The war just got bigger. Bitcoin briefly got smaller. Bitcoin dipped to $65,112 early Monday morning, according to CoinDesk data, its lowest level since the February crash, before recovering to $67,402 as Asian markets opened. The 24-hour range of $65,112 to $67,389 reflects a market that sold hard on overnight escalation headlines and found buyers…
The bitcoin BTC$67,284.69 market has been stuck in a rut for over a month, and investors chasing yields may be partly to blame. Since mid-February, BTC has traded in a range centred on $70,000. Some observers say counteracting forces have been at play. The Iran war-led haven demand has been supporting BTC around $65,000, while…
Hyperliquid is decentralized, but geography still matters, as new research by Glassnode shows traders closer to its infrastructure have a clear speed advantage. Trades from Tokyo-based users can reach the protocol’s validators in as little as 2 to 3 milliseconds. That’s far better latency than European users, who face delays exceeding 200 milliseconds. That’s because…
OnePay, which is majority-owned by Walmart, has added more than a dozen crypto tokens to its offerings that the executive responsible for digital assets said “meet a high bar” that’s been set by the banking app’s customers. Since launching in January, offering Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) on its its nascent crypto platform, OnePay on…
Lido’s decentralized autonomous organization is considering a one-off $20 million buyback of its governance token to address so-called price dislocation, which is at “historically depressed levels” relative to Ether, according to the DAO. The proposal, submitted Friday, seeks permission to swap 10,000 Lido Staked Ether (stETH) tokens, currently worth $20 million from the DAO’s treasury…
For months, Aave, one of decentralized finance’s (DeFi) largest lending protocols, has been at the center of a very public debate about what it is supposed to be. At the core, much of the community wants the network to be a decentralized financial layer governed by token holders, while a fraction of it warns that…
Bittensor’s TAO has rallied 90% so far this month, and the tokens in its ecosystem are running up even harder. The network’s subnet token category reached a combined market cap of $1.47 billion on Monday, with $118 million in 24-hour trading volume, according to CoinGecko data. The surge follows TAO’s own run from $180 to…
A “180” hardly does justice to the recent shift in market expectations regarding central bank monetary policy. Expecting multiple Federal Reserve rate cuts in 2026 just weeks ago, markets have seriously begun to price in rate hikes this year. Current pricing on CME FedWatch Tool shows nearly a 30% chance that the fed funds rate…
Yes, you read the title right. The number of bullish bitcoin BTC$66,645.62 wagers, the so-called BTC/USD long positions, on the OG exchange Bitfinex has hit multi-month highs. But, bulls, hold your cheers, as this metric has become a textbook “contrary indicator” over the years, with upswings characterizing bitcoin’s price downtrends. Highest since 2023 The number…
Strategy (MSTR), the largest publicly traded holder of bitcoin, did not seem to have increased its BTC position last week. Executive Chairman Michael Saylor usually signals upcoming purchases on X each Sunday, followed by a detailed update around 8 a.m. ET on Monday. There was no customary Sunday “Orange Dot” post to signal a purchase….
