SOL Pinned Below $200 Even As ETF Volumes Spike

Key points:  SOL remains pinned below $200 even as Solana ETF daily trading volumes impressed analysts.  Analysts say SOL price action could mirror ETH’s lagging performance after the Ethereum spot ETFs launched.  Traders and analysts were highly bullish on SOL (SOL) throughout September, citing the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Oct. 10 deadline for a…

Malaysia’s BNM Unveils 3-Year Asset Tokenization Plan

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), the country’s central bank, has unveiled a three-year roadmap to explore and test asset tokenization across the financial sector. Under the initiative, BNM will launch proof-of-concept (POC) projects and live pilots through its Digital Asset Innovation Hub (DAIH), established earlier this year, the central bank announced on Friday. A key part…

Solana ETFs See 4th Day of Inflows as Bitcoin, Ether Lag

Spot Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continue to attract investor interest, recording their fourth straight day of inflows amid “capital rotation” from Bitcoin and Ether funds. According to data from SoSoValue, spot Solana (SOL) ETFs added $44.48 million on Friday, bringing cumulative inflows to $199.2 million and total assets to over $502 million. The Bitwise Solana…

Elon Musk on Messaging Platform X Chat’s Features and Bitcoin-Like P2P Encryption

Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk says X will ship a standalone “X Chat” in the coming months while keeping Chat embedded in X, adding that its peer-to-peer encryption approach is “similar to Bitcoin” and that the system avoids advertising hooks. Speaking on Friday’s “Joe Rogan Experience,” Musk said X has “rebuilt the entire…

Crypto Sleeps While AI Builds The Richest Data Set Monopolies

Opinion by: Ram Kumar, core contributor at OpenLedger The crypto industry spent a decade evangelizing decentralization. At the same time, AI companies assembled the most valuable monopolies since Standard Oil, and they’re data monopolies that make protocol dominance look trivial by comparison. The AI industry is expected to generate over $300 billion in revenue by…

Solana ETFs See 4th Day of Inflows as Bitcoin, Ether Lag

Spot Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continue to attract investor interest, recording their fourth straight day of inflows amid “capital rotation” from Bitcoin and Ether funds. According to data from SoSoValue, spot Solana (SOL) ETFs added $44.48 million on Friday, bringing cumulative inflows to $199.2 million and total assets to over $502 million. The Bitwise Solana…

Crypto Sleeps While AI Builds The Richest Data Set Monopolies

Opinion by: Ram Kumar, core contributor at OpenLedger The crypto industry spent a decade evangelizing decentralization. At the same time, AI companies assembled the most valuable monopolies since Standard Oil, and they’re data monopolies that make protocol dominance look trivial by comparison. The AI industry is expected to generate over $300 billion in revenue by…

Bitcoin Bollinger Bands Demand Record Volatility After 3.7% October Dip

Key points: Bitcoin seals its worst October performance since 2018 as traders flip cautious on the outlook. ETF outflows return as derivatives traders hedge risk despite macro tailwinds. Bollinger Bands data suggests that BTC price volatility is due to make a sweeping comeback. Bitcoin (BTC) traded around $110,000 on Saturday as traders stayed bearish after…

Older Altcoins Will be The Superstars of the Next Altseason: Analyst

Older cryptocurrencies with an exchange-traded fund (ETF) or expected to receive an ETF will soak up much of the capital deployed during the next altcoin season, according to Maen Ftouni, CEO of CoinQuant, a company that produces algorithmic trading tools.  “Not every single coin is going to have massive returns; the liquidity is going to…

Bitcoin Bollinger Bands Demand Record Volatility After 3.7% October Dip

Key points: Bitcoin seals its worst October performance since 2018 as traders flip cautious on the outlook. ETF outflows return as derivatives traders hedge risk despite macro tailwinds. Bollinger Bands data suggests that BTC price volatility is due to make a sweeping comeback. Bitcoin (BTC) traded around $110,000 on Saturday as traders stayed bearish after…