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Democrat Ruben Gallego won the Arizona Senate seat defeating Republican Kari Lake. While Democrats lost control of the Senate in the 2024 election, Gallego's win stemmed some of the losses. Republicans will control 53 seats for at least the next two years, having flipped Pennsylvania, Ohio, Montana and West Virginia last week. The crypto-focused super

Bitcoin surged above $89,000 before dropping to $87,000, resulting in over $600 million in futures liquidations across both long and short positions. This volatility was the highest since BTC briefly surpassed $73,000 earlier in the year. Altcoins like DOGE, SOL, and APT also saw substantial futures losses, with DOGE experiencing its largest liquidations this year.

BTC's breakout has the market in a state of euphoria, QCP Capital said. Elevated perpetual funding rates and basis yields suggest potential leverage washouts ahead. As bitcoin (BTC) prices approach the $90,000 mark, a sense of euphoria or extreme optimism seems to be sweeping through the market, warning of a potential price pullback ahead. 01:01

Lens is attempting to reach scale by addressing the drawbacks of social media platforms managed by big centralized companies like Facebook and Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter). The latest version introduces application building blocks that allow users to create decentralized newspapers with thousands of contributors. 02:38 'High Likelihood' Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson Will Become Trump's

Bitcoin clinched another all-time high of $88,448 on Monday, surging 11% over the past 24 hours, while the broad-market CoinDesk 20 Index underperformed, with Ethereum's ETH and Solana's SOL lagging. Crypto equities such as Coinbase, MicroStrategy, miners booked 20%-30% gains. Crypto's price explosion is justified as the industry went from an "objectively oppressive regulatory regime

Former co-CEO of Alameda Research, Sam Trabucco, has agreed to hand over two properties and a 53-foot yacht to creditors of failed crypto exchange FTX, a filing shows. Trabucco, who was part of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle and became Caroline Ellison’s right hand at Alameda Research, the trading firm co-founded by Bankman-Fried, left the company

Bitcoin touched a record-high $85,000, TradingView data shows, as it extended its rally following the U.S. elections. Gold and the so-called magnificent seven tech stocks are underperforming. 02:04 Tesla Is Moving Bitcoin; Trump-Supported Token Falls Flat 01:31 Bitcoin ETFs Are "Trojan Horse for Adoption": Bernstein 01:22 Uptober Forming Amid Rising Stablecoin Liquidity and Bitcoin Transactions

Espresso, a closely watched blockchain project to coordinate cross-chain transactions and interactions, shared Monday that its main product, known as the confirmation layer, has gone live. According to the team, the confirmation layer will be a critical piece of infrastructure for composability among rollups, allowing for two networks to read and trust each other's blocks

Deribit-listed BTC options at $90,000 and $100,000 strikes have been sold to dealers, according to Amberdata. The rally may lose steam if prices reach those levels. 01:01 Bitcoin Breaks $64K While Gold Soars 00:56 ETH/BTC Ratio Slid to Lowest Since April 2021 00:57 Is Bitcoin Losing Its Bullish Momentum? As bitcoin's (BTC) ongoing price surge

Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, has bought another 27,200 BTC for $2 billion. Its bitcoin stash was acquired for a cumulative $11.9 billion, meaning MicroStrategy is currently in profit to the tune of around $11 billion. 01:01 Bitcoin Breaks $64K While Gold Soars 00:56 ETH/BTC Ratio Slid to Lowest Since April