Bitcoin: Perkins doubles down on $150K call as sentiment sours
Halfway through 2026, price action is ugly and AI has stolen the narrative, but the CoinShares co-founder says the institutional bid is intact and the bull case is still alive.
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Halfway through 2026, price action is ugly and AI has stolen the narrative, but the CoinShares co-founder says the institutional bid is intact and the bull case is still alive.
Low redemption rates under 30% signal real holder conviction, not arbitrage, a notable vote of confidence for a tokenization platform listing into a still-cautious RWA market.
Rootdata counts more than 60 protocol shutdowns year-to-date, with ten raising over $10M each and the three highest-funded all tracing back to a16z.
The chart analyst pitching this thesis overlays an expanding PMI on the altcoin chart against Bitcoin, arguing a multi-year contraction is finally easing into a business-cycle bull phase.
DKeX enters a market dominated by Polymarket and Kalshi, with DraftKings reporting consumer prediction-market volume above $3B since its December entry.
Japan's $440B daily FX market now anchors a four-stablecoin race: RLUSD gets the head start through SBI, USDC gains a corporate lane via Nomura, JPYSC holds the yen lane, and megabank issuance looms…
The run-rate crossed eight figures while the platform was still blocked from its largest addressable market, then US access flipped on, and the curve steepened without losing a beat.
Backed by BlackRock and Ark Invest, the tokenization infrastructure provider is set to trade on the NYSE on July 2 after lower-than-expected SPAC redemptions kept the PIPE intact.
The test is whether a bankruptcy-remote SPV, qualified custody, and first-loss retention can give institutional capital a reason to underwrite crypto-collateralized loans at scale.
The Spanish economy ministry is signalling that the December 30 transition deadline is final, with orderly customer wind-downs the only path for venues that have not secured a MiCA license.
Three straight quarters of decline have now wiped out 56% of liquid staking's peak capital, signaling a deeper DeFi liquidity drain rather than a routine cooldown.
The CNMV's hard line on the end-of-June deadline turns MiCA from a paper framework into an active market-access gate, with Binance among the firms now forced into a Spanish wind-down.
Inclusion on June 29 puts index funds and passive institutional capital on notice for UPXI, just as Solana treasury peers are getting crushed and SOL itself sits under pressure.
The week's crypto roundup covers EF's multi-month reorg, a low for stablecoin issuer STRC, BitMine's Russell 1000 inclusion, MiCA pressure on Binance, and the Bank of England's first stablecoin rules.
The pieces are visible: $137M in bridge inflows, $2.8M/day in app revenue, and 97% of tokenized equity spot volume.
Four dormant wallets sold 33,623 ETH at ~$1,560, realizing roughly $27.4M after watching unrealized gains peak above $150M across two cycles without selling a coin.
Eleven of the index's 20 constituents traded green in the latest session, with AAVE and SOL setting the pace while ETH and NEAR lagged.
A clean inflation print cleared the upside shock but did not draw a bid: $651M of ETF outflows in three sessions pushed BTC within $189 of the $58K stress line, leaving the next leg in the hands of…
Trading activity across the spot BTC ETF complex is holding its range rather than breaking out, a signal that the institutional bid remains engaged without chasing price.
The firm's fourth fund doubles down on its crypto roots while formally broadening into AI and robotics, a signal that top-tier venture capital still sees crypto-native deal flow as a viable anchor…