Sam Bankman-Fried is serving 25 years in a California federal prison, his retrial request was pushed back on, and yet the FTX founder remains one of the louder voices shaping crypto’s regulatory conversation – this time taking direct aim at Gary Gensler. In a post on X, Bankman-Fried didn’t just credit the Trump administration for …
Chains are launching perp DEXs to capture trading activity, but history suggests liquidity will consolidate around only a handful of platforms.
Ray Dalio argues Bitcoin cannot replace gold as a store of value, citing central bank demand, market maturity and Bitcoin’s risk-asset behavior.
Pi Network price is gaining momentum as speculation around an upcoming Kraken listing of the PI token continues to fuel renewed interest among crypto traders. The PI price rally comes at a time when the broader cryptocurrency market has been moving largely sideways, allowing select altcoins with strong catalysts to outperform. Over the past month, …
Stablecoins move trillions each year but mostly sit unused, leaving a widespread inefficiency across crypto markets.
Grayscale’s Avalanche Staking ETF (GAVA) has debuted on Nasdaq, offering AVAX exposure and staking rewards.
Grayscale's new ETF highlights growing mainstream acceptance of digital assets, potentially boosting institutional interest in blockchain tech.
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The National Tax Service has opened a procurement bid for a platform to analyze crypto trading data and flag potential tax evasion.
The Bank of England's openness to revising stablecoin regulations could foster innovation while balancing financial stability and industry growth.
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Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone said bitcoin could still fall back toward and potentially below the $10,000 area, arguing that crypto remains trapped in a broader macro unwind tied to deflationary pressure, overstretched risk assets and what he described as excess across the digital-asset complex. Speaking in an interview with EllioTrades, McGlone reiterated a call he first revived when bitcoin was above $100,000: that the market could again “lop off a zero.” This time, he framed the thesis less as a pure crypto-cycle forecast and more as a macro view on what happens when speculative assets begin to roll over together. The Thesis For $10,000 Bitcoin McGlone’s core argument was that bitcoin is no longer trading as a detached alternative asset. In his telling, it has been absorbed into the same cross-asset risk regime as equities, commodities and broader liquidity conditions. “Bitcoin was one in 2009 and now there’s 37 million cryptocurrencies,” he said. “Bitcoin was one. So limited supply. But this space led the way up in risk assets… Now they’re leading the way lower.” Related Reading: Arthur Hayes Says He Wouldn’t Buy Bitcoin Yet: Wait For This He tied that view to what he sees as a post-inflation deflationary phase, with bond markets, not crypto, likely to be the next relative winners. McGlone said the sharp move in energy, metals and crypto volatility has not yet fully spilled into equities, but expects that to change. His base case is that stock-market volatility rises materially from still-subdued levels, triggering a deeper correction in both equities and digital assets. That, in turn, underpins his bitcoin target. McGlone said he is not identifying $10,000 as a precise cycle low so much as the most important long-duration trading zone in the asset’s history from 2019-2020. “If you look at the highest most widely traded price in Bitcoin since 2020, maybe even going out to 2019, it’s 10,000 or lower and has a history of fluctuating around 10,000,” he said. “So my premise is we’re going back to that level.” The strategist was especially blunt about the rest of the sector. He argued that stablecoins are the only clear structural winners inside crypto because they “track something physical,” namely the dollar and Treasury-based collateral. Everything else, he suggested, depends largely on speculative belief. He pointed to the massive growth of Tether and broader crypto-dollar supply as evidence that the base layer of the ecosystem is increasing dollar demand, not appreciation in volatile tokens. Related Reading: Bitcoin ‘Sandwiched’ Between Two Key Zones As Price Tops $71,000 – Major Move Ahead? McGlone also said the speculative excess of 2024 and 2025, amplified by memecoins, ETFs and post-election enthusiasm around Donald Trump, may have marked a durable top for the broader asset class. “The bottom line is these risk assets have to prove me wrong,” he said. “Otherwise, I see us navigating and riding a bear market in equities, a bull market in volatility that’s barely getting started.” EllioTrades pushed back on both the magnitude of the bitcoin call and the idea that crypto is effectively “dead,” arguing that Bitcoin could still reassert itself as a debasement hedge and that stablecoin-based agentic commerce, privacy use cases and a post-washout class of surviving projects could support a future recovery. He also argued that, while many tokens may still go to zero, the surviving tokens of the market may follow a familiar purge-and-rebirth pattern seen in earlier cycles. McGlone did not rule out that crypto eventually finds a bottom. But his message was that the market is not there yet. For now, he said, bitcoin and the wider complex are still behaving like risk assets in a bear phase and until equities correct more meaningfully and stay down for a while, rallies should be treated with caution rather than as proof that the cycle has turned. At press time, Bitcoin traded at $69,890. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
The BlackRock’s iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHB) lets investors earn staking rewards alongside spot ETH exposure.
March 14th, known worldwide as Pi Day, has gradually become one of the most anticipated dates for the Pi Network community. The project’s core team typically uses this day to share updates about development, tools, and ecosystem progress. As Pi Day 2026 approaches, the community is watching closely for updates that could reveal what the …
The Hyperliquid price is showing renewed strength as the token trades around $37–$38, recovering sharply from its recent lows near the $20 region earlier this year. The rebound comes at a time when the broader crypto market is gradually stabilizing, with capital increasingly rotating toward infrastructure and emerging Layer-1 ecosystems. Among these projects, Hyperliquid has …
Solana, after a Volatile ride, shows some stability and signs of strength. Although SOL price is down 30% since the start of 2026, exchange inflows have increased network activity, and buyers’ interest keeps it on the Hot list. Broder Sentiment looks cautious for Solana. The Fear and Greed Index for Soalna is at 27, which …
XRP ETFs have attracted strong investor interest despite recent price weakness. Launched in mid-November 2025 following Ripple’s SEC court victory, funds from issuers such as Canary Capital and Franklin Templeton have gathered $1.44 billion in inflows by early March 2026. Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart said the flows have remained steady through market volatility, largely driven …
Chinese investors defrauded in the Zhimin Qian case are asking the UK High Court to reject a redress plan for 61,000 seized Bitcoin, saying it could deprive them of the assets’ gains.
BOE Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden told lawmakers the central bank is open to alternative approaches that protect financial stability.
Bitcoin analysts said buyers were regaining control, but reclaiming $78,000 as support was key to reversing the overall downtrend.
The futures-to-spot ratio has climbed to 5.1, reflecting a structural shift in how the market trades.
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IBM's quantum-centric supercomputing architecture could revolutionize problem-solving in science by integrating quantum and classical systems.
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Investors allege JPMorgan helped facilitate fund flows in a $328 million crypto Ponzi scheme, while a parallel federal case targets Goliath Ventures’ founder.
Two Prime CEO Alexander Blume says the high yield product driving the buying surge carries risks despite strong momentum.
BTC holds near $70,000 and outperforms major assets during Middle East tensions, even as derivatives data and fear indicators signal deep market pessimism.
While the broader crypto market continues to trade in a sideways range, RIVER token has emerged as one of today’s top gainers, rallying nearly 24% over the past 24 hours. The sharp price surge appears to be driven by growing ecosystem activity, particularly after the project revealed that over $1 million worth of RIVER tokens …
The head of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued a sharp warning about the state of crypto markets. Speaking on the All-In Podcast, CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said regulators are increasingly concerned about risks building across the digital asset sector. According to Selig, parts of the market are showing signs of excessive manipulation …
Bitcoin traded around $69,800 as open interest rose to $102 billion, suggesting defensive, bearish bets while altcoins outperformed in a risk-off macro backdrop.
Pump.fun tops $1 billion in revenue as domain records reveal Ethereum, Base, BSC, and Monad subdomains amid potential cross-chain expansion.
The XRP funding rate has been on the decline after the price hit its 2025 peak above 2025, and this trend has continued into the new year. Between February and March 2026, the XRP funding rate spent most of the time in the negative, and this speaks to how investors are currently viewing the cryptocurrency. Analyst Cryptoinsightuk points this out in a recent X post, alluding to what this could mean for the digital asset going forward. XRP Funding Rate Hasn’t Been This Low Since 2022 Cryptoinsightuk’s post highlights the interesting XRP trend, showing that in the last 39 days, 31 of those days have been spent with negative funding rates. This means that only a few days out of the month of February saw a funding rate in the positive. And now, the month of March seems to be following the same trend. Related Reading: Bitcoin Is Repeating 2022 Playbook That Triggered Crash To $17,500 The post also includes the other times that the altcoin has seen a trend like this and what eventually happened. The most recent of these was back in 2025, when the funding rate spent the better part of the months of March and April in the negative. However, what followed was a massive XRP price rally, eventually leading to levels not seen since 2018. While this did not lead the XRP price to new all-time highs, it pushed it to new yearly peaks, a rally that took investors by surprise. Moving further back, the crypto analyst points out that another period when a similar trend had been seen was back in 2022. This came with the crash of the FTX crypto exchange as the market buckled under negative news. Eventually, though, this trend would mark the bottom for XRP, and the price began to rise in the following year. Related Reading: Dogecoin Remains Inside Falling Channel, Bulls Target Surge Above $0.1 Going by the previous performances, it is possible that the same trend could mark a bottom here once again. If this happens, then it will not be long until the XRP price begins to rise again. Additionally, such low funding rates suggest that more traders are short, making it a good time for a bounce. According to data from Coinglass, the funding rate is not the only metric that has suffered. The XRP open interest has also taken a nosedive since 2025, showing that traders are not participating in the market as much as they used to. Daily trading volume has also suffered, dropping from a peak of $78.85 billion at the tail end of 2024 to below $4 billion at the time of this report. Featured image from Dall.E, chart from TradingView.com
The Dogecoin price has entered a critical phase as the token continues to trade under sustained bearish pressure. Over the past several months, DOGE has been forming a series of lower highs, indicating weakening bullish momentum. The latest price action suggests that the meme coin may be approaching a decisive breakout or breakdown zone, which …