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172 stories on the Crypto beat — every filing on this desk, newest first.
South Africa's tax authority has released draft guidance clarifying how crypto assets fit within the country's existing income and capital gains tax rules. Rather than writing new crypto-specific legislation, the regulator is proposing to m
SBI Crypto is closing its Bitcoin ($BTC) mining pool on July 31, ending an operation that ran for more than five years. At the time of the announcement, the pool held 12th place in the global rankings and commanded approximately 2.2% of the
Ondo Finance has launched tokenized versions of BlackRock's IVV exchange-traded fund and Micron Technology shares, settling both instruments on Ethereum under a custodial model defined by U.S. securities regulators. The move places two main
FBI Director Kash Patel disclosed a stake in Strategy valued between $100,001 and $250,000 months after the required filing deadline, according to reports. Strategy is a registered US gover
Avalanche Treasury, a company whose value is tied directly to its holdings of $AVAX — the native token of the Avalanche blockchain — has watched its stock fall 73% from the price at which it debuted. By the end of the first quarter, the com
A defendant who controls one of the dormant wallets at the center of a New York lawsuit has filed a motion to dismiss the case. The suit seeks legal ownership of 39,069 Bitcoin wallets — holdings collectively valued at $229 billion in $BTC
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published its first update to the MiCA register since the regulation's compliance deadline passed, adding 37 crypto-asset service providers to the public list. Standard Chartered, the intern
Bitcoin ($BTC) just closed its worst June since 2022, and at least one analyst sees that as a warning sign rather than a clearing event. The month ended above the asset's realized price — a metric representing the average cost basis of all
Bitmine added 27,084 ETH last week, pushing its total Ethereum treasury to 5.70 million coins with a stated value of $8.9 billion, even as the company described the period as "challenging." That purchase places Bitmine at 94% of its self-im
Four long-dormant Ethereum wallets that accumulated 37,602 $ETH back in 2018 have finally liquidated their holdings, locking in an estimated $27 million in profit. The exit, flagged by onchain analysts, marks the end of an eight-year hold t
Framework Ventures has closed its fourth fund at $400 million, the crypto-focused venture firm announced, with capital earmarked for investments spanning cryptocurrency, artificial intelligence, and robotics — a broader mandate than the fir
BitGo, a crypto infrastructure firm, has cut 15% of its workforce. Co-founder and CEO Mike Belshe described the reductions as "a one-time action" and said the company does not expect to make further cuts.
Bitcoin's slide to $58,000 lands squarely within what the power-law model identifies as a standard cycle low — a reading that frames the move as historically routine rather than a structural breakdown. [Futures market data](/news/cftc-sues-
Stani Kulechov, the founder of Aave, publicly rejected a reported acquisition approach by Payward, stating that the AAVE token is not for sale "at a 70% discount." The pushback comes after Aave's [decentralized autonomous organization](/new
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has withdrawn its regulatory license application in Greece, cutting off that route to legal operation in the European Union. The exchan
Strategy's cash reserves have dropped 38%, leaving the company able to cover only 14 months of preferred-stock dividends — down from a cushion that previously spanned seven years. On-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant has responded by publicl
Nearly 100 Catholic leaders are on record opposing the Clarity Act, a sweeping cryptocurrency bill, on the grounds that it weakens safeguards designed to block illicit finance and human tra
Bitcoin ($BTC) is trading below $63,000, squeezed by a $10.6 billion options expiry and a wave of ETF outflows that have put near-term price direction in question. Analysts say the next decisive test arrives Thursday, when the Personal Cons
The U.S. Senate passed a housing supply bill by an 85-5 vote, embedding within it a prohibition on the federal government issuing a central bank digital currency — or [any similar digital asset](/news/ripple-secures-preliminary-eu-crypto-li
Ripple, the company behind the XRP ($XRP) token, has obtained preliminary approval as a Crypto Asset Service Provider — known as a CASP — in Luxembourg, positioning itself ahead of the European Union's July 1 licensing deadline under the Ma
A Chinese criminal network previously connected to fentanyl trafficking has been linked to a cryptocurrency fraud operation run out of Japan, Nikkei reported. The group circulated a counterfeit token under the name "zksync.jp" — crafted to
Bitcoin's price has dropped more than 40% since Strategy launched STRC, pulling that instrument below par and visibly slowing the company's pace of Bitcoin acquisitions. The decline has emboldened critics of Michael Saylor's closely watched
US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds — investment wrappers that hold actual Bitcoin on behalf of shareholders — posted their largest 30-day net outflow since the products launched in 2024, shedding a combined $6.4 billion as $BTC lo
Pudgy Penguins, the NFT-born franchise that built one of the most recognized brands in digital collectibles, is placing its Vibes Series 3 trading cards on shelves at Target stores across the United States. The rollout represents the brand'
A senior U.S. official confirmed to Axios on Tuesday that a second wave of American military strikes against Iran is currently underway, focused on destroying the country's air defense and radar systems. The disclosure follows initial U.S.
OpenAI is in talks to lease a 10-gigawatt data center at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Pike County, Ohio, with Nvidia providing the funding — a deal that, if closed, would rank as the largest single-site AI compute commit
Three concrete developments — a quantified institutional thesis, rising derivatives volumes, and a DTCC settlement announcement — have moved tokenized equities from a thought experiment toward a credible near-term build. Securitize CEO Carl
A late-month token unlock is about to stress-test SAHARA, the token attached to Sahara AI's data and model marketplace. Two widely-used trackers put the size of the June 26 tranche between roughly 951 million and 1.03 billion tokens — somew
The Hyperliquid Policy Center and crypto investment firm Paradigm are calling on the Treasury Department to revise [anti-money-laundering requirements](/news/mozn-becomes-first-middle-eastern-company-named-a-
The public release of Fable 5, the first available version of Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI model, has prompted a pointed debate among cryptocurrency industry figures over whether advanced A
More than 200 cryptocurrency companies have signed a joint letter pressing Senate leadership to schedule a floor vote on the CLARITY Act, putting the legislation's path forward squarely in the spotlight. Galaxy Digital responded by cutting
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi delivered a pointed warning to Gulf governments during a regional diplomatic tour, telling them they bear a legal and moral responsibility under international law to prevent any US or Israeli military
The SpaceX initial public offering is approaching four times oversubscribed, analysts say, and that pressure is showing up as a simultaneous selloff across cryptocurrency and technology stocks.
TAO, the native token of the Bittensor network, was trading just above a key Fibonacci retracement level, a technical marker that chart analysts treat as a potential inflection point between continued decline and price recovery. That positi
Ethereum's token price has slipped below $1,700 at the same time the network is logging all-time highs in both users and transactions — a split that forces a straightforward question about what cryptocurrency prices actually measure. The di
Strategy, the company that has staked its corporate identity on accumulating Bitcoin ($BTC), is facing fresh pressure in its own capital-markets suite: STRC, a security the firm has issued to help fund its Bitcoin strategy, has [fallen to a
Bitcoin fell to $63,000 and Ethereum, XRP, and Dogecoin each retreated roughly 5% in the session that immediately followed Chair Warsh's assumption of leadership. The synchronized selloff spread across the f
Bitcoin ($BTC) dropped below the $63,000 level even as US stock markets rose, a split-session move that put the two asset classes on opposite trajectories. The divergence drew attention because [crypto and equities have frequently moved in
Bitwise analysts say $BTC is trading at what they call a historically discounted level relative to artificial-intelligence equities, placing the asset in a value zone that has attracted buyers in the p
HIVE, a publicly traded Bitcoin miner, saw its stock price jump after the company announced a $220 million agreement to provide artificial intelligence infrastructure. The deal marks a sign
Sentiment among $BTC and $ETH traders has soured in the wake of a hawkish turn from the Federal Reserve, according to reporting by Decrypt. Hawkish, in central-bank language, means policymakers
Strategy, the Bitcoin-accumulation firm, issued a security called STRC that drew in ordinary retail investors — and now those investors are watching it fall. The dynamic, reported by Decryp
Bitcoin Magazine has published a pointed critique of STRC, arguing that the instrument amounts to junk-grade credit risk dressed up in Bitcoin-adjacent branding — and that retail investors, not institutions,
A Mexican billionaire has disclosed that he keeps 70% of his liquid portfolio in Bitcoin ($BTC), with a stated practice of converting fiat currency into the digital asset as soon as he receives it. The disclosure, reported by Benzinga, illu
Ledn is planning to accept Tether Gold as collateral for loans, extending its Bitcoin-backed lending model into tokenized commodities. The expansion is timed to a sector that already accounts for nearly 17%
Bitcoin's price has been moving in response to signals from Kevin Warsh and his evolving stance toward the Federal Reserve, according to reporting from Yahoo Finance.
The Ethereum Foundation has seen its second co-executive director step down in four months, extending a turbulent period of leadership turnover at the nonprofit that oversees development of th
Ten years after an attacker drained roughly 3.6 million ETH from The DAO, the crypto industry is treating the anniversary not as a cautionary footnote but as a founding moment — one credited with spurring the creation of the modern crypto s
A price prediction posted on 4chan, calling for $BTC to reach $145,000 by October, has spread widely on the back of an apparent track record for calling past Bitcoin prices. That reputation
HIVE Digital Technologies, a publicly traded Bitcoin miner, has finalized a $220 million sovereign cloud contract with Bell to deploy 2,304 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs across Canada, with the buildout expected to complete by early 2027. The deal
CME Group has announced plans to sue the Commodity Futures Trading Commission over the agency's approval of Bitcoin perpetual futures, framing the dispute as a fundamental disagreement over how such products should be classified under the D
Strive has outlined a plan to route $200 billion into Bitcoin ($BTC) through credit markets, with the explicit objective of lifting the cryptocurrency's price. The firm has not, according t
Fortune is reporting Bitcoin's current price for June 18, 2026, as part of its ongoing market data coverage of $BTC. The source does not disclose a specific figure, so no price is cited here — a reminder that a headline is not a data point.
Analysts tracking XRP say institutional interest in the token is growing despite a broad price selloff, according to a Seeking Alpha analysis of the cryptocurrency. The finding matters because institutional participation has historically be
Kevin Warsh held interest rates steady and offered little in the way of forward guidance, putting $BTC traders in a position they know well: reading silence for signals the central bank ref
Bitcoin dipped after the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady while signaling that inflation could run higher — a combination that pressured $BTC and reminded the market that crypto does not trade in a vacuum when central bankers spea
The company holding more $ETH in its corporate treasury than any other organization on earth just added to its position during a price decline, according to a report from The Motley Fool. The move prompted the outlet to ask whether [retail
Bitcoin has been consolidating near $64,000, unable to post a decisive move in either direction, yet a group of crypto-linked equities is flashing notably stronger momentum than the spot price of the leading cryptocurrency. The pattern is w
Bitcoin slid to $64,000 following hawkish comments from the new Federal Reserve chair, according to reporting by FXStreet. The remarks [rattled crypto markets](/news/bitcoin-drops-toward-64k-as-
Bitcoin ($BTC) has broken below the $64,000 price level that had been holding as support, after a surprise move from the Federal Reserve sent traders toward the exit. The breach now puts the next widel
Bitcoin ($BTC) declined after the Federal Reserve signaled that U.S. economic growth is slowing, even as policymakers opted to hold interest rates at their current level. The pairing of a dimmer growth outlook
An Inc. analysis of a $1.2 trillion Bitcoin crash argues the headline loss figure is almost beside the point. What matters, the piece contends, is the single dangerous assumption that made a cras
Bitcoin is pulling back further as the Federal Reserve's posture weighs on risk assets across the board, according to a price analysis from FXStreet. The selloff is being attributed to macro pressure rather than any Bitcoin-specific catalys
Elon Musk is a direct holder of both Bitcoin ($BTC) and Dogecoin ($DOGE), while two of his companies — SpaceX and Tesla — each maintain what the source describes as [billions of dollars in Bitcoin reserves](/news/elon-musks-net-worth-has-to
Bitcoin fell after signals pointing to a potential Federal Reserve interest rate increase dampened investor sentiment, according to market commentary from Moomoo. The development underscores how closely $BTC continues to track [broader macr
Bitcoin ($BTC) is struggling to defend the $64,000 price level, a threshold that technical analysts treat as a key support zone — a price floor where historical buying pressure has previously steadied the mark
A single price level — $61,775 — is drawing attention from Bitcoin analysts, with a forecast published by investingLive flagging it as a critical reference point for $BTC's near-term direction. Under
Kraken, the U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange, has published analysis arguing that purchasing bitcoin ($BTC) below its 200-week moving average has historically produced median returns exceeding 100%. The claim is a historical observation,
Bitcoin ($BTC) gave back ground in May while Ethereum ($ETH) proved steadier, carrying a nearly 27% one-year return into the summer, according to reporting by Moneycontrol. The split performance between the two largest cryptocurrencies by m
Anthony Scaramucci is predicting a Bitcoin ($BTC) rally in the second half of 2026 and has expressed public support for Strategy Inc., the firm led by Michael Saylor that has made Bitcoin accumulation central to its corporate model. The cal
Bitcoin ($BTC) and ether ($ETH) declined after the Federal Reserve signaled a tighter monetary policy stance, even as an Iran peace deal sent broader stock markets higher. The split between crypto and
Ricardo Salinas has disclosed that $BTC — Bitcoin, the original and largest cryptocurrency by market value — now makes up 70% of his investment portfolio, and he is publicly targeting a price of $1 million per coin, according to reporting b
Forbes is framing Bitcoin ($BTC) and gold together under what it calls a "new safe-haven playbook," a label that bundles two very different assets into one tidy narrative. Before accepting that framing, it is worth asking what a safe-haven
The United States has proposed an interim deal to terminate sanctions on Iran, and Bitcoin is already registering a reaction, according to Crypto Briefing. The development marks a potential pivot in one of the longest-running geopolitical p
Three separate crypto developments are commanding attention at once: an analyst identified as Hayes has put out a price prediction placing Ethereum ($ETH) at $10,000; Solana ($SOL)-based meme tokens have entered a broad sell-off; and a rela
Ethereum ($ETH) is trading near $1,800 ahead of a Federal Reserve policy decision — and what marks a notable milestone: Kevin Warsh's first meeting at the central bank's policy table. The cryptocurrency's relative steadiness suggests trader
Bitcoin fell toward the $64,000 level after the Federal Reserve signaled a tighter-than-expected monetary policy stance, setting off a chain of forced selling across crypto markets. The move illu
Investor Cathie Wood has named $1.25 million as her Bitcoin ($BTC) price target, with a tightening supply as the core rationale. The forecast, attributed to Wood by TheStreet, rests on the idea that available Bitcoin is disappearing from th
Bitcoin is trading weakly ahead of an upcoming Federal Reserve interest rate decision, according to analysis from FOREX.com, as traders pull back from risk assets and wait for clearer signals from U.S. monetary policymakers.
Bitcoin ($BTC) is contending with pressure from two converging forces — a Federal Reserve decision to hold interest rates and mounting sell-off activity from cryptocurrency miners — that together could [push the price below $64,000](/news/b
Elon Musk's personal fortune has surpassed the entire market capitalization of Bitcoin ($BTC), according to a report by CryptoSlate, with the continued rally in SpaceX's valuation credited as the primary driver. The milestone places one per
Strategy chief executive Phong Le has publicly outlined the company's plans for raising capital to fund continued $BTC acquisitions, according to a report from Crypto Briefing. The disclosure offers a window into how the firm intends to kee
An unnamed expert cited by Coinpedia is making a pointed observation about $BTC: it may be outperforming other assets, yet retail and institutional appetite for it appears muted. The same analyst also addressed the state of the broader altc
Jeff Park of Bitwise has argued that investors who hold no Bitcoin carry greater risk than those who do — a position framed around deepening concerns about fiat currencies. The argument inverts the c
Bitcoin crashed and $400 million was erased from the market within hours after the Federal Open Market Committee held its latest policy session and [Warsh delivered a speech](/news/kevin-wa
Sentiment in Ethereum's derivatives markets remains weak following a reset in both open interest and funding rates, according to analysis from FXStreet. The twin resets indicate that [speculative positioning in $ETH](/news/ethereum-holds-18
Strategy may be forced to sell more Bitcoin ($BTC) to sustain its dividend payments, with the funding currently earmarked for dividends estimated to last roughly 7.5 months, Pluang reported. The compresse
Mining company MARA saw its shares jump 10.3% after the firm disclosed a strategy shift: redirecting Bitcoin holdings into artificial intelligence infrastructure investment. The move immediately prompts the question analysts at Simply Wall
Questions are swirling around Coinbase after reports emerged asking whether the exchange inadvertently exposed the identity of its first bitcoin mortgage customer. The allegation, surfaced by crypto news outlet Protos, centers on whether th
Bitcoin climbed after President Trump indicated the 60-day deadline for reaching an agreement with Iran is not a hard cutoff, a statement markets read as reducing the near-term risk of military escalation. Geopolitical tension — shorthand f
A comparison circulating in financial markets places SpaceX's private valuation at $2.5 trillion against Bitcoin's ($BTC) $1.3 trillion market capitalization, framing the two assets as comp
Muddy River News has published a first-person evaluation of five Bitcoin casinos, packaged as consumer guidance under the headline "Best Crypto Casinos (I Tested): Top 5 Bitcoin Casinos Reviews 2026." The "I tested" framing presents the sel
Singapore-based crypto trading and market intelligence firm QCP has warned that Strategy — the company that built its entire business model around accumulating $BTC — may sell Bitcoin to fund dividend payments. The alert forces a question t
A man known as "Bitcoin Rodney" has entered a guilty plea in connection with a cryptocurrency fraud scheme valued at $1.8 billion, according to reporting by CryptoRank. The case marks one of the larger fraud prosecutions to emerge from the
A press conference by Kevin Warsh following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting sent both Bitcoin ($BTC) and gold lower, according to reporting by KuCoin. The FOMC — the Federal Reserve's po
Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies are trading steadily ahead of the Federal Reserve's first policy meeting under chair Kevin Warsh, with exchange-traded fund inflows providing a visible floor of demand. The combination of institutional buy
Bitcoin's layer-2 ecosystem, which drew significant developer and investor attention during the most recent bull cycle, is now facing a harder test: whether these networks can survive and g
Bitcoin traded near $65,887 as the broader cryptocurrency market showed mixed movements, with $BTC stabilizing while select altcoins posted notable gains. The session illustrated a familiar pattern in digital asset markets: a relatively ste
BlackRock has introduced a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund structured to deliver annual yields in the range of 15% to 25%, positioning the product as a direct rival to Strategy, the corporate Bitcoin treasury vehicle that has defined the high-
The Jellico Board of Mayor and Aldermen has placed bitcoin ($BTC) mining on its agenda, according to a report from The Mountain Press. The small Tennessee city's elected governing body is scheduled to deliberate on the topic, though the sco
Bitcoin ($BTC) is holding near $66,000 as altcoins, including Solana ($SOL), move higher ahead of an upcoming Federal Reserve meeting. The divergence between a steadying market leader and a charging altcoin field is a familiar pre-Fed patte
Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, has rejected the idea that his company represents a systemic risk to Bitcoin ($BTC), arguing instead that Strategy functions as a "shock absorber" for the asset. The claim reframes a long-runn
Market observers are asking whether a liquidity event tied to SpaceX could push fresh capital into Bitcoin. The question is conceptual for now, but the underlying mechanism — the wealth effect — has a real track record of moving money acros
Bhutan transferred 533 $BTC — worth $34.5 million — to the Binance exchange, according to blockchain analytics firm Arkham, pushing the Himalayan kingdom's state-linked wallet balance below a notable threshold to 1,749.96 $BTC. The transfer
Oman has launched a mandatory national Bitcoin mining pool backed by the state, requiring miners operating in the country to route their work through government-controlled infrastructure. The move marks one of the most direct attempts by an
Bitcoin ($BTC) is trading below $65,000 as markets brace for a Federal Reserve policy decision, with the central bank widely expected to hold interest rates steady while inflation sits near a three-year high. The meeting doubles as Warsh's
Sangha, a Bitcoin mining operation, has decided to repurpose its mining facilities as artificial intelligence data centers — a pivot the company has framed as choosing to "sell it out" on its original mining mandate. The move puts Sangha am
Tokenized U.S. Treasury products are making their way onto the XRP Ledger, adding a new category of real-world assets to the blockchain network. The move marks an expansion of the ledger's use case beyond payments and currency settlement. W
Bitcoin climbed to a two-week high near $66,000 after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Iran have reached a deal he described as a "toll-free opening of the Strait of Hormuz." The move was macro-driven — no ch
Crypto trading firm Wintermute is cautioning investors against declaring a floor for $BTC, pointing to nearly $3 billion in ETF outflows and a persistent absence of returning capital inflows. The firm traced the asset's
XRP ($XRP) fell to $1.10 even as two institutional moves broke in its favor: CME Group launched a Nasdaq CME Crypto Index Futures contract that includes XRP alongside Bitcoin ($BTC) in a basket of major tokens, and SBI
A crypto commentator known as X Finance Bull is predicting that passage of the CLARITY Act would open community bank doors to utility-focused digital assets like $XRP and $XLM, without displacing the $FIAT deposit base those banks already h
Binance may be forced to suspend services for European Union clients as early as next month, Reuters has reported. The development arrives just weeks before the EU's July 1 deadline requiring crypto firms to secure Markets in Crypto-Assets
Bitcoin pulled back to $66,000 alongside a drop in oil prices, even as stock markets moved higher — a three-way split that is forcing traders to reconsider what kind of asset $BTC actually is. The divergence arrived on the back of momentum
Ripple has invested in Flutterwave through the African payments company's Series E funding round, valuing Flutterwave at $3.2 billion. The deal carries a product commitment: Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin RLUSD and the XRP Ledger — the b
Bitcoin ($BTC) held above $66,000 following an Iran truce, while the HYPE token reached a fresh all-time high above $76. Despite those headline gains, trading firm Wintermute and exchange Bitfinex bot
Strategy, the business intelligence company associated with Michael Saylor, purchased 1,587 Bitcoin ($BTC) for $100 million last week, lifting its total holdings to 846,842 BTC. The company
Ledn, a crypto lending firm, says it originated $1.4 billion in bitcoin-backed loans in 2025 and estimates it holds roughly a 30% share of the global consumer market for that product. The company is now projecting that the broader bitcoin-b
Japan has pushed its benchmark interest rates to their highest level since 1995, and the reverberations are reaching cryptocurrency markets — traders are now pricing in $BTC price declines of 26% to 38%, with a renewed slide toward $60,000
BlackRock has introduced a new fund — ticker BITA — that holds both bitcoin and shares of the firm's existing bitcoin ETF, IBIT, then sells call options against a portion of those holdings to generate income for investors. The covered call
Forward Industries' effort to consolidate Solana ($SOL) treasury companies ran into a wall: two firms rejected its acquisition proposals outright, and a third offer expired without any response. The sweep of refusals leaves Forward Industri
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan reframed the bitcoin ($BTC) bottom debate this week, arguing that fixating on a price floor is the wrong question entirely. Three institutional research firms — Galax
Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, argues that $BTC does not need staking or inflation to generate returns, rejecting the $ETH-style yield model in favor of a framework he calls the "Di
Capital B, a French bitcoin treasury company, is developing a digital credit instrument modeled on structures already launched by U.S. firms [Strategy and Strive](/news/strategy-ceo-phong-l
Bitcoin miner IREN is entering the European market through the acquisition of Nostrum, a deal that adds approximately 490 megawatts of secured electricity capacity in Spain. The move marks an accelerating strategic shift away from [pure $BT
Bitcoin's near-term recovery is being held hostage by geopolitics, not just market mechanics. Nick Ruck, director of research at LVRG Research, warns that $BTC could face a "volatile path"
Bitcoin's near-term recovery looks uncertain, with $BTC's trajectory now closely tied to the durability of a recently agreed peace deal between the United States and Iran. Nick Ruck, research director at LVRG Research, warns that if that [d
Nvidia is planning a bond sale worth $20 billion — a capital raise that signals the AI infrastructure buildout is far from slowing. For $BTC miners already weighing a pivot toward artificial intelligence data centers, that signal carries re
BitMine has continued accumulating Ether through the current bear market, pushing its holdings close to $10 billion and capturing nearly 5% of $ETH's circulating supply. The company is also collecting staking yield on that position, generat
Three technical signals — a double-bottom chart pattern, a weekly RSI divergence, and whale-wallet flows — have traders watching $BTC closely as the asset tests what analysts describe as a key breakout zone. The
Bitcoin pushed higher as the United States trading session got underway, picking up what traders call "upside liquidity" — the cluster of buy orders and stop-losses sitting above recent price levels tha
Strategy, the company led by Michael Saylor, added 1,587 Bitcoin ($BTC) to its corporate treasury
A prospective US-Iran peace deal, expected to be signed within days, has pushed Bitcoin's short-term price targets to $69,000, with a simultaneous plunge in oil prices adding weight to the bullish case. The combination of easing geopolitica
Bitcoin's mining difficulty dropped 10% in its latest scheduled recalibration, placing it among the 11 largest downward adjustments in the network's history. The move also stands as the second-largest downward shift of the year, behind only
The absence of a single capability in Bitcoin Script — the programming language that governs how $BTC is spent — has produced twelve competing proposals, each vying to introduce a mechanism called covenants to the network. Cointelegraph Res
Bitcoin's mining difficulty — the network's self-regulating measure of how hard it is to earn the right to add a new block — fell 10% in its latest scheduled recalibration, the second-largest downward adjustment of 2026. The drop is a signa
Standard Chartered's crypto research head Geoff Kendrick told clients the bear phase may be finished, writing that "winter is over" and that $BTC prices have likely marked the low point for the current market cycle. The call came ahead of a
Standard Chartered analyst Geoff Kendrick has told clients that "winter is over" for crypto markets, arguing that Bitcoin prices have most likely already passed their cycle low. The call comes ahead of an expected [
A developer leading Ethereum's Kohaku initiative says the network can protect user accounts against quantum computing attacks for roughly 7 cents each, citing a proposal built around a signature scheme called SPHINCS-. The claim frames quan
Bitmine has expanded its Ethereum ($ETH) holdings by 76,881 tokens, pushing its total stake to 5.62 million ETH — equal to 4.66% of the cryptocurrency's entire circulating supply. The move drew attention alongside remarks from prominent inv
A proposal called SPHINCS- could let Ethereum users protect their accounts against quantum-computing attacks for as little as 7 cents per transaction, according to the lead developer behind Ethereum's Kohaku project. The plan is positioned
Bitcoin held near local highs on Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a peace agreement with Iran, pledging that the Strait of Hormuz would "open to all." The geopolitical development lifted sentiment around $BTC, with analyst
Coinbase has published a quantum computing threat assessment that names exchange cold wallets — offline storage used by trading platforms — among the millions of bitcoin ($BTC) exposed by address reuse. The report matters because it implica
Spot bitcoin $BTC ETFs recorded $85.8 million in net inflows on Friday, snapping a five-day outflow streak that had kept the fund category on the sell side of the market. BlackRock's IBIT led the reversal at $57.7 m
Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury company led by Michael Saylor, recently sold a portion of its $BTC holdings — a move that appeared to contradict Saylor's signature "never sell" position. Say
Ether's futures market is sending a bearish signal, with demand for borrowed-money exposure to $ETH staying muted — a sign that traders are not willing to bet big on near-term upside. Yet two st
Galaxy Research says on-chain data points to what it calls a "calm top" for Bitcoin — a market peak notable for its relative lack of speculative excess — and argues that pattern may prevent $BTC from falling as far as it did in previous bea
Bitcoin's recovery is gaining structural support, with analysts pointing to positive bid-ask readings and a bullish RSI divergence as re
Bitcoin touched $64,000 as two macro headlines converged: SpaceX's record-breaking initial public offering and reports of progress toward a [US-Iran peace deal](/news/bitcoin-moves-on-u-s-ir
Bybit, Binance, and Bitget have each canceled tokenized allocations tied to the anticipated SpaceX IPO, telling affected users the underlying shares simply were not available. All three exch
Exodus, a self-custody cryptocurrency wallet, and Ondo, a real-world asset tokenization firm, have partnered to launch trading of more than 200 stocks and exchange-traded funds directly on [the Solana blockchain ($SOL)](/news/hayes-maps-100
Ethena Labs has agreed to allocate $250 million to STAC, a tokenized fund from Securitize that holds AAA-rated collateralized loan obligations, while simultaneously deploying its protocol on the [Solana ($SOL) blockchain](/news/hayes-maps-1
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds are approaching a $2 trillion cumulative trading volume milestone, a marker of how deeply these products have embedded themselves in mainstream trading — even as the same funds are currently experiencin
A tokenized campaign tied to SpaceX pulled in $557 million on Binance ahead of the rocket company's June 12 market debut, underscoring how crypto exchanges are carving out a role in pre-IPO
A closely watched metric tied to Bitcoin mining profitability has dipped to levels that market observers are calling "capitulation," with profit margins holding below 5%. Despite the distress signal from miners, at least one trader argues t
Ben Werkman, the chief investment officer at Strive, has warned that a prolonged stretch of weakness in bitcoin ($BTC) prices could heap pressure on corporate treasury companies that rely heavily on [convertible debt financing](/news/strive
Hermann Vivier, founder of Bitcoin Ekasi — a project building a bitcoin circular economy — argues that a "fundamental clash" exists between $BTC's growing institutionalization and the currency's foundational design. At the center of his arg
A Bitwise analyst, Dragosch, is flagging up to 20% additional downside for bitcoin ($BTC), with $48,000 identified as the worst-case scenario — a level tied to where long-term holders would find themselves sitting exactly at break-even on t
Metaplanet, the Tokyo-listed company that has made $BTC accumulation its central corporate strategy, has agreed to acquire Siiibo Securities for $13 million. CEO Simon Gerovich said the deal is expected to c
Julian Liniger, chief executive of bitcoin company Relai, says the current $BTC bear market is partly a side effect of the global artificial intelligence infrastructure boom — and argues that if
BlackRock has submitted an 8-A registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission for a yield-bearing bitcoin exchange-traded fund, a procedural filing that typically precedes a security going live on an exchange. Bloomberg ET
Avalanche Treasury made a turbulent entry to public markets, with shares sliding 38% on their Nasdaq debut following a $675 million merger. The company is positioning itself as a publicly traded vehicle for accumulating $AVAX, the native to
LG, the electronics giant, is building a blockchain network in partnership with Arbitrum — the Ethereum scaling protocol whose native token trades as $ARB — aimed at the global advertising
Avalanche Treasury Co. dropped 16% on its first day of trading on Nasdaq, a difficult debut that tracks directly to the state of its core asset: $AVAX, the native token of the Avalanche blockchain, which is currently trading at a five-year
Jos Lazet, chief executive of Blockrise, argued at BTC Prague that bitcoin-native financial institutions are on course to become genuine alternatives to conventional banks — a shift he framed with the phrase
Spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen $1.9 billion in outflows as a simultaneous sell-off in Big Tech stocks and volatility in oil markets strips $BTC of the "safe-haven" narrative it has carried int
A man known for spending 1,500 $BTC on a graphics card has channeled that history into a new venture: Bitsurance, a company that insures bitcoin holders against physical threats including fire, water, robbery, and what the industry calls th
Ether ($ETH) futures traders built up long positions while the token's price hovered near its lowest levels of 2026, around the $1,600 range. The positioning shift drew attention to whether Ether could stage [a rebound that outpaces Bitcoin
LG Electronics is developing a new blockchain built on the Arbitrum network, designed to serve as a platform for placing, buying, selling, and managing digital advertisements. News of the project sent Arbitrum's native token, $ARB, up 5%.
Chart technicians are flagging a pair of bearish formations on $XRP's shorter-timeframe price chart, both of which point toward a potential drop below the $1 level in the coming days. The convergence of a head-and-shoulders setup and a bear
JPMorgan analysts say the retreat from the so-called debasement trade has continued for gold and accelerated for bitcoin in recent weeks. The assessment puts Wall Street's largest bank on record questioning one of $BTC's most frequently cit
Strike CEO Jack Mallers says $BTC's price of $63,000 reflects a world starved of liquidity, not a verdict on Bitcoin's fundamentals. Mallers summarized the dynamic with a single phrase: "[you sell what you can, not what you want](/news/bitc