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Piero Cipollone, Executive Board Member of the ECB, explained that the adoption of central bank money, including a digital euro, would serve to set an European sovereign defense against stablecoins. He stressed that stablecoins pose distinct risks to financial stability and to the implementation of effective monetary policy. ECB Highlights Relevance of Digital Euro to Face Growing Stablecoin Adoption The Facts: Piero Cipollone, Executive Board Member of the European Central Bank (ECB), has highlighted the relevance of the implementation of a digital euro currency to defeat the risks associated with the irruption of stablecoins in the Eurozone. At an Euro50…

Bella Protocol (BEL), a DeFi platform that simplifies cryptocurrency trading through AI-driven tools, announced a strategic collaboration with PlutonAI, an advanced ecosystem that combines AI with DeFi to provide an efficient Web3 experience. Through this partnership, Pluton integrated the Bella LLM Research bot into its DeFAI platform to advance the efficiency of the decentralized artificial intelligence network. Pluton is a DeFAI (decentralized artificial intelligence) platform that enables users to deploy AI agents to drive financial automation, portfolio optimization, and trading productivity. 🚀 New Integration!We’re excited to announce that the Bella LLM Research Bot is now live on @PlutonAIHQ – an…

Key takeaways ETH is down 1.5% and is now trading above $3,500 per coin. The positive performance comes as whales accelerate buying pressure. Whales stack up Ethereum Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, is trading above $3,500 after defending the $3,300 low on Wednesday. The coin is still down 1.5% in the last 24 hours, but could rally higher in the near term. The positive performance comes as a key Ethereum whale has added over $1.38 billion worth of Ether coins to their wallet over the last ten days. According to Arkham Intelligence, the whale added another million in…

A crypto whale has opened $255 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum long positions as markets react to signs of easing U.S.-China tensions. Summary Insider whale opened $255M in BTC and ETH longs after Trump confirmed a meeting with Xi Jinping. Market up 3% as traders price in easing U.S.-China tensions. Fed rate cut and ETF approvals seen as near-term tailwinds. On Oct. 20, on-chain analyst Wimar.x reported that an insider with a perfect trading record opened large leveraged longs on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. 🚨BREAKINGAN INSIDER WITH A 100% WIN RATE JUST OPENED $BTC AND $ETH LONGS WORTH $255 MILLIONHE…

Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), the largest tokenized version of Bitcoin, has expanded to the Hedera network — a move that could open the door to more decentralized finance (DeFi) options for BTC holders. The integration, announced Thursday, brings additional liquidity to Hedera, which already supports smart contracts and native tokenization and markets itself as a low-fee network with no frontrunning or miner-extractable value (MEV). Frontrunning and MEV are tactics where validators reorder transactions to profit at users’ expense — a problem Hedera’s consensus mechanism is designed to avoid. The launch was supported by BitGo, a Hedera Council member and the primary…

Ethereum is attempting to stabilize after an extended decline that raised concerns about its ability to stage a recovery. ETH has struggled to generate upward momentum for most of the month. However, shifting investor behavior now suggests the situation may be changing. Declining selling pressure and aggressive whale accumulation are creating early signs of strength. Ethereum Whales Show Their Strength Whale activity has become a key driver of Ethereum’s current market sentiment. Addresses holding between 1 million and 10 million ETH have accumulated nearly 460,000 ETH in the last four days. This haul, valued at more than $1.6 billion, indicates…

nof1, an artificial intelligence (AI) research platform focused on financial markets, launched a large language learning model (LLM) trading test called Alpha Arena on October 18. The test had six mainstream AI models (GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok-4, Claude Sonnet 4.5, DeepSeek V3.1, and Qwen3 Max) use $10,000 in real funds each on the Hyperliquid crypto exchange, with identical prompts and input data. a By the end of the experiment, DeepSeek and Grok had delivered returns of more than 14%, ranking in the top two. On the other end of the spectrum, Gemini 2.5 Pro had lost 42.57%. Alpha Arena…

Crypto infrastructure platform Threshold has rolled out a major upgrade for its tBTC bridge, aimed at enticing institutions to put their billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin to work in decentralized finance protocols. Threshold’s latest upgrade now enables institutions to mint tBTC directly to supported chains in a single Bitcoin (BTC) transaction, without secondary approvals and without gas fees, while redemptions back to the Bitcoin network are equally as straightforward, Threshold said in a statement. Threshold’s head of marketing, Rizza Carla Ramos, went into more depth in an interview with Cointelegraph at the Web Summit in Lisbon this week, explaining…

Ethereum gained support from its growing staking, as deposits expanded the staked supply by 28% year-to-date. Staking is a source of passive income for idle ETH reserves and doubles as a signal of long-term confidence. Ethereum staking accelerated in 2025, with deposits growing by 28% since January. The supply of staked ETH is now over 36M tokens, hovering near an all-time high. Staking inflows happened after the Dencun upgrade, which allowed stakes of up to 2,048 ETH instead of just 32 ETH. Historically, high levels of staking correlate with ETH rallies. The Beacon Chain is also expected to lock 35%…

Cryptocurrency investment products were unable to sustain their two-week inflow streak, with fund flows turning negative last week following crypto’s “Black Friday” market crash. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) saw $513 million in outflows last week, ending the two-week streak totaling $9.1 billion, CoinShares reported on Monday. Addressing the total $668 million of outflows following the “Binance liquidity cascade” on Oct. 10, CoinShares head of research James Butterfill said the ETP market saw less panic than the spot market. He said that while crypto ETP investors largely “shrugged off this event,” onchain investors were more bearish. Bitcoin was the only major…