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The network is completing a seven-week push to produce blocks twice as frequently, though validators face higher costs and tighter operating windows. Solana is preparing to cut the time between blocks to 200 milliseconds on Friday, completing a series of upgrades that has halved the network's target block production time since August. The final reduction, from 250 milliseconds, is scheduled to take effect at epoch 1053, expected around 15:00 UTC,.

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About $356 million in ETH positions were liquidated over 24 hours, more than bitcoin despite ether’s market value being less than a fifth as large. A late-Thursday slide in crypto hit ether traders hardest, with about $356 million in ether liquidations over 24 hours. Bitcoin positions saw $298 million, even though bitcoin’s market value is more than five times ether’s. A liquidation happens when a trader borrows to make a.

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Bitcoin rebounded to $82,000 as Trump ruled out an Iran strike before the midterms, while crypto security experts pushed back on “bunker mode” fears. Bitcoin rebounded to $82,000 on Friday as the broader crypto market recovered from late-Thursday lows, with President Donald Trump’s comments easing fears of an imminent U.S. strike on Iran. Trump said the U.S. would not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections. “We will not.

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As Democrats steadily rise in their potential to take back a Senate majority, Senator Richard Blumenthal is digging into Tether's U.S. financial partnership. The top Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Richard Blumenthal, is demanding answers about the ties between Cantor Fitzgerald and the worldwide leader in stablecoins, Tether. If Democratic momentum continues into the November election, he and his colleagues may soon have more authority behind such.

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The research firm sees tokenized stocks, bonds and loans creating new markets for trading and lending, with fee-generating platforms and companies poised to benefit. Wall Street's move into blockchain technology could open a vast new market for crypto, but investors betting on tokenization may find better opportunities than bitcoin BTC$81,757.61 and ether ETH$2,464.05, according to the well-followed research firm Citrini Research. In a 79-page report titled Breaking the Wall, published.

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It was October 10, 2025, when bitcoin plunged from about $122,000 to $105,000, with much of the decline occurring within minutes. A modest early decline in bitcoin BTC$80,914.24 on Thursday has accelerated, the price falling to about a one-month low just above $80,000 Bitcoin is down 4% over the past 24 hours, and is now lower by more than 8% since nearly hitting $87,000 just four days ago. That’s masking.