📌 Why is Cardano price rising as open interest jumps 25%? ⚡️ Cardano price has climbed to around $0.279 on Oct. 6 as ADA approaches the $0.28 resistance area, while derivatives positioning and whale activity point to new leveraged bets entering the market. The move extends a recovery that took ADA from around $0.244 on Oct. 3 to above $0.27 by Oct. 5. CoinGecko historical data records an Oct. 3 cl…

👀 Bitcoin faces bigger risk from another Fed hike than CLARITY delay, analyst says 🌐 Tim Sun, HashKey Group’s senior researcher, told cryptonews that Bitcoin’s path now depends more on U.S. financial conditions and investment flows than on the stalled market structure bill. In particular, he said another rate increase in October could lead investors to treat September’s hike as the start of repeat…

📣 Hedera IDTrust joins IBM Cloud Catalog for AI agents 📌 The Hashgraph Group has put its Hedera-based IDTrust identity platform on IBM Cloud Catalog under a partnership announced Sept. 23, giving enterprise customers a route to deploy verifiable identities for AI agents. 🔖 The Hashgraph Group said IDTrust has been validated and listed as a SaaS offering on IBM’s marketplace, while the companies ha…

🌐 Hong Kong plans 24/7 CBDC settlement for tokenized deposits by year end 🔔 Hong Kong has set plans to bring 24/7 central bank digital currency settlement to its tokenized deposit market by around the end of 2026, while preparing real value CBDC transactions for after hours derivatives trading and tests involving more than HK$1.3 trillion in Exchange Fund Bills. The plan would give banks access to…

📌 Bitcoin sentiment tops 89 for first time since March 2024 🔖 Bitcoin market sentiment has risen above 89 on an index tracked by CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost, reaching its highest level since March 2024 before easing back. The reading has since moved down from its peak, according to Darkfost, even as Bitcoin attempts to hold its current price. He cautioned that unusually optimistic or pessimistic …