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Wall Street custody map shows Bitcoin ETF routes shifting beyond Coinbase as Grayscale explores a new ETF product

Grayscale moves away from Coinbase for new ETF product – Is Wall Street building a post-Coinbase custody map?

Grayscale’s decision to swap Coinbase for Anchorage in a new ETF filing is small on paper and significant in context because it shines a light on how much of Wall Street’s Bitcoin wrapper still depends on one custodian.

2 months ago

Bitcoin faces Fed, GDP, and PCE shocks as macro data threatens to reprice the market within 48 hours

Analysis BTC -1.77%

This week Bitcoin will face major volatility across a key 48 hour period: Fed first, GDP and PCE right after

Bitcoin faces a 48-hour macro trap as the Fed speaks first, but GDP and PCE get the last word.

2 months ago

DeFi teams refill a cracked rsETH reserve tank after a $13B loss month exposes both crisis and coordination in crypto markets

DeFi RSETH +1.67% Bearish

DeFi lost $13B this month as the KelpDAO rescue shows both the best and worst of DeFi

The rescue effort that has already lined up tens of thousands of ETH also exposes the uncomfortable reality that DeFi’s biggest crises still depend on multiple factors.

2 months ago

Crypto security team flags a failed identity check as AI deepfake scams threaten to worsen with new image models

Scams Bearish

OpenAI’s new image model shows why crypto scams are about to get much worse

A crypto founder says he nearly got hacked after joining what looked like a Microsoft Teams call with a familiar Cardano Foundation contact.

2 months ago

Bitcoin enters a licensed Hong Kong market gateway as the city targets 10,000 BTC for Asia’s first regulated capital pool

Analysis Bullish

Hong Kong eyes 10,000 BTC investment for Asia’s first regulated Bitcoin capital pool

Hong Kong is trying to move Asian Bitcoin capital out of the US ETF shadow and into a regulated market structure it can control.

2 months ago

DoorDash courier receives an order as USDC payment rails route stablecoin settlements to merchants and workers across global markets

Analysis Bullish

Major global food delivery service builds stablecoins into core infrastructure across 40+ countries

Stablecoins are finding their strongest argument in one of business’s oldest problems: moving money on time.

2 months ago

Official TRUMP token plunges on a red price chart as White House security turmoil follows the memecoin gala

Memecoins TRUMP -4.73% Bearish

Official TRUMP token price in free fall amid White House shooting incident after memecoin gala

Gunman incident forces evacuation while the TRUMP token hovers near lows despite exclusive Mar-a-Lago gathering.

2 months ago

Bitcoin ETF inflows surround a large BTC coin as US funds extend a 9-day streak and approach 7% of supply

ETF Bullish

Bitcoin ETFs hit the longest inflow streak of the year in bullish setup for a major recovery

Institutional investors have channeled more than $2 billion into Bitcoin ETFs as traders increasingly position for a breakout above $80,000.

2 months ago

Analysis Bearish

The Fed is cornered in rates decision with just days before its next meeting — what that means for Bitcoin

A fresh oil shock has put Bitcoin on collision course with a higher-for-longer Fed just as traders were betting on relief later this year.

2 months ago

Central banks confront major stablecoins outside the Federal Reserve as regulators frame them as a monetary threat

Banking USDT -0.01%

The world’s central banks finally see crypto as a real monetary threat to TradFi

The stablecoin debate has left crypto regulation behind and entered the territory of monetary sovereignty.

2 months ago

Crypto liquidity concentrates inside a giant exchange venue as regulators watch trading, custody, lending, and derivatives converge

Exchanges

Central bankers call crypto a “shadow” financial system as Binance breaks over $1 trillion trading volume

Binance’s early-year trading surge shows how market power is clustering around platforms that now combine trading, custody, leverage and yield.

2 months ago

UK police scrutinize peer-to-peer crypto cash trades in London as financial freedom comes under pressure

Analysis Bearish

Anyone regularly swapping business cash for crypto without an FCA license risks police raids and charges in UK

Britain’s crackdown on suspected illegal peer-to-peer crypto dealers is legally straightforward, but it also tests how much direct financial exchange can survive inside a regulated crypto market.

2 months ago

Quantum

Latest “quantum computer breaks the math behind Bitcoin” headlines massively exaggerate risk

Project Eleven awarded its Q-Day Prize after Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15-bit elliptic curve key on public quantum hardware.

2 months ago

Ethereum inflows surge through a concrete channel at sunrise as four weeks of rallies fuel bullish $3,200 bets

Analysis ETH -3.35% Bullish

Ethereum’s 4 consecutive weeks of price rallies fuel bullish bets of $3200

Buy pressure is improving, yet leverage is rising faster than spot demand, setting up a painful unwind if ETH stalls.

2 months ago

Bitcoin holds near $78,000 beside oil tankers as geopolitical tension pushes crude prices back above $100

Analysis Bullish

Bitcoin ends week resilient around $78,000 as Trump’s new rhetoric sent oil price back above $100

Bitcoin has demonstrated surprising resilience by holding near $78,000, following a massive derivatives short squeeze.

2 months ago

DeFi hacks and bridge exploits collapse beside Wall Street rails as crypto losses outpace TradFi breaches per dollar moved

DeFi Bearish

Crypto DeFi hacks cost 8,500% more than TradFi breaches per dollar moved

The DeFi experiment is near collapse and Wall Street is draining the swamp into the system it was built to replace

2 months ago

ETF holders hold firm against legacy sellers across a market divide after Bitcoin’s 38% plunge exposes paper hands

ETF

Surprisingly Bitcoin’s paper hands are not ETF buyers as 38% plunge reveals

Eric Balchunas argues the latest selloff revealed that the people once mocked as fee-paying tourists may now be helping form a stickier floor under Bitcoin.

2 months ago

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Grayscale moves away from Coinbase for new ETF product – Is Wall Street building a post-Coinbase custody map?

This week Bitcoin will face major volatility across a key 48 hour period: Fed first, GDP and PCE right after

DeFi lost $13B this month as the KelpDAO rescue shows both the best and worst of DeFi

OpenAI’s new image model shows why crypto scams are about to get much worse

Hong Kong eyes 10,000 BTC investment for Asia’s first regulated Bitcoin capital pool

Major global food delivery service builds stablecoins into core infrastructure across 40+ countries

Official TRUMP token price in free fall amid White House shooting incident after memecoin gala

Bitcoin ETFs hit the longest inflow streak of the year in bullish setup for a major recovery

The Fed is cornered in rates decision with just days before its next meeting — what that means for Bitcoin

The world’s central banks finally see crypto as a real monetary threat to TradFi

Central bankers call crypto a “shadow” financial system as Binance breaks over $1 trillion trading volume

Anyone regularly swapping business cash for crypto without an FCA license risks police raids and charges in UK

Latest “quantum computer breaks the math behind Bitcoin” headlines massively exaggerate risk

Ethereum’s 4 consecutive weeks of price rallies fuel bullish bets of $3200

Bitcoin ends week resilient around $78,000 as Trump’s new rhetoric sent oil price back above $100

Crypto DeFi hacks cost 8,500% more than TradFi breaches per dollar moved

Surprisingly Bitcoin’s paper hands are not ETF buyers as 38% plunge reveals