Arthur Hayes outlined a path to $1 million Bitcoin price built around AI absorbing liquidity, the buildout collapsing under debt, authorities printing, and capital rotating into crypto. Hayes made the argument on Bankless, saying that AI became the dominant capital sink, and his Substack essay noted that roughly $1.5 trillion in AI-related debt was issued […]
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DeFi TVL fell 39% in 2026 as a broader market downturn and fallout from major exploits, including the Kelp DAO hack, weighed on the sector.
GIP-87 shows how tokenized lending can shift from yield growth to borrower workouts, legal administration, and governance-funded cleanup.
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Bitcoin price faces back-to-back tests this week, with May PCE coming out on Thursday at 8:30 a.m. EDT and more than $10 billion in Bitcoin options settling on Deribit at 08:00 UTC Friday in the quarterly expiry that closes the second quarter. Bitcoin is trading near $62,500 after a rough June that briefly pushed it […]
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Bitcoin is trading near $64,000, roughly mid-channel in the $57,000-$77,000 range that has defined the market since the Strait of Hormuz shock. Can-Luca Köymen, investment strategist at Sygnum, called the current setup a catalyst-light regime in a note: “Absent a decisive catalyst the path of least resistance is range-trading driven by positioning and flows rather […]
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South Korea’s benchmark KOSPI stock index plunged nearly 10% today, triggering a market-wide trading halt one day after the country’s top financial regulator acknowledged that authorities had rushed the approval of leveraged funds tied to its two largest chipmakers. According to reports, the KOSPI closed down 9.99% at 8,203.84, its steepest decline since March 4. […]
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Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) raised $335.5 million by selling common stock last week, then placed almost 90% of the proceeds into cash rather than Bitcoin as the company moved to shore up the preferred securities financing its cryptocurrency purchases. The company sold about 2.71 million MSTR shares between June 15 and June 21 and added $300 […]
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DXY near 101 and the 10-year yield near 4.5% keep the reclaim in test mode.
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Euro-denominated trading accounts for around 1% of Binance's spot volume, according to CryptoQuant data, as the exchange faces uncertainty ahead of MiCA's July 1 deadline.
An XRP death cross and liquidation signals align for a possible 25% relief rally in the short term, while one analyst eyes a longer-term rebound toward $8.
WSJ says Schwab is working with Cboe on S&P 500 prediction-style products, while Cboe's Mini-SPX materials show how Wall Street can package yes-or-no trades inside listed options.
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The Parrot rollout puts model-based crypto exposure inside a retail investing app with more than $200 million on platform.
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Shareholders are being asked to back more Bitcoin exposure while weighing dilution, credit capacity, and preference-share claims.
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Africa has never been friendly to crypto. Despite incredible adoption numbers on the continent, African governments have met almost every crypto discussion with bans or warnings. However, some of its largest economies have abandoned that approach and are working to introduce licensing regimes, stablecoin oversight, and compliance rules designed to integrate digital assets into the […]
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Bitcoin dropped below $60,000 by mid-June after a punishing start to the month, but the figure drawing the most attention across trading desks is the June 26 Bitcoin options expiry, with over $10 billion of contracts set to expire and roughly 80% currently sitting out of the money. In equity markets, zero-days-to-expiry options now make […]
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Three federal agencies have proposed rules that would make stablecoin issuers operate like banks. The Treasury wants them to run anti-money-laundering and sanctions programs. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) wants a weekly confidential report and a quarterly financial report from each one, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) wants Bank […]
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Zodia Markets, the crypto subsidiary majority-owned by Standard Chartered, processed $3.4 billion in transactions involving Turkish lira stablecoins in 2025, enough to make the lira its second-most-used stablecoin currency behind the dollar, ahead of the euro and every other G10 currency. Dollar-pegged tokens, led by Tether and Circle's USDC, still dwarfed everything at $110.5 billion, but euro-pegged stablecoins […]
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The miner's AI cloud growth may reduce sell pressure, but May data shows Bitcoin retention still lagging.
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BTC's crypto market dominance is holding above a key support, signaling Bitcoin may keep absorbing capital from altcoins and delay a broader altseason.
Good news for the American worker came at the worst possible moment for Bitcoin. Initial jobless claims fell by 4,000 to 226,000 for the week ending June 13. Layoffs are in the historically low range they've held for most of the post-pandemic era, and the unemployment rate has remained at 4.3% for a third straight […]
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The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate to 1% on June 16, the highest level the country has seen since September 1995 and the furthest point yet in a normalization campaign that has slowly dismantled three decades of near-free money. Going into the decision, the track record pointed one way: every one of […]
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Texas spent years courting AI companies, cloud providers, and Bitcoin miners with cheap electricity, abundant land, and a sales tax exemption that's grown into one of the state's costliest incentive programs. But now, Governor Greg Abbott has told state regulators to flip the arrangement, directing them to require data centers to fund the grid they […]
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Artificial intelligence is commoditizing news and routine research across the industry, and it's pushing crypto media companies to rebuild themselves as data platforms, analytics providers, and institutional infrastructure. The firms racing to assemble AI-ready databases are positioning to become the industry's reference layer, the source that investors, regulators, and algorithms rely on to understand digital […]
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Bitcoin’s emerging digital-credit trade broke below its promise of calm this week. This week, Strategy’s STRC preferred shares fell as low as $82.50 before rebounding, while Strive’s SATA slid from around par into the low $90s and also recovered. Both products had been sold into the market as income instruments built around Bitcoin treasury companies, […]
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Bitcoin traded at $63,030 on June 18, down about 2% on the day, after whipsawing from an intraday high of $64,731 to a low of $62,263 while oil was falling and ships were moving through the Strait of Hormuz for the first time in weeks. Today, June 19, it then continued to experience weak price […]
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Farside data shows $82.2 million leaving the category, but FBTC and MSBT still drew inflows after the Fed reset.
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Options traders are building bearish positions around Strategy's (formerly MicroStrategy) flagship preferred STRC stock after the security fell to a record low, adding a new layer of pressure to one of Michael Saylor’s main funding tools for buying Bitcoin. Strategy’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock, known by the ticker STRC, closed Wednesday […]
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The Fed left interest rates unchanged on June 17, and Bitcoin still felt the policy outlook tighten beneath it. The FOMC voted to hold its target range at 3.50% to 3.75%, but 9 of the 18 submitted dot-plot projections now point to at least one rate hike before year-end, against 8 holding at the current […]
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Fairshake, the crypto industry's flagship super PAC, put more than $12 million behind Barry Moore's run for an open Alabama Senate seat, the largest single-candidate spend of its 2026 campaign, and on Tuesday, Moore won the Republican runoff with about 56% of the vote. In a state this deeply red, where no Democrat has won […]
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Elon Musk’s personal fortune has surpassed the market value of Bitcoin, a milestone that shows how quickly SpaceX’s public-market debut has reshaped both wealth rankings and the broader conversation around speculative risk. According to Bloomberg's Billionaire Index, Musk’s net worth rose to about $1.32 trillion as SpaceX shares traded above $200, extending a rally that […]
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