Crypto ETPs See $1.9B Inflows As AUM Climbs Past $40B

Cryptocurrency funds recorded a second consecutive week of inflows last week, extending the $3.3 billion in gains recorded the week before. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) logged $1.9 billion in inflows last week, data from CoinShares showed Monday. Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) led the way with inflows of $977 million and $772 million, respectively, while…

How to Day Trade Crypto Using ChatGPT and Grok

Key takeaways Grok detects real-time sentiment spikes from X that often precede short-term price movements, but not all spikes are reliable. ChatGPT turns those signals into trade plans, helping structure entries, exits and risk parameters based on technical and fundamental context. AI tools don’t replace judgment. You’ll learn how to add volume filters, whale flow…

OKX Built a Perps DEX But Paused Launch Citing CFTC Crackdown

Crypto exchange OKX built a decentralized perpetuals trading platform akin to Hyperliquid and Aster but held off launching it over regulatory concerns, its founder says. The Web3 arm of OKX developed the unnamed platform in 2023, OKX founder and CEO Star Xu said in an X post on Sunday. “Hyperliquid proved that massive success in…

Bitcoin ‘Uptober’ Rally Prospects Remain Despite Crypto Market Dip

Crypto pundits are debating whether there will be a crypto rally in October — just 10 days away — after the markets went in an opposite direction on Monday.  Historically, October has been one of the most reliably positive months for Bitcoin (BTC), shooting into the green 10 out of 12 times since 2013, according…

What Happened In Crypto Today

Today in crypto, Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek has denied that it kept a 2023 user data leak a secret from regulators, the first regulated China stablecoin launches as global stablecoin race heats up and Nasdaq-listed Flora Growth will rebrand to ZeroStack after raising $401 million to support 0G. Crypto.com says report of undisclosed user data…

Arthur Hayes Sold Hyperliquid For Ferrari

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has sold off his entire Hyperliquid (HYPE) stash  — seemingly, for a Ferrari —  just a month after he tipped the token to surge around 126x over the next three years. “Need to pay my deposit on the new Rari 849 Testarossa,” Hayes wrote on Sept. 21.  The post came after…

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits New All-Time High Again in September

The Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty, a metric that tracks the relative challenge of adding new blocks to the ledger, climbed to a new all-time high of 142.3 trillion on Friday. Mining difficulty hit successive all-time highs in August and September, driven by an influx of freshly deployed computing power over the last several weeks. Bitcoin’s…

Armstrong Outlines Vision for Firm to Evolve Into a Financial Super App

Brian Armstrong, a co-founder and the CEO of Coinbase (COIN), said in an interview on Friday that Coinbase’s long-term goal is to be a financial “super app,” offering crypto alongside a broad range of financial services beyond traditional banking. Armstrong, speaking on Fox Business’ “The Claman Countdown,” told Liz Claman that momentum in Congress is…

‘These Fiat Arguments Regarding OP_RETURN Need to Go’ — Jimmy Song

Jimmy Song, a Bitcoin (BTC) developer and advocate, slammed the decision by Bitcoin Core developers to remove the OP_Return limit for non-monetary data embedded on the Bitcoin blockchain in the upcoming Bitcoin Core 30 upgrade, calling it “fiat” mentality. Song accused the Core developers of deflecting user concerns about removing the OP_Return limit, which is…

DAOs Must Replace Crypto Cult Leaders

Opinion by: Houston Morgan, head of growth and business development at ShapeShift Crypto was never supposed to turn out like this. The promise was decentralization, self-sovereignty and the end of gatekeepers. Far too many crypto firms still worship personalities and momentum rather than implementing fair governance and structure. The irony is stark. A movement built…