When a community brags about throughput, it’s actually bragging about how a lot chaos it may swallow earlier than it chokes. That’s why probably the most fascinating a part of Solana’s newest “stress check” is that there’s no story in any respect. A supply community known as Pipe revealed knowledge that put a current barrage…
Bitcoin (BTC) walks to shut 2025 with greater than $112 billion locked in US spot ETFs, trade reserves at a report low of two.751 million BTC, and perpetual futures open curiosity of almost $30 billion. Every single a type of information factors would have sounded constructive in 2022. In late 2025, they map to the…
Bitcoin’s inability to reclaim $90,000 is trying much less like a debate about narratives and extra like a check of market plumbing. For the higher a part of 2025, the floor story was institutional momentum. The US moved towards a workable regulatory perimeter, capped by President Donald Trump signing the GENIUS Act to federalize fee…
Bitcoin’s ETF knowledge is doing that annoying factor the place it seems terrifying in the event you solely learn the headline. Big chunks of ETF patrons are sitting on losses, and each purple stream day will get framed as the begin of a stampede. But in the event you look intently at the numbers, they…
Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer stated Bitcoin might have accomplished one other halving cycle in each worth and time, and he positioned support within the $65,000–$75,000 zone. Sharing a “Bitcoin analogs” chart, the Fidelity director of worldwide macro wrote, “While I stay a secular bull on Bitcoin, my concern is that Bitcoin might effectively have ended one…
Contrary to common perception, quantum computers won’t “crack” Bitcoin encryption; as an alternative, any practical risk would deal with exploiting digital signatures tied to uncovered public keys. Quantum computers can’t decrypt Bitcoin as a result of it shops no encrypted secrets and techniques on-chain. Ownership is enforced by digital signatures and hash-based commitments, not ciphertext….
Cardano is signaling a basic shift from the community’s roots in educational analysis towards a commercially pushed “working system” mannequin. On Dec. 17, the Intersect Product Committee launched a report titled “Vision 2030,” outlining a strict set of efficiency benchmarks supposed to redefine how the market values the community. Intersect, the member-based group tasked with…
A statistical mirage briefly satisfied the crypto market this week that mid-sized whales had bought roughly $5 billion of Bitcoin. During the previous week, social media feeds crammed with charts exhibiting that roughly 54,000 Bitcoins are flooding into “shark” wallets, that are addresses holding between 100 and 1,000 cash. As a end result, many business…
The SEC has refreshed its crypto asset FAQs, clarifying how broker-dealers like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and others can fulfill custody and capital necessities for crypto asset securities, and addressing how the framework applies to Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF exercise. The replace seems on the Trading and Markets FAQ index as “Frequently Asked Questions Relating…
Bitcoin surged $3,000 in an hour on Dec. 17, reclaiming $90,000 as $120 million briefly positions vaporized, then collapsed to $86,000 as $200 million in longs liquidated, finishing a $140 billion market-cap swing in two hours. The motion was pushed by leverage, making it appear that leveraged positions are uncontrolled. However, Glassnode’s information tells a…