Bitcoin ($BTC) surged above $80,000 amid growing expectations that tensions in the Middle East will ease. While markets await the end of the US-Iran war, US-based news outlet Axios stated that the US-Iran war is very close to ending. According to Axios, the US and Iran are about to sign a memorandum of understanding to
Author of the bestselling book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, issued another forecast in which he described 2026 as a period of major transformation for baby boomers’ savings. In his view, the traditional retirement savings model is losing stability, while U.S. government bonds are no longer functioning as a “safe haven” due to inflationary
The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin ($BTC), reached a three-month high as it surpassed $81,000. This led to a shift from bearish to bullish sentiment, with analysis companies noting that data indicated bullish signals. The cryptocurrency analysis platform Santiment, in its latest analysis, argued that the simultaneous accumulation of large investors (whales) and the exit of individual
Genius Terminal has deployed its Gh0st privacy stack on $BNB Chain, introducing a trading infrastructure tool designed to obscure on-chain activity from public observers while remaining verifiable by regulators. The system routes trade execution through multiple intermediate wallets, breaking the visible link between a user’s primary wallet and their actual trading activity. Orders are fragmented
Vitalik Buterin has delivered a verdict on consortium blockchains, calling them a failure of their original vision. Speaking during an Arbitrum Day session, Buterin argued that these private, enterprise-led chains combine the worst aspects of both centralized and decentralized systems. Instead of offering true openness or strong privacy, they often evolve into “cartel-like” structures, closed
Spot Bitcoin ($BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have recorded roughly $1 billion in inflows since the cryptocurrency reclaimed $80,000. Bitcoin ETFs posted $467.4 million of inflows on Tuesday as $BTC surged past $81,000, extending Monday’s $532 million inflows, according to SoSoValue data, bringing the two-day total to more than $999 million. The latest inflows follow April’s
Kelp DAO has announced plans to migrate its cross-chain infrastructure to Chainlink’s CCIP, while disputing claims that its own configuration caused the $300M exploit linked to LayerZero. In a detailed post published on 5 May, Kelp said the 18 April attack originated from vulnerabilities within LayerZero’s infrastructure, not from protocol-level misconfiguration as previously suggested. Kelp
Bitcoin has been in a downtrend in 2026. Not catastrophically, not existentially, but enough for the usual cycle to invite the familiar ritual…traders refreshing charts, headlines hunting for panic, and social feeds usually lighting up with declarations that the digital asset has “failed.” Except this time, that reaction has been far less visible within the
Each cohort holding an asset differs primarily in motive. Short-term holders aim to capture quick gains over relatively brief time horizons. In contrast, smart money participants focus on longer-term positioning, often independent of near-term volatility. In this framework, sustained accumulation tends to carry greater weight than transient positioning by weaker hands. Given this context, the