Sub-0.01 BTC Transactions Now Drive ~80% of Daily Bitcoin Activity
The shift from ~44% in 2023 to ~80% today is being driven by OP_RETURN-based protocols like Runes and Ordinals, not by larger value transfers — and the mempool is already showing it.
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The shift from ~44% in 2023 to ~80% today is being driven by OP_RETURN-based protocols like Runes and Ordinals, not by larger value transfers — and the mempool is already showing it.
Fairshake deployed its largest single-race outlay yet — over $10M — to help Trump-endorsed Rep. Barry Moore win the Alabama GOP Senate primary, part of a $193M war chest the crypto PAC is wielding…
The $2B-a-month Base-native venue is using the offshore perp trajectory as its strategic compass — a fragmented market of coexisting venues arbitraged by the same pro desks, not a winner-take-all…
The hawkish dot plot grabbed the headlines; the substance was two quiet signals — AI productivity as a disinflation force and a trimmed-mean inflation rebuild — that point to a structurally looser…
250M $USDC (250.1M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
250M $USDC (250M USD) has been minted at the USDC Treasury.
The AI forecast hinges on whether the CLARITY Act flips XRP's legal status into a digital commodity within weeks, lifting the ceiling on sovereign and pension allocations — or whether a hawkish Fed…
The Consensys founder frames the next leg as institutional — Wall Street capital meets AI-driven on-chain agents, with a warning not to trust those agents with real money yet.
The shorter statement, absent dot-plot additions, and a rising 2-year yield together tell the real story: the Fed isn't telegraphing cuts anymore, and the bond market is already doing the Fed's job…
The Fed rate call — not the headline number — is the structural trigger: macro repriced risk assets, leveraged longs were flushed, and the Fear & Greed Index slid to 15, signalling capitulation…
The trades land a day after Coinbase launched tokenized U.S. equities and rolled out an AI advisor — moves Benchmark calls a step from crypto venue to broader onchain financial infrastructure.
135.3M $USDC (≈135.4M) moved from #Aave to Unknown Whale 1.
111.8K $ETH (≈190.7M) moved from unknown wallet to unknown wallet.
The unanimous hold masked a hawkish dot-plot: nearly half the FOMC now sees a hike as possible before year-end, just as a US-Iran deal pulls oil back toward $76 and pulls CPI expectations with it.
The payoff cleaned up the capital stack but cut preferred-stock dividend runway by two-thirds — and a debt-free competitor paying daily dividends now sits next door as the cleaner trade.
Spot trades at a 15% discount to Glassnode's True Market Mean, short-term holders remain 10% underwater, and realized losses still dominate — yet order-book depth, negative gamma around $68K, and…
The 0.2% Digital Asset Tax Act takes effect January 2027 and targets crypto brokers in a way no other state taxes stocks or bonds — industry lawyers say it will trigger geoblocking and capital flight.
Katana CEO Matt Fisher argues the next phase of DeFi lending isn't about pulling users on-chain — it's about making the protocol layer invisible inside cards, apps, and exchanges that already own the…
The discount to par is the lead, not the dollar number: STRC was built to trade near $100, and the gap signals the market wants a richer payout before Saylor's preferred-stock funding channel reopens.
The preferred is supposed to trade at $100 — it just printed $85.32, and with $2.7B in dividends due over the next 12 months, the cost is now showing up on Bitcoin's chart through MSTR-dilution math…