and trading platform. JPMorgan Asset Management

AvaTrade Japan confirmed unauthorized parties accessed customer trading accounts and executed transactions without permission, following security incidents involving third-party services used by foreign exchange traders. The broker acknowledged unauthorized access, account logins, and trading

Storm-0940, a China-state-aligned hacking group active since 2021, deployed ARTEX, an open-source AI-driven penetration testing framework, in a large-scale supply chain attack targeting ConnectWise applications, Microsoft disclosed in its Security blog. The AI agents attempted sign-ins at more

Kalshi Prime and BitGo launched HODL Margining, a service allowing eligible customers to borrow US dollars against digital assets held in custody and use loan proceeds to meet margin obligations on KalshiEX. BitGo Bank & Trust serves as the first custodian in the network, while loans are provided

A crypto whale deployed $7.22 million across nine altcoins including Ethena (ENA), Litentry (LIT), and Ondo (ONDO), while Pump.fun (PUMP) faced significant selling pressure over recent trading periods. Blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain reported the multi-token acquisition alongside $13.2 mil

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing launched two thematic benchmarks, the HKEX Artificial Intelligence Index and HKEX Semiconductor Index, expanding its proprietary index suite around technology industries. The exchange also licensed the AI index to China Southern Asset Management for an