New onchain data from CryptoQuant shows investor capitulation in the 2026 Bitcoin bear market has not yet matched 2022 levels, leaving realized losses below the prior record even though market capitalization in US dollar terms is higher. Contributor Darkfost wrote that realized losses are calculated in USD and, with similar

After bitcoin's worst week in two years, Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor posted a framework on X saying the community is coalescing into four distinct ideological camps. He presented these groups not as rivals but as complementary forces that together will shape bitcoin’s future. Bitcoin Maximalists view

Chicago-based trading giant DRW is building a dedicated prediction market desk focused on platforms such as Polymarket and Kalshi. The firm, a dominant force in derivatives, fixed income and crypto markets since 1992, posted a job requiring candidates to monitor prices in real time across both platforms, identify gaps and

Crypto investors endured one of their toughest weeks as a wave of selling wiped out hundreds of billions from digital asset markets. Bitcoin fell 17.3% this week while ether dropped 22%, putting both assets on track for their largest weekly declines since November 2022, when the collapse of FTX

America’s biggest banks said they will launch a shared tokenized deposit network through The Clearing House by the first half of 2027. The project would let bank deposits move across blockchain infrastructure with round-the-clock settlement, giving traditional bank money some of the same capabilities that have helped stablecoins gain

Bitcoin’s daily relative strength index has fallen to about 15.5, the lowest reading since the March 2020 COVID crash, signaling extreme oversold conditions. The move follows roughly a 30% decline over the past month amid geopolitical risks, higher oil prices, fading hopes for a 2026 Federal Reserve rate

When Meta announced it would pay creators in USDC in Colombia and the Philippines, with plans to expand to more than 160 countries, many saw it as a milestone for stablecoins. A company that handles nearly $3 billion in annual creator payouts choosing onchain settlement over traditional banking rails is

James Wo, founder and CEO of crypto investment firm DFG, told attendees at the Proof of Talk conference in Paris that bitcoin remains the dominant institutional asset in crypto and rejected Tom Lee’s prediction that ether could reach $250,000. "I totally disagree with him," Wo said.

A Bitcoin address that held 35.55 BTC — worth $2.54 million and untouched since March 2011 — moved coins earlier this week. The wallet 1LwWtSs7tMCwcRczQd5kVMv3xpWw6w4Sxe sent 15 BTC to a new address and kept 20.55 BTC as change in transaction b90755b at 16:46 UTC on June 2, recorded

Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and chief investment officer of family office Maelstrom, said the firm sold its entire Worldcoin stake on Friday, less than a day after publicly signalling it would keep holding the token. "Dumped $WLD. I'm out. See y'all at the clerb,

ADA fell to around $0.16 on Thursday, down nearly 30% over the past seven days and more than 75% over the past year. The token briefly traded below $0.16, its lowest level since December 2020, extending a drawdown that has turned Cardano from one of crypto’s largest

Bitcoin climbed back above $61,000 in Asian trade after briefly slipping under $60,000 overnight, falling as low as $59,227 before buyers stepped in. The token was trading around $61,000, down about 1.3% on the day, after recovering more than $1,500 off the low. The

Bitcoin is headed for its worst weekly performance since November 2022, down about 15% week-to-date. The pair traded near $62,500 after briefly dipping toward $61,000 and rebounding by roughly $1,500 as bulls tried to defend the psychological $60,000 level. The 200-week simple moving average sits near

Michael Saylor said Bitcoin needs “disciplined expansion” through banks, companies, securities, credit and capital markets, outlining a path for the asset as spot ETF outflows and a broader market sell-off test institutional demand. In an essay he argued Bitcoin’s base layer should be treated as “sacred infrastructure,” with most

The Illinois General Assembly passed a $56 billion budget that includes Senate Bill 3019, a 1624-page revenue and tax package for fiscal year 2027. The measure contains a 0.2% tax on crypto transactions to be imposed by the “digital asset broker making or effectuating the sale of the digital

Ether (ETH) fell to a 13-month low of $1,540 on Friday as the broader crypto market turned sharply bearish. Traders are bracing for a deeper correction after derivatives shifted toward heavy shorting and a critical vulnerability was discovered in the Zcash blockchain. The ETH perpetual futures annualized funding rate

Bitcoin’s slide to $61,100 wiped out $335 million in leveraged long positions after a 21% drop, yet bears piled on short exposure between $63,000 and $66,000. That concentration of bets has left a potential $2.6 billion short-squeeze trap should prices rebound into that range. Models

The House Ways and Means Committee circulated seven discussion drafts of bills addressing digital asset taxation ahead of a Tuesday hearing, covering stablecoins, staking, mining and transactions. The drafts propose reducing tax paperwork for crypto holders, clarifying rules for mining and staking, and creating a potential 'de minimis'

When far-right influencer Nick Shirley posted a viral video in January alleging fraud at Minnesota daycares, he also wore a gray hoodie with the Polymarket logo. He had featured the platform in earlier man-on-the-street videos, and those posts came after he began receiving money from Polymarket's chief marketing

Kraken is giving customers access to the upcoming SpaceX initial public offering through xStocks, its tokenized equities platform, highlighting a growing convergence between crypto infrastructure and traditional capital markets. Kraken announced Friday that SpaceX will be the first public offering available through xStocks IPO Access, which allows eligible users to

Pump.fun introduced a new open bounty platform on Thursday, positioning it as a marketplace to “complete bounties for ANY task and leverage the power of humans & money across the globe.” Users have posted crypto rewards for promotional tasks such as tattooing memecoin ticker symbols, quitting their current job

Strategy disclosed the sale of 32 Bitcoin — its first reported liquidation outside a 2022 tax-related transaction — and the market reacted sharply. The sale was tiny compared with the company’s holdings, but shares of MSTR fell as investors rethought the long-standing view that the firm would only accumulate BTC and

Visa is testing whether privacy-enabled blockchain networks can support institutional stablecoin settlement without exposing sensitive transaction data. The proof of concept with stablecoin infrastructure company Brale uses SBC, a US dollar-backed stablecoin issued by Brale, to simulate institutional payment flows on the Canton Network as Visa evaluates whether SBC could

Zcash came under fresh market pressure after founder Zooko Wilcox disclosed details of a critical bug in the Orchard shielded pool. Shielded Labs said security researcher Taylor Hornby found the issue on May 29 and in a local test used the exploit to create unlimited counterfeit ZEC inside Orchard without

Zcash developers and researchers are weighing whether a new shielded pool could help restore confidence in supply verification after a recently patched Orchard vulnerability. Shielded Labs said it is exploring a proposed network upgrade that would deploy a second shielded pool and enforce “turnstile accounting” on coins moving from Orchard,