Lolli's seamless bitcoin cashback integration could accelerate mainstream crypto adoption, fostering a more circular Bitcoin economy.
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Crypto markets have turned lower in morning U.S. trade on Tuesday as the idea of coming rate hikes takes a toll on risk assets.
Flare's integration and XRP Alliance could significantly enhance XRP's DeFi utility, attracting new users and fostering ecosystem growth.
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Canaan’s Q1 results were dragged down by a $25 million inventory write-down and a 75% quarterly drop in equipment sales as Bitcoin prices retreated from their highs.
Throughout 2026, MSTR stock and Strategy’s preferred securities are trading as more than a simple Bitcoin proxy. Bitcoin is down about 12.5% year to date, while Strategy stock, trading as MSTR, is up about 6.8% Strategy's preferred securities have also held up better than BTC in price. STRC is nearly flat, while STRD, STRF, and STRK […]
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The feature enables users to earn bitcoin automatically at thousands of merchants, with no extensions, codes, or checkout changes.
The bank said ether and the broader altcoin market continue to trail bitcoin as weak network activity, sluggish DeFi growth and limited real-world adoption weigh on investor demand.
The DAT raised its total BTC holdings to 15,391, allowing Strive to maintain its position as the ninth-largest bitcoin treasury.
Bug bounty platforms and software companies are struggling to handle a surge of low-quality, AI-generated vulnerability reports.
BlackRock's Bitcoin transfer to Coinbase highlights institutional influence on crypto markets, potentially affecting investor confidence and market dynamics.
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Estonia’s FIU has partially suspended BB Trade Estonia OÜ’s license, giving the Zondacrypto operator 30 days to fix compliance issues or risk full revocation.
Crypto analyst Cyclop has provided insights into when the Bitcoin price could hit a new all-time high (ATH) above $120,000. This came as the analyst alluded to historical data indicating that BTC could bottom in this bear cycle by the last quarter of this year. Analyst Reveals When Bitcoin Price Will Hit New ATH Based On Historical Data In an X post, Cyclop alluded to historical BTC cycles to show when the Bitcoin price will hit a new all-time high. He noted that between 2015 and 2017, BTC enjoyed a bull run for 1,065 days, while between 2017 and 2018, it took 365 days for BTC to bottom in the bear market. Similarly, BTC enjoyed another bull run lasting 1,065 days between 2018 and 2021 before entering a bear market that lasted 365 days. Related Reading: Bitcoin Bull Market Confirmation Will Be Completed Once This Level Is Reclaimed, Analyst Furthermore, between 2022 and 2025, the Bitcoin price experienced another bull run lasting 1,065 days, with BTC rallying to an ATH of 126,000. The leading crypto then topped in October 2025 and has since been in a bear market. Based on this historical data, BTC may be on course to be in this bear market until October 5, which will complete the 365-day cycle. The analyst’s accompanying chart showed that the Bitcoin price could rally to between $140,000 and $150,000 in the next bull run before the leading crypto tops in 2030 and enters another bear market. Meanwhile, this historical data suggests that the Bitcoin bottom isn’t in, despite BTC’s recent rally above $80,000. Bitcoin is once again in a downtrend amid inflation concerns and fears that the U.S.-Iran war could begin soon following stalled peace talks. BTC Local Top Is In Crypto analyst Colin stated that the local top is in for the Bitcoin price, with BTC now eyeing new lows. He noted how the current price action is bearish as the leading crypto rejected the upper channel of a trend line, the 200-moving average, and the underside of the trend line. This underside has been respected as both resistance and support many times, but has now broken to the downside. Related Reading: Analyst Says Don’t Buy Bitcoin Until This Happens In another X post, Colin echoed Cyclop’s sentiments, noting that on a purely time basis, it is extremely unlikely that the BTC borrow was in just after four months, since the Bitcoin price topped last October. The analyst had previously stated that BTC could bottom around $40,000 based on historical data, as the lowest decline the crypto asset has ever suffered in a bear market is 77%. Meanwhile, Bitcoin has only seen a 53% drop to the February 2026 low of $60,000. At the time of writing, the Bitcoin price is trading at around $76,600, down in the last 24 hours, according to data from CoinMarketCap. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com
ZEC has jumped 18% in three days as privacy coins rally, defying a 3.45% drop across the wider crypto market.
South Korea’s seventh-largest mutual aid company is currently sitting on a $33 million paper loss on its leveraged Ether ETF investment, following the crypto market downturn.
Armitage's launch signifies a shift towards more sophisticated DeFi infrastructure, enhancing risk management and yield optimization in crypto lending.
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NEAR Protocol (NEAR), up 2.8%, was also a top performer.
Flare and D'CENT launched an integration connecting hardware wallets to XRP yield vaults, with no new chain, wallet, or gas token required.
Bitcoin price slipped to nearly $77,000 this week, extending its decline for a fourth straight day as selling pressure intensified across crypto markets. The latest downturn comes amid heavy Bitcoin ETF outflows, rising spot-market selling, and a sharp shift in trader sentiment, with fear returning to crypto discussions for the first time in weeks. Meanwhile, …
SBI Group has told investors that its asset management arm plans to launch ETFs focused on Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as investment trusts that hold baskets of multiple crypto assets, once Japan reforms its rules on crypto funds and taxation. SBI has already built the architecture through a joint venture with Franklin Templeton, established […]
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The CLARITY Act is moving forward. Following last week’s Senate Banking Committee vote of 15 to 9, the full Senate is now expected to hold a floor vote within the next 30 days according to Gemini. Galaxy Research has raised its probability of the legislation becoming law in 2026 to 75% following the committee breakthrough. …
Pump.fun pulled in $124.7 million in Q1 2026, making it Solana’s largest revenue generator even as memecoin activity cooled, while the network’s RWA market cap crossed $2 billion.
Near Protocol has been rising for the past few months, highlighting the growing interest in the AI narrative within the crypto markets. The recent partnership with Story has intensified the NEAR Price action, which has surged by close to 10% to $1.63 in the past 24 hours. The price surge coincides with the news of …
Tether, the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, has filed seven trademark applications in South Korea. These include its company name, official logo, and its gold-backed token Tether Gold (XAUT). The filings could help Tether set up an official local business in South Korea and prepare for new stablecoin rules that may come soon. …
Bitcoin’s long-term chart has produced another interesting price projection, as crypto analyst Crypto Tice is pointing out a technical roadmap needed for a rally to $500,000. This Bitcoin price forecast is based on a broad ascending channel that has guided the cryptocurrency through previous support tests, midrange rallies, and rejection zones. Notably, the latest structure is now positioned at what the analyst called the second major support touch. Bitcoin’s Bull Channel Structure Crypto Tice, a technical analyst on the social media platform X, analyzed a macro bull channel on Bitcoin’s weekly chart that has been governing price action across multiple cycles. The structure is a long-term ascending parallel channel, bounded by a lower rising support trendline and an upper rising resistance trendline. Related Reading: Why Ethereum Is About To Break The Bear Cycle And Rally To $8,000 The weekly candlestick chart shows Bitcoin reacting to the lower green boundary during the previous cycle low, rallying into the middle of the channel, facing rejection here, and then returning to support before beginning a stronger rally phase to the upper part of the channel. The analyst’s rationale is that Bitcoin has already completed the same sequence that appeared earlier in the channel. The first touch at support has already happened, the rally to the middle of the channel has already played out, and the rejection back into the lower region of the structure has also been completed. Based on this reading, Bitcoin is now sitting around the second major support touch, which is the zone where the analysis suggests a much larger move could begin. The second support touch is the most important part of the setup because it represents the point where Bitcoin is expected to prove that the larger channel is still intact. Bitcoin Price Chart. Source: @CryptoTice_ On X The Projection To $500,000 Bitcoin’s current position is very important. A defense of the lower trendline would mean that the leading cryptocurrency is not merely bouncing inside a weak market but building another expansion leg from a long-term channel support trendline. Related Reading: Trillion-Dollar Italian Bank Moves To XRP, But How Much Have They Bought? The next projection is a bounce off the support trendline and then a rally to the channel resistance line. The next price target sitting on the upper resistance band of the long-term bull channel is at $500,000. This target is plotted using the same way Bitcoin rallied the last time from support to the upper resistance band. It is worth noting that this is only a technical projection, and one that implies a move of more than six times from current price levels. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $77,075, having lost the $80,000 price level again. The broader analyst community is divided on Bitcoin’s path, and institutional forecasts for 2026 are generally in a range from $143,000 to $189,000. Crypto Tice’s analysis, however, is more of a long-term outlook and it offers a structural context for understanding where Bitcoin is in its long-term trajectory. Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
The self-custodial wallet platform integrated Kraken-backed xStocks infrastructure, adding more than 130 tokenized stocks and ETFs for users.
The crypto market structure bill saw a high-stakes, 11th-hour gambit to get Democrats on board for a bipartisan committee vote, but it might carry a cost.
TD Cowen raised its Strategy MSTR price target to $400, noting accelerating BTC per share growth and $1.5B in accretive debt repurchases.
HYPE soared as the SEC opened the door to third-party tokenized stocks. Strategy bought another $2B in BTC, and price still went lower.
Your day-ahead look for May 19, 2026
Analysts at Benchmark, TD Cowen, and Mizuho hold buy ratings on Bitdeer, Strive, DeFi Technologies, and Gemini amid infra and markets pivots.