Bitcoin’s recent slide below $80,000 has triggered a wave of sleep disruption across the retail trading community, according to a new report from CEX.io.
The flagship digital asset has since rebounded to about $88,000, but the roughly 31% drawdown from its recent peak left many investors monitoring prices through the night.
This behavior has moved beyond simple anxiety, as nearly 70% of surveyed...
Texas has taken the first formal step toward becoming the first US state to hold Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset.
On Nov. 25, Lee Bratcher, president of the Texas Blockchain Council, reported that the world’s eighth-largest economy, valued at $2.7 trillion, purchased $5 million worth of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF, IBIT.
He added that a second $5 million allocation is already lined up for...
Bank of America forecasts US real GDP growth of 2.4% in 2026, propelled by five different tailwinds. Meanwhile, JPMorgan stressed various headwinds for the macroeconomic landscape next year.
The OBBBA fiscal package adding roughly half a point through consumer spending and capex, lagged Fed cuts boosting activity in the second half, more growth-friendly trade policy, sustained AI investment, and...
The Dec. 4 meeting of the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee opens with a question the agency has spent years avoiding: “What does it actually look like when publicly traded equities live on a blockchain?”
Not as wrapped derivatives on offshore exchanges, not as speculative tokens detached from shareholder rights, but as registered securities trading inside the same regulatory framework that...
A 284-page complaint filed Nov. 24 against Binance in North Dakota federal court represents 306 American families who lost relatives in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks.
The lawsuit demands roughly $1 billion from Binance, former CEO Changpeng Zhao, and executive Guangying “Heina” Chen, with the amount automatically tripling to $3 billion if the plaintiffs win under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The...
Strategy Inc. (formerly MicroStrategy) spent 2025 building the largest corporate Bitcoin reserve the public markets have ever financed, but the scale of that ambition ended up colliding with the logic of its own stock.
What began as an aggressive accumulation strategy, powered by the company’s appetite for leverage and a willingness to dilute existing shareholders, evolved into a structural...
A high-conviction Bitcoin whale placed a $2 billion wager that the worst is over and the market bottom might be in after a brutal leverage washout stripped speculative froth from the crypto market.
On Nov. 24, Deribit, the Coinbase-owned crypto options trading platform, reported a 20,000 BTC notional block trade, which appears to signal that institutional capital is pivoting from damage control...
XRP is leading the race for altcoin supremacy in the US crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) market with its record performance since last month.
In less than 10 trading days, the new crop of US spot XRP ETFs has registered cumulative inflows of roughly $587 million, compared with approximately $568 million for their Solana counterparts.
This surge turns the sector’s hierarchy on its head,...
Timechain Index founder Sani reported 87,464 BTC flowing out of institution-tagged wallets between Nov. 21 and Nov. 22, adding that he hadn’t seen such movement in months.
The raw data showed over 15,000 BTC leaving tracked cohorts on Nov. 21 alone, the largest single-day outflow since June 26.
Yet, as Sani clarified in a note, the headline figure overstates actual selling pressure. Most of the...
American financial services company MSCI’s October consultation on “digital asset treasury companies” arrived at a time when the mechanics of Bitcoin (BTC) exposure had already begun to fracture.
By mid-2025, three roughly equal-sized channels funneled institutional capital into BTC: regulated spot ETFs managing north of $100 billion, mining operations with embedded BTC exposure, and a newer...