Bitcoin (BTC) is up roughly 30% from its Feb. 6 low below $60,000 as a multi-year bullish chart pattern suggests BTC price could rise to as high as $220,000 in the coming months. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s cup-and-handle pattern puts BTC’s minimum target at $220,000, but $74,000 must hold. Bitcoin spot volume has collapsed 81% since October 2025, a precursor to the end of every bear market. Bitcoin’s cup-and-handle pattern targets $220,000 and above Bitcoin price has formed a cup-and-handle (C&H) pattern on the weekly chart, suggesting that a massive upward…
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Bearish Pressure On Shiba Inu May Be Nearing Completion, Weekly Chart Suggests
Open interest in Shiba Inu climbed 2.1% over the past 24 hours even as spot trading volume fell 18%, sending conflicting signals about where the token is headed next. What The Chart Is Showing SHIB is currently trading around $0.0000056, near its historic lows, after dropping 10% in the past seven days. That decline brought the token back down to a key support zone around $0.0000055 — a level that has cushioned price drops since the coin’s early days in 2021. Despite repeated tests, sellers have not managed to push…
Bitcoin Treasuries Add 603 BTC as Strategy Pauses Weekly Buys
Smaller Bitcoin treasury firms added 602.6 BTC worth about $46 million last week, even as the largest corporate holders appeared to pause their acquisitions. The purchases included a 381.6 Bitcoin (BTC) acquisition by asset manager and Bitcoin treasury company Strive, 200 BTC bought by global consumer food brand DDC Enterprise Limited, 19 BTC acquired by UK-based web design company The Smarter Web Company (SWC), and 2 BTC bought by AI data center company Hyperscale Data. The buying suggests corporate Bitcoin demand has not disappeared during the latest drawdown, but has…
Binance Plans Philippine Comeback Through Local Partner
Crypto exchange Binance is partnering with fintech company BlockShoals Technologies in what the platform described as its first formal market-entry approach in the Philippines, through local partnerships and regulatory engagement. On Tuesday, Binance announced the partnership, highlighting that BlockShoals is an approved participant under the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Strategic Sandbox, or StratBox, framework. Binance said BlockShoals will serve as the approved local intermediary, while the exchange will provide technology, security, operational and compliance support. A Binance spokesperson told Cointelegraph that the company is pursuing a compliance-oriented market…
Bitcoin’s Worst Outflow Week Of The Year Just Happened — And The Timing Is Alarming
Digital asset investment products shed $1.47 billion in a single week — the second consecutive week of outflows and the third-largest weekly withdrawal of 2026 — as Iran-related geopolitical risk collided with rising bond yields, a softening equity market, and the fading of a technical support structure that had kept Bitcoin pinned near $80,000 for most of the month, according to CoinShares’ latest Digital Asset Fund Flows report. Related Reading Bitcoin bore the brunt. The asset recorded $1.315 billion in outflows — the largest single-week Bitcoin withdrawal of 2026, surpassing…
Former Hodlnaut CEO Charged in Singapore Over Terra Collapse Claims
Former Hodlnaut CEO Zhu Juntao was charged in Singapore with six counts of fraud by false representation, in a case tied to statements Zhu and Hodlnaut employees allegedly made after the 2022 collapse of the Terra ecosystem. Singapore Police said Zhu, 36, was charged following an investigation by the Commercial Affairs Department and faces three charges under Section 424A(1)(a) read with Section 424A(3) of the Penal Code 1871, as well as three further charges under the same provision read with Section 109. The case centers on alleged false claims about…
XRP Market Fear Hits Levels That Previously Triggered Rallies
XRP derivatives traders are leaning bullish. Open interest in XRP futures jumped more than 1% in 24 hours to $2.86 billion, with activity climbing on both CME and Binance, signaling that traders with real money on the line are betting on a move up. Related Reading A Familiar Pattern In The Data On-chain analytics firm Santiment flagged a shift in crowd mood on May 26, pointing out that the bullish-to-bearish comment ratio on social media had slipped to 1.1:1. That places sentiment at its most fearful in three weeks, a…
Santiment Points To Possible Rebound
XRP crowd sentiment has deteriorated to its weakest level in three weeks, according to a Santiment Intelligence chart shared on X, putting the token back in what the analytics firm described as a historically relevant “FUD zone.” Santiment said the ratio of positive to negative social media commentary around XRP has dropped to just 1.1 bullish comments for every bearish comment. In the chart, the positive-to-negative sentiment ratio sits near 1.104 on May 25, close to the lower fear threshold marked by Santiment, while XRP’s price line hovered around the…
Dogecoin Must Hold This Level To Avoid Drop To $0.088, Analyst Says
Keshav is currently a senior writer at NewsBTC and has been attached to the website since June 14, 2021. Keshav has been writing for many years, first as a hobbyist and later as a freelancer. He has experience working in a variety of niches, even fiction at one point, but the cryptocurrency industry has been the longest he has been attached to. In terms of official educational qualifications, Keshav holds a bachelor’s degree in Physics from one of the premier institutes of India, the University of Delhi (DU). He started…
AI Agent Attacks Could Be Reduced With System-Level Safeguards
Security for artificial intelligence-powered agents should be built into the entire system, not just around the model itself, to better prevent failures and attacks from bad actors, according to a new research paper. The amended paper, released on May 20 by researchers from Google, Gray Swan AI, EmbraceTheRed, and several universities, argued that agent security must be approached as a systems problem and that AI agents should be treated as an untrusted component. “Through this lens, efforts to increase model robustness, the dominant viewpoint in the community, are insufficient on…