Options on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) are pricing smaller swings than the fund experienced during Bitcoin’s recent rebound, according to Saxo Bank. IBIT’s implied volatility stood at 37.4%, compared with realized volatility of 45.5% over the 20 trading sessions through Tuesday, Saxo investment and options strategist Koen Hoorelbeke wrote Thursday. Based on Wednesday’s data, […]
Bitcoin could soar to as high as $500,000 within roughly two years, according to Cole Kennelly, founder and CEO of cryptocurrency volatility specialist Volmex Labs. Bitcoin would have to increase more than sixfold from the level shown during the interview to reach $500,000. This would mean a gain of roughly 540%. BTC is currently changing […]
XRP, the native crypto token on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), topped the list of crypto assets drained from Bitget Exchange, a global centralized exchange (CEX), earlier on September 25, 2026. At the time of writing, 102,926,478 tokens, worth over $157.4 million, had been siphoned from one of the Bitget hot wallets, as Finbold research showed. […]
Bitcoin is showing signs of strength as its monthly RSI recovers from the low levels seen during its 2026 decline. Bitcoin analyst PlanB, who has over 2 million followers on X, shared the latest monthly RSI chart from Block Horizon and simply said, “Bitcoin is getting stronger.” Bitcoin Monthly RSI Moves Back Above 50 The […]
Quant (QNT) surged 40% on September 25, almost reaching $100 as investors reacted to a major institutional partnership announcement. Looking ahead, artificial intelligence (AI) suggests the asset has room for another short-term rally. Namely, Finbold’s AI prediction tool sees QNT rallying another 7.65% and trading at $107.62 by October 1, 2026, which are levels not […]
U.S Spot Bitcoin ETFs have been on a winning streak for the past five days, effectively hauling in $2.65B in net inflows. The strong demand has flipped the ETF positive on a year-to-date (YTD) basis and lifted $BTC’s price to an eight-month high of $87K. However, the bullish momentum is still facing renewed bond market […]
Bitget, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, suffered a security breach on September 24, involving approximately $351.6 million in digital assets. CEO Gracy Chen said on an X livestream that investigators identified IP addresses linked to VPN services previously used by a North Korean hacking group and noted similarities with earlier attacks, although Bitget has not confirmed […]
Bitcoin’s transaction history is famously public. Send bitcoin ($BTC) and the payment joins a ledger anyone can inspect, potentially forever. The New York lab [[alloc] init] is proposing a counterintuitive workaround. Leave Bitcoin’s rules alone and build privacy on top of them. Shielded Bitcoin uses encrypted notes and zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs to conceal amounts and […]
Researchers at the cryptography research firm Alloc Init have proposed a system for bringing Zcash-style private transfers to Bitcoin without requiring a soft fork. The proposal, called Shielded Bitcoin, would conceal transaction amounts, senders, receivers and links to previously spent funds using encrypted notes and zero-knowledge proofs. The paper was published on Thursday by Clara […]
The survey included endowments, foundations, public pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, multi-family offices, investment consultants and public companies managing from hundreds of millions to tens of billions of dollars in assets. The interviews, conducted between late March and April 2026, when $BTC was trading around $75,000, revealed that “most” respondents who own crypto assets frame […]