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The CFTC's interim boss, Caroline Pham, is said to be personally guiding exchanges on launching compliant products as she also overhauls the agency.

Despite record levels of institutional investment, most Wall Street firms are still trading off-chain, says Annabelle Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Altius Labs.

UK citizens are currently blocked from viewing certain Ledger blog pages, including an educational post on multisig wallets, due to new compliance rules. When visiting these pages, users in the UK receive a message: “Due to new rules in the UK, certain Ledger.com webpages are restricted.” These restrictions affect crypto educational resources and are linked […] The post Ledger pages blocked as UK’s crypto crackdown hits education, advertising, banking appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The market recorded its first red October in seven years, but several sectors witnessed growth and development.

The alleged Ponzi scheme attracted over 3,000 victims by offering guaranteed returns on contracts tied to various assets.

Bitcoin traders focused on the weekly close amid flat BTC price action and warned that the whole bull market could end with a bad result. Key points: Bitcoin faces an important weekly close with several key price levels on the line. The bull market’s future is still at stake, a trader says, amid ongoing whale selling. Read more

Ledger is weighing a New York listing after revenues hit triple-digit millions in 2025, driven by record crypto hacks and growing demand for cold storage wallets. French crypto hardware wallet provider Ledger is considering a New York listing as surging cyberattacks drive record demand for its hardware devices, sending revenues soaring into the triple-digit millions in 2025. CEO Pascal Gauthier recently told the Financial Times that the company, founded in Paris in 2014, is seeing its best year yet as both individuals and companies rush to protect their digital assets from increasingly sophisticated hackers. “We’re being hacked more and more every day ... hacking of your bank accounts, of your crypto, and it’s not going to get better next year and the year after that,” he said. Read more

Ethereum maintains critical support at $3,300 after a sharp weekly decline, while technical indicators show bullish divergence and whale accumulation suggests renewed interest at current levels. The post Ethereum Price Prediction: Key $3,300 Support Zone in Focus After 12% Price Pullback – What’s Next? appeared first on Cryptonews.

XRP consolidates at $2.32 following whale sales of 500,000 tokens, testing critical $2.00 support as 21Shares files for spot ETF approval and Ripple's acquisition strategy positions the protocol for institutional-scale transaction volume. The post XRP Price Prediction: Dips to $2.29 – Will Whales Trigger a Massive Accumulation Phase Here? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin's test of $102,980 support comes as hash price drops to break-even levels post-halving, while major mining firms pivot to AI infrastructure and treasury companies accumulate unrealized losses exceeding $120 million. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: $100,000 Stares Down BTC – What Onchain Data Says About the Next 48 Hours appeared first on Cryptonews.

All eyes in global finance are glued to liquidity. As the global broad money supply reaches a record $142 trillion, this monetary firehose has macro investors sitting up in their seats. Surging 6.7% year-on-year as of September, China, the EU, and the U.S. are driving this unprecedented expansion, and Bitcoin and the broader crypto market […] The post Global money supply ‘through the roof’, hitting $142 trillion in September appeared first on CryptoSlate.

In contrast, ICP has dumped hard following the recent rally.

Robert Kiyosaki predicts Bitcoin will reach $250,000 and gold $27,000 by 2026, saying he’s buying hard assets amid a looming crash. Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki has doubled down on his bullish outlook for hard assets, saying he’s buying more gold, silver, Bitcoin and Ethereum even as markets brace for a potential crash. In a post shared on X on Sunday, Kiyosaki warned of an impending economic downturn but said he’s preparing for it by accumulating assets he calls “real money.” “Crash coming: Why I am buying, not selling,” he wrote, setting ambitious targets of $27,000 for gold, $100 for silver and $250,000 for Bitcoin (BTC) by 2026. Read more

Bitcoin’s market dominance is showing signs of weakness, which could mean altcoin season is closer than many traders think. The post Analyst Says Bitcoin Dominance Breakdown Could Signal Incoming Altcoin Season appeared first on Cryptonews.

A landmark crypto fraud case involving two brothers accused of stealing $25 million through an alleged exploit on Ethereum has ended without a verdict. The post High-Profile Ethereum MEV Fraud Trial Collapses as Judge Declares Mistrial appeared first on Cryptonews.

CZ said he was surprised by Trump’s pardon, insisting he never met or did business with the US president or his family. The post Former Binance CEO CZ Says He Never Met Trump, ‘Surprised’ by Presidential Pardon appeared first on Cryptonews.

Zero-knowledge proofs replace shared observation with shared verification, enabling accountability without revealing sensitive information. Regulators must embrace privacy as infrastructure. Opinion by: Agata Ferreira, assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology A new consensus is forming across the Web3 world. For years, privacy was treated as a compliance problem, liability for developers and at best, a niche concern. Now it is becoming clear that privacy is actually what digital freedom is built on.  The Ethereum Foundation’s announcement of the Privacy Cluster — a cross-team effort focused on private reads and writes, confidential identities and zero-knowledge proofs — is a sign of a philosophical redefinition of what trust, consensus and truth mean in the digital age and a more profound realization that privacy must be built into infrastructure. Read more

Ark Investment Management has just trimmed its 2030 Bitcoin bull case from $1.5 million to $1.2 million, and a $300,000 cut may sound dramatic until one understands what actually changed. Cathie Wood didn’t panic about bond markets or abandon her thesis, but instead adjusted for competition. In recent CNBC appearances and updates, Wood explicitly tied […] The post Cathie Wood revises Bitcoin forecast as stablecoins gain ground appeared first on CryptoSlate.

XRP is down by almost 10% weekly.

Italian banks have endorsed the ECB’s digital euro project but called for implementation costs to be spread out over several years. Italian banks have expressed their support for the European Central Bank’s (ECB) digital euro initiative, but are calling for the implementation costs to be spread out over several years due to the financial burden it places on the sector. “We're in favour of the digital euro because it embodies a concept of digital sovereignty,” said Marco Elio Rottigni, General Manager of the Italian Banking Association (ABI), during a press seminar in Florence,  Reuters reported on Friday. “Costs for the project, however, are very high in the context of the capital expenditure banks must sustain. They could be spread over time,” Rottigni added. Read more