The banking lobby is wrong about stablecoins and community banks
Congress is debating whether stablecoins will hollow out community banking. The banking lobby says yes. The data says otherwise.
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Gold, silver and bitcoin tumble as debasement trade unwinds
Gold and silver have both retreated sharply from their January 2025 highs, falling below key psychological milestones. Gold is down roughly 28% from its January peak of $5,600 and now trading below $4,000 per ounce, whi…
Bitcoin could fall to $55,000 before finding a bottom, 10x Research says
Thielen's call centers on the recent strength of the U.S. dollar, which historically acts as a headwind for bitcoin. The outlook has been reinforced by the Federal Reserve's hawkish turn under new Chair Kevin Warsh. Mar…
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Bitcoin clings to $62,500 as bears tighten grip on crypto market
Derivatives positioning is broadly bearish: Even though SOL futures open interest hit a lifetime high, funding rates and CVD are both negative and ETH open interest rose as prices fell.
YZi Labs ends proxy war with BNB treasury company CEA Industries
BNB treasury company CEA Industries (BNC) is undergoing a boardroom shakeup following a cooperation agreement with Binance-linked backer YZi Labs.
Cboe revives S&P 500 binary options, chasing a market popularized by Polymarket, Kalshi
Cboe, one of the largest U.S. derivatives exchanges, said it is entering the prediction-market arena and is reviving binary options on the S&P 500 index after abandoning them more than a decade ago, a move that brings i…
The Runes revival: Bitcoin traffic hits a two-year high as transactions blast past 820,000
Bitcoin's onchain activity is surging despite the asset remaining deep in a bear market.
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CryptoQuant says Michael Saylor's Strategy should halt its bitcoin buying
The strain showing up in the company's STRC preferred stock is a sign the firm has overextended itself, it added. STRC, Strategy's flagship preferred stock, fell to about $82.50 last week, a record 17.5% below the $100 …
Trump lands in Senate's crosshairs over $500 million UAE investment in his crypto venture
Senate Democrats called for immediate hearings into UAE officials' huge investments in President Donald Trump's family crypto venture, World Liberty Financial, and subsequent decisions by the Trump administration that s…
Bitcoin’s ‘OG’ investors have slowed selling in a bullish sign for the market
These "OGs", the legendary investors who have held their coins for at least five years, have hit a significant lull in their selling activity. The 90-day moving average of coins spent by these long-term holders has drop…
Live markets: Bitcoin could drop to $59,000 in the short-term as liquidity dries up
Bitcoin's (BTC) price chart is flashing a bearish signal amid risk-off cues from currency markets.
Bitcoin drops toward $62,000 as the chip selloff deepens for a second day
Bitcoin fell toward $62,000 on Wednesday as a second day of heavy selling in technology stocks kept pressure on risk assets worldwide.
Crypto PAC's $5.5 million Congress pick gets Maryland win, more crypto allies advance
The leading crypto political action committee, Fairshake, often backs its favored hopefuls for the U.S. House of Representatives with ad campaigns in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but it devoted Senate-level mon…
AI chipmaker Cerebras down 11% after first public earnings report
In its first earnings report since its May IPO, Cerebras Systems (CBRS) is lower by 11% in after-hours trading after guiding to lower profit margins next quarter.
Crypto critic Roubini joins tokenization boom with onchain 'Technodollar'
Nouriel Roubini, the economist known as "Dr. Doom" for predicting the 2008 financial crisis and who later became one of crypto's most vocal critics, is making his first move into blockchain-based finance.
Meta is developing a prediction market app called ‘Arena’ as sector booms: NYT
Meta (META), the parent company of Facebook, is developing a new app called “Arena” that mirrors a prediction market platform, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke with the New York Times.
BNY sees 'FOMO' driving asset managers into tokenized funds
As tokenization moves from industry experiment to commercial product, asset managers are rushing to establish a foothold in the market.
Chainlink teams up with 47 South Korean, European banks to speed up international money transfers
Blockchain infrastructure company Chainlink said it is joining a group of banks that collectively represent over $10 trillion in assets under management to unlock real-time, stablecoin-based cross-border payments for fo…
Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum Foundation will cut budget 40% in major reset
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) will slash its budget by roughly 40% this year as part of a shift toward a leaner, endowment-style operating model, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said in a blog post published Tuesday.
Bitcoin's recent drop below $60,000 signals Fed, ETF and AI pressures: Deutsche Bank
The investment bank said bitcoin's renewed sell-off was driven by a hawkish shift in Federal Reserve expectations, sustained outflows from U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), a confidence shock following Str…
Ethereum Foundation cuts 20% of staff amid leadership exodus
The Ethereum Foundation is cutting roughly 20% of its workforce, eliminating 54 positions as part of a broad restructuring that comes amid sustained senior leadership turnover and growing fragmentation across the wider …
Bitcoin may need to plunge 15% or more to mark bottom, according to this long-time indicator
As bitcoin trades near its 200-week moving average, a long-term support indicator currently sitting around $62,400, investors are closely watching whether the level can hold. If the 200WMA breaks, attention is likely to…
Former Robinhood Crypto COO Tanya Denisova joins stablecoin issuer Agora as head of operations
Tanya Denisova, the former chief operating officer of Robinhood Crypto, has joined stablecoin issuer Agora as head of operations, according to a Tuesday blog post by Agora's CEO and co-founder Nick van Eck.