Traders are loading up on short- and near-dated put options on Deribit, positioning for a deeper slide that could push bitcoin toward $52,000 in the coming weeks. Data tracked by Laevitas shows heavy buying across expirations from June 22 to July 31, including June 22 $61,500 puts (337

Former Ethereum Foundation contributor Trenton Van Epps warned in a blog post on Thursday that the network faces a core development funding crisis and will need new funding sources within three to nine months. He wrote the foundation's spending reduction and the April expiration of the Client Incentive

Bitcoin has spent five straight months trading below what it costs to produce, squeezing miners. JPMorgan estimates it costs about $78,000 to mine one bitcoin, well above the roughly $62,500 the asset fetches now. The strain is showing: about 20% of miners are now unprofitable, and publicly traded

The S token, the native utility asset behind the Sonic blockchain, fell to 0.031 on Friday, down 5% over 24 hours, after Sonic Labs announced the resignation of three former executives from its board. The departures include Michael Kong, a former CEO of the Fantom Foundation and director at

XRP slid about 3.4%, dropping from $1.1873 to $1.1465 as sellers pushed the token through $1.15 support. The decline erased more of last week's rally after another failed attempt to clear a long-running descending trendline near $1.25. The sell-off was driven by a

Binance’s faltering Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) license application in Greece has prompted questions about whether the European Central Bank may have played an informal role, even though MiCA assigns approval of crypto-asset service provider (CASP) licenses to national competent authorities. In Greece that authority is the Hellenic Capital

Microsoft identified a worm that has been spreading via USB drives since February and targets Windows users' crypto wallets. The company calls the malware a "crypto clipper" and Microsoft Defender flags it as Trojan:Win32/CryptoBandits. The infection begins when an infected USB drive contains a malicious

Bitcoin rose above $63,000 on Friday as markets absorbed shifts in both macro and geopolitical risk. The token traded in a narrow range on short timeframes after sliding to eight-day lows, taking a time-out near this week’s lows amid a broader risk-asset pullback. The Federal Open Market Committee

In April 2026 attackers exploited the KelpDAO rsETH LayerZero bridge, stealing about $292 million in rsETH and triggering widespread concern about that token’s backing. The panic spread to Aave, where users withdrew roughly $8.45 billion. Aave’s smart contracts were not compromised, but the incident stressed the protocol

$13 billion in Bitcoin options open interest is set to expire on June 26, a development that could give bears fresh ammunition after a 14% price drop in June. That decline left many bulls exposed, since most call options were stacked at $68,000 or higher. Deribit leads with $10.

Franklin Templeton filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to register two exchange-traded funds, the Franklin US Equity Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF and the Franklin US Innovation Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF. Both are designed to maintain a 95% allocation to U.S. equities and 5% to bitcoin, holding large-cap U.

Bitcoin is drifting back toward its yearly low near $59,000 after a failed recovery left bulls unable to reclaim key resistance. Traders now expect fresh 2026 lows as the price slides toward a major support zone, having stalled short of the daily fair-value gap between $67,500 and $70,

Bitcoin miners, long treated as leveraged bets on BTC prices, are shifting toward AI and data center infrastructure as margins tighten and demand for AI computing accelerates. Nvidia’s reported $20 billion bond sale to fund AI expansion reinforced the multi-year investment cycle miners are positioning themselves to serve. Firms

Andrew Tate, founder of the Real World, lost nearly $100,000 while betting on Bitcoin between Wednesday and Thursday. His wallet balance fell from about $100,000 to roughly $14,000 in a single day. A Hyperliquid wallet linked to Tate opened a 57.36 BTC long position on Wednesday

GoMining unveiled a software development kit (SDK) and application programming interfaces (API) for its bitcoin payment protocol, GoBTC Pay, enabling merchants to accept bitcoin for everyday purchases. The company says the entire transaction is completed in bitcoin by default; retailers that want fiat will need to handle conversion themselves. The

BlockShoals says its arrangement lets Binance offer crypto trading access to Philippine users, while neither firm is authorized to move pesos or carry out activities regulated by the central bank, Marie Antonette Quiogue, head of legal at BlockShoals, said. Quiogue said Binance’s local operations fall under the Securities and

Microtransactions below 0.01 Bitcoin (BTC) now make up roughly 80% of daily transactions, pushing overall transaction activity close to record highs despite weak price performance. A Thursday report from blockchain data firm CryptoQuant shows its Bitcoin "Network Activity Index" has moved into positive territory for the first

Major cryptocurrencies extended declines for a fourth day, with bitcoin slipping 2.5% to just below $62,400. The 20 Index (CD20) dropped 3.3%, while ether, XRP and solana were all weaker. The Smart Contract Platform Select Capped Index fell 4%, and the 80 and DeFi Select indexes followed

Bitcoin could reach its new "macro bottom" by September as price action continues to surprise traders. Pseudonymous trader Killa says BTC may "front run" exchange order-book liquidity to produce a bear-market low between $50,000 and $60,000. "At some point, $BTC is going to

Digital asset company AllUnity has launched SEKAU, a Swedish krona–backed stablecoin issued under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto‑Assets Regulation (MiCA). The token operates as an e‑money token and is backed by segregated SEK reserves, targeting institutional settlement and cross‑border payments. The launch follows AllUnity’

Microsoft Threat Intelligence warned Windows users about a cryptocurrency clipper strain spread via USB drives. Active since February, the malware steals clipboard data to extract wallet credentials using “high-frequency clipboard theft, screenshot exfiltration, and wallet-address substitution,” Microsoft said Wednesday. The clipper hides legitimate files and replaces them with lookalike shortcuts

Microsoft says it has detected a new self-propagating worm that spreads via USB drives and searches for cryptocurrency credentials, which it then sends to attacker-controlled servers. The company named the malware Crypto Clipper because it monitors device clipboards for patterns that match wallet addresses or seed phrases. When it finds

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has resolved its action against Celsius Network founder Alex Mashinsky, permanently banning him from trading in markets the commodities regulator oversees. A court consent order also bars Mashinsky from ever registering with the regulator and ends the enforcement action it first filed in 2023.

Public Bitcoin miners are increasingly being valued as AI infrastructure companies, but Blocksbridge Consulting's Miner Weekly highlighted that turning the narrative into reality could require roughly $50 billion in near-term capital, using data from VanEck. The newsletter argues long-term financing will be needed to convert power assets into

Ether’s exchange and derivatives indicators have weakened over the past month, prompting warnings of further downside if price stays under $1,700. Binance saw net inflows of about 57,700 ETH in recent days, a pattern that often precedes selling on one of the market’s most liquid platforms.