Chainlink has surged by almost 8% over the past week despite choppy price action across the broader crypto market. The crypto asset may be setting up for a major move, according to crypto analyst Ali Martinez. What makes the setup particularly interesting is that some of the signals now appearing on LINK’s chart have historically […]
Boltz has suspended its Bitcoin swap service after a series of AI-assisted attacks caused losses for the bootstrapped five-person company, with the shutdown announced on August 3 and a new group of veteran Bitcoiners now preparing to take over the project. The episode points to a growing security problem for small open-source crypto services, where […]
Arthur Hayes published a new essay this week arguing that the US Treasury and Japan’s Ministry of Finance have settled on a single method to strengthen the yen: running newly printed dollars through the Federal Reserve’s currency swap facility. Hayes says the mechanics point to a wave of dollar liquidity hitting the global markets, and […]
Another push above $65,000 failed to hold on Tuesday, sending Bitcoin back below $64,000. The crypto asset was down more than 1.6% over the past day. Against this backdrop, large BTC wallets are back at levels not seen in months. Meanwhile, smaller holders are steadily losing ground. Elite Wallets Are Moving Up Bitcoin’s elite wallet […]
Large Bitcoin, Ether, and XRP holders continued accumulating during recent market weakness, analytics firm CryptoQuant said. The firm’s weekly report, Buying the Bear: A Signal of the Bear Market’s Final Stage, examined the recent accumulation by the largest wallets. It said the steady buying reflects behavior often seen during the closing phase of a bear […]
The previous business week ended with a bit of a surprise as the jobs report showed that the US economy had lost 23,000 jobs in July, compared to expectations for roughly 80,000 new positions. Previous months were revised sharply lower as well, solidifying the argument that the labor market is finally weakening. Although this was […]
The CLARITY Act got stuck in political limbo at the end of the business week until lawmakers return from their August recess, and Grayscale laid out a potential plan ahead for the US crypto industry if Congress ultimately fails to deliver the highly anticipated market structure this year. There’s no need to sugarcoat it: it […]
Over a year after announcing the initial plans to complete several deals with the popular crypto exchange Crypto.com, Trump Media, the entity behind Truth Social, has backed off as it has now focused on other internal developments and an upcoming merger. The native token of the platform reacted with an immediate nosedive that pushed it […]
The industry’s biggest legislation has faced yet another setback. The US Senate will not take up the crypto market structure bill before lawmakers leave Washington for the month-long recess, pushing the vote to September instead. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, speaking through a spokesperson, confirmed there will be no vote on the CLARITY Act in […]
Chart analyst ChartNerd flagged an 8.5-year cup-and-handle pattern on XRP this week, arguing that the token is nearing the 0.618 Fibonacci retracement level that could set up a long-term move toward $8, $13, and $27. The outlook arrives while XRP itself sits near $1.06, deep in a correction that has wiped out most of its […]