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Bitcoin Slips Toward $80,000 After Hot US Inflation and an Asian Tech Rout, With Long Positions Hit Hardest

Bitcoin fell about 3.6% in a day to the low $80,000s as spot ETFs saw outflows again, and the key question is whether buyers show up near the $80,000 support level that analysts are watching.

Oct 15, 2026/2 min read

A gold-coloured physical bitcoin coin lying on a white laptop keyboard, photographed in February 2023, a file photograph illustrative of bitcoin and not of this week's price moves

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Bitcoin ETFs Lose $681 Million in a Week, the Worst Since June, as Traders Watch Wednesday's CPI Report

Spot funds ended a three-week inflow run, Fidelity and BlackRock led the withdrawals, and bitcoin still held in the low $80,000s while ether tested its own floor.

Oct 13, 2026/2 min read

A close-up of a gold-coloured physical bitcoin collector coin on a grey surface, photographed in October 2013, a file photograph illustrative of bitcoin and not of the exchange-traded funds

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ESMA Tells Licensed Crypto Firms to Stop Serving Non-MiCA Stablecoins and Gives Them Three Months to Unwind

Europe's markets regulator has told exchanges and brokers to cut off tokens that skip MiCA's reserve and redemption rules. Old holdings must be cleared by 8 January 2027 at the latest.

Oct 9, 2026/2 min read

Euro banknotes and coins of several denominations spread on a table, photographed on 14 October 2006, a file photograph illustrative of the euro and not of any stablecoin or of ESMA

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The UK's FCA Opened Its Crypto Authorisation Gateway, Starting the Clock on a New 2027 Regime

Firms running trading platforms, custody, staking or stablecoin issuance have until 28 February 2027 to apply for full FCA authorisation, replacing the lighter anti-money-laundering registration that has governed UK crypto businesses until now.

Oct 1, 2026/2 min read

The Bank of England in London, illustrative of UK financial regulation and not the Financial Conduct Authority's own building, photographed in June 2015

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Vitalik Buterin Set Out a 2030 Vision for Ethereum as a 'Cryptographic World Computer'

Ethereum's co-founder wrote that the network will stop having every node re-execute every block and instead verify cryptographic proofs of correctness, pairing the blockchain with off-chain computation once its next major upgrade ships.

Sep 29, 2026/3 min read

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, who wrote the 2030 vision described in this report, photographed at a conference in London in December 2015

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Bitcoin Reclaimed 81,000 Dollars on a Rate Signal, Which Is Not What an Inflation Hedge Does

Bitcoin rose 5.5 percent to 81,491 dollars on Thursday after a Federal Reserve governor signalled a hold, with the total crypto market up 4.7 percent to 2.82 trillion. The rally came from lower rate expectations while oil sat near 96 dollars.

Sep 4, 2026/3 min read

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The Exchange Has Built a Crypto Index That Deliberately Leaves Out Bitcoin and Ether

CME and CF Benchmarks switched on two indices on Monday. One is a broad market benchmark built around bitcoin and ether. The other excludes both of them and tracks ten other assets, which is a statement about what the rest of the market is for.

Sep 1, 2026/3 min read

The Chicago Board of Trade building seen down LaSalle Street between the surrounding blocks, the home of CME Group

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An Attacker Minted Forty Nine Billion Dollars of SAND and Left With Six Hundred and Seventy Five Thousand

Roughly 329 trillion tokens appeared on Base and BNB Smart Chain across 703 mint events. The real theft was capped by how much SAND was actually locked on Ethereum, and the keys came from a developer's infected laptop.

Aug 30, 2026/4 min read

Computers on a long office desk, photographed out of focus. The keys used in the exploit were traced to a developer machine holding backups for seven of them

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Bitcoin Is Having Its Best August Since 2017. It Is Also Still a Third Below Its Record.

August has closed red for bitcoin every year since 2022. This one is up about a quarter, spot ETFs took nearly two billion dollars in five sessions, and the price is back near eighty thousand. It peaked at a hundred and twenty six.

Aug 25, 2026/3 min read

Editorial illustration of a deserted trading floor at night with every screen dark

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Bitcoin Went From $64,000 to Almost $80,000 in Three Sessions, and the Trigger Was a Treasury Announcement

From Wednesday to Friday the price rose more than twenty two per cent, the strongest week in over three years, helped by a record short squeeze of about 2.7 billion dollars. Very little of the explanation is about cryptocurrency.

Aug 22, 2026/4 min read

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Ether Rose Seventeen Per Cent in a Day on a Piece of Legislation That Has Not Passed

The SEC proposed a framework, the president pushed the Senate on the Clarity Act, and the market moved before either was settled. What the bill would actually decide is the oldest unanswered question in the industry.

Aug 21, 2026/3 min read

A price line on a dark screen making a single sharp jump upward

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More Than a Third of Ether Is Locked Up, and That Cuts Both Ways

Staking and long-term holding have taken a large share of ether out of circulation. It is read as conviction. It is also a thinner market, and thin markets move faster in both directions.

Aug 17, 2026/3 min read

A faceted metal form held in cracked ice on a dark surface

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Binance Stops Processing Transactions With Eleven Platforms From 23 August

The exchange is cutting off transaction processing with HTX and ten other trading platforms, citing regulatory mandates and sanctions enforcement. Users of those venues have a week to move.

Aug 17, 2026/3 min read

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Self-Custody: What Holding Your Own Keys Actually Means

Not your keys, not your coins is a slogan with real consequences on both sides. Self-custody removes counterparty risk and replaces it with your own operational discipline, which is not obviously the better trade.

Aug 10, 2026/3 min read

A hardware wallet beside a steel seed phrase backup plate

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Stablecoins Are Quietly Becoming a Bond-Market Variable

IMF research finds stablecoin demand shocks can lower short-term Treasury yields and spill into currencies, crypto and equities. Digital dollars now matter beyond crypto trading.

Aug 2, 2026/2 min read

Digital dollar tokens connected conceptually to US Treasury securities

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Bitcoin Near $64,000 Shows Why Regulation Cannot Remove Market Risk

Bitcoin is trading near $64,000 as clearer US rules meet a difficult macro environment, proving that legitimacy and price stability are different things.

Jul 31, 2026/2 min read

Bitcoin beside a professional digital-asset market chart

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Stablecoins Have Reached $320 Billion. The Hard Part Is Becoming Money

Stablecoins are expanding as payment and settlement tools, but BIS and IMF research warns that redemption pressure can connect token risk to traditional financial markets.

Jul 25, 2026/3 min read

Digital dollar tokens moving through a global payment and reserve network

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Ethereum's 2026 Roadmap Is About Cheaper Execution, Better Accounts and Quantum Time

Ethereum's updated roadmap shows a network concentrating on scale, programmable accounts and long-horizon cryptographic security rather than a single headline upgrade.

Jul 25, 2026/3 min read

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Wall Street's First Active Multi-Token Crypto ETF Changes the Access Question

T. Rowe Price's new actively managed crypto ETF moves regulated access beyond single-asset Bitcoin and Ether products, but delegation introduces a different set of risks.

Jul 25, 2026/3 min read

A professional trading display representing a diversified cryptocurrency exchange-traded fund