Deutsche Bank argues Bitcoin has finished its transition from a retail speculation vehicle into an institutional risk asset, and that this very shift explains why the current drawdown is unfolding the way it is.
Bitcoin moving above $100,000 didn’t feel like a clean breakout for Dan Tapiero, but rather like a transition point where market structure quietly shifted underneath price action.
Bitcoin is trading around $62,300, and four separate datasets are telling a single, unusual story. One long-running on-chain metric has just broken a floor that held for 15 years, and the flow data underneath it shows two groups of holders moving in opposite directions.
Ripple secured preliminary approval for a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg's financial regulator, the CSSF, under the EU's MiCA framework.
Glassnode's altcoin season signal is flashing 86, well into altcoin-season territory, but there's a disconnect between that number and what's actually happening to alt prices, and a second indicator tells a very different story.
The US Senate has passed a four-year ban on a Federal Reserve digital dollar, not as standalone legislation, but tucked inside a bipartisan housing bill that cleared the chamber 85-5 on Monday night.
Speaking with Galaxy Digital's Alex Thorn, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao offers a deliberately long-term lens and makes the case that this is a routine cycle, not a crisis, and that this one is built on firmer ground than any before it.
Hyperliquid's core perpetuals business has roughly halved since its peak. But underneath that cooldown, a different kind of trading is quietly growing on the very same infrastructure.
The company that owns the New York Stock Exchange is building a joint venture with crypto exchange OKX, aiming to connect 120 million crypto users to regulated traditional markets through a single licensed entity.
Coinbase has opened trading on perpetual futures tied to Anthropic and OpenAI, letting eligible traders outside the US take a position on what two of the most closely watched AI companies might be worth, before either has gone public.
South Korea's Toss Bank is now testing a possible fix, partnering with the Solana Foundation to see whether public blockchain technology can make cross-border remittances faster and cheaper for its roughly 15 million customers.
The Bank of England has revised its proposed rules for systemic stablecoins, dropping the individual holding limits it floated last year in favor of a cap on how much any single stablecoin can issue.



