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Brian Armstrong spent $25 million to burn Cobie’s NFT, reviving the iconic Up Only TV crypto podcast and sparking massive nostalgia.

Fake “Cointelegraph” accounts are scamming crypto users. Learn how to spot impostors, verify identities and stay protected in 2025. If you’re a tier-1 crypto media sales representative in 2025, chances are you have an impersonator. These are often fake Telegram, X or LinkedIn accounts offering “Tier-1 PR” to unsuspecting businesses, only to share a personal USDT wallet address when it’s time to pay. Cointelegraph has seen plenty of such cases. In October 2025 alone, a Telegram profile styled as “Tobias Vilkenson | Cointelegraph” messaged BNB Chain to “set up a time to chat and feature BNB Chain in a Cointelegraph article,” linking to an X account under the same name with more than 6,000 followers. It’s a textbook impostor play: borrowing a newsroom’s credibility, promising coverage and moving targets into private direct messages (DMs) where the scam continues. Read more

Bitcoin’s rally to $112,000 fizzled fast as weak open interest and low funding rates revealed fading momentum.

Ethereum trades near $3,900 as RSI retests trendline; analysts watch $4,100 breakout with $8K targets and $250M institutional buys.

For nearly five years, XRP was the crypto token that couldn’t shake its courtroom shadow. This resulted in its price stagnating, exchanges delisting it, and institutional desks quietly stepping away as the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pursued Ripple Labs over allegations of unregistered securities sales. During that time, other assets sprinted ahead. Bitcoin […] The post The XRP era: $1B Nasdaq listing and 1,000% liquidity surge mark a sensational comeback appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The crypto-backed lender's new offering, built with Blockware and Mark Moss, targets wealthy bitcoin holders with tax write-offs and monthly income from mining.

Geth lead Péter Szilágyi’s criticisms of the Ethereum Foundation prompted Polygon CEO Sandeep Nailwal to chime in with his own issues.

Michael Intrator calls the deal a “nice to have” as ISS and major investors urge shareholders to reject the proposed acquisition.

Malta’s Finance Minister Clyde Caruana backed a government-run charity’s decision to reject a now $33 million Binance donation due to reputational concerns. Malta’s finance minister backed a government-run charity’s decision to reject a multimillion-dollar crypto donation from Binance Charity, saying the refusal was the right call despite the funds’ ballooning value, according to the Times of Malta. Finance Minister Clyde Caruana reportedly said Tuesday he supported the Malta Community Chest Fund’s decision to decline a 30,644 BNB (BNB) donation, worth about $200,000 in 2018 but now valued at roughly $33 million. “You either give to charity or you don’t,” he told the Times of Malta. “Don’t dance around it.” Read more

The deal marks Coinbase's another major acquisition this year as it builds infrastructure spanning token creation, fundraising, and secondary trading.

Play-to-earn gaming’s collapse isn’t a crisis; it’s a necessary reset that will force developers to prioritize fun over financial extraction mechanics. Opinion by: Tobin Kuo, founder and CEO of Seraph Play-to-earn (P2E) had a moment — “had” its moment — but that’s the problem. Its time has passed. The thrill was the payout, not the play, not the result, which looked less like a game and more like shift work with a user interface.  To be fair, the experiments weren’t worthless. They proved that wallets can be controllers, assets can be portable, and communities can co-own the worlds they love. But it shouldn’t — and can’t — be denied that subsidies bent every design choice toward leeching mechanics. Everything was extraction: recruit, inflate, cash out and repeat.  Read more

If you're a cryptocurrency investor or a trader, filing your taxes correctly can spare you tremendous headache. Here's all you need to know about choosing the best crypto tax software in 2025.

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Bitcoin traders expect the asset to “bounce soon,” while an XRP DAT and looming ETF approvals brought bulls back out to fight: Trade Secrets. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. Bitcoin is facing a critical two-month countdown before market sentiment could shift dramatically for the asset, warns crypto analyst Will Clemente. If Bitcoin doesnt catch up to gold/stocks by EOY, on a risk-adjusted basis, its going to be tougher to make a case for it going forward as anything more than a diversifier, Clemente said. Read more

Bitcoin traders expect the asset to “bounce soon,” while an XRP DAT and looming ETF approvals brought bulls back out to fight: Trade Secrets. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. Bitcoin is facing a critical two-month countdown before market sentiment could shift dramatically for the asset, warns crypto analyst Will Clemente. If Bitcoin doesnt catch up to gold/stocks by EOY, on a risk-adjusted basis, its going to be tougher to make a case for it going forward as anything more than a diversifier, Clemente said. Read more

Bitcoin traders expect the asset to “bounce soon,” while an XRP DAT and looming ETF approvals brought bulls back out to fight: Trade Secrets. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. Bitcoin is facing a critical two-month countdown before market sentiment could shift dramatically for the asset, warns crypto analyst Will Clemente. If Bitcoin doesnt catch up to gold/stocks by EOY, on a risk-adjusted basis, its going to be tougher to make a case for it going forward as anything more than a diversifier, Clemente said. Read more

Bitcoin traders expect the asset to “bounce soon,” while an XRP DAT and looming ETF approvals brought bulls back out to fight: Trade Secrets. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. Bitcoin is facing a critical two-month countdown before market sentiment could shift dramatically for the asset, warns crypto analyst Will Clemente. If Bitcoin doesnt catch up to gold/stocks by EOY, on a risk-adjusted basis, its going to be tougher to make a case for it going forward as anything more than a diversifier, Clemente said. Read more

Bitcoin traders expect the asset to “bounce soon,” while an XRP DAT and looming ETF approvals brought bulls back out to fight: Trade Secrets. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. Bitcoin is facing a critical two-month countdown before market sentiment could shift dramatically for the asset, warns crypto analyst Will Clemente. If Bitcoin doesnt catch up to gold/stocks by EOY, on a risk-adjusted basis, its going to be tougher to make a case for it going forward as anything more than a diversifier, Clemente said. Read more

Bitcoin traders expect the asset to “bounce soon,” while an XRP DAT and looming ETF approvals brought bulls back out to fight: Trade Secrets. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. Bitcoin is facing a critical two-month countdown before market sentiment could shift dramatically for the asset, warns crypto analyst Will Clemente. If Bitcoin doesnt catch up to gold/stocks by EOY, on a risk-adjusted basis, its going to be tougher to make a case for it going forward as anything more than a diversifier, Clemente said. Read more