Traders have been treating Bitcoin as a high-beta proxy for the same risk appetite driving Nvidia and the Mag-7, one that should move with equities on green days. Instead, Bitcoin lost its $80,000 support and registered an intraday low of $78,759.70 on May 13, while the S&P 500 registered a new all-time high, QQQ rose […]
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Bitcoin is hovering just below $80,000 as President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing for a high-stakes meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, turning the visit into a live test of whether the crypto market’s latest risk rally has enough support to survive a difficult macro week. The trip comes as traders are already contending with […]
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Sovereign curves are back near old stress zones while Hormuz inflation risk keeps central banks boxed in.
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XRP is rising into a market split between traditional finance infrastructure and crypto-native skepticism. According to CryptoSlate's data, the token recently traded above $1.46 as spot-market indicators improved, exchange-traded funds drew their strongest daily inflows in more than four months, and Ripple expanded the credit capacity behind its institutional prime brokerage business. However, this came […]
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The Senate Banking Committee’s crypto market structure bill is heading into CLARITY Act markup with more than 100 proposed amendments. This is turning a long-delayed vote on the CLARITY Act into a test of whether a fragile stablecoin compromise can survive pressure from banks, Democrats, and crypto industry groups. The final number of amendments has […]
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Bitcoin just fell below $80,000 as a hotter-than-expected US inflation print pushed crypto and equities lower. BTC price slipped from the low $81,000 area into $79,706, with the session low marked near $79,557. The break turned $80,000 from a round-number reference into the first tactical line for intraday structure. The move followed the April US […]
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A hotter-than-expected April inflation report has put Bitcoin back at the center of the Federal Reserve trade, reviving the higher-for-longer rates problem that has capped crypto markets for much of the year. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported on May 12 that headline CPI rose 3.8% year over year in April, above the 3.7% […]
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Circle's $222 million ARC token presale has given Wall Street a new way to value the USDC issuer, while raising a harder question for one of crypto’s most profitable alliances. On May 11, Circle said investors led by a16z Crypto backed the presale of ARC, the native token for Arc, its planned public blockchain for […]
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Bitcoin's path through 2026 now runs through global economic policy. The disruption around the Strait of Hormuz has moved beyond a commodity-price event and into the machinery of governments. The International Energy Agency said crude and refined-product exports through the strait had fallen to less than 10% of pre-conflict levels after about 20 million barrels […]
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A prominent figure from the Washington foreign-policy establishment has said openly what markets have been pricing in fragments: the United States has likely suffered a strategic defeat in Iran, and the failure runs through the Strait of Hormuz. Accepting this premise would introduce a new macro risk for Bitcoin. The warning comes from an article […]
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XRP price is testing a breakout zone near $1.50 as institutional inflows, rising derivatives activity, and easing whale-related selling improve the token's setup, but the trade still depends on whether Bitcoin can hold above $80,000 through a critical macro week. CoinShares data released May 11 showed XRP investment products attracted $39.6 million in weekly inflows, […]
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Bitcoin faces 2026's densest macro test as CPI, Warsh, and Trump-Xi collide This week (May 11-15) has a credible claim to being the most consequential macro window of 2026 so far, as it compresses every channel currently driving risk assets into a single sequence. Inflation, producer costs, consumer demand, Fed liquidity, central bank leadership, trade […]
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Bitcoin is entering one of its most consequential trading weeks since its February correction, with Middle East tensions pushing oil prices higher, inflation expectations hardening, and options traders positioning for a possible break above $85,000. According to CryptoSlate's data, the largest digital asset briefly dipped on Sunday after President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s latest response […]
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The CLARITY Act is heading back to the Senate Banking Committee on May 14 after months of stalled negotiations, putting a small group of Democrats at the center of the crypto industry’s push for a federal market-structure law. The markup comes after the bill was slowed by disputes over stablecoin rewards, anti-money laundering safeguards and […]
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Crypto investors have lost more than $100 million to physical extortion in the first four months of 2026, according to blockchain security firm CertiK, as criminal groups increasingly target the people behind digital wallets rather than the technology securing them. The attacks, known in the industry as “wrench attacks,” use kidnapping, assault, threats, or other […]
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The Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust completed its first month of trading without a single day of net outflows, providing an early test case for how a Wall Street bank’s brand, pricing, and distribution network can alter the competitive landscape of the digital-asset market. The product, trading under the ticker MSBT, launched on April 8 and […]
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Has Donald Trump been net positive for Bitcoin? It is an uncomfortable question for many Bitcoin supporters, including me. My political criticisms of Trump are substantial and longstanding. They extend well beyond policy disagreements into questions about rhetoric, institutional conduct, and the broader political culture surrounding his presidency. None of that disappears because Bitcoin performed […]
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BlackRock is accelerating its push to bring Wall Street yields to the blockchain, filing paperwork with US regulators to introduce a pair of tokenized money market funds. The move represents a major escalation in the asset management giant's strategy to bridge traditional financial instruments with the rapidly expanding digital asset ecosystem. According to May 8 […]
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Matthew Sigel of VanEck said Bitcoin could reach $1 million by the next US Presidential term. That puts a 1,150% increase as a 2031 target inside a market that is still trying to prove it can hold the $80,000 area. CryptoSlate's Bitcoin page shows BTC near $80,200 on May 9, with a market capitalization near […]
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Bitcoin’s brief drop below $80,000 during the last 24 hours has exposed a more fragile market after weeks of gains, but options traders are not yet treating the pullback as the start of a deeper breakdown. According to CryptoSlate data, the retreat erased part of a rally that had carried Bitcoin about 37% higher since […]
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The European Union is racing against a self-imposed deadline to implement its side of the existing US-EU trade accord, with the next formal trilogue round set for May 19 in Strasbourg. President Donald Trump threatened on May 2 to lift tariffs on EU cars and trucks to 25% from 15%, a move the Kiel Institute […]
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Coinbase, the largest US-based exchange, ended a difficult first quarter with a fresh test of investor confidence after the crypto exchange missed Wall Street estimates by reporting another quarterly loss, and later suffered a service disruption tied to an Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. The sequence gave investors a sharp reminder of the company’s two […]
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has turned one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence clusters into a commercial compute product, creating a new challenge for Bitcoin miners racing to recast themselves as AI infrastructure companies. Anthropic said it reached a deal to use the full computing power of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, Tennessee, giving the […]
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XRP has moved from a deleveraging panic to a fragile base-building phase, and the question of when the next all-time high will return hinges on catalysts that have yet to show up in price. The asset trades around $1.42 on CryptoSlate's live XRP page today, May 7, with a market value near $87.5 billion, roughly […]
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Bitcoin’s macro setup is increasingly tied to the same forces driving the S&P 500 to new highs: liquidity, concentration, rate expectations, and investor tolerance for stretched valuations. The current S&P 500 structure shows an index still moving in a powerful long-term uptrend, with price near 7,365 on the weekly chart, while valuation indicators sit in […]
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Bitcoin’s return above $80,000 has brought back a question traders have not had to confront at scale since 2020: how does the world’s largest digital asset behave when a health scare, rather than rates, regulation, or crypto-native leverage, becomes the market’s dominant risk headline? The immediate trigger is a hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius, […]
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Zcash is rapidly shedding its historical reputation as a niche tool for digital anonymity, transforming instead into a high-stakes institutional hedge against global financial surveillance. According to CryptoSlate's data, the privacy-centric cryptocurrency rocketed roughly 40% in a single trading session on Wednesday, briefly eclipsing the $600 mark to hit a local peak of $603 before […]
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With Bitcoin trading near $82,000, a move back into price-discovery territory depends on whether ETF buyers keep absorbing supply while macro pressure remains contained. That is the practical answer to the two questions shaping the rest of 2026: when can Bitcoin reach a new all-time high, and is the market bottom already in? Bitcoin has […]
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US banks are mounting an aggressive lobbying effort to stall the CLARITY Act, even as key US lawmakers signal a fast-tracked timeline to put the bill on the president’s desk before July 4. The legislative clash centers on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a sweeping regulatory framework that cleared the House with bipartisan support […]
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Bitcoin rose above $82,000 as oil prices tumbled amid a powerful tailwind from a sudden and dramatic de-escalation in US-Iran geopolitical tensions. Data from CryptoSlate showed that BTC extended a weeklong rebound that has lifted its value by more than 7% this week after President Donald Trump paused a US military operation in the Strait […]
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