Sub-0.01 BTC Transactions Now Drive ~80% of Daily Bitcoin Activity
The shift from ~44% in 2023 to ~80% today is being driven by OP_RETURN-based protocols like Runes and Ordinals, not by larger value transfers — and the mempool is already showing it.
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The shift from ~44% in 2023 to ~80% today is being driven by OP_RETURN-based protocols like Runes and Ordinals, not by larger value transfers — and the mempool is already showing it.
ERCOT's new "Batch Zero" process tackles a 438,000 MW connection queue — and a handful of Texas-campused miners are already positioned to absorb the wave, with stock moves and signed hyperscaler…
A $300M-valuation startup pitching joint CFTC-SEC oversight for single-name equity perps arrives just as the agencies are harmonizing their rules and CME is suing over the very approvals that would…
The Stop Lawmakers from Predicting Act targets Kalshi and Polymarket-style political bets, with fines near $2,000 or 10% of the wager — but a Senate companion and a DOJ arrest signal the fight is…
The order lands as Mashinsky already serves 12 years for fraud — the lifetime ban and registration strip are the regulatory bookend, not a fresh sentence.
Fairshake deployed its largest single-race outlay yet — over $10M — to help Trump-endorsed Rep. Barry Moore win the Alabama GOP Senate primary, part of a $193M war chest the crypto PAC is wielding…
The $2B-a-month Base-native venue is using the offshore perp trajectory as its strategic compass — a fragmented market of coexisting venues arbitraged by the same pro desks, not a winner-take-all…
The hawkish dot plot grabbed the headlines; the substance was two quiet signals — AI productivity as a disinflation force and a trimmed-mean inflation rebuild — that point to a structurally looser…
The AI forecast hinges on whether the CLARITY Act flips XRP's legal status into a digital commodity within weeks, lifting the ceiling on sovereign and pension allocations — or whether a hawkish Fed…
The Consensys founder frames the next leg as institutional — Wall Street capital meets AI-driven on-chain agents, with a warning not to trust those agents with real money yet.
The shorter statement, absent dot-plot additions, and a rising 2-year yield together tell the real story: the Fed isn't telegraphing cuts anymore, and the bond market is already doing the Fed's job…
The Fed rate call — not the headline number — is the structural trigger: macro repriced risk assets, leveraged longs were flushed, and the Fear & Greed Index slid to 15, signalling capitulation…
The trades land a day after Coinbase launched tokenized U.S. equities and rolled out an AI advisor — moves Benchmark calls a step from crypto venue to broader onchain financial infrastructure.
The unanimous hold masked a hawkish dot-plot: nearly half the FOMC now sees a hike as possible before year-end, just as a US-Iran deal pulls oil back toward $76 and pulls CPI expectations with it.
The payoff cleaned up the capital stack but cut preferred-stock dividend runway by two-thirds — and a debt-free competitor paying daily dividends now sits next door as the cleaner trade.
Spot trades at a 15% discount to Glassnode's True Market Mean, short-term holders remain 10% underwater, and realized losses still dominate — yet order-book depth, negative gamma around $68K, and…
The 0.2% Digital Asset Tax Act takes effect January 2027 and targets crypto brokers in a way no other state taxes stocks or bonds — industry lawyers say it will trigger geoblocking and capital flight.
Katana CEO Matt Fisher argues the next phase of DeFi lending isn't about pulling users on-chain — it's about making the protocol layer invisible inside cards, apps, and exchanges that already own the…
The discount to par is the lead, not the dollar number: STRC was built to trade near $100, and the gap signals the market wants a richer payout before Saylor's preferred-stock funding channel reopens.
The preferred is supposed to trade at $100 — it just printed $85.32, and with $2.7B in dividends due over the next 12 months, the cost is now showing up on Bitcoin's chart through MSTR-dilution math…