Analysis
Bitcoin’s uptrend towards $80,000 is increasingly attracting bears – but they keep losing
A two-week diplomatic pause and a dovish Federal Reserve nominee are forcing over-leveraged short-sellers into a violent wave of liquidations.
Sentiment: Neutral
Latest stories
Technology
New York targets crypto with new $3.4B fines as perpetual futures turn prediction apps into nonstop leverage casinos
Perps replace one off event contracts with always on leverage and margin calls, raising the stakes for regulators and users.
Derivatives
Perps, prediction markets and memecoins: Inside crypto’s push for a gambling super app
From Hyperliquid to Kalshi to memecoin launchpads, trading venues are expanding beyond their original niches and converging on the same goal of owning the user’s entire speculative loop.
People
Apple’s new CEO inherits a multimillion‑dollar crypto scam problem in the App Store
As Tim Cook passes the baton, a sophisticated syndicate of crypto thieves is testing the limits of Apple’s security.
Quantum
Crypto’s new trust test: which chains are truly quantum ready — and which are just talking
As NIST pushes organizations to start migrating now, public post-quantum planning is beginning to look like a new marker of maturity across the crypto stack.
Quantum
Ripple sets 2028 deadline to harden XRPL after Google’s quantum research sharpens attack risk
XRPL's post quantum planning goes beyond signatures and Ripple hints privacy tools like zero knowledge proofs may change too.
Politics
Iran calls out “digital oil” trade amid volatile US-Iran ceasefire trading
Iran just turned “digital oil” into a wartime target, and crypto’s role in global markets looks different now.
ETF
Wall Street moves beyond the Bitcoin ETF trade as XRP leads altcoins on fragile macro relief
XRP topped $55.39 million while Solana hit $35.17 million, yet Litecoin was the only crypto product with no flows.
Market
How Strategy’s STRC could propel the Michael Saylor’s firm Bitcoin holdings past BlackRock’s IBIT this week
Saylor’s “Think Even ₿igger” post revived his familiar pre filing ritual, with traders bracing for a surprise purchase size.
DeFi
Crypto traders spend $9.7B on fees as the next Bitcoin drawdown will expose which on-chain costs are real
A new 1kx analysis suggests many protocol fees rise with Bitcoin prices, but the real test is what happens in down months, when macro fear hits and fee beta turns painful.
ETF
Morgan Stanley’s $116M Bitcoin ETF debut is tiny next to $1.9T, and that’s why Wall Street will notice
MSBT’s early inflows are negligible next to Morgan Stanley’s $1.9 trillion platform, but they offer something more valuable: proof that a bank-branded Bitcoin product can attract demand fast.
Stablecoins
White House tells “greedy” banks to “move on” from CLARITY Act stablecoin yield fight
The White House has demanded that banks abandon their lobbying efforts against yield-bearing stablecoins in the upcoming CLARITY Act.
