The crypto market has officially surpassed the leverage mania of the 2021 bull run. According to a November 2025 report from Galaxy Digital, total crypto-collateralized lending reached a record-breaking $73.59 billion in Q3 2025, eclipsing the previous peak of $69.4 billion set in Q4 2021. Albeit a highly volatile market structure, today transparent on-chain protocols…
Today is the last day of REI’s Holiday Sale. For the past 10 years REI has shut its doors for Black Friday, suggesting that instead potential customers should get outside and enjoy the world around you. That’s great advice, but of course Black Friday is also one of the biggest retail spending days of the…
In this edition of the weekly recap, Cardano experienced an unexpected chain split from a malformed transaction, a miner defied odds to mine a Bitcoin block worth $265,000, and a UK-led initiative targeting Russian sanctions evasion reached 128 arrests. Summary Cardano sees a chain split from a malformed transaction as its price dips. A solo…
Elon Musk’s X has begun rolling out a new feature for user profiles that will display information about the account, including where it’s based, how many times the account has changed its username, the account’s original join date, and how the user downloaded the X app. The new information is meant to reduce inauthentic engagement…
Bitwise XRP ETF, BTC Narrative Collapse, SEC Speeds Crypto ETFs, Bitcoin Panic Selling, and more in this Week in Review. Week in Review Bitwise’s new XRP ETF launched on the NYSE as mainstream interest grows, a sharp bitcoin price drop led analysts to call the BTC narrative collapse “inevitable” amid a market rout that cut…
Key Takeaways Amazon CEO Andy Jassy filed to sell 19,872 Amazon shares. Such executive share sales are typically preplanned and not indicative of market timing or concerns. Share this article Amazon CEO Andrew Jassy today filed to sell 19,872 shares of the company’s stock. Amazon executives frequently execute share sales as part of preplanned trading…
TL;DR: Stop losing your wallet with some help from the Apple Find My compatible KeySmart SmartCard, now $69.97 (reg. $119.97) for a three-pack through Dec. 7. Want to keep better tabs on your most important items? AirTags are a little too bulky to slip into your wallet or passport case, which is where the KeySmart…
Key Takeaways DHS is probing Bitmain rigs for hidden remote-access risks linked to China. Large deployments near sensitive U.S. sites triggered the investigation. Potential import violations and restrictions could hit U.S. Bitcoin miners hard. The United States is investigating Bitmain, a Chinese company that makes most of the world’s Bitcoin mining machines. According to a…
Cardano (ADA) is close to falling out of the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap, a shift many traders expected. The last time ADA slipped this low was in 2024, when the price fell under $0.30. The downward trend has been building for months as pressure across the market has increased. Even so, ADA held…
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a smoke-filled tavern to discuss a secret plan: If they raise prices together instead…
