What Is Hunter Biden Launching? Hunter Biden is preparing to launch a memecoin called LAPTOP, turning one of the most politically charged episodes surrounding his family into a crypto token as debate over political involvement in digital assets intensifies in Washington.Biden announced the ticker $LAPTOP on X and indicated that the token is scheduled to
Coinbase is due to move the infrastructure powering its international perpetual futures trading to Deribit on Wednesday, September 9, completing an integration in which almost all of the derivatives open interest displayed across Coinbase’s venues is already sitting at the exchange it acquired last year.The unusual number is not the amount moving. It is how
Zcash (ZEC), the privacy-focused cryptocurrency, has recorded one of its most bullish moments in nearly a decade, with the asset trading above $1,256 on Binance as its broader market capitalization peaked at $21.11 billion, according to TradingView CryptoCap data.The surge has placed ZEC among the best-performing assets in the market. CoinMarketCap ranks it as the
Why Does The Weekend Payment Matter? DBS and Citi have completed what they describe as the first weekend tokenized cross-border payment between Singapore and the United States, using tokenized bank deposits and Swift’s Digital Ledger to move funds outside traditional banking hours.The transaction was executed on Saturday and finalized within minutes, according to DBS. Traditional
Why Is The Liquid Attacker Offering To Return The Bitcoin? The party that withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC from Liquid Network’s federation wallet has said it will return most of the funds after Blockstream confirmed that the software vulnerability behind the incident had been fixed.The attacker, who has described the operation as a white-hat action, communicated
XDC Network Co-Founder Atul Khekade believes blockchain’s future will depend less on proving that the technology works and more on solving the harder challenge: getting governments, enterprises and everyday users to adopt it.Speaking on the latest FinanceFeeds Podcast with FinanceFeeds Editor-in-Chief Nikolai Isayev and host Ivan Patriki, Khekade discussed the origins of XDC, the network’s
Key Facts Bitget’s updated institutional API rate-limit framework came into force on 3 September 2026. The top configurable single-account ceiling is now 600 requests per second per UID. It applies only to top-tier market-maker (MM1) and PRO-tier (PRO6) clients on the unified trading account. An aggregate master-sub-account cap of up to 120,000 RPS is quoted
OSL Group says its exchange became Hong Kong’s largest digital asset trading platform by spot and stablecoin volume on September 4, citing CoinGecko data. The company also said OSL Exchange ranked eighth on CoinGecko’s global exchange table that day, according to its announcement. Those rankings are a dated snapshot from a third-party data provider, not a
Open interest in altcoin perpetual futures has surpassed Bitcoin’s for the first time since December 2024, marking a significant shift in leveraged positioning as traders move further along the cryptocurrency risk curve. Coinalyze data showed Bitcoin perpetual open interest at approximately $23.9 billion on September 7, accounting for about 37% of perpetual-futures open interest tracked by
Cryptocurrency transaction volume across the Middle East and North Africa has climbed toward $350 billion annually, more than tripling from roughly $100 billion in 2022 as institutional activity, stablecoin adoption and regulatory development accelerate across the region. The latest estimate, cited by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, underscores the growing importance of MENA to the global