Market-moving crypto headlines from the last 24 hours.
Standard Chartered's $100 UNI target and a 34% weekly HYPE bid are pulling capital out of BTC, with cheaper oil and a softer inflation read handing Warsh an easy first meeting.
Bond traders are now pricing a 2026 rate hike while stocks decouple from yields — a macro pincer that drains the liquidity bid crypto’s recovery was built on.
The 130-page proposal treats permitted stablecoin issuers like banks under the Bank Secrecy Act — the structural win legitimizers want, with secondary-market KYC flagged as the open fight.
Five months underwater at an estimated $78K production cost has pushed ~20% of miners into losses, and Q1 2026 treasury sales from public miners already ran ahead of full-year 2025.
The signal isn't just the cost line — it's that public miners are now running at a structurally negative margin while BTC trades in the low production-cost band, a setup that historically pressures…
A single-hour wipeout of this scale signals forced selling across leveraged positions, not orderly profit-taking — the kind of cascade that can accelerate a move well beyond its fundamental trigger.
Wang is the second co-executive director out the door this year, bringing senior departures at the EF to eight over five months — a brain drain the market is now pricing into ETH's competitive…
The 2027 target lands three years ahead of the NSA's national-security deadline, framing post-quantum readiness as a competitive race rather than a distant hygiene problem.
The Royal Government of Bhutan is now a known sovereign seller on the tape — $979M realized at ~$93,738 per BTC leaves roughly 1,750 BTC in state coffers worth ~$113M.
The Blackwell-powered contract adds ~$70M in annual recurring revenue on top of HIVE's $35M realized ARR — more than tripling the high-margin HPC line that grew 158% last year.
The integration is the first time a crypto-built identity layer has routed agent-initiated spend through Visa's tokenised network — a structural on-ramp for AI agents to transact like cardholders,…
The three-year contract deploys 2,304 Nvidia Grace Blackwell GPUs on Canadian soil and adds roughly $70M in annual recurring revenue — pulling HIVE's HPC contracted book past the $100M mark as its…
Credit ratings have lived outside the blockchain for a century — Moody's publishing on Solana makes the oldest trust signal in finance machine-readable at the asset level.
Taking effect in 2027, the levy applies to every Bitcoin and crypto transaction — a structural drag critics say will push digital asset activity out of state.
If confirmed, the order would freeze Binance out of the bloc's harmonized EU crypto regime on a single national node — the kind of political signal other MiCA supervisors now have to react to.
The $1.8B scheme ran 2020-2022 on fake 0.5%-1% daily mining returns — and lands one week after the FBI reported record $11.4B in crypto fraud losses for 2025.
Three simultaneous suits, naming Coinbase and Robinhood affiliates, frame a direct challenge to CFTC federal preemption — and land a day after a Michigan court cleared the way for state-level…
The fight isn't over perpetuals themselves — it's over whether a regulated venue like CME gets first crack at the benchmark, with Duffy arguing Dodd-Frank makes the venue question settled law.
ECB opposition behind the scenes turned a routine licensing review into a political veto — and now leaves Binance with one remaining MiCA seat, in France, to keep serving the entire bloc.
The complaint — filed by the world's largest futures exchange — argues perps should be swaps under Dodd-Frank, and lands just weeks after the CFTC greenlit bitcoin perps for Coinbase and Kalshi.
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