CoinMarketCap acquired derivatives data site Coinglass on September 25, 2026, putting funding rates in front of 115 million monthly visitors. A funding rate is the small payment that keeps a perpetual futures price glued to spot. Here is how it works and why traders watch it.
Bitcoin held near $84,000 on September 25 as money rotated into smaller tokens. Ninety-three of the 100 coins in the CoinDesk 100 index rose in a day, and CoinMarketCap's altcoin season index hit its highest level in three months. Bitcoin's own gains stalled as Treasury yields climbed.
Nearly $16 billion in bitcoin options settled on Deribit on Friday, the biggest expiry of 2026. Bitcoin hardly reacted and held near $85,000. The exchange warns the calm could fade as dealer hedging unwinds.
SoFi Bank switched its whole Mastercard card program to settle in a bank-issued stablecoin called SoFiUSD. The plumbing changed, not the checkout. Here is what settlement is, how the new version works, and what it does not yet prove.
A seed phrase is the master backup that controls a crypto wallet. This plain guide explains how the words map to your keys, why they must stay offline, the common ways people lose access, and how to back them up so you do not join them.
Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs counted 32 price manipulation attacks on DeFi lending in 2026, a record. The method is old and cheap: rig the price of a thin token, borrow real money against it, then walk away.
A cross-chain bridge locks coins on one chain and mints a copy on another. That design put hundreds of millions at risk in 2026, and one exploit alone took about $292 million.
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CoinMarketCap says buying Coinglass will bring professional derivatives data and clearer risk signals to its 115 million mainstream visitors.
Our read: The acquisition is confirmed and closed, and Coinglass's funding, open-interest and liquidation data are real and widely used. The benefit to retail is unproven. No integration has shipped, terms were undisclosed, and Coinglass is now owned through Binance, which raises a neutrality question the companies have not addressed.
An altcoin season is beginning as money rotates out of bitcoin and into smaller tokens.
Our read: A broad one-day rally and a rising altcoin season index back part of the claim, but the index sits at 56, below the 75 that marks a real altcoin season, and a single strong day is not a trend. It is unclear whether the money is new or recycled bitcoin profit.
A record $15.9 billion bitcoin options expiry, the biggest of 2026, would swing the price as dealers hedged and the market chased heavy call strikes.
Our read: The size and Friday settlement are backed by Deribit's data via CoinDesk and by The Block's open interest figures. The move did not come: bitcoin held near $85,000 through the expiry and into the weekend. The claim that volatility now returns rests on how hedging unwinds, which is not yet visible. Figures cover Deribit only, which leads the market but is not all of it.
SoFi and Mastercard say putting a $25 billion card program on the SoFiUSD stablecoin brings blockchain speed to settlement with the safeguards of a bank.
Our read: The system is live at real scale and the token is issued by an OCC-regulated national bank with reserves the bank says are mostly cash. What is missing: no independent audit of the reserves, no published figures on merchant savings or performance under stress, and the benefit is confined to one bank's card program so far.
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US spot bitcoin funds took in about $2 billion in the week to September 23 and flipped 2026 flows positive, yet bitcoin was rejected at $87,000. The gap between demand and price is the real story.
Every four years or so, the reward for mining a bitcoin block is cut in half. The event gets the attention, but the fixed supply schedule behind it is the more important idea, and it is why bitcoin’s scarcity is a rule rather than a policy.
HIFI, a New York startup, raised $37 million in a Series A led by Left Lane Capital to build settlement rails for tokenized money. The company reported more than $7 billion in annual platform volume, but it did not disclose a valuation or name other backers.
Crypto casino Duelbits went offline after attackers drained about $7 million from hot wallets on four blockchains, in a suspected private-key compromise. Its co-founder says user funds are safe. That reassurance, as ever, is the platform’s own.
Bullish, Alpaca, Apex and others formed a coalition to tie tokenized stocks to official shareholder records, days after AMC’s chief executive called some existing stock tokens a “quasi-fake market.” The fight is over what you actually own.
Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs counted 32 price manipulation attacks on DeFi lending in 2026, a record. The method is old and cheap: rig the price of a thin token, borrow real money against it, then walk away.
A cross-chain bridge locks coins on one chain and mints a copy on another. That design put hundreds of millions at risk in 2026, and one exploit alone took about $292 million.
A CertiK report puts first-half 2026 Web3 losses at $1.31 billion across 344 incidents. The bigger shift is not the total. Attackers are stealing the keys that control the money instead of breaking the code, and a code audit does not catch that.
CoinMarketCap acquired derivatives data site Coinglass on September 25, 2026, putting funding rates in front of 115 million monthly visitors. A funding rate is the small payment that keeps a perpetual futures price glued to spot. Here is how it works and why traders watch it.
Bitcoin held near $84,000 on September 25 as money rotated into smaller tokens. Ninety-three of the 100 coins in the CoinDesk 100 index rose in a day, and CoinMarketCap's altcoin season index hit its highest level in three months. Bitcoin's own gains stalled as Treasury yields climbed.
Nearly $16 billion in bitcoin options settled on Deribit on Friday, the biggest expiry of 2026. Bitcoin hardly reacted and held near $85,000. The exchange warns the calm could fade as dealer hedging unwinds.