In Switzerland, an initiative by Bitcoin advocates to make it mandatory to add Bitcoin to the country’s central bank reserves has failed. According to Reuters, the campaign will end after failing to gather the necessary signatures to initiate a referendum. Under an initiative called the “Bitcoin Initiative,” activists aimed to amend the Swiss Constitution to
A campaign pushing the Swiss National Bank to add Bitcoin to its reserves is set to end after supporters failed to collect enough signatures for a referendum under Switzerland’s constitutional rules despite months of outreach and public campaigning efforts. Campaigners were given 18 months to collect 100,000 valid signatures to propose a constitutional amendment that
The U.S. The Treasury bought back $4 billion of its own debt this week as part of a broader effort to improve market liquidity and stabilize bond trading conditions. For crypto investors, the move matters because rising liquidity has historically supported major rallies in Bitcoin and other digital assets. Could this become another bullish catalyst
Bitcoin is trading around $80k, holding slightly above the psychological threshold that has defined the ceiling of every recovery attempt over the past three months. The ascending channel is intact, the 100-day MA reclaim is holding, and $BTC is now pressing into the zone between the current price and the 200-day MA. This area is
Acting Labor Secretary Sandlin’s push for earlier Fed cuts clashes with a cautious central bank, leaving crypto trading a “higher for longer” regime even as the political drumbeat for easing grows louder. Political pressure builds for easier Fed policy Acting Labor Secretary Sandlin’s remark, reported by Jinshi, that the Federal Reserve should “consider lowering interest
While the benchmark S&P 500 index is overall almost 8% in the green in 2026 and close to its all-time highs ($ATH), there has been significant divergence between the performance of the various stocks contained within. For example, one of America’s largest companies, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), remains deeply in the red even after the April
Tokenized real-world assets could develop into a $14 trillion market by 2030 and eventually reach $55 trillion by 2035, according to BCG projections. According to that prediction, tokenization would rank among the biggest structural changes in the current financial system, affecting bonds, commodities, private credit, stocks, and other assets. Instituionalization of the field There is
In early May, BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) CEO Larry Fink made a case against the existence of an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble while proposing the creation of a new asset class to address infrastructure constraints. Specifically, the billionaire identified a series of shortages the U.S. is facing, highlighting that there is a significant deficit of energy
Federal Reserve officials have shifted their attention back to inflation after fresh labor data showed the US job market remains stable despite mounting geopolitical and energy-related pressures. Strong hiring numbers in April strengthened the central bank’s confidence to keep interest rates unchanged while officials evaluate the long-term impact of rising prices tied to the Iran
Bitcoin ($BTC) price has dropped below $80,000 on May 8 after a rejection above $82,850 was accelerated by notable spot selling. $BTC price fell 1.34% over the past 24 hours, losing around $1,083 to trade at about $79,840 at press time. As such, the flagship coin’s market capitalization declined by $21.5 billion to hover at