Bitcoin crossed $86,500 on Tuesday after several weeks stuck below this zone. BTC gained 12.2% over seven days, while the total crypto market capitalization rose above $3 trillion. The move accompanies a session very favorable to risky assets: the Nasdaq set a new record, while Brent briefly fell below $98. Bitcoin thus benefits from a significantly different environment than that observed a few days earlier.
The options market sometimes presents scenarios that are difficult to understand at first glance. A trader has just bet $3.17 million on a rise in bitcoin, with an expiration set for October 30. However, reaching $100,000 could cost him his entire initial stake. The position targets precisely $95,000 and relies on a strategy that limits the gain when the price exceeds certain levels. Here is why this operation can produce an unusual outcome.
In the week ending September 20, the average volume of XRP transferred to the Binance exchange platform reached 21.7 million tokens, 663% higher than its quarterly reference. Meanwhile, XRP surpassed $1.50, however, these inflows are not sufficient to confirm an increase towards $1.80.
While other conferences line up promises, MERGE Madrid sets up shop where institutional money actually gets decided: inside the historic Madrid Stock Exchange building, then inside one of the Spanish capital's most iconic buildings. From October 27 to 29, 2026, the event presents itself as the reference point for institutional crypto in Southern Europe and Latin America, a deliberate bridge between traditional finance and digital assets. A discounted rate is reserved for the Cointribune community.
Scheduled for September 24 in Washington, the Trump-Xi summit is set to address tariffs, artificial intelligence, and sensitive technologies. This meeting would extend the trade détente, however many Chinese commitments remain contested by the United States.
Ethereum staking regains real momentum, with thirteen times more ETH awaiting entry than exit. This imbalance potentially reduces the available supply, without by itself guaranteeing a price increase.
Donald Trump wants to strengthen the oversight of artificial intelligence in the United States. On Saturday, the American president announced on Truth Social the creation of an "AI Force" and the upcoming appointment of an AI czar. This announcement comes as debates on the regulation of advanced models intensify in Washington.
Most mining stories begin with a warehouse full of specialized machines and an industrial power contract. Qubic tells another. Here, the computer you already own, a laptop, a desktop, an idle office machine, can join the network today and start earning QUBIC. And instead of burning electricity on puzzles that serve no one, every cycle you provide powers Aigarth research, the open source artificial intelligence built on top of the network. This is the promise of Useful Proof of Work (uPoW): mining that pays you and produces something. This guide is the complete reference: why Qubic mining is truly different, the hardware, a step-by-step installation, the two 2026 updates that changed mining, the miner's progression to validator, a pool comparison, optimization, security, and a glossary.
Europe was not lacking in conferences on artificial intelligence. What it lacked, according to the organizers of the AI Summit Barcelona, was a place where the people building AI come with what they have already done, not what they promise to do. On September 22 and 23, 2026, the World Trade Center in Barcelona, on the waterfront, hosts the second edition of this summit which aims to be the European stage of applied AI. And the scale jump is spectacular: about 1,500 participants last year, more than 10,000 expected this year.
