Over the past 24 hours, Ethereum’s ETH/USD price rose 3.15% to $1,681.45. This continues its positive trend over the past week where it has experienced a 7.0% gain, moving from $1,578.02 to its current price. As it stands right now, the coin’s all-time high is $4,878.26.

The chart below compares the price movement and volatility for Ethereum over the past 24 hours (left) to its price movement over the past week (right). The gray bands are Bollinger Bands, measuring the volatility for both the daily and weekly price movements. The wider the bands are, or the larger the gray area is at any given moment, the larger the volatility.

The trading volume for the coin has increased 4.0% over the…

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Blocknative CEO and co-founder Matt Cutler says that over the past six months, private orders — transactions which do not appear in the public mempool but then do appear on-chain — grew from about 2% to 15% of all transactions on the Ethereum network.

He expects about half of all transactions to be private in a year or so. Designed as a “mechanism of protection,” he explains, the innovation has spawned some unintended consequences.

On the 0xResearch podcast (Spotify/Apple), Cutler explains the reasoning for private transactions: “You’re trying to avoid some of these concerns about adverse settlement and your transaction being part of an MEV attack.” 

MEV, or maximum…

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MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin (BTC) holdings have turned profitable for the first time since July this year as the BTC price has broken through above $30,000.

MicroStrategy up $132M in paper profits

As of Oct. 23, MicroStrategy held 158,245 BTC worth $4.847 billion, up about $132 million from the original amount invested — at an average rate of 29,870 per BTC. In other words, the firm is now up at least $130 per coin.

MicroStrategy Bitcoin holdings as of Oct. 23. Source: BlockchainCenter.Net

MicroStrategy started buying Bitcoin in 2020. The firm ramped up purchases in 2023 as BTC’s price recovered from extreme losses caused by the Federal Reserve’s rate hike policy and high-profile crypto…

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As the giants of the financial world enter the arena, this is a critical do-or-die moment for crypto natives.

The cryptocurrency market is going through some major changes as traditional financial institutions increasingly dive into their world. Take PayPal, for example, which launched its own stablecoin in August 2023, marking a significant milestone as the first major US financial company to do so. 

Another noteworthy event is the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s acceptance of BlackRock’s application for a bitcoin ETF in July 2023. While not a full approval, this move signals a growing, if tentative, acknowledgment of cryptocurrencies as a legitimate asset class.

This wave…

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Crypto mining stocks including Marathon Digital Holdings Inc MARA and Riot Platforms Inc RIOT are moving higher Monday amid a rise in the price of Bitcoin BTC/USD.

What To Know: Bitcoin is up more than 2% over the last 24 hours and more than 9% over the last week amid several positive developments. 

Last week, the SEC said it would seek to dismiss all claims against Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse and executive chair Chris Larsen, which helped boost the broader cryptocurrency market. 

The upward momentum in Bitcoin also appears to be driven by continued optimism surrounding a potential spot ETF. Grayscale submitted an S-3 with the SEC, showing that it intends to list the shares of its…

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Bitcoin (BTC) is in massive demand from institutional investors, but awaits a spot BTC exchange-traded fund (ETF) approval to trigger a buying rally, according to a blockchain executive at the professional services provider Ernst & Young (EY).

EY’s global blockchain leader Paul Brody believes that Bitcoin is facing a lot of pent-up demand from institutions due to United States regulators not approving a spot Bitcoin ETF for years.

Brody discussed the outlook for the cryptocurrency adoption on CNBC’s Crypto Decrypted on Oct. 23, declaring that trillions of dollars in institutional money are waiting to enter Bitcoin once a BTC ETF is approved.

“But any of these other institutional funds,…

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SocialFi is having its moment. 

Since launching in August, Friend.tech has seen inflows of more than $420 million, according to a Dune Analytics dashboard. Meanwhile, the Web3 mobile social apps Phaver and RepubliK both announced fundraises last week. 

Hype surrounding crypto-native social media is nothing new, but a fresh crop of Web3 social apps are taking their swing at the entrenched social media giants. And as the incumbent Web2 social titans struggle with content moderation and fair creator payouts, founders and investors say they spy an opportunity.

What is SocialFi?

In short, SocialFi uses blockchain to monetize social interactions. 

SocialFi platforms use avenues built on…

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Cryptocurrency exchange and derivatives platform Bitget has launched a new wallet service using multi-party computation (MPC) to improve security and key management for users.

Following the launch of its account abstraction wallet service powered by Ethereum scaling protocol Starknet in July 2023, Bitget has employed MPC to overhaul private key and asset management.

MPC technology uses a distributed key generation mechanism that distributes multiple key shares to different locations that are controlled by multiple parties. This enables a process that requires the owners of distributed private key shares to sign and authorize the transaction.

The MPC wallet features a “mnemonic-free” user…

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