Crypto market to remain choppy until the US government shutdown ends, says Arthur Hayes. Bitcoin has fallen 27% from its October peak. The Fed is expected to end quantitative easing next month.

Mastercard is said to be in late-stage talks to acquire stablecoin startup Zerohash in a deal worth up to $2 billion, Fortune ...

Fed pivot will push Bitcoin higher, analysts predict. Bitcoin ETFs saw traders sell $800 million in their positions. Bitcoin has hit bottom. Now it can only go up. That’s according to analysts David ...

Ethereum Foundation relaunches grants programme. This time the nonprofit has a list of initiatives it wants to fund. The programme was previous paused in August.

Several XRP ETFs are set to hit the market. The issuers are bullish on traders interest in these funds. A version of this article appeared in our The Roundup newsletter on October 31. Sign up here. Hi ...

Investments in crypto companies on pace to pass $25 billion. Raises include Stripe’s blockchain project Tempo and Polymarket.

Banks are ploughing into tokenised real-world assets. Standard Chartered says to expect non-stablecoin assets to be worth $2 ...

Decentralised perpetuals exchange Aster soared on Sunday after Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said he has purchased more than $2 million in the protocol’s token. The Aster token was trading at $0.91 ...

Solana is emerging as an asset for “alpha seekers,” said Matt Hougan of Bitwise. Institutions see it as a “challenger asset” for Ethereum. Four factors are driving big investors to Solana.

Matt Hougan puts Clarity Act passage at 80% by early 2026. Crypto PACs have raised $263 million for next year, he said. The bill would end US regulators’ jurisdictional war over crypto. Many US crypto ...

Consensys tapped JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs to underwrite its IPO. The number of crypto firms going public this year has exploded. The IPO window won’t stay open forever.