Crypto

Crypto's three US spot ETF categories each reversed course in the week of September 8, 2026, but not together and not in the same direction. US spot Ethereum ETFs ($ETH) pulled in $216 million on September 11 after a $24 million…

September 13, 2026 · 2 min

A year-long repricing has compressed the digital-asset market toward a point where cycle-bottom estimates are starting to crowd the conversation. Bitcoin ($BTC) trades at $77,278 as of September 12, 2026, down 33.48% from…

September 12, 2026 · 2 min

Regional crypto funding conditions in Southeast Asia are shifting. New figures show the region's digital-asset funding has doubled, cementing Singapore's status as Asia's top crypto hub, wh

September 11, 2026 · 2 min

Political memecoins have a well-worn arc. $LAPTOP, a token carrying the name of Hunter Biden, son of former US President Joe Biden, lost 95% of its market value in the hours immediately fol

September 10, 2026 · 2 min

Singapore's payment licensing framework for digital assets has added another authorized operator in the cross-border money transfer space. Gemini's local entity is now cleared to provide di

September 9, 2026 · 2 min

The tradition of fixing a franchise's championship memory in metal has a long address in Los Angeles. Star Plaza, outside Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, already holds eight Lakers figures in bronze, and Phil Jackson…

September 9, 2026 · 2 min

The decentralized exchange cycle logged a record on Friday: Robinhood Chain's daily protocol fees reached $6 million as volume on the network's DEX doubled in a single session. PONS, the token that drove the surge, reached an…

September 8, 2026 · 2 min

Preferred-stock structures are finding a new home in the digital-asset treasury playbook. DeFi Development Corp has closed an $11 million offering of its CHAD security, a Variable Rate Seri

September 8, 2026 · 2 min

The relationship between Bitcoin ($BTC) and US equities has drifted to its most negative reading in more than a decade, sharpening a debate about whether the cryptocurrency is pricing monetary policy rather than growth. Bitwise,…

September 8, 2026 · 2 min

The security audit has become the digital asset sector's primary credential of institutional trust. Against that backdrop, CoinGecko reports that more than 60% of cryptocurrency platforms that lost money to cyberattacks had…

September 8, 2026 · 2 min

Federated custody security is the live question across Bitcoin's network layer. A group identified as white hats has returned $270 million in Bitcoin to Liquid's federation wallet following a security incident

September 8, 2026 · 2 min

Crypto's late-summer momentum has stalled at the macro threshold. Bitcoin ($BTC) opened the week below $80,000, down roughly 1% in 24 hours, having been rejected twice from the $82,000 level over the past two weeks and sitting…

September 8, 2026 · 2 min

The broadening U.S. regulatory posture toward crypto in August 2026 fed directly into the premium that investors were willing to pay for publicly traded digital-asset vehicles. Against that

September 8, 2026 · 2 min

Political memecoins have expanded well past celebrity novelty, and the latest entry complicates any simple partisan read of the sector. Hunter Biden plans to launch a token called LAPTOP, the Wall Street Journal reported,…

September 7, 2026 · 2 min

The allocation cycle for regulated digital asset wrappers kept building last week, with US-listed spot crypto ETFs pulling in roughly $1.24 billion between Aug. 31 and Sep. 4. Bitcoin ETFs (

September 7, 2026 · 2 min

The pool of publicly traded companies with disclosed Bitcoin treasury positions remains narrow, and against the backdrop of that concentrated cohort, rank changes carry real weight. Capital B, the French firm, purchased 376 BTC…

September 7, 2026 · 2 min

A labor market running hotter than almost anyone expected has reordered the Federal Reserve picture heading into September. US employers added 162,000 jobs in August, a figure well above economist estimates of roughly 65,000,…

September 7, 2026 · 2 min

The rate path moved before most charts did. Friday's U.S. jobs report pushed implied odds of a September Federal Reserve rate hike back toward 60 percent, and Bitcoin ($BTC) has held near $80,000 even as that repricing ran…

September 7, 2026 · 2 min

Across on-chain network exploits, the path to recovery more often runs through legal channels or chain analysis than through a voluntary pledge. The attacker behind the roughly 4,000 $BTC ta

September 7, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin's strongest ETF inflow run of 2026 arrived in the same period as a major security event on the Liquid sidechain. Purported white hat hackers removed 4,000 Bitcoin from Liquid in what has been described as a major breach,…

September 7, 2026 · 2 min

Short-term US inflation data is shifting the rate calculus heading into the Federal Reserve's September 16 meeting, and Bitcoin ($BTC) is trading the signal. Three-month core inflation has slid from 4.76% in February to 3.05%…

September 5, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of a sector-wide compression in next-generation defense technology multiples, Kraken Robotics (OTC: KRKNF) has shed more than half its value since hitting a lifetime hi

September 5, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of tightening listing standards across centralized exchanges, Binance ($BNB) applied its Monitoring Tag to four tokens on September 4: AVA (AVA), Gains Network (GNS), Scroll (SCR), and Towns Protocol (TOWNS).…

September 5, 2026 · 2 min

Washington D.C.'s property-rights enforcement framework has drawn fresh scrutiny after a Columbia Heights landlord spent eight months unable to recover her own basement apartment. Tatyana Day Velasquez, who owns a three-unit…

September 5, 2026 · 2 min

Bond market anxiety and fading odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike converged on September 3 to pull Bitcoin ($BTC) back above $81,000 for the first time since May. The broader digital asset complex moved with it: total crypto…

September 5, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of a sector-wide renegotiation of what data center power is worth, Hyperscale Data shut down $BTC mining operations at its Michigan facility on Tuesday to clear capacity for an AI customer. The company said…

September 5, 2026 · 2 min

Supply-chain data breaches have become a recurring exposure for companies that rely on third-party logistics providers. Trezor said an additional 67,000 US customers were affected by a brea

September 5, 2026 · 2 min

The tokenization of traditional equities is moving faster than issuers can track, and AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron made that friction visible on Friday. In an online post, Aron called Ro

September 5, 2026 · 2 min

Real-asset tokenization has been circling the mortgage market for years without finding firm institutional traction. Pineapple Financial, a mortgage lender, has now placed $1 billion in mor

September 4, 2026 · 2 min

The crypto derivatives market has pushed further into the prediction-market vertical. Polymarket, the platform where users place real-money wagers on elections, sports, and weather outcomes, has launched perpetual futures contracts

September 4, 2026 · 2 min

Against a backdrop of split Fed rate expectations, the crypto complex recorded a broad advance. Total digital asset market cap climbed to $2.82 trillion as bitcoin topped $80,000, and the session extended t

September 3, 2026 · 2 min

The US dollar fell amid what markets are treating as Bank of Japan currency intervention to support the yen, and Bitcoin climbed 5% to reclaim $80,000. The pairing put currency-market mechanics squar

September 3, 2026 · 2 min

The public-market track record for crypto exchanges has deteriorated sharply since Gemini went public in September 2025, its stock now down 87% from the debut. Payward, the Wyoming-based parent of Kraken, has p

September 3, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of a declining token price, U.S.-listed spot XRP ($XRP) exchange-traded funds posted 11 consecutive days of net inflows, accumulating $170 million even as the asset slipped from a peak of $1.45 on August 27…

September 3, 2026 · 2 min

Institutional confidence is a priced variable in any sovereign capital market. A new Gallup survey found 89% of U.S. adults now believe government corruption is widespread, a 20-year peak a

September 3, 2026 · 2 min

The AI inference market is repricing noticeably, and the cadence of model releases has accelerated to match. Google has released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash-series model in six weeks,

September 3, 2026 · 2 min

Canadian retail investors have had few regulated options for crypto derivatives exposure, often turning to offshore platforms to access the market. Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) moved to close that gap

September 2, 2026 · 2 min

Venezuelan oil is drawing an unlikely alignment of buyers. President Trump announced last week that the U.S. government would take a 35% equity stake in North American Blue Energy Partners, the Venezuelan oil producer known as…

September 2, 2026 · 2 min

South Africa's Northern Cape heavy mineral sands belt sits within a cross-border capex cycle connecting Chinese equipment suppliers to one of the region's more substantial zirconium and titanium feedstock targets. Against that…

September 2, 2026 · 2 min

Meme coin speculation cycles through booms and corrections, and against that backdrop, Dogecoin (DOGE) enters the final stretch of 2026 at around $0.08, down 27% for the year. The question circula

September 2, 2026 · 2 min

Across the digital asset sector, the integration of crypto exchange infrastructure with traditional finance derivatives has run for several cycles. Binance is extending that push now, giving eligible

September 2, 2026 · 2 min

The event-contract industry is learning where its enforcement ceiling sits. Kalshi, the US prediction platform, issued its first-ever lifetime ban to Republican politician George Santos after an investigation concluded he had…

September 1, 2026 · 2 min

Policy risk has become the defining variable in digital asset markets as September opens. Comprehensive industry legislation, the sector's most direct route to a settled regulatory framework, now

September 1, 2026 · 2 min

US bond yields are pressing toward territory not seen in two decades, creating a charged backdrop for risk asset positioning at month-end. Bitcoin's monthly close grew volatile against that

August 31, 2026 · 2 min

The pattern of browser extensions changing hands and turning malicious has reached another user base, this time pushing fake Chrome update warnings to tens of thousands of people. Socket researchers, publishing on Aug. 27, traced…

August 31, 2026 · 2 min

The dollar-yen exchange rate is back at levels that unsettled global risk markets last year. Japan's yen fell to 160.16 per dollar on 28 August, giving up more than half its gains from a month of heavy official support that cost…

August 31, 2026 · 2 min

Protocol exploits have emerged as a recurring cost across the DeFi sector. The Cronos blockchain halted operations after an exploit targeting Tectonic left an estimated $75 million in losses, and Crypto.com chief executive Kris…

August 31, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of a legislative calendar that is reshaping digital asset capital flows, the CLARITY Act is drawing a sharper line between Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto complex. Robert Mitchnick, BlackRock's head of…

August 31, 2026 · 2 min

The swap market's appetite for synthetic equity exposure has found a new counterparty. Ripple Prime opened a Delta One desk on August 27, giving hedge funds, asset managers, market makers, and ETF issuers total return swap access…

August 31, 2026 · 2 min

A Bitcoin rally fueled by heavy spot ETF inflows and a softer dollar has pulled Strategy's $BTC position back into the black, capping a volatile stretch that had left the firm roughly $13 billion u

August 30, 2026 · 2 min

Government spending on blockchain services has become contested ground. Chainalysis has filed a lawsuit accusing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of unfairly steering a $95 million contract to rival TRM

August 30, 2026 · 2 min

Tokenized equity trading is reshaping what drives on-chain volume, and Solana ($SOL) is where that shift is most visible. On Aug. 4, 2026, the network recorded 169.9 million transactions in a single day, its highest ever,…

August 30, 2026 · 2 min

Across the Layer 1 blockchain sector, mainnet security has become the sharpest test of a network's early infrastructure. Fogo halted its mainnet after an attacker received 400 million FOGO tokens, a position equal to 10% of the…

August 30, 2026 · 2 min

The retail brokerage channel has spent 2026 narrowing its distance from dedicated crypto exchanges, and Thursday's announcement from Charles Schwab ($SCHW) is part of that sector-wide move. Schwab said it will

August 27, 2026 · 2 min

The broader shift toward formal crypto disclosure is registering in official UK data. Figures covering the 2024 to 2025 tax year show roughly 17,600 UK residents reported a combined $1.9 billion in cryptocurrency gains, with 240…

August 27, 2026 · 2 min

The US digital asset ETF market has been tracking positive inflows for eight consecutive sessions, with the aggregate reaching $2.8 billion across that run. The most recent daily reading fo

August 27, 2026 · 2 min

Sector-wide, custody standards for investment advisers and funds holding digital assets have resisted a clean answer. The Securities and Exchange Commission has now sent a proposed overhaul of those rules to

August 26, 2026 · 2 min

Digital asset markets extended gains past the sector's biggest three-day rally since 2023, with the move traced back to Bitcoin's breakout from an established trading range. Bitcoin and crypto stocks held th

August 26, 2026 · 2 min

Broader risk appetite turned constructive overnight, and Bitcoin ($BTC) followed it through $80,000. The immediate fuel was renewed inflows into spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds

August 26, 2026 · 2 min

The congressional window for major crypto regulation is narrowing, and prediction markets are now pricing that difficulty. Traders on Kalshi are assigning a low probability to the Clarity A

August 26, 2026 · 2 min

DeFi's liquidity pool architecture has long separated trading from lending, routing capital through discrete venues and charging for every crossing. Against that backdrop, Everything, a Montreux-based protocol, released a…

August 23, 2026 · 2 min

The cryptocurrency market logged its sharpest broad advance in recent weeks against the backdrop of two overlapping macro catalysts: a surprise U.S. Treasury expansion of its long-term bond buyback program and renewed legislative…

August 23, 2026 · 2 min

A $BTC move of more than 20% across recent trading sessions has upended the unrealized-loss narrative weighing on digital-asset corporate treasuries. Bitcoin climbed from a multi-month low of around $63,000 to above $77,000, and…

August 23, 2026 · 2 min

The exploit-to-migration cycle is grinding through the smaller end of the layer-1 market again, this time at BounceBit's expense. An attacker transferred approximately 286.5 million BB tokens from nine wallets before block…

August 22, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of a months-long push by President Donald Trump and conservative allies to keep Congress working through the summer, the Senate departed Washington at 4:57 a.m. ET on Saturday, Aug. 8, and will not return for…

August 22, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of rising sovereign debt concerns, the case for reducing bond exposure is gaining institutional voice. Hedge fund founder Ray Dalio, whose estimated net worth is $15 billion, said investors should overweight…

August 22, 2026 · 2 min

Digital asset markets staged a notable recovery this week. Bitcoin ($BTC) is on track to post a 23% weekly gain, lifted by returning investor optimism and what has been broadly described as several contributing fac

August 22, 2026 · 2 min

Risk appetite returned to digital assets this week, and Bitcoin ($BTC) was the clearest expression of it, posting a gain of 22% over seven days. Investor optimism, credited to several contributing factors, drove the move in the…

August 22, 2026 · 2 min

Across the smaller-cap layer-1 space, few episodes damage token confidence faster than a blockchain halt. MANTRA's native token dropped 18% to an all-time low before recovering to around $0.0044, as MANTRA Chain suspended…

August 21, 2026 · 2 min

The U.S. Treasury's announcement that it would at least double its purchases of longer-term government bonds shifted financial conditions fast enough to catch a heavily shorted crypto market offside.

August 21, 2026 · 2 min

The regulatory backdrop for digital assets shifted this week as President Donald Trump gathered executives from the crypto sector and traditional finance for a private meeting at the Oval Office. One source with knowledge of the…

August 21, 2026 · 2 min

The crypto sector's long push for a statutory framework reaches a concrete test this autumn. Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong publicly backed the CLARITY Act this week, arguing the legislation would prevent a repeat of…

August 20, 2026 · 2 min

Alaska's open primary, which advances the top four finishers regardless of party to a ranked-choice general election, produced an unusual November ballot on Tuesday: incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan moved forward…

August 20, 2026 · 2 min

The race to secure domestic critical mineral supply has hit a state-level obstacle in the American Midwest. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed an executive order Tuesday blocking mining permits and leases near the Boundary Waters…

August 20, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of the Gulf's expanding dollar-stablecoin infrastructure, distribution has emerged as the next constraint. Bitcoin.com has integrated USDU, the UAE's first central bank-registered US dollar stablecoin, into…

August 19, 2026 · 2 min

The real friction in tokenized real-world assets has never been issuance. Centrifuge, the on-chain credit protocol, is addressing the exit problem by integrating Symbiotic's Liquid Lane net

August 19, 2026 · 2 min

The structural shift toward tokenized financial markets is drawing fresh scrutiny to how blockchain transaction volumes are measured and what they will look like once AI agents become active partic

August 19, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of intensifying competition for federal blockchain analytics work, Chainalysis has taken its dispute with TRM Labs into court. The company filed a sealed complaint against the United States challenging a $95…

August 17, 2026 · 2 min

The AI infrastructure buildout is pulling corporate bitcoin positions into the capex cycle. Hyperscale Data

August 16, 2026 · 2 min

Layer-one blockchains have been reworking their fee structures as competition over transaction economics intensifies, and Solana is advancing one of the more direct proposals in that wave. The planned overhaul to the Solana…

August 16, 2026 · 2 min

Phishing applications that mimic legitimate crypto tools have turned app-store distribution into a recurring liability for the sector. Against that backdrop, DefiLlama, the DeFi data aggregator, delayed its mobile launch after…

August 16, 2026 · 2 min

Mining equity markets ran into a cost-structure test on Monday against the backdrop of gold prices above $4,400 per realized ounce. Barrick Mining Corporation (NYSE: B) fell more than 6% even after Newmont Corporation (NYSE: NEM)…

August 16, 2026 · 2 min

Nearly four decades after Teresa McAbee, 11, was found sexually assaulted, strangled, and drowned in Mascotte, Florida, the state executed the man convicted of her murder. James Duckett, 68, a former Mascotte Police Department…

August 16, 2026 · 2 min

The quarterly disclosure cycle for bitcoin exchange-traded products delivered a more static picture in Q2. Harvard University left its bitcoin ETF position unchanged through the quarter, a

August 15, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of a web crowded with language model output, a new tool has built its entire product around the premise that both sides of the exchange are human. Called Your AI Slop Bores Me, it gives one user 150 seconds…

August 15, 2026 · 2 min

Digital asset trading volumes across centralized exchanges have fallen sharply over the past year, and Gemini's second-quarter results put a hard number on how much that hurts a retail-heav

August 15, 2026 · 2 min

The retail prop trading sector in Britain has become a rule-structure competition, with platforms differentiating mainly on which account restrictions they are willing to cut. LEVAFX LTD, registered in England and Wales under…

August 15, 2026 · 2 min

The federal chartering regime for stablecoin issuers has a notable new entrant. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally approved a national trust bank charter for Wo

August 14, 2026 · 2 min

France's physical security environment for cryptocurrency holders is worsening against the backdrop of a significant government data failure. A breach of French tax records has exposed the personal details

August 14, 2026 · 2 min

Against a backdrop of positive US inflation data and US equities circling all-time highs, Bitcoin ($BTC)

August 14, 2026 · 2 min

Regulatory compliance pressures have been reshaping banking relationships across the fintech sector. JPMorgan Chase reportedly

August 14, 2026 · 2 min

Crypto exchange economics are being tested across the sector as platforms absorb the capital cost of expanding beyond spot trading. Gemini's shares slid after the exchange reported a $108 million loss, even as prediction market…

August 14, 2026 · 2 min

Cold storage hardware wallets are built on the premise that offline private keys cannot be reached by hackers. Against the backdrop of that assumption, hackers stole personal details from nearly 14,000 holders of Trezor devices,…

August 13, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of the centralized-lender failures of 2022, the crypto-backed loan market has been repricing risk and, slowly, rebuilding. Figure Lending LLC (NMLS #1717824), a licensed U.S. lender headquartered in…

August 13, 2026 · 2 min

The ETF industry's consolidation cycle has arrived at the intersection of crypto and income investing. Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire NEOS, a specialist exchange-traded fund manager with $30 billion in assets, for $2.25…

August 12, 2026 · 2 min

The U.S. spot Ethereum ETF market is converging on a single design upgrade: staking yield. Fidelity filed a pre-effective amendment to its registration statement on Aug. 11, asking the Securities and Exchange Commission to let…

August 12, 2026 · 2 min

Proof-of-work security is only as strong as the distribution of hash rate, and that premise is under pressure right now. Ravencoin has dropped to a record low after mining pools commanding most of the network's computing power…

August 12, 2026 · 2 min

Generational pressure settled over Connecticut's First Congressional District on Tuesday. Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin defeated fourteen-term Rep. John Larson in the Democratic primary, endin

August 12, 2026 · 2 min

Years of enforcement-led crypto policy at the federal level may be giving way to formal rulemaking. A Friday Securities and Exchange Commission meeting on digital-asset regulation

August 11, 2026 · 2 min

The push to establish federal rules for crypto markets in the United States moved forward this week on procedural grounds. Senate Majority Leader Thune filed cloture on the CLARITY Act, a bill aimed at setting the legal structure…

August 9, 2026 · 2 min

Mining consensus, the mechanism that ultimately arbitrates every Bitcoin upgrade, has turned against BIP-110. The enforcing fork, which requires miners to signal in favor of the proposal, has stalled at just two blocks produced…

August 9, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of rising concern over crypto fraud in Latin America, Brazil has moved to install a regulatory hold on outbound digital-asset flows. Rules taking effect January 1, 2027

August 9, 2026 · 2 min

A labor-market report that fell well short of consensus sent crypto prices higher Friday morning, as markets read through to the implications for monetary policy. Bitcoin ($BTC) climbed from an opening print of $64,259.68 to…

August 7, 2026 · 2 min

Japan's financial regulators have applied fresh pressure on the domestic cryptocurrency exchange sector, with the Financial Services Agency calling on exchanges to introduce deliberate delays on c

August 7, 2026 · 2 min

The push by centralised crypto exchanges to secure regulated positions across emerging markets has reached the Himalayas. Bitget signed an agreement with the Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority to pursu

August 7, 2026 · 2 min

The push to move financial assets onto blockchain rails is creating demand for a new category of regulated intermediary in the United States. Against that backdrop, Wintermute, the crypto market maker, has registered a US…

August 7, 2026 · 2 min

After a primary defeat recalibrated the industry's expectations around electoral influence, digital-asset political action committees are directing capital into state contests ahead of Aug. 18 pri

August 6, 2026 · 2 min

The capex cycle that turned Bitcoin miners into proxy data-center landlords is entering a harder phase. New analysis finds that AI infrastructure contracts awarded to the sector are growing in both size and profitability,…

August 6, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of persistent attacks on crypto wallet infrastructure, a self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning Network wallet made a sharp call to go dark. Zeus Wallet disabled its infrastructure after a cyberattack, with founder…

August 6, 2026 · 2 min

Regulatory regimes for digital assets have been tightening and formalizing across major economies over the past several years, and Russia has now added its own framework to that shift. Pres

August 6, 2026 · 2 min

Tokenized equity products are under growing governance pressure across digital asset markets, as retail holders push for rights that mirror those attached to underlying shares. Payward, the parent company

August 5, 2026 · 2 min

European institutional digital-asset infrastructure is consolidating. Boerse Stuttgart Digital and Tradias have completed a merger that places custody and trading under joint management, closing a notable tie-up in the regulated…

August 5, 2026 · 2 min

Access to frontier artificial intelligence models is cleaving the crypto industry. Most firms are still locked out. A select few have it, and the gap is sharpening just as crypto executives are beginning to push back on whether…

August 4, 2026 · 2 min

The demand environment for digital assets among affluent investors is drawing boutique intermediaries into markets where retail exchanges already operate. Caleb & Brown is entering the United Kin

August 4, 2026 · 2 min

The push by global card networks to embed stablecoin infrastructure into mainstream finance is moving from intent to execution. Mastercard completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of BVNK, the digital-asset payments firm, with the…

August 4, 2026 · 2 min

Global financial markets are moving through a sentiment shift that distributed ledger advocates spent years anticipating. Wall Street firms now hope blockchain can modernise core market infrastructure, pulling the technology into…

August 3, 2026 · 2 min

The Iran war has pushed diesel prices higher in California, the state that already holds the country's highest gas prices and is home to its busiest containership port. Those two factors together give the conflict's energy shock…

August 3, 2026 · 2 min

Cold-storage security is the conversation dominating Bitcoin markets this week. A Coldcard hardware wallet exploit sent $90 million worth of Bitcoin out of cold storage in what observers described as a "sickening" loss, landing a…

August 3, 2026 · 2 min

Institutional fund managers are pressing regulators to accept blockchain infrastructure inside conventional product wrappers, and the Central Bank of Ireland has granted one of the clearest approval

August 3, 2026 · 2 min

Slumping $BTC prices made the earnings risk embedded in single-asset treasury models concrete in the second quarter. Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury company, reported an $8.2 billion loss for the pe

August 2, 2026 · 2 min

Against a backdrop of risk repricing across hybrid capital instruments, Strategy has declined to offer holders of its preferred STRC shares any extra compensation for the gap. The company l

August 2, 2026 · 2 min

The US spot Bitcoin ETF complex recorded $233.1 million in net inflows over a single trading session, reversing a weekly deficit and pushing the seven-day total back to positive. BlackRock's IBIT led the day's buying. July, as a…

August 2, 2026 · 2 min

Corporate cryptocurrency treasuries have been under scrutiny as market cycles mature, and the latest on-chain activity

August 2, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of rising political scrutiny over presidential financial holdings, the intersection of executive power and digital assets has become the defining regulatory flashpoint in Washin

August 2, 2026 · 2 min

Stablecoin issuers operating in the United States are moving into a dual-regulator environment, with state financial authorities now sitting alongside federal banking supervisors. Circle secured a limited-purpose trust charter…

August 2, 2026 · 2 min

Blockchain forensics has long sat behind a professional paywall, accessible mainly to compliance teams and investigators with specialist training and enterprise-grade tooling. AMLBot, a crypto forensics company, is now moving…

August 2, 2026 · 2 min

Courts and the broader legal environment around crypto stayed active this week, with three separate matters advancing simultaneously. A case tied to defunct exchange FTX moved forward, a soldier sought to dismiss a claim linked…

August 1, 2026 · 2 min

Against a backdrop of shifting global rates, publicly traded real estate investment trusts are drawing renewed attention from investors seeking property exposure without the illiquidity of direct

August 1, 2026 · 2 min

Hardware wallet security has moved to the center of Bitcoin's custody debate as the estimated cost of the Coldcard wallet incident reaches $70 million. Galaxy Research placed that figure on th

August 1, 2026 · 2 min

Hardware wallet security is under fresh scrutiny after Galaxy Research linked roughly $70 million in Bitcoin losses to a vulnerability affecting Coldcard signing devices. Galaxy said nearly 1,

August 1, 2026 · 2 min

America's prescription drug system handed country musician Ruston Kelly five controlled substances during a three-day hospital stay after a June golf cart accident, then sent him home with a month-long Percocet prescription. He…

July 31, 2026 · 2 min

The push to monetize dormant on-chain assets is reshaping how decentralized protocols compete for deposits. Uniswap has partnered with lending protocol Morpho to introduce Earn, a product that channels user funds into…

July 31, 2026 · 2 min

Central bank digital currency programs across major economies have moved from monetary policy debate into th

July 31, 2026 · 2 min

Hardware wallet security is under examination across the Bitcoin custody sector. Coinkite, the maker of the Coldcard signing device, has urged all Mk3 model users to migrate their funds after identifying a potential risk in seed…

July 31, 2026 · 2 min

Against a backdrop of deepening intra-party tension over U.S. support for Israel, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's appearance at the National Press Club in Washington was upended almost immediately by a front-row heckler…

July 30, 2026 · 2 min

Across Asia's crypto regulatory cycle, sequencing has become as consequential as the rules themselves. South Korea's latest policy report takes a direct position on that sequence: interim licensing guidance for stablecoin issuers…

July 30, 2026 · 2 min

The regulatory environment for event-contract markets in the United States is shifting, and crypto venues are beginning to test the new perimeter. Binance.US, the American arm of the global exchange, intends to file for a…

July 30, 2026 · 2 min

Cryptocurrency transaction volumes have been the soft underbelly of retail brokerage results through this cycle, and Robinhood's latest quarter made that pattern explicit. The online brokerage reported its best quarter on record…

July 30, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG, July 29. The path to US regulatory clarity for digital assets has narrowed faster than markets priced in. The Clarity Act, a cryptocurrency bill whose progress through Senate committees in May was credited with lifting…

July 29, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of accelerating retail participation in digital asset markets, centralized exchanges have become the dominant infrastructure for cross-border crypto activity. KuCoin, f

July 28, 2026 · 2 min

The security perimeter around self-custodied Bitcoin has become one of the more contested attack surfaces as retail holders increasingly rely on mainstream app stores to source wallet software

July 28, 2026 · 2 min

The market for crypto infrastructure is running toward consolidation, with enterprises increasingly reluctant to stitch together services from multiple single-purpose vendors. Against that backdrop, Payward, the parent company of…

July 28, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of growing global demand for Shariah-compliant investment products, gold-backed digital tokens have gained a new certification pathway into Islamic finance. Tether's XAUt has received Shariah certification, a…

July 28, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of tightening cross-border law enforcement coordination, the scale of industrial fraud flowing through Southeast Asia's scam compound network has drawn what U.S. authorities describe as a historic offensive.…

July 27, 2026 · 2 min

The push to move fixed-income instruments onto public blockchains has accelerated alongside institutional adoption of bitcoin as a treasury asset. Benchmark said a recent brokerage arrangem

July 27, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of intensifying enforcement on crypto financial rails in Latin America, Brazilian police have broken up a transnational trafficking group suspected of moving roughly 6.5 metric tons of cocaine. The network…

July 27, 2026 · 2 min

Cross-chain DeFi protocols have been a recurring attack surface through this cycle, and the pattern held again. Blockaid reported that an attacker drained approximately $450,000 in USDT from Garden Finance by exploiting the…

July 27, 2026 · 2 min

The U.S. regulatory window for digital assets is narrowing. The CLARITY Act, a legislative framework that had drawn backing from Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, and law enforcement bodies, is losing momentum, while BitMEX confirmed it…

July 27, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of the artificial intelligence industry's rapid growth and expanding commercial applications, a group of publicly traded names priced below $10 a share draws attention as a measure of how AI development…

July 26, 2026 · 2 min

Against the backdrop of long-running concern about information asymmetry between Capitol Hill and ordinary investors, the U.S. House passed a bill aimed at curbing lawmakers' use of privileged information in stock trades. Senator…

July 26, 2026 · 2 min

The competitive cycle for large language models has rotated away from headline benchmark gains toward a quieter metric: what users actually spend per useful output. Anthropic released Opus 5 today, an update to the model that has…

July 26, 2026 · 2 min

Europe's push to bring crypto asset markets under a unified regulatory framework is generating its own supply chain: a market for compliance infrastructure. Reed Smith, the global law firm,

July 13, 2026 · 2 min

Europe's crypto licensing environment has grown more selective since the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation took effect, and Binance is now navigating that narrowed passage from a different angle. Co-

July 9, 2026 · 2 min

Stablecoin adoption across Asia-Pacific card networks has picked up pace this year, and the latest signal comes from South Korea. Hyundai Card has completed its first real-world stablecoin proof-of-concept, conducted on the…

July 9, 2026 · 2 min

Sports sponsorship in the digital asset sector has moved steadily from pitch-side banners at overseas football clubs into American college athletics. Ripple, the company behind the $XRP payments network, has signed a deal to…

July 9, 2026 · 2 min

The pipeline of blank-check mergers connecting digital-asset companies to public markets has faced revision pressure as conditions drifted from those that shaped many original deal terms. Against that

July 9, 2026 · 2 min

With the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation now setting the formal compliance perimeter for digital asset firms across the European Union, the bloc's top securities regulator is shifting from lawmaker to examiner. The European…

July 8, 2026 · 2 min

Crypto lending markets have contracted sharply through the current Bitcoin ($BTC) bear market, with the mechanics of collateralized borrowing coming under close scrutiny after a cycle of lender failures

July 8, 2026 · 2 min

Federal enforcement in the crypto derivatives space is infrequent enough that each action resets expectations across the sector. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged a commo

July 8, 2026 · 2 min

South Korea's push to set formal rules for digital assets has become a live variable in one of the country's more closely watched corporate transactions. The planned stock-swap between cryptocurrency exchan

July 7, 2026 · 2 min

Across the stablecoin market, equity in the largest private issuers stays closely held and rarely surfaces on the open secondary market. Richard Heathcote, the former chief investment officer of

July 7, 2026 · 2 min

Yield Guild Games has laid off 35 employees and shuttered YGG Play, its game publishing business, blaming deteriorating conditions across both the cryptocurrency and video game markets. The

July 7, 2026 · 2 min

An analyst cited by The Motley Fool has identified three cryptocurrencies as candidates for gains of more than 2,500% each, a projection that sits at the extreme end of retail-facing crypto price calls and arrives as…

July 6, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG — Summer.fi's Lazy Summer Protocol has been exploited for $6 million, with analysts attributing the breach to a flash loan attack. The attacker reportedly deployed a $65.4 million flash loan to obtain a $70.9 million…

July 6, 2026 · 2 min

Stablecoin transaction volume reached a record $1.79 trillion in June, on-chain data shows, marking the asset class's highest monthly settlement figure on record. The milestone points to accelerating real-world use of…

July 6, 2026 · 2 min

Bernstein reaffirmed its Outperform rating on Circle with a $190 price target even as the debut of OUSD — described as a new stablecoin rival to Circle — sent CRCL shares down more than 17%

July 5, 2026 · 2 min

Kalshi recorded its highest monthly trading volume on record in June, surpassing $9 billion as the expanded FIFA World Cup fueled activity across prediction markets, DefiLlama data shows. The figure marks a notable milestone for…

July 5, 2026 · 2 min

Kraken is now allowing eligible users to pledge tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds as collateral for futures and margin trading, without requiring them to sell those holdings first. The arrangeme

July 4, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG — John Bollinger, the technical analyst who developed the Bollinger Bands indicator, has raised the prospect that Bitcoin's bear market may be nearing its end, pointing to a potential 'W'-shaped price reversal forming…

July 4, 2026 · 2 min

India's central bank has reportedly renewed its push to wall off the country's commercial banking system from cryptocurrency and private stablecoins, while preserving a lane for regulated tokenization

July 4, 2026 · 2 min

Belgian authorities have arrested the suspected ringleader of a European phishing gang accused of stealing more than $572,000 from victims and laundering the proceeds through cryptocurrency. The arrest m

July 4, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin ($BTC) and Ether ($ETH) pushed higher on renewed dip-buying pressure after both assets pulled back to multi-year lows, with spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recording a combined $22

July 4, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin $BTC touched its highest price in nine days, reaching $62,300, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the total global stocks market capitalisation simultaneously printed all-time highs in the session leading into the US…

July 3, 2026 · 2 min

American Bitcoin, the crypto-linked company backed by the Trump sons, tumbled 8.4% on Wednesday and hit a session low ahead of a planned reverse stock split. The share consolidation is inte

July 2, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin staged a recovery after sliding to a 21-month low around $57,000, with bulls pushing to retake the $60,000 level — a price the market had previously treated as a floor. On-chain and derivatives data, however, are casting…

July 1, 2026 · 2 min

Anchorage Digital has integrated off-exchange settlement with Binance, targeting what both firms describe as one of the biggest obstacles keeping institutional capital on the sidelines of c

July 1, 2026 · 2 min

Symbiotic has officially launched Core V2, repositioning the protocol as a shared collateral infrastructure layer designed to underpin multiple decentralized-finance markets simultaneously. The upgrade marks a deliberate…

July 1, 2026 · 2 min

South Korea's authorities are pursuing prosecution of a cryptocurrency whale — a large-scale token holder — accused of orchestrating a cross-border pump-and-dump scheme. The suspect allegedly inflated a token's pri

July 1, 2026 · 2 min

SHANGHAI — A Shanghai court has sentenced five people to prison for operating a $29 million cryptocurrency scheme used to move money illegally out of China. The case began when Chinese authorities flagged unusual transactions…

July 1, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin is clinging to the $60,000 level with what analysts describe as a loose grip, while softness in futures markets has rekindled debate over whether the world's largest cryptocurrency

June 29, 2026 · 2 min

TD Cowen, the financial-services research firm, is urging caution on one of the crypto industry's most-anticipated legislative bets: the firm says passage of the crypto market structure bill — formally known as the Clarity Act —…

June 29, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin's options market is signalling a pronounced shift toward downside protection, with the put-call ratio rising to its highest level in a year. Persistent outflows from Bitcoin exchange-traded funds

June 29, 2026 · 2 min

Coinbase, Kraken and OKX are moving to capture retail customers left in limbo as Europe's Markets in Crypto-Assets regulations push unlicensed exchanges out of the bloc. All three platforms

June 29, 2026 · 2 min

BNY, the world's largest custodian bank, is deepening its relationship with Circle by adding mint and burn capabilities for USDC to its Digital Asset Custody platform. The arrangement shifts BNY's operational role inside USDC's…

June 29, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG, June 29 — Binance shuttered its services across Europe after the exchange failed to secure a regulatory licence to operate in the bloc. During the same fortnight ending June 28,

June 29, 2026 · 2 min

Asset manager 21Shares has trimmed its 2026 price forecasts for cryptocurrencies even as institutional infrastructure in the sector advances ahead of schedule. The firm says exchange-traded funds, stablecoins, and prediction…

June 28, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin fell to $58,000, a level that the power-law model identifies as consistent with typical cycle lows — framing the selloff as within historical norms rather than an anomalous breakdow

June 28, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin extended its retreat into fresh 2026 lows as spot ETF outflows pulled institutional demand from the market, a bearish monthly options expiry cleared the way for sellers, and Strateg

June 28, 2026 · 2 min

The European Banking Authority has detailed a proposed penalty framework that can strip non-compliant significant token issuers of up to 12.5% of their annual revenue, putting a concrete fin

June 28, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin ($BTC) enters July carrying two competing signals: a historical tendency to post gains through the month, and a concentration of short positions that analysts say could power a squeeze toward $75,000. At the same time, a…

June 28, 2026 · 2 min

Coinbase's Base blockchain halted block production for roughly two hours on Thursday after a consensus problem brought the layer-2 network offline, the project confirmed. Block production subsequently resumed, though the…

June 28, 2026 · 2 min

SecondFi is working to claw back approximately $2.4 million in ADA drained from 374 Cardano addresses after a flaw in its wallet-generation software was exploited over a three-day window. The platform says it has mapped a…

June 28, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG, June 25 — Bitcoin dropped to $58,000 on June 25 after hot personal consumption expenditures data stoked Federal Reserve rate fears and spot exchange-traded fund outflows

June 27, 2026 · 2 min

Fidelity, the asset management giant, has pushed back against the argument that $BTC's halving mechanism gradually erodes the security of its network, contending that the protocol's fixed supply schedule does not leave it…

June 27, 2026 · 2 min

Dormant Ethereum wallets belonging to long-term holders shifted 37,806 ETH in a move that coincided with a notable inflection point: long-term whale profitability on the network turned negative for the first time since 2019. The…

June 27, 2026 · 2 min

Solana's SOL token has climbed back to the $72 level, with tokenized stock trading on its network cited as a key source of recent strength. Yet on-chain metrics undercut the bullish surface reading

June 27, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG — Strategy's preferred shares, listed as STRC, briefly fell to a record low of $71.40 on Friday, leaving the securities roughly 25% below their stated par value. The drop accompanied a broader deterioration in the…

June 26, 2026 · 2 min

CryptoQuant, the on-chain analytics firm, has called on Strategy to halt its Bitcoin purchases, warning that the company's dividend coverage has contracted. The advisory surfaces a structural question beneath the headline stack:…

June 26, 2026 · 2 min

Sharplink purchased 5,000 ETH — its first acquisition of Ethereum ($ETH) in eight months — according to an on-chain analyst who spotted the transaction. The buy landed days after a group of former Ethereum Foundation researchers…

June 26, 2026 · 2 min

SharpLink has returned to the Ether market after an eight-month absence, timing its re-entry as $ETH fell to its lowest point of 2026. The purchase marks a notable shift for a company that had held off buying through an extended…

June 26, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin's slide to $58,000 has done more than trim portfolios — it has confirmed a bear flag breakdown on the chart, a pattern that technical analysts read as a signal of sustained selling pressure. T

June 25, 2026 · 2 min

Sports betting app Onyx Odds has raised $20 million in a funding round led by Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken. The deal places crypto-adjacent capital behind a new entrant in the

June 25, 2026 · 2 min

President Donald Trump declined to sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, shelving a measure that would have prohibited the US Federal Reserve from issuing or creating a central bank digital currency until 2030. The…

June 25, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin ($BTC) fell below $60,000 for the first time in weeks, a break that has rattled confidence in the cryptocurrency's near-term trend. On-chain data tells a different story from the price tape, however: traders are not…

June 25, 2026 · 2 min

Three cryptocurrency industry lobby groups are calling on the United States Congress to advance a bill that would defer tax on staking and mining rewards until those rewards are sold, urging lawmakers to pass the legislation…

June 23, 2026 · 2 min

Solana has emerged as the dominant settlement layer for tokenized equities, capturing 95% of trading volumes in the segment as market participants separately debate whether the $60 level marked a cycle bottom for SOL. The…

June 22, 2026 · 2 min

Cryptocurrency industry advocacy groups have called on Congress to pass a pending tax bill without amendment, arguing the measure would resolve longstanding uncertainty over the treatment of mining and staking rewards under U.S.…

June 22, 2026 · 2 min

Strategy, the company that has made Michael Saylor's bitcoin accumulation its central business model, purchased an additional 520 bitcoin ($BTC) for $35 million, pressing ahead with acquisitions even as shares of its STRC…

June 22, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG — Bitget has launched Stock+, a product that lets users buy US-listed stocks — including fractional shares — using cryptocurrency as the funding source. Trades are routed through regulated brokers, the exchange says,…

June 22, 2026 · 2 min

Altura has wound down its stablecoin vault after what the company's chief executive described as an "unprecedented level" of withdrawal requests. The CEO attributed the pressure in part to market speculation, remarks that…

June 22, 2026 · 2 min

The Sonic token dropped 5% on Friday after Sonic Labs announced that board members Andre Cronje, Michael Kong, and David Richardson had resigned, adding to a governance overhaul that began

June 22, 2026 · 2 min

A Japanese corporate pension fund serving roughly 1,200 small and medium-sized businesses is planning to allocate about 1% of its assets to cryptocurrencies, the Nikkei reported. The fund is framing the move as currency…

June 21, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin's worst-case downside is $23,980, an analyst has warned, a level that would be triggered by a 50% collapse in US stock markets. Weaker exchange-traded fund inflows and subdued US demand signal that large investors remain…

June 21, 2026 · 2 min

The European Commission is seeking public comment on potential revisions to the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation, its existing framework covering the crypto and blockchain industries. The process, already being referred to as…

June 21, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin's share of the total cryptocurrency market is holding above a critical support level, a signal that the capital rotation into altcoins underpinning previous cycle "altseasons" has collapsed. On-chain flows indicate $BTC…

June 20, 2026 · 2 min

A legislative package aimed at overhauling how the United States taxes cryptocurrency is running into bipartisan resistance in the House Ways and Means Committee, where divisions over specific provisions are forcing further…

June 20, 2026 · 2 min

Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Rogelio Quevedo has signaled the regulator's openness to real-world asset tokenization, telling Cointelegraph that the technology could expand legitimate investment…

June 20, 2026 · 2 min

Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the Mexican billionaire and founder of Grupo Salinas, has disclosed that Bitcoin accounts for 70% of his personal investment portfolio and said he expects the asset to reach $1 million in price, according…

June 17, 2026 · 2 min

Brownstone Research has published a piece framing artificial intelligence as being at a comparable inflection point to the one $BTC occupied before it crossed into mainstream financial consciousness. The headline — "AI's Bitcoin…

June 17, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin posted a 5% rebound but failed to reclaim the $70,000 threshold, ETF Database reported, leaving the rally looking more like a dead-cat bounce than a trend reversal. The round number has reasserted itself as the level to…

June 17, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin recorded a positive trading session, with retail-facing platform Moomoo highlighting the move under the headline "a green a day keeps the doctor away" — a phrase that signals less a single breakout than a pattern of…

June 17, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin reached what analysts described as a breaking point on June 9, caught between a U.S. military strike on Iran, an unexpected consumer-price reading, and the looming capital demands of a potential SpaceX public offering.…

June 17, 2026 · 2 min

Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick has told clients that crypto prices have likely seen their cycle low, declaring "winter is over" ahead of an expected Bitcoin purchase disclosure f

June 17, 2026 · 2 min

The Solana Policy Institute is pressing the US Senate to pass the CLARITY Act while insisting four unresolved priorities must be embedded in the final text before the bill advances to a full vote. Kristin Smith, the institute's…

June 17, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin recorded its steepest weekly decline since the FTX implosion, shedding 16 percent and dragging the price below $60,000 as more than $136 million in $BTC positions were forcibly closed. The move was not a single-catalyst…

June 17, 2026 · 2 min

MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho — Japan's three largest banks — are working toward a joint stablecoin issuance, with the institutions planning to establish a dedicated council to develop operational

June 16, 2026 · 2 min

Zama, Morpho and Steakhouse have jointly launched what they describe as the first confidential DeFi yield vault on Ethereum ($ETH), designed to let firms earn on-chain yield while keeping th

June 16, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin tagged $63,200 and preserved most of a recent rebound even as two significant macro shocks landed in the same session: the sharpest US producer-price inflation reading since October 2022, and Iran's decision to close the…

June 16, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG — BitMine has continued purchasing Ether through the ongoing market downturn, pushing its total holdings toward the $10 billion threshold and accumulating a position that now represents nearly 5% of Ethereum's entire…

June 15, 2026 · 2 min

Audiera's AI-linked token BEAT has outrun both $BTC and $ETH over the past month, posting a 1,500% price surge that briefly made it one of the standout performers across the broader crypto market. The rally has now pushed

June 15, 2026 · 2 min

Bitwise's Matt Hougan found it "pretty hard to engage with advisors on Bitcoin" during recent industry discussions, with traditional finance professionals steering conversations toward stablecoins and tokenized assets

June 14, 2026 · 2 min

Bitso has deployed its Mexican peso-backed stablecoin, MXNB, on the XRP Ledger through a partnership with Ripple, pairing it with RLUSD to settle institutional payment flows between the United States and Mexic

June 14, 2026 · 2 min

BlackRock has filed a new amendment for a bitcoin fund structured to produce yield through active covered call strategies, with a Bloomberg analyst signaling a launch is expected soon. The fund would write covered calls on shares…

June 14, 2026 · 2 min

US consumer inflation has topped 4%, and analysts say the reading puts fresh pressure on both Bitcoin and gold. Markus Thielen, head of research at 10x Research, said his firm continues to

June 13, 2026 · 2 min

Tom Lee's Bitmine has acquired $41 million worth of ether ($ETH), according to onchain data, pressing deeper into a treasury strategy that has so far produced a reported paper loss of nearly $10 billion. The firm is buying at an…

June 13, 2026 · 2 min

XRP's network is showing signs of acute stress, with transaction demand plunging 91.5% while both activity metrics and investor profitability have dropped to record lows. The deterioration in on-chain fundamentals has shifted…

June 13, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin miners are recording profits at their lowest levels on record even as the spot price struggles to hold $60,000 — a pairing that puts one of the market's most-watched technical supports in question and raises fresh

June 12, 2026 · 2 min

Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at crypto asset manager Bitwise, says financial advisors are now more engaged by stablecoins and the tokenization of real-world assets than by bitcoin ($BTC). The observat

June 12, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG — A SpaceX initial public offering structured to give retail investors access to up to 30% of shares is being identified as a potential headwind for Bitcoin and other crypto assets

June 12, 2026 · 2 min

Helius, a Solana infrastructure company, has acquired Light Protocol, a project focused on onchain privacy, as consolidation accelerates across the broader crypto industry and developer interest

June 12, 2026 · 2 min

The Bank of Japan's pending rate decision is drawing fresh attention from Bitcoin traders, who have documented a consistent historical pattern: $BTC has declined an average of 22.5% each time the BOJ has moved to raise rates.…

June 11, 2026 · 2 min

On-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant has flagged $53,600 as a potential floor for $BTC's current correction, identifying that figure as bitcoin's realized price — a level the firm says has hi

June 11, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin ($BTC) is trading higher even as US consumer prices climbed to a three-year high — a macro backdrop that has historically cut both ways for the asset. The rebound, however, is already running into technical resistance,…

June 10, 2026 · 2 min

Joe Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum, has said the network could complete a full transition to a zero-knowledge proof-based protocol within three to five years, framing the shift as structurally i

June 10, 2026 · 2 min

Fold Holdings, a bitcoin fintech company, sold $45 million worth of $BTC and applied the proceeds to pay off its collateralized debt in full, the company disclosed. Shares surged more than 7

June 10, 2026 · 2 min

Ripple has launched a toolkit aimed at enabling AI agents to execute payments on the XRP Ledger wi

June 10, 2026 · 2 min

Institutional support for Bitcoin has buckled, with exchange-traded funds and corporate treasury holders collectively offloading close to 2,000 BTC per day — a pace equivalent to 450% of the asset's daily new supply. The…

June 9, 2026 · 2 min

Curve Finance has deployed the second version of its Llamalend lending protocol on Optimism, the Ethereum layer-2 network, with the launch backed by a grant of 250,000 OP tokens from the Optimism ecosystem. The upgrade breaks…

June 9, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG, June 17 — Bitcoin is trading near $61,000, weighed down by geopolitical pressure, inflation fears, and sustained outflows from exchange-traded funds — a combination that has pushed $BTC into what market participants…

June 9, 2026 · 2 min

Forward Industries, the largest Solana treasury company by assets, is moving to acquire smaller competitors in the digital asset treasury space as a slide in $SOL's price compresses the mark

June 8, 2026 · 2 min

Botanix, the developer behind the Spiderchain protocol, is closing after four years of operation, telling users to withdraw their assets by 9 July. The team cited demand for Bitcoin-native decentralised finance

June 8, 2026 · 2 min

More than half of bitcoin's ($BTC) circulating supply is currently trading at a loss, according to research firm K33 — a threshold the firm says has historically appeared only near the floor of major bear markets. K33 notes that…

June 8, 2026 · 2 min

Botanix is closing its Bitcoin Layer 2 network after four years of operation, pointing to insufficient fee revenue as the reason for the wind-down. The project is urging users to withdraw their assets from the protocol before July 9.

June 7, 2026 · 2 min

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has formalized a partnership with South Korea's national police to pursue crypto-enabled crime, a collaboration that spans the spectrum from state-level operations linked to North Korea to…

June 7, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin's hold above $60,000 has not silenced the bears. A cluster of four technical and on-chain chart signals points toward $50,000 as a live downside target, with multiple indicators warning that $BTC has not yet found a durable bottom.

June 6, 2026 · 2 min

A crypto-focused equity fund has returned 11% year-to-date, outperforming both direct bitcoin exposure and the cohort of bitcoin exchange-traded funds, even as $BTC has fallen 29% over the s

June 6, 2026 · 2 min

Jim Cramer, the CNBC host whose market calls double as a contrarian reading for a segment of professional traders, argued that Bitcoin and gold represent "bad money" that investors are currently liquidating to fund exposure to…

June 6, 2026 · 2 min

A distinction is being drawn between Ripple, the private payments company, and XRP, the digital token that carries its name — with a contrarian argument positioning the two as separate inve

June 5, 2026 · 2 min

On-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant has identified a price level near $53,600 as a potential bottom for $BTC, with analysts suggesting the cryptocurrency has entered what they call a "buy zo

June 5, 2026 · 2 min

Tokyo-listed Metaplanet has acquired a Japanese securities firm for $13 million, pivoting from a pure Bitcoin accumulation strategy toward distributing $BTC-linked yield products through a domestically regulated entity. The deal…

June 5, 2026 · 2 min

Ripple has connected the XRP Ledger to AI payment infrastructure and what the company describes as America's largest remittance corridor, positioning the network at two of the sector's most

June 5, 2026 · 2 min

Institutional capital is moving into XRP exchange-traded funds at the same time comparable vehicles tracking $BTC and $ETH are recording outflows, a rotation that cuts against the usual hierarchy of digital-asset allocation. The…

June 4, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin exchange-traded funds are seeing outflows at record levels, according to reports, renewing a familiar argument among $BTC holders: does heavy institutional selling mark a capitulation floor, or the start of something worse?

June 4, 2026 · 2 min

Decentralised prediction markets are pricing a roughly 70% probability that XRP will trade below $1 at some point in 2026, according to data cited in circulating market commentary — a signal that crowd-sourced forecasters are…

June 4, 2026 · 2 min

The Proxy Trade and Why It Broke

June 4, 2026 · 2 min

Ripple's chief executive has publicly accused Jamie Dimon of misrepresenting the CLARITY Act, pointing to a $20 billion interest as the reason behind the banking titan's stance on the crypto legislation. The accusation puts one…

June 4, 2026 · 2 min

An analyst covering Strategy has argued that the company's stated goal of accumulating 1 million $BTC could arrive sooner than widely assumed, adding a new wrinkle to debate over how far the corporate bitcoin accumulation playbook can run.

June 3, 2026 · 2 min

Mastercard is building infrastructure to let artificial intelligence agents make payments autonomously, with Coinbase and Ripple among the crypto firms enlisted to help. The initiative marks one of the clearest moves yet by a…

June 3, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG, June 17 — Nakamoto, a Nasdaq-listed company that holds Bitcoin as a primary treasury asset, has sold a portion of its $BTC holdings, applied proceeds to cut outstanding debt, and authorized a share repurchase program.…

June 3, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin found itself at a critical juncture on June 9 as three distinct macro shocks landed simultaneously: a U.S. military strike on Iran, a consumer-price surprise, and the looming capital pull of a potential SpaceX public…

June 3, 2026 · 2 min

Crypto markets split on Tuesday as the United States struck what officials described as "multiple targets" in Iran, a geopolitical shock that left Bitcoin ($BTC) and Ethereum ($ETH) largely unmoved while XRP and Dogecoin ($DOGE)…

June 2, 2026 · 2 min

The chief investment officer of Bitwise Asset Management has drawn a notable conclusion from a recent round of adviser outreach: $BTC no longer stirs the excitement it once did among financial professionals tasked with allocating…

June 2, 2026 · 2 min

Mike Alfred, described as a famed investor, is publicly calling for Bitcoin to reach $250,000 within the next six months, a prediction he has attached to what is described as a formal thesis. The call names a specific price level…

June 2, 2026 · 2 min

T. Rowe Price, the asset manager overseeing $1.9 trillion, has launched a crypto exchange-traded fund that lists XRP ($XRP) among its eligible holdings — a structural change that positions one of Wall Street's largest active…

June 2, 2026 · 2 min

Two of the most widely used AI chatbots have been deployed as Bitcoin price forecasters, with ChatGPT projecting a bottom near $54,500 and Claude targeting a lower floor of $52,000 — both ca

June 1, 2026 · 2 min

Strategy, the software company-turned-bitcoin treasury vehicle led by Michael Saylor, has acquired a further 1,587 bitcoin for approximately $100 million, lifting its total holdings to 846,842 BTC. The purchase underscores the…

June 1, 2026 · 2 min

Reports are circulating that SpaceX is moving toward what is being billed as the biggest initial public offering in history, with a notable twist: the company's shares are set to be availab

June 1, 2026 · 2 min

Three of the world's largest crypto exchanges — Binance, Bybit and Kraken — secured allocations of SpaceX shares that fell short of expectations, according to reports, with one of the three emerging from the process in a notably…

June 1, 2026 · 2 min

Anthony Scaramucci says he remains a long-term believer in Bitcoin and expects $BTC to recover by the fourth quarter of 2026 or the first quarter of 2027 — provided a key underlying theory

June 1, 2026 · 2 min

BlackRock has set the annual fee on its Bitcoin income ETF at 65 basis points, a level that analysts say undercuts competing products already in the market. The pricing decision comes as Goldman Sachs is said to be preparing its…

May 31, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin has outperformed every token in the top 100 altcoins by market capitalisation over the stretch since 2020, according to chart analysis circulating this week — and the same technical readings are now pointing to additional…

May 31, 2026 · 2 min

BitMine Immersion (BMNR) has disclosed total holdings of $9.6 billion in combined cryptocurrency and cash, with Ethereum ($ETH) identified as the lead asset in its corporate treasury. The announcement positions the company among…

May 31, 2026 · 2 min

Strategy has resumed accumulating Bitcoin after disclosing what marked its first sale of the asset since 2022, a sequence that has drawn scrutiny from investors who have long tracked the firm's acquisition strategy as a proxy…

May 31, 2026 · 2 min

A Bitcoin sale — the seller and size left unspecified in Strategy's public remarks — split $BTC holders along a line the company's chief executive drew himself: institutions held steady, he said, while the retail layer he…

May 30, 2026 · 2 min

Cardano's founder has publicly forecast hard times ahead for the project, an unusually candid signal from the network's own architect that analysts are framing as a concrete reason to sell $ADA. Bearish calls from project…

May 30, 2026 · 2 min

Botanix will close its Bitcoin layer-2 network in July, citing insufficient demand for decentralised-finance activity built on top of $BTC — a quiet admission that efforts to graft Ethereum-style DeFi onto Bitcoin's settlement…

May 30, 2026 · 2 min

On-chain data shows large-balance wallets — tracked in crypto markets as "whales" — have been selling Cardano's native token ADA, pushing the asset to a multi-year price low. The distribution pattern has reopened pointed…

May 30, 2026 · 2 min

Roundhill's Bitcoin Covered Call ETF is advertising a 30 percent annual yield tied to Bitcoin's price action, despite holding no actual Bitcoin in its portfolio. The structure is worth examining closely: a fund can carry the word…

May 29, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Dogecoin all posted gains after President Donald Trump signalled progress toward an Iran deal, lifting risk appetite across markets. One analyst cautioned separately that a SpaceX initial publi

May 29, 2026 · 2 min

Four artificial intelligence models surveyed on Solana's price prospects for 2026 returned divergent forecasts, with at least one projecting what the report characterized as a massive surge for SOL, the blockchain network's…

May 29, 2026 · 2 min

Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP fell in tandem after the United States launched what it characterised as "proportional" military strikes against Iran, adding a geopolitical shock to an already unsettled crypto market

May 29, 2026 · 2 min

Standard Chartered has declared the cryptocurrency downturn over, issuing a market-bottom call as Bitcoin ($BTC) recovers from its fall to the $60,000 level. The bank's assessment — summaris

May 29, 2026 · 2 min

A researcher has put forward an analysis arguing that structural factors — not market indifference — explain why XRP has failed to stage the kind of rally seen elsewhere in the digital-asset market. The findings reignite

May 28, 2026 · 2 min

Strategy chief executive Phong Le has publicly disclosed three reasons behind the company's first sale of $BTC since 2022, drawing attention to a firm whose identity has been closely tied to accumulating the cryptocurrency rather…

May 28, 2026 · 2 min

Tokenized U.S. Treasury products are making their way onto the XRP Ledger, positioning Ripple's blockchain among the networks absorbing real-world asset issuance as on-chain fixed-income infrastructure

May 28, 2026 · 2 min

Two prominent voices in the crypto market landed on opposite sides of Bitcoin's near-term outlook, with Binance founder Changpeng Zhao arguing the asset's dormant stretch is almost over while

May 28, 2026 · 2 min

Ripple's XRP is reportedly due for a new protocol upgrade, with market participants debating what the change could mean for the token's price. The announcement has drawn attention, but the source provides no on-chain data,…

May 27, 2026 · 2 min

Fold, a Bitcoin-focused fintech company, watched its shares climb 162% after the firm liquidated $45 million worth of $BTC and used the proceeds to eliminate its outstanding debt. The move is notable less for the price action it…

May 27, 2026 · 2 min

HONG KONG — Bitcoin gained ground after the latest US consumer price index reading came in at its lowest level in two years, a data point the market read as easing pressure on the Federal Reserve and, by extension, as a tailwind…

May 27, 2026 · 2 min