Author: Adam Novak
Adam Novak
Adam Novak is the editor of iCoin Market. He has followed and invested in crypto markets for over 10 years and oversees the site's daily coverage of Bitcoin, Ethereum, altcoins and market trends. Based in Europe.
Robinhood Markets has received approval from the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to launch its retail investing platform in the Middle East. The company plans to offer trading and custody across all 10 DFSA-approved asset…
Veteran trader Peter Brandt says the gold-to-silver ratio may be building toward a new all-time high. The ratio sits near 74, with Brandt pointing to a breakout above a key horizontal level and a possible…
Cardano opened its public Dijkstra testnet, letting stake pool operators begin preparing for the Node 11.2 protocol upgrade. ADA traded near $0.216 on Friday, up 0.99% over 24 hours, while the broader crypto market was…
Hyperliquid Policy Center has asked the SEC and CFTC to coordinate how they classify perpetual contracts. The group proposes that a contract’s underlying structure and trading mechanics, not its reference asset, should determine its classification.…
Total crypto market capitalization fell to $2.80 trillion, losing nearly $110 billion over 24 hours. Bitcoin extended its 48-hour decline to more than 4%, trading near $81,500 on Friday, while Ethereum and XRP also faced…
Franklin Templeton has cleared Nasdaq listing for two Bitcoin ETFs that reinvest stock dividends into bitcoin exposure. The funds, FBEQ and FIBT, hold 95% in U.S. equities and allocate up to 5% to bitcoin-related instruments,…
Ethereum researchers have proposed cutting expected transaction finality from about 16 minutes to about 4 minutes. The Decoupled Consensus design would separate block selection from finality voting in an effort to strengthen security. The proposal…
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $635.49 million in net outflows on Thursday, the largest daily outflow since June 25. BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC accounted for roughly 74% of the day’s withdrawals, and ether ETFs…
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse says he and co-founder Chris Larsen seriously weighed shutting the company down after the SEC filed its 2020 lawsuit. The shutdown option involved distributing Ripple’s XRP holdings to shareholders, not closing…
Polling firm Wedgewood has admitted fabricating most of its election surveys, and VoteHub, an aggregator that carried those results, is the named data source for recurring Kalshi contracts. Kalshi’s September 2025 filing says revisions made…
