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Morgan Stanley sets 4% crypto cap for ā€˜opportunistic’ portfolios, aligning with BlackRock, Grayscale

Morgan Stanley sets 4% crypto cap for ā€˜opportunistic’ portfolios, aligning with BlackRock, Grayscale

Morgan Stanley's Global Investment Committee has recommended capping cryptocurrency allocations at up to 4% in its most aggressive client portfolios, the bank said in an Oct. 1 note. The guidance adds to Wall Street’s changing tune on how digital assets should fit into traditional multi-asset portfo…

Token2049 scrubs references to sanctioned stablecoin and ā€˜platinum sponsor’ A7A5: Reuters

Token2049 scrubs references to sanctioned stablecoin and ā€˜platinum sponsor’ A7A5: Reuters

Token2049, the organization behind the high-profile crypto conference of the same name that recently wrapped up in Singapore, scrubbed references on its website to A7A5, a stablecoin project sanctioned by the U.S. and UK, which presented at the conference and was listed as a "platinum sponsor," acco…

Bitcoin ETFs rebound with second-highest weekly inflows since launch as BTC approaches all-time high

Bitcoin ETFs rebound with second-highest weekly inflows since launch as BTC approaches all-time high

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs rebounded last week in a big way, scoring their second-highest inflow week since the funds began trading in January 2024.Ā The ETFs logged $3.24 billion in inflows last week, the second-highest week for inflows after the week ending Nov. 22, 2024, which saw $3.38 billion in inf…

CleanSpark’s bitcoin holdings top 13,000 BTC as Riot trims stack slightly in September

CleanSpark’s bitcoin holdings top 13,000 BTC as Riot trims stack slightly in September

CleanSpark has increased its bitcoin stack to 13,011 BTC, worth $1.6 billion, according to its latest monthly production update — equating to a net addition of 184 BTC ($22 million) in September.The firm mined a total of 629 BTC ($75 million) in September at a 50 H/s operational hashrate, down 4.3% …

Applied MEV protection via Shutter’s threshold encryption

Applied MEV protection via Shutter’s threshold encryption

Understanding MEV and its impact on blockchain usersTransparency is one of the foundational features of blockchains, but it enabled value extraction by controlling the order and inclusion of transactions within a block, known as MEV, or maximal extractable value.This problem is common on most blockc…

Canaan shares jump over 25% following 50,000-unit Avalon bitcoin miner order in US

Canaan shares jump over 25% following 50,000-unit Avalon bitcoin miner order in US

Shares in bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer Canaan jumped over 25% in early market trading on Thursday after the firm announced its largest single order in three years.CAN/USD price chart. Image: The Block/TradingView.Canaan said it has secured a purchase order from an unnamed U.S.-based bitcoin …

Zilliqa to Activate Mainnet Hard Fork on October 22

Zilliqa to Activate Mainnet Hard Fork on October 22

Zilliqa is preparing for a major network upgrade under Zilliqa 2.0. The hard fork is scheduled at block 11,998,800 on October 22, 2025, following its earlier activation on the testnet at block 14,997,600 on September 19, 2025. The update introduces improvements in security, stability, and efficiency…

ā€˜It’s bananas’: Why Rezolve AI’s CEO thinks crypto credit cards miss the point

ā€˜It’s bananas’: Why Rezolve AI’s CEO thinks crypto credit cards miss the point

For quite some time, crypto exchanges have been seeking ways to let customers more easily spend their Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins using Visa and Mastercard cards.RezolveĀ AI founder and CEO Daniel Wagner sees the new plastic as somewhat antithetical to crypto."It's bananas," Wagner told The Bl…

The Daily: Visa pilots stablecoin payments, Bloomberg’s LTC, SOL and XRP ETF approval odds hit 100%, and more

The Daily: Visa pilots stablecoin payments, Bloomberg’s LTC, SOL and XRP ETF approval odds hit 100%, and more

The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter,Ā The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.Happy Tuesday! Crypto is attempting to regain its footing, BRN Head of Research Timothy Misir told The Block, noting whale buying, ETF inflows, and a strong defense of the $110K level have …

Solana Could Drop Block Limits as Firedancer Challenges Compute Unit Cap

Solana Could Drop Block Limits as Firedancer Challenges Compute Unit Cap

Jump Crypto’s Firedancer team has introduced SIMD-0370, a proposal that could reshape how Solana processes transactions.The independent validator client wants to remove the network’s fixed compute unit (CU) block limit, arguing that validator performance should determine capacity rather than an arbi…

$1.7 billion in liquidations sweep crypto markets over past day as bitcoin slide sparks broader selloff

$1.7 billion in liquidations sweep crypto markets over past day as bitcoin slide sparks broader selloff

The cryptocurrency market saw roughly $1.7 billion in total liquidations in the past 24 hours, according to public data aggregated on Coinglass.Coinglass data showed that of the $1.7 billion in liquidations, about $1.62 billion came from long positions. Within the past four hours alone, roughly $1.0…

Fed cuts rates by 25bps as Trump pushes for more, crypto markets eye liquidity boost

Fed cuts rates by 25bps as Trump pushes for more, crypto markets eye liquidity boost

As most expected, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) lowered the benchmark federal funds rate by 25 basis points (bps) to a range between 4% and 4.25%, by a vote of 11-1."Recent indicators suggest that growth of economic activity moderated in the first half of the year," the U.S. Federal Reser…