Bitcoin has returned to the center of market attention after prediction markets assigned nearly even odds that the cryptocurrency would fall below $50,000 before the end of 2026. The forecasts emerged after Bitcoin declined from approximately $71,300 to $66,500, leaving the asset more 30% below its 2026 high above $100,000. At the time of writing,
Julian Sawyer, CEO of Zodia Custody, described Standard Chartered’s ongoing acquisition of the firm as a “major validation” that highlights a growing reality in mainstream finance: legacy banks cannot build institutional-grade digital asset custody safely or efficiently without proper software. Instead of treating crypto as an isolated sector, Sawyer noted that the industry is hitting
A monthly research report from Bitwise’s European arm published this week pegs bitcoin’s theoretical “fair value” at roughly $224,000 if the asset were widely adopted as portfolio insurance against G20 sovereign debt defaults. The research team described the figure as a “model-implied illustrative figure, not a price target or forecast,” however. The figure stems from
Strategy’s (MSTR) recent bitcoin sale has had an outsized impact on market sentiment, but Wall Street bank Citi does not see the move as changing the company’s long-term strategy. The bank said the sale was anticipated after Strategy signaled plans to dispose of certain tax-disadvantaged bitcoin holdings during its first-quarter earnings call as part of
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1862.4, down 0.6% (-11.0) since 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday. Fifteen of the 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: NEAR (+15.1%) and XLM (+5.7%). Laggards: BCH (-10.7%) and BNB
Kraken’s parent company is bringing one of Wall Street’s most coveted opportunities to crypto investors: buying into IPOs at the same price as institutional investors. Payward, the parent company of the crypto exchange, said Wednesday it will “soon” allow customers of Kraken and other members of its xStocks Alliance to participate in U.S.-listed initial public
After briefly falling below $66,000 on Wednesday, bitcoin is trading near the bottom of the Power Law corridor, a level that has historically come shortly before rebounds in the price of the largest cryptocurrency. The model, popularized by physicist Giovanni Santostasi and refined by Porkopolis Economics, plots bitcoin’s price against time on a logarithmic scale
Bitcoin’s aggressive break below $70,000 has shifted the market from a debate over dip-buying to a more defensive question of how far traders now need to insure against the next leg lower. Data from CryptoSlate showed that the largest cryptocurrency fell to as low as $65,404 over the past day, triggering $1.8 billion in liquidations
As part of efforts to make easy access to RWA offerings on-chain, Brickken, a tokenization platform, today entered into a strategic partnership with Taiko, a decentralized layer-2 rollup protocol built on Ethereum. The partnership enabled Brickken to integrate Taiko’s layer-2 scaling solution, aiming to advance scalability and interoperability on its tokenization network. Brickken is an