Bitcoin Drops Below $77K As $526M Liquidation Wave Hits Crypto Market

Robinhood is bringing crypto perpetual futures to eligible U.S. customers, extending one of crypto's largest derivatives markets into its domestic trading app. The rollout will support BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, ADA, LINK and HYPE, allowing traders to take long or short positions without an expiration date. Bitcoin and Ether perpetuals will offer leverage of up to 10x, while the remaining six markets will be capped at 3x leverage. The contracts are scheduled to arrive in the coming months. The...

Strategy is seeking shareholder approval to move STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD to daily dividends, expanding a Digital Credit platform the company uses alongside its 846,000 BTC treasury. Under the proposal, every calendar day would become a dividend record date, including weekends and holidays, with the associated payment made on the next business day. The change would increase payment frequency without altering the annual dividend rates or Strategy's overall dividend obligations. The four securities currently pay on different schedules. STRF,...

French semiconductor company Sequans Communications has sold its final 314 Bitcoin, completing its exit from a crypto treasury strategy that less than a year earlier envisioned eventually accumulating as much as 100,000 BTC. Sequans confirmed the final sale on September 24. The 314 BTC represented the company's entire remaining cryptocurrency balance as of June 30. The company now has no Bitcoin on its balance sheet and no outstanding debt other than obligations connected to government-financed research and development projects. Sequans...

Researchers have proposed a new privacy system that would allow Bitcoin-denominated value to move through encrypted transfers anchored directly to Bitcoin without requiring a soft fork or separate blockchain. The September 24 Shielded Bitcoin paper, authored by Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov and Aleksei Moskvin of [[alloc] init], describes a metaprotocol where amounts, senders, recipients and links to previously spent notes remain hidden while transaction validity can still be independently verified. Bitcoin itself would publish and order the protocol data. Its...

Ledger has patched a vulnerability in its Ethereum hardware-wallet app that could allow a malicious dApp to replace a transaction during the approval process while the device continued showing users the transaction they originally reviewed. Security firm TestMachine disclosed the signature-substitution flaw on August 21 after reproducing it on Ledger hardware. Ledger had already shipped Ethereum app version 1.22.2 on August 12, with its release history listing security fixes for the update. Malicious dApp Could Change the Transaction Before Signing...

Base creator Jesse Pollak has pushed back against criticism that Coinbase is selling ETH while benefiting from Ethereum, pointing to the exchange’s roughly 150,000 ETH corporate position and years of investment across the network. Pollak argued that Coinbase has held about 150,000 ETH through multiple market cycles, while describing the company as the largest ETH holder outside dedicated digital asset treasury companies by a wide margin. Coinbase’s latest regulatory filing backs up the scale of that position. The company held...

A crypto user lost 1,010 ETH after following an old Tornado Cash bookmark into a phishing frontend that captured the private withdrawal credentials needed to access the deposited funds. The victim deposited the ETH into legitimate Tornado Cash contracts, but the malicious interface obtained the private note generated during the process. The attacker then used those credentials to withdraw the assets within roughly 12 hours without compromising the underlying Tornado Cash smart contracts. Phishing Frontend Targeted Private Withdrawal Notes Tornado...

Ethereum’s network-growth metric has accelerated sharply in August, with new daily ETH addresses climbing from 121,210 on August 8 to 212,560 on August 16. The increase represents roughly 75.4% growth in eight days and adds another signal that activity is returning to the network. New-address creation measures the number of addresses appearing onchain for the first time rather than the number of unique people using Ethereum. A single user or automated system can control multiple addresses, so the metric is...

A crypto trading bot is a chain of dependencies. It reads a position, prices it, decides, places an order, and confirms settlement. Every one of those steps is an API call, and a failure at any single step stops the strategy. The provider choice shapes what a bot can actually do more than the strategy logic does. The common mistake is searching for one API that covers everything. No such API exists in 2026. Market data providers do not route...

Polymarket and Kalshi helped turn prediction markets into a mainstream trading category, but neither platform fits every trader. Access varies by country, market selection can lean heavily toward certain topics, and the tools available for entering, managing, and automating positions differ sharply across platforms. The strongest alternatives are not identical copies. Some emerging prediction markets platforms focus on professional order controls, some concentrate on fast crypto and financial markets, and others use onchain infrastructure or play-money forecasting. Users unfamiliar with...

A funded crypto trading account gives a trader access to more notional capital after they prove they can follow a firm’s risk rules. The usual route starts with a paid crypto prop firm challenge that requires a profit target without breaching daily or overall loss limits. Passing is not only about making money. Drawdown control, minimum trading days and rule compliance determine whether the account survives. The evaluation fee can be lost, and crypto prop firms use different account models,...

Tokenized stock perps allow traders to take long or short exposure to companies, ETFs and equity indexes through crypto-native derivatives markets. Positions can use stablecoin collateral, remain open without an expiry date and continue trading when the main stock exchange is closed. The trader receives price exposure, not ownership of the referenced shares. The interface often looks identical to a crypto perpetual futures market. The risk does not. A stock-linked contract can remain active overnight, through weekends and during holidays...

River Financial Inc. has sued Blockstream Services Canada ULC for breach of contract, seeking roughly $6.7 million that River alleges has remained unpaid under an agreement terminating the companies' commercial relationship. River filed the complaint in the Northern District of California on September 11. The case names Blockstream Services Canada ULC, not Blockstream Corp, as the sole defendant and requests a jury trial. The disputed amount consists of approximately $3.55 million in prepaid refunds and a separate $3.15 million early...

CoinMarketCap has completed its acquisition of CoinGlass, bringing one of crypto's largest derivatives analytics platforms into the Binance-owned market-data business. Financial terms were not disclosed. CoinGlass tracks open interest, funding rates, liquidations, long-short positioning, options and ETF flows across 28 exchanges and more than 2,500 instruments. The platform serves more than 5 million monthly users and 10,000 API customers. CoinMarketCap reports roughly 115 million monthly users, giving the combined operation a substantially larger distribution channel for derivatives positioning alongside spot...

Binance has invested $100 million in Circle Internet Group while signing a new five-year commercial agreement that expands USDC distribution across the exchange's products and global user base. Circle issued and sold Binance 1,237,011 Class A shares on September 17 at $80.84 per share, putting the private placement at approximately $100 million. Binance is subject to a two-year restriction on transferring the shares, with specified exceptions, while retaining the voting rights attached to the stock. The equity purchase gives Binance...

FomoPeek, an iPhone app marketed for tracking whale wallets across Solana, Ethereum and TRON, contained malicious code capable of escaping iOS security restrictions and extracting cryptocurrency wallet credentials from affected devices. SlowMist issued an asset-theft warning on September 19 after investigating multiple cases of stolen crypto with OKX's security team. The affected users had installed or used FomoPeek versions 1.1 or 1.2 before their assets were taken. The disclosure comes amid several unrelated crypto security incidents this weekend. Blink temporarily...