Key takeaways:
$33 trillion in debt will mature across advanced economies in 2026, forming a refinancing wall that could drain liquidity and weigh on risk-on assets as borrowing costs remain high.
Global liquidity is projected to peak in late 2025, historically a precursor to tighter markets.

Tokyo-based publicly traded financial services company Monex Group is considering a Japanese yen-pegged stablecoin.
According to a Tuesday TV Tokyo report, Monex Group Chairman Oki Matsumoto told the outlet that the company is considering issuing a yen-pegged stablecoin in Japan.
“Issuing stableco

Blockchain developers are sharing "horror stories" related to eye-watering bills received from Google Cloud's BigQuery service, including a developer who was suddenly charged a total of $15,000 for performing three queries.
BigQuery is a serverless data warehouse offered by Google Cloud, designed f

Opinion by: Mitchell Amador, founder and CEO of Immunefi
Crypto’s best defense against catastrophic hacks isn’t code — it’s incentives. Bug bounties have prevented billions in losses, and it’s important to emphasize that these billions could have been exploits, not responsible disclosures, if the r

Jon Rice, a veteran crypto media professional who has overseen the newsroom at three specialist publications, has once again taken on the role of editor-in-chief at Cointelegraph.
Rice previously held the position from 2020-21 during the COVID-19 pandemic, prior to which he built and launched the l

Crypto millionaire James Wynn said the August market downturn was ending, even after his latest memecoin liquidation by an alleged market maker “cabal.”
Wynn was liquidated on his recent 10x leveraged long position that was betting on a Dogecoin (DOGE) price appreciation, losing $22,627,

French semiconductor company Sequans Communications filed for a $200 million at-the-market equity offering on Monday to fuel its Bitcoin treasury strategy — with the longer-term aim to amass 100,000 Bitcoin by 2030.
The program will allow the 4G and 5G chipmaker to issue American Depositary

Ether treasury company ETHZilla, which recently pivoted from its biotechnology roots to cryptocurrency, has approved a $250 million share repurchase program — signaling that some firms may increasingly tap digital-asset gains as a source of liquidity.
ETHZilla’s board of directors authorized the

Key takeaways:
Ether’s long-term holder net unrealized profit/loss indicator suggests the price has entered the “belief” phase.
The market value to realized value suggests ETH is undervalued, with room to run toward $5,500.
Ether’s rounded bottom pattern targets $12,100.
Ether (ETH) price has r

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Opinion by: Sasha Shilina, founder of Episteme and researcher at Paradigm Research Institute
In 2024, Nature reported a record-breaking number of scientific paper retractions: over 10,000 papers pulled from journals due to fraud, duplication or flawed methodology. Peer review, the long-revered

A blockchain investigator has attributed at least $5.27 million in crypto stolen over three weeks to a rising scam service known as Vanilla Drainer.
Drainers are entities that provide scam software to fraudsters, often paired with phishing tactics to access victims’ funds. Vanilla is part of a