Crypto Growth Accelerates Driven by Multiple Global Trends

Improving crypto regulatory clarity has triggered a 125% surge in global retail crypto transactions for two years in a row, according to TRM Labs.  Worldwide retail crypto transactions rose by more than 125% between January and September 2025, echoing similar growth seen in 2024, according to the blockchain intelligence firm in its Crypto Adoption and…

Bitcoin Is Mirroring Soybean Chart Before 1970s Crash: Peter Brandt

Bitcoin’s price chart has started to show similarities to the soybean market around 50 years ago, which saw prices top before plummeting 50% as global supply began to outweigh demand, warns veteran trader Peter Brandt. However, other Bitcoin (BTC) analysts are confident that the charts are signaling further upside ahead. “Bitcoin is forming a rare…

FED Mulls ‘Payment Accounts’ for Fintechs, Small Companies

The US Federal Reserve is considering the introduction of a new type of payment account that would make it easier for smaller companies to participate in the central bank’s payment system, signaling the end of the crypto industry’s banking access challenges. The newly floated “payment accounts” would seek to grant full access to fintech companies…

Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Adds Per-Transaction Gas Limit Cap

Ethereum is entering the final testnet phase of its Fusaka upgrade, the last major step before its expected mainnet rollout on Dec. 3. The update introduces a per-transaction gas cap of roughly 16.78 million units to enhance block efficiency and prepare the network for parallel execution. The change, already active on the Holesky and Sepolia…

Stablecoin Yields Not A ‘Detriment’ To Banks, Says Kraken CEO

Kraken boss David Ripley has fired back against a senior executive of the American Bankers Association, who argued that stablecoins yield is a “detriment” to banks’ abilities to support their community.  ABA’s senior vice president of innovation and strategy, Brooke Ybarra, said if major crypto exchanges such as Kraken or Coinbase were allowed to pay…

Bitcoin Futures Traders Return To Pump BTC: Will It Last?

Key points: Rising spot and futures volumes show traders venturing back into the crypto market. Traders are positioning for upside, but charts hint that swing traders will sell intra-day rally tops. Crypto market price action turned volatile on Tuesday as Bitcoin (BTC) hit a daily high at $114,000, and Ether (ETH) managed a brief push…

Team Behind Layer 1 Cadena Discontinues Support

The native token behind the Kadena layer 1 blockchain plummeted 60% in 90 minutes on Tuesday after its founding team announced it was winding down and ceasing all network maintenance due to “market conditions.”  In a post to X on Tuesday, Kadena said it “is no longer able to continue business operations and will be…

Bitcoin Futures Traders Return To Pump BTC: Will It Last?

Key points: Rising spot and futures volumes show traders venturing back into the crypto market. Traders are positioning for upside, but charts hint that swing traders will sell intra-day rally tops. Crypto market price action turned volatile on Tuesday as Bitcoin (BTC) hit a daily high at $114,000, and Ether (ETH) managed a brief push…

Base, ETH L2 Access Hit by Amazon’s AWS Failure

On the morning of Oct. 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage that cascaded into widespread service disruptions across thousands of websites and applications. Several large exchanges and crypto-service providers rely heavily on cloud infrastructure like AWS to power their trading platforms, wallets, analytics tools and matching engines. The ripple effect hit…

Ocean Protocol Faces $250k Bounty after $120M Token Dump Allegations

The ongoing feud between Fetch.ai CEO Humayun Sheikh and Ocean Protocol Foundation took another twist, as the CEO issued a bounty for more information related to an alleged misappropriation of tokens worth millions of dollars. Sheikh, in an X post on Tuesday, offered a $250,000 reward for more information on the signatories of OceanDAO’s multisignature…