Lead Story

Bitcoin retreats below $80,000, liquidating $300 million in futures bets

BTC fell under $80,000 after U.S. strikes in Iran sent oil briefly above $100, triggering liquidations and a shift toward bearish positioning. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
Payments

Stablecoin card spend is growing 100% year over year, Rain exec says

Stablecoin settlement enables weekend/holiday settlement, reducing trapped capital by over 40%. This improves card economics and financial flexibility for issuers. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com…
Markets

Bitcoin shows 2-cent price on Revolut as users report apparent BTC display glitch

Screenshots showed BTC briefly far below global market prices, though it remains unclear whether any trades were executed at those levels or whether the move…
AI

Bitcoin miners using AI as a bear market escape plan just got a new rival in Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has turned one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence clusters into a commercial compute product, creating a new challenge for Bitcoin miners…
Markets

Bitcoin bulls target $115K by December: Does data back the expectation?

Bitcoin options show bulls targeting $115,000 by year-end but are traders becoming overly optimistic? Read Full Story at Cointelegraph.com →
Institutional

US Treasury ‘privately demanded’ Binance comply with monitoring deal: Report

US Treasury officials reportedly sent a letter to Binance pressing the crypto exchange on compliance with a 2023 deal, after reports circulated that the company…
Infrastructure

Solv Protocol Will Dump LayerZero, Migrate $700M Tokenized Bitcoin Tech to Chainlink

Solv Protocol will move its tokenized Bitcoin infrastructure to Chainlink, following Kelp DAO’s lead after it blamed LayerZero for a hack. Read Full Story at…
Markets

CLARITY Act markup could happen as early as next week: Coinbase exec

The provisions in the crypto market structure bill are still under review by the banking and crypto lobbies as a new poll shows bipartisan voter…
Institutional

Trump Sons Haven't Abandoned World Liberty Financial, Crypto Firm Insists

World Liberty co-founder Zach Witkoff also said Thursday that the crypto firm is “in the final stages” of receiving bank charter approval from the Trump…