Japan to approve crypto ETFs by 2026 as Russia taxes digital assets
Tokyo's listing review and Moscow's first dedicated crypto tax code land the same week, while Colombia's largest pension fund opens a Bitcoin book via BlackRock's IBIT.
Macro events that move crypto — central bank rate decisions, inflation prints, banking stress, and global risk shifts.
Tokyo's listing review and Moscow's first dedicated crypto tax code land the same week, while Colombia's largest pension fund opens a Bitcoin book via BlackRock's IBIT.
A 9-day ETF inflow streak snapped with $313M in outflows, Strategy kept buying — but a heavy macro week has the market leaning defensive into the Fed.
The Fed's fourth consecutive hold triggered $537M in liquidations as Bitcoin dropped below $76K and Ethereum fell 3.7%, with the Fear & Greed Index slipping to 29.
A reported $55.5 billion takeover bid by GameStop for eBay has drawn attention to the retailer's recently disclosed…
Circle and Coinbase led a broad rally in crypto-linked equities as the Clarity Act moved forward in Washington, with…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation moves tokenized equities, ETFs and Treasuries onto existing market plumbing — a quiet but structural step toward making blockchain rails the back office of…
Chris Perkins argues the $2.7T crypto market has already proven it can grow and attract institutional capital without a federal framework — even as Senate delays push the bill's path further.
Amy Oldenburg's allocation guidance is the headline, but her caveat on bank balance-sheet adoption is the second-order read: Basel, Fed rules, and jurisdictional friction keep the timeline longer…
The Strategy chairman frames the next leg as a liquidity story: even a small slice of the $3.5T private credit market reallocating into digital credit could overwhelm available BTC supply.
A growing body of analysis suggests Bitcoin miners are on a trajectory to generate more revenue from AI-related…
The cypherpunk and Blockstream CEO argues sovereign accumulation mirrors the trajectory of the internet and encryption — early adopters give way to state-level adoption once a technology wins.
Four stories moving at once — Japan opens the door to crypto ETFs, Russia moves to tax, 130+ countries push CBDCs, and OFAC flags sanctions exposure for the rest of the industry.
The BitMEX co-founder is not reading the macro pivot as a one-off — he ties the liquidity bottom to a structural credit expansion that, in his view, overwhelms the AI-displacement narrative.
The proposal in Canada's Spring Economic Update 2026 would end a 13-year retail on-ramp the country invented in 2013 — and signals how Ottawa plans to treat any low-friction crypto product that…
The carry trade is the bridge between Tokyo's FX desk and a $78,000 Bitcoin — every $250B+ of yen-funded leverage is a built-in liquidation queue waiting on a sudden yen squeeze.
Major crypto industry stakeholders have thrown their weight behind a yield-related compromise in the CLARITY Act…
Bitcoin pushed above $78,000 as two macro tailwinds converged: the Senate cleared a key procedural hurdle for the…
The CRFB's debt-to-GDP marker hit 100.2% in Q1 2026, only the third time in modern history after WWII and the early-COVID GDP crash — and it gives Bitcoin's scarcity thesis a live, not abstract,…
Six regional storylines in one week, but the directional read is mixed: a sovereign-scale pension allocator moves in, Canada reverses on access, and a payments giant spins crypto out as a standalone…
Brazil's central bank has moved to prohibit the use of cryptocurrency in regulated cross-border payment settlements…