Bitcoin steadied near $64,000 over the weekend, clawing back part of Friday’s drop, as traders weighed the start of US-Iran ceasefire talks against a renewed threat to close the Strait of Hormuz. The token traded around $64,200 on Sunday, up 0.9% over 24 hours but roughly flat on the week, per CoinDesk data, after dropping
US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded their largest 30-day net outflow since launching in January 2024 amid a crypto bear market. According to data from Galaxy Research, US Bitcoin ETFs saw $6.35 billion in net outflows over a trailing 30 trading days. It also comes as they registered their sixth week of outflows last week,
In a landmark development for the DeFi world, Ledger Capital, a global investment platform, has made a strategic investment in PayGo, an HTTP-native payment protocol. As per the announcement shared today, Ledger Capital’s strategic financial investment and guidance will play an essential role in spearheading PayGo’s growth in its development journey. Ledger Capital is a
Predict Protocol, a popular decentralized prediction market entity, has partnered with LayerEdge, a zero-knowledge infrastructure provider. The partnership aims to bring together permissionless prediction markets and a cutting-edge zero-knowledge proof framework to enhance scalability and trust. Predict Protocol × @layeredge Permissionless prediction markets meet decentralized verification. Predict’s unified $USDC liquidity vault on $BNB Chain. LayerEdge’s
CME‘s bitcoin options open interest, measured in dollar terms, has dropped from a peak near $290 million in late November to roughly $30 million to $40 million by mid June, according to Cryptoquant data. Put open interest still outweighs calls on most trading days, a pattern that has held since July 2025. When CME’s options
The Bank of Japan raised its benchmark interest rate to 1% on June 16, the highest level the country has seen since September 1995 and the furthest point yet in a normalization campaign that has slowly dismantled three decades of near-free money. Going into the decision, the track record pointed one way: every one of
Michael Saylor, the chairman of the world’s largest Bitcoin treasury firm, Strategy, has recently shared a brief story, reflecting on the tough moments in the history of the company, which have now become its strengths today. In the post, Saylor discussed how far the company has come since it continued to witness consistent market weakness,