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Filecoin has announced a significant improvement in its onchain cloud storage setup, now taking just five minutes to complete. This change allows providers to install a Docker Compose stack with minimal commands, streamlining the process significantly. The news, shared by the @Filecoin account, is expected to enhance user adoption and usability in the competitive cloud storage market. Read more here. The Latest The broader crypto market is experiencing mixed signals, but Filecoin’s latest update is a noteworthy development that could reshape user engagement. The reduced setup time for cloud storage providers may lead to a surge in applications utilizing Filecoin’s…
Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner claims that cryptocurrencies should have been banned, arguing that they are used to exert excessive political influence. “There are consequences from lack of regulation,” von Tetzchner wrote in a recent social media post. Von Tetzchner claims that the same should have applied to user profiling for ads and content algorithms. “We should have banned user profiling for ads and content algorithms. We did not, and we live with the consequences to our societies and democracy,” he wrote. He then turned his attention to artificial intelligence, noting that some AI companies are themselves calling for regulation.…
MVB Financial Corp., a banking partner to fintechs and innovation-driven companies, said on Sept. 9 that it will participate in a Visa Direct pilot supporting stablecoin-enabled funding and settlement for push-to-card payouts. The bank is working with Velocity, an enterprise payments and treasury platform powered by stablecoins, to bring stablecoin liquidity into its banking and payments operations, according to a release the companies published. The announcement marks another move by a regulated U.S. bank to treat stablecoins as a settlement rail inside everyday payment flows. Stablecoins underneath existing banking rails The arrangement lets MVB use stablecoins to settle its Visa…
TL;DR EigenLayer TVL stood at about $11.02 billion on September 21. The total includes capital from native $ETH deposits and liquid restaking tokens. Protocol TVL should not be confused with stake delegated to any single AVS. EigenLayer has moved back above the $11 billion mark in total value locked, with DeFiLlama showing approximately $11.02 billion on September 21. The milestone gives Ethereum restaking another large headline number at a time when the sector is increasingly being judged on how much economic security it can attract and retain. Restaking Capital Remains Concentrated Around EigenLayer EigenLayer allows users to extend Ethereum-based economic…
Bitcoin’s recent rally is facing skepticism as analysts, including COINDREAM, point out the lack of solid spot demand. The absence of sustained buying pressure raises concerns about the rally’s conviction. As traders navigate this landscape, understanding the implications of weak demand becomes crucial for future price movements. Source: COINDREAM. What Went Down The broader cryptocurrency market shows mixed signals, yet Bitcoin’s rally is particularly under scrutiny. Currently, Bitcoin finds itself at a critical juncture, as traders observe the market’s response to the ongoing resistance near $65,000. COINDREAM’s analysis indicates that without robust spot demand, the current price increase lacks the…
Linera is ceasing operations immediately after failing to secure enough funding to continue. Its LNRA community sale closed below the 1.5 million $USDC minimum, triggering full refunds. The Layer 1 project had previously raised $12 million from investors including a16z Crypto and Borderless Capital. Linera never reached mainnet, while existing community points carry no guaranteed future benefit. Linera is shutting down before reaching mainnet, bringing a four-year development effort to a halt despite $12 million in venture backing and a founder with roots in Meta’s blockchain research. Founder Mathieu Baudet announced the decision in Linera’s official Discord on September 18,…
Representative Bryan Steil, Chair of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, argued the core obstacle facing the Clarity Act isn’t disagreement over the policy itself, it’s a structural difference between how the House and Senate operate. Why the House Moved Faster Steil explained the House’s majority rule structure lets leadership call a vote once consensus is built, “and then the chips fall where they are.” The Senate has no equivalent mechanism, requiring 60 votes just to bring the bill up for debate. “The challenge on the Senate side… is that ability to call the vote that the majority…
Bitget Wallet has joined Japan’s Blockchain Collaborative Consortium as the country develops new rules for crypto services and regulators examine how self-custodial platforms should be treated. In a statement shared with crypto.news, Bitget Wallet said its membership in the Blockchain Collaborative Consortium, or BCCC, will give the company a place in Japanese industry discussions covering wallet standards, decentralized finance, stablecoins and the treatment of services where users control their own private keys. The self-custodial wallet serves more than 100 million users and supports integrations with over 130 blockchains. Its entry into BCCC brings the wallet into formal industry policy discussions…
TL;DR Ondo Finance has added in-kind minting and redemption for institutional Ondo Stocks users. Eligible institutions can contribute existing equity inventory rather than converting shares to cash first. The service currently supports tokenized positions on Ethereum and $BNB Chain and is not a retail minting product. Ondo Finance is removing one of the more awkward steps in institutional stock tokenization: converting existing share inventory to cash before moving it onchain. Through an integration with Alpaca’s Instant Tokenization Network, eligible institutional users can now contribute existing equity inventory directly to mint Ondo Stocks positions. Shares Can Move Into The Tokenized System…
Bitcoin ($BTC) rose 1.3% on September 14, outperforming the broader cryptocurrency market following a short squeeze in derivatives markets. Looking ahead, though, our machine learning algorithm predicts the asset is going to plummet by the end of the month. Namely, based on the forecast given by Finbold’s AI Agent, Bitcoin could decline 4.93% from its current price of $77,967 and trade at $74,108 on October 1, 2026. $BTC price prediction October 1. Source: Finbold The prediction was generated using a combination of four artificial intelligence (AI) models, including DeepSeek Chat, ChatGPT 5.7 Luna, Gemini 3.5 Flash, and Grok 4.5. Notably,…