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With reserves down 25% and Coinbase Premium flipping positive, ETH could be gearing up for its biggest rally yet.

BNB hits $1,200 with 20% weekly gains as price momentum outpaces on-chain activity, signaling strong demand despite slower network growth.

Abu Dhabi, UAE, 6th October 2025, Chainwire

Africa stands at a crossroads: harness cryptocurrency’s $4-trillion potential for sovereignty and growth or risk financial instability and exclusion. Opinion by: Ure Utah, technical advisor to Nigeria’s minister of innovation With the value of digital currencies surging close to $4 trillion, the world is rushing to cash in. While Elon Musk’s Dogecoin (DOGE) and the US president’s Official Trump (TRUMP) coin grab headlines, Africa sits at the frontline of this worldwide financial upheaval. This is a crucial point. Unless African leaders act to regulate or harness crypto, what happens next will determine whether the continent’s 1.55 billion inhabitants build greater sovereignty over their future or usher in a new era of financial instability. Read more

Strategy’s Bitcoin bet swelled by $3.9 billion in unrealized gains last quarter, even as Michael Saylor broke tradition by skipping a fresh BTC purchase. Strategy Inc. co-founder and executive chairman Michael Saylor said Monday that the company had a massive $3.9 billion fair value gain on its Bitcoin holdings during the third quarter of the year. On Saturday, Bitcoin (BTC) reached a new all-time high of $125,000 as exchange balances plunged to six-year lows. Saylor’s Strategy, a company known for adding to its Bitcoin stockpile during new price highs, said that it is skipping its BTC purchase this week.  On X, Saylor said that instead of a new Bitcoin buy, the company is highlighting its returns. “No new orange dots this week — just a $9 billion reminder of why we HODL,” Saylor said, sharing a chart where orange dots represented the company’s Bitcoin buys.  Read more

The firm extended its lead as the largest ether treasury, holding over 2.83 million in ETH tokens.

Ethereum (ETH) gained 1.3% from Friday as the index traded higher.

Every macro trade right now is the debasement trade—a term you can expect to hear a lot more frequently in the coming months.

The new GalaxyOne platform offers 4%–8% yields and unified trading across crypto, stocks and ETFs.

Experts project selective altcoin growth from high-quality layer-1 projects like Solana in the fourth quarter.

The broker's $54 price target suggests 35% upside from Friday's $40 close.

Standard Chartered forecasts more than $1 trillion may exit emerging market banks and flow into stablecoins in the next three years as crypto adoption grows. Multinational bank Standard Chartered predicted that more than $1 trillion may exit emerging market banks and flow into stablecoins by 2028 as demand for US dollar-pegged crypto assets accelerates.  In a Monday report, Standard Chartered’s Global Research department said it expects global stablecoin adoption to accelerate as payment networks and other core banking activities shift to the non-bank sector.  As stablecoins gain traction in emerging markets (EM), Standard Chartered noted that users might utilize stablecoins to access what’s essentially a US dollar-based account. “Stablecoin ownership has been more prevalent in EM than DM, suggesting that such diversification is also more likely in EM,” Standard Chartered said.  Read more

Shares were higher in premarket action alongside bitcoin's weekend gain to a new record price.

Rising stablecoin usage could offer savers in weak economies a safer alternative to local banks.

Dogecoin price fell 20% in 2025, while Shiba Inu, PEPE, and TRUMP have plunged even further as Bitcoin outperformed the memecoin market. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s institution-driven rally has sidelined retail-heavy memecoins. Top memecoins, DOGE, PEPE and TRUMP, show short-term rebound potential for Q4. Read more

Ethereum’s ongoing underperformance against Bitcoin has reignited debate over what’s holding the asset up, and who’s really behind its demand. According to Bitcoin advocate Samson Mow, roughly $6 billion in South Korean retail money is now propping up so-called Ethereum treasuries, companies accumulating ETH as a balance-sheet asset echoing MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin strategy. Mow issued the […] The post Are South Korean retail traders the only thing keeping Ethereum treasury companies alive? appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Grayscale became the first US crypto fund issuer to feature staking for its Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded products. Crypto asset manager Grayscale has introduced staking for its exchange-traded products (ETPs), becoming the first US-based crypto fund issuer to offer staking-based passive income opportunities. Grayscale said on Monday its Ether (ETH) ETFs — the Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust ETF (ETH) and Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHE) — are now the first US-listed spot crypto funds to offer staking, calling the development “another first-mover milestone.” Grayscale’s Solana (SOL) fund, the Grayscale Solana Trust (GSOL), has also enabled staking and is awaiting regulatory approval for uplisting to an ETP, which would make it one of the first spot Solana ETPs to enable staking, according to the company’s Monday X post. Read more

The update applies to Grayscale's Ethereum Trust ETF, Ethereum Mini Trust ETF, and Solana Trust, which have a combined $8.25 billion in assets under management.

Crypto ETPs posted a record $5.95 billion of inflows last week, with Bitcoin leading the gains, recording a record $3.6 billion in inflows amid concerns about a US government shutdown. Cryptocurrency investment products recorded their highest-ever inflows last week, as the US government shutdown fueled a rally in spot crypto markets. Global crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) recorded $5.95 billion of inflows in the week ending Friday — the largest ever seen — CoinShares reported on Monday. “We believe this was due to a delayed response to the FOMC [Federal Open Market Committee] interest rate cut, compounded by very weak employment data [...], and concerns over US government stability following the shutdown,” CoinShares’ head of research, James Butterfill, said. Read more

Fear & Greed Index expected to cross 80, a classic sell signal from past cycle tops, with nearly all BTC supply now sitting in profit.