You never see the most important part of any of your payments. When an app says your money moved, a number changes on your screen, and the transaction looks and feels finished. But underneath those interfaces lies a separate, invisible chain of bank reserves, settlement accounts, and Fed infrastructure that determines when your funds actually
10x Research, known for its analysis of the cryptocurrency market, announced that Bitcoin has entered a downward trend again. The company’s assessment, published on its X platform, stated that changes in institutional investor behavior, in particular, are putting pressure on the market. According to the analysis, the recent strong outflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs indicate
Bitcoin was slightly higher on Monday as a sharp decline in oil prices helped lift Asian stock markets. At 6:35 UTC, the leading cryptocurrency by market value traded near $77,200, up 0.4% from midnight UTC, according to CoinDesk data. At that level, bitcoin was trading just above its widely tracked 50-day simple moving average of
Darkfost, an analyst from the cryptocurrency analysis platform CryptoQuant, shared noteworthy data regarding Bitcoin movements on the Binance exchange. According to the analyst, $BTC reserves on Binance have been experiencing continuous net inflows for the past 10 days. This indicates that investors are transferring more Bitcoin to the exchange, potentially increasing selling pressure. According to
Ethereum maintained its position as the largest smart-contract network with TVL consistently above $42 billion, while stablecoin liquidity remained above $164 billion throughout the week. Solana continued to dominate on-chain activity, processing 74-80 million daily transactions and recording some of the highest perpetual futures volumes among major blockchains. BSC Chain (BSC) demonstrated strong retail participation,
B3 registered the first guaranteed OTC flexible option tied to Hashdex’s crypto-index ETF, HASH11, in a trade between Inter and XP. B3’s clearinghouse served as the central counterparty in the trade, placing a crypto ETF-linked exposure inside the same back-office machinery that handles counterparty risk, margining, clearing, and settlement. That is the infrastructure layer that
The US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund market is closing in on recording net outflows for this year after Friday saw the funds hit six consecutive days of outflows. Net inflows into the Bitcoin ETFs so far in 2026 have shrunk to $536 million after the market bled another $105.2 million on Friday, as BlackRock’s iShares
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said the financial system still needs eight key upgrades before crypto-based finance can reach wider use. His list covered RWA tokenization, 24/7 global trading, stablecoin payments, AI tools, self-custody wallets, easier capital formation, sound money, and better regulation. Armstrong said the future system will become more global, more automated, and more
Larry Fink, CEO of the world’s largest asset manager BlackRock, has publicly called for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to accelerate its approval process for tokenized stocks and bonds. Fink’s comments, coming from a firm with more than $11 trillion in assets under management, immediately ignited discussion across both traditional finance and cryptocurrency