Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

TL;DRBitcoin fell toward $80,000 after the Federal Reserve held rates at 3.75% to 4%, reversing a brief post-decision jump toward $81,800.NEAR and Bitcoin Cash led broad altcoin losses near 8%, while Ether, XRP, Solana and Zcash also declined in the initial market snapshot.A later reading kept Bitco

Semiconductor stocks Micron Technology (MU) and SanDisk (SNDK) rallied on Wednesday, rising 5.86% and 7.66%, respectively. SK Hynix sparked the move by forecasting that memory demand could outpace supply through 2030.The gains came as Nvidia and Apple slipped. Both memory stocks fell more than 3% in

Original | Odaily Planet Daily (@OdailyChina)Author | Wenser (@wenser 2010 )Predictive market trading volume continues to rise, but the struggle over regulatory authority between U.S. federal and state authorities regarding predictive platforms has reached a fever pitch.On October 20, Utah filed a c

Odaily Planet Daily report: On October 29, the following key financial news from the U.S. stock market deserves investors' attention:1. The three major U.S. stock index futures all declined. The Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell 0.33%, the S&P 500 futures dropped 0.44%, and the Nasdaq 100 fu

Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, has welcomed Ethereum to the Midnight Network following a partnership between Sig Network and the Midnight Foundation. In a brief post on X, Hoskinson welcomed Ethereum while reacting to the partnership announcement. According to the announcement, Sig Netwo

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) shares slipped 3% to $140.36 in early premarket trading Thursday, reversing some of Wednesday’s Investor Day-driven advance as AI-related tech stocks weakened amid investor disappointment over Alphabet’s third-quarter earnings.Google’s parent company’s shares dropped roughly 10%

Midnight Network has surpassed 1 million mainnet transactions within seven months of launch, as on-chain activity surged by 26,508% over the past month.At press time, the Midnight network had recorded 1,094,866 (1.094 million) transactions and deployed 1,434 smart contracts, according to data from M

Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) shares fell more than 10% to $291.49 in pre-market trading Thursday after the Google parent reported weaker-than-expected third-quarter earnings, as slowing search advertising growth and heavy artificial intelligence spending overshadowed strong demand for its cloud services

CoinDesk reports:Why Alphabet, Google's parent company, fell today: Free cash flow turns negative, AI-powered search advertising underperformsAlphabet's stock fell about 10% before Thursday's open, potentially marking the largest single-day earnings-day decline since its 2004 IPO. A closing drop exc

Bitcoin infrastructure developer RootstockLabs argues in a new report that lending, yield generation and balance-sheet financing could drive the next increase in institutional Bitcoin demand. RootstockLabs estimates that lending and Bitcoin-native finance currently involve just 1.5% of Bitcoin's sup

CoinMarketCap reports:Key pointsReports indicate that Marvell is in advanced negotiations to acquire Lumentum.After the related news emerged, LITE's stock price rose approximately 9% in after-hours trading.If the transaction is completed, it will strengthen Marvell's business presence in the AI infr

CoinDesk reports:Teku and Besu have updated their respective Docker images following the eMudhra incident, as the weak certificate key posed a risk to software connecting to external services, including some Ethereum validator deployments.Teku 26.10.3 and Besu 26.10.2 have removed the affected certi

ME News reports that on October 29 (UTC+8), Microsoft (MSFT.O) is launching its first senior bond issuance in over nine years, joining peers in significantly increasing borrowing amid a surge in financing demand driven by the AI investment boom. According to sources familiar with the matter, Microso

ChainCatcher reports that PhotonPay has announced the completion of a $40 million Series C funding round, led by Blockchain Capital, with SBI Group participating as a new investor. Existing investors IDG Capital, GL Ventures, and Lightspeed Faction also made additional investments. Blacksheep Techno

This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.'Sign up here, if you haven't already.Bitcoin BTC$80,009.39 options traders are nervous.The tell is in the pricing, which shows they are paying a clear premium for puts, which protect against a potential slide in the spot price of the largest cryp