Crypto investment products maintained their inflow streak last week but momentum slowed amid ongoing Middle East tensions and a “hawkish pause” interpretation of the US Fed’s meeting. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) recorded $230 million in inflows last week, with $405 million in outflows following the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in the US, CoinShares
Story Highlights Bitcoin costs $88,000 to mine but is trading near $68,000 and miners are switching machines off. Despite losing money on every coin, miners have nearly stopped sending Bitcoin to exchanges to sell. The last two times Bitcoin traded this far below production cost, it marked a cycle low. Bitcoin is trading at $68,247
Institutional activity continues to shape the crypto market in surprising ways. Last week, giants like BlackRock and Fidelity Investments made headlines after selling nearly $250 million worth of Bitcoin. At first glance, the move signaled caution. Many traders expected a broader pullback across the market. However, the story did not end there. Soon after, these
Bernstein said agentic AI payments could become a long-term growth opportunity for stablecoins, even though adoption on today’s machine-payment protocols remains small and is not yet material to the broader stablecoin investment case. In a Monday note shared with Cointelegraph, the broker said stablecoins could help unlock machine-to-machine payments by making microtransactions viable and enabling
US President Donald Trump’s statements regarding a potential war with Iran have caused a major stir in global markets. These statements led to a sharp drop in oil prices and a sharp rise in Bitcoin (BTC) prices, while counter-statements came from the Iranian side. Iranian state media denied claims that any contact had been made
CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index. The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 2025.84, up 0.2% (+3.37) since 4 p.m. ET on Friday. Seven of 20 assets are trading higher. Leaders: BCH (+2.3%) and SOL (+1.0%). Laggards: APT (-5.3%) and ICP (-3.6%).
Crypto market traders were whipsawed on both sides on Monday afternoon, with over $400 million in liquidations across long and short positions in the past 4 hours. Bitcoin spiked from $67,500 to above $71,200 on Monday afternoon after U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he had instructed the Pentagon to postpone all
US-based software company Strategy continues to increase its Bitcoin investments. According to a company statement, they recently purchased 1,031 Bitcoins for approximately $76.6 million. The average price per Bitcoin was stated to be $74,326. With this latest move, the company’s total Bitcoin holdings reached 762,099 BTC as of March 22, 2026. It was also announced
Strategy Inc., the Tysons Corner-based software company turned dominant corporate Bitcoin accumulator, added another 1,031 Bitcoin to its treasury last week, bringing its total holdings to 762,099 $BTC, a stockpile now valued at $53 billion. The company disclosed the purchase today in a Form 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, revealing it spent
The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (BTC), fell back to around $68,000 this week from the $76,000 it reached last week, marking the fifth week of the US-Iran conflict. This escalation was triggered by statements from US President Donald Trump. Trump gave Iran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, threatening attacks on its energy facilities