Why Bitcoin’s rally above $80,000 isn’t backed by institutional conviction
Leveraged funds became 7,275 BTC-equivalent less net short as asset-manager longs fell and weekly ETF demand barely stayed positive.
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Why real-time election odds are misleading prediction market crypto traders
You can be right about who will win an election and still pay too much to bet on it. On prediction markets, the price available when you open the app may be gone by the time you try to buy,…
X brings crypto trading closer to your social feed
Crypto Twitter (now X) has always been a place where someone with an illustrated animal for a profile picture can explain why your financial future depends on a token you just learned about. Now X’s Cashtag links are shortening the…
Why Bitcoin’s 63% HODL wave isn’t the mega bull signal everyone thinks it is
The one-year share rose 0.98 percentage points in a month while adjacent age bands shifted around the threshold.
Gen Z are investing like Boomers – with some surprising portfolio decisions
Like fashion, investing eventually finds something embarrassing in the back of the wardrobe and puts it on again. Millennial-era crypto gave us yield-bearing dog coins and all kinds of food-themed financial contraptions. Now Gen Z has entered the market in…
Why Trump backed a crypto ethics rule that stopped at the family business
Washington came surprisingly close this week to writing a dollar amount into one of its thorniest crypto ethics rule debates. Under the final Senate draft of the CLARITY Act, senior federal officials holding equity worth at least $15,000 in certain…
Fidelity surge brings in $310M BTC saving Bitcoin ETFs from a disastrous week
Friday broadened demand, yet the two-day rebound left the midweek withdrawal gap partly open.
Circle wants you to love USDC a little like you love Chelsea
Chelsea has found a cool new shirt sponsor whose main product is…a stablecoin? USDC is designed to be worth one dollar. Today, tomorrow, next Tuesday: one dollar. If everything is working properly, absolutely nothing should happen to its price, so…
Anthropic’s potential $2 trillion IPO is fueling an $80 million crypto trade
Anthropic’s prospective $2 trillion IPO has already spawned nearly $80 million in crypto derivatives bets before its public debut. Open interest in futures linked to the Claude developer has climbed to about $79.27 million, close to a record $80 million,…
AI was supposed to take scammers’ jobs, but it gave them superpowers instead
For anyone worried that AI would eliminate every profession except the one sending messages about your frozen crypto account, there's unwelcome news for that last bastion of human enterprise. Fraud has found an automation budget. Scamming has always required a…
ZEC’s 100% rally above $1500 sends Grayscale’s Zcash ETF within $85 million of $1 billion
ZCSH holders would receive three shares for every one held as the fund cuts per-share NAV proportionately without changing investment value solely because of the split.
Bitcoin faces an October 18 test as Trump prepares new Russia tariffs
Trump’s new law sets the clock, but rates, targets and energy-market spillovers will decide whether crypto feels it.