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In brief Rumble is working with Tether to incorporate Bitcoin tipping in its video sharing platform. The firm adopted a Bitcoin treasury strategy and purchased its first tranche earlier this year. Shares of Rumble (RUM) fell slightly on Friday, now down more than 45% year-to-date. Publicly traded video sharing platform Rumble is integrating Bitcoin tipping, the firm’s CEO Chris Pavloski announced while onstage at the Plan B Forum in Lugano, Switzerland. The firm is working with stablecoin issuer and major investor Tether to enable Bitcoin tips, which are expected to be rolled out in full by early to mid-December. “Right now, we’re…

Polymarket will eventually launch a token, Chief Marketing Officer Matthew Modabber confirmed on Thursday, but it will take a backseat to launching the US-facing Polymarket App.The prediction market platform secured a $2 billion investment from Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of The New York Stock Exchange, in October at a $10 billion valuation. Moddaber said:“Why rush a token if you need to prioritize the US app? We’ve been dying for this app for the past five years. A lot has happened because of this, you know, because there’s regulatory [issues] and whatnot.”Prediction markets Polymarket and its competitor Kalshi became…

On-chain perpetual-focused decentralized exchanges have hit a new milestone, surpassing $1 trillion in total trading volume this month – a sharp rise from $739 billion in September. This surge marks the highest monthly trading activity ever recorded for these platforms, according to data source DefiLlama. The record volume comes amid increased market turbulence, particularly on Oct. 10, when major cryptocurrencies crashed, triggering a staggering $20 billion in forced liquidations across both centralized and decentralized exchanges. Hyperliquid, the leading on-chain perpetual DEX, alone liquidated 1,000 wallets, with 205 losing over $1 million each. Notably, Oct. 10 also saw on-chain perpetual markets…

Polymarket Chief Marketing Officer Matthew Modabber has confirmed plans to launch a native POLY token and airdrop, marking the company’s first official acknowledgment of long-rumored tokenization.The move comes as the prediction-market platform hits record trading levels and attracts new institutional attention following a $2 billion investment from Intercontinental Exchange, the parent of the New York Stock Exchange.Sponsored SponsoredToken Launch Confirmed as Prediction Markets Expand“There will be a token, um, there will be an airdrop,” Modabber said on the Degenz Live podcast. “We really pride ourselves on being the most thorough company. We could have launched a token anytime, but we…

It’s hard to talk about crypto AI without mentioning the NEAR Protocol. Last year, the NEAR Protocol really took off because of Nvidia and everything the chipset manufacturer planned to do. That momentum was supposed to sustain the NEAR USDT upside for the better part of this year, but the market had other plans. So far, the NEAR price is being battered. Price-wise, there is nothing to smile about. The NEAR USDT is down -52% year-to-date, while sellers are unrelenting. In the last month alone, NEAR crypto is down nearly -30%, pushing prices to critical support levels. For optimists, however,…

Bitcoin BTC$111,664.70 traded above $111,000 on Friday morning in Europe, supported by news of a confirmed meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two leaders will meet on Oct. 30 on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in South Korea – the first face-to-face encounter since Trump took office. The meeting comes amid escalating trade tensions, with Trump announcing additional 100% tariffs on Chinese imports in response to Beijing tightening its grip on rare earth exports. These tariffs are set to take effect on Nov. 1 unless the two sides reach a…

Key NotesBitGo’s Mike Belshe defended CZ, noting that he only pleaded guilty to violation of the Bank Secrecy Act.His statement was a response to Sen.Elizabeth Warren, who had stated that CZ went to prison for money laundering.The US president has pardoned the convicted Binance founder. Mike Belshe, the CEO of cryptocurrency firm BitGo, was seen on X in the early hours of October 24, defending Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who was recently pardoned by President Donald Trump. The BitGo C-suite executive clarified to Senator Elizabeth Warren and his followers that CZ did not plead guilty to money laundering. BitGo CEO…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! A Bitcoin wallet created in 2009 has recently shown signs of activity after being untouched for over a decade. This wallet, believed to belong to an early adopter of the cryptocurrency, transferred a portion of its holdings for the first time in 14 years.On October 23, Whale Alert reported in a post on X that the wallet’s owner originally mined 4,000 Bitcoin between April and June of 2009. This was a few months after the Bitcoin network was launched. Did you know? Want to get smarter & wealthier with crypto? Subscribe -…

The Alpha Arena experiment on Nof1.ai turned out to be way bigger than anyone expected. In our last piece, we talked about how it first caught the attention of big names like CZ from Binance. Well, it looks like the hype isn’t slowing down — the whole thing just keeps growing. CZ even jumped in himself, launching Trading Arena on Aster. Then Gajesh, an engineer from Eigen Labs, rolled out a trading agent on Hyperliquid that anyone can fork, run locally, or deploy on EigenCloud. It all sounds great, but looking at how these trading agents are actually performing right…