Bitcoin BTC$68,432.69 bulls should be on their toes: A key momentum indicator that has been disturbingly accurate at flagging selloffs since the largest cryptocurrency hit a record high in October has just triggered. The indicator is the moving average convergence divergence histogram, better known as the MACD. It’s just crossed below zero for the third…
As the war with Iran enters its fourth week, crypto markets will be dominated by macro events. Off the global stage, however, traders will be navigating a number of supply events while Aave prepares for the deployment of its v4 platform and hard forks loom for both the Akash and Casper networks. A number of…
Leveraged traders on decentralized exchange Hyperliquid are favoring traditional commodities like oil and silver, trading them more aggressively than crypto tokens such as XRP (XRP) and solana (SOL). Perpetual futures contracts tied to crude oil benchmarks WTI and Brent have recorded a combined trading volume of over $500 million in the past 24 hours. The…
A stablecoin is supposed to be worth a dollar. Resolv’s USR is worth 27 cents and the math to fix it doesn’t work. An attacker exploited a flaw in Resolv’s USR stablecoin minting contract around 2:21 a.m. UTC on Sunday, creating approximately 80 million unbacked tokens across two transactions and extracting roughly $25 million, according…
Bitcoin BTC$68,605.68 began the year on a painful note, even as equity markets remained buoyant. But stock traders’ luck is now running out, as rising bond yields pressure valuations. Prices for bitcoin plunged to nearly $60,000 from around $90,000 in the first five weeks of the year, according to CoinDesk data. The decline marked a…
Strategy executive chair Michael Saylor has hinted that his company bought more Bitcoin despite a market tumble over the weekend that has now pushed his company’s Bitcoin bet into a 10% loss. “The Orange March Continues,” Saylor posted to X on Sunday, alongside a chart showing Strategy’s roughly $52 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) purchases…
Bitcoin (BTC) traded below $69,000 on Sunday as the market faced a critical weekly candle close. Key points: Bitcoin approaches its 200-week trend line after sinking throughout the weekend. BTC price action leaves traders firmly bearish on the immediate and long-term outlook. A golden cross on the daily chart may provide some relief, analysis says….
Two New York Stock Exchange-affiliated exchanges have removed the 25,000 contract position limit on options tied to 11 crypto exchange-traded funds. NYSE Arca and NYSE American each filed three rule changes in the Federal Register on March 10 to remove contract position limits and price discovery restrictions for options linked to Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether…
Banks are exploring tokenized deposits as they test ways to move commercial bank money onto blockchain-based payment and settlement infrastructure, according to a new report from real-world asset data platform RWA.io The report, which was authored by RWA.io with contributions from industry participants including UK Finance, Citi, BNY, JPMorgan’s Kinexys, Standard Chartered, ABN Amro and…
The current Bitcoin (BTC) bear market can be explained by the four-year cycle and long-term BTC holders selling at the $100,000 psychological level, according to Anthony Scaramucci, managing partner of the SkyBridge investment firm. Bitcoin’s four-year market cycle has been “muted” by institutional investors and inflows from BTC exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that have cushioned volatility,…
