It could be more than a year before Bitcoin regains its all-time high of $126,100, recorded in October last year, according to veteran trader Peter Brandt. “I do not see a new price high in 2026,” Brandt told Cointelegraph. “Not until maybe the second quarter of 2027,” he said, though he also acknowledged that “this
Strategy Inc.’s Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (STRC) went live on the popular platform Trading 212 on March 30, 2026. It gives UK retail investors direct access to a Bitcoin-backed yield product that pays roughly 11.5% annually. However, buying it directly may cost significantly more in tax than most buyers realize. Why UK
Digital asset investment products have recently recorded their earliest weekly outflow in 5 weeks. In this respect, the digital asset funds have undergone a huge $414M outflow. As per the new report from CoinShares, the investor sentiment has declined because of the extended Iran conflict as well as the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) inclination
A notable development has occurred in the cryptocurrency market. An official statement from the “Nakamoto” company, reportedly linked to David Bailey, revealed that a significant amount of Bitcoin was sold in March 2026. According to the announcement, the company sold approximately 284 Bitcoins for a total of $20 million. The average sale price was recorded
Dune co-founder and CEO Fredrik Haga said stablecoins will remain the primary driver of blockchain adoption. He argued they have already achieved a scale that puts them well ahead of tokenized real-world assets. Speaking at ETHCC 2026 in Cannes, Haga said stablecoin usage in payments, treasury management and business-to-business transactions has made the sector the
KiloEX, a DEX platform that specializes in perpetual futures trading, today announced a strategic partnership with Arbitrum, a Layer-2 network designed to improve speed and decrease transaction costs for DApps (decentralized applications) running on the Ethereum blockchain. The collaboration enabled KiloEX to combine its perpetual DEX platform with Arbitrum’s L2 network, an integration that means
Electra Protocol is taking an important step towards the widespread acceptance of blockchain payments. They have just launched an official WooCommerce plug-in for the Electra Protocol’s native currency, XEP. The WooCommerce development is a significant milestone in the open-source community. It will help to integrate traditional e-commerce with fast, decentralized finances. WooCommerce currently powers more
The US SEC is now allowing broker-dealers to use a wider range of stocks—specifically, baskets of large American companies from the Russell 1000 and S&P 500 Indices—as collateral when borrowing securities from large institutional investors. Previously, firms could only use safer, traditional assets like cash, US government bonds, or bank guarantees as collateral. Under this
The ECB now accepts tokenized securities as collateral, lifting DLT into its toolkit while X erupts over Axiology’s $XRP Ledger roots and “no $XRP” disclaimer. The European Central Bank has started accepting tokenized securities issued on distributed ledger technology as eligible collateral for Eurosystem credit operations, in what many in European markets see as a