Bitcoin has fallen from a record high of roughly $126,080 in October to trade recently in the low-$60,000s — a decline of nearly 50% that has rattled sentiment. But it may just be business as usual. According to a Thursday report from asset manager VanEck, Bitcoin’s current slump tracks the asset’s historical four-year halving cycle,
World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency project backed by the Trump family, delayed plans to sell a token related to a resort in the Maldives, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The token was planned to go on sale next year, giving investors a share of revenue from loans financing the Trump-branded resort, but this has been pushed
The uncomfortable secret of digital security isn’t that quantum computers are coming, it’s that nobody can prove today’s locks will work when they do. Yoon Auh, founder and CEO of BOLTS Technologies, holder of 37 patents in applied cryptography, told TheStreet Roundtable how his business is addressing this gap. BOLTS builds “crypto-agile, cipher neutral security
Bitcoin BTC$62,920.00 is under pressure again while $XRP ($XRP) teeters near $1 amid a cluster of unfriendly developments over the past 24 hours. Regulatory setbacks are leading the charge. Progress on the Clarity Act has stalled in the Senate, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission (SEC) is reportedly set to further delay its long-anticipated
Top publicly listed bitcoin holding firms, Strategy (MSTR) and Metaplanet (3350), are back in MSCI’s crosshairs, months after dodging the index provider’s crypto-specific exclusion rule. The finance company has opened a new consultation this month, proposing to identify and exclude “non-operating companies” from its Global Investable Market Indexes. The proposed classification would be based on
Goldman Sachs analyst Robert Kaplan stated that the Fed’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged in July was “absolutely correct,” adding that policymakers should approach the data coming in until September with transparency. According to Kaplan, the increasing complexity of the factors influencing the inflation outlook makes it risky for the Fed to adopt rigid
The U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) came in flat at 0.0% Month-over-Month, falling short of the expected +0.2%, while USD/INR held steady in the ₹95.30–₹95.50 range. The softer wholesale inflation data would normally put the dollar under pressure, but the rupee was limited by other structural and regional factors. US PPI at 0.0% Versus +0.2%
Vida, the founder of the decentralized lending protocol Equation, has sold one-third of their Bitcoin portfolio, according to on-chain analyst ai_9684xtpa. The move comes as Vida indicated plans to repurchase BTC at lower price levels of $45,000 to $55,000 within the next one to three years. Details of the Sale The sale follows Vida’s purchase
Bitcoin ($BTC) has lost nearly half its value from its October 2025 peak, but the network’s mining power has declined much less sharply. According to Bitcoin analyst Axel Adler Jr., miners are facing tighter economics as transaction fees contribute almost nothing to revenue, yet the hashrate decline remains controlled rather than showing signs of major