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Tag: Altcoins

An altcoin refers to any cryptocurrency that is not Bitcoin. It usually refers to a collection of cryptocurrencies and tokens.

Shiny Coins #25 – Zcash Tags $1,300 as CPI Hands the Bid to Ethereum

Shiny Coins #25 – Zcash Tags $1,300 as CPI Hands the Bid to Ethereum

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Saturday, September 12, 2026. Bitcoin last printed around $77,280, down −3.0% on seven days that hid two circuses. The tape leaked from last Friday’s ~$79,670 close into the mid-$76,000s, then August CPI landed: headline +0.4% / +3.4% year-over-year in line, core +0.3% versus 0.2% expected, annual core 2.4%. Bitcoin wicked to roughly $76,050, ripped toward $79,800, and parked back at $77k. Spot bitcoin ETFs flipped last week’s $731 million...

Altcoins, Ethereum, Yield farming

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Unruggable ICOs - MetaDAO and the $5 Million Exemption.

Unruggable ICOs? MetaDAO and the $5 Million Exemption

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In four days in 2025, wallets committed about $155 million of USDC to Umbra, a Solana privacy protocol raising on MetaDAO. The project kept $3 million. The rest went back. That gap is the whole story in miniature. Public token sales are noisy again. They are not the 2017 version of public token sales. The money that actually stays in a treasury is smaller, slower, and — if the pitch is honest — harder to steal. MetaDAO, a Solana venue that...

Altcoins, ICOs, Main

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Liquid’s $320M Drain and a Hot Jobs Print Cap Bitcoin Near $79,300

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Bitcoin trades near $79,300 on Monday, 7 September 2026, after failing to hold a break above $81,400 over the weekend and slipping as U.S. equity futures rose on the Labor Day holiday. Spot bitcoin ETFs still absorbed $986.9 million in the week ended 4 September — the third straight inflow week, led by BlackRock’s IBIT at $691.5 million — so the tape is split between persistent institutional bid and a hawkish macro overlay. August payrolls...

Altcoins, Bitcoin, Crypto market, Cryptocurrencies, News

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Zcash Clears $1,000 as Grayscale ZCSH ETF Assets Top $463 Million

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ZEC traded above $1,000 on Sept. 4 for the first time since its 2016 listing spike, with an intraday high near $1,023–$1,046. Grayscale’s ZCSH ETF held $463.2 million in non-GAAP assets and 444,608 ZEC as of Sept. 4, after listing on NYSE Arca on Aug. 25. About $34.5 million of short positions were liquidated as 24-hour volume hit roughly $1.2 billion. Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan named Zcash as the privacy allocation among three multi-year crypto...

Altcoins, Cryptocurrencies, News

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Shiny Coins #24 – Four-Digit Zcash Steals the Week as Payrolls Clip the $82K Wick

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Friday, September 4, 2026. Bitcoin last printed around $79,670, up a quiet-looking +2.9% on seven days that hid a full circus. The tape climbed from the high-$77,000s into a $82,281 wick after Fed Governor Christopher Waller said a September hold was still on the table and spot bitcoin ETFs booked a fat inflow day — CoinDesk put Thursday’s haul near $731 million. Strategy added another 4,603 BTC (~$370 million) after its summer pause. Then...

Altcoins, DeFi, Memecoins, Yield farming

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