Bitcoin ($BTC) stayed motionless at Thursday’s Wall Street open as analysis saw signs of reemergent US “stagflation.” Key points: Bitcoin stays below $65,000 as Iran tempers expectations over the Strait of Hormuz oil route reopening. US PMI data analysis sees “stagflation” return as a potential future risk. $BTC price indecisiveness means that the market still
The Bitcoin [$BTC] short-term holder spent output profit ratio [STH SOPR] is at 1. In other words, coins held for under 155 days were, on average, at their cost basis. The taker buy/sell ratio showed a slight skew towards aggressive sellers, too. Source: CryptoQuant The stablecoin supply ratio measures Bitcoin’s market cap to the aggregate
BNY’s Digital Asset Custody platform plans to provide institutional crypto staking support through Galaxy’s infrastructure, the two firms said Aug. 4. BNY touches roughly 20% of the world’s investable assets, with $62.6 trillion in assets under custody and administration as of June 30. Galaxy is one of three validator firms approved to stake Ethereum for
As BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) cryptocurrency portfolio increased by over $3.7 billion since early July to date, on-chain data suggests its investors could potentially be rotating capital from Bitcoin ($BTC) to its altcoin fund. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) has recorded a holding-decline of 3,710 $BTC, down from 743,190 Bitcoin on July 1, 2026,
Bitcoin [$BTC] has traded lower since the bears seized control in October, when its price briefly pushed past $126,000. The asset has fallen 25.98% this year, and the downtrend keeps extending. The slide has stripped $665 billion from its market capitalization and dragged its valuation down to $1.29 trillion. Bitcoin has shown fresh strength over
Culper Research shorted Nvidia after predicting the $5 trillion AI giant might be re-routing Chinese demand for AI chips through sketchy deals with neighboring countries. Almost no one believed it at the time, but as it turns out, it called the top. Despite Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s guidance of “assuming zero for China” to comply
MetaMask has officially launched Agent Wallet, a self custodial wallet that allows AI agents to execute onchain transactions while operating within rules established by the user. Your agent finally gets its own wallet. MetaMask Agent Wallet is now live for everyone. pic.twitter.com/F81PZ7etxv — MetaMask 🦊 (@MetaMask) August 6, 2026 The wallet lets users connect AI
MoonPay has launched MoonPay Enterprise, a unified stablecoin infrastructure platform designed for banks, fintech companies, and merchants managing global payments. The new business unit represents MoonPay’s largest platform expansion since its acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure provider Iron in March 2025. The platform combines fiat payment rails, stablecoin conversion, treasury management, issuance, and global settlement through
Tether, best known for issuing USDT, the world’s most widely used stablecoin, is expanding its push into real-world asset tokenization to bring institutional-grade real estate asset onchain in Saudi Arabia. The company said Thursday that its tokenization platform, dubbed Hadron, will provide the technology to issue and manage tokenized real estate assets for institutional investors