Several altcoins, including ATOM and IOTX, briefly hit zero on Binance during Friday’s crypto crash but stayed afloat elsewhere. Key takeaways Some altcoins, including Cosmos’s ATOM token, briefly fell near zero on Binance during Friday’s crypto market crash. The same altcoins held real market value on other centralized crypto exchanges. Read more
Equity lending’s outdated batch settlements and manual reconciliations are failing markets. Onchain infrastructure offers real-time, programmable solutions. Opinion by: Hedy Wang, co-founder and CEO at Block Street Equity markets are still running on outdated rails — batch files, email reconciliations and sluggish collateral transfers that crawl between custodians through workflows that no one fully controls. If the industry wants to maintain credibility, it can no longer tolerate this. The answer is not another incremental patch or painful niche option. It’s a step up to onchain equity lending. Real-time settlement, programmable collateral and transparent rule enforcement will become the benchmark others must meet. Read more
CEA Industries CEO David Namdar calls BNB “the most overlooked blue-chip,” as the token hits new highs and its ecosystem shows rising usage. BNB’s recent surge to a new all-time high above $1,300 is not an “unexpected upshot or rare peak,” rather it shows the network’s credibility, according to David Namdar, CEO of Nasdaq-listed CEA Industries, which has also become the world’s largest BNB Treasury. In a recent interview with Cointelegraph, Namdar called BNB (BNB) “the most overlooked blue-chip in the market,” arguing that the rally reflects years of underappreciated fundamentals finally breaking through. “The market is waking up to the credibility, scale, and utility of the BNB ecosystem,” he said, pointing out the chain’s rising throughput, active users and steady DeFi and gaming traction. Read more
BTC price action stabilized at around $112,000 ahead of fresh volatility into the weekly close and Bitcoin futures market open. Key points: Bitcoin market analysis sees a squeeze toward $114,000 in time for the weekly close. Traders favor a BTC price rebound into next week. Read more