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Coinbase’s $70B Bitcoin move made it look like investors were selling — but no one actually did
Some of Bitcoin’s most trusted bottom signals rest on the simple assumption that when old coins move, something mea…
The six senators who voted against the March digital dollar ban: Johnson, Lee, Murphy, Scott, Tuberville, and Van Hollen
Washington has spent years talking about a US CBDC as a distant possibility. It was an abstract policy idea, safely c…
Bitcoin’s $71k rally has a problem most traders aren’t watching
Bitcoin entered the weekend hovering near $71,000, well off the previous week's spike above $74,000, but far below th…
The CFTC starts crackdown on the growing insider problem in prediction markets
On Mar. 12, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a staff advisory telling exchanges to tighten surv…
The latest US inflation report looked like good news — next week may change that
February’s CPI report gave markets a reason to relax. Inflation looked soft enough to keep hopes for rate cuts aliv…
Digital dollar power balance cracks as Circle’s growth spurt closes in on Tether’s dominance
A quiet shift is underway in the stablecoin hierarchy. While Tether’s USDT still dominates the digital dollar marke…
Washington prepares $175B break for big banks — weakening protections against financial crisis
Washington is getting ready to potentially make life easier for the biggest US banks. That can sound pretty abstract …
Bitcoin price faces a crucial weekend test as US growth collapses to 0.7% while inflation stays stubborn
On Mar. 13, the US economy delivered a data dump that landed somewhere between uncomfortable and alarming. The GDP fo…
Why Binance suddenly isn’t afraid of negative press anymore
Binance suing the Wall Street Journal is not a new kind of signal, as the exchange has fought what it considered host…
Miss this warning and you too could lose 99.9% in one swap while Ethereum bots walk away with the rest
A crypto trader lost over $50 million in Aave-wrapped USDT on March 12 after sending a single large order through the…
The Daily: Crypto whale loses almost $50M in DeFi swap, BlackRock’s staked Ethereum ETF sees ‘very solid’ debut, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
The Fed is readying to punish banks for holding Bitcoin as US crypto tensions boil over
The next big Bitcoin policy fight may have nothing to do with ETFs or government legislation, but with a dry Federal …
BlackRock’s new product launch just made Ethereum income impossible to ignore
BlackRock's new staked Ethereum ETF (ETHB) is easy to misunderstand. This is not the first time ETH staking has final…
With Bitcoin’s surge over $72k it now outperforms gold and stocks since Iran strikes, but one brutal sell wall is looming
Bitcoin has outperformed gold, silver, and major US equity indexes since the US-Israeli attack on Iran began, recover…
Is Mastercard embracing crypto or trying to contain it?
Mastercard’s crypto partner push is really a plan to keep stablecoins inside its network Mastercard is trying to ma…
Bitcoin set up for rip to $80,000 even as oil prices surge and Iran threatens $200 a barrel
Bitcoin held near $70,000 despite oil price briefly trading around $100 a barrel, a move that would once have pushed …
Crypto investor turns $50 million into $36,000 in one botched move
Aave founder Stani Kulechov said the interface displayed multiple slippage warnings, which the user manually accepted…
Crypto whale loses nearly $50 million swapping USDT for AAVE
CoW Swap said the "transaction executed according to the parameters of the signed order" and that "clear price impact…
Binance data reveals insiders continue to dump TRUMP memecoins as its price hits a record low
Wallets linked to the team behind President Donald Trump’s Solana-based TRUMP memecoin sent a large batch of tokens…
AI is now “stealing” thousands of jobs a month from humans – but is it as bad as we all feared?
AI pressure points in tech labor are real, and Bitcoin will feel them through macro, not mystique After years of clai…
White House admits Iran war burned equivalent of half the US Bitcoin reserve in 6 Days
The United States spent in the first six days of its war with Iran an amount equal to nearly half the current market …
Cathie Wood's Ark Invest says quantum computing is a long-term risk for bitcoin, not an imminent threat
Today’s quantum computers are far from breaking Bitcoin’s cryptography and any real threat would likely emerge gr…
The SEC finally admits US crypto chaos was caused by its own regulatory turf wars
The SEC and CFTC have just signed an agreement that turns months of public harmonization talk into a formal operating…
Hybrid crypto exchange GRVT targets post-June token launch, raises community allocation to 28%
ZKsync-based DEX GRVT plans to launch its token after June 30, expanding community allocations to 28% as platform tra…
First new US refinery in 50 years won’t produce fuel this decade as rising oil pressures Bitcoin now
President Donald Trump's announcement of the first major new US oil refinery in nearly 50 years arrives as gasoline p…
Bitcoin’s kimchi premium is on life support after South Korea targets Bithumb
South Korea's move to suspend Bithumb over AML failures turns a local compliance case into a market-structure story. …
Prosecutors move to block Sam Bankman-Fried’s request for retrial
US prosecutors said that Sam Bankman-Fried's motion failed to present any legitimate newly discovered evidence.
Binance.US hires new CEO as exchange pursues growth in ‘crypto capital of the world’
Binance and its founder and ex-CEO Zhao now maintain a rehabilitated relationship with the American government.
The Daily: Binance sues WSJ over Iran-linked report as DOJ probes alleged sanctions evasion, Bitwise CIO explains how bitcoin could reach $1 million, and more
The following article is adapted from The Block’s newsletter, The Daily, which comes out on weekday afternoons.
Why oil panic hitting global markets caused traders to dump Bitcoin instead of hiding in it
An Oil Scare Near Hormuz Showed How Fast Bitcoin Reverts to a Risk Trade While Bitcoin has rebounded and held above $…