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Liquid Network Loses 4,000 BTC to an Elements Bug, Pauses the Sidechain, and Negotiates the Return On Chain
At 14:28 UTC on September 6, 2026, Liquid's federation released 3,996 BTC, about $320 million and 95 percent of its reserves, against L-BTC that an...
Bitcoin Slips Below $80,000 as a Blowout Jobs Report Lifts Fed Hike Odds to 58 Percent and ETF Inflows Fall 76 Percent
The August jobs report landed at three times the consensus on September 4, 2026, and CME FedWatch odds of a September hike jumped to 58 percent...
Bitcoin ETFs Take In $731 Million on September 3, Their Biggest Day Since January
The Waller rally got its confirmation a day late, as ETF flows always do. US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $730.9 million on September 3, 2026, the...
Zcash Clears $1,000 for the First Time in a Decade as $34.5 Million of Shorts Liquidate
Zcash opened Friday near $828 and printed $1,023 by the New York morning, its first trip above $1,000 in nearly a decade. The 20 percent move...
Bitcoin Reclaims $81,000 as Waller Gives Disinflation a Chance and the Dollar Breaks 99
One Fed governor moved the whole tape. Christopher Waller said he would be inclined to hold rates in two weeks if the next inflation prints...
Polymarket Launches Perps With Up to 20x Leverage, and the POLY Airdrop Question Gets a New Surface
The largest prediction market now runs a perps desk. Polymarket Perps went live on September 3, 2026 with ten markets, from BTC, ETH, SOL and HYPE to...
Bitcoin Slips Under $77,000 as US Strikes on Iran Push Oil Past $90, and the ETFs Keep Buying Anyway
Fresh US strikes on Iran sent Brent crude up 4.6 percent to $94.65, pushed Treasury yields to their highest since January 2025 and knocked bitcoin...
Bitcoin Closes Its Best Month of 2026 at Plus 24.95 Percent. Now Comes September.
August 2026 is in the books at plus 24.95 percent, bitcoin's strongest calendar month of the year, its first green August since 2021 and the...
September Opens With a $1.5 Billion Unlock Week, and $800 Million of It Is One Token
Bitcoin enters September near $78,000 after its strongest ETF month of 2026, and supply is waiting on the other side of the calendar. Roughly $1.5...
The ETF Test Came Back: $202 Million Leaves Bitcoin Funds as the Nine-Day Streak Snaps
The first flow data after Kevin Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole speech is in, and it broke the streak: US spot bitcoin ETFs bled $202 million on Friday...
Warsh Goes Hawkish at His First Jackson Hole and Bitcoin Gives Back $4,000
Bitcoin printed $81,455 overnight Friday, its highest since May 15, then ran into Kevin Warsh's first Jackson Hole keynote as Fed chair. The speech...
Eight Days of ETF Inflows, $3 Billion for August, and Bitcoin Back Above $80,000
Spot bitcoin ETFs have now taken in money for eight consecutive sessions, about $2.8 billion over the streak and the longest run since April, while...
PCE Prints Hot, Bitcoin Dips Under $78,000, and the Market Buys It Anyway
The inflation test the whole week pointed at finally landed, and it landed hot: July PCE held at 3.7 percent against a 3.6 percent forecast. Bitcoin...
Bitcoin Gets Turned Away at $81,000 by the 50-Week Average, With PCE Day Here
The breakout met its first real seller. Bitcoin ran to $81,265 on Tuesday, tagged the 50-week moving average sitting near $81,085, and gave the level...
Bitcoin Clears $80,000 for the First Time Since May, and August Flips Its Script
The level that rejected bitcoin twice in ten days finally gave way. Bitcoin printed $81,023 on Tuesday morning, its first trip above $80,000 since...
Bitcoin Holds $77K Into Jackson Hole Week, and This Year Crypto Is the Agenda
After the strongest ETF week since October and a run at $80,000, bitcoin idles near $77,167 with greed at 73. The next catalyst has a date: Jackson...
ETF Desks Just Had Their Biggest Week Since October: $2.6 Billion In
The rally now has its receipt. US spot bitcoin and ether ETFs absorbed $2.61 billion in the five sessions ended August 21, their strongest week since...
Bitcoin Tops $75,000, but the Squeeze Math Says Read the Fine Print
The breakout kept going. Bitcoin printed $75,560, its best level in over three months, ether reclaimed $2,300, and Fear and Greed flipped from 29 to...
Bitcoin Breaks the August Range After the Treasury Doubles Bond Buybacks
The $62,000 to $66,000 band that held all month is gone. Bitcoin ran from a $64,100 low to $69,500, its best level since early June, after Treasury...
Fed Minutes and a White House Crypto Summit Land on the Same Afternoon
The day the August range has been waiting for is here. Bitcoin sits at $64,428, up 0.2 percent, while Washington runs a doubleheader: crypto and...
Binance's Fourth Purge of 2026 Takes Effect: Six Tokens Off Spot, One Clock Still Running
The delisting Binance announced on August 3 became real on Monday: spot pairs for Across Protocol, Hashflow, PIVX, Vulcan Forged, Vanar and Viction...
Bitcoin Claws Back to $64,000 With the Fed Minutes One Day Away
Monday opened with bitcoin sagging to $62,829 and analysts debating when, not whether, the bottom arrives. By Tuesday the tape had bought the whole...
Washington Week Opens: a White House Guest List and a Bill Priced at 19 Percent
The guest list for Tuesday's White House crypto meeting has firmed up: Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken, Kalshi and Polymarket alongside the SEC and...
Bitcoin ETFs Just Had Their Worst Week Since June. Solana Funds Didn't Notice.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $389.7 million between August 10 and 14, their largest weekly withdrawal in six weeks, with three straight red sessions to...
KII Went Live on Bybit and Kraken the Same Day, With Almost No Float to Trade
Bybit's coming soon tease lasted one day. KII opened for spot trading on Bybit at 13:00 UTC on August 14, 2026, and Kraken switched on trading the...
The SEC Canceled Its Own Crypto Vote, and the CFTC Picked Up the Pen
One day before its commissioners were set to propose Regulation Crypto, the SEC posted a cancellation notice citing a scheduling issue, with no new...
Regulation Crypto: The SEC Votes Today on Its First Crypto-Native Rulebook
The SEC's three commissioners meet Friday with one agenda item: whether to publish Regulation Crypto, a roughly 400 page proposal letting token...
The CPI Verdict Is In: Exactly As Forecast, and Bitcoin Went Precisely Nowhere
Two days of deck-clearing, a flushed leverage book, and the most anticipated data point of the month resolved into a shrug. July CPI printed 3.4...
CPI Day: Bitcoin Slips Toward $64,000 While the Strongest ETF Week Since April Sits on the Other Side of the Scale
The last day before the July CPI print looked like a market clearing the decks: bitcoin opened Tuesday at $63,912, leveraged longs got flushed, ether...
Strategy Sells Bitcoin for a Second Straight Week, This Time to Buy Back Its Own Preferreds
The Monday filing is becoming a habit. Strategy sold 1,690 BTC for $108.6 million between August 3 and 9 at an average of $64,262, per its August 10...
Bitcoin Idles at $65,000 Into CPI Week, and the Fear Gauge Says Nobody Trusts the Calm
The weekend tape was a flat line: bitcoin drifting either side of $65,000, ether parked above $1,900, and the Fear and Greed Index at 31 while open...
Ethereum's Biggest Upgrade Since the Merge Nears Its Final Devnet, and Wall Street Is Not Waiting
Devnet-7 held up under heavier transaction loads, devnet-8 is penciled in for August 11, and after that Glamsterdam moves to the public testnets...
Bitcoin Reclaims $65K as a Bad Jobs Number Turns Good for Crypto
The July jobs report missed by more than 100,000 positions, the market repriced the Fed, and bitcoin climbed back above $65,000. Underneath the macro...
It Is the Fall: Senate Leaves for Recess Without a Clarity Act Vote
The weekend session never happened. The Senate is leaving Washington without voting on the Clarity Act, per CoinDesk, and Majority Leader John Thune...
Day Two of the Rebound: Bitcoin ETFs Add $211M and Ether Funds Flip Back to Green
The inflow day that snapped last week's bleeding now has a sequel. US spot bitcoin ETFs added $211.49 million in the session reported August 5, with...
Clarity Act Endgame: Senate Skips Its Own Deadline, Now It Is Friday or the Fall
August 5 was the last clean day to file cloture on the Clarity Act and still vote before the Senate leaves town. The motion never came, yet the story...
Bitcoin ETFs Snap Back With a $170M Day as the First US Spot Fund Calls It Quits
The bitcoin ETF tape flipped hard on August 4: $170.09 million came in across seven funds with not a single product in redemption, days after the...
Coldcard Exploit Drains $116 Million in Bitcoin From Wallets That Were Supposed to Be the Safe Ones
Hardware wallets exist so this cannot happen, and it happened anyway. A random number flaw in 2021-era Coldcard firmware let attackers rebuild keys...
Clarity Act Enters Its Final Week With No Vote Scheduled and Bitcoin at $63,000
The crypto market structure bill has five working days left before the Senate leaves for its summer recess, and Monday's calendar does not mention...
Bitcoin ETFs Post a Weekly Outflow While Ether Funds Extend Their Streak to Four Weeks
The weekly ETF tapes split cleanly at the end of July: bitcoin funds gave back $61.5 million while ether funds added $27.4 million, a fourth...
Bitcoin Opens August Below $63,000: Three Fed Dissents, a Coinbase Miss and ETF Outflows
August opened with bitcoin under $63,000, down about 3% in 24 hours, after a week that stacked three hawkish Fed dissents, a 10% drop in Coinbase...
Bitcoin ETFs Close July With $205M, the Smallest Monthly Inflow on Record
July 2026 ends with spot bitcoin ETFs up $205 million for the month, technically an inflow, actually the smallest monthly total the category has ever...
BANK Round Trip: Lorenzo Protocol's Token Drops 57% in a Day, 86% From Its Peak
July's loudest rally just gave most of itself back. Lorenzo Protocol's BANK dropped 57.82 percent in 24 hours to $0.0738 on July 31, on $390.94...
Fed Holds at 3.50% to 3.75% With Three Hawkish Dissents, Bitcoin Barely Moves
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark rate at 3.50 to 3.75 percent on July 29, the sixth consecutive hold, but the 9 to 3 vote carried an unusual...
GRVT Goes Live: KuCoin, Bitget and Bybit Open Trading as Coinbase Preps Deposits
The embargo lifted on schedule. Grvt's TGE arrived on July 30, 2026, and the sealed venue list opened: KuCoin and Bitget trade GRVT/USDT today, Bybit...
GRVT TGE Lands Tomorrow: Claim Opens July 30, Registration Runs to August 6
Grvt's TGE arrives July 30, 2026, with the claim function opening the same day. The pool is fixed at 280 million GRVT, split between the two seasons...
Bitcoin Gives Back $65K on Fed Day One as Hike Bets Creep Higher
The first day of the July FOMC meeting undid the eve's calm. Bitcoin reversed from a 1.7 percent gain to close the session down around $63,173...
Bitcoin Holds $65K Into a Fed Meeting Nobody Prices the Same Way
Bitcoin climbed 1.5 percent to $65,170 on July 27 ahead of the July 28-29 Fed meeting. All 104 economists Reuters polled expect a hold, but...
BitMart Is Shutting Down After Nine Years, and BMX Crashed 58%
BitMart, still printing $1.6 billion in daily volume after nine years, announced on July 26 that it is winding down. Deposits and new orders stopped...
Bitcoin ETF Streak Snaps: $225M Walks Out, and IBIT Was 90% of It
The seven-session streak that pulled nearly $1 billion into spot bitcoin ETFs ended on July 23 with a $225.18 million net outflow, nine tenths of it...
EU Sanctions Hit HTX and 13 Other Crypto Platforms, and Bring a New Weapon: Country-Wide Bans
The EU adopted its 21st Russia sanctions package on July 23, extending transaction bans to 14 crypto service platforms, HTX among them, and creating...
Argentina Drafts Bill to Put Bitcoin in Investment Funds as the Market Slips Under $65,000
Argentina's deregulation ministry has drafted a bill that would let investment funds hold digital assets, accept bitcoin as loan collateral, tokenize...
Bitcoin Stalls Above $65,500 as Six Days of Inflows Run Into Fed Week
Bitcoin opened Wednesday at $66,508, its strongest open in five weeks, then gave most of it back through the morning. Behind the fade: US spot ETFs...
GRVT Registration Closes July 27: Miss the Portal, Lose the Airdrop
Four days remain to register for the GRVT airdrop, and this is not a soft deadline. Per Grvt's own help center, anyone not signed up through the...
Clarity Act Odds Jump to 43% as Bitcoin Pushes Past $66,000
The trade that moved crypto on Tuesday was political. Polymarket bettors lifted the odds of the Clarity Act becoming law this year to 43 percent, up...
Grass Stage 2 Claim Day Is Here: USDC Rewards Open at 1 PM EST
The Grass Stage 2 claim opens today, July 22 at 1:00 PM EST, through the wallet inside the official dashboard, paying USDC to anyone who earned a...
Bitcoin Hits a Two-Week High Near $65,500 as ETF Inflows String Five Days Together
Bitcoin climbed to about $65,500 on Tuesday, its best level in two weeks, as the Asian semiconductor selloff that dragged crypto down last week...
Hyperliquid Opens Prediction Markets to Anyone With 500,000 HYPE to Stake
Hyperliquid announced on Sunday that its HIP-4 outcome trading upgrade will let anyone deploy a prediction market, against a 500,000 HYPE stake that...
The $2.5 Billion Bet: Bitcoin Options Traders Target $72,000 by the Fed Decision
Per CoinDesk, blocks totaling $2.5 billion in notional value went through Deribit as bull call spreads: long the $70,000 call, short the $72,000...
Spain, Argentina and $4 Billion: The World Cup Final Is Polymarket's Biggest Market Ever
The 2026 World Cup final kicks off today at MetLife Stadium, Spain against Argentina, and the winner market behind it made history first: over $4.25...
Six Nights Over Hormuz: The Market Quietly Reprices How Long This Lasts
Bitcoin gave back the week's CPI relief rally, easing to the $62,800 to $63,000 range on July 17 as US airstrikes near the Strait of Hormuz entered a...
Bitcoin Loses $63,000 as a Third Iran Strike Meets a New China Headache
The shrug ran out. Bitcoin slipped below $63,000 on Friday, trading at $62,907 after a third round of US airstrikes on Iran and a new front of...
T. Rowe Price Launches TKNZ, the First Actively Managed Multi-Token Crypto ETF
A $1.9 trillion asset manager just put a stock picker in charge of a crypto basket. T. Rowe Price's Active Crypto ETF, ticker TKNZ, started trading...
Ether Outruns Bitcoin as ETF Money Comes Back Through One Door
The CPI pop had a next chapter, and it is lopsided. Ether reached $1,920 on Thursday, up 11 percent on the week while Bitcoin managed 4.2, and the...
Grass Makes It Official: Stage 2 Pays USDC, Claims Open July 22
Ten days ago our Grass tracker entry said the two things nobody could pin down were the date and the currency. Both are now settled, in writing, on...
Cooler CPI Flips the Tape: Ethereum Jumps 6%, Bitcoin Reclaims $64,000
July 14 opened ugly, with Bitcoin down 2.3 percent and Iran headlines pushing oil higher. Then June CPI landed at minus 0.4 percent and the board...
Circle Gets Its Bank: OCC Grants Final Approval for a National Trust Charter
Circle announced on July 10 that the OCC gave final approval for First National Digital Currency Bank, N.A., a national trust bank that will operate...
Bitcoin Nears $64,000 as Chip Stocks and a Weak Dollar Do the Lifting
Bitcoin recovered from an intraday low of $61,850 to trade near $64,000 on July 10, up 4.2 percent on the week. The push came from outside crypto: a...
Bitcoin Shrugs Off a Second Day of Iran Strikes
The second time the market got the same bad news, it barely flinched. Bitcoin held near $62,300 on July 9, down about 1.7 percent, after a second day...
Crypto Slides as Trump Declares Iran Ceasefire Over
Crypto handed back the week's gains in a single morning. Bitcoin fell more than 2 percent to about $61,750 on July 8 and ether dropped in step, after...
Strategy Sells 3,588 BTC, Its Largest Sale Ever, to Pay Dividends
The company that spent five years telling the world it would never sell just filed its largest bitcoin sale on record. Strategy sold 3,588 BTC for...
Cardano Leads the Bounce: ADA Runs Into Its July 6 RealFi Testnet
While Bitcoin crawled back above $63,000, Cardano put up the biggest move in the top twenty: a 12 percent bounce off a six-year low, then a run to...
The CLARITY Act Is Suddenly on a Clock: A July Floor Vote or Bust
The bill whose delay helped sink crypto in June now has a deadline attached. Senator Lummis says the CLARITY Act reaches the Senate floor this month...
Bitcoin Tops $63,000 as XRP Flips USDC for Fifth Place
Five sessions ago Bitcoin was under $60,000. On July 4 it printed above $63,000, its highest in two weeks, helped by soft jobs data, dovish Fed...
Correction: Jupuary Is Postponed Indefinitely, Not Approved for 2027
We got one wrong, and we are fixing it in the open. Our Jupiter entry called Jupuary approved through January 2027. In fact the DAO's Net-Zero...
Crypto's July Now Hinges on Two Dates: CPI on the 14th, the Fed on the 29th
The five-day bounce that carried Bitcoin back above $63,000 ran on one soft jobs report. What decides whether it holds is now on the calendar: June...
Bitcoin ETF Flows Flip Positive: $221.7M Inflow Snaps a 10-Day, $2.7B Streak
The dial we told you to watch just moved. US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $221.7 million on July 2, their first positive day since May, ending a 10-day...
Robinhood Chain Goes Live and Picks Lighter as Its Perps Engine
Robinhood's Ethereum Layer 2 went live on mainnet this week with 24/7 tokenized stocks, and it chose Lighter, the zk perp DEX, as the engine behind...
Bitcoin Reclaims $61,000 and Breaks Away From Tech Stocks
A week after two-year lows, Bitcoin climbed back above $61,000 on a day the Nasdaq fell. A soft June jobs report, Fed comments on easing inflation...
Airdrop Season 2026, the Reality Check: Fewer, Smaller, Slower
January's 'five billion dollar airdrop season' framing has met July's reality: OpenSea delayed, MetaMask and Polymarket confirmed but dateless, and...
SEA Watch: Three Months Past the Delay, OpenSea Stays Silent
Three months after OpenSea pushed its SEA token launch past March 30, 2026 on 'challenging' market conditions, there is still no new date. The...
Binance's June Listings Tell One Story: RWA Season Is Real
Binance's June 2026 listing slate had a theme. Re (RE), the tokenized reinsurance protocol, took a spot listing on June 18, extending a run of RWA...
MetaMask's Token Is Real, and the Rewards Program Is the Map
The MetaMask token stopped being a rumor when Consensys CEO Joseph Lubin confirmed it was coming 'sooner than you would expect'. The rewards program...
Bitcoin Under 60,000: June 2026 Closed the Door on the Cycle Script
Bitcoin slipped below 60,000 dollars on June 25, its lowest print since 2024, after opening the month near 73,500. Ether spent June under 2,000. ETF...
The CLARITY Act Slipped Again. Crypto Noticed, Loudly
Among the drivers of June's crypto sell-off, one was made entirely of paper: the CLARITY Act, the US market-structure bill meant to settle which...
