Brent below $80 removed one pressure point, but BTC still needs rates, ETF flows, and risk appetite to turn.
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Bitcoin’s $6000–$70,000 cost-basis cluster hints at a bottom, but a bearish daily flag keeps BTC exposed to a deeper selloff toward $50,000.
The Nasdaq-listed ETF offers monthly income potential through covered calls while capping part of the rally trade.
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Bitcoin's current relief rally is built on the back of the framework agreement between the US and Iran to halt their conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which sent Brent crude down roughly 5% to $82.95 and rippled through every asset that trades on inflation expectations. Bitcoin registered an intraday high of nearly $67,300 […]
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Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) added another $100 million of Bitcoin to its balance sheet last week, extending a buying campaign that has made the company the world’s largest corporate holder of the digital asset while sharpening a debate over what its common shareholders actually own. On June 15, Michael Saylor, the company's chairman, said Strategy bought […]
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The Siiibo deal gives its BTC treasury regulated rails, but the product terms will decide whether investors get access or complexity.
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Bitcoin climbed back above $65,000 earlier today, reversing weeks of intense selling pressure after a sudden diplomatic breakthrough between the United States and Iran lifted a major geopolitical cloud over global financial markets. Data from CryptoSlate shows that the flagship digital asset rose more than 3% to reach as high as $65,940, but has since […]
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The agency that spent the better part of a decade defining crypto policy through enforcement has published a five-year plan describing blockchain as a technology with “the potential to revolutionize America's financial infrastructure.” The SEC's draft Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 dedicates a standalone objective to digital assets and blockchain technology, placing […]
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Everyone knows about the ETFs, but almost nobody knows about the dozens of obscure institutional products being built around Bitcoin while the funds soak up all the attention, from a $40 million insurance reserve in Barbados to an S&P-rated bond deal sold to Wall Street investors by Jefferies. The ETFs answered only one question, which […]
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On July 1, 2026, the temporary permission that lets crypto companies keep operating in Europe while they wait for a proper MiCA license runs out, and it creates a huge problem that lands straight on ordinary users. Europe's crypto law, known as MiCA, requires any exchange, broker, or wallet service that wants EU customers to […]
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The banks are finally buying the vaults. In May, BNY, the world's largest custodian with $59.4 trillion in assets under custody and administration, announced it would offer Bitcoin and Ethereum custody in Abu Dhabi. Weeks later, Standard Chartered confirmed it will fully acquire Zodia Custody, the digital asset custodian it incubated in 2020, with the […]
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Bitcoin was designed as a hedge against inflation, but every hot inflation report in the past year has knocked its price lower, and Thursday's data was no different. The Producer Price Index rose 1.1% in May, lifting the annual increase to 6.5%, the fastest pace since November 2022 and well above the 0.7% monthly gain […]
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The Bitcoin network is poised to execute one of the largest downward adjustments to its mining difficulty in its 17-year history this weekend, a stark reflection of the severe margin compression forcing operators to take hardware offline. The automated recalibration, scheduled to occur on June 13 at block height 953,568, is projected to slash the […]
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DraftKings told investors on June 9 that its prediction markets business is scaling fast, and the market liked what it saw. The company's Form 8-K reported that May 2026 annualized consumer volume in its Predictions offering rose 24% month over month to $1.3 billion, while annualized total volume traded climbed 34% to $3.1 billion. Shares […]
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Wall Street got to trade Bitcoin around the clock just in time to watch the market fall apart. CME Group launched 24/7 trading for its crypto futures and options on May 29, and over the first weekend, more than 7,200 contracts changed hands, worth roughly $50 million in notional value. Within days, Bitcoin had slid […]
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Bitcoin’s largest buyers are no longer behaving like a reliable backstop for the largest cryptocurrency. The exchange-traded funds, public-company treasuries, and Bitcoin-linked equities that helped define the market’s institutional era are showing signs of strain, just as the world’s largest digital asset struggles to hold above $60,000, one of its most closely watched price levels. […]
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XRP is trading at $1.11, down roughly 17% from its June opening, having set a new 2026 low on June 5 and shed $8 billion in market cap over three sessions. The correction happens as the asset posted its strongest ETF inflow month of the year, with $131.94 million captured in May, ahead of both […]
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Glassnode's latest Week On-chain report says Bitcoin has entered a deep discount phase, with over 95% of short-term holders underwater and realized losses approaching levels associated with severe capitulation. The report also notes that a durable Bitcoin recovery is likely to require either the dollar index breaking below 99 or the 10-year Treasury yield compressing […]
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Bitcoin rose above $62,000 after the latest US inflation report gave traders enough relief to step back from a deeper test of the $60,000 level. The move followed several days of pressure across crypto markets, where investors had been preparing for the possibility that a hotter inflation print would revive rate-hike concerns and push risk […]
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After becoming 2026's best-performing major stock market on the back of an AI chip boom, South Korea's KOSPI suffered one of its sharpest drops on record and then rebounded almost as fast. The 48-hour swing shows how concentrated the global AI trade has become, and why investors in everything from chip stocks to Bitcoin are […]
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Bitcoin’s drop toward $60,000 last week exposed how quickly a shift in investor appetite can turn into forced selling when leverage has been rebuilt beneath the surface of the crypto market. The largest cryptocurrency by market value fell nearly 14% last week, triggering almost $10 billion in liquidations of long futures as traders who had […]
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OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC, targeting a public debut as early as September at a valuation between $852 billion and $1 trillion. The filing arrived inside a broader wave that Goldman Sachs says could produce a record $160 billion in US IPO proceeds in 2026, with SpaceX targeting a $75 billion raise […]
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Standard Chartered maintained its call for Bitcoin to reach $100,000 by Dec. 31, even after the cryptocurrency briefly fell below $60,000 last week for the first time since October 2024. Geoffrey Kendrick, the bank's global head of digital assets research, called the selloff “painful” but argued the bulk of selling may be over, adding that […]
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The Clearing House plan gives banks 24/7 tokenized settlement while keeping customer money inside regulated deposit accounts.
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Bitcoin's brief weekend rally lost its footing as a sudden resumption of military hostilities between Israel and Iran triggered a broad rotation away from risk-on investments. The geopolitical escalation, which defied explicit diplomatic pressure from Washington, sent global energy benchmarks surging and equity markets lower, leaving BTC to defend a highly fragile $60,000 baseline. Data […]
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Ethereum’s slide to its lowest level in more than a year is testing the Wall Street trade that brought the token deeper into institutional portfolios. Data from CryptoSlate shows that the second-largest cryptocurrency fell to as low as $1,506 during the last 24 hours, its weakest level since April 2025, extending a broad crypto selloff […]
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Decentralized finance has gotten a lot safer over the past six years, and a new review of protocol losses from 2020 through 2025 puts a pretty large number behind that claim. Industry-wide DeFi losses peaked at $2.62 billion in 2022 and fell roughly 80% to $534 million by 2024. Bridge hacks that once produced billion-dollar […]
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AI has hit an electricity problem. Running it takes staggering amounts of power; demand in the US is climbing faster than the grid can keep up, and that's handing enormous leverage to the companies that generate and deliver it. On June 2, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas voted to overhaul how it admits large […]
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Bitcoin traders have spent the past week bracing for the wrong kind of surprise, watching rate-cut bets evaporate as a run of firm labor data pushed the odds of a Federal Reserve hike by year-end toward 85% and dragged the 10-year Treasury yield up near 4.5%. Understandably, it dominates the screens, given how much of […]
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Hyperliquid’s rapid growth has drawn a warning from Britain’s financial regulator, adding a consumer-protection concern to a platform increasingly watched by Wall Street and traditional market operators. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) placed Hyperliquid and the Hyper Foundation on its warning list, saying the firm may be providing or promoting financial services in the UK […]
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