Bitcoin Holds Firm: Institutions Sit Through 50% Crypto Drawdown
15 endowments, pensions, sovereign funds and family offices told Bitwise they held their crypto allocations through the 2025–26 crash, and several added.
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15 endowments, pensions, sovereign funds and family offices told Bitwise they held their crypto allocations through the 2025–26 crash, and several added.
Marset's extradition closes a year-long fugitive hunt and brings a high-profile illicit-finance case to US federal court, where prosecutors will argue crypto was central to his laundering operation.
Tron's $150B-$190B weekly stablecoin throughput, paired with average fees near $0.07 at record transaction counts, reframes TRX as payment-rail plumbing rather than a DeFi competitor.
The ceiling that pinned BTC for months has cracked, and on-chain flows point to spot demand absorbing the move rather than a thin short squeeze.
As of 15:00 UTC on 23 Sep, CoinMarketCap's top 100 is broadly green — yet the session's sharpest contrarian signal…
A single hour of selling pressure erased $230 million in leveraged long positions, a cascade that signals forced liquidations rather than orderly profit-taking.
Wright's stance signals the administration will not pursue supply restrictions as a tool for managing domestic fuel costs, keeping export markets open.
Derive alone captured 88% of total on-chain options activity in Q3 2026, a concentration that signals the protocol has effectively become the default venue for decentralized options flow.
609 $BTC (≈52.1M) moved from unknown wallet to #Coinbase.
The move plugs yield-bearing stablecoin collateral into a $1.4B loan book serving 1,600+ counterparties, a structural upgrade that could set a template for how institutional desks treat DeFi-native…
With $LINK testing a key level at $13.38, a 25% rally to $16.30 is the near-term thesis if broader market momentum follows through.
The partnership brings two of crypto's and traditional finance's most recognized names together, signaling that on-chain equity access is moving from experiment to institutional product.
At comparable points in prior cycles, Bitcoin was more than twice as deep in drawdown and weeks from its lows.
A $235 billion balance-sheet entering retail crypto across eleven countries signals that MiCA's regulatory clarity is now sufficient for major European lenders to move from observation to execution.
700 $BTC (≈60M) moved from #Kraken to #Binance.
644 $BTC (≈55.3M) moved from unknown wallet to #Coinbase.
Traders watching Polymarket's NATO-Russia contract should distinguish a hybrid test of alliance resolve from a full-scale invasion; the market's 2025 window captures only a direct military encounter.
The move puts crypto access inside a $234B traditional banking network, marking one of the largest institutional distribution deals for retail crypto in European history.
Withdrawals stay open, but the closure of one of crypto's longest-running derivatives venues is the latest contraction signal for an offshore perps sector that has been thinning for quarters.
Twelve straight weeks of net inflows, not the $26.1M single-day print, is the real signal: a demand base that has absorbed recent volatility without breaking.