A new study by the Cleveland branch of the US Federal Reserve has revealed that information about Bitcoin’s past performance can increase investors’ inclination to enter the cryptocurrency market. According to the study, participants who were given information about Bitcoin’s recent returns were significantly more likely to purchase cryptocurrencies in the future. According to Coindesk,
Key takeaways Bitcoin trades around $77,000 after gaining more than 23% last week, its strongest weekly performance since March 2023. Investors realized $1.72 billion in profits on Friday, the highest daily total since November 2024. US spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $1.92 billion in weekly inflows, their strongest showing since October 2025. $BTC faces immediate resistance
Banks and financial regulators from Europe, the Middle East and Asia joined a cross regional pilot testing post quantum security for digital asset wallets and blockchain transfers on Aug. 24. The Responsible Fintech Institute convened the project with digital asset custody infrastructure provider Safeheron as its technology partner, according to the official announcement. Bison Bank
Fidelity International has quietly made one of the more telling moves in the gold market this year: according to Bloomberg Markets, the asset manager has doubled its Fidelity gold holdings as concerns mount over where the Federal Reserve is steering monetary policy next. The timing is hard to ignore. Bullion is trading near multi-month highs,
RWA deposits across decentralized lending and trading platforms reached $7.4 billion during the second quarter of 2026, more than tripling from $2.3 billion one year earlier, according to an Aug. 6 CoinShares report produced with Token Terminal. The increase occurred as total DeFi deposits declined approximately 15% between the second quarters of 2025 and 2026.
Nvidia is in talks to make one of its boldest artificial intelligence bets yet, negotiating an investment in Perplexity that would value the AI search startup at more than $30 billion, according to reporting from The Information and confirmed by Reuters. If finalized, the Nvidia investment in Perplexity would mark a sharp jump from where
The European Central Bank (ECB) is defending the privacy design of its planned central bank digital currency (CBDC). In an Aug. 10 interview published Monday, ECB Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said the digital euro’s design would limit the amount of transaction information available to the central bank. “The Eurosystem would not be able to
Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy MSTR$120.10·引け時 raised approximately $2 billion last week through the sale of 18.26 million shares of common stock, according to a filing on Monday. Strategy allocated $300 million of the proceeds to its USD Reserve and used $136.4 million to repurchase 1.43 million shares of its variable-rate preferred stock, STRC. The remaining
Nasdaq-listed Digital Currency X Technology Inc. is asking shareholders to approve a 160-for-1 reverse stock split, also known as a share consolidation, on September 3. It would be the company’s second consolidation of 2026 after a 12-for-1 action took effect on January 22. Digital Currency X recently shifted from electric-vehicle manufacturing into the digital asset
TAC, an EVM network connected to TON, halted validator block production after the project said an exploited vulnerability affected the Cosmos-based EVM side of its network and, according to TAC, only the TAC token supply. In an Aug. 22 notice, the team said it was working with validators on a temporary halt that would take