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Strategy CEO Phong Le remains confident in the company’s long-term Bitcoin strategy, despite recent $BTC sales and heavy market losses. Speaking to CNBC, Le described the current market as another Bitcoin bear cycle. He said Strategy has been through similar conditions before. Therefore, he believes the company will come out stronger and outperform Bitcoin during the next bull run. CEO Calls Current Market Another Bitcoin Bear Cycle Le said Bitcoin’s recent weakness is largely driven by broader macroeconomic conditions rather than problems with the asset itself. Comparing the current environment to the 2022 downturn, he said Strategy has successfully navigated…

Ethereum’s largest whale wallets holding over 1000 $ETH trimmed off 1.7M coins in the last three months. According to Santiment, this whale cohort’s overall holdings dropped from 58.64M $ETH to 56.91M $ETH between May and August. This translated to a 2.9% fall. Notably, the mega whale holdings across exchanges and staking contracts also slipped from 7.07M $ETH to 6.54M $ETH. Source: Santiment Interestingly, the wallet category holding 1 to 10 $ETH surged to over 4.5% of the circulating supply over the same period. This suggested that retail was actively accumulating during the Q2 drawdown. Will staking and ETF demand push…

Does $XRP Need SWIFT? Analysts Say the Future Doesn’t Depend on It The debate over whether $XRP needs SWIFT has gained fresh momentum after SWIFT revealed that its blockchain-based shared ledger is ready for initial deployment just nine months after development began. More notably, this announcement marks a significant step in SWIFT’s digital asset strategy and has reignited questions over whether the global messaging giant and $XRP are future rivals, partners, or entirely separate solutions. Various market analysts insist the answer is clear that $XRP doesn’t need SWIFT to achieve global adoption. Market commentator X argued that Ripple has already…

Only 281 of 1,343 crypto service providers operating across the European Economic Area have secured MiCA authorization after the EU’s final transition period expired on July 1, leaving more than 1,000 firms without approval under the bloc’s licensing regime. According to blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs, 1,062 firms in its dataset had not obtained authorization under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation by the deadline and must now leave the market, restructure their operations or transfer customers to an authorized provider. The gap extends beyond licensing. TRM found that 12% of firms without authorization carry a High or Severe risk rating,…

Bitcoin is making another attempt to break out of its recent trading range today, and one analyst says the setup still leaves room for a move higher before any real downturn takes hold. The overall trend remains bearish according to the analysis, but the short-term picture tells a more hopeful story. Bitcoin’s support zone right now sits between $59,317 and $62,436, analysts say, and as long as that zone continues to hold, the case for a bigger bounce before any further decline stays intact. That view is backed by how the recent pullback looks on the charts. The decline from…

Jesse Pollak, the Coinbase executive leading the Ethereum layer-two network Base, has publicly refuted claims that the company has been selling its Ethereum holdings. In a series of posts on X, Pollak defended Coinbase’s position as a major $ETH holder and emphasized the company’s broader contributions to the Ethereum ecosystem. Background: Community Criticism and Pollak’s Response Recent criticism within the Ethereum community has centered on allegations that Coinbase has been offloading $ETH, including sequencer revenue generated through Base, while accumulating assets primarily in Bitcoin. Pollak directly rejected these claims, stating, “Coinbase is by far the largest holder of $ETH among…

“Regardless of how you feel about crypto, we can’t just ignore it,” said Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger in a CoinDesk interview. “It’s here, and the best thing that we can do is create a federally federal regulatory structure for it. It’s hard to argue against that, regardless of whether you like crypto or not.” The betting on Kalshi predicts a Democratic House majority at an 84% likelihood, though that chance is much less (a 47% coin toss) for the Senate, where Democrats face a tougher election battlefield this year. But if they prevail, a Democratic Senate could mean Senator…

Alpaca has partnered with cryptocurrency platform Gate to support its launch of US stocks and exchange-traded funds, initial public offering allocations and tokenized stocks. Gate’s move follows a broader push by cryptocurrency exchanges into traditional equities. In June, Binance added 7,000 US stocks to its platform, with Alpaca providing custody, dividend processing and corporate-action support. The trend is giving retail investors and traders on crypto platforms access to a wider range of traditional market products. Under the partnership, Gate users can access more than 10,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs through Gate Stocks. Eligible users can also request allocations in US…

BitMEX cofounder Arthur Hayes published a new essay, “Situationship,” on Aug. 4, 2026, arguing that the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure boom could end as a credit crisis rather than a dot com style equity collapse. Hayes framed data centers as leveraged real estate containing computing equipment that can lose economic value as newer chips become more efficient. Hayes said an eventual slowdown in data center construction could expose weak borrowers and financiers, prompting government intervention and broader monetary easing. He believes the resulting liquidity could support a renewed Bitcoin bull market. However, the scenario remains his personal forecast, not a…

Ethereum [$ETH] reclaimed $2,500 after several days of aggressive bullish momentum, strengthening its short-term market structure. On the 21st of August, the daily candle closed above this key supply zone. That move turned former resistance into an important level for buyers to defend. Meanwhile, stronger U.S. demand, rising Fund Holdings, and lower system-wide leverage supported the breakout. Can these conditions carry Ethereum toward the next psychological level at $3,000? Can Ethereum hold $2,500? Ethereum’s latest advance pushed its price above $2,500 and all key Exponential Moving Averages. The daily close showed that buyers had absorbed a major layer of overhead…