Users paid $9.7 billion in on-chain fees in the first half of 2025, up 41% year over year and the second-highest total on record. 1kx projects more than $32 billion in on-chain fees for 2026, driven by accelerating application growth. That growth has pushed the word “revenue” into every crypto investor pitch deck, every sector
SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci has predicted that the flagship cryptocurrency could eventually reach a staggering market capitalization of $21 trillion. Scaramucci has laid out his thesis for a $1 million per-coin valuation, arguing that Bitcoin has successfully evolved into a globally trusted, institutional-grade store of value that rivals. Wall Street adoption Scaramucci opened his
Prediction market traders are putting real money on where bitcoin goes next, and right now, the crowd is split between a short-term bounce and a deeper correction. Key Takeaways: Polymarket shows a 31% chance bitcoin hits $80K in April 2026, making it the most active live bracket with $3.7M in volume. Kalshi traders give bitcoin
Morgan Stanley launched its spot Bitcoin ETF on Apr. 8 on NYSE Arca, calling MSBT the first cryptocurrency ETP from a US bank-affiliated asset manager and pricing its sponsor fee at 0.14%, the lowest Bitcoin ETP sponsor fee. By Apr. 16, Farside Investors’ data showed cumulative net inflows of $116 million across seven trading sessions.
The current Bitcoin ($BTC) market cycle is “dramatically” weaker than the three previous cycles, according to Alex Thorn, the head of firmwide research at investment firm Galaxy. Thorn compared price action since the April 2024 Bitcoin halving to cycles triggered in 2012, 2016 and 2020; the current cycle shows significantly dampened volatility and lower upside.
Paolo Ardoino, the CEO of Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin firm, has reaffirmed his bullish stance on Bitcoin, sparking reactions as all eyes appear to be on Bitcoin following the recent market rally. In his post, Ardoino declared that Bitcoin is resistant after a viral artwork shared by Satoshigallery sparked the attention of the crypto
Bitcoin’s network just recorded its lowest activity in eight years, and the price has barely flinched. CryptoQuant flagged that active $BTC addresses hit their lowest level since 2016 on Apr. 8. At the same time, Glassnode’s latest 24-hour reading puts active addresses at 661,313, a number that, set against a price near $78,000, produces one
Just when markets had priced in the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran reversed course. On April 18, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the strategic waterway was closed again, less than 24 hours after its foreign minister declared it fully open. Bitcoin, which had surged past $78,000 on the initial relief rally,
While on Bloomberg, Nic Carter once again raised the issue of a “quantum deadline” in 2029, one of the industry’s key architects, Adam Back, remains completely calm. His response to warnings that Bitcoin could become “obsolete” and lose Satoshi’s coins boils down to a simple thesis: software protection is evolving faster than the hardware threat.