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According to Bitwise, the boundary separating traditional finance (TradFi) and the cryptocurrency sector has started to disappear. Such a statement has come after Coinbase’s sweeping “System Update” announcement, which unveiled a massive push to become an “Everything Exchange”. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has noted that Coinbase might eventually cease being a crypto company per se if its revenue eventually stems from non-spot trading activities (trading stocks, offering perpetual futures and options, and so on). “The lines between crypto and TradFi are going to vanish,” Hougan stated. The cryptocurrency-native firm, which competes with the likes of Binance and Kraken,…

A prominent figure from the Washington foreign-policy establishment has said openly what markets have been pricing in fragments: the United States has likely suffered a strategic defeat in Iran, and the failure runs through the Strait of Hormuz. Accepting this premise would introduce a new macro risk for Bitcoin. The warning comes from an article by Robert Kagan in The Atlantic. Kagan sits inside the interventionist wing of U.S. foreign policy, the Project for the New American Century, and the broader doctrine that treated American military dominance as the organizing principle of the post-Cold War order. Kagan is not a…

After finding support around $1.5K earlier this month, Ethereum has managed to stage a modest recovery. However, the asset remains positioned below critical technical barriers, and sentiment metrics indicate that buyers have not yet regained control of the market. The latter specifically shows a lack of strong institutional demand, suggesting that recovery attempts could face considerable headwinds. Ethereum Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, $ETH remains firmly inside the large descending channel that has guided price action lower for several months. The asset recently broke below the important $1.85K support area, which has now flipped into resistance.…

BlackRock’s Bitcoin income-focused ETF will begin trading on Nasdaq on June 16 after receiving regulatory approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, Nasdaq confirmed that BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, trading under the ticker BITA, would launch on Tuesday. The confirmation came one day after the SEC approved the fund’s notice of effectiveness, clearing the way for public trading. ALL SET: the iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF $BITA is launching TOMORROW (tue). Confirmed by Nasdaq. Also, the ETF will target 15-25% annual yield while trying to capture at least 70% of…

Spot $XRP ETFs in the United States have brought in $68.88 million in net inflows during April 2026, making it the strongest month of the year for the funds and a full reversal from March. The run has put $XRP ahead of every other altcoin ETF this month, even as Tuesday’s session closed with zero net flows across all five products. The figures come from SoSoValue data through April 21. Cumulative net inflows since launch now sit at $1.28 billion, with total net assets at $1.07 billion, representing 1.22% of $XRP’s circulating supply. How does April compare to the rest…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced two major leadership appointments today, June 15, 2026. Donald Battle now joins the agency as Chief Data Innovation Officer, bringing expertise in blockchain forensics and data science from his time at the SEC and FinCEN. On the other hand, J. Matthew Haws has been named Senior Advisor to the Chairman and Regional Director for Chicago, drawing on his 13 years of experience in derivatives regulation and legal counsel for global financial institutions. Battle and Haws are the latest additions to a series of leadership changes initiated by Chairman Michael Selig. Since becoming the…

According to new on-chain data from blockchain analytics platform CryptoQuant, nearly half of the entire circulating supply of stablecoins has been sitting dormant on exchanges for well over a year. Investors are obviously behaving with extreme caution. Dormant cash cushion Since December 2024, the exchange supply ratio has remained confined within a range of 0.40 to 0.46. About 40% to 46% of all circulating stablecoins have been parked on trading platforms. Despite extreme volatility, the liquidity structure has remained virtually unchanged over the past 18 months. Since late 2024, Bitcoin skyrocketed toward its current all-time high near the $125,000, plummeting…

“It’s a little bit of the Taylor Swift problem,” said Dominic Carbonaro, who leads the consumer enterprise vertical at Ava Labs, the main developer firm supporting Avalanche. “Concert gets announced, huge influx of buying comes in, primarily from bots. They buy all the tickets, and then the secondary market sales happen.” The RTB model, he said, “shifts where the secondary sales market takes place.” Traditionally, event organizers sell tickets at face value and much of the value created by overwhelming demand is captured later by companies such as StubHub, SeatGeek or Vivid Seats. FIFA’s approach attempts to bring some of…

Bitcoin maintained its bullish structure this week as buyers defended the $80,000 region despite slowing momentum near local resistance. The leading cryptocurrency continued trading above all major exponential moving averages on the four-hour chart, reflecting strong market control from bulls after the recent breakout from the $73,000 area. Bitcoin Consolidates After Aggressive Rally Bitcoin recently surged through the $79,300 to $80,000 resistance range, triggering a continuation move toward the $82,800 region. However, price action has now shifted into consolidation as traders lock in profits near recent highs. Despite the pause, the overall trend remains firmly bullish. Bitcoin Price Dynamics (Source:…

Ethereum’s layer-1 network set all-time highs across every usage metric in Q1 2026, with monthly active users climbing 53.5% quarter-over-quarter to 13.2 million and transaction count reaching 200.4 million, even as $ETH’s market cap dropped 30% and fees on the base layer fell nearly 50%. But according to Token Terminal’s Q1 2026 Ethereum Report, the divergence between the rising activity and falling revenue is the whole point. Ethereum Usage Hits Record Despite Falling Fees and Valuation The report, published on June 17, showed the numbers splitting cleanly along two lines. On the usage side, everything went up, including active monthly…