Bitcoin’s Bull Score, a Cryptoquant gauge of market health, jumped from 30 to 80 in a single week as bitcoin rallied to $81,000, though the firm says a weekly close above $83,000 is still needed to confirm a new bull market. The Fastest Bull Score Flip in a Year Cryptoquant’s Bull Score, an index the …
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Hyperliquid officially activated “AQAv2” today. The mechanism is designed to route yield from billions in USDC reserves into automatic buybacks and burns of its HYPE token, with Circle and Coinbase running the plumbing behind it. What AQAv2 Does Hyperliquid’s validators approved the AQAv2, or “Aligned Quote Asset v2,” framework with 69.08% support. It extends an …
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The securities regulator’s crypto custody overhaul could clarify how investment advisers and funds hold digital assets for clients as the proposal moves through review. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is moving forward with plans to overhaul custody rules for investment advisers and investment companies, potentially giving institutions greater clarity on how they can …
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A new survey finds broad skepticism toward crypto in workplace retirement plans as US policymakers move to expand access to alternative assets. More than three-quarters of Americans view cryptocurrency in workplace retirement plans as risky, as concerns over retirement security mount across the United States, according to a new survey from The National Institute on …
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Bitcoin stayed away from challenging $80,000 after July US PCE inflation data came in slightly higher than anticipated, pressuring gold and risk assets. Bitcoin (BTC) slipped under $78,000 following Wednesday’s Wall Street open after US inflation data came in above expectations. Key points: Data from TradingView tracked up to 1% daily BTC price losses, with …
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CTDG Dev Hub participant’s protocol upgrade decouples consensus from execution, allowing network nodes to reach agreement on blocks before transaction execution completes. High-performance blockchains often run into the same architectural limit, where the execution sits directly in the path of consensus. In a conventional synchronous model, validators must first execute the transactions inside that block …
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TLDR ETH trades at $2,465 after getting rejected at $2,513 resistance, closing down nearly 2% Momentum indicators including MACD and RSI show overbought conditions across the board Retail traders are 70.3% long while smart money sits at 56.6% long, a 14-point gap Open interest rose 2.7% as price fell 2%, pointing to new short positions …
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Ethereum accounted for 31.0% of swaps on SimpleSwap in the first half of 2026, making it the most-used single chain during the period. Everything outside the four biggest chains accounted for 71.4%. Most of us have spent three years expecting the opposite: a few large chains soak up the activity, and the rest fades into noise. …
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Circle minted roughly 5 billion USDC over the past week, according to onchain trackers, in one of its largest weekly issuance pushes yet. A Record Week for Fresh Supply Onchain analytics platform Solscan revealed the roughly 5 billion USDC mint earlier today, with analysts noting that the issuance is just one of many billion-dollar mints …
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Iran’s rial collapsed to a record low this week just as President Trump’s new sanctions package named digital assets as a target for the first time, threatening the IRGC’s billion-dollar bitcoin mining workaround. A Record-Low Rial and a New Sanctions Wave Iran’s open-market exchange rate slid to roughly 2.02 million rials per dollar earlier this …
Tron’s account count crossed 400 million this week, doubling in under three years and cementing the network’s role as the backbone of global USDT settlement. A Six-Year Climb to 400 Million As a quick refresher, Tron’s genesis block launched in June 2018, and it took the network four years to reach its first 100 million …
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Crypto cards are turning USDC and USDT into everyday spending balances, with cumulative stablecoin card top-ups reaching $13.8 billion by August. The growth is pushing stablecoins beyond trading and remittances into a consumer payments market still largely powered by Visa, Mastercard and traditional card infrastructure. Stablecoin Cards Move Beyond Trading as Consumer Spending Rises Stablecoins …
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Bernstein expects Bitcoin to reclaim $125,000 by late 2026 before reaching $300,000 in 2029 under its base case, with a bull case of $500,000. Wall Street research company Bernstein expects Bitcoin to recover from its latest downturn, reclaim its 2025 high and set new records in the coming years heading into the peak of its …
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Phantom will remove Sui from its wallet interface on Sept. 24, one month after announcing that it and Sui had decided to end the integration. After the transition, Phantom will no longer display Sui balances, support Sui sends or swaps, or connect to decentralized applications. The assets will remain on the Sui blockchain, tied to …
Crypto miner Sphere 3D said it could face approximately $2.2 million in supplemental US tariffs, before interest, on Bitcoin miners purchased in 2022 by a subsidiary it now owns. The company said in an Aug. 24 filing that US Customs and Border Protection treated the equipment as Chinese-origin goods. The filing stated seller-provided import documents …
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