Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) shares rose Monday after the Bitcoin holder moved to reassure investors that it can meet its preferred stock obligations, authorizing up to $2 billion in buybacks and opening the door to Bitcoin sales that could fund dividends, interest payments, and repurchases. The company, led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, announced a new […]
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Bitcoin’s break below the $60,000 area has pushed digital asset markets into a more defensive phase, ending months of narrow trading and exposing a market structure that traders say could amplify the next major move. CryptoSlate's data show the largest cryptocurrency had been moving sideways since February, when it first tested the $60,000 area. That long […]
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Illinois just became the first state to tax crypto by the transaction. The new 0.2% levy hits nearly every trade, transfer, or custody service an exchange runs for an Illinois resident, and it takes effect January 1, 2027. Governor JB Pritzker signed the Digital Asset Tax Act in mid-June, tucked inside a $55.9 billion budget. […]
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Aave's latest market move is becoming a referendum on how investors value DeFi lending as its economics begin to resemble those of financial infrastructure. The token rallied as AAVE traded around $94.32 on June 27, up 13.16% over 24 hours. At the same time, a reported Standard Chartered bull case described Aave in automated-bank terms, […]
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Over the past year, the artificial intelligence trade has become one of the main pillars supporting global risk appetite. However, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is now warning that the same spending boom could become a source of financial stress if expected returns fail to arrive. The Basel-based organization, which advises central banks, said […]
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Prediction markets are drawing one of their largest sports audiences yet from the World Cup, but the surge is creating an unusual picture beneath the headline numbers. World Cup-linked contracts on Polymarket have generated more than $3.3 billion in trading volume, a level that puts the tournament well ahead of this year’s Super Bowl, which […]
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PBOC's first overnight reverse repo gives traders a new liquidity gauge, but one injection does not reset Bitcoin's fragile setup near $60K.
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Some of the costliest crypto scams never touch the blockchain. They wait for you to make one wrong move, and a few simple habits are usually enough to stop them. This guide was prepared with care by SimpleSwap and Cypherock to help you keep your crypto safe. The address you copy may not be the […]
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The local rupee quote shows how enforcement pressure can make stablecoin liquidity more expensive before regulated rails are ready.
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The CLARITY Act, the crypto industry’s most important bill in Congress, is running out of time. The bill, which would establish federal rules for the crypto industry, is increasingly at risk of slipping deeper into the 2026 election year amid renewed partisan fights and a new demand from President Donald Trump that has made an […]
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Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF outflows dwarfed XRP’s weekly inflow, while selective demand for XRP and HYPE wrappers showed institutions separating broad crypto risk from targeted altcoin exposure.
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Its 7,696 BTC reserve now has to remain legible through a drawdown, wallet scrutiny, and program conditions.
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Stablecoins have rarely had more policy attention than they do in 2026. Lawmakers, payment companies, and crypto firms are treating dollar tokens as infrastructure rather than a side market. However, the most visible demand signals now point the other way. Search volume for “stablecoins” was down 54% month over month in June, based on annualized […]
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Congress just blocked the Federal Reserve from issuing a CBDC, and the companies benefiting most are private stablecoin issuers like Circle and Tether. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act passed the Senate 85-5 on June 22 and cleared the House 358-32 the next day, and folded inside that housing package is a four-year ban […]
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XRP’s retreat toward $1 is testing whether one of the cryptocurrency market’s largest tokens can hold a level that has become increasingly important after months of declining prices. Data from CryptoSlate shows that the digital asset fell to $1.02 on Friday, its weakest price since February, as a market-wide selloff prompted traders to reduce exposure […]
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The 200-week break now depends on whether ETF outflows fade or turn the level into resistance.
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The total crypto market cap is down more than 36% year over year, the altcoin complex sits roughly 45% below its October 2025 peak, and Bitcoin is on course for its worst annual start in more than a decade, with capital rotating into AI stocks and major IPOs. Three years of waiting for a broad […]
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Ripple secured preliminary approval as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider from Luxembourg's financial regulator, the CSSF, on June 23. The approval was delivered as a “Green Light Letter,” which the company is pairing with the EMI license it finalized in the same jurisdiction in February. Together, the two approvals put Ripple inside MiCA's perimeter, where one […]
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IBIT still dominates the spot Bitcoin ETF market, but Farside's latest flow data shows its scale can now work in reverse when Bitcoin needs fresh spot demand around $60,000.
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OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6 on June 26 as a limited-preview family of frontier models with three tiers: Sol as the flagship, Terra as the balanced mid-range option, and Luna as the fast, low-cost tier. OpenAI says Sol performs competitively with Anthropic's Mythos Preview on ExploitBench using roughly 33% of the output tokens, at $5 per million […]
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Banks across the US, the UK, and Europe finally have a legal path to issue stablecoins, custody Bitcoin, and settle tokenized funds, yet the capital rulebook that governs it all still treats a Bitcoin position as something close to a guaranteed loss. Under the Basel Committee's cryptoasset standard, which has been live in member jurisdictions since January 1, […]
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Bitcoin enters the weekend near $60,000 after sticky inflation, heavy ETF outflows, and a failed defense of the $59,000-$62,000 zone. The May PCE print gave the market a reason to sell, but the real damage came from positioning. Core PCE came in at 3.4% year over year, above the Fed's 2% target but broadly in […]
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Strategy, the Bitcoin treasury and enterprise software company formerly known as MicroStrategy, has spent years turning public markets into a funding engine for Bitcoin purchases. That model helped make the company the world’s largest corporate holder of the digital asset. Now, the securities used to power that strategy are flashing stress. The pressure is centered […]
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Bitcoin is trading just above $60,000 right now, and the network's estimated all-in cost to produce a single coin is near $84,300, so the gap between the two is roughly a quarter, leaving mining underwater on a full-cost basis across much of the network. For years, the assumption was that this simply couldn't happen, that […]
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Over the past six weeks, investors have pulled roughly $5.94 billion from US spot Bitcoin ETFs, marking the longest unbroken run of weekly outflows since these funds first opened for business in 2024. Galaxy Research puts the worst 30-day stretch at $6.35 billion through June 20. Bitcoin has been sliding right alongside those redemptions, and […]
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Four long-dormant ETH wallets sold most of a 37,602 ETH stash near $1,560, turning Ethereum's drawdown into a test of whether fresh demand can absorb old-holder supply.
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The European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) has triggered a fight among licensed crypto exchanges to capture users and deposits from platforms that may no longer be allowed to serve the bloc. The new regulation, which is set to take full effect on July 1, hardens the line between firms with bloc-wide authorization and those still […]
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The Bank of England has dropped the piece of its stablecoin plan that the industry hated most, the proposed £20,000 limit on how much sterling stablecoin any one person could hold, along with the £10 million ceiling for businesses. In their place, the central bank's June 22 policy statement set a single £40 billion cap […]
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GnosisDAO's GIP-151 passed with 215% of the required quorum, 49 votes representing a voting weight roughly 2.15 times the 75,000 GNO minimum threshold. The proposal authorized a one-time pro rata treasury redemption, allowing GNO holders to surrender tokens in exchange for a proportional share of liquid treasury assets. A passed governance vote on a treasury […]
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All 32 of America's largest banks made it through the Federal Reserve's annual stress test on June 24. This year's scenario was unusually brutal: the Fed asked them to imagine unemployment climbing to 10%, commercial real estate prices falling 39%, home prices dropping 30%, and roughly $708 billion in losses landing across the group all […]
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