Sienna Hartley

The First U.S. Spot ETFs to Marry Passive Exposure and On-Chain Yield Grayscale Investments has unveiled three pioneering exchange-traded funds—the Ethereum Mini Trust (ticker ETH), the long-standing Ethereum Trust (ETHE), and the Solana Trust (GSOL)—that will incorporate native staking rewards once final regulatory checks clear. By allowing validators to lock Continue Reading

Rally Recap and Market Context Bitcoin has done precisely what many technicians projected last week: cleared the long-standing $118,000 barrier, tagged a new all-time high at $124,600, and then cooled just below that level. 24-hour performance shows a modest 0.69% gain, leaving price at $123,108 while total market capitalisation sits Continue Reading

Derivatives Market Shows Pros Positioning for a Volatility Spike Solana is changing hands at $227.69 after a decisive seven-day rally that lifted the token more than 23 % from its recent $195 swing low. The clearest tell comes from the derivatives arena: Velo.data records aggregate Solana futures open interest on CME at an Continue Reading

From Bentonville to the Blockchain: OnePay’s Upcoming Trading Feature The American grocery aisle is about to brush up against the bitcoin ledger. According to people familiar with the matter who spoke with major business media on 3 October 2025, OnePay—the mobile-banking venture majority-owned by Walmart—has quietly begun integrating cryptocurrency trading Continue Reading

A $900 B Lender Puts Crypto on the Same Rails as Foreign Exchange Spanish banking heavyweight BBVA has quietly pushed the start button on round-the-clock retail trading for Bitcoin and Ether, becoming the country’s first major lender—and one of the first in Europe—to do so inside its core mobile-banking app. Continue Reading

Shiba Inu’s October Track Record Fuels Renewed Bullishness Shiba Inu opened the month with a swift 5 % climb, coinciding with a broader uptick across major digital assets and reviving the community’s favorite nickname for the season—“Uptober.” Historically, the moniker is more than marketing hype for SHIB holders: over the last Continue Reading

Historic Outflows Turn to Inflows: Institutional Sentiment Remains Volatile Ethereum’s September felt like two different months compressed into one. Between the 22nd and 26th, spot ETFs built on the network hemorrhaged roughly $795.5 million, the heaviest weekly exodus ever recorded for the asset class. Fidelity’s FETH vehicle lost more than $360 million, while BlackRock’s Continue Reading

From Messaging Rail to Settlement Layer: A Strategic Pivot Swift, the interbank cooperative that has stitched the global payments fabric together for fifty years, confirmed at the Sibos conference in Frankfurt that it is building a blockchain-based shared ledger in partnership with Consensys and more than thirty financial institutions spanning Continue Reading

Spot ETF Window Could Reorder the Crypto League Table XRP closed the week at $2.78, capping a month of steady bids as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) prepares to decide on six spot-ETF applications between 18 October and 25 October. The filings—submitted by Grayscale, 21Shares, Bitwise, Canary Capital, Continue Reading

Asset Managers Race Ahead with Updated Solana Filings A flurry of amended S-1 forms hit the Securities and Exchange Commission late last week, revealing that Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, CoinShares, Bitwise, Grayscale, VanEck, and Canary Capital have all refreshed their proposals for spot Solana exchange-traded funds. ETF analyst Nate Geraci flagged Continue Reading