Markets
Gold has officially crossed a historic milestone, hitting a market capitalization of over $30 trillion for the first time. The surge cements gold’s position as the world’s largest asset by market value, far outpacing tech giants and cryptocurrencies alike. According to data from Companies Market Cap, gold prices
Blockchain
Tether Holdings, the world’s largest stablecoin issuer, has frozen roughly $13.4 million worth of USDT held across 22 wallet addresses on the Ethereum and Tron networks, according to data from blockchain analytics firm MistTrack. The company has not publicly commented on the reason behind the freeze, and it
Markets
U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw a sharp wave of withdrawals on Thursday, with total net outflows reaching $536.4 million — the largest single-day decline since August 1, according to data from SoSoValue. Out of 12 active bitcoin ETFs, eight recorded outflows. The Ark Invest and 21Shares Bitcoin
Finance
Uniswap, one of the world’s leading decentralized exchanges (DEXs), has officially added support for Solana on its web app, allowing users to connect their Solana wallets and trade SOL tokens directly without leaving the platform. The update, announced Thursday in a blog post, marks a major step toward bridging
A New Approach to Bitcoin Liquidity For years, liquidity providers in decentralized finance (DeFi) have wrestled with a familiar problem—impermanent loss. It’s what happens when the value of your tokens in an automated market maker (AMM) pool grows more slowly than if you’d simply held them. The
AI
Ant Group has entered the trillion-parameter AI model race with the launch of Ling-1T, an open-source language model designed to push the boundaries of reasoning performance while maintaining computational efficiency. Announced on October 9, the move marks a major milestone for the Alipay operator as it expands its artificial intelligence
DeFi
DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV), a publicly traded Solana-focused treasury firm, has boosted its SOL holdings by nearly 5%, purchasing an additional 86,307 SOL tokens worth about $16 million, according to new disclosures published Thursday. The latest acquisition brings DeFi Development’s total Solana balance to over 2 million SOL,
Politics
Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr has praised the newly enacted GENIUS stablecoin law as an important step toward financial stability—but cautioned that key regulatory gaps still need to be addressed. Speaking Thursday at DC Fintech Week, Barr said the Guiding and Establishing Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS)
DeFi
Chainlink has teamed up with MegaETH to launch what both companies describe as the first native, real-time onchain oracle, setting the stage for a new era in decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure. The collaboration integrates Chainlink Data Streams directly into MegaETH’s high-speed Layer 2 network, allowing smart contracts to access
A Quiet Revolution in 2008 In October 2008, amid a global financial crisis, an unknown person (or group) using the name Satoshi Nakamoto posted a nine-page document online titled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” It didn’t look like much—a short technical paper filled with math, code, and
AI
The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is accelerating the development of artificial intelligence technologies that could revolutionize how patients receive care. Through the next phase of its AI Airlock programme, seven innovative AI tools are being evaluated to address some of healthcare’s most urgent challenges—
Markets
Bitcoin steadied just above $110,000 on Thursday after a volatile week that saw the cryptocurrency drop 12% from record highs, pressured by large-scale whale selling, a surge in put demand, and renewed U.S.–China trade tensions, according to market analysts. The world’s largest digital asset briefly fell