Crypto & Blockchain

Copper breaks its April trendline as BloombergNEF projects a 44% supply deficit by 2050. See the key levels to watch.

Bitcoin Magazine Bank of Korea Wants Stablecoins Written Into Forex Law as Crypto Bill and Tax Fight Come to a Head The Bank of Korea told lawmakers it will draft a forex law amendment this year to regulate stablecoins as a means of payment, a plan that points to tighter…

The company's head of futures and prediction markets said bitcoin, gold and oil contracts are among its fastest-growing prediction markets.

Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, Web3 and crypto regulation.

▶ Bitcoin Magazine Stand With Crypto Director: The Crypto Vote Will Decide the Midterms | Mason Lynaugh Ahead of midterms, Stand With Crypto's Mason Lynaugh breaks down a 3.1M-advocate push, explaining why crypto swing voters will forge the most pro-BTC Congress. This post Stand…

The name change is symbolic of the fund’s future investing focus, though the firm will continue investing in crypto.

▶ Bitcoin Magazine Parker Lewis: Bitcoin Will Settle 100% of Global Payments Parker Lewis argues Bitcoin will settle all global payments as $107T in debt strains the credit system, driving merchants toward zero-fee adoption. This post Parker Lewis: Bitcoin Will Settle 100% of…

▶ Bitcoin Magazine Block Releases THE Bitcoin National Ad Campaign Block launches 'Bitcoin Does' to onboard millions. Head of Bitcoin Marketing Maria Pesce explains how the campaign focuses on real-world utility over tech. This post Block Releases THE Bitcoin National Ad…

China’s five-year digital development plan calls for wider blockchain use in trade and manufacturing alongside stronger technical standards.

Operation Serengeti III led to 1,462 arrests across 21 countries, while Angolan police seized more than 2,000 crypto mining devices.

▶ Bitcoin Magazine Bloomberg’s Mike McGlone: AI Risk Could Force Bitcoin Drawdown to $10,000 Bloomberg's Mike McGlone warns Bitcoin could drop to $10K, citing ETF exhaustion, stock correlation, Fed rate hikes, and macro headwinds across assets. This post Bloomberg’s Mike…

Phantom users will fund trades with CASH stablecoins, with market restrictions applied in Michigan, Nevada and Washington.

Malaysia and Thailand have joined Singapore's BLOOM initiative for cross-border stablecoin and tokenized deposit settlement.

Bitcoin loses its 50-day SMA as liquidation clusters, leverage, and ETF outflows point to a volatile weekend.

The request follows an August 2025 default judgment, with the AG also announcing nearly $6 million in settlements with four promoters.

Bitcoin price volatility cooled as stock markets battled another day of resurgent AI fears during Friday’s Asia trading session.

Developers merged a policy change that ends the months-long embargo for flaws a chatbot could rediscover, after a summer in which AI found hundreds of bitcoin bugs before the humans did.

Institutional capital sets the headlines, but the 2026 downturn showed individual activity to be the durable part of the market, and XT Exchange has built for it since 2018. The numbers the industry now watches most closely belong to institutions: fund inflows, corporate…

The industry runs on a vocabulary nobody commissioned; XT Exchange sees in that culture one reason people stay engaged through quiet markets, and a responsibility that comes with it. No committee approved the word “HODL.” It began as a misspelling in a forum post during a 2013…

The Hoodi testnet fork is off after ChainSecurity found gas changes that could let contracts lock in failures, citing 13 real-world cases.

Recent hardware wallet security incidents have renewed debate over whether self-custody is suitable for beginners, as multisig and seedless designs carry their own risks.

HTX Research, the dedicated research arm of HTX, has published a new report titled Crypto Market Outlook Before and After the 2026 U.S. Midterm Elections. The report finds that while the midterm elections may reshape policy expectations for the next two years, short-term crypto…

BlackRock's IBIT led Thursday's net outflows with $254.1 million, while four other funds also witnessed withdrawals.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao says AI doesn’t need to break Bitcoin’s cryptography to cause damage. Instead, he warns that leaked data already fuels phishing and social engineering. Meanwhile, Bitcoin Core developers are changing how they disclose bugs as AI makes flaws easier…

Your day-ahead look for Oct. 23, 2026

Brent crude oil surged above $116 per barrel for the first time since late April.

Global bank HSBC has launched RedCoin, its first stablecoin, for public use.

Bitcoin rose 0.5% to around $81,700 since midnight UTC while the CoinDesk 80 gained 1.4% and memecoins climbed 2.9%.

The Bitwater element swaps a tank's resistance wire for 20 mining chips, and Heatbit says it uses the same electricity to heat the water.

Previous bitcoin bear-market lows followed U.S. midterms, but this year’s recovery raises the possibility that the bottom arrived months earlier.