Narrowing price cushions leave Bitcoin loans vulnerable to 4.7% price dips as Aave weighs higher leverage
The plan would lift WBTC and cbBTC borrowing limits while shrinking the simplified maximum-leverage price cushion from 6.4% to 4.7%.
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Bitcoin ETFs just absorbed 11,500 BTC in their biggest buying day in nearly two years
ARKB and FBTC each drew substantial capital, widening participation without displacing BlackRock from the top spot.
Coinbase targets stock futures but CFTC standstill blocks launch
The cash-settled contracts would offer price exposure without ownership or delivery of the underlying shares.
Massive ETF capital exits threaten Bitcoin’s fragile $86,000 price surge
Spot taker flow and realized-cap growth improved while futures exposure and profit-taking climbed with the rebound.
GameStop may have surrendered $31 million of Bitcoin upside with one options trade
Bitcoin traded above the $70,000 strike ahead of the Sept. 25 maturity, but GameStop’s position status and settlement terms remain undisclosed.
Moscow Exchange launches 5 crypto perpetual futures as demand tops 600 billion rubles
The automatically rolling contracts track Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP and Tron prices, but settle in rubles and never deliver cryptocurrency.
Coinbase pushes beyond crypto with retail access to $2.2 billion Oura IPO
Eligible U.S. users can request Oura shares at the offer price, but allocations remain limited and early exits may restrict future access.
Bitcoin clears $86,000 as $1B in shorts liquidated again – battle now shifts to $90k
Bitcoin’s break above $86,000 has cleared a major pocket of bearish leverage and put $90,000 back in traders’ sights. The largest cryptocurrency climbed as high as $87,363 over the past 24 hours, its strongest level since January, before easing to…
CLARITY Act needs 11 more Senate votes, but 4 of the 49 it already has want the bill changed
Four Republican senators who voted to advance the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15 also appear as named supporters on a bank-backed amendment seeking tougher restrictions on stablecoin yield. As Punchbowl News reported on Sept. 21, John Cornyn, John Curtis, Cindy…
Crypto firms put $206 million behind the midterms: here’s who their political machine is backing
Crypto corporations contributed $206 million to super PACs and hybrid PACs through the second quarter of 2026, according to Public Citizen's Aug. 27 analysis of FEC records. That makes the industry the largest disclosed corporate donor sector tracked in this…
Bitcoin’s $87,000 breakout puts $90,000 in sight, but history comes with a catch
Bitcoin closed the week of Sept. 20 at $81,178, its first weekly settlement above the 50-week moving average since November 2025, and pushed further to an intraday high above $87,000 the next day. The breakout clears one of the market's…
Stand With Crypto’s 4 million registered advocates couldn’t get the CLARITY Act through the Senate
A million-plus contacts showed mobilization; the 49-50 Senate defeat showed why reach alone cannot deliver a bipartisan coalition.