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Bitcoin BTC$71,021.58 has likely found its bottom and is primed for further gains, Wall Street broker Bernstein said in a Tuesday note to clients, reiterating its $150,000 year-end price target. “We believe Bitcoin has found its trough and is now heading higher,” wrote analysts led by Gautam Chhugani. The world’s largest cryptocurrency was trading around $71,000 at publication time. The broker also maintained its bullish view on bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR), calling it a high-beta proxy for bitcoin with a “resilient, liquid and pressure-tested” balance sheet. The firm, led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, holds roughly 3.6% of the…

Ethereum’s price trajectory is increasingly tied to institutional capital flows into spot ETFs, but a new headwind is emerging from the traditional bond market. According to Markus Thielen, CEO of 10x Research, the rising yield on U.S. 10-year Treasury notes is eroding the relative attractiveness of $ETH staking, potentially keeping the cryptocurrency’s price locked in a narrow range. Bond Yields vs. Staking Yields: A Growing Gap Thielen’s analysis highlights a strong correlation over the past year between Ethereum’s price and the 30-day moving average of daily net inflows into its spot ETFs. This link positions institutional capital flows as a…

In today’s newsletter, Vincent Chok from First Digital unpacks the rise of “agentic finance,” where AI agents are moving beyond advice to execute financial transactions, making crypto the essential financial backend for this machine-driven economy. Then, in “Ask an Expert,” we posed two questions to three leading AI systems — Grok, Gemini, and Claude — about AI payment use cases and the necessary steps for scalability. Note: Responses were generated by AI assistants and reflect each model’s perspective. They should not be construed as financial or legal advice. – Sarah Morton AI agents in crypto: what advisors need to know…

Coinbase now lets users borrow up to $100K against $SOL via Morpho on Base, turning Solana into its third major collateral pillar as the token eyes a retest of $200. Coinbase has expanded its on-chain crypto lending product to include Solana as collateral, allowing users to borrow up to $100,000 against $SOL holdings through an integration with the Morpho lending protocol on the Base network, according to reporting by The Block. Coinbase bets on $SOL as its third major collateral pillar The product previously supported Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral assets, and the $SOL ($SOL) addition marks the first time…

Andrew Left, the outspoken short seller behind Citron Research, is headed to a criminal trial in Los Angeles on charges that he used social media to manipulate stock prices and pocket more than $16 million in illicit profits. Jury selection is set to begin May 11, 2026. The charges and the alleged scheme Federal prosecutors allege that Left ran a scheme from 2018 to 2023 in which he published misleading stock recommendations on social media, then traded against his own publicly stated positions to generate quick profits. The Department of Justice indicted Left on July 25, 2024, on multiple counts…

Bitcoin miners are already doing more than securing Bitcoin’s base chain. According to Rootstock’s Q1 2026 merged-mining report, 84.01% of Bitcoin’s total hashrate contributed to securing Rootstock during the quarter, giving Bitcoin DeFi a hashrate-backed security claim. The network averaged 833.92 EH/s of Rootstock hashrate. The number is striking because Rootstock sits beside Bitcoin rather than competing for a separate set of machines. It is a Bitcoin sidechain that uses merged mining, allowing Bitcoin mining pools to submit work to Rootstock while continuing to mine Bitcoin. In Rootstock’s framing, miners can earn additional $BTC-denominated rewards from Rootstock network fees without…

The Ethereum Foundation is facing renewed scrutiny after two more prominent contributors, Carl Beek and Julian Ma, shared they are exiting the organization on Monday, extending a wave of departures that has rattled parts of the Ethereum community over the past few months. The latest exits come amid broader questions about turnover inside the nonprofit that helps steward the world’s second-largest blockchain. Community members have increasingly asked why so many high-profile researchers, coordinators and ecosystem leaders have left the Ethereum Foundation in recent months. The foundation did not immediately return a request for comment. The departures of Beek and Ma…

It’s been a volatile week for the shares of Figure Technology Solutions as crypto-linked stocks react to shifting investor sentiment and early signs of a broader market rebound. FIGR stock fell more than 9% in early Thursday trading, slipping back to the mid-$32 range after climbing near $37 earlier in the week. The earlier gains were driven by momentum in crypto-related equities and growing investor interest in companies tied to blockchain-based lending. Today’s decline extended Figure’s more than 20% year-to-date slide, reflecting ongoing uncertainty around both crypto markets and higher-growth technology stocks. The sharp swings highlight how sensitive the stock…

Ether ($ETH) dropped sharply after rejection at $2,400 last week, dropping as low as $2,100 on Monday, indicating that bears are back “in control,” according to new analysis. Key takeaways: Ether drops 12% after rejection at $2,400 as bears regain control. Binance sell pressure and ETF outflows signal weak $ETH demand. Analysts warn $ETH/USD could fall toward $1,700 if support at $2,000 breaks. $ETH bears selling aggressively Data from TradingView shows $ETH price trading at $2,100, down 12% below its local high of $2,420 reached on May 6. On Sunday, $ETH/USD hit $2,090 on Bitstamp, its lowest level since April…

Some worry bitcoin $BTC$70,209.92 could still see a deeper sell-off, but one key indicator suggests the bottom may already be behind us. That indicator is the 30-day implied volatility, which is an options-based measure of expected price turbulence over four weeks. The widely-tracked 30-day implied volatility indices like Deribit’s DVOL and Volmex’s BVIV surged to 90% in early February when bitcoin crashed to almost $60,000. Historically, similar spikes in volatility have coincided with peak panic and capitulation, marking price bottoms. VIX-like contrary signal Bitcoin’s market structure has increasingly mirrored Wall Street since the introduction of spot $BTC ETFs in the…