Category: Other Crypto News

Bitcoin Traders Target $68K As Key Support Zone: Here’s Why

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Bitcoin (BTC) traders have shifted their focus lower after futures and order book data point to strong buyer interest in the $68,000-$70,000 zone. Sell pressure has increased in the derivatives markets and the daily bid-ask ratio fell to -0.03, showing sellers are currently more aggressive than buyers as traders position around liquidation levels. Bitcoin buyers cluster near $68,000 The visible range volume profile (VRVP) indicator shows the $68,000-$70,000 region as the most densely traded zone on the chart since November 2025. High trading activity in that price range suggests most…

Bitcoin’s 2026 Market Structure Reveals A Problem Hidden Beneath ETF Growth

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Bitcoin has lost the $80,000 level as selling pressure and market uncertainty combine to test the resilience of a recovery that had been building since the April lows. The breakdown is significant, and XWIN Research Japan has published a structural analysis that places the current weakness in a context that goes considerably deeper than a technical support level failing to hold. Related Reading The analysis begins with a premise that reframes how the entire 2026 Bitcoin market should be understood. This cycle is structurally different from the ones that preceded…

Polymarket Partners With Nasdaq to Launch Private Company Prediction Markets

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Polymarket has launched a new category of prediction markets tied to private companies, allowing users to trade on questions related to pre-IPO companies — a move that could bring greater price discovery to private markets, where valuation data is often limited and opaque. The new offering, announced Tuesday, was developed in partnership with Nasdaq Private Market, a platform that facilitates secondary trading in shares of privately held companies. Nasdaq Private Market will provide the underlying data and market infrastructure for the contracts. The markets are designed to reflect expectations around…

Strategy Wants 1,000,000 Bitcoin Treasury And This Is How They Plan To Get To That Number

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Strategy’s Bitcoin playbook is no longer just about buying dips. The company has turned its balance sheet into a capital machine built around one main objective of increasing the amount of Bitcoin it controls without weakening the amount of Bitcoin attached to each share.  Recent filings by the company now show that it is planning to repurchase $1.5 billion principal amount of 2029 convertible notes. Strategy Is Getting Closer To 1,000,000 Bitcoin Strategy’s latest reported Bitcoin reserve shows how far the company’s accumulation strategy has come. The firm’s Bitcoin purchase…

Senator Warren Questions OCC Head on Approval of ‘Ineligible’ Crypto Trust Charters

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Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren accused Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC’s) Jonathan Gould of violating banking laws by approving national trust charters for cryptocurrency companies. In a Monday letter to Gould, Warren said the OCC head had “approved at least nine national trust charters for crypto companies that intend to engage in activities that appear to go far beyond the narrow set of activities permitted by law,” an apparent violation of the National Bank Act. Source: US Senate Banking Committee She called on Gould to provide the full…

BoE Says Tokenization Could Lower Costs as UK Advances Stablecoin Rules

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The Bank of England is stepping up its focus on digital money, with Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden highlighting tokenization as a potential way to reduce costs, speed settlement and increase competition. Speaking at London’s City Week on Tuesday, Breeden said tokenization — the representation of assets and money on digital ledgers — could improve the efficiency and functionality of payments and financial markets, provided that trust and interoperability are preserved. Breeden stressed that central bank money will remain the foundation, or “anchor,” of the monetary system, even as private-sector innovations…

XRP Enters “Volatility Vacuum” As Traders Exit Derivatives Market

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XRP is trading below $1.40 as the market faces selling pressure and uncertainty that has compressed the price into a range that offers little clarity on what comes next. The decline is uncomfortable — but a CryptoQuant report tracking both on-chain activity and derivatives behavior has identified a structural condition beneath the price action that reframes the current weakness in a way that changes how it should be read. Related Reading The report examines two independent data streams simultaneously, and both are telling the same story. On-chain, XRP’s total daily…

XRP Risks 50% Dip to $0.65 Despite Persistent ETF Inflows

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XRP (XRP) has fallen 12% over the last five days, and the confirmation of a bearish pattern now points to the risk of more losses ahead. Key takeaways: XRP/USD’s bear pennant pattern on the three-day chart points to a possible 52.5% drop toward $0.65. Persistent institutional demand through exchange-traded products supports the case for a recovery in XRP price.  XRP’s descending triangle breakdown is underway Since early February, the XRP/USD pair has been consolidating inside a bear pennant on the three-day chart. In technical analysis, bear pennants are typically viewed…

A viral hedgehog, Vitalik Buterin, and a bow: the GraphDex launch that crypto won’t forget

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5,800 users in two hours. One QR code. One bow that went viral. Some platforms launch with a whitepaper. Some with a token. GraphDex launched with a hedgehog, a condom, and the co-founder of Ethereum bowing in respect. A short video from Token2049 Singapore, recorded in September 2024, resurfaced across X this week at precisely the moment GraphDex went live. In this video, the project’s hedgehog mascot moves through the conference floor, greets attendees, and hands a branded condom to Vitalik Buterin. The condom carries GraphDex branding and a QR…

Tor Project Launches Web3 Campaign for Internet Freedom

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A coalition of privacy and internet freedom advocates led by the Tor Project has announced a new crypto funding campaign to support censorship-resistant digital infrastructure. The first-of-its-kind Web3 crowdfunding campaign for internet freedom tools will support 10 nonprofit projects working across privacy, censorship circumvention, secure communications and public-interest digital infrastructure, according to the campaign leaders, Tor Project and Funding the Commons. The campaign, which kicks off May 19, accepts crypto contributions in Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Zcash (ZEC), Monero (XMR) and Golem (GLM). The campaign comes as privacy advocates argue…