Crypto news today

Standard Chartered projects ENA to reach $2 by end of 2028, with targets of $0.42 in 2026 and $1.10 in 2027, based on USDe issuance rising to $40 billion.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw inflows for a ninth straight day, adding $66.2M Tuesday and $3.1B for the series; YTD inflows near $1B. Ether ETFs saw $3M outflows.

SlowMist traced the $388M Bitget theft to an August 31 zero-day exploit involving two third-party security products and a custom withdrawal tool.

BAL holders approved Balancer's closure; V3 pools run until Oct. 30. Abracadabra proposes liquidating MIM: $900K collateral for 22M tokens, over 95% unbacked.

Michael Saylor predicts a 'gold rush' for Bitcoin, with the crypto market at $3T and potential for the crypto economy to reach $120T. Strategy holds over 840,00

AllUnity launched the USDAU dollar stablecoin on six networks, backed 1:1 by segregated reserves and compliant with MiCA. The issuer already offers three fiat t

Elon Musk says superintelligence and robots will lead to universal high income and an era of abundance. He notes China produces three times more energy than the

Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise about $1 billion at a $40 billion valuation, led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management, with Tiger Global and Dragon

An early Bitcoin miner transferred 20.43 BTC (~$1.7 million) to new wallets. The coins were mined in 2011 when BTC was about $70, a ~24,000x increase.

Illinois released draft rules for the 0.2% digital asset tax: stablecoins are taxed, NFTs excluded, DeFi largely exempt. Comments accepted until October 30.

ConsenSys CEO Joe Lubin said at Korea Blockchain Week 2026 that MetaMask is not planning to launch the MASK token soon, though options are being considered.

Crypto.com confirmed its ai.com personal AI agent has remained in stealth mode for almost 8 months after a $15M Super Bowl ad; the site still shows a waitlist.

Starting Wednesday, Binance Pay will let foreign users spend USDT at most PayPay merchants in Japan via HIVEX, with settlements in yen.

Wallets holding 10–10,000 BTC added 41,025 BTC ($3.4 billion) in 10 days, according to Santiment. This group now controls 13.64 million BTC, about 68% of supply

OpenAI is in early talks to raise $30B, potentially lifting its valuation to $1.4T. IPO delayed until at least 2027; SEC filing submitted in June.

Kakaopay Securities announced agreements with Dinari and Ondo to explore tokenization of Korean stocks for international distribution. Dinari already tokenizes

Grayscale estimates Zcash scenario prices at $1622–$8109 if its market cap reaches 2–10% of Bitcoin. Drivers include privacy, quantum security, NEAR Intents.

Bitwise has launched the first US spot ETF for NEAR (NRR) on NYSE Arca with a 0.75% fee and staking plan; NEAR Intents volume topped $32B in one year.

Aztec has relaunched its private zk.money wallet on Ethereum's L2 network with DAI support, hidden balances and amounts, and a $2,500 transaction limit.

Bitcoin dropped below $83,000 as ask liquidity increased at $85,000 and the largest LTH coin cluster is concentrated at $84,000–$85,000. 30-year US Treasuries e

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen doubts the full recovery of $388M lost in last week's hack. NEAR Intents froze over $50M; Tether and Circle froze $318,013.

Peter Brandt forecasts Bitcoin at $300–600K by the end of 2029 and expects a pullback to $65–66K in early October, believing a new bull cycle has started.

Glassnode reports that open interest in bitcoin (BTC) futures has dropped to its lowest level since March 2024, indicating reduced leverage and lower liquidatio

CoinShares reports $4.44B in US crypto inflows in September (out of $4.53B globally), but warns Bitcoin ETF inflows may not reflect pure institutional demand.