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Exponential tech will force down prices and stress legacy finance, for which bitcoin offers a trustless alternative, said Wood at Bitcoin Investor Week.

Bitcoin-buying firms delivered on demand last year, but they struggled to keep up with market leader Strategy for a fourth straight month.

The platform hopes to capture a fraction of the more than $9.6 trillion in daily trading volume in the foreign currency exchange market. World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform backed by the family of US President Donald Trump, announced on Thursday that it will launch foreign currency exchange (FX) and remittance services for its users. The planned foreign exchange and remittance platform, called World Swap, seeks to challenge traditional remittance and FX service providers with lower fees and a simplified user interface, according to Reuters. Daily global FX trading volume surpassed $9.6 trillion in April 2025, according to a report from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), and the personal remittances market topped $892 billion in annual volume in 2024, according to data from the World Bank. Read more

AI data center spending is eclipsing crypto’s hoped-for supercycle as Bitcoin miners shift capital toward high-performance computing infrastructure. After years of debate in some corners of the crypto industry, Bitcoin and digital assets are on the verge of a long-awaited “supercycle,” typically defined as an extended, structurally driven boom that lasts beyond a normal market cycle. However, the only development resembling such durable, capital-intensive expansion may be underway in AI infrastructure, according to the latest newsletter from Blockbridge Consulting, which has been rebranded to TheEnergyMag from TheMinerMag. In the newsletter, analyst Wolfie Zhao described a “trillion-dollar build supercycle” tied to AI data center infrastructure. Read more

Bitcoin may continue to copy its 2022 bear market if bulls fail to reclaim the 200-week exponential moving average by the end of the week, new analysis said. Bitcoin (BTC) battled a key 200-week trend line around Thursday’s Wall Street open as “bearish acceleration” fears persisted. Key points: Bitcoin threatens to add the 200-week exponential moving average to its list of new resistance levels. Read more

Bitcoin can bottom soon because a 2026 recession, or a stock market crash, keeps looking like the outlier scenario My core idea around the Bitcoin market has remained the same since last September, before we hit the all-time high in October. I laid it out clearly in my medium-term $49,000 Bitcoin bear thesis published on […] The post Bitcoin price looks to bottom out near $50,000 as recession fears retreat despite scary headlines appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A mistaken Bitcoin payout revealed how exchange ledgers work and why South Korea is rethinking internal controls for crypto platforms. A simple data-entry error allowed 620,000 nonexistent BTC to appear in user accounts for 20 minutes because trades update a private database first, with onchain settlement happening later. Around 1,788 BTC worth of trades were executed before the exchange locked everything down. What could have been dismissed as a harmless error turned into a serious operational and regulatory event. Regulatory filings showed Bithumb held only 175 BTC of its own in Q3 2025, while it held custody of over 42,000 BTC for customers. This highlights how heavily the system depends on accurate internal accounting. Read more

Resilience built from the debris of 2022 is now shaping the Solana ecosystems future, leaders from Jupiter, Backpack, Kamino and DoubleZero argued at Consensus Hong Kong 2026.

Coinbase and Robinhood are down big again today as the crypto bear market pressures trading volumes.

"The balance tilts toward gradual recovery or stabilization in Q1 rather than a dramatic collapse," Grok stated.

Multiple Israelis now face criminal charges for allegedly using insider information about Israel’s June 2025 attack on Iran to make prediction market wagers.

Ethereum's slide toward $2,000 has left its exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors holding more than $5 billion in paper losses, extending a marketwide crypto drawdown that has also hit Bitcoin. According to CryptoSlate's data, the move has tracked a broader risk-off wave that has pushed the global crypto market value down by $2 trillion since October’s […] The post Ethereum price decline is testing Wall Street as ETF flows flip while a $1,800 retest looms appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin net taker volume flipped positive after a month of "aggressive" selling, but sentiment crashed to its lowest levels in crypto market history. Bitcoin (BTC) market sentiment has begun to recover as exchange traders reconsider selling. Key points: Bitcoin taker flow finally sees positive values after a month of seller dominance. Read more

Digital asset ETPs are rapidly integrating into traditional portfolios ($184B AUM), driven by U.S. bitcoin ETF adoption.

ETHZilla unveiled a tokenized aviation asset, Eurus Aero Token I, offering accredited investors access to lease income from two commercial jet engines.

Whale Perp Spikes Signal Accumulation as Fear Index Hits Lows The post The Market Is Terrified, Institutions Aren’t. Analyzing the ‘Extreme Fear’ Floor appeared first on Cryptonews.

The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement have flagged crypto OTC desks as a growing risk to preventing illicit financial transactions.

Standard Chartered predicts Bitcoin will hit $100K and Ethereum will rise to $4,000 by the end of 2026, but expects further drops first.

The bank cuts its 2026 crypto price targets, warning of further near-term capitulation as ETF outflows and macro headwinds weigh on digital assets.

BitMine bought roughly $83 million in ETH this week, even as Ethereum struggles to reclaim $2,000-mark.