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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Quick Facts: ➡️ Bitcoin fell to a six-month low as equities retreated; long-term holders sold ~815K $BTC in a month, intensifying sell-side pressure. ➡️ The selloff looks like a supply shock and de-risking rather than a structural failure. ➡️ Capital rotation is favoring utility-led presales like Bitcoin Hyper, which saw a whale snap up tokens worth half a million dollars on Thursday. Bitcoin is likely to end the week under pressure, as it slips almost 6% from Thursday’s high and continues to hover under $100K. That move…
AI researchers from Anthropic, Stanford, and Oxford have discovered that making AI models think longer makes them easier to jailbreak—the opposite of what everyone assumed.The prevailing assumption was that extended reasoning would make AI models safer, because it gives them more time to detect and refuse harmful requests. Instead, researchers found it creates a reliable jailbreak method that bypasses safety filters entirely.Using this technique, an attacker could insert an instruction in the Chain of Thought process of any AI model and force it to generate instructions for creating weapons, writing malware code, or producing other prohibited content that would normally…
In brief The Czech National Bank made its first crypto investment with a $1 million test portfolio of Bitcoin, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits. The program will help the bank learn digital asset management and could lead to the addition of crypto in the nation’s official reserves. Officials said U.S. pro-crypto policies and Bitcoin’s maturity influenced the move. The Czech Republic has officially invested in crypto. On Thursday, the European nation’s central bank announced that—after years of observations from the sidelines—it purchased a “test portfolio” of digital assets it will experiment with over the coming years as it moves towards crypto adoption. The…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Czech National Bank (CNB) has launched its $1 million crypto “test portfolio” pilot with the acquisition of Bitcoin (BTC), stablecoins, and tokenized deposits. The initiative follows previous efforts to diversify its international asset reserves with cryptocurrencies. Czech Central Bank Launches Bitcoin, Crypto Portfolio On Thursday, the Czech National Bank (CNB) announced the creation of a $1 million “test portfolio” of digital assets to “gain practical experience” with holding Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies while implementing and testing related processes over the next two to three years. In…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Singapore’s top financial regulator has signaled a tougher stance on stablecoins, saying only fully supervised tokens should be treated as reliable money for big transactions. Regulators are moving to separate settlement-grade instruments from the rest of the market. The message was blunt and aimed squarely at issuers that operate without strict oversight. Regulators Draw A Clear Line According to Monetary Authority of Singapore Managing Director Chia Der Jiun, some unregulated stablecoins have a “patchy record of keeping their peg.” He warned that sudden losses of confidence in…
Canary Capital’s spot XRP ETF surpassed $36 million in trading volume within its first three hours on Nov. 13, positioning the fund as a contender for the strongest exchange-traded fund debut of 2025.The XRPC traded at $25.74 as of 4:43 P.M. UTC, generating volume equivalent to 63% of Bitwise’s Solana ETF (BSOL) first-day performance, which is the current 2025 benchmark among more than 850 fund launches.Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas projected the fund would “blow away” his initial $17 million estimate and potentially surpass BSOL’s $57 million opening-day record.XRP climbed 3.3% to $2.41 in the 24 hours surrounding the…
In brief Crypto markets have been roiled by macroeconomic uncertainties. The share prices of the 10 leading miners by market value have plunged over the past month. Miners and other major crypto stocks were well into negative territory on Thursday. Bitcoin miners and other crypto-focused stocks plummeted on Thursday amid a wider downturn in crypto markets and other risk-on assets, fueled by the same macroeconomic uncertainties that have bedeviled markets for weeks.Miners Bitdeer Technologies Group and Bitfarms were down more than 20% and 17%, respectively, while Cipher Mining fell 13%. Share prices of other leaders in the sector, which has…
Lendasat, a Bitcoin-native peer-to-peer lending platform, announced today the launch of Lendaswap, an atomic swap exchange enabling instant, non-custodial trades between Bitcoin and stablecoins across Ethereum and leading EVM-compatible chains. Powered by the Arkade protocol, Lendaswap uses HTLC-based atomic swaps — a technology similar to that of the Lightning Network — to deliver a seamless experience for anyone looking to swap BTC and stablecoins “without giving up self-custody, creating accounts, or relying on wrapped tokens,” according to a press release shared with Bitcoin Magazine. Lendaswap will support Ethereum and Polygon at launch, with planned expansion to Base, Solana, Binance Smart…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure On-chain data shows Bitcoin miner Binance deposits have been at elevated levels recently, a potential sign that this group is selling. Bitcoin Miners Have Sent 71,000 BTC To Binance In November As explained by an analyst in a CryptoQuant Quicktake post, November has seen the miners send a notable amount of Bitcoin to cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The on-chain metric of interest here is the “Miner to Exchange Flow,” which measures the total number of tokens that wallets connected to miners are sending to a given centralized exchange.…