Research Editor
Zain is a research editor at BTC Newz who keeps the coverage understandable. He turns exchange filings, protocol changes and market moves into plain language for readers who are not full-time traders, and he will not let a piece hide behind crypto jargon. If an explanation would not land with someone new to the space, it goes back for another pass.
Background: Editorial team member at BTC Newz; researches crypto markets, regulation and protocols, verifies each claim against its primary source, and edits AI-assisted drafts to publication. This is general information, not financial or investment advice.
Slippage is the difference between the price you expect on a crypto trade and the price it fills at. Thin order books, fast markets and big orders all widen that gap. Here is how it works, with a worked example, and the settings that cut it.
The OKX and Intercontinental Exchange joint venture will start trading tokenized US stocks on November 23 under a temporary SEC exemption. Sixty-seven companies, including Apple and Tesla, have told the venue to keep their shares off it.
Crypto rarely falls for one reason. Interest-rate signals, forced selling from leveraged bets, money leaving funds and plain risk-off days all push the market down, often at the same time. This guide explains the recurring causes and how to read which one is driving a given drop.
Figure Technology Solutions reported third-quarter net revenue of $287 million, up 84% from a year earlier, as loan marketplace volume jumped 135% to $5.8 billion. Net income stayed flat, and a large share of the growth came from its Kiavi acquisition.
The agency logged 348 enforcement actions in the year to September 2026, the fewest since 1991 by one count. Standalone cases dropped about 22 percent. Crypto suits, already thinning, stayed light. Yet it returned more money to investors than it did a year earlier.
Across Protocol said attackers seized its across.to domain through a social engineering attack on registrar Namecheap, redirecting users to a phishing site. The team restored the domain a day later and promised to repay affected users.
Scam tokens pull billions out of crypto wallets every year, and most of the traps are visible before you buy. Here are the five checks that catch a honeypot, a rug pull or a token one wallet can crash.
The total supply of dollar stablecoins fell $14.2 billion in 30 days through November 9, the fastest drop since mid-2022, according to Glassnode. Analysts read it as cash leaving crypto, with Bitcoin near a three-month low and less dry powder ready to buy.
A hotter than expected US inflation report sent bitcoin to its lowest level since August, near $73,000, as traders moved to price a December Federal Reserve rate hike and more than $700 million in bets were liquidated.
Coinbase, Kalshi, Kraken's parent and three trading firms moved on November 9 to defend the CFTC's approval of single-stock perpetual futures, taking the opposite side from Cboe and Citadel Securities in a New York court fight.
The retail trading platform's third-quarter net income fell to $15 million, down 74 percent from a year earlier, as crypto revenue dropped from $3.97 billion to $1.35 billion. The board approved a $250 million share buyback.
The rig maker's quarterly sales fell to $14.5 million, down from $150.5 million a year earlier, as demand for its machines dried up. A reported $8 million net profit rested almost entirely on paper gains from the bitcoin it holds, not on selling anything.