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Chainalysis’s rate covers wallets already active on multiple days, leaving overall retention and independent commercial demand unmeasured. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

A dated three-week entry estimate shows how direct deposits and pooled holdings bear the cost of inactive staking capital. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Prosecutors say recovered data showed the same scammers returning weeks later with false promises to recover stolen assets. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan argued in an Oct. 14 memo that nearly every macroeconomic path ends with Bitcoin higher, including an extraordinary AI productivity boom that makes scarce assets more valuable. Two days earlier, the Bank for International Settlements published a working paper that models a fourth path. In it, AI automates work and lifts… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the cry...

Bitcoin registered an intraday low of $81,514.28 on Oct. 14 as September CPI came in hotter than forecast, with headline inflation at 3.7% year over year against 3.6% expected and core at 2.6% against 2.5%. Glassnode's latest on-chain data suggests a calmer holder base than the price action. The harder test sits near $80,000, where… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories ...

New OCC findings put crypto restrictions in a nine-bank record, while AML, sanctions and operational assessments still shape access. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

The EBA's designation brings dual supervision of Circle's EU issuer, while its Oct. 1 response seeks more flexible reserve requirements. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

The company says issuance is planned in the coming months, subject to MiCA requirements and white-paper publication. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

The October 6 activation moved existing FXRP stakes automatically into pooled cover backing, pairing fee income with claim exposure and longer withdrawals. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

The mainnet plan calls for a live consensus replacement, with roughly 150ms finality dependent on network conditions and a coordinated validator handoff. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Its October 14 response emphasizes controls to exclude offshore gambling operators and says it continues as a BSP-licensed institution. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

September US inflation reached 3.7%, lifting yields as markets increased bets on another rate rise before the October 27–28 Fed meeting. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Kraken's parent company, Payward, has agreed to acquire a European bank as it expands beyond cryptocurrency trading into traditional financial services. On Oct. 14, the company announced a definitive agreement to purchase Saldo Finance Oy, a Finnish holding company that owns Lithuania-based Saldo Bank. The acquisition would give Payward control of a licensed European banking… Read the full story o...

Ripple calls Meritz its fourth Korean institutional partner this year, with custody and tokenization cooperation to widen as regulation develops. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

ZkSync announced Airbender Prime, a prover that Matter Labs says handled 99% of 7,200 consecutive Ethereum mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds each on a single NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU. The announcement came five days after Starknet said it is actively considering becoming an independent layer-1 (L1) blockchain, targeting full quantum resistance in… Read the full story on CryptoSlate Under...

A hypothetical $500 million SATS financing assigns $387.5 million to Bitcoin, while actual pricing and capital deployment remain open. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

İhlas News Agency says the HEX and PulseChain founder was detained in a Beşiktaş police operation linked to an Interpol Red Notice requested by Finland. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

The September 25 ruling relied on corroborated Reactor testimony and a case-specific failure to justify source-code access. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Bitcoin fell below $83,000 on Wednesday as hotter-than-expected US core inflation data revived expectations of further Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, triggering a fresh wave of liquidations across the cryptocurrency market. CoinGlass data showed that over $100 million in leveraged positions were liquidated in the hour after the inflation report was released. This also pushed… Read the full s...

EIA forecasts winter distillate inventories 20–30% below normal, while falling diesel prices keep the inflation and Bitcoin implications conditional. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Bitcoin whales are accumulating before Wednesday's US inflation report, despite $744 million in recent spot ETF withdrawals. According to an Oct. 13 CryptoQuant report, large holders have increased their combined Bitcoin holdings to 3.03 million BTC, with accumulation accelerating to its fastest monthly pace since February. The buying contrasts with $744.3 million in net withdrawals… Read the full...

At unchanged Bitcoin price, subsidy and fees, the projected Oct. 16 retarget could push 20 J/TH equipment paying 8 cents/kWh below its electricity-only threshold. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

Strive added 3,311 BTC, but gross Bitcoin per effective common share increased just 1.72% as common and preferred share counts grew. Read the full story on CryptoSlate Understand the crypto stories that matter and what to watch next. Get The Catalyst in your inbox

In December 2023, Senator Elizabeth Warren asked Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan whether crypto companies handling financial transactions should follow the same anti-money-laundering rules as banks. “Absolutely,” he said. On Oct. 13, Treasury announced more than $1.2 billion in penalties against his bank. FinCEN found that Bank of America admitted to willfully violating the… Read the full story...