The price move came hours after President Donald Trump said he expected to get a trade deal done with China soon.
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Bitcoin price sits around $115,000 as the Federal Reserve meets this week. Policy risk concentrates around Wednesday’s Oct. 29 decision at 2 p.m. ET, followed by Chair Jerome Powell’s press conference at 2:30 p.m. ET. Markets price a 25 basis point cut for this meeting with further easing odds into year end, according to the […]
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Bitcoin investment products bounced back to add $931 million, while Ethereum funds slipped to $169 million in net outflows.
Crypto markets started this new week with a surge powered by a rare alignment of favorable macroeconomic shifts. According to CryptoSlate data, Bitcoin climbed to a fresh intraday high above $116,000 before stabilizing near $115,587 as of press time. Notably, this is its highest price level in weeks and shows that it is within sight […]
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Your look at what's coming in the week starting Oct. 27.
US inflation ticked up to 3.0% year over year in September, and futures markets still price a Federal Reserve rate cut next week. Headline CPI printed 3.0% on the year and 0.3% on the month, while core CPI held at 3.0% year over year and 0.2% month over month. Gasoline rose 4.1% on the month […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Bitcoin rose above $110,000 after softer U.S. CPI at 3.0%, while analysts say easing hopes clear policy risk, though options exposure leaves rallies fragile.
Recent acquisitions and the launch of the Tempo L1 mark Stripe’s return to crypto infrastructure as AI-driven commerce gains traction.
The US has never owed more money that it does today, and some believe the solution isn’t political reform or higher taxes but Bitcoin itself. America’s national debt has crossed $38 trillion, surpassing the country’s annual GDP by nearly 31%. Notably, the figure also marks one of the fastest periods of debt accumulation in modern […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Stablecoins were used to move roughly $46 trillion over the past 12 months, according to new a16z crypto report. Beyond that, over $80 trillion has been processed in crypto trading volume across the same time period. Framed against payment “flows,” the stablecoin tally places on-chain dollars within low single-digit share of global settlement, and it […]
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Bitcoin and gold have told two different stories so far in October, and neither matched what traders expected. For most of October, Bitcoin and gold looked like they were living in different markets. Gold climbed steadily, adding about 10% over the last month, while Bitcoin slipped roughly 6%. That divergence is interesting on its own, […]
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If you’ve heard this story before, you’re not alone. Argentina is particularly adept at leaping from crisis to crisis. A collapsing Argentine peso, desperate negotiations in Washington, and a high-profile U.S. rescue are all features once again. But this time, with libertarian President Javier Milei at the helm, the script was supposed to change. He […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Bitcoin is bracing for the release of the September US Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Oct. 24, the first major data point since the federal shutdown began. Analysts at The Kobeissi Letter emphasized the importance of this update, noting that it will be the first CPI release on a Friday since January 2018 and comes […]
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Analysts say even a 2% reallocation of gold’s $17 trillion market could lift bitcoin above $160,000 as risk appetite returns.
The 12 spot Bitcoin exchange-traded products (ETFs) in the United States reversed sharply last week, recording $1.2 billion in net outflows. According to SoSoValue data, this was their second-largest weekly setback since launching in January 2024. The pullback snapped a two-week run of inflows that had brought in more than $5 billion, a period many […]
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Your look at what's coming in the week starting Oct. 20.
In a Q4 2025 outlook report, Coinbase Institutional says the cycle still skews positive — with liquidity, stablecoins and policy progress lifting the market.
For years, Bitcoin has been hailed as “digital gold,” a hedge against inflation and policy excess. Yet, as geopolitical tensions rise and trade disputes return to the headlines, the original store of value, gold, is stealing the spotlight. According to TradingView data, gold climbed to an all-time high of $4,376 per ounce on Oct. 17, […]
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The United States could still claim another $2 billion worth of Bitcoin linked to the defunct LuBian mining pool, despite already announcing the largest crypto seizure in its history. On October 15, blockchain investigator Sani reported that nearly 16,237 BTC, worth around $1.8 billion at current prices, remains in motion across addresses linked to LuBian. […]
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The US government is moving to seize 127,271 Bitcoin worth about $14.2 billion, which investigators say was generated through a cross-border “pig butchering” scam operated by Chinese national Chen Zhi. If completed, the Bitcoin should be added to the U.S.’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve according to the terms of Trump’s Executive Order issued earlier this year. […]
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Wintermute founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy sheds light on the recent crypto wipeout and how market makers deal with such events.
Bitcoin ETFs saw a surge in trading activity on Friday and Monday, with combined volumes reaching $9.7 billion and $6.7 billion as tariff headlines rattled risk markets. BlackRock’s IBIT alone handled over $6.9 billion on Oct. 10 (its second-highest day ever), as investors repositioned around the day’s price volatility. Bitcoin ETF volume surge This dramatic […]
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The crypto market lost nearly $200 billion in value as escalating trade tensions between China and the United States reignited global risk aversion. This halted Bitcoin’s fragile recovery after last weekend’s record $19 billion liquidation. Bitcoin price struggles Data from CryptoSlate shows the industry’s total market capitalization declined 3% to $3.79 trillion, down from $3.96 […]
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The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Bitcoin reclaimed the $114,000 level as global markets staged a broad recovery led by U.S. equities and gold.
President Trump's latest tariff threats against China caused the crypto market to plummet 10% heading into the weekend.