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Riot Repays Coinbase Loan, Ends $200 Million Bitcoin-Backed Facility
Riot Platforms (NASDAQ: RIOT) has repaid its outstanding borrowing from Coinbase Credit and terminated a $200 million credit facility, releasing the lender’s claims on the bitcoin assets pledged to secure the debt. This article first…
Crypto ATM Numbers Fall to 2021 Levels Amid Regulatory Crackdown
According to statistics from the cryptocurrency automated teller machine (ATM) aggregation website, coinatmradar.com, the number of crypto ATMs has dropped considerably over the last 148 days. Current metrics show the number of crypto…
Bitcoin Price Eyes $100K as Fidelity’s Timmer Flips From His ‘Year Off’ Call
Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer says bitcoin is testing the $80,000 ceiling of a double bottom that points to $100,000, nine months after he called 2026 a “year off.” December 2025: ‘A Year Off’ Timmer,…
Bitcoin ETFs Add $134M as 7-Day Inflow Streak Hits $2.98B
U.S. crypto ETFs finished Friday broadly higher, with bitcoin funds attracting $134.47 million and extending their inflow streak to seven sessions. Solana nearly matched ether’s daily haul, while XRP and HYPE funds also closed firmly in…
Jack Dorsey’s Block Brings Lightning Network to x402
For decades, the internet ignored HTTP status code 402, a built-in checkout lane for the web that nobody used. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) agents need to spend money thousands of times a day without humans clicking a button. To solve…
SEC Staff Clarifies How Crypto Promises Affect Securities Treatment
What a crypto issuer promises buyers can affect whether a non-security token is offered as part of an investment contract, SEC staff says. New answers address marketing, network development, buybacks, staking receipts, and trading…
Ethereum, Solana and Zcash Face Wild Year-End Price Predictions
Three cryptocurrencies, three very different bets and millions of dollars riding on what happens before New Year’s Day. Prediction markets on Polymarket and Kalshi are pricing a 69% chance that ethereum touches $3,000, a 60% chance…
Bitcoin Price Still 33% Below Its Peak High as Bulls Plot a Comeback
At 8:30 a.m. Eastern time, bitcoin’s price stood at $84,162 on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, down 0.51% over 24 hours, as the leading crypto asset continued consolidating following its retreat from $87,374. The daily technical picture…
Musk’s Grok Is Out-Trading ChatGPT 40 to 1 Among Coinbase AI Agents
Elon Musk’s Grok placed 59.5% of all AI agent trading volume on Coinbase in the week leading up to Sept. 21, nearly 40 times ChatGPT’s meager 1.5% share. The Scoreboard Coinbase doesn’t usually publish which chatbots its…
Bitget Saga: Hacker Just Refueled on Binance as Withdrawals Reopen Monday
A wallet tied to Bitget’s $387.5 million hacker pulled about $1.23 million in ether out of Binance, two days before the exchange reopens bitcoin withdrawals on Monday. The Refuel, Step by Step The attacker who drained Bitget on Sept.…