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Farrell said investors should become more aggressive over a medium- to long-term timeframe, while noting that Bitcoin’s recovery will not move in a straight line. Bond Market Pressure Becomes a Bitcoin Catalyst The strategist pointed to rising Treasury yields and the U.S. government’s growing debt burden as key parts of the Bitcoin thesis. According to Farrell, the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio is above 120%, while the fiscal deficit stands at roughly 6% to 7% of GDP and is expected to increase. At the same time, the market is pricing multiple rate hikes over the next 12 months, while the 10-year Treasury…

The optional cap creates no obligation to spend the maximum and does not establish a liquidity shortfall. The filing discloses no completed SATA repurchases, dedicated funding source, or timetable for using the full capacity. Strive’s $500 million SATA buyback ceiling exceeds reported cash by $213.3 million but remains optional. Strive reported 29,462 $BTC as of Oct. 2 after buying 2,000 Bitcoin between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2 at an average price of approximately $84,422, including fees and expenses. Those holdings are separate from its preliminary, unaudited Sept. 30 figures, which showed 28,000 $BTC and remained subject to change. Buying Bitcoin…

Why industrial businesses are choosing XRPL over Ethereum The shift in leadership is driven by fundamental differences in the networks’ architecture. Unlike Ethereum, where issuing assets involves unpredictable gas costs and requires developers to write complex smart contracts, $XRP Ledger lets users tokenize real-world assets at the protocol level. Its built-in IOU mechanism reduces transaction costs to fractions of a cent, while settlement takes just 3–5 seconds. $XRP Ledger leads YTD tokenized commodity market cap growth, ahead of Ethereum, Source: RWA Foundation / Token Terminal The main driver that enabled XRPL to overtake Ethereum was the energy sector. The largest…

Today is Hester Peirce’s last day as an SEC Commissioner. The digital asset industry, and every American who believes regulation should mitigate risk and foster innovation, owes her an enormous debt of gratitude. For more than eight years, Commissioner Peirce served as a principled voice at the Commission. Under the previous SEC Chairman, she frequently dissented when the Commission chose to bring enforcement actions rather than write rules the industry could comply with. She proposed a token safe harbor years before regulators were ready to listen. She led the Crypto Task Force and insisted that the agency’s duty to protect…

Streamlining Travel Financing Travelers heading to East Africa can now pay for wildlife safaris, Mount Kilimanjaro treks, and beach stays in Zanzibar using bitcoin, as tour operators move to accommodate visitors who prefer digital currency over credit cards or bank transfers. Zatatep Tours, a licensed Tanzanian tour operator with more than 20 years of experience, recently integrated bitcoin as a direct payment option alongside traditional credit cards. The decision reflects a broader effort across East Africa’s tourism sector to eliminate international settlement friction for cryptocurrency users. Booking long-haul African travel has historically involved international bank wires, currency conversion charges, or…

This difference corresponds to a 91% share in the historical distribution. This chart indicates strong demand from investors for call options aimed at profiting from Bitcoin’s rise. However, Coinbase Markets noted that it is not yet clear whether this pattern reflects a rational bullish outlook or excessive one-sided demand for call options, emphasizing that this situation should be closely monitored. Whales Made $1.22 Billion Worth of Purchases, $100,000 Target Back on the Agenda! While Bitcoin is struggling to break above $87,000, purchases by large investors are attracting attention. Popular analyst Ali Martinez notes in his analysis that whales have accumulated…

“The institutions building on Rain want the assets behind their programs held by a fiduciary that answers to a federal regulator,” Rain CEO and co-founder Farooq Malik said. Rain joins a growing number of crypto and payments companies seeking national trust bank charters. Payments infrastructure company Modern Treasury also announced Monday it had submitted an application seeking approval to offer digital asset custody and related fiat services. Community banks challenge OCC over crypto trust charters However, the push has drawn opposition from community banks. On Friday, the Independent Community Bankers of America sued the OCC, alleging the regulator exceeded its…

Circle really hired the guy who was charged with promoting one of the only ICO scams that was so stupid, so blatantly fraudulent, so criminal that it was written up in NYTimes and then promptly prosecuted by DOJ *and* SEC???????https://t.co/a7rAMIU5WU https://t.co/nMz60TK50R — Tay 💖 (@tayvano_) October 6, 2026 The charges in question relate to Centra Tech, a $25 million ICO which landed one co-founder in prison for eight years and another for one year. A third, who cooperated with authorities, later appeared in a Netflix documentary about the scam. A November 2018 SEC press release details how Khaled, real name…

Clayton, who did not respond to a message from CoinDesk, previously served as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York before being appointed this year as Trump’s director of national intelligence. If he becomes a leader in the positioning of the new technology, the AI industry could note his record as a watchdog for digital assets. The regulation-by-enforcement crypto stance the industry decried under former Chairman Gary Gensler, a Democratic appointee of previous President Joe Biden, had its beginnings in Clayton’s tenure running the SEC. Clayton, who was appointed chairman by Trump in his first administration, began…

His reasoning was equally direct. “Nobody wants to pay for custody,” Belshe said, as the company works to use custody as the entry point for services that generate fees when clients trade, borrow, settle transactions or manage collateral. BitGo, the US crypto custodian that went public this year, wants prime brokerage to become the main engine of its business as it expands its trading, financing and settlement services, co-founder and Chief Executive Mike Belshe said. https://t.co/Gl2E6LJPZ7 — Bloomberg (@business) October 6, 2026 BitGo’s latest financial filings show that the company is already moving in that direction. Its custody and wallet…