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a golden Bitcoin rolling up a luminous path as an oil barrel and red arrows fall left, an icy dollar symbol cools right with downward DXY lines, and a Japanese central bank facade with a yen sign hints at easing policy under bright teal and gold skies.

Oil down, dollar cools, BoJ signals rate cut: How will this affect Bitcoin?

While derivative markets underwent historic deleveraging with $19 billion in futures open interest wiped out, several macro developments are aligning to support crypto's next leg higher.

4 months ago

A glowing gold Bitcoin sits below a sharp red price line as rare-earth rocks, a brightly lit semiconductor wafer, and split U.S.–China shipping containers strain against a snapping cable over a world map, suggesting export controls and widening decoupling dragging risk assets lower.

Crypto

Why is Bitcoin trading below $110,000? Everything that happened in crypto today

Liquidations and ETF outflows coincided with broader risk-asset weakness stemming from escalating US-China trade tensions over rare-earth export controls.

4 months ago

A photorealistic Hong Kong waterfront scene shows a classical bank building spilling glowing coins into Victoria Harbour toward a luminous BNB Chain emblem floating over the skyline, symbolizing a massive money market fund moving on-chain.

RWA

$3.8B fund tokenized on BNB marks China’s boldest RWA move yet

China Merchants Bank’s Hong Kong unit moves a money market product onto BNB Chain. What it means for custody, redemptions, and ETH/SOL competition.

4 months ago

portrait of Roger Ver in golden-teal lighting before a bright courthouse atrium with subtle Bitcoin symbols and scales of justice accents.

Taxes

Bitcoin Jesus pays $50 million to dodge prison – but can he really live freely?

Roger Ver’s settlement caps a decade-long saga and resets the rules for offshore holdouts.

4 months ago

a giant glass padlock of collateral at center with neon data arcs connecting isolated bubble-like perp markets guarded by validator shields over a sunlit skyline.

Derivatives

Anyone can now create Hyperliquid perp contracts with $20M: Is DeFi about to break?

Listing anything is easy; risk and liquidity are hard, and here’s the model.Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 removes gatekeepers by letting anyone launch perpetuals if they stake $20 million. It’s either DeFi’s boldest safety experiment, or its next stress test.

4 months ago

A bright, cinematic scene shows a clear, padlocked custody box of Bitcoin, Ether, and USDC on a wooden desk with California’s bear emblem and Capitol dome in the background, symbolizing in-kind protection of unclaimed crypto.

Legislation

What California ban on forced crypto liquidation really means

New statute curbs forced liquidation; we map who’s covered and what’s not.

4 months ago

Mining

Are miners buying Bitcoin again? Marathon adds 400 BTC after the crash

What MARA's Bitcoin acquisition says about hashprice, cash balances, and miner-led flows.

4 months ago

A wide, cinematic trading floor in deep indigo shows red candlesticks toppling like dominos into a swirling teal vortex as glowing BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, and ADA coins tumble toward the drain, evoking a dark-toned but brightly lit liquidation cascade.

Crypto

Weekend ‘Crypto Black Friday’ liquidation cascade: What actually happened?

A data-first post-mortem on liquidations, funding, and ETF dip-buyers.

4 months ago

a dipping red Bitcoin chart with rising gold bars and a looming dollar symbol, capturing risk-off pressure amid a still-bullish debasement narrative.

ETF

If the debasement trade would catapult Bitcoin, why is the market down?

If gold is benefiting from the debasement trade, why is Bitcoin down by 4.2% on the week?

4 months ago

CZ stands between matte Aster and Hyperliquid logos as warm privacy panels face a cool wireframe order-book grid in a bright, cinematic split-tone scen

DEX

CZ says Aster’s privacy beats Hyperliquid’s transparent order books

CZ attributed BNB's recent meme explosion to an unplanned Mid-Autumn Festival post, and outlined his investment thesis favoring privacy-focused perpetual DEXs over transparent alternatives.

4 months ago

A cinematic 16:9 image: former President Donald Trump stands left-of-frame under bright, mid-to-high key lighting, holding a tariff document; behind him a vivid red downward arrow slices through a shattering golden Bitcoin over a cool blue market chart, blending into warm red-orange tones of China’s flag, the Great Wall, and the Shanghai skyline to symbolize the crash.

Market

Trump tariff threat against China causes Bitcoin to crash 7%, $19B in liquidations

Trump accused China of attempting to monopolize rare-earth elements and announced plans for a massive increase of tariffs on Chinese products.

4 months ago

Crypto

Strategy’s Bitcoin mNAV collapses to 1.174, lowest since February 2024

The narrowing gap between market capitalization and underlying asset value poses a threat to sustainability.

4 months ago

Gino Matos

Oil down, dollar cools, BoJ signals rate cut: How will this affect Bitcoin?

Why is Bitcoin trading below $110,000? Everything that happened in crypto today

$3.8B fund tokenized on BNB marks China’s boldest RWA move yet

Bitcoin Jesus pays $50 million to dodge prison – but can he really live freely?

Anyone can now create Hyperliquid perp contracts with $20M: Is DeFi about to break?

What California ban on forced crypto liquidation really means

Are miners buying Bitcoin again? Marathon adds 400 BTC after the crash

Weekend ‘Crypto Black Friday’ liquidation cascade: What actually happened?

If the debasement trade would catapult Bitcoin, why is the market down?

CZ says Aster’s privacy beats Hyperliquid’s transparent order books

Trump tariff threat against China causes Bitcoin to crash 7%, $19B in liquidations

Strategy’s Bitcoin mNAV collapses to 1.174, lowest since February 2024

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