Curve founder Michael Egorov has proposed a market-based fix for about $700,000 of bad debt tied to LlamaLend, Curve’s lending platform. “I propose a free-market based method of recovery with option-like payoff, working as an investment for everyone who wants to participate in the effort,” Egorov wrote in the governance post, adding that Curve DAO…
Las Vegas — MARA Holdings (MARA) CEO Fred Thiel announced the launch of the MARA Foundation at the Bitcoin Conference Monday, outlining a broad effort to support the long-term resilience of the bitcoin network beyond the firm’s bitcoin and AI mining operations. “Bitcoin is the most important decentralized system ever created, but its future is…
The bitcoin BTC$76,846.06 rally toward $80,000 didn’t last long on Monday, with prices slipping back to $76,600 during the U.S. session as geopolitical tensions crept back into focus. After trading near $80,000 overnight, its highest level since early February, the largest cryptocurrency reversed course and was down about 1.5% over the past 24 hours. Major…
International stablecoin payments among businesses will total $5 trillion by 2035, fintech analysts Juniper Research said in a new report. That figure would be 373 times greater than the estimated total value of $13.4 this year. “Stablecoins are increasingly embedded in cross-border business-to-business (B2B) transactions, treasury operations, and supply chain settlements, where their programmability and…
Bitcoin BTC$77,767.46 has rallied roughly 14% this month, its best monthly performance in a year, and the consensus is that the price could soon push past $80,000, a level not seen since January. Yet the perpetual futures market, which is typically in sync with spot price action, is behaving as if the opposite is true….
Michael Saylor, the executive chairman of Strategy (MSTR), the largest publicly traded corporate holder of bitcoin, announced Monday on X the purchase of 3,273 bitcoin for roughly $255 million. The purchase at an average price of $77,906 per bitcoin puts Strategy’s bitcoin treasury at 818.334, said Saylor. “As of 4/26/2026, we ‘hodl’ 818,334 $BTC acquired…
Pudgy Penguins’ recent rally may be a breakout driven by ecosystem momentum. This move appears to have benefited long-term holders in unexpected ways, according to on-chain data. According to DNTV Research founder Bradley Park, the surge may have provided liquidity, that is, enough buyers in the market, for large holders to sell following a mid-April…
Bitcoin BTC$77,820.77 is doing that familiar dance just below a big round number, $80,000, stalled by sellers even as fresh stablecoin liquidity, ETF demand and a risk-on equity market suggest the breakout may be delayed rather than denied. The leading cryptocurrency briefly climbed above $79,000 during Asian trading hours before slipping back to trade below…
Bitcoin BTC$77,825.31 tagged a 12-week high of $79,399 overnight before sellers stepped in during Asian morning hours on Monday, dousing a rally that setup the asset for a run to $80,000 for the first time since January. Bitcoin traded at $77,705 on Monday morning, down 0.4% over 24 hours after climbing to $79,399 around 09:00…
Markets are leaving April with a plethora of macro events to watch. Four major central banks, the Bank of Japan, U.S. Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and Bank of England, all set interest-rate policy this week. Layered on top is a slate of U.S. data including first-quarter GDP and March PCE inflation alongside earnings from…
