Crypto trading has cooled in early 2026, and Wall Street analysts are racing to adjust their forecasts before companies report first-quarter earnings. New research from Barclays and Oppenheimer shows multiple analysts are reaching similar conclusions, a few weeks into the second quarter. Expectations are coming down across the sector as trading volumes weaken and earlier…
As the war with Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz send oil prices higher, inflation is once again at the forefront of investors’ minds. In the U.S., inflation accelerated last month to 0.9%, driven mostly by energy costs linked to the Middle East conflict; core inflation, which excludes energy and food costs,…
Crypto exchanges are starting to take on a new role: pricing traditional assets while Wall Street is closed. The growing market for perpetual futures contracts tied to traditional financial instruments including commodities like gold and oil that runs around the clock on cryptocurrency exchanges is responsible. Data from Binance Research suggests these markets, which hit…
In March, the US jobs market recorded 178,000 new jobs, marking little change from the month before, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The anemic growth in job listings comes amid volatile policy swings from the White House, increased energy prices due to the US and Israel’s war with Iran and, according to recent…
Six weeks of war have split the bitcoin BTC$72,749.83 market into two camps. The institutional buyers who keep accumulating regardless of conditions, and everyone else, who is leaving. The result is a market that looks stable on the surface, with bitcoin holding a $65,000 to $73,000 range through five weeks of conflict headlines, $600 million…
CoreWeave, a publicly traded AI cloud infrastructure company, announced on Friday a “multi-year” agreement with AI developer Anthropic, which will use CoreWeave’s cloud computing data centers for its Claude AI model workloads. The agreement will be rolled out in phases, with the “potential to expand over time,” according to CoreWeave’s announcement. Shares of CoreWeave surged…
WLFI, the native token of the Donald Trump–backed World Liberty Financial platform, sank to an all-time low on Saturday as crypto users expressed concerns after revelations that the project used a large amount of its own tokens to take out loans. The token hit a new low of around $0.07714 on Saturday, down 83% from…
XRP (XRP) has been in an eight-month downtrend, with momentum and onchain indicators at levels that previously coincided with macro bottoms. Data from TradingView reveals that the relative strength index (RSI) of the XRP/BTC ratio is at 24, the most oversold level since October 2025. Such low levels in the daily RSI have marked market…
A federal judge in Arizona has temporarily barred state officials from enforcing gambling laws against Kalshi, siding with the CFTC. A federal judge in Arizona has temporarily barred state officials from enforcing gambling laws against Kalshi, siding with US regulators in a growing dispute over how event-based trading products should be classified. In an order…
Bitwise Asset Management has reportedly taken a key step toward launching its proposed spot Hyperliquid exchange-traded fund, filing a second amendment with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. In an X post on Friday, Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas highlighted that Bitwise had updated its Hyperliquid ETF to include the ticker $BHYP and had…
