CoinEx quits after 9 years as crypto trading activity concentrates at biggest exchanges
Trading rebounded in August, but the largest platforms kept an outsized grip on activity as CoinEx chose to exit.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo40m agoCryptoSlate
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7-day blockchain outage wipes out a full week of staking rewards after emergency aelf shutdown
Public nodes and key dapps are back after an August security incident, while a final review and uniform exchange transfers remain outstanding.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright1h ago
Major Bitcoin Core update changes default wallet protocols, risking temporary disruption across popular apps
The Oct. 10 final-tag aim compresses checks across PSBTs, fee estimation, HTTP clients, indexes and private broadcast.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright2h ago
Trump ethics fight sinks CLARITY Act in dramatic Senate defeat
The CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate after a final round of bipartisan negotiations broke down and several Democrats who helped shape the bill refused to advance it. The measure failed to secure the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed with H.R. 3633, preventing the most consequential US crypto market-structure […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo3h ago
Did crypto’s $20 Billion DeFi surge just get stolen by price inflation?
Stablecoin growth stayed below 6% while ETH and SOL gained more than 32%, leaving the inflow picture unresolved.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright4h ago
Why Japan’s 3.8% bond shock is quietly setting a trap for Bitcoin
Japan’s 20-year auction cleared at 3.856% with slightly stronger coverage, shifting the next test to the BOJ.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5h ago
Why a CLARITY victory may still leave Bitcoin trapped at $76,000
Regulatory progress could encourage buyers, but oil prices and real yields will shape whether a recovery lasts.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright5h ago
DeFi governance gap allows one wallet to request 98% of Ampleforth treasury’s USDC balance
The proposing wallet submitted after receiving 87,238 FORTH of delegated power; the action ended with zero votes and no transfer.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright6h ago
Bitcoin’s newest mobile privacy feature can make your incoming money completely invisible
A 255,434-block study puts one scanning feed near 8 MB a day while completeness remains unproven.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7h ago
Bitcoin ETF inflows are back, but BlackRock is carrying the market into the Fed meeting
IBIT and FBTC supplied most of the rebound while ARKB remained negative, leaving the five-session total in outflow.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo8h ago
CLARITY Act chances sink below 20% as Senate’s path to 60 votes narrows
The CLARITY Act is heading toward a critical Senate vote with no clear coalition capable of delivering the 60 votes it needs. Expectations for the landmark crypto market-structure bill deteriorated sharply Tuesday, with Polymarket odds of enactment falling below 20% after reaching about 34% during the previous 24 hours. The reversal coincided with signs that […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo8h ago
XRP’s path back to $2 now hinges on whether the Senate passes the CLARITY Act
Those groups carry nearly three-quarters of realized capital as Binance sees heavy two-way flows before the Senate’s Sept. 15 CLARITY cloture test.
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos9h ago
A DeFi giant that once held $3 billion is now proposing to wind itself down
A Sept. 25–29 vote would decide the wind-down, while BAL holders’ treasury claim would wait until May 2027.
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo10h ago
Bitcoin needs to reach $82,900 to outrun a looming miner margin squeeze
A projected 4.70% difficulty increase could cut hashprice 4.49% and push older machines below power-only breakeven.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright11h ago
Altcoins gained 21% and still lost ground to Bitcoin. What would finally turn the tables?
Glassnode reported that altcoin market capitalization climbed 21% over the past month, while altcoins' share of the combined Bitcoin-and-altcoin market fell 0.9 percentage points over 90 days, based on data as of Sept. 7. Capital has moved up the entire crypto ladder together, with Bitcoin absorbing most of the gain while higher-beta tokens held their […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos12h ago
The US Bitcoin reserve faces a crucial bipartisan test Wednesday
The American Reserve Modernization Act (ARMA) would put the federal government's Bitcoin reserve into law for the first time. But ahead of its first House committee vote on Sept. 16, the bill has attracted just one Democratic cosponsor, and he does not sit on the committee considering it. That goes against Congress's broader crypto push. […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac12h ago
Bitcoin self-custody creates a massive cost-basis blind spot on your 2026 crypto tax forms
Under 2026 US rules, transferred coins remain outside mandatory basis reporting even when the investor's purchase cost is unchanged.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright13h ago
Proposed stablecoin rules might guarantee your dollar while making you wait a week to spend it
Proposed OCC redemption extensions leave buyers and conversion providers to finance an earlier exit when they pay before recovering dollars.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright15h ago
Strategy prioritizes $950 million STRC buyback over expanding its Bitcoin treasury
From July 20 to Sept. 13, STRC repurchases absorbed about $2.57 for every $1 Strategy spent buying Bitcoin.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright16h ago
Coinbase-backed Base just exposed the uncomfortable truth about Ethereum’s L2s
Ethereum and Coinbase-backed layer-2 network Base have abandoned an effort to agree on how the next generation of crypto wallets should work. On Sept. 14, Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang said collaboration between developers working on Ethereum’s EIP-8141 Frame Transactions and Base’s EIP-8130 broke down last week after attempts to produce a shared account-abstraction standard failed to […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo19h ago