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Metaplanet shares surged 5.5% after the company announced plans for a $500 million share buyback funded through a new credit facility. The Japan-based firm said in a statement today that its board had approved a new capital allocation policy that includes repurchasing shares, pausing equity raises when its market value falls below its Bitcoin net asset value, and optimizing its use of preferred stock. CEO Simon Gerovich said the goal is to “maximize BTC Yield and long-term corporate value.”  While a maximum of $500 million can be allocated to buy back up to about 13% of Metaplanet shares, the company said the credit facility would also provide flexibility for ” Bitcoin acquisitions, and other financing uses.” Metaplanet’s surge today extended its gain over the past week to more than 12%, according to Yahoo Finance, but it remains more than 9% down over the past month. Metaplanet share price (Source: Yahoo Finance ) Metaplanet Plans New Cap...

The Ethereum price has surged 7% in the last 24 hours, trading at $4,160 as of 4:00 a.m. EST on a 173% increase in daily trading volume to $40.8 billion. ETH’s momentum accelerated after SharpLink, a Nasdaq-listed company, made a fresh $78–81 million acquisition of around 19,000 ETH, resuming its buying spree after a short pause. This latest move adds to SharpLink’s massive treasury of more than 270,000 ETH. 🚨 BREAKING: 🇺🇸 SharpLink bought 19,271 $ETH worth $78.3 MILLION 💥 Institutions keep quietly stacking while everyone’s distracted… Big money is loading up on Ethereum!$ETH / $SBET / $BMNR pic.twitter.com/MqfTGebz82 — BMNR Bullz (@BMNRBullz) October 26, 2025 The company has steadily built its position since June, now boasting an unrealized profit of over $81 million.​ The SharpLink treasury strategy has sparked interest among other firms as well, who are beginning to follow suit and accumulate large st...

BlackRock, the world’s largest investment firm, accelerated its cryptocurrency buying spree this week, splashing over $300 million on Bitcoin (BTC).  Data from October 20–24 show that the firm’s Bitcoin ETF, IBIT, attracted $324.3 million in net inflows, signaling strong institutional appetite for the leading cryptocurrency despite recent market volatility. According to Coinglass data, BlackRock’s inflows fluctuated but maintained a dominant upward trend. The week began with a net outflow of $100.7 million on October 20, coinciding with mild weakness in Bitcoin’s price.  However, investor sentiment quickly reversed as inflows surged to $210.9 million on October 21, marking a strong rebound that set the tone for the rest of the week.  Momentum continued with $73.6 million added on October 22 and a further $107.8 million on October 23, reflecting renewed institutional accumulation. By October 24, inflows slowed to a more modest $32.7 million. Bitcoin ET...

President Donald Trump has officially pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the billionaire founder of Binance known as CZ. The move erases Zhao’s 2023 conviction for anti-money laundering violations. Binance’s token BNB surged 15% to around $1,150 on the news. The full and unconditional pardon frees Zhao from further penalties after he served four months in prison and paid a $50 million fine. It also caps a fierce lobbying push by Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, amid Trump’s pro-crypto agenda. Zhao pleaded guilty to failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program at Binance, which enabled illicit activities including drug trafficking and terrorism financing. The exchange settled with the Justice Department for $4.3 billion, the largest penalty in crypto history. Zhao stepped down as CEO but retained majority ownership, and the pardon clears his path to potentially reclaim leadership and expand Binance in the US market. ...

T. Rowe Price, a fund management titan with almost $1.8 trillion in assets under management, has filed to launch a crypto ETF (exchange-traded fund) to invest in a basket of leading cryptos. According to the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF will be an actively-managed product that will invest in a “diversified basket of commodity crypto assets” with the aim of outperforming the FTSE Crypto US Listed Index. ”Can’t overstate significance of T. Rowe Price filing for an actively managed crypto ETF out of left field,” said Nate Geraci, president of NovaDius Wealth President. ” T. Rowe is the quintessential legacy asset manager, founded in 1937.” Can’t overstate significance of T. Rowe Price filing for an actively managed crypto ETF out of left field… T. Rowe is the quintessential legacy asset manager, founded in 1937. They manage some $1.8tril in assets, but just got ...

Citi has assigned a ”Buy” rating to Michael Saylor’s struggling Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy, forecasting 61% upside over the next 12 months based on Bitcoin hitting the bank’s $181,000 price target. Strategy is a ‘’leveraged proxy’’ for Bitcoin’s performance, the Wall Street investment bank said in an Oct. 21 research note. It set a $485 price target for Strategy shares, assuming Bitcoin hits its 12-month price forecast and the company maintains its typical premium to net asset value. But its analysts warned that while the stock offers outsized upside in bull markets, it also magnifies downside losses. A 25% pullback in BTC, they warned, could swing Strategy’s NAV from a 35% premium to a discount and cut the stock’s value by as much as 61%. “The stock presents significant risks due to its positioning as a leveraged proxy for Bitcoin,” Citi analysts said. ”Its value is nearly 100% tied to the someti...

Coinbase has bought the UpOnly NFT for $25 million, giving it the power to make crypto trader Cobie “perform like a monkey” in a surprise revival of the eponymous podcast. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong confirmed the purchase in a post on X , saying it will mark the podcast’s long-awaited return. According to the NFT’s fine print, the token’s holder “can compel Cobie and Ledger Status into performing, like monkeys, 8 episodes of UpOnlyTV.” The rumors are true, we bought the NFT. @UpOnlyTV is coming back. pic.twitter.com/kbGNzjLoJQ — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) October 20, 2025 Cobie reacted  with disbelief, telling Armstrong in a post on X that whoever approved the decision should be ”fired.” ”I’m too old to have a crypto podcast,” he said in another post that’s received more than 258k view. ” It has been 3 years since up only ended. I was in my 20s when it started, now I have grey...

STBL, the once-$300 million coin that Tether co-founder Reeve Collins launched a month ago, has dumped 80% as of publication time. Five wallets, all funded via Tornado Cash on March 13, 2024, ranked among the coin’s most profitable traders and extracted a combined $17 million. This means that the asset now has a mere $50 million in market cap left for everyone else. Dozens of sales — heavily weighted toward its lofty debut and price spikes through early October — showcase curious trading prowess. business conducted https://t.co/gGKUQNbPrn — smolting (wassie, verse) (@inversebrah) October 20, 2025 Collins claims that STBL, which briefly benefitted from his fame as a Tether co-founder, is a governance token for USST. He also calls it a “next evolution” USD-pegged stablecoin, despite it apparently having less than $1.6 million worth of available collateral . The coin isn’t even listed on CoinMarketCap or CoinGecko. By comparison, tethe...

One of the largest credit companies in the world says stablecoins could transform the multi-trillion-dollar global credit market. In a new research report, Visa says dollar-pegged digital assets have evolved from being mere crypto trading tools to foundational lending tools. “Stablecoins have evolved from crypto trading tools to foundational infrastructure powering a new lending space that has grown rapidly in the past year, processing over half a trillion in loans to date… For banks and financial institutions, this represents both an opportunity and an imperative to understand how programmable money is reshaping credit markets.” Visa outlines three major ways stablecoins can transform the wholesale credit market – by allowing tokenized assets to unlock collateral pools, expanding the role of crypto credit programs, and helping assess the creditworthiness of potential clients digitally. Visa says tokenized traditional assets may soon serve as collate...

Traders are asking right now where the floor is for XRP as the token sits at $2.35 on October 17, 2025, and the charts aren’t looking great. Analysts warn the cryptocurrency could test $2 or even drop below $1 by year-end, and this comes despite an upcoming ETF approval decision window between October 18-24. Price forecasts for 2025 show continued downward pressure building as volume spikes alongside price drops—a classic sign of profit-taking before the next move, and technical indicators suggest more pain ahead. Also Read: Russia Likely to Pick XRP for Cross-Border Payments, Ripple Expands in Africa XRP Price Prediction for 2025: Bearish Trends, ETF Approval, And Decline Risks Technical Signals Point to Further Weakness: How Low will XRP Go? At the time of writing, XRP dropped 6.36% in 24 hours, falling from $2.41 to $2.26, according to FXStreet data. But here’s the thing—trading volume jumped 42.74% to hit $7.9 billion even as prices declined, which typically means trader...

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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse called banks “hypocritical” for demanding crypto firms strictly comply with anti-money laundering rules and other safeguards while also blocking them from banking system infrastructure. “You can’t say one and then combat the other,” he said, while speaking at DC Fintech Week. ”It’s hypocritical, and I think we all should call them out for being anti-competitive in that regard.” Ripple has applied for a national trust charter and a Federal Reserve master account, which, if approved, would give it greater access to US banking infrastructure. Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse: Policy, Innovation, and the Future of Global Financ At DC Fintech 2025 pic.twitter.com/SQngi5pfmb — 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸XRP (@BankXRP) October 15, 2025 Garlinghouse’s remarks come after crypto-native companies including Ripple, Circle, Wise, and Erebor Bank filed for national bank or trust charters.  A...

Kodiak Finance, the native liquidity platform for Berachain, has integrated Orbs’ decentralized dTWAP and dLIMIT protocols to bring more advanced trading functionality to its users, as reported to Finbold on October 16. The integration adds institutional-grade order types to Berachain’s leading decentralized exchange, which currently holds over $250 million in total value locked (TVL) and has processed more than $4 billion in trading volume.  More than 100,000 users on Kodiak can now access new tools for time-weighted and limit order execution, helping reduce slippage and improve trading efficiency. Bringing CEX-level trading to Berachain’s decentralized network Orbs’ dTWAP (decentralized Time-Weighted Average Price) protocol enables large trades to be broken into smaller orders that execute over time, minimizing price impact. The feature can also serve as a dollar-cost-averaging (DCA) strategy, allowing users to accumulate assets gradually rather than in a sin...

The trial of two brothers, Anton and James Peraire-Bueno, began yesterday at New York’s SDNY courthouse. The brothers, both in their twenties, were charged in May last year with “conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.” The charges relate to a $25 million exploit of maximal extractable value (MEV) bots on Ethereum which took place in April 2023. The brothers are expected to argue that their actions were in line with the Ethereum’s “economic incentives” and all they did was “outsmart some ‘predatory’ automated trading bots,” Business Insider reports. Yesterday’s jury selection was covered by Inner City Press’ Matthew Russell Lee who will continue to live-tweet the trial. Read more: US indicts Ethereum validators for exploiting MEV trader The charges The complaint says the Peraire-Bueno brothers “fraudulently gained access to pending private transactions and used that access to alter certain transactions and ob...

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