Author: CryptooTimes
Bitcoin has recovered from the overnight lows under $53,500 to trade 1% higher on the day at $67,300 at press time, and the dollar index (DXY) rally has stalled. The index has pulled back to 104.30 from the overnight high of 104.57, according to data source TradingView.
Decentralized exchange Uniswap has launched in-app, permissionless cross-chain bridging for its users, with service available across nine blockchain networks. On Oct. 23, the Uniswap (UNI) team announced that its permissionless cross-chain bridge was now live, bringing the DEX protocol closer to enabling cross-chain swaps. The cross-chain intents protocol, Across Protocol, powers this in-app Uniswap bridging feature, according to the announcement. Only native assets With the launch, Uniswap users can now undertake cross-chain transactions across nine networks. These include Ethereum (ETH), Arbitrum (ARB) Polygon (POL) and ZKSync (ZK). Other networks with initial support are Base, Zora, Blast, OP Mainnet and World…
Jeff Park says “merger arb-style probability math” could mean Bitcoin rallies to $92,000 following a Trump victory.
Data tracked by Glassnode and André Dragosch, director and head of research for Europe at Bitwise, shows the number of so-called whales or network entities owning at least 1,000 BTC jumped to 1,678 early this week, reaching the highest since January 2021.
Riot Platforms, Marathon Digital, and CleanSpark, three of the largest Bitcoin mining companies in the U.S., have backed a new political action committee to support pro-crypto candidates in key swing states. This committee, the Bitcoin Voter PAC, has launched a $2 million digital ad campaign aimed at Pennsylvania and Texas voters, according to Fox Business. The PAC will promote Republican candidates such as former President Donald Trump, Senator Ted Cruz, and Senate candidate Dave McCormick. The ads focus on the benefits of Bitcoin (BTC) and digital assets, emphasizing their potential for job creation and financial freedom. With support from major…
Ripple should have engaged with US regulators a lot earlier, says the firm’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse, who added it’s now “trying to make up for lost time.”
You know what’s always fun? Watching grifters flail. That aside, there’s news about the clown-car developers of The Day Before, that hilariously terrible bait-n-switch 2023 game that went from Steam’s most wishlisted to most hated, over the course of an increasingly ridiculous series of delays, and the eventual release of a game that barely resembled what had been promised. Then, like a bedraggled phoenix, crawling and wheezing from the ashes, this year developers Fntastic returned with news of a new game, and with quite some brass, a new Kickstarter to fund it. Guess what?! Forget about that game too, they’ve…
In recent days, a flurry of mainstream media outlets and (often pro-Harris) social media posters have suggested, with varying degrees of certainty, that pro-Trump forces are manipulating Polymarket to make his chances look higher than they are. These claims cite heavy buying by Fredi9999, Theo4, and other Trump whales.
I wasn’t wholly convinced when A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead was announced—how many movie video game adaptations succeed? Sure, there’s a handful of notable titles, but this seemed the unlikeliest choice of IP to port over. Yet, this survival horror focused on noise genuinely impressed me, and indeed Zack. It’s not the most intuitive or groundbreaking horror game to strike fear in our hearts, but it provides a consuming atmosphere that brings the film universe to life. But with an established universe to draw from, many of us are left wondering how this standalone story fits into the A…
Kalshi could enable more crypto-related options like stablecoin deposits amid a surge in volume for prediction markets and the approaching U.S. elections. It’s full steam ahead for Kalshi and its CEO, Tarek Mansour, following a court victory over the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that effectively legalized electoral betting contracts in the U.S. In a profile of Mansour, Kalshi’s co-founder, Fortune revealed that the event outcome speculating website plans to add support for USD Coin (USDC) deposits. Circle’s USD Coin has a $34 billion market cap, making it the second-largest stablecoin after Tether (USDT). The feature could arrive before the U.S.…
