Crypto News

Crypto markets are limping into the evening, but the headlines are anything but quiet. Bitcoin (BTC) spent the day under pressure, with broader crypto sliding as bearish sentiment, tax‑loss selling, and options expiry all piled on at once. After briefly reclaiming a $3 trillion total market cap earlier this year, digital assets are now looking tired rather than inspired. Treasury-focused crypto firms, already some of the worst performers of the year, took another leg down as investors rushed to clean up their books before year‑end. Yet amid the red, a handful of big names are quietly doubling down on the long game. Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. has effectively shifted into “reload” mode. The company has paused new Bitcoin purchases after raising nearly $748 million through stock sales, swelling its dollar war chest to $2.19 billion while sitting on 671,268 BTC. That timing is notable: just as the U.S. presidential agenda begins flirting with the idea of Bitcoin as part of national ...

Tonight’s crypto tape reads like a mashup of “institutions are finally getting serious,” “code is still eating finance,” and “please stop downloading sketchy game mods.” Let’s start with the battle for truth online. Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin (ETH) is doubling down on a very on‑brand belief: if you want real answers on controversial topics, follow the money, not the memes. He argues prediction markets, where people put actual capital behind what they think will happen, are far better truth‑seeking tools than social media hot takes or even traditional markets. Yes, platforms like Polymarket are still wrestling with regulations and ethics, but Vitalik’s point is simple: when being wrong costs you, misinformation gets expensive and signals become clearer. That idea ties neatly into Coinbase’s latest move. The exchange is acquiring The Clearing Company, a regulated prediction‑market platform, as part of its “Everything Exchange” strategy. Instead of just trading spot crypto, Coinbase wan...

Regulators, quantum fears, and a little bomb scare: it was a busy day in cryptoland. Let’s start in Washington, where the U.S. Senate just handed the industry a potentially big win. Lawmakers confirmed Michael Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to head the FDIC. Both have reputations for taking digital assets seriously rather than trying to wish them away. That doesn’t mean “number go up” by default, but it does suggest the next few years of derivatives and banking oversight could be more rules-of-the-road and less “regulation by press release.” For builders and big institutions, clarity is half the battle. While D.C. nudged toward a more crypto-aware future, Bitcoin (BTC) spent the day wrestling with a more sci‑fi concern: quantum computing. A growing camp of analysts and fund managers is sounding the alarm, arguing that quantum‑resistant upgrades need to move from whitepapers to production before mid‑2030s breakthroughs arrive. Others, like Adam Back, say the panic is overblown...

Regulators, quantum fears, and a little bomb scare: it was a busy day in cryptoland. Let’s start in Washington, where the U.S. Senate just handed the industry a potentially big win. Lawmakers confirmed Michael Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to head the FDIC. Both have reputations for taking digital assets seriously rather than trying to wish them away. That doesn’t mean “number go up” by default, but it does suggest the next few years of derivatives and banking oversight could be more rules-of-the-road and less “regulation by press release.” For builders and big institutions, clarity is half the battle. While D.C. nudged toward a more crypto-aware future, Bitcoin (BTC) spent the day wrestling with a more sci‑fi concern: quantum computing. A growing camp of analysts and fund managers is sounding the alarm, arguing that quantum‑resistant upgrades need to move from whitepapers to production before mid‑2030s breakthroughs arrive. Others, like Adam Back, say the panic is overblown...

Regulators, quantum fears, and a little bomb scare: it was a busy day in cryptoland. Let’s start in Washington, where the U.S. Senate just handed the industry a potentially big win. Lawmakers confirmed Michael Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to head the FDIC. Both have reputations for taking digital assets seriously rather than trying to wish them away. That doesn’t mean “number go up” by default, but it does suggest the next few years of derivatives and banking oversight could be more rules-of-the-road and less “regulation by press release.” For builders and big institutions, clarity is half the battle. While D.C. nudged toward a more crypto-aware future, Bitcoin (BTC) spent the day wrestling with a more sci‑fi concern: quantum computing. A growing camp of analysts and fund managers is sounding the alarm, arguing that quantum‑resistant upgrades need to move from whitepapers to production before mid‑2030s breakthroughs arrive. Others, like Adam Back, say the panic is overblown...

Coinbase got a big green light in India, Bitcoin spent the day trying to convince everyone its bull market isn’t dead, and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic edged a little closer to finally making up their minds about crypto. Let’s unwind what happened. Coinbase’s global expansion machine picked up speed after India’s Competition Commission approved its minority stake in local exchange CoinDCX, valuing the company at $2.45 billion. Beyond the headline number, this matters because India has been a regulatory gray zone for exchanges, with banks and policymakers sending mixed signals for years. A Coinbase-backed CoinDCX gives the U.S. giant a compliant foothold in one of the world’s biggest retail user bases, and it signals that at least one powerful Indian regulator is comfortable with serious crypto capital coming in. Back in the U.S., Coinbase is sketching out an even bigger playbook. The company unveiled plans for a 2025 “everything exchange” that goes far beyond trading a fe...

Tonight’s crypto tape has a little bit of everything: bruised prices, big regulatory moves, quantum talk, and even a Buddhist kingdom quietly swinging a billion dollars’ worth of bitcoin. Let’s start with the mood. After flirting with euphoria, the market hit a rough patch. Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), XRP and most majors slid below key levels, knocking total crypto market cap back under the $3 trillion mark. Derivatives data show BTC pinned between roughly $85,000 support and $90,000 resistance, with compressed volatility and heavy futures open interest. Options traders are paying up for protection, signaling caution even as on‑chain flows and spot buying hint a breakout could follow this sideways chop. ETF flows aren’t helping sentiment: US bitcoin funds are seeing steady outflows, Ethereum (ETH) products are struggling to hold the $3,000 narrative, while XRP (XRP) funds quietly outperform but without a clear price payoff yet. Zoom out, and macro is very much in the driver’s seat...