BlackRock Chief Operating Officer Rob Goldstein revealed that demand for cryptocurrency has significantly exceeded the firm’s initial projections, marking a notable shift in institutional sentiment toward digital assets. Speaking during a Binance online stream, Goldstein addressed the market’s reception of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), IBIT, and outlined the asset manager’s broader strategic outlook
Stacks published a whitepaper proposing a self-custodial Bitcoin staking mechanism that generates native $BTC yield without bridges or wrappers. The protocol extends the Proof-of-Transfer mechanism in place since 2021, which has already distributed over 4,200 $BTC in rewards to participants. The initial PoX-5 phase targets around 3,000 $BTC in capacity with a 3% APY in
Blockchain fees are payments users make to process transactions onchain and offer a more direct measure of value capture than volume alone. A chain can process significant transaction throughput while generating relatively little in fees. Looking at last week’s fee distribution across major chains, the rankings tell a different story than raw activity metrics might
Bitcoin ($BTC) may reach $100,000 by June as Strategy’s renewed buying power and falling stablecoin dominance suggest liquidity is returning to crypto. Key takeaways: Michael Saylor’s Strategy may purchase at least 3,127 $BTC this week via the sales of STRC shares. Falling crypto market dominance of $USDT and $USDC stablecoins increases $BTC’s odds of reaching
Bitcoin Suisse (International) Ltd., an affiliate of the Switzerland-based Bitcoin Suisse Group, has obtained dual regulatory approvals from the Bermuda Monetary Authority, according to a note shared with Bitcoin Magazine. The Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) granted the entity a Class F license under Bermuda’s Digital Asset Business Act (DABA) and a Class B registration under
Strategy’s perpetual Stretch preferred stock, STRC, is likely driving strong mid-month performance for bitcoin, according to research and brokerage firm K33, creating a supportive short-term demand dynamic for the market. Bitcoin ($BTC) posted strong returns during the middle week of March and April, a pattern that Head of Research Vetle Lunde suggested in a new
Velvet announced its integration with DFlow to improve the order execution infrastructure on the Solana network. The integration enables access to more efficient liquidity routes, reduces slippage and improves order fill speed. DFlow connects market makers and liquidity providers to compete for order flow in a more efficient way. The on-chain execution engine faces one
A member of the European Central Bank Governing Council has indicated that the upcoming June meeting will determine whether interest rates are raised or left unchanged, underscoring growing uncertainty over the next phase of eurozone monetary policy. According to Kocher, cited in Jinshi reports, policymakers are effectively split between maintaining current restrictive levels and implementing
Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas reported that the Bitcoin spot ETF iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) has significantly outperformed the gold ETF SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) since March, outpacing it by roughly 33 percentage points in performance. According to Balchunas, IBIT has attracted approximately $4.2 billion in net inflows during this period, while GLD has
$BNB Chain announced a comprehensive on-chain agent framework on May 13, 2026, enabling autonomous agents to obtain decentralized identities via the ERC-8004 standard, conduct peer-to-peer payments, delegate tasks to other agents using ERC-8183, and accumulate verifiable reputation tracked on 8004scan. The system operates entirely on-chain with transparent, auditable transactions and hierarchical agent relationships. The framework