As the BTC price tumbles below $100,000, Glassnode would like to share a depressing stat. If you’ve been stacking sats anytime since late spring, it’s fair to say the honeymoon is officially on pause. With Bitcoin trading at $96,000, a whopping 99% of investors who bought in the past 155 days are in the red. […]
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Bitcoin is slipping again, and the mood across the market is shifting. Traders who were celebrating six-figure prices only weeks ago are suddenly watching key levels evaporate. The move below $106,400 was the first real warning sign, the collapse through $99,000 confirmed that the market is no longer treating those supports as serious areas of […]
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The U.S. national debt surpassed $38 trillion in early November, and denoting the stock in bitcoin reveals a larger move than the underlying BTC price since January 20. According to the U.S. Treasury’s Debt to the Penny dataset, total public debt stood at $38.118 trillion as of November 6, up about $1.1 trillion since August […]
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After defeating the US Securities and Exchange Commission over the status of XRP, Ripple has made a puzzling move: it’s not rushing to go public. Instead, the company is staying private. This choice says more about the uneasy fit between crypto firms and public markets than about Ripple’s finances. In July 2023, the court ruled […]
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For months, crypto traders have timed leverage, funding, and liquidity around the monthly U.S. inflation print. This week, those who had hoped the recent vote to reopen the government would bring new macro data were disappointed to find nothing on the tape. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said in October that “No other releases will […]
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Equity screens show a broad red, with the S&P 500 down around 1.8% and the entire crypto market under pressure simultaneously. What appears to be an unexplained wipeout is, in fact, a layered move driven by interest rate expectations, crowded positioning in tech and AI names, and a shift in global risk appetite that is […]
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Bitcoin (BTC) dropped 3% to $98,550.33 as of press time, falling below the psychological $100,000 threshold for the third time this month amid cascading leverage liquidations, persistent ETF outflows, and a broader risk-off posture across digital assets. The slide accelerated after Bitcoin broke support at $100,000, triggering over $190 million in long liquidations in the […]
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When Chainlink briefly appeared on a DTCC reference list, the crypto industry jumped to claim a “LINK ETF confirmed.” In reality, just like with XRP and Bitcoin, this was just a routine DTCC plumbing update, preparing for potential ETFs long before the SEC signs off. LINK had made it into the settlement system, not past […]
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Canary Capital’s spot XRP ETF surpassed $36 million in trading volume within its first three hours on Nov. 13, positioning the fund as a contender for the strongest exchange-traded fund debut of 2025. The XRPC traded at $25.74 as of 4:43 P.M. UTC, generating volume equivalent to 63% of Bitwise’s Solana ETF (BSOL) first-day performance, […]
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The Bitcoin market spent the week caught between confidence and caution, and ETF flows captured that tension. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $524 million in inflows, their strongest single-day intake in over two weeks. However, on Nov. 12, they saw $278 million in outflows. The sharp reversal was a snapshot of how […]
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For decades, wholesale dollar settlement has meant waiting for Fedwire to open, and JPMorgan just stopped waiting. The bank converted its permissioned “JPM Coin” system into JPMD, a deposit token backed by insured balances at JPMorgan, and placed it on Coinbase’s Ethereum layer-2 (L2) Base. Pilot transactions with B2C2, Coinbase, and Mastercard are already live. […]
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Banks don’t publish their risk positions, and asset managers don’t broadcast client portfolios. Yet, both want programmable settlement and verifiable execution without exposing what they’re settling or for whom. That tension has kept institutional capital at the edge of public chains, waiting for privacy technology to catch up to compliance requirements. If banks can’t enter […]
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Crypto has spent years building yield infrastructure, such as staking on Ethereum and Solana, yield-bearing stablecoins, DeFi lending protocols, and tokenized Treasuries. The pipes already exist, the APYs are live, yet only 8% to 11% of the total crypto market generates yield today, compared to 55% to 65% of traditional financial (TradFi) assets, according to […]
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Bitcoin fell to $100,800 on November 12, down 4.2% in 24 hours, as the broader crypto market shed roughly $65 billion, before recovering early in the morning to $103,000. The crash resulted in over $610 million in liquidations of leveraged positions, according to Coinglass data. The sell-off hit hardest during US trading hours, erasing overnight […]
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CleanSpark just sold $1.15 billion of zero-coupon convertible notes to buy more power and machines in the most brutal mining environment yet. The deal is a 144A private placement due in 2032, with an initial conversion price of around $19.16, roughly a 27.5% premium to the $15.03 stock price at the time of announcement. Approximately […]
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Arthur Hayes today urged Zcash holders to pull coins from exchanges and move them into shielded addresses. The former BitMEX CEO also disclosed that ZEC is now his second-largest position after Bitcoin. He framed the trade around reducing exchange balances and leaning into Zcash’s shielded pools, which slows how quickly coins recycle back into order […]
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The first US spot XRP ETF moved within sight of launch after Canary XRP ETF filed Form 8-A12(b) on Nov. 10. This is a key exchange-listing step that formally registers the fund’s shares under Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act. The document, signed by Steven McClurg, confirms that Nasdaq has approved the listing application. […]
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Block has switched on Bitcoin payments across its Square merchant network, giving roughly 4 million sellers the ability to accept Lightning Network payments at the point of sale. The merchant selects Bitcoin at checkout, Square generates a Lightning invoice QR code, the customer pays with Cash App or any Lightning-enabled wallet, and settlement happens in […]
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Between October 28 and November 10, US spot Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs) absorbed $343 million in net inflows across ten consecutive trading days. During that same stretch, SOL dropped from roughly $195 to touch the $145 zone. It currently sits around $159, as of press time. The divergence isn’t a bug, but the entire story. […]
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When Uniswap’s administrators filed their “UNIfication” proposal on Nov. 10, it read less like a protocol update and more like a corporate overhaul. The plan would activate dormant protocol fees, channel them through a new on-chain treasury engine, and utilize the proceeds to purchase and burn UNI tokens. This is a model that mirrors share-repurchase […]
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A Senate-backed stopgap to reopen the U.S. government puts inflation data and Treasury issuance back in play for Bitcoin. The chamber advanced a continuing resolution that would fund agencies through Jan. 30, 2026, with the bill returning to the House for approval, which would restart furloughed statistical agencies and normalize auction operations. According to Time, […]
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Coinbase’s new token pre-reserve platform reopens US retail participation in public token sales for the first time since regulators shut down the ICO boom in 2018. The mechanism looks familiar, with curated projects, fixed sale windows, and algorithmic allocation. Every purchase is settled in USDC, and every token launched through the platform receives a guaranteed […]
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Regardless of what Crypto Twitter says, DTCC pages show operational prep, not permission. Under the SEC’s new generic-listing regime, the real tells are an effective S-1 and an exchange listing notice, and that is when the clock to launch actually starts. DTCC pages listing XRP ETFs are not approvals. The entry means the clearing and […]
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China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center just accused the United States of carrying out the 2020 LuBian Bitcoin exploit. However, Western research ties the event to a wallet random-number flaw and does not name a state actor. Open-source forensics on the LuBian drain The core facts of the episode are now well documented across […]
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Earlier this year, President Donald Trump promised a “21st Century” payments upgrade without requiring a central bank digital currency, putting the GENIUS Act at the center of the plan. The law is already on the books; the operating rulebook is not yet. In July, Trump praised the crypto industry, declaring: “You have certainly as an […]
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Bitcoin rose 290% in the five months after the end of the last major US government shutdown. That 2019 move, from roughly $3,500 in late January to nearly $14,000 by June, now circulates as a template for what comes next. The Senate advanced a deal to end the current 40-day shutdown, the longest on record, […]
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Behind every wild Bitcoin candle in 2025 is a quiet shift in collateral, basis, and ETF flows. Funding rates, margin haircuts, and spot ETF hedging now have as much impact on the price as any macroeconomic headline. Collateral settings across futures and lending venues influence the Bitcoin spot price through forced hedging and liquidations. The […]
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Bitcoin is back at $106,400, a pivot point that has been critical to this cycle’s rallies and pullbacks. As we outlined in “Today’s $106k retest decided Bitcoin’s fate,” acceptance above this band has tended to unlock the next level. At the same time, rejection has forced a rebuild below a fair-value axis that acts as […]
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The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) just fell off a cliff. For most people outside financial circles, that means absolutely nothing. For markets, it’s seismic. Borrowing money overnight in U.S. markets suddenly got much cheaper. And in the plumbing of the global financial system, that’s the equivalent of someone opening the floodgates a little wider. […]
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Renowned short seller James Chanos has officially closed his $MSTR/Bitcoin hedged trade after 11 months, marking an end to his high-profile bet against Bitcoin-linked equities and Strategy stock. The unwinding of institutional short positions is a trend reversal indicator that could mean the worst for Bitcoin treasury companies is behind them. The bitcoin treasury ecosystem […]
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