Bitcoin is trading around $76k as April draws to a close. It is sitting at one of the most technically loaded junctures of its entire corrective phase. After clawing back from the February low near $60k, $BTC has quietly rebuilt momentum through the mid-$70ks, and with whale-sized spot accumulation now clustering at current levels, the
Everyone watching Bitcoin this week is watching the Federal Reserve, while the more important tell may be sitting in the Treasury market, where the 10-year yield has compressed into one of its tightest ranges of the year just as a dense macro calendar opens. Bitcoin’s recovery now rests on renewed institutional inflows and the assumption
The Federal Reserve is set to announce its April 29 policy decision, and markets already expect no change in interest rates. Traders are fully pricing in a hold at 3.50%–3.75%, with near certainty that policymakers will keep rates steady. Attention is now on Jerome Powell, whose comments will shape expectations on whether rate cuts come
Artificial intelligence is pushing financial systems toward a model where machines execute transactions at scale, raising new challenges around control, oversight and infrastructure, said Microsoft and Chainalysis executives. Bill Borden, corporate vice president of worldwide financial services at Microsoft, said Tuesday that legacy systems will face increasing pressure as transaction demands grow more complex. The
Imagine a tireless analyst who works around the clock, cross-referencing a company’s onchain purchasing patterns with satellite imagery of its warehouses, correlating its job postings with its patent filings, and mapping its entire supply chain by watching the flow of smart contract payments. This analyst never sleeps, never loses focus and costs almost nothing to
Visa is working with WeFi, a deobanking infrastructure provider that combines traditional banking with decentralized finance, to explore stablecoin-based payments and on-chain banking in select markets across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, the companies said Tuesday. The partnership will test how on-chain banking and stablecoins can be embedded into traditional payment ecosystems under established regulatory
The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin ($BTC), continues to edge lower amid ongoing uncertainty surrounding a US-Iran peace deal. At this point, as the $BTC price dropped to $76,200, a whale once again opened a short position in Bitcoin. According to the data, this whale opened 16 short positions on $BTC in the past month, and today
Bitcoin has not reached its bottom yet, and a new all-time high is unlikely this year, said Michael Terpin, an early bitcoin investor and author of Bitcoin Supercycle: How the Crypto Calendar Can Make You Rich. “Before a bull market for bitcoin can be called, the price needs to break back above $100,000 and no
US President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, that Iran had “just informed us” that it has entered a “State of Collapse.” Moreover, he noted that the Iranian authorities want to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible as they try to “figure out their leadership situation.” Donald Trump