Latest reporting, analysis and updates from Optimisus.
At 04:00 UTC on September 23, BitMEX stopped trading. The exchange that helped define modern crypto derivatives is now a…
Crypto lending spent most of its history asking borrowers to accept one uncomfortable variable: the interest rate could change while…
Ether spent most of September doing almost nothing after a rally of more than 30% in late August. That pause…
Yesterday, Optimisus argued that Bitcoin’s move above $85,000 was real but that short liquidations had done a large part of…
Binance did not just add another stablecoin partnership this week. It became a shareholder in the company issuing the stablecoin…
BitMine now holds 5,983,940 ETH. At Ethereum’s current circulating supply, that is more than 4.9% of every ether in existence.…
Bitcoin spent September 15 near $75,000. Six days later it traded above $86,000, its highest level since January. That is…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has created a temporary regulatory lane for trading tokenized versions of U.S.-listed stocks onchain.…
Shiba Inu announced a “small but useful” Shibarium update this week. That description is accurate. The project refreshed Shibarium’s RPC…
September 16 was widely circulated as the day Dogecoin would finally go to the Moon. DOGE-1, a lunar CubeSat mission…
Ethereum's next major protocol upgrade has a concrete public-network milestone. The Ethereum roadmap now lists October 6, 2026 for the…
Dominion Market launched SILV as a Solana-native token backed by physical silver. Each token was designed to track one troy…
