4h ago
Bitcoin and Ether Order Books Rebuild as Altcoin Liquidity Stays Thin
Bitcoin's order book has rebuilt sharply: about $11.7 million in orders sat within 1% of the price on October 7, roughly 75% more than on the recent crash day. Depth within 0.5% more than doubled to about $4.2 million, and Ether's order book is showing similar signs of rebuilding. Farther from the price, recovery has been slower, with 5% depth still near early-2025 levels, while altcoin liquidity remains thin. The rebuilt books were tested in the October 7–8 selloff, when Bitcoin's 1% depth fell about 12%.
BTC
BTC+0.39%
4h ago
9h ago
Shipping firms offer captains up to $US100k a month to sail Strait of Hormuz
Iran and the United States are enforcing separate blockades in the Strait of Hormuz, cutting tanker transits to a daily average of just 10 in October from 125 before the war. To draw crews into the risky passage, shipping companies have raised captains' monthly pay from about $22,000 to as much as $143,000. Some companies are adding double-pay bonuses. The increases reflect sharply higher transport risk on the key waterway, with crude shipping costs under significant upward pressure.
9h ago
12h ago
The $XRP Supply Bug Everyone Is Talking About, Explained A bug buried in the XRPL payment engine for about a decade could have created spendable $XRP from nothing and pushed the supply far beyond 100 billion if somebody had figured out how to use it. The issue goes back to code written around 2015. An attacker could have opened hundreds of accounts, placed specially priced DEX offers and then built one payment to consume them all. The payment engine would add up what the buyer owed using a 64bi
XRP
XRP-0.71%
12h ago
14h ago
Sui's Hashi Launches With $500M to Turn Bitcoin Into Productive DeFi Collateral Markets
Hashi, a cross-chain bridge project in the Sui ecosystem, has gone live. In its first phase, the project is bridging $500 million worth of Bitcoin to the Sui network. The goal is to make Bitcoin a yield-bearing collateral asset within DeFi protocols. The launch is intended to raise Bitcoin's capital efficiency in decentralized finance markets and expand Sui's on-chain locked value, while opening up non-custodial Bitcoin lending and yield use cases.
SUI
SUI+1.09%
14h ago