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Bitcoin price tests $83K support as 4-hour MACD turns bearish
Bitcoin price fell to about $83,450 on Sep. 25 after a rally above $87,000 earlier in the week gave way to a narrower trading range. The pullback comes as traders weigh a quarterly options expiry against higher U.S. Treasury yields.…
Circle Foundation funds UNDP, WFP stablecoin payment trials
Circle Foundation has announced two grants to help the United Nations Development Programme and World Food Programme test digital payments for development work and humanitarian aid. Circle Foundation said in its Sep. 25 announcement that the separate grants will help…
Crypto tax forms leave 1 in 5 US investors unsure of accuracy
A survey of US crypto investors has found that about one in five who filed or planned to file a tax extension received an incomplete 1099-DA or were unsure whether the form matched their trades. Awaken Tax’s August survey found…
Aave V4 adds Coinbase tokenized stocks, will AAVE price respond?
Aave has announced a Base equities market designed to accept seven Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks as collateral for USDC loans, with an initial borrowing cap of $21 million. According to a Sep. 25 X post, the Equities Hub covers tokens tied…
Sequans ends Bitcoin strategy after selling its remaining BTC
Sequans Communications has sold its remaining 314 Bitcoin and fully exited its BTC treasury strategy after using earlier sales to cut debt and reshape its balance sheet. Sequans said on Sept. 24 that the sale covered all Bitcoin held on…
Polygon payment channels hit 11 million updates per second across 25 hubs
Polygon has tested a new agent payment system that processed more than 11 million verified payment updates per second across 25 hubs while keeping final settlement anchored to Polygon Chain. Polygon Labs said the benchmark used agent pay channels designed…
Ethena takes USDe basis trade into tokenized US equities
Ethena has added tokenized U.S. equities and equity perpetual futures to the basis trading strategy used for part of USDe’s backing, taking a funding model previously centered on crypto markets into listed stocks. According to a statement shared with crypto.media,…
XRP could lose some payment flows to stablecoins, Ripple CEO says
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says XRP may suit some cross-border payments, while stablecoins can be a better fit for other customer needs.
Billions in Bitcoin options expired today. What actually changed hands?
Bitcoin’s September 25 quarterly options expiry has put an enormous open-interest figure beside a much smaller and less visible question: which contracts produced payments? The exchange rules tell us what a winning holder receives. They do not turn a pre-expiry…
A Solana oracle’s support ends today. Who still relies on its prices?
Switchboard’s September 25 support deadline has turned a six-day migration warning into a test of Solana’s price feeds. Current public documentation shows where its data remains part of an application’s design, but those pages cannot prove that a live market…