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Railgun (RAIL) has hit a new all-time high today amid a bullish rally that pushed its price up more than 300% over the past week.The surge comes amid renewed momentum in the privacy coin market, with leading privacy-focused cryptocurrencies also posting strong gains throughout October.Sponsored SponsoredRailgun (RAIL) Price and TVL Soar in October RallyRailgun is a privacy-focused protocol on Ethereum (ETH). It lets users shield transactions, swap tokens, and interact with DeFi protocols confidentially using zk-SNARKs. The protocol’s native token, RAIL, has been experiencing a remarkable rally lately.BeInCrypto Markets data showed that over the past week, the altcoin’s value has…

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has secured a Virtual Asset Platform Operator License from the Securities and Commodities Authority of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), eight months after the regulator granted the company in-principle approval.In a Thursday notice, Bybit said approval from the UAE financial regulator would allow the exchange to offer its global products and services to the region. Authorities in Austria granted the company similar licensing approval in May, and the exchange registered in India in February after briefly suspending its service and paying a $1-million fine over compliance violations. “Receiving the full Virtual Asset Platform Operator License from the SCA…

Bitcoin’s BTC$121,565.14 implied volatility (IV) gauge has climbed to a 2.5-month high, consistent with the seasonal trends. Volmex’s bitcoin implied volatility index, BVIV, which represents the annualized expected price turbulence over four weeks, has topped 42%, the highest since late August, according to data source TradingView. IV measures the market’s expectations for future price swings based on options pricing. Higher IV suggests traders are anticipating larger price movements ahead.The BVIV rose early this month alongside an upswing in BTC’s price and has continued to climb despite the latest pullback from the record high of over $126,000 to around $120,000.Bullish seasonalityBVIV’s…

Luxembourg is officially joining the ranks of governments investing in Bitcoin.  The country’s Intergenerational Sovereign Wealth Fund (FSIL) will allocate 1% of its total portfolio — over €7 million — to Bitcoin and other crypto, Finance Minister Gilles Roth announced Wednesday during his 2026 budget presentation in the Chamber of Deputies. “This is really great news for crypto-assets because this is the first investment of a public fund in bitcoin in Luxembourg,” said CSV lawmaker Laurent Mosar following the announcement. The move positions Luxembourg as the first Eurozone nation to allocate sovereign wealth into Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, marking a significant…

In brief Salaries and token incentives declined across nearly all roles and regions, according to Dragonfly’s latest crypto compensation report. Western Europe remains a dominant labor hub, while Asia’s hiring share nearly doubled year-over-year. Most crypto firms remain remote-first, with slower hiring and a widening gap between top executives and staff pay. Crypto salaries are falling across the board despite Bitcoin’s record-breaking run this year, as companies lean on cost discipline and normalize pay after years of aggressive expansion.The downturn spans nearly every role and region, with both cash pay and token incentives shrinking from last year’s levels, according to…

Press enter or click to view image in full sizeIn what way does the blockchain landscape parallel the Caribbean region? Its collection of decentralised networks, independent from one another and operating in isolation, is like a cluster of islands, much like the geographical location.And what is the main drawback of this setup? Simply put, the absence of a scalable architecture capable of serving all potential users. The result is a fragmented ecosystem where assets, data, and users lack the freedom and flexibility to move smoothly across chains.The core issue at stake, what the blockchain ecosystem is striving for, is interoperability.…

A back-to-roots trade is emerging as market participants take notice of the privacy corners of the crypto ecosystem, bringing attention back to what dominated much of the 2017-18 bull market cycle.Tokens in the sector are up 15% on average in the past 24 hours, CoinGecko data shows. ZEC$236.65 is up more than 40%, bringing seven gains to over 85% in a run that has made it the best-performing large-cap token in the market.ZEC’s performance is accompanied by upswings in DASH$20.57, XVG$0.005123, DCR$16.27 and TORN$11.13, which are up from 13-35% in the past 24 hours. Privacy smart contract system Railgun’s RAIL…

How did 115 orphaned children end up on their first bus ride to a zoo to celebrate a real-world Bitcoin transaction 15 years ago? It’s a question I found myself asking in disbelief as I coordinated their entrance at the Uganda Wildlife Education Centre — commonly known as the Entebbe Zoo — on Bitcoin Pizza Day, May 22. The morning sun was warm, and the air buzzed with excitement and laughter. Children who had rarely strayed beyond their rural village in Bugiri, Uganda, were now getting off buses, eyes wide at the expectation of giraffes and elephants. Many of these…

Privacy blockchain Monero has rolled out a new client update to provide users with greater security against “spy nodes” on the network. The “Fluorine Fermi” software update was announced via X on Thursday, with the team stating it is “a highly recommended release.”Fluorine Fermi is the name given to v0.18.4.3 of the Monero software: Monero The term “spy nodes” is part of the vernacular used in the Monero community. It refers to malicious nodes, groups of nodes, or botnets that have the potential to calculate and match IP addresses to transactions conducted on the network. The changes focus on using an…

Following a slight slump yesterday from its recent highs, Bitcoin (BTC) is now trading in the low $120,000 range. Meanwhile, BTC’s miner correlation has undergone a significant shift over the past few months, indicating a clear change in market dynamics between miner behavior and price direction. Bitcoin Miner Correlation Turns Negative According to a CryptoQuant Quicktake post by contributor Arab Chain, fresh data from Binance shows that Bitcoin price and miner flows to the crypto exchange have undergone a significant shift in recent months. Related Reading Specifically, the 30-Day Rolling Correlation indicator has tumbled to its lowest level since March…