ETH L2 News: Robinhood Chain Goes Live as Top Critics Flip Bullish
The weekly round-up also tracks a $1M approval-phishing loss, Michael Saylor's shifting narrative, and the crypto entanglements of Farage and Trump.
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The weekly round-up also tracks a $1M approval-phishing loss, Michael Saylor's shifting narrative, and the crypto entanglements of Farage and Trump.
The 3% yield is the signal: SBI is pricing JPYSC lending above JPY bank-deposit rates to pull capital into a yield-bearing stablecoin use case that targets Japanese retail.
The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most consequential oil chokepoints on earth; a near-empty transit log reads as a live risk-off signal for crude, equities, and crypto alike.
BTC held near $63,800 while every traditional war hedge dumped on U.S. strikes in Iran, the latest sign the asset now trades on dollar liquidity and chip-cycle flows, not Hormuz headlines.
The setup that launched the 2020 altcoin rally is back: ETHBTC pushing its 20-week moving average while the ex-Bitcoin market cap sits 6% below a multi-year confirmation zone.
The 1-for-15 reverse split and a Q1 $118.2M operating loss expose the gap between treasury accumulation and the equity that is supposed to price it.
Ether and SOL spot products also flipped positive in the same week, with $84M and $930K respectively, while XRP ETFs kept bleeding, signalling a broadening, not uniform, institutional bid.
A sitting prime minister using a flagship crypto conference to commit fresh capital and deregulation is the kind of top-down signal that has historically pulled Japanese institutional capital off the…
Japan's third-largest convenience chain joins KDDI and HashPort on a proof-of-concept that, if it scales, would make stablecoins a daily-payment rail rather than a trading asset.
The platform has moved $750M for 1.5M users since launch, and it still lets you trade Monero and Zcash while major exchanges have delisted them.
The X accounts for SpaceX-linked AI and satellite-internet brands were hijacked to promote a memecoin that the operator minted and dumped in minutes for roughly $125K.
The wallet hadn't moved since October 2018, when BTC traded near $6,475. A single 2,931 BTC transfer after that long a silence is the kind of flow on-chain desks flag as potential sell-pressure even…
Japan's SBI keeps backing tokenisation, DeFi, and crypto-native infrastructure at a time when Western peers are pulling back, reinforcing Tokyo's bid to anchor Asia's regulated digital-asset corridor.
A top-three Japanese convenience chain putting yen-pegged JPYC on the point-of-sale rails is a legitimacy signal the rest of Asia’s payments stack will read closely.
Bitcoin's spot ETFs led with $197M in weekly net inflows, while XRP's first-generation products bled $7M, the only major US-listed spot fund cohort to print red.
The hedge-fund manager's read ties the AI capex cycle to Bitcoin's relative safety bid: if the bubble pops, the question is whether BTC absorbs the risk-off flow or sells with everything else.
Brian Harrington's thesis is supply math plus decades of fiat debasement: at 21M total supply, fractional holdings compound into outsized influence if Bitcoin's role keeps expanding.
The wallet acquired the stash at $6,513 per BTC in 2018 and hadn't touched it since, making this one of the larger long-dormant profit-taking events of the cycle.
Lee framed ETH on the New Era Finance Podcast as the digital equivalent of land, arguing $300B is a fraction of where it lands once stocks and real estate run on-chain.
A direct US military escalation against Iran pushes Brent crude past the 3% mark and forces a fresh risk-off bid into Treasuries and the dollar, the kind of cross-asset move that historically…