Tether plans to issue $USDT natively on Bitcoin through RGB. RGB uses Bitcoin for commitments while keeping contract data off-chain. Morgan Stanley personnel reportedly discussed the infrastructure, but no bank rollout has been announced. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has put Bitcoin back at the center of $USDT’s expansion strategy, saying the world’s largest stablecoin is
Bitcoin holders looking for dollar liquidity face a familiar choice: sell some $BTC or borrow against it. Alpen wants to make the second option part of a financial system built around Bitcoin. The company announced that it plans to integrate Circle-issued $USDC and Circle’s Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol, or CCTP, when its mainnet launches later this
Bitcoin Holds Above $84,000 Following Sell-Off Bitcoin was largely flat Thursday morning, just 24 hours after selling pressure overwhelmed bulls to send the price tumbling from $87,000 to just under $84,000. Despite that reversal, overall sentiment remains bullish as traders bet cryptocurrency will see another spike like Monday’s, when it surged from under $82,000 to
Shielded Bitcoin is a proposal put forward by [[alloc] init] researchers Clara Shikhelman, Misha Komarov, and Aleksei Moskvin for a novel privacy metaprotocol on the Bitcoin base-layer to enable shielded Bitcoin transactions without requiring operators, soft forks or other changes to Bitcoin consensus. You can find the whitepaper here and blog announcement here. The protocol
Bitcoin’s 1-Hour Chart Puts $83,000 Under the Microscope Bitcoin’s price on the 1-hour chart shows the clearest short-term pressure after the run to $87,374 gave way to a stair-step decline characterized by lower highs. The price eventually reached roughly $83,000-$83,400, where a modest bounce developed from the current shelf, while Bitstamp’s order book showed size
VanEck’s Matthew Sigel says Bitcoin has little long-term correlation with bond yields, while its relationship with the U.S. dollar remains more persistent. Sigel attributes Bitcoin’s recent pullback more to DXY strength than movements in Treasury yields. He points to lower realized volatility and growing institutional adoption as reasons the current drawdown looks more contained than
Bitcoin climbed past $87,000 after a rate increase that should have made risk harder to own. The public record identifies several sources of demand, but it cannot put a name to every buyer or turn fund inflows into a complete account of the rally. Bitcoin’s rally after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates has an
Sequans Communications has sold its remaining 314 Bitcoin, completing its exit from a Bitcoin treasury strategy that once saw the semiconductor company hold more than 3,200 $BTC. On Thursday, the French semiconductor company said the exit follows the redemption of its convertible debt in May and will allow it to refocus on its core cellular
Bitcoin surged to multi-month highs this week, testing levels not seen since January, as it fell deep into the crypto winter. The latest rally rekindled $BTC’s bullish momentum, changed the crypto market narrative, and boosted traders’ bullish sentiment. Bitcoin’s Massive Liquidation Setup Just days after an impressive run, Bitcoin’s dynamics suggest a potential return to
With Bitcoin ($BTC) soaring roughly 33% to $84,151 since early August, it is relatively easy to forget that the cryptocurrency market remained on a downtrend for most of 2026. The changes in the number of $BTC ATMs installed in the U.S., however, clearly reflect the trend prevalent through most of the year, as it recorded