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The head of digital assets and tokenization at one of Germany’s largest asset managers said that USDT and USDC are not stablecoins, from his perspective.

Bitcoin futures and orderbook data show dip buyers waiting for a BTC price drop below $70,000. Bitcoin (BTC) traders have shifted their focus lower after futures and order book data point to strong buyer interest in the $68,000-$70,000 zone. Sell pressure has increased in the derivatives markets and the daily bid-ask ratio fell to -0.03, showing sellers are currently more aggressive than buyers as traders position around liquidation levels. The visible range volume profile (VRVP) indicator shows the $68,000-$70,000 region as the most densely traded zone on the chart since November 2025. High trading activity in that price range suggests most positions were opened near those levels over the past few months. Read more

The research firm said bitcoin traders remain unusually defensive, reducing the risk of the kind of leverage-driven collapse seen in prior downturns.

Viral Japanese macaque monkey Punch received unwelcome visitors this week, as trespassers attempted to promote a Solana meme coin.

With the possibility of renewed tightening rising, bitcoin is losing momentum and becoming more vulnerable to exogenous shocks and potential rate hikes.

Bernstein remains bullish on Bitcoin mining firms like IREN, Riot, and CleanSpark, who are all riding the wave of AI compute demand.

Google's new multimodal AI model powers updates to Flow and Flow Music, including conversational video editing and AI-generated media tools.

New markets will let users trade on fundraising, valuation and other startup milestones using data from Nasdaq Private Market, extending forecasting into private capital. Polymarket has launched a new category of prediction markets tied to private companies, allowing users to trade on questions related to pre-IPO companies — a move that could bring greater price discovery to private markets, where valuation data is often limited and opaque. The new offering, announced Tuesday, was developed in partnership with Nasdaq Private Market, a platform that facilitates secondary trading in shares of privately held companies. Nasdaq Private Market will provide the underlying data and market infrastructure for the contracts. The markets are designed to reflect expectations around events such as fundraising rounds, valuation changes and other corporate milestones involving startups and late-stage private companies. The launch expands Polymarket’s product lineup beyond its core markets focused on politics, macroeconomic e...

XRP price might be down, but there's a divergence between short-term and long-range price prediction that has never looked sharper. The post XRP Price Prediction: Hodlers Split as ETF Demand Weakens but $27 Target Lives On appeared first on Cryptonews.

Announced at Google I/O 2026, Spark is Google's most ambitious Gemini feature yet—a personal agent that manages your inbox, your calendar, and your workflows, with or without you watching.

Crypto infrastructure providers are drawing renewed investor interest as Wall Street deepens its push into digital assets.

The crypto asset manager argued the market is mispricing Hyperliquid as a niche derivatives exchange instead of a fast-growing “super-app” for global trading markets.

In a letter to the Comptroller of the Currency, Warren argued nine national trust bank charter approvals for crypto firms violated the National Bank Act.

Is SOL headed toward $78 or even lower?

The Bitcoin price dropping below $78,000 has shifted market attention to whether buyers can defend the $76,000 area or whether the pullback opens the way for a deeper move toward $70,000. Crypto market maker Wintermute said the latest decline followed another rejection near $82,000, where Bitcoin has struggled to reclaim its 200-day moving average. The […] The post Bitcoin price risks slide toward $70,000 as $76,000 support weakens appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Visa, PayPal, and Stripe are all settling on Solana right now. Most people have not processed what that actually means for price prediction. Perplexity AI did, and the 6-month predicts it produced is the kind of number that makes $84 look like a mistake.$250 to $300 by November 2026. Potentially $400 if sentiment holds.Perplexity’s bull […] The post Perplexity AI Predicts Unexpected Solana Price in 6 Months appeared first on Cryptonews.

The Massachusetts lawmaker asked the US Comptroller of the Currency to provide all communications between the agency and Donald Trump potentially related to the charter approvals. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren accused the US Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Jonathan Gould of violating banking laws by approving national trust charters for cryptocurrency companies. In a Monday letter to Gould, Warren said the OCC head had “approved at least nine national trust charters for crypto companies that intend to engage in activities that appear to go far beyond the narrow set of activities permitted by law,” an apparent violation of the National Bank Act. Source: US Senate Banking Committee Read more

The agency is proposing its largest overhaul of public listing rules in over 20 years, cutting compliance costs and giving crypto firms a much easier path to raise cash on Wall Street.

The UK central bank said digital money should remain trusted and interoperable as it weighs stablecoin reforms and near-24/7 settlement to support tokenized markets. The Bank of England is stepping up its focus on digital money, with Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden highlighting tokenization as a potential way to reduce costs, speed settlement and increase competition. Speaking at London's City Week on Tuesday, Breeden said tokenization — the representation of assets and money on digital ledgers — could improve the efficiency and functionality of payments and financial markets, provided that trust and interoperability are preserved. Breeden stressed that central bank money will remain the foundation, or “anchor,” of the monetary system, even as private-sector innovations such as tokenized deposits and regulated stablecoins gain traction. Read more

Consumers feel less social pressure when lying to an AI chatbot, research finds, while human-like social cues reduce dishonest behavior.