Analysis: Cryptocurrencies

Memecoins: When Internet Jokes Hit the Big Time

A Japanese dog, an anonymous fisherman and a cartoon frog walk into a market. It sounds like the start of a bad joke. It is one, it has cost tens of billions of dollars, and the punchline is playing...

Can Buterin's Lean Ethereum and Lubin's Ethereum Institutional revive Ethereum and ETH?

Can Buterin's Lean Ethereum and Lubin's Ethereum Institutional revive Ethereum and ETH?

Strategy Cracks Under Financial Pressure

Michael Saylor, the man who swore he would never sell his bitcoins, has just crossed a red line. Strategy sold more than $216m in BTC to meet its financial obligations.

BITA: BlackRock writes a monthly check on a bitcoin that pays none

BlackRock's new bitcoin ETF arrived on the Nasdaq with a simple promise: aim to pay cash every month to its holders. Bitcoin itself has never paid anything to anyone. So someone has to write the check...

Can Open USD challenge USDC? The battle for the future of stablecoins

Open USD's launch sent Circle shares tumbling as a coalition of payments, banking and crypto giants challenged the traditional stablecoin model.

Bitcoin traders target $55K as Strategy concerns deepen

Bitcoin options traders are increasing downside hedges toward $60,000 and $55,000, while Strategy's struggling STRC stock raises questions about the sustainability of its bitcoin accumulation model.

SpaceX's IPO reveals the future of tokenized stocks

From perpetual futures to xStocks, crypto platforms offered multiple ways to trade SpaceX shares as tokenized stock volumes climbed to a record $20bn.

Stablecoins Enter the Mastercard Network

Mastercard no longer wants to move payments solely through traditional banking rails. The credit card giant is preparing financial plumbing capable of settling transactions 24/7, directly on the...

Crypto vs. AI: the battle for capital, infrastructure and attention

AI and tech giants, including OpenAI, SpaceX, and Anthropic, are preparing blockbuster IPOs. As capital rotates toward them, crypto faces a liquidity test - but it may also find ways to profit.

Bitcoin drops below $66K: leverage reset or deeper lows ahead?

Crypto is underperforming equities as momentum fades and the search for a cycle bottom continues. Yet some investors are already positioning for the next rally.

Michael Saylor Sold Bitcoin: The End of a Myth?

Michael Saylor built his legend on a single dogma: never sell your Bitcoin. However, Strategy has just offloaded 32 BTC to fund its distributions - a tiny amount, yet one with immense symbolic weight....

The Great Pivot: Bitcoin Miners Shift Towards Artificial Intelligence

Inside bitcoin mining farms, the deafening roar remains unchanged: fans, transformers, rows of machines and megawatts consumed without respite. However, the destination of this power is shifting. Just...

AI-related coins outperform: 5 crypto projects gain 31% to 76% in one week

As bitcoin and ether lose momentum, AI-linked crypto projects are rallying hard. NEAR, Unibase, and Rain are leading a selective new altcoin rotation.

Can Polymarket overcome its insider-trading demons to justify a $15bn valuation?

Insider-trading scandals and regulatory pressure are testing whether Polymarket can evolve into legitimate financial infrastructure.

The Legislation That Could Forever Change the Future of Crypto in the US

For years, the American crypto industry has developed within a regulatory fog. Entrepreneurs launched tokens, investors bought in, platforms listed assets, regulators litigated, courts arbitrated, and...

The CLARITY Act advances: new Senate draft opens crypto to big finance

The Senate Banking Committee's new Clarity Act draft redefines cryptoasset regulation, drawing clearer distinctions between centralized and decentralized parts of the crypto market while expanding...

Why is Telegram's crypto skyrocketing?

You likely know Telegram for its trading signals, crypto groups, news channels, private communities, encrypted chats, bots, mini-apps, or creators broadcasting content directly to their audiences....

Polymarket, Kalshi: A retail losing machine?

Prediction markets promise to distill news into collective intelligence. However, behind the facade of event finance, a tiny minority captures the lion's share of the gains....

Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade could boost its investment case

Ethereum's June 2026 Glamsterdam upgrade could triple layer-1 throughput through parallel execution and higher gas limits, reshaping the blockchain's long-term scaling narrative.