Bitcoin has climbed into the $86K resistance zone, one of the market’s most important technical and onchain barriers. With 1.07 million BTC concentrated between $83,000 and $86,000 and U.S. spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors above breakeven, the next move could reveal whether the crypto recovery has enough demand to absorb significant overhead supply. Glassnode Flags …
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Coinbase has expanded its push beyond crypto by giving eligible US customers access to IPO shares at the offer price before public trading begins. The first offering available through the service is smart-ring maker Oura, which is seeking to sell 50 million shares at an expected price of $40 to $44 each. That range would …
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Bitcoin’s break above $86,000 has cleared a major pocket of bearish leverage and put $90,000 back in traders’ sights. The largest cryptocurrency climbed as high as $87,363 over the past 24 hours, its strongest level since January, before easing to $85,824 at press time, CryptoSlate data show. The advance pushed Bitcoin through a zone that …
Four Republican senators who voted to advance the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15 also appear as named supporters on a bank-backed amendment seeking tougher restrictions on stablecoin yield. As Punchbowl News reported on Sept. 21, John Cornyn, John Curtis, Cindy Hyde-Smith, and Lisa Murkowski all voted “Yes” on the procedural motion, which fell short 49-50. …
Crypto corporations contributed $206 million to super PACs and hybrid PACs through the second quarter of 2026, according to Public Citizen’s Aug. 27 analysis of FEC records. That makes the industry the largest disclosed corporate donor sector tracked in this midterm cycle. Yet that figure doesn’t capture how much of the amount has reached a …
Bitcoin closed the week of Sept. 20 at $81,178, its first weekly settlement above the 50-week moving average since November 2025, and pushed further to an intraday high above $87,000 the next day. The breakout clears one of the market’s most closely watched technical lines, but leaves open the question of whether the buying underneath …
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The Senate fell short of advancing the CLARITY Act on Sept. 15, when a 49-50 cloture vote failed to reach the 60-vote threshold. Six days later, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said Stand With Crypto had surpassed four million members. Armstrong wrote in a post that “the 2024 election proved the importance of the crypto voter,” adding …
Market psychology around bitcoin has shifted sharply into bullish territory as the cryptocurrency broke past $87,300, driven by a combination of a major short squeeze and a surge in social volume. Short Squeeze Drives Volume Jump Market sentiment across the cryptocurrency space flipped sharply into bullish territory as bitcoin (BTC) pushed past $87,300, propelled by …
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Strategy says MSTR added $31.6 billion, or 80%, in market value over three months, yet the Class A share price rose about 54% over the same stretch. The Numbers Strategy posted a chart on X on Monday night with a one-line caption: Last 3 months for MSTR: +$32B (+80%). The graphic put the company’s market …
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A wallet linked to an Ethereum initial coin offering (ICO) participant swapped $23.7 million in stablecoins for 8,492.8 ETH on Sept. 21, six months after selling ETH near $2,010. Four Orders in Eight Minutes The trade surfaced through onchain analyst ai_9684xtpa, who described the buyer as an ICO-era whale re-entering the market after half a …
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Bad actors targeted Polymarket’s U.S. platform in a $10 million fraud scheme using stolen debit cards, pushing payment processor Checkout.com to reject over 80% of deposits as fraudulent. High Rejection Rates Trigger Payment Processor Crackdown Prediction-market startup Polymarket faces accusations of prioritizing user expansion and aggressive growth over compliance safeguards when bad actors targeted its …
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Bitcoin has climbed as much as 37% since Jim Cramer told CNBC viewers on Aug. 3 that he was dumping his bitcoin over quantum computing fears. The Call That Aged Badly Cramer’s apprehension apparently began on July 30, when, during an interview with IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna, he asked whether quantum computers could …
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According to a New York Times investigation published Saturday, Draftkings built a machine-learning model to steer promotions toward the gamblers it predicted would lose the most, and shut down internal efforts to predict problem gambling. The company rejects the characterization. ‘The Best Investment Would Be a Problem Gambler’ The Times based its reporting on interviews …
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Eligible Circle Mint institutions can now deposit Bitcoin, turn it into wrapped cirBTC collateral, and borrow USDC through a Morpho lending market in one coordinated workflow. Circle made the service live on Arc and Ethereum on Sept. 21, reducing the number of systems a treasury team must navigate to raise dollar liquidity without selling its …
Oracle provider Pragma classified 6 of 22 mainnet market and rate feeds as critical risk in a Sept. 18 assessment, warning lenders that an available token price does not establish that collateral can be sold to cover a loan. The liquidity report followed a Sept. 17 borrowing exploit at Nostra, a lending protocol on Starknet. …
