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In brief The October 10 crash wiped out $19 billion in open interest. Bitcoin open interest in futures, options, and perpetual contracts now sits around $140 billion. Derivatives volumes spiked to $748 billion the day of the big wipeout. It could take two quarters for Bitcoin derivatives activity to recover from the Oct. 10 flash crash that wiped out $19 billion in open interest, Max Xu, Bybit’s derivatives operations director, told Decrypt. “While I don’t expect a rapid rebound, the medium-term outlook remains constructive,” he said of the correction that ranks among the largest ever for Bitcoin derivatives. “If macro conditions…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin miner Bitfarms has announced plans to pull back on Bitcoin mining in the coming two years and pivot toward AI-compute centers. Bitfarms CEO Says Pivot To AI-Compute Business Could Out-Earn Bitcoin Mining In a press release, Bitcoin mining company Bitfarms has revealed plans to convert one of its facilities to support High-Performance Computing (HPC)/Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads. The mining site, located in the Washington State and drawing in 18 MW of power, will be upgraded with state-of-the-art liquid cooling to support Nvidia’s AI-infrastructure cards, GB300s. Bitfarms…

Bitcoin has done what many bulls dreaded: it plunged below six figures, crashed through $100,000, and even tumbled past $98,000 in a wave of liquidations not seen since May.As reported by CryptoSlate, BTC fell to $98,550, triggering $190 million in long liquidations in one hour and $655 million in 24 hours as spot ETFs saw a $278 million net outflow on Nov. 12 and $961 million for the month so far.Graph showing Bitcoin’s price on Coinbase from Nov. 13 to Nov. 14, 2025 (Source: TradingView)This event shifted a slow decline into a sharp drop, clearing leveraged longs and forcing the…

In brief JPMorgan analysts upgraded Circle’s rating to “Overweight.” They lifted their price target to $100 from $94 for Circle shares. It’s still unclear whether the stablecoin will be dominated by incumbents, they said. JPMorgan analysts assigned an “Overweight” rating to Circle shares on Thursday, saying fundamental aspects of the stablecoin issuer’s business are improving.The bank’s analysts said Circle’s third-quarter results were better than expected, prompting them to lift their 2026 year-end price target to $100 from $94 per share. When JPMorgan analysts initiated coverage of Circle in June, they iterated an $80 price target.Although Circle is expected to face…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Quick Facts: ➡️ Bitcoin long-term holders have dumped roughly 815K $BTC while whales accumulated 45K $BTC, a classic sign of risk rotation toward deep-pocketed buyers. ➡️ Dogecoin is consolidating in a fresh weekly accumulation zone, with technical structures that historically preceded multi-x rallies and renewed meme-sector interest. ➡️ Bitcoin Hyper, Maxi Doge, and FLOKI ride that same meme-sector tailwind while adding utility narratives ranging from Bitcoin Layer-2 scaling to gamified trading ecosystems. ➡️ Presale entries in $HYPER and $MAXI sit well below the current 2026 high forecast,…

Equity screens show a broad red, with the S&P 500 down around 1.8% and the entire crypto market under pressure simultaneously.What appears to be an unexplained wipeout is, in fact, a layered move driven by interest rate expectations, crowded positioning in tech and AI names, and a shift in global risk appetite that is pulling liquidity from the parts of the market that led the prior rally.Across crypto, the tape was heavy over the last 24 hours: Bitcoin -5.8%, Ethereum -9.4%, XRP -8.8%, Solana -9.2%, and BNB -5.2%. As a result, the total market cap fell by 6% to $3.2…

In brief Bitcoin slid with stocks on Thursday, dropping below $100,000. It’s the third time the coin has fallen under $100K in November after being above the mark for six months. Analysts remain upbeat over crypto’s medium- to long-term outlook. Bitcoin’s price dropped below $100,000 for the third time this month as investors sold off risk assets like cryptocurrencies and tech stocks, with broader worries about the economy weighing on markets. The price of the biggest digital coin was recently at $99,611, according to CoinGecko data, after a more than 2% fall over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin plunged below the…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Quick Facts: ➡️ Bitcoin fell to a six-month low as equities retreated; long-term holders sold ~815K $BTC in a month, intensifying sell-side pressure. ➡️ The selloff looks like a supply shock and de-risking rather than a structural failure. ➡️ Capital rotation is favoring utility-led presales like Bitcoin Hyper, which saw a whale snap up tokens worth half a million dollars on Thursday. Bitcoin is likely to end the week under pressure, as it slips almost 6% from Thursday’s high and continues to hover under $100K. That move…

AI researchers from Anthropic, Stanford, and Oxford have discovered that making AI models think longer makes them easier to jailbreak—the opposite of what everyone assumed.The prevailing assumption was that extended reasoning would make AI models safer, because it gives them more time to detect and refuse harmful requests. Instead, researchers found it creates a reliable jailbreak method that bypasses safety filters entirely.Using this technique, an attacker could insert an instruction in the Chain of Thought process of any AI model and force it to generate instructions for creating weapons, writing malware code, or producing other prohibited content that would normally…

In brief The Czech National Bank made its first crypto investment with a $1 million test portfolio of Bitcoin, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits. The program will help the bank learn digital asset management and could lead to the addition of crypto in the nation’s official reserves. Officials said U.S. pro-crypto policies and Bitcoin’s maturity influenced the move. The Czech Republic has officially invested in crypto. On Thursday, the European nation’s central bank announced that—after years of observations from the sidelines—it purchased a “test portfolio” of digital assets it will experiment with over the coming years as it moves towards crypto adoption. The…