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Altcoin season has remained narrow as MYX Finance, Starknet and AB have advanced against weak sentiment, with Bitcoin near $91,000 and the Crypto Fear and Greed Index near yearly lows, showing that capital has favored a few incentive-driven themes over broad altcoin participation. The post Altcoin Season Pockets: MYX, Starknet And AB Rise In Extreme Fear appeared first on Cryptonews.

Altcoin season has favored Starknet, Zcash, and Dash, where onchain activity, privacy and payment use cases, and consistent liquidity have supported measured gains. Selective rotation has continued as traders track whether volume and open interest can sustain this phase through November. The post Starknet, Zcash, and Dash Advance On Selective Altcoin Season Flows appeared first on Cryptonews.

Anchorage Digital has added custody and staking for Starknet’s STRK token, expanding the token's utility for institutional investors in the US. Anchorage Digital, a chartered crypto bank in the United States, has launched custody and staking support for Starknet’s native token, STRK, seeking to address investors’ appetite for yield generation on digital assets. According to a Wednesday announcement, staked STRK currently yields an annual percentage rate (APR) of 7.28%. Anchorage, offering STRK custodian services since January, is expanding the token’s utility. “Anchorage Digital has a long-standing relationship with Starknet and now is opening the door to institutional custody and staking of STRK,” the company said in a statement. Read more

[PRESS RELEASE – Texas, United States, June 11th, 2025] Bitcoin holders can now trade, borrow, and execute complex DeFi strategies for just $0.01 per transaction, following Threshold Network’s launch of tBTC on Starknet. This trust-minimized protocol transforms Bitcoin into functional DeFi capital while preserving full user custody. tBTC is now available for direct minting on […]

BitcoinOS and Starknet are on the verge of adding smart contract functionality to Bitcoin — with, or without, the controversial OP_CAT fork. BitcoinOS and Starknet arent waiting around for the controversial OP_CAT hard fork to add new functionality to Bitcoin, with both projects devising innovative ways to scale Bitcoin using zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs right now. The projects have both demonstrated it’s possible to verify ZK-proofs on Bitcoins existing mainnet even if Bitcoins ultra-simple scripting language makes it difficult and expensive. This could create genuine Bitcoin L2s that inherit much of its security, and unlock the intriguing possibility of creating programmable tokens on Bitcoin itself. Best known as an Ethereum L2, Starknet wants to use the tech to scale Bitcoin to thousands of transactions per second, up from just 7 TPS today. “The ecosystem in Starknet is very, very enthusiastic about also expanding to Bitcoin,” co-founder Eli Ben-Sasson tells Magazine.  BitcoinOS, meanwhile, claims it will s...