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Rumble has officially launched Bitcoin and cryptocurrency tipping, allowing its 51 million users to send direct payments to creators. The move transforms the video platform into a growing digital economy that merges content creation with cryptocurrency utility, offering Bitcoin a real-world use case beyond speculation.
The update fulfills CEO Chris Pavlovski’s vision announced nearly a year ago, following a massive $775 million investment from Tether. That deal not only boosted Rumble’s stock by 76% but also cemented a shared mission with Tether to promote decentralization and blockchain-based innovation.
Rumble’s integration of Bitcoin tipping builds on its earlier decision to allocate up to $20 million of its treasury into Bitcoin. By linking its financial strategy with creator monetization, the company is creating a closed-loop crypto ecosystem—one where Bitcoin moves from being a balance sheet asset to a practical, peer-to-peer payment tool driving a new era of decentralized creator economies.
President Donald Trump has selected Michael Selig, chief counsel for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s crypto task force, to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Selig’s nomination, first reported by Bloomberg, marks Trump’s second attempt to fill the CFTC’s top post, following the stalled nomination of Brian Quintenz, a16z crypto’s global policy chief, amid opposition from Gemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss.
Selig, who serves as an aide to SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, has been instrumental in coordinating regulatory approaches between the SEC and CFTC on financial and crypto market oversight.
The CFTC, which regulates futures, swaps, and…
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Polymarket Chief Marketing Officer Matthew Modabber confirmed the prediction market platform will launch a native POLY token and accompanying airdrop following the company’s planned U.S. app rollout.
Speaking on the Degenz Live podcast, Modabber said the project’s leadership has been deliberate in timing the token release to ensure “true utility, longevity, and permanence.”
His remarks followed earlier hints from founder Shayne Coplan, who suggested a token launch was in progress in a post on X.
Polymarket’s renewed U.S. focus comes after regulators permitted the firm to resume operations in the country, which had been suspended in 2022 amid legal… Read more on Blockworks
Swiss Bitcoin app Relai has become one of the first Bitcoin-only companies to receive regulatory approval under Europe’s landmark Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework.
The Zurich-based firm announced today that it has been granted authorization as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) by France’s Financial Markets Authority (AMF), according to a note shared with Bitcoin Magazine.
The approval marks a significant moment not just for Relai, but for the broader Bitcoin ecosystem in Europe. The MiCA regulation, which came into effect earlier this year, establishes uniform rules for crypto companies across the EU, aiming to increase investor protection and reduce…
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Can AI trade crypto? Jay Azhang, a computer engineer and finance bro from New York, is putting this question to the test with Alpha Arena. The project pits the greatest large language models (LLM) against each other, each with 10 thousand dollars worth of capital, to see which can make more money trading crypto. The models include Grok 4, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 2.5 pro, ChatGPT 5, Deepseek v3.1, and Qwen3 Max.
Now, you might be thinking “wow, that’s a great idea!” and you would be surprised, at the time of writing, three out of the five AIs are underwater, with Qwen3 and Deepseek — the two Chinese open source models — leading the charge.
That’s right, the…
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The rapid slide in US Treasury yields is prodding some stablecoin treasuries to diversify.
This week, Spark — the DeFi lending protocol and core “Star” within the Sky (formerly MakerDAO) ecosystem — allocated $100 million of its stablecoin reserves to Superstate’s USCC fund, a regulated crypto carry product that earns yield from futures basis trades instead of solely interest on government debt.
The move comes just as the 10-year Treasury yield dipped below 4% for the first time since April, closing at 3.976%. Lower yields have squeezed protocols that rely on short-duration Treasuries to fund operations and incentives. Spark’s pivot marks one of the first large-scale…
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Bitcoin price surged past $111,000 today after new U.S. inflation data showed a milder-than-expected rise in consumer prices, strengthening expectations that the Federal Reserve will move ahead with additional rate cuts this year.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.3% month-over-month in September, below economists’ forecasts of 0.4%, while “core” CPI — excluding food and energy — rose just 0.2%, also softer than expected.
On a year-over-year basis, both headline and core inflation registered 3.0%, slightly below estimates.
The release, delayed 10 days by the ongoing government shutdown, was one of the few major economic reports to make it out this month. An…
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Has the bitcoin price finally broken away from its four-year cycle pattern, or is this bull market already entering exhaustion? By studying historical growth rates, liquidity data, and macroeconomic correlations, we can better understand whether the current cycle has truly diverged, and what that means for investors in the months ahead.
Bitcoin Price Cycle Duration
Analyzing BTC Growth Since Cycle Lows, we can see that Bitcoin has now officially surpassed the elapsed time from cycle low to cycle high seen in previous bull markets. The 2018–2022 cycle peaked 1,059 days after its prior bear market low, and the current cycle has now moved beyond that duration. If we average the…
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