Stablecoins
AI
The sudden collapse of a $20 billion AI fund reveals why Bitcoin is the first thing Wall Street sells when margin calls hit
When an AI margin call arrives after Wall Street closes, Bitcoin may become the easiest asset available to sell.
Analysis
Donald Trump releases the $1.2 million data feed that lets Wall Street front-run his market-moving policy announcements
Trump Media has found a new way to monetise presidential power by selling trading firms a machine-readable shortcut to the posts that move global markets.
Analysis
How thin weekend Bitcoin liquidity turns minor geopolitical news into massive Monday price gaps for ETF holders
Bitcoin never closes, but the $77 billion ETF market built around it still spends every weekend waiting for Wall Street to reopen.
Analysis
Why a guaranteed 4.47% yield on $44 billion of US debt just raised the hurdle for Bitcoin
A $44 billion Treasury auction offered investors 4.473% one day before the Fed met, forcing Bitcoin to compete with a government-backed return.
Derivatives
Why CME wants phone traders slinging leveraged Nvidia contracts at 3 AM after earnings drop
Wall Street is rewiring America’s top stocks for 23-hour trading because crypto broke our sleeping habits.
Analysis
Bitcoin miners saved Texas power grid from collapse, but their lucrative pivot to AI is stripping away the emergency brake
The machines Texas leans on hardest during a heat wave get cheaper to shut off right when they're least needed.
Analysis
Coinbase spent 5 years building a life raft away from Bitcoin and still managed to lose $359M
The largest US crypto exchange has spent five years building businesses that don't depend on Bitcoin trades, and it lost money for a third straight quarter anyway.
Analysis
Bitcoin traders just stripped away crash protection – right as the Fed prepares its most unpredictable rate decision in years
Bitcoin traders have cut downside protection before the Fed's most uncertain decision in two years, leaving nearly $5 billion in upside options exposed to a sharp move in yields and the dollar.
Analysis
Bitcoin traders ran out of excuses for the market’s flatline – and now a $2.5 billion bet is running out of time
Traders spent July blaming an options wall for Bitcoin's paralysis, and the wall has now come down twice with nothing to show for it.
Analysis
Multi-trillion-dollar offshore engine driving 90% of crypto trading arrives in America – and CME is suing to crush it
Coinbase became the latest exchange to bring crypto's dominant leveraged contract onshore even as a federal lawsuit contests the approval that made the move possible.
Tokenization
Crypto promised to eliminate stockbrokers, but 94% of its tokenized market now relies on an Alpaca
Between the crypto wallet on your phone and a real share of Nvidia sits a California brokerage holding $1.5 billion in stock that almost no buyer of tokenized equities could name.
Mining
Bitcoin is about to give miners a 16% lifeline, but $19 billion in AI deals is luring them away anyway
Bitcoin may cut mining difficulty again, but miners are still selling BTC and shifting power toward AI.