Vietnam’s Crypto Pilot Sees No Applicants

Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance confirmed that no companies had applied to participate in the country’s five-year digital asset trading pilot despite increasing global interest in regulated crypto markets.  At a Sunday news briefing, Deputy Minister of Finance Nguyen Duc Chi told local media outlets that the ministry has not received any proposals from enterprises seeking…

Tornado Cash Co-founder Fights to Void Sole Conviction

Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash, has asked a US federal judge to acquit him of his sole conviction for unlicensed money transmission and the jury’s hung counts for money laundering and sanctions violations, arguing prosecutors failed to prove he intended to help bad actors misuse the crypto mixer. According to legal documents filed on…

GalaxyOne Brings Crypto, Stocks and Yields On Cash

Galaxy Digital, a crypto investment firm founded by former Fortress Investment Group president Michael Novogratz, is launching the GalaxyOne platform, offering exposure to both crypto and traditional finance (TradFi) markets. Galaxy Digital has launched GalaxyOne, a platform combining exposure to yields on fiat cash with trading cryptocurrencies and equities, the company announced on Monday. Targeting…

Why is BNB Up Today? Price Tops $1.2K as Chain Activity and Institutional Demand Grow

BNB, the token that powers the BNB Chain and is used for fee discounts on Binance, rallied over 4% in the last 24-hour period, pushing past $1,200 and touching an intraday high of $1,223. The move was fueled by sharp volume spikes, renewed institutional interest, and rising network activity. The rally aligned with BNB Chain…

Will Bitcoin Follow Gold? BTC Price Can Reach This Bull Cycle: Analysts

Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s bull market still has room to run with a target range of $150,000-$300,000, analysts say. BTC must decisively push above the $112,000-$114,000 zone to ignite a possible rally to $140,000. Bitcoin’s (BTC) sudden drop to $108,000 last week made it a 13% drawdown from its $124,500 all-time high, sparking fears that the…

DefiLlama Delisting Aster Perpetual Futures Volume Data

Decentralized finance (DeFi) analytics platform DefiLlama is delisting perpetual futures volume data for the Aster decentralized exchange platform (DEX) due to data integrity concerns, according to 0xngmi, a pseudonymous co-founder of DeFiLlama. Trading volume on Aster, which is linked to CZ, co-founder of the Binance crypto exchange, is now “mirroring Binance Perp volumes almost exactly,”…

S&P 500 Is Up 106% Since 2020, But Has Collapsed Against Bitcoin

While billionaire hedge fund manager Warren Buffett has long touted investing in the S&P 500, recent data shows that since 2020, the index has underperformed Bitcoin by around 88%.  In an Oct. 5 X post by Phil Rosen, the co-founder of stock market data newsletter Opening Bell Daily, noticed that while the S&P 500 has…

The Internet’s Most Important Real Estate Is Being Left Behind

Opinion by: Fred Hsu, co-founder and CEO at D3 A small business owner sits on a premium domain like organic.shop. They shop for months and are unable to find a buyer at their asking price.  Meanwhile, someone across the globe just bought a fraction of a Manhattan apartment through tokenized real estate in under five…

How to Use Google Gemini to Analyze Crypto Coins Before Investing

Key takeaways Gemini is a research assistant for summarizing data and analyzing text, not a financial adviser for predicting prices. The quality of your research output depends entirely on the specificity and structure of your prompts. A repeatable workflow involves deconstructing a project’s fundamentals, analyzing its economics and mapping its competitive landscape. Always verify AI-generated…

US National Debt Nears $38 Trillion, Rising $6 Billion Daily

Investors are turning to safe-haven assets, such as Bitcoin and gold, as the US national debt is nearing a record-breaking $38 trillion. America’s national debt, currently $37.9 trillion, is rising by $69,890 per second — or nearly $4.2 million per minute — over the last year, according to the US Congress Joint Economic Committee’s (JEC)…