Stephen Katte

IREN and Kindly MD are raising big money through convertible notes, but traders reacted negatively following each of the companies’ multimillion-dollar deals.

ETF analyst Eric Balchunas says Canary Capital’s filings for spot Litecoin and HBAR funds are seemingly finalized, but the government shutdown will delay their launch.

Bitcoin’s frequently rising price may have caused some investors to feel they missed the boat, but Pantera’s Cosmo Jiang says there’s still plenty of room on board.

Several banks in Russia, Belarus and Central Asia are also in the EU’s firing line for enabling crypto-related transactions, according to a Bloomberg report.

Bitcoin-stacking companies bought over 6,700 BTC last week, with the majority of the buying coming from Japanese investment firm Metaplanet.

Analysts told Coinpectra in July that whales and treasury companies stacking BNB, along with regular token burns, were sending the coin’s price higher.

When the AI delegates rollout, it will be done in stages, with early models similar to chatbots, then a model representing large groups, and finally, each DAO member.

ETHZilla’s CEO says the Ethereum treasury company plans to work with layer-2 protocols to generate a higher yield than it could get from staking.

Coinbase’s head of investment research, David Duong, said companies may soon consider mergers and acquisitions similar to the recent Strive and Semler Scientific deal.

The proposal came from two Swedish Democrats, a party that is a key player in backing the Swedish ruling coalition and its minority government.

Coinbase’s head of institutional strategy, John D’Agostino, says expecting AI agents to operate in the traditional finance system is akin to streaming using a dial-up modem.

The SEC’s Division of Investment Management said it would not recommend enforcement action against advisers that use a state trust company as a crypto custodian.

BitMine chairman Tom Lee thinks Ether is trading at a discount because future adoption of the blockchain by Wall Street and AI companies will drive it higher.

NovaDius Wealth Management president Nate Geraci said it will be an “enormous next few weeks for spot crypto ETFs" as the SEC is due to decide on 16 applications.

Protests erupted in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, last Thursday over ongoing water and power cuts, with demonstrations later spreading across the country.

A CoinGecko survey published on Monday found that 10% of respondents have never bought Bitcoin, and only 54% of newcomers started with it in their stash.

Favorable policy shifts, growing ETP access, and stablecoin momentum could be the key themes for the crypto market coming into Q4, analysts told Coinpectra.

Naver is often called the “Google of South Korea,” and is the top search engine in the country. Upbit Korea is the largest crypto exchange in South Korea.

Kadan Stadelmann, chief technology officer at Komodo Platform, told Coinpectra that treasury companies are competing to see who can create the most enticing structure.

Strategy chair Michael Saylor says Bitcoin will gain after “macro headwinds” subside as treasury companies and ETFs put upward pressure on the cryptocurrency.

US Commodity Futures Trading Commission acting chair Caroline Pham said her agency is looking to allow derivatives traders to post stablecoins and tokenized assets as collateral.

Sygnia CEO Magda Wierzycka says her firm calls investors if they allocate too much into their Life Bitcoin Plus ETF, which launched in June.

ETHZilla CEO McAndrew Rudisill said the company’s strategy is to deploy Ether on the Ethereum network through layer-2 protocols and tokenizing real-world assets.

OKX founder and CEO Star Xu cited the CFTC enforcement action against Deridex in September 2023 as a concern, but didn’t specify if it was why OKX paused its launch.

The lion’s share of donations has come from trading fees for a newly launched memecoin called $GIGGLE, launched by an X user known as RUNE.

Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz says Bitcoin could surge again as the US Federal Reserve restarts its cutting cycle, with momentum also coming from regulatory reform.

DappRadar analyst Sara Gherghelas said the metaverse may not be dead after NFT sales linked to virtual worlds recorded their second consecutive month of heightened activity.

Evgeny Masharov, a member of the Russian Civic Chamber, says Russia should start a crypto exchange through a major financial institution.

South Korea’s Minister of SMEs and Startups, Han Seong-sook, said the regulatory change could stimulate growth in crypto and blockchain technologies.

Analysts tell Coinpectra that Bitcoin reclaiming $117,000 and a Federal Reserve rate cut would be key drivers of positive sentiment.