Crypto Industry News & Market Trends

ALGO Price Prediction: The Quantum Breakout That Could Turn Into a Trap — $0.13 or Back to $0.09？

Felix Pinkston　　Sep 21, 2026 10:49　　ALGO has surged over 26% in the past seven days to print $0.11, touching overbought territory with RSI at 70 and price kissing the upper Bollinger Band. Smart money is piling in long, but the techn…　　The Surge Is Real — But So Is the Danger Zone　　ALGO doesn‘t do things quietly. After grinding through a multi-week consolidation base around $0.085–$0.09, the token has erupted over 26% in the past seven days, printing $0.11 at the time of writing. That kind of move in a Layer-1 with $980M+ in market cap is not noise — it’s a regime shift attempt. The question every serious trader needs to answer right now is whether this is the start of a structural re-rating or a textbook blow-off squeeze about to get faded hard.　　The catalyst mix is actually worth respecting. Algorand‘s v5.0.0 post-quantum upgrade went live on August 22, new CEO William Herkelrath (formerly of Chainlink) took the helm on September 9, and Google’s Quantum AI research has cited Algorand over 30 times — a quiet but meaningful institutional credibility signal. Layered on top of that, the SEC‘s September 17 Innovation Exemption — granting tokenized securities venues a five-year conditional framework to

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How cutting power to Bitcoin miners can actually burn more energy

Some Bitcoin mining vardiff (variable difficulty) controllers can keep demanding work calibrated for a machines former speed after it cuts hashrate. The miner can keep hashing and consuming electricity while accepted shares become vanishingly rare.　　Related Asset Bitcoin #1 BTC · $86,586.31 24-hour change: up 6.60% Loading price history… 24H Up 6.60% 7D Up 9.43% 30D Up 11.81%　　Bitcoin Optech highlighted the failure mode on Sept. 18, drawing wider attention to an analysis that mining engineer Eric Price published in July. The finding concerns pool-assigned share difficulty, not Bitcoins network difficulty, and it describes a testable controller weakness rather than evidence of widespread miner losses.　　How Bitcoin mining vardiff gets stuck　　Pools assign each connection a share difficulty that is easier than Bitcoins block difficulty. A higher assigned difficulty corresponds to a harder share target. The submitted shares let the pool estimate hashrate and account for contributed work, while a variable-difficulty, or vardiff, controller adjusts the assignment to keep shares arriving at a useful rate.　　Prices controller analysis describes a trap after a miner slows sharply. If the controller recalculates only when a share arrives, the old, harder assignment makes the next share less likely. With no fresh share to trigger an update, the controller

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Shiba Inu price jumps 9%—can SHIB hold Its 200-day breakout？

The Shiba Inu price climbed almost 9%today, September 21, breaking above a level that had restricted its recovery for several months.　　SHIB reached the $0.00000608price level before it eased to around $0.00000596level. The breakout gives buyers some encouragement, although its exchange activity suggests that the rally still faces a test.　　Shiba Inu price clears a major barrier　　SHIB started trading at around the $0.00000550level before moving by 8.56%, according to the daily chart. Trading activity also increased as the price moved towards the $0.00000600price level.　　More importantly, SHIB moved above its 200-day average at about $0.00000562, and this level had previously acted as a ceiling.　　Moving above it suggests that the market conditions are improving. But for the move to be confirmed, SHIB must remain above that level after the initial excitement it saw stops.　　Source: TradingView　　The next resistance sits around the $0.00000608level, which is the days high. If it moves beyond that level successfully, it could bring the August peak near $0.00000620back into view.　　But if buyers lose control of the level it could not go above, around the $0.00000562 price level could become the first area of support. The $0.00000545 to $0.00000550level will then be the next level to watch.　　Exchange flows temper the optimism　　Its exchange

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XRP Liquidity Map Shows Exactly Where The Next Move Points

XRP swept its stop-loss cluster near $1.24 overnight, then broke short-term structure on the hourly chart. Here is the liquidity map that matters next.　　A wick to $1.2369 on the hourly chart barely lasted twenty minutes, gone almost as fast as it showed up. By the time most traders even noticed the red candle, XRP had already turned the other way.　　The token is up more than 5% over the past day now, trading near $1.49 against the dollar. Not random noise, either. It followed a clean liquidity sweep below a multi-week low, more or less the exact move XRP traders wait around for before they trust a real shift in market structure.　　XRP/USD Daily chart. Source: TradingView Coinbase.　　A Sweep, Then A Reversal　　Zoom out to the daily chart and the picture gets clearer, or at least less noisy. XRP spent close to seven months grinding sideways between roughly $1.00 and $1.60. That range came out of a much bigger move down from the November 2025 high near $2.95, and honestly it dragged on longer than most people expected.　　Lower highs kept stacking on top of each other. Every rally into resistance got sold, over and over, until the pattern became almost boring to watch.

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SBF Bought Uniswap.com: How Did Uniswap Get the Domain for Free？

Hayden Adams recounts how the OG owners of Uniswap.com wanted seven figures, but “we” refused to pay.SBF bought the domain for seven figures and pointed it to a Uniswap fork, which Adams says was likely to “flex.”This raises a key question about how Uniswap Labs ultimately won control of the domain without buying it back.　　The revelation that Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) allegedly purchased Uniswap.com for a seven-figure sum to target Uniswap has revived attention on one of cryptos most unusual domain disputes.　　The key question is how Uniswap Labs ultimately won control of the domain without buying it back after SBF redirected it to a Uniswap fork.　　According to Uniswap protocol inventor Hayden Adams, SBF purchased Uniswap.com after Uniswap Labs declined to meet the original owners seven-figure asking price. In a post on X, Adams has stated, “the og owners of Uniswap.com wanted 7 figures, but we refused to pay that amount.”　　Meanwhile, SBF reportedly purchased the Uniswap.com domain name to redirect users away from the official Uniswap platform and toward a competing clone or “fork” project. In May 2021, when Uniswap Labs filed its WIPO complaint, uniswap.com redirected visitors to a SushiSwap subpage. Adams said that SBF directed the domain to a Uniswap

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USDC Issuer Circle Rolls Out Bitcoin-Backed Loans for Institutions

Circle has launched Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing for eligible Circle Mint customers, creating a new institutional use for Bitcoin and USDC. The service enables customers to deposit bitcoin-backed collateral and use USDC without selling their BTC holdings.　　Ad　　Ad　　Circle Mint Adds Bitcoin-Backed USDC Borrowing　　Under the new service, customers deposit BTC and mint Circle Wrapped Bitcoin, known as cirBTC. They can then supply cirBTC to supported third-party lending markets and borrow USDC into their Circle Mint accounts.　　The product is available for both Arc and Ethereum, Circle said, with Morpho being the first supported lending protocol. Circle plans to expand access to more lending markets and networks, with Aave support on its way soon. Customers control their positions via their own wallet that is linked to the Circle Mint workflow.　　Discover more　　Bitcoin price tracker　　News　　NEWS　　The borrowing positions are overcollateralized, meaning that access is based on the value of the collateral and market rules rather than unsecured credit checks. Rates, liquidation levels, liquidity, and collateral requirements are determined by the lending market chosen and may vary from time to time.　　Ad　　Ad　　cirBTC Connects Bitcoin Collateral With USDC Liquidity　　According to Circle, each cirBTC token is backed 1 to 1 with native BTC, and reserves can be verified on-chain. The underlying BTC

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ZWTC 2026 Enters Squad Stage as Zoomex Opens Registration for Competition With Up to 2.5 Million USDT in Prizes

VICTORIA, Seychelles, September 21, 2026— Zoomex, a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on derivatives, has opened regular registration for the ZWTC 2026 Squad Competition, moving its annual trading championship from the launch phase into the active squad formation stage.　　Traders can now select and join participating squads, with regular registration remaining open until October 3, 2026, at 10:00 UTC. Captain registration will close on September 21 at 10:00 UTC, when the official Squad Competition begins. The competition will run until October 11 at 10:00 UTC.　　The Squad Competition carries a prize pool of up to 2,500,000 USDT, accounting for half of the maximum 5,000,000 USDT prize pool announced for ZWTC 2026. Rather than using a single ranking to determine team performance, the competition divides rewards across three categories:Up to 1,500,000 USDTfor the Squad Profit Rate rankingUp to 700,000 USDTfor the Squad Trading Volume rankingUp to 300,000 USDTfor the Squad Popularity category　　The three-part structure gives squads different ways to compete, whether through trading results, sustained eligible trading activity, or their ability to build an active community around the competition.　　Three Rankings, Three Ways for Squads to Compete　　The Squad Profit Rate ranking places trading performance at the center of the competition. Participating squads will be

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Liquid Network attacker crossed into theft: Immunefi CEO

Immunefi CEO Mitchell Amador has said the Liquid Network attackers lost any claim to white-hat status by retaining 598.5 BTC after returning 3,400 BTC from the roughly 4,000 BTC exploit.　　Immunefi founder and CEO Mitchell Amador told crypto.news that moving user assets without permission cannot be treated as a rescue when the researcher later keeps part of the funds or sets payment terms.　　“Coordinated disclosure ends the moment you set the terms yourself,” Amador said. “The money was never yours to save, so moving it is not a rescue.”　　His comments address the dispute left by the Liquid Network incident, in which unidentified actors withdrew roughly 4,000 BTC, valued at about $320 million at the time, before describing themselves as whitehats. They returned 3,400 BTC after Blockstream patched the affected bridge nodes but retained 598.5 BTC.　　Blockstream has rejected the group‘s demand for a 10% bounty and has said it will not pay for the return of the remaining Bitcoin. The company also rejected the attackers’ claim that the operation amounted to responsible disclosure.　　Liquid Network attackers could not set their own terms　　Amador said a security researcher must use private disclosure channels, preferably through a defined bug bounty program, instead of taking assets and negotiating

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Strategy And Strive Announce $182.7 Million Bitcoin Buy

Bitcoin treasuries kicked off Monday with a bang, with Strategy and Strive announcing they scooping up a combined 2,305 BTC for $182.7 million.　　Strategy said in a filing that it last week bought 950 bitcoins for $75.7 million — its first buy since August — and Strive snapped up 1,355 BTC for $107.7 million.　　The announcement comes as the price of the biggest cryptocurrency surges. Bitcoins price recently stood at $86,008, a 6% 24-hour rise, after hitting as high as $86,282 earlier on Monday.　　Strategy, the biggest corporate holder of bitcoin, also repurchased $174 million of its STRC perpetual preferred shares. The company has hit pause on buying this year to buy back its stock and build a cash reserve.　　On some occasions, the company even sold small bits of its BTC stash — despite founder and chairman Michael Saylor famously preaching to “never sell your bitcoin.”　　After a 10-week hiatus, the company started buying bitcoin again in the final week of August, scooping up nearly $370 million in the leading cryptocurrency.　　Its bitcoin holdings now stand at 846,000 coins — worth $72.7 billion at todays prices.　　Strive has continued its buying every week, going up the rankings of companies holding bitcoin. The Nasdaq-listed company is now

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Coinbase Brings IPO Shares to US Retail Traders, With Oura Up First

In briefCoinbase is opening IPO allocations to eligible U.S. retail customers through its app.Smart-ring maker Oura will be the first company offered through the service.Customers who quickly sell allocated shares could lose access to subsequent offerings.　　Coinbase is making a bigger play for retail investors by adding IPO share allocations to its expanding lineup of traditional investments. The crypto exchange will open the service to eligible U.S. customers this week with smart-ring maker Ouras planned Nasdaq debut.　　According to a Monday announcement, eligible U.S. customers can request Oura shares at the IPO price through the Coinbase app before public trading begins this week.　　Myriad: Which company IPOs next？ Click to make your prediction.　　“This new feature is yet another step toward growing the Everything Exchange, as our US customers now gain early exposure to high-interest companies before they hit public exchanges,” the company said in a statement.　　While Coinbase did not disclose why it chose to start with Oura, the launch comes as the smart-ring maker prepares to list on Nasdaq under the ticker “OURA,” offering 50 million shares at an expected price of $40 to $44 each.　　To participate, Coinbase said, customers select an offering through the IPO page in Coinbases app, fund their accounts,

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