1130 ET - Bitcoin prices fell below $60,000 in June, making it the first time since 2024 that they were that low. A souring macroeconomic picture and aggressive ETF outflows were pegged as the reason for the slide, with these factors still in play this month. However, says analysts with 21shares, l…
The market capitalization for stablecoins fell 2.4% to $312 billion in June, according to analysts from CoinDesk. That's a $7.7 billion decline for the month, and makes it the largest drop the stablecoin market has seen since May 2022--when the TerraUSD stablecoin lost its $1 peg and collapsed, wit…
Vitalik Buterin has confirmed that AI-assisted analysis used by Co-Invest CEO Franklyn Wang correctly identified his anonymous contribution to an Ethereum proposal.The identification comes two weeks after Buterin publicly challenged whether current AI tools could pierce online anonymity.Wang's winn…
Semiconductor stocks beat both Big Tech and crypto in the first half of 2026. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index gained 102%, while the Magnificent Seven fell 2% and Bitcoin BITSTAMP:BTCUSD lost 33%, according to Deutsche Bank and CoinGecko data.Wall Street banks now disagree about the second hal…
Vitalik Buterin has confirmed a winner in his AI challenge to unmask his anonymous writing, after researcher Franklyn Wang traced a hidden EIP-7503 revision back to the Ethereum co-founder.Buterin launched the experiment on June 22, offering up part of his own anonymity to test whether AI stylometr…
Bitmine Immersion Technologies, holding one of the largest Ether (ETH) stockpiles as part of its treasury strategy, said Monday it added of $74 million worth of the second-biggest crypto by market cap, in contrast with Strategy, a major Bitcoin (BTC) holder, which offloaded coins to fund its divide…
Vitalik Buterin is again pressing on one of Ethereum’s most awkward user-experience problems: Layer 2 networks may be cheaper than mainnet, but the wider ecosystem still feels fragmented, unpredictable, and too hard for normal users to navigate.View original post on XTL;DREthereum’s roadmap has lea…
Bitcoin ETFs entered the holiday weekend on a positive note, according to data from CoinGlass. They posted a net inflow of $223.5 million on July 2, the first such inflow for these ETFs since June 12. Bitcoin had a mostly-positive holiday weekend, rising to as high as nearly $64,000, according to C…
The crypto market has long been driven by Bitcoin, Ethereum, and memecoins. But Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev believes the next wave of growth will come from real-world assets (RWAs) as institutional capital increasingly flows into tokenized assets.Does this mean RWA tokens could become the next major w…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published his takeaways from an updated version of the network's draft long-term roadmap, describing the multi-year "Lean Ethereum" effort as a near-total rebuild of how the network operates.In an X post Saturday, Buterin wrote that Lean Ethereum "is not a single…
Binance outflows climbed to a three-year high last week. The move came as Ethereum BITSTAMP:ETHUSD withdrawals from the exchange hit their highest level since March 2023.The world’s largest exchange saw $1.23 billion leave in the week beginning June 29. That marked a 207% jump from about $400 milli…
Since June 30 a new wallet bought 19,725.38 ETH (~$41.5M total with 161.35 WBTC). Holdings show an unrealized profit of $3.59M; 61.35 WBTC withdrawn ~30 minutes ago.Ethereum devs p
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has named quantum resistance, scalability and privacy as three of Ethereum's top priorities under a new "Lean Ethereum" strawmap, which lays out the network's technical direction for the remainder of the decade.In a post to X on Saturday, Buterin said the collect…
U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs posted about $527 million in net outflows over the four trading days ending Thursday, July 2, their eighth consecutive negative week, per The Block's analysis of SoSoValue data. That extends the longest weekly outflow run in the funds' history; before this stretch began in mi…
The crypto market likes to pretend it’s decentralized until the bluechip crypto’s start moving. Then suddenly everything dances to the same rhythm.The data on CoinMarketCap shows that the top eight crypto assets by market capitalization: BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, TRX, and HYPE command a combin…
Germany’s savings and cooperative banks are rolling out crypto trading to retail clients, wiring Bitcoin BITSTAMP:BTCUSD into the apps of institutions that hold roughly 80 million customer relationships in a country of 84 million people.The Sparkassen serve about 50 million customers, per DSGV data…
After weeks of relentless selling, the crypto market is finally showing signs of stabilizing. While prices have bounced from recent lows, Santiment analyst Brian Quinlivan said investors shouldn’t focus on price alone. Instead, he said on-chain data may reveal where the strongest long-term opportun…
Bitcoin (BTC) rallied, $50 short of $63,000, on July 3, and Ether (ETH) outperformed the wider market, pushing to $1,775. The end-of-week rally comes a few days after BTC fell to a 21-month low and ETH sank to fresh year-to-date lows. Highlighting the negative sentiment, the Crypto Fear & Greed ind…
The Ethereum Foundation is making a more direct case to governments and institutions. A new guide from the foundation lays out how Ethereum and EVM-based infrastructure can be used as neutral digital rails for public-sector and institutional systems.The timing is important. Tokenization, stablecoin…
Spot Bitcoin BITSTAMP:BTCUSD exchange-traded funds (ETFs) drew $221.72 million in net inflows on July 2, breaking a 10-day run of redemptions.The turnaround lifted total net assets across the funds to $74.37 billion, reversing a stretch that reflected the deepest institutional pullback since the pr…
