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Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, said that Bitcoin ($BTC) is not behaving as a “safe haven” asset as many investors expect. Dalio stated that Bitcoin’s lack of privacy, the fact that transactions are traceable and potentially controllable, and its high correlation with technology stocks are among the main reasons for this situation. According to Dalio, when stress increases in the markets, investors turn to selling Bitcoin to create liquidity. The renowned investor also argues that the Bitcoin market is relatively small and therefore more easily influenced, while gold maintains its central role due to its wider reach and established…

SpaceX’s first week as a public company is starting to look less like a conventional stock-market debut and more like a high-leverage crypto asset. Shares of Elon Musk-led company, trading under the ticker SPCX, extended their post-IPO rally Tuesday as investors piled into one of the smallest public floats ever attached to a company valued in the trillions of dollars. The stock rose as much as 13% to $210 in early market trading, according to Yahoo Finance data. This frenzy has also crossed into digital-asset markets, where SPCX-linked perpetual futures have become one of the busiest contracts across crypto trading…

Cardano has received an accolade from Everstake, a leading global non-custodial staking infrastructure provider in the crypto space. Notably, Everstake has over $7 billion staked and generated over $700 million in revenue, underscoring its prominence. Recently, the firm noted that Cardano is showing signs of growth as its total value locked (TVL) reaches levels not seen in over a year. Key Points Cardano TVL has hit an over-one-year high, data from DefiLlama confirms. On April 1, the network’s TVL hit 559.4 million $ADA, surpassing the January 30, 2025, high of 545 million $ADA. Currently at 538.44 million $ADA, the total…

Europe’s cryptocurrency regulatory body, MiCA, is putting many crypto companies in a difficult position as its temporary permit expires on July 1, 2026. MiCA mandates that all crypto exchanges, brokers, and wallet services wishing to operate in Europe must possess an official license. However, as of May 2026, only 194 crypto companies across Europe have obtained licenses. This means that approximately 75% of the more than 3,000 registered crypto companies in 2024 may be forced to cease operations. The Effects of MiCA and the Pressure on Users The regulation introduced by MiCA directly affects which platforms users can use. Exchanges…

Crypto cards and its usage has gained significant traction over the past year and the total volume in this sector is about to reach a massive milestone. As of June 17, cumulative crypto card volumes are on the verge of breaking the $10 billion mark, currently sitting at $9.898 billion according to data from paymentscan.xyz. To put the growth into perspective, this number was $2.34 billion just a year ago. That equates to a one-year growth of 323%. Crypto card volumes last month alone moved $866.1 million, a monthly record. The headline number is the easy part. What it glosses…

Ondo Finance added 173 tokenized stocks and ETFs to Ondo Global Markets on Tuesday, pushing its catalog past 430 assets available across Ethereum, Solana, and $BNB Chain. Ondo Finance’s official X account announced the expansion on June 17. The batch spans some of the most capital-intensive corners of public markets: AI, robotics, quantum computing, defense tech, critical materials, and data center energy. Also included are BlackRock active ETFs and covered call income strategies, products largely inaccessible to crypto-native investors before tokenization. Analytics platform Birdeye added support for all 173 new assets, bringing its tracked Ondo Finance total past 430 as…

Cryptocurrency research firm Delphi Digital has published a new report examining the sustainability of Strategy’s current Bitcoin accumulation model. The report stated that the company, led by Michael Saylor, was approaching a critical pressure point with its “unlimited Bitcoin purchase” strategy. According to the report, the main reason Strategy was able to aggressively increase its $BTC reserves in the initial period was that MSTR shares traded above the company’s net Bitcoin asset value (mNAV) for a long time. Thanks to this premium, the company could increase the amount of $BTC per share when it purchased Bitcoin by issuing new shares.…

SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) briefly shook up the rankings among the highest valued US firms today after it confirmed that it will buy Anysphere, the company behind AI code editor Cursor, for $60 billion in stock. The stock surge that the rocket maker enjoyed shot its valuation into a new stratosphere as it closed a deal for the largest acquisition of a developer tools company on record. It will also be SpaceX’s first major move since its historic Nasdaq listing. Why did SpaceX acquire Anysphere? Just four days after SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) launched the biggest IPO in history, the company has…

In a new tweet, blockchain interoperability network Wanchain has announced support for Ripple USD ($RLUSD) stablecoin on its bridge infrastructure, opening multiple pathways between major crypto ecosystems. “New asset integration, $RLUSD is now supported on the Wanchain bridge,” the official Wanchain X account stated in its tweet. New asset integration💡$RLUSD is now supported on the Wanchain bridge!Here are the routes on WanBridge:-$RLUSD@XRPL⇆Cardano-$RLUSD@Ethereum⇆Cardano-$RLUSD@XRPL⇆Wanchain-$RLUSD@Ethereum⇆Wanchain-$RLUSD@Wanchain⇆Cardano-$RLUSD@$XRP⇆Ethereum👉https://t.co/SFaBxQwof3 pic.twitter.com/WhHelxE9Fw — Wanchain (@wanchain_org) April 23, 2026 The integration allows $RLUSD on the $XRP Ledger and Ethereum blockchains to move between additional chains, including Wanchain and Cardano. In its tweet, Wanchain highlighted new routes for $RLUSD, thanks to…

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance published its 43rd Proof of Reserves report, which recorded a major restructuring of users’ portfolios. One of the main surprises, however, was the massive reduction in positions in the Shiba Inu ($SHIB) coin. In just one month, users’ $SHIB balances fell by 1.101 trillion coins, from 53.547 trillion in May to 52.445 trillion in June. Moreover, this process was not a local event on one exchange, but part of a global trend. CryptoQuant confirms that total $SHIB reserves on wallets of all trading platforms worldwide fell below the key mark of 81 trillion and now stand at…