Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, is considering a pivot that would fundamentally alter the risk profile of the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin treasury. For a decade, the company sold Wall Street on a singular thesis: it was a digital vault, offering unencumbered exposure to Bitcoin without the risks of custody or counterparty risk. That stand is changing […]
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BlackRock, the largest asset management firm in the world, has described tokenization as the most critical market upgrade since the early internet. On the other hand, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) describes it as a volatile, untested architecture that can amplify financial shocks at machine speed. Both institutions are looking at the same innovation. Yet, […]
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The broader Solana memecoin economy is currently facing a liquidity crisis and collapsing volumes, but one asset has successfully decoupled from the sector-wide decline. According to CryptoSlate data, PIPPIN, a token born from an AI experiment in early 2024, has emerged as one of the best-performing crypto tokens in the last 30 days, surging 556% to […]
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Jerome Powell stepped in front of cameras on Dec. 1 at the Hoover Institution’s George Shultz memorial event with three audiences watching: bond traders pricing an 87% chance of a December rate cut, a divided Federal Open Market Committee bracing for possible dissents, and a Bitcoin market that just bled $4.3 billion from US spot […]
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On Dec. 2, Vanguard will reportedly open its massive brokerage platform to spot Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Solana exchange-traded funds (ETFs). This strategic volte-face ends the asset manager’s steadfast isolation from the $3 trillion digital asset market. For years, Vanguard stood as the most prominent holdout of the crypto space, driven by a philosophy that […]
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Strategy Inc., the corporate Bitcoin vault formerly known as MicroStrategy, has signaled that the mechanics driving its rapid growth have hit a cyclical wall. On Dec. 1, the Tysons Corner-based firm revealed that it was prioritizing a $1.44 billion cash reserve and providing investors with detailed parameters for potential asset sales. This represents a pragmatic […]
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US-listed Bitcoin ETFs capped their second-heaviest month of redemptions with a rare late-month shift back into positive flows. According to SoSo Value data, the 12 US-listed spot Bitcoin funds recorded net creation of roughly $70 million in the final days of November, after four weeks of relentless selling pressure that totalled more than $4.3 billion […]
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The crypto markets staged a convincing comeback on Nov. 27, snapping a prolonged period of stagnation as a critical shift in the United States’ liquidity forced capital back into risk assets. While the headline price action saw Bitcoin surge 5% to reclaim the psychologically vital $90,000 threshold and Ethereum clear $3,000 for the first time […]
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Bitcoin’s hashrate is near record levels, yet miner revenue per unit of compute has fallen to record lows, pushing the network into a ‘high-security, low-profitability’ phase. While the network’s hashrate has pinned itself above the one-zettahash watermark, which is a record for aggregate computing power, the revenue underpinning that security has disintegrated to historic lows. […]
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Bitcoin’s recent slide below $80,000 has triggered a wave of sleep disruption across the retail trading community, according to a new report from CEX.io. The flagship digital asset has since rebounded to about $88,000, but the roughly 31% drawdown from its recent peak left many investors monitoring prices through the night. This behavior has moved […]
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Texas has taken the first formal step toward becoming the first US state to hold Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset. On Nov. 25, Lee Bratcher, president of the Texas Blockchain Council, reported that the world’s eighth-largest economy, valued at $2.7 trillion, purchased $5 million worth of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT. He added that a […]
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Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy) spent 2025 building the largest corporate Bitcoin reserve the public markets have ever financed, but the scale of that ambition ended up colliding with the logic of its own stock. What began as an aggressive accumulation strategy, powered by the company’s appetite for leverage and a willingness to dilute existing shareholders, […]
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A high-conviction Bitcoin whale placed a $2 billion wager that the worst is over and the market bottom might be in after a brutal leverage washout stripped speculative froth from the crypto market. On Nov. 24, Deribit, the Coinbase-owned crypto options trading platform, reported a 20,000 BTC notional block trade, which appears to signal that institutional […]
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XRP is leading the race for altcoin supremacy in the US crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) market with its record performance since last month. In less than 10 trading days, the new crop of US spot XRP ETFs has registered cumulative inflows of roughly $587 million, compared with approximately $568 million for their Solana counterparts. This […]
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For all the talk that this cycle is somehow “different,” the structure of Bitcoin’s market still looks unmistakably cyclical to me. Each top brings the same chorus claiming the cycle model is dead, and each cooling phase renews the idea that liquidity alone now sets the trajectory. But the evidence keeps pointing the other way. […]
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Investors long paid premiums for Digital Asset Treasury firms, seeing them as practical substitutes for holding Bitcoin when direct access was limited. That approach worked when regulated channels were scarce and corporate balance sheets offered the closest approximation to holding the asset itself. But according to Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise Asset Management, […]
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Influencers on X love pointing to rising M2 charts or a softening dollar as proof that Bitcoin is about to blast off. Those overlays make for great engagement, but they flatten a far more complex relationship. They matter, but not in the simple, linear way they’re often sold. Money printing, which increases the global M2 […]
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CME FedWatch now implies better than 70% odds that the Federal Reserve will cut rates by 25 basis points at its Dec. 9-10 meeting, dropping the target range from 3.75%-4.00% to 3.50%-3.75%. That marks a dramatic intraday reversal on Nov. 21, when New York Fed President John Williams told reporters the Fed can still trim […]
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The United States could generate up to $14 trillion in cumulative value if 1% of federal taxes are paid in Bitcoin over the next two decades, according to new modeling from Bitcoin Policy Institute presented alongside Rep. Warren Davidson’s Bitcoin for America Act. The bill, introduced on Nov. 20, would allow taxpayers to settle federal […]
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The most significant shift in crypto finance this year isn’t a token launch, a price breakout, or a new blockchain upgrade. Instead, it is the quiet return of the public listing for crypto-focused entities. Kraken’s Nov. 19 confidential filing for a proposed initial public offering marks the latest step in what is rapidly becoming the […]
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Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jack Reed asked the Justice Department and the Treasury Department to investigate World Liberty Financial after a watchdog alleged that WLFI token sales touched wallets tied to North Korea’s Lazarus Group, a Russia-linked ruble token, an Iranian exchange, and prior Tornado Cash users. The senators’ referral arrived after Accountable US […]
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XRP is under renewed pressure as the broader market downturn drags its profitability metrics back to levels last seen during Donald Trump’s November 2024 re-election. Glassnode data shows that only 58.5% of XRP’s circulating supply is now in profit. That is the weakest reading since late November 2024, when the token hovered around $0.53. Even […]
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The Bitcoin market is undergoing a significant transition, with traders aggressively positioning for a year-end close beneath the $90,000 threshold. This comes as the flagship digital asset briefly slid to a seven-month low of $89,970 on Nov. 18 before recovering to $91,526 as of press time. As a result, crypto traders’ sentiment has significantly shifted […]
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A sharp divergence emerged in the crypto ETF market this month. According to SoSo Value data, the new products tracking Solana and XRP are attracting significant capital, contrasting with a severe wave of outflows from established Bitcoin and Ethereum funds. The data shows that the newly launched altcoin ETFs have registered more than $500 million […]
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Ethereum is undergoing its most significant transition since its August peak. A sharp, double-digit correction of more than 35% since Oct. 6 has triggered a crisis of conviction, ripping through the speculative layers of the market and forcing a wave of liquidations. However, the on-chain story is not a simple collapse. It is a large-scale […]
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With just six weeks left in 2025, Bitcoin and Ethereum are both in the red for the year, as the two largest cryptos lead a broader downward trend. If this pattern holds, crypto could end up among the worst-performing asset classes of 2025, trailing even traditional markets and money market funds. As CryptoSlate reported yesterday, […]
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As Bitcoin and Ethereum stumble through their worst year in recent memory, and the Crypto Fear & Greed Index tumbles into extreme fear, it may be time for crypto investors to return to first principles. The Bitcoin long-term thesis hasn’t changed, and if you believe it’s inevitably going up, you’ll buy at any price. As […]
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When Donald Trump entered the White House in January, crypto markets expected alignment between policy and price. The new administration delivered on some of its promises by providing regulatory clarity, friendlier oversight, and the strongest institutional welcome Bitcoin had ever received. As a result, spot ETFs surged in assets, corporate treasuries accumulated BTC, and industry […]
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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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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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