Bitcoin’s blockchain is exhibiting its strongest activity since late 2024, creating a uncommon cut up between rising network use and a weakening market price. CryptoQuant mentioned in a word shared with CryptoSlate that its Bitcoin Network Activity Index has moved above its long-term development for the primary time since mid-2024. The index has climbed steadily…
The XRP group’s response to the Ripple Swell 2026 announcement was rapid and hostile. Retail holders flooded the @RippleSwell reply thread inside hours of the announcement. The constant theme was not pleasure about 1,500 attendees or a merged XRPL Apex agenda; it was anger that Ripple’s flagship institutional occasion seems to be constructing a case…
DefiLlama exhibits Pump.enjoyable generated $108.3 million in gross revenue through the first quarter and $69.2 million within the second quarter thus far, marking a 36.1% decline from the prior quarter’s tempo. The broader Pump stack, which incorporates PumpSwap and Terminal alongside Pump.enjoyable, exhibits Q2-to-date gross protocol revenue of $179.3 million, 37.5% beneath the primary quarter’s…
Bitcoin will not be having a very good time as Strategy STRC peg lastly snapped, Iran peace talks stalled earlier than they even began, and Microsoft simply advised each Windows consumer touching crypto to get up. Strategy chairman, Saylor, dropped a tweet this morning that felt approach too calm for him. There is hearth, no…
Nuvei agreed to purchase Payoneer for $2.75 billion in money in a deal centered on cash motion via service provider buying, payouts, FX, playing cards, danger controls, and licenses. The corporations additionally positioned stablecoins inside that cost stack. That provides the deal its crypto significance: mainstream stablecoin use might run via processors that already personal…
Bitcoin value broke decrease in a single day whereas regulators performed their traditional energy video games on two continents. Binance MiCA software in Greece reportedly hit a wall after Christine Lagarde, ECB president, allegedly leaned on authorities to block it. Meanwhile, Bybit has been added to the Singapore MAS Investor Alert. Centralized infrastructure retains consuming…
A megawatt leased to an AI tenant now instructions a special value on Wall Street than a megawatt sitting in a Bitcoin miner’s pipeline, and the gap between the 2 has change into the central pricing query for all the sector. VanEck’s newest framework for valuing publicly traded miners reveals that firms with signed AI…
GRAM dropped between 2% after India ordered Google and Apple to delist Telegram from their app shops, reducing off entry for an estimated 104 to 150 million customers, and Pavel Durov just isn’t completely happy. It’s reducing Telegram’s single largest nationwide person base. Executed underneath Section 69A of India’s Information Technology Act, it’s explicitly momentary,…
Bitcoin holders seem unwilling to help devoted Bitcoin-native DeFi on the scale wanted to maintain initiatives within the house alive. That is the stress behind Botanix Labs’ decision to wind down Botanix, a Bitcoin Layer 2 constructed to deliver EVM-style functions, lending, borrowing and yield to BTC holders. The wind-down is harder to dismiss than…
Standard Chartered has set a $100 UNI goal for the finish of 2030, a forecast that will put considered one of DeFi’s largest governance tokens far above its present market vary. The financial institution’s thesis states that tokenized property may finally require DeFi venues to convert fragmented on-chain devices into usable liquidity. The Standard Chartered…