Bitcoin Surfs Hawkish Fed, New Iran Cues With Price tapping $63,000

Bitcoin (BTC) rose above $63,000 on Friday as markets adjusted to geopolitical and macro changes. Key points: Bitcoin takes a time-out near week-to-date lows after a broadly hawkish Fed interest-rate…

Aave avoided collapse, but its $8.45B stress test exposed deeper risks

A stress test that showed both strengths and weaknesses When large sums leave a financial system quickly, hidden weaknesses often become visible. In traditional finance, such situations often lead to…

Sonic Token Falls 5% As Long-Standing Execs Resign

The S token, the native utility asset behind the Sonic blockchain, dipped on Friday after Sonic Labs announced the resignation of three former executives from its board.  The S token…

Bitcoin Miners Pivot to AI as Tokenized RWAs Surge and Ripple Expands Africa Push

For years, Bitcoin miners were little more than leveraged bets on BTC prices. That’s changing fast. As mining margins tighten and demand for AI computing accelerates, the industry’s biggest players…

WhiteBIT Gains MiCA Approval in Austria, Expands Access Across Europe

Crypto exchange WhiteBIT has obtained authorization under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) from Austria’s Financial Market Authority, allowing the company to offer regulated crypto services across the…

Bitcoin’s $13B Options Expire May Push Price To New Lows

Key takeaways: Puts (sell) options dominate the June 26 expiry with net advantages of $1B to $3.4B, leaving bulls exposed. Despite Strategy buying BTC again, heavy call (buy) positioning above…

Charles Schwab to Enter Prediction Markets with S&P 500 Wagers: WSJ

Financial services giant Charles Schwab will reportedly enter the prediction markets business by offering customers wagers on the S&P 500. According to a Friday Wall Street Journal report, Charles Schwab…

Franklin Templeton Files For Two ETFs That Reinvest Stock Dividends Into Bitcoin

Franklin Templeton has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch two exchange-traded funds that channel corporate dividend payments directly into bitcoin, the latest sign of Wall Street’s push…

Republican Lawmaker Proposes Prediction Markets Insider Trading Ban, Not Including White House Officials

Wisconsin Representative Bryan Steil, who chairs the House subcommittee on digital assets, introduced a law to prevent certain public officials from “wagering on public policy issues and political outcomes,” notably…

Bitcoin Mining Costs Have ‘Worsened’ As BTC Trades Below Production Cost

Bitcoin has traded below the estimated cost to mine it for five straight months, according to JPMorgan analysts, leaving roughly one in five miners unprofitable and pushing publicly listed operators…