Strategy’s potential 3,127 BTC buy this week, alongside falling stablecoin dominance, suggests more capital may enter the Bitcoin market.
The accumulation trend among large XRP holders suggests strong long-term confidence, potentially stabilizing the market amid volatility.
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The ratio has climbed above its 200-day moving average for the first time meaningfully since September 2020, a move that has historically preceded major bitcoin rallies.
The halt in Iran's crude exports due to US sanctions could exacerbate global oil market volatility and strain geopolitical relations.
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OpenAI and Anthropic's ventures could disrupt traditional consulting by embedding AI expertise directly, challenging established firms' roles.
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OpenAI's renegotiated deal with Microsoft enhances financial predictability, potentially boosting investor confidence and market expansion.
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Starknet launched strkBTC on May 12, locking BTC on Bitcoin's base layer to back an ERC-20 token that brings shielded balances into a smart contract environment at scale. The token runs in the public mode, where it behaves like any other wrapped Bitcoin asset, and shielded mode, where users can hide selected balances and transfers […]
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Coinbase-backed x402 adds batch settlement, letting AI agents authorize many small payments offchain before settling them later onchain.
Metaplanet posted a $725.6 million net loss driven by bitcoin mark-to-market valuation markdowns even as operating profit rose 283%.
The Stellar Development Foundation and the Government of Bermuda have announced that the island nation will begin moving key payment and financial services activity onto the Stellar network — marking the first operational milestone in Bermuda’s stated ambition, declared at the World Economic Forum in January 2026, to become the world’s first fully on-chain national economy. Related Reading: Bitcoin Rally At Risk: This Critical Resistance Could End BTC’s Bullish Run The partnership, announced via Stellar’s official press release, is not a pilot study or a working group. It is the beginning of a live deployment. Bermudian residents will be able to receive wages, pay local merchants, settle government fees, and hold, send, and receive digital assets through digital wallets on the Stellar network. Government agencies expect to pilot stablecoin-based payments. Financial institutions will be able to integrate tokenization tools. Social service disbursements are also being explored as a use case, per the announcement. Stable infrastructure that scales. That’s what the government of Bermuda is accessing by partnering with SDF. At @SALTConference, @rajachak75 spoke with @BermudaPremier about how the Stellar network’s growth can power this exciting next step for Bermuda. pic.twitter.com/graFK5B1sP — Stellar (@StellarOrg) May 12, 2026 The Problem Bermuda Is Solving The economic case behind the move is concrete. Local merchants on the island currently pay between 3% and 5% per transaction in card processing fees, with effective costs reaching as high as 10% in some categories, according to the press release. The absence of mobile money infrastructure and continued reliance on legacy payment rails has left Bermudians absorbing costs that, in the SDF’s framing, represent value leaving the island rather than circulating within it. The Hon. E. David Burt, Premier of Bermuda, addressed the issue directly in the announcement, noting that digital dollars and Stellar’s infrastructure make it possible to deliver this kind of systemic change responsibly and at the scale Bermuda requires. Why Stellar Stellar’s selection is not incidental. The network was purpose-built for regulated financial services — public and permissionless by design, but configurable with the asset controls that sovereign and institutional deployments require, per the press release. Transactions settle in seconds at fractions of a US cent. The network also operates one of the world’s largest cash on and off-ramp networks for digital assets, a feature that matters significantly for an island economy dependent on accessible liquidity channels. Bermuda’s regulatory foundation further supports the choice. The island established the Digital Asset Business Act in 2018 — one of the world’s earliest comprehensive digital asset regulatory frameworks — giving the SDF a jurisdiction with existing legal infrastructure rather than a blank slate. Denelle Dixon, CEO and Executive Director of the Stellar Development Foundation, noted in the release that Bermuda has assembled what most jurisdictions cannot: regulatory clarity, an aligned ecosystem, and a government willing to lead. XLM's price moving sideways following a steep decline in late 2025, as seen on the daily chart. Source: XLMUSD on Tradingview The announcement is not Stellar’s first sovereign deployment. The Republic of the Marshall Islands completed the world’s first nationwide onchain disbursement of universal basic income via USDM1 on the Stellar network in December 2025, per the press release — a precedent that Bermuda’s program now builds on. Related Reading: Crypto Firm Exodus Drains 63% Of Its Bitcoin Reserves As Q1 Loss Doubled Year Over Year This development marks a pivotal moment for the nascent sector’s relationship with sovereign financial infrastructure. A national government committing to move its payment economy on-chain is no longer a theoretical use case for blockchain technology — it is an operational one, and Stellar just became the network powering the world’s first attempt to prove it works at national scale. Cover image from ChatGPT, XLMUSD chart on Tradingview
Political instability in Israel could lead to shifts in power dynamics, impacting Netanyahu's leadership and future electoral outcomes.
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OpenAI's new unit could accelerate AI adoption in key industries, enhancing operational efficiency and potentially boosting its market valuation.
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Arkham’s new map links OFAC‑sanctioned Tron wallets to Iran’s central bank, putting Tehran’s alleged onchain reserves and counterparties in full public view.
Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz could escalate geopolitical tensions, disrupt global oil supply, and impact regional stability.
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Streeting's leadership bid highlights internal Labour tensions, potentially destabilizing Starmer's leadership and impacting party direction.
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Chainlink's growth amid DeFi security concerns highlights its potential as a dominant cross-chain solution, but market volatility remains a risk.
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SoftBank's heavy reliance on OpenAI highlights the risks of concentrated investments, potentially impacting its financial stability and strategy.
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The escalation reduces peace prospects, heightens regional tensions, and may lead to increased security measures, impacting diplomatic efforts.
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Bitcoin held steady before President Donald Trump's with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.
Stork launches the first 24/7 oracle that switches to perpetual futures markets for 'true' price discovery.
The prolonged disruption in oil output could exacerbate global energy insecurity, driving up prices and intensifying geopolitical tensions.
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As Bitcoin (BTC) attempts to hold $80,000 as support, some market analysts have warned about a crucial resistance area that could make or break the flagship crypto’s bullish rally. Related Reading: Crypto Funds Extend Six-Week Streak With $858M Inflows On CLARITY Act Progress Bitcoin Bull Rally Meets Key Resistance In a Tuesday analysis, market watcher Ali Martinez highlighted a “crucial resistance barrier that has the potential to put an end to the recent Bitcoin bull rally” that has sent the price to its highest levels in months. He explained that BTC has been attempting to clear the 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA), near $82,500, for three consecutive days. A breakout above this level could trigger a rally toward the $94,000 area, Martinez affirmed, while a rejection could send the price to retest the 50-day SMA around $75,000. However, the failure to reclaim this level may suggest that the market “is struggling to find the follow-through volume needed for a breakout.” The analyst pointed out that a recent shift in miners’ behavior could reinforce the resistance area above. Over the past month, Bitcoin miners have been steadily taking profits, offloading over 3,400 BTC they’ve held since the $72,000 range to cover operational costs or lock in gains at the recent highs. “This added supply could strengthen the overhead resistance,” he affirmed. Meanwhile, retail and futures traders are “aggressively increasing their risk appetite,” with the Estimated Leverage Ratio currently at a yearly peak, indicating an overextended market reliant on borrowed funds. Most of this leverage is skewed toward long positions, creating liquidation walls at $75,000, $73,000, and $70,000, Martinez added, warning that if Bitcoin can’t flip the $82,500 resistance into support, “the market may look to flush this leverage by testing those lower levels.” BTC Poised For Another Correction? Analyst Rekt Capital offered a macro perspective, suggesting Bitcoin may fail to reclaim the crucial resistance and fall to new lows in the coming months. He highlighted BTC’s breakdown from its macro triangle base around $82,500, which has sent the price retest the 50-month EMA. Historically, when Bitcoin breaks down from its macro triangle, the price retests its 50-month EMA as support and briefly bounces before dropping toward its bear market bottom. “On this occasion, (…) we’ve rebounded already. But history suggests that this rebound is going to be limited, and we’ll be losing the 50-month EMA as support and then turning it into resistance to transition into a cluster beneath it,” the analyst affirmed. Rekt Capital also emphasized that the 50-month EMA roughly aligns with the 2021 all-time high (ATH), which was a major resistance-turned-support area around the early 2024 ATH rally and opened the door to the 2025 run toward its latest ATH. Related Reading: Something Shocking Just Happened To The XRP Price, Analysts Are Using It To Make A Bold Prediction As Bitcoin retests this area as support once again and faces strong resistance around the macro triangle base, the analyst asserted that this rebound may be weaker, adding that history suggests the 50-month EMA support will likely be lost and turned into resistance. “That’s pretty compelling evidence to support the weaker rally thesis as well, because if we do reject from the confluent region of resistance, which is the macro downtrend and the macro triangle base, then indeed this rally (…) will be a lot lesser than the magnitude of that rally that we saw in 2024,” he concluded. Featured Image from Unsplash.com, Chart from TradingView.com
Bitcoin reduces its drop from all-time highs to 35% in a move that sparked new BTC price all-time highs "within a year" on seven occasions in the past.
Vietnam’s deputy minister of finance reportedly said the country is planning to launch its regulated cryptocurrency market in the third quarter of 2026 to answer the growing demand for digital assets.
The sanctions highlight escalating US-China tensions and signal a strategic move to curb Iran's military funding, impacting global oil markets.
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The summit's outcomes could reshape global crypto mining dynamics, impacting profitability and competition across international markets.
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Jane Street cut Bitcoin ETF holdings sharply in Q1 2026, including IBIT and FBTC, while adding at least $82 million in Ether ETF exposure.
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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The Nasdaq-listed firm said the net loss was mainly driven by $92.3 million of unrealized losses on digital assets.