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Morgan Stanley’s early Bitcoin ETF demand came largely from self-directed investors rather than financial advisors, according to Amy Oldenburg, the firm’s head of digital asset strategy. The comments add nuance to how one of Wall Street’s largest wealth and asset management platforms is seeing Bitco...

The Real World Asset (RWA) sector has seen remarkable growth over the past month, with the XRP, Solana (SOL), and Ethereum (ETH) ecosystems recording a significant increase in market value and adoption. However, among these three leading cryptocurrencies, XRP stands above with the highest growth rat...

While the Ethereum price saw a brief bounce towards the end of Wednesday, the structure remains significantly weak underneath the surface. During this highly negative period, the leading altcoin has made a crucial move by confirming a bearish breakdown, which could impact its near-term outlook. Sell...

A crypto analyst has revealed that Bitcoin (BTC) is repeating a historical “fakeout” pattern that has led to new all-time highs each four-year cycle. According to the analyst, if this theory holds, this cycle could see the BTC price crash to new lows before initiating an upside recovery. While the c...

The current Bitcoin price weakness has triggered confusion across the crypto market after a prominent analyst on X pointed to massive BTC outflows from major trading and custodial platforms. The claims surfaced at a time when overall market sentiment is still leaning bullish, creating a sharp discon...

Bitcoin’s near-term outlook is looking quite bearish, with its price trending well below the $80,000 level as volatility mounts. Along with downside performance, several key metrics are starting to exhibit negative activity, strengthening the bearish state. However, some analysts believe that this p...

Terraform Labs has accused one of Wall Street’s largest trading firms, Jane Street, of allegedly using a private Telegram group chat with insiders to dump its TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin holdings just hours before its collapse. Related Reading: Top Crypto Exchange Expands Into UK With New Local Platfo...

Crypto analyst Merlijn has delivered “bad news” to Solana and XRP investors, with Goldman Sachs offloading their exposure to these coins. The analyst highlighted this as a conviction statement as the top U.S. bank held on to its Bitcoin and Ethereum exposure. Analyst Delivers Bad News To Solana And ...

Blockchain analysts had it wrong — by a wide margin. When SpaceX filed its S-1 registration statement with US securities regulators ahead of its planned June 12 stock market debut, the company disclosed Bitcoin holdings that were more than double what tracking firms had estimated. Related Reading: S...

Charles Hoskinson has urged Cardano DReps to back a research funding proposal, warning that a failure to do so could damage one of the network’s core value propositions: its identity as a research-led blockchain. Speaking in a May 21 livestream from England, Hoskinson said Cardano is in “treasury se...

Evernorth Chief Business Officer Sagar Shah has pushed back on the idea that Ripple’s dollar-backed stablecoin RLUSD could replace XRP, arguing that the two assets are designed for different roles in on-chain finance. In a May 20 blog post, Shah said RLUSD can serve as a high-quality digital dollar,...

Analytics firm Glassnode has broken down how much of the Bitcoin supply is at risk due to Quantum Computing and what its composition looks like. 6.04 Million Bitcoin Is Estimated To Be Exposed To Quantum Risk In a new X article, Glassnode has talked about the part of the Bitcoin supply in circulatio...

A new study by Glassnode is putting fresh focus on a security risk for the wider Bitcoin (BTC) ecosystem—one that relates not to today’s cryptography, but to what could happen if quantum computers become powerful enough to run the right algorithms. According to the research, 6.04 million Bitcoin, or...

Bitcoin is struggling as the price loses the $80,000 level and the market faces a wave of selling pressure that has erased the confidence built during weeks of recovery. The breakdown raises an immediate question that a CryptoQuant report has now answered with uncomfortable precision: what was actua...

Bsquared Technology Pte Ltd has no auditors to answer to yet — but it will. Singapore’s central bank has ordered the crypto firm to produce a closure certificate confirming that all customer funds have been returned. The company told regulators it holds no outstanding customer assets. Related ...

Ethereum is struggling below $2,150 as selling pressure continues to define the market’s short-term direction and the recovery that briefly pushed ETH toward $2,400 fades into memory. The decline is uncomfortable — but top analyst Darkfost has identified a signal in the derivatives data that r...

South Carolina is now one of more than a dozen US states that have passed laws protecting cryptocurrency rights — and it did so with almost no pushback. Related Reading: Crypto AI Platform Bankr Locks Down System After Hacker Breaches 14 Crypto Wallets Governor Henry McMaster signed Senate Bill 163 ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pushing US financial regulators and requesting action from the Federal Reserve to review whether fintech and crypto-linked firms should get broader access to core payment infrastructure. For Ripple, which has been seeking a Fed master account tied...

A crypto analyst has shared a new analysis of Bitcoin (BTC), sharing many brutal truths that most people in the crypto market tend to miss. The analyst noted that despite the recent decline in Bitcoin’s price, most market participants still believe that the flagship cryptocurrency can rally much hig...

The US Treasury announced on Wednesday a fresh round of sanctions targeting the Sinaloa Cartel, citing growing evidence that elements of the organization are using crypto to support fentanyl trafficking and launder drug proceeds. Crypto To Move Fentanyl Proceeds Treasury noted that the Sinaloa Carte...