Crypto News

If you checked your portfolio this evening and briefly forgot how to breathe, you’re not alone. Markets across crypto had a rough one, with Bitcoin (BTC) at the center of the storm. Over the weekend and into today, BTC slid hard, mirroring risk assets like SaaS stocks as a U.S. liquidity crunch, geopolitical tensions, and funding pressures all collided at once. The move blew open a rare CME futures gap, triggered billions in liquidations, and dragged the total crypto market cap down toward the $2.5 trillion mark. Analysts are clear on one thing: this sell-off looks a lot more like a macro story than a “crypto is broken” story. Raoul Pal is pinning the downturn on a temporary U.S. liquidity shock and policy gridlock, arguing the broader Bitcoin cycle remains intact. Others note that shrinking liquidity and overleveraged traders turned what could have been a pullback into a full-blown “short-term market emergency.” BTC has now logged four straight months of losses, and sentiment ...

Crypto markets may be bleeding red, but tonight’s headlines are all about who’s quietly building through the chaos, who’s tightening the rules, and who’s doubling down on Bitcoin as the reserve asset of choice. Let’s start with the day’s biggest power move in tokenization. Securitize, one of the leaders in turning traditional assets into onchain securities, reported an eye‑popping 841% jump in year‑over‑year revenue and filed to go public via a SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II. While much of crypto was selling off, Cantor’s SPAC stock popped on the news as Wall Street’s interest in tokenizing bonds, funds, and private equity keeps climbing. The message: even in a choppy market, institutional money still wants compliant, boring-sounding, very real tokenization rails. That theme of “same rules, new rails” got backup from Washington. The SEC formally clarified that tokenized securities are fully covered by existing federal securities laws, whether they’re issued directly...

Crypto markets may be bleeding red, but tonight’s headlines are all about who’s quietly building through the chaos, who’s tightening the rules, and who’s doubling down on Bitcoin as the reserve asset of choice. Let’s start with the day’s biggest power move in tokenization. Securitize, one of the leaders in turning traditional assets into onchain securities, reported an eye‑popping 841% jump in year‑over‑year revenue and filed to go public via a SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II. While much of crypto was selling off, Cantor’s SPAC stock popped on the news as Wall Street’s interest in tokenizing bonds, funds, and private equity keeps climbing. The message: even in a choppy market, institutional money still wants compliant, boring-sounding, very real tokenization rails. That theme of “same rules, new rails” got backup from Washington. The SEC formally clarified that tokenized securities are fully covered by existing federal securities laws, whether they’re issued directly...