Bitcoin calls represent 60.88% of options open interest, while Deribit’s October max-pain level sits near $76,000, below bitcoin’s current $83,719 spot price. Futures exposure totals approximately $53 billion, led by Binance and CME. The market data on Wednesday shows concentrated October call positions, mixed exchange activity, and a substantially smaller CME options book than in

Institutions are moving beyond the question of whether to own bitcoin and toward how to finance, hold, and use it. A new research note says the shift could shape bitcoin’s next phase of adoption. Bitcoin Becomes the Basis for New Financing Bitcoin is becoming the foundation for a wider set of financial products, according to

Prediction-market operator Kalshi is reportedly negotiating a fresh $1 billion funding round at a $40 billion valuation, an eightfold increase from its $5 billion valuation in October 2025. Reuters reported on Tuesday that Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management are discussing leading the investment, with Tiger Global and Dragoneer also participating in talks. The potential deal

Robert Kiyosaki warns that a market crash could drain baby boomers’ retirement savings and leave some without homes. In a Sept. 27 post, he repeated his long-running call to buy bitcoin, gold, and silver as he renewed his criticism of stock-and-bond portfolios. Kiyosaki Warns Boomers Could Run Out of Money A steep market decline could

Tokenized stocks generated $20.9 billion in decentralized exchange (DEX) volume over the past 30 days, with Uniswap handling roughly $12.6 billion of the activity. The surge is turning tokenized equities from a niche crypto experiment into a fast-growing battleground for DeFi liquidity, collateral, and market infrastructure. Uniswap Handles $12.6B as Tokenized Stock Trading Surges Tokenized

Total crypto market capitalization increased 4% over the week to $2.99 trillion despite a midweek pullback by bitcoin from $87,000 to $84,000. Market Cap Nears $3 Trillion Milestone The crypto economy closed the week in the green, with total market capitalization jumping from $2.87 trillion on Sept. 20 to $2.99 trillion—a 4% increase. In fact,

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the network is heading toward a future where calling it a blockchain barely describes the machinery. In a Sept. 27 essay, he presents a 2030 vision with finality of roughly eight to 32 seconds, lighter verification and stronger privacy. The twist is that decentralization, long treated as a performance burden,

Solana’s biggest consensus overhaul since launch has crossed a major hurdle. Alpenglow activated on testnet Sept. 24 and devnet Sept. 25, replacing TowerBFT with Votor and targeting transaction finality in just 100 to 150 milliseconds. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko declared, “You are not ready for this.” However, those speeds remain unproven under full mainnet conditions,

Sequans Communications sold its remaining 314 bitcoin, fully unwinding its crypto treasury program. The company is redirecting its strategic focus to scaling its core cellular IoT and software-defined radio semiconductor operations. Debt Elimination and Balance Sheet Unwind Sequans Communications has completed its exit from its Bitcoin corporate treasury strategy following the sale of its remaining

Gold lending rates have been quoted every working day for 50 years, yet most people who actually own gold have effectively been locked out of the market. Paxos Labs launched PAXGy on Sept. 24 to change that, wrapping institutional gold-leasing economics into a token backed by pax gold (PAXG). The reserves are deployed to institutional

What began as hundreds of millions of dollars mysteriously moving from Bitget-labeled wallets now has an answer. Bitget founder Gracy Chen disclosed Thursday that the crypto exchange suffered unauthorized transfers from portions of its hot and warm wallet infrastructure, with the damage estimated at approximately $351.6 million. Tens of Millions in Onchain Transfers Flagged From

Solana decentralized exchanges processed about 208 million spot trades in the week ending Sept. 13, surpassing the NYSE’s roughly 190 million transactions for the first time. The milestone does not make Solana larger than Wall Street in economic value, but it shows how quickly onchain trading activity is scaling. Solana Narrows Nasdaq Gap as Weekly

A group of white hats appears to have pulled off something victims of the Coldcard exploit desperately needed, securing 52.37 BTC before malicious attackers could steal it. Galaxy Digital’s Head of Firmwide Research, Alex Thorn, says the bitcoin, representing 2.8% of the exploited funds, has now been consolidated into an address controlled by Crypto Recovery

Stablecoin issuer Circle is courting crypto-owning institutions, launching a lending service on Monday that lets them borrow USDC against their bitcoin holdings. Circle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, has launched a service that lets institutional customers borrow dollar-pegged tokens against their bitcoin holdings—the latest push by a crypto firm to court treasury departments that

Bitcoin’s price ripped to an intraday high of $87,374 on Monday, Sept. 21, reaching its highest level since late January as billions of dollars flooded back into the crypto economy. The broader sector is now nearing $3 trillion in value, while BTC has rebounded sharply from last week’s lows around $75,000 to $76,000. Bitcoin is

This week’s stories centered on regulation, institutional adoption and market infrastructure. Seven Democratic senators vowed to keep negotiating on the CLARITY Act, while Tom Lee forecast a bullish 12 months for crypto. Revolut attackers demanded 6,000 XMR for stolen customer data, Kalshi captured about 80% of U.S. prediction-market volume, and Kraken parent Payward unveiled plans