Today is a crucial and dangerous moment for crypto. In my twelve years in this space, I have never seen the conditions we are experiencing now, even in our most bearish cycles. Individually, these signals would be disturbing. Together, they are signs of a major potential crisis. Whatever happened to calls for utility or onboarding […]
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US President Donald Trump took office early this year, with at least part of his 2024 election victory thanks to voters buying into campaign promises of a crypto-friendly administration. So far, the Trump administration has actually taken decisive pro-crypto steps, including signing an executive order repealing Biden-era policies, creating the presidential task force on digital
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Memecoin faces rejection at $0.1409 resistance as institutional flows rise to 480M tokens, creating divergence between technical weakness and fundamental strength. News background Dogecoin continues to struggle below the $0.14 threshold despite strong accumulation trends and an increase in network activity. On-chain data shows that whales bought 480 million DOGE between December 2nd and 4th,
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Bitcoins BTC$89,274.20 The latest slide may feel ominous, but K33 Research analyst Vetle Lunde says December could mark a turning point for the cryptocurrency. After its steepest correction since the last bear market, the firm sees more evidence of a recovery than another collapse. BTC has been weighed down by a wave of selling, much
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Glassnode’s latest weekly report highlights similarities between current market conditions and the early stages of the 2022 bear market, also known as crypto winter. The first metric that suggests stress is the elevated risk of top buyer capitulation. Glassnode’s Cost Basis of Supply Quantiles, which tracks the cost basis of supply at top buyers, shows
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With the Bank of Japan (BOJ) expected to raise interest rates next week, some observers are concerned that the Japanese yen could rise, triggering an unwinding of “carry trades” that are crushing bitcoin. However, their analysis overlooks the actual positioning of the currency and bond markets and misses the nuance and far more likely risk
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Congressional panels have advanced nominations for regulators who will deal with crypto, but the full Senate has not yet confirmed them. We are also running out of time for market structure. PS: I will be in Washington, DC for the Blockchain Association Annual Summit. I’d love to say hello if you’re there. You’re reading State
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The euro stablecoin market has bounced back in the year since the European Union’s (EU) Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) came into effect, with market capitalization doubling after the rules for tokens rolled out in June 2024, according to a new report. The “Euro Stablecoin Trends Report 2025” from London-based payment processing firm Decta points
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Major French banking group BPCE is set to start offering crypto trading services to retail clients through its Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Épargne apps from Monday. Customers of four regional banks, including Banque Populaire Île-de-France and Caisse d’Épargne Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, will be able to buy and sell bitcoin BTC$89,714.39ether ETH$3,050.49solana SUN$132.95and USDC directly through their
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Special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Columbus Circle Capital (BRR) and ProCap BTC — led by Anthony Pompliano and after raising more than $750 million to build a bitcoin tax firm — closed their merger late Friday. The combined company has been renamed ProCap Financial and will begin trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol BRR
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