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Precious metals are soaring in response to the US dollar debasement, with gold hitting $4,000 per ounce and silver reaching a 45-year high of over $50 per ounce. Still, the precious metal rally may be running out of steam, paving the way for investor rotation into alternative store-of-value assets like Bitcoin (BTC) and tokenized real-world assets.Gold’s more than 50% rally so far this year — coupled with Goldman Sachs’ forecast of $4,900 per ounce by the end of 2026 — suggests the metal is “overheated,” according to Nic Puckrin, founder of the Coin Bureau education company. He said:“After more than…

Decentralized exchanges (DEX) registered $1.43 trillion in spot volume during the third quarter, marking the strongest quarterly performance on record and signaling a structural shift in how crypto markets establish prices.The figure represents a 43.6% increase from the $1 trillion registered in the second quarter, and surpasses the previous record of nearly $1.2 trillion set between January and March.August and September delivered the second- and third-largest monthly volumes in history, at $510.5 billion and $499.1 billion, respectively, trailing only January 2025’s $560.3 billion.Additionally, DEXs captured 17.7% of the total crypto spot volume traded by their centralized counterparts, according to data…

BNB Coin (BNB), the main token on BNB Chain, has stunned the crypto markets by surpassing Ripple (XRP) in global market cap. The latest price data from CoinGecko reveals a $179.7 billion market cap for the Binance-backed altcoin, while Ripple’s XRP token gathered $178.29 billion.BNB Coin Hits Fresh ATH, Snatches 3rd Spot From XRPJudging by the 24-hour trading volumes, BNB edged XRP $8.98 billion to $6.6 billion, latest SoSoValue data revealed. Presently, BNB is trading at $1,303, keeping afloat with this support level while most other major-cap altcoins succumbed to 2-3% deficits on Wednesday. Meanwhile, XRP coin saw an unpleasant…

The crypto industry is recoiling from a document reportedly outlining a U.S. Senate Democratic pitch on handling decentralized finance (DeFi) as a component of the wider effort toward regulating crypto in the U.S.The proposal — a detailed outline describing an approach to DeFi, first reported by Politico — suggests that a firm or individuals that handle customer needs on the front end of a DeFi operation should have to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and be regulated as a broker.The language defining who would be roped into regulation as an intermediary would…

Key points:Bitcoin risks new October lows as sellers regain control and BTC price discovery gets put on hold.Targets include the local range lows at about $108,000 amid bearish divergences.Strength is lacking as daily losses near 3%.Bitcoin (BTC) neared weekly lows after Thursday’s Wall Street open as sellers kept bulls away from price discovery.BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewBitcoin “likely” to give way to shorts nextData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD dipping below $120,000.Down nearly 3% on the day, the pair continued to slice through bid liquidity on exchange order books.“Market does still quote bid liquidity around $121K-$120K but…

Shares of Strategy (MSTR) are down about 3.6% today, weighed by a slide in Bitcoin. The broader crypto market is under pressure. Bitcoin slipped roughly 2% over the past 24 hours, retreating from recent highs. That drop is rippling into crypto-linked equities — Strategy is one of the most exposed. Strategy (MSTR) is currently trading at $319.84 Strategy, co-founded by Michael Saylor, reported $3.9 billion in fair value gains for the third quarter of this year. The company holds roughly 640,000 Bitcoin, with an average purchase price of $73,983 per coin. Investors see Strategy now as nearly a pure Bitcoin…

Bitcoin advocate Roger Ver, known to many in the crypto industry as “Bitcoin Jesus,” has reportedly reached a deal with the US Department of Justice that could allow him to avoid prison time.According to a Thursday New York Times report, Ver’s lawyers reached a tentative agreement with US authorities that would require the Bitcoin (BTC) advocate to pay $48 million in taxes he owed from his crypto holdings. The Justice Department charged Ver with mail fraud and tax evasion in April 2024, seeking to extradite him from Spain to stand trial.The New York Times reported that Ver has ties with…

Despite previously supporting a crypto market structure bill, several Democratic Senators have reportedly introduced a counter-proposal that could see decentralized finance protocols placed on a “restricted list” if deemed too risky. This move, among others, it proposed could “kill DeFi,” according to its critics. The Senate Banking Committee Democrats sent a proposal to the committee’s Republicans on Thursday seeking to impose Know Your Customer rules on the frontends of crypto apps — including non-custodial wallets — and stripping protections from crypto developers, several industry commentators said on Thursday, citing a report from Punchbowl News.Among those commentators was crypto lawyer Jake…

Binance open interest fell from $15.07B to $13.88B in three days, suggesting reduced leverage and caution after BTC’s rally to a new ATH. Today, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) fell back to about $120,000 after trying and failing to stay above $124,000. At the same time as this movement, open interest on Binance fell by 7.9%, with analysts describing it as an important metric showing traders are closing their positions and being more careful after the asset’s recent rise to a new all-time high (ATH). Open Interest Declines as Bulls Step Back Open interest in derivatives trading is the…

The new initiative will unite Ethereum’s top cryptographers and engineers under a single privacy framework. The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has announced the formation of a new group of 47 researchers, engineers, and cryptographers who will work together to make Ethereum’s Layer 1 infrastructure safer and more private. According to analysts, this change in structure is a show of the institution’s seriousness about adding privacy features directly to the Ethereum ecosystem, moving it from a side project to a main development priority. Expanding Ethereum’s Privacy Framework In an October 8 blog post, EF noted that the “Privacy Cluster” integrates multiple…