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Bitcoin is flashing conflicting signals, with a short-term breakdown pointing toward $57,500 while long-term support suggests a bottom may be forming. The next major move could decide whether $BTC enters a deeper correction or starts a recovery toward $71,000. Bitcoin Head-and-Shoulders Breakdown Targets $57.5K Bitcoin has broken below the neckline of a four-hour head-and-shoulders pattern, putting the projected downside target near $57,500 in focus. The chart shows $BTC trading around $62,150 after losing both the rising neckline near $63,000 and the weekly 200-period moving average around $62,450. This breakdown strengthens the bearish setup, although Bitcoin still has another major support…

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Ethereum Foundation developers are looking for a way to save the network from the critical growth of its database and have turned to the architecture of its main competitor. Researcher Toni Wahrstätter proposed introducing elements of the UTXO model into Ethereum, a model that has been successfully used by Cardano for years. Amid this, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson — a former Ethereum co-founder who left the project in 2014 after a public split over deep disagreements with Vitalik Buterin about the network’s commercial direction — accused his former colleagues of hypocrisy. Ethereum’s problem lies in its account-based model, as the…

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Goldman Sachs expects SpaceX’s AI revenue to surge from $3.2 billion in 2025 to $322 billion by 2030, according to forecasts shared with a potential investor and reported by the Financial Times. The projection comes as SpaceX prepares what could become the largest IPO in US history. The company is seeking to raise $75 billion at a valuation of about $1.75 trillion. Goldman’s forecast implies that AI would become SpaceX’s largest business within five years. The bank expects SpaceX’s total revenue to rise from $18.7 billion in 2025 to $474 billion by 2030, with AI accounting for most of that…

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Syscoin, the blockchain platform behind the SYS token, has confirmed that 5 billion SYS tokens minted in an unauthorized incident have been fully recovered and permanently burned. The project announced that the tokens have been sent to a designated recovery address and subsequently destroyed, rendering them unusable on the protocol. Incident Details and Response The unauthorized minting event, which came to light earlier this week, raised immediate concerns within the Syscoin community about the integrity of the token supply. In a swift response, the Syscoin team identified the source of the exploit and worked to secure the affected funds. The…

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In brief Bankers reported a £5 million ($6.7 million) gift to Nigel Farage from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne to the UK’s National Crime Agency, the Guardian has reported. They filed a suspicious activity report in May 2024, saying they could not trace where the money ultimately came from; such a report is not proof of wrongdoing. Reporting on the SAR comes amid a standards investigation into whether Farage should have declared the gift, which he says he was under no obligation to do. Nigel Farage’s £5 million gift from billionaire Tether investor Christopher Harborne was flagged to the UK’s National…

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Circle’s $USDC stablecoin widened its lead over competitor Tether’s $USDT by transaction volume during the first half of 2026, according to fresh data from Visa’s onchain dashboard. In June alone, stablecoin activity increased to a record $1.79 trillion in adjusted transaction volume, up 63% from May’s $1.1 trillion and 125% from about $795 billion in June 2025. Visa removes bot activity, exchange transfers and other blockchain transactions that do not reflect real economic activity before calculating adjusted volume. These figures come as banks and other financial institutions expand their use of stablecoins for payments, settlement and treasury operations. Standard Chartered…

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A Bitcoin treasury company is a publicly traded business whose main purpose is to hold crypto on its balance sheet, letting stock-market investors get exposure without touching a wallet. The model minted fortunes on the way up. Understanding the premium that powers it, and the discount that can break it, is the whole game. Table of Contents What a Bitcoin treasury company actually is How the engine actually works The most important concept: premium and discount to NAV The financial engineering that amplifies the bet The risks: concentration, reflexivity, and the discount trap How it differs from owning Bitcoin or…

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Input Output Global (IOG) CEO Charles Hoskinson has criticized Ethereum’s staking mechanism, arguing that Cardano provides a better alternative. In a recent commentary, Hoskinson took aim at several aspects of Ethereum’s proof-of-stake (PoS) architecture, particularly its staking design. According to him, Ethereum forces users to navigate unnecessary fund lockups, slashing risks, bonding periods, with liquid staking solutions built around derivative assets such as Lido. “You have to lock your funds, and have slashing and bonding, and all this garbage, and create synthetic assets like Lido,” Hoskinson said. He contrasted Ethereum’s approach with Cardano’s staking model, emphasizing that Cardano does not…

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While the tech world was busy fawning over quantum computing, a German gas engine company walked into the Nasdaq and raised more money than anyone expected. Innio Group, which makes distributed power generators, completed its upsized IPO on June 4, pricing 90 million shares at $27 each and pulling in roughly $2.43B to $2.73B. That’s not a typo. A company that builds gas engines for on-site power generation just out-raised Quantinuum, the Honeywell-backed quantum computing darling, by more than a billion dollars. The numbers tell a very clear story Innio’s stock surged 20-23% on its first day of trading, giving…

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Kazakhstan, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin mining hubs, is moving to expand its crypto sector as a new decree introduces rules for stablecoin payments, tax breaks for regulated crypto activity and new energy options for mining. Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed a decree aimed at building a regulated digital asset market, the Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development (MAIDD) announced on Wednesday. Developed jointly by MAIDD, the central bank and the Astana International Financial Centre, the order is viewed as a tool to increase regulatory clarity for crypto businesses, investors and digital asset service providers. The move…

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