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Strategy And FTX: Similarities? This was followed by a surge in withdrawals, an $8 billion deficit in FTX’s accounts, culminating in a liquidity crisis when FTX suspended user withdrawals, and eventually the exchange’s collapse. Martinez said the event marked the “final bottom” of the 2022 Bitcoin bear market. Is This Leading To $BTC Bottom? Martinez then suggested that the current situation around Strategy felt “eerily similar.” “I am not saying Strategy is FTX. My point is about market psychology,” Martinez added. “Rumors create doubt. Doubt creates selling. Selling exposes vulnerabilities.” They argued that these dynamics could mark a bottom for…

If you’ve ever placed a large trade and watched the price move against you before it even filled, you’ve felt the exact problem dark pools were built to solve. The Problem With Public Order Books Most exchanges and stock markets use a public order book. Every buy and sell order is visible to anyone watching, including the size and the price. That transparency sounds good in theory. In practice, it creates a hidden tax on big trades. The moment you place a large order, other traders can see it sitting there. Some will trade ahead of it, buy up the…

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has explained why the company chose not to apply for a license under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework. According to Ardoino, the regulation creates unnecessary risks for stablecoin issuers instead of making the market safer. He said MiCA requires issuers to keep 60% of their reserves as uninsured cash deposits in European banks. Ardoino argued that such a rule could expose stablecoin issuers to banking risks during periods of heavy redemptions. Tether’s decision means $USDT, now valued at roughly $186 billion, has no MiCA authorization and can no longer trade on regulated crypto…

Aster’s buyback program removes $ASTER tokens from circulation by pairing every open-market purchase with an equal token burn, targeting a supply cut from 8 billion tokens down to 3 billion, a reduction of 62.5%. The mechanism started on June 17, 2026, and ties the pace of supply reduction directly to how much trading activity happens on the platform. How Does The Buyback Mechanism Work? Aster is a decentralized exchange built on BNB Chain, with additional support across Ethereum, Solana, and Arbitrum. Under its updated tokenomics, 99% of daily platform fees are used to buy back $ASTER on the open market.…

The RWA narrative needs examples that look like real finance, not just token launches. Fidelity’s FILQ integration with Chainlink is useful because it touches one of the most ordinary but essential parts of fund operations: valuation data. That makes the story more important than it might look at first. If tokenized funds are going to scale, investors need trustworthy information about what the assets are worth and how those values are updated. For more details, visit the official Chainlink platform. TL;DR Fidelity’s FILQ fund is using Chainlink technology to publish NAV information. The integration connects traditional fund valuation data to…

Bitcoin is caught between a failed breakout and a possible support reset, with analysts watching whether $BTC can hold the $59,000-$61,000 area. If that zone holds, price could bounce back toward $65,000, but another rejection there may keep the bigger downside risk alive. Bitcoin Break Above $63K Puts $65K Back in Play Bitcoin has broken above the $63,000 level, putting bulls back near a key short-term decision zone. If $BTC holds above $62,800 on the daily close, the next move could target $65,000. $BTC/USDT daily chart. Source: Ted on X, TradingView The chart shows Bitcoin reclaiming the $62,500-$62,800 area after…

Galaxy Digital (GLXY) has launched an institutional vault curation business on decentralized lending protocol Morpho, expanding its push into onchain finance with a product designed to help clients earn yield on idle stablecoin balances without managing decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure themselves. The offering, called Galaxy Curator, is available through Fireblocks Earn, giving the custody platform’s more than 2,400 institutional clients access to curated onchain lending strategies from within their existing treasury and custody workflows, the company said in a press release Thursday. The launch targets a longstanding challenge for institutional crypto holders. Large stablecoin balances often remain uninvested between settlements,…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer says investors shouldn’t panic over the recent rotation out of AI stocks. Instead, he sees it as a chance to buy some of the market’s strongest companies at lower prices. According to Cramer, quarterly rotations are common, but they usually last only a few sessions before money flows back into long-term winners. “You are getting a chance to sell the losers at a premium and switch to winners at a discount,” Cramer said. “This is one of those breaks. Don’t blow it.” He said. Micron and SanDisk Lead the AI Memory Boom Cramer remains highly bullish on…

Ripple has received full authorisation of its Crypto Asset Service Provider licence from Luxembourg’s financial regulator, completing the two-part regulatory structure that makes it one of the very few digital asset companies to be fully compliant under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation. The authorisation from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, announced on Monday, follows the preliminary approval Ripple received in June. Combined with the EU Electronic Money Institution licence the company obtained from the same regulator earlier this year, the approval means Ripple can now offer its complete end-to-end crypto payments infrastructure to financial institutions, fintechs…

A short-term recovery is underway in crypto markets, but the Bitcoin price remains trapped beneath key moving averages on the daily chart. The divergence between bullish intraday momentum and unresolved structural damage defines the current outlook as of July 6, 2026. $BTC/USDT — daily chart with candlesticks, EMA20/EMA50 and volume. Key takeaways Bitcoin traded at $64,330 on July 6, 2026, above the 20-day EMA but still below both the 50-day and 200-day EMAs. The Fear & Greed Index sits at 24, deep in Extreme Fear, signaling broad market skepticism about the current bounce. Strategy executed its largest-ever Bitcoin sale of…