Bitcoin at $86.2K: BTC whales are profitable, but will they cash out?
Bitcoin’s whale position has recently transitioned from an extended period of deposits at exchanges to withdrawals from exchanges. The trend shifted around the end of August, after nearly three months of overall deposits.
This trend lasted about twice as long as any other period of deposits since 2023. Since then, the 30-day moving average has been less than zero, indicating that whales have removed more Bitcoin [BTC] from exchanges than sent to them.
Robinhood's $25 billion crypto pile belongs to customers, not its treasury
A post making the rounds on X claimed Robinhood had added $25 million in Bitcoin to its corporate balance sheet. Robinhood's official financial disclosures show no such purchase.
What the data does show is far larger and far less dramatic. Robinhood sits on roughly $25 billion in crypto, and nearly all of it belongs to the people tapping buttons in its app.
Bitcoin dips below $84,000 as crypto liquidations hit $555.6 million
Selling pressure in crypto markets intensifies after Bitcoin briefly falls below $84,000 late Tuesday, triggering a wave of leveraged position unwinds. The move comes as long liquidations account for most of the $555.6 million wiped out across digital assets over the past 24 hours.
1.6 Billion XRP Moves to Binance: Should Investors Be Worried?
XRP transfers to Binance have increased sharply, raising questions about possible selling pressure in the short term. According to CryptoQuant’s latest findings, around 1.6 billion tokens flowed into the exchange over the past 30 days.
This is the highest 30-day inflow recorded since March.
Latest Crypto News: XRP Unveils AI-Powered Wallets as Apeing Presale Sells 485M+ Tokens - What Comes Next?
Latest crypto news puts XRP in focus, but Apeing's live presale, staged pricing, Ethereum foundation, and token burns are drawing fresh attention.
What if the biggest crypto opportunity is hiding between today's headlines and tomorrow's price? And what if the next breakout story is already selling tokens before the crowd arrives? The latest crypto news continues to keep XRP firmly in the spotlight, with XRP trading around $1.50 after gaining 0.94% over 24 hours. That momentum makes XRP news, XRP price, and XRP news today popular searches among traders watching where the market may move next. Yet alongside established names, a different kind of opportunity is attracting attention: Apeing's LIVE memecoin presale.
Better Markets says CFTC is ‘wrong agency’ to regulate retail crypto
Better Markets says the US derivatives regulator’s push to develop rules for certain retail crypto transactions could leave investors with weaker safeguards, arguing the agency is ill-equipped to oversee the market.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Monday sought public comment on a potential framework for margined, leveraged or financed retail crypto transactions under its existing authority. Benjamin Schiffrin, director of securities policy at Better Markets, a nonprofit financial reform advocacy group, argued that CFTC oversight is less suited than the SEC to protecting retail investors
Robinhood's Crypto Perpetuals Rollout Puts Bitstamp in the Spotlight
Robinhood Markets’ HOOD U.S. crypto perpetual futures rollout is putting greater focus on Bitstamp’s role within the company’s expanding digital asset ecosystem. While it initially said at its Sept. 29 HOOD Summit that eligible U.S. customers would gain access to perpetuals “in the coming months,” its latest product status page says the offering is beginning to roll out, signaling faster progress toward commercialization.
Near Intents blocks $50 million in Bitget hacker swaps, here's what happened
Crypto swap platform NEAR Intents calls itself permissionless, open and uncensorable. Yet it slammed the doors when stolen funds from Bitget tried to move through the protocol.
The attackers who siphoned off $388 million from Bitget exchange last week tried to move more than $50 million through NEAR Intents, a service that lets users exchange assets across different blockchains, according to a report by NEAR Intent’s general manager, Alex Shevchenko.
The cryptocurrency market upholds a neutral-to-bullish bias on Tuesday, with Bitcoin (BTC) edging closer to a breakout above $84,000. Altcoins mirror BTC’s outlook, with Ethereum (ETH) holding above $2,700 and Ripple (XRP) pushing past the reclaimed $1.50 level.
Meanwhile, the path of least resistance appears to be upward despite shrinking institutional interest. On the bright side, firm technical structures suggest bulls have the upper hand