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Ethereum price has remained pinned near $1,750 after renewed Middle East tensions triggered a risk-off mood across financial markets and sellers once again defended the $1,800 resistance zone. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum ($ETH) price traded around $1,756 on Wednesday after failing to sustain multiple attempts above $1,800 during the past week. The latest rejection followed U.S. airstrikes on Iranian military targets after Iran reportedly fired on civilian shipping near the Strait of Hormuz, sending investors toward traditional safe-haven assets and limiting demand for cryptocurrencies. The conflict also disrupted diplomatic efforts that had already paused during Iran’s official mourning…

The Federal Reserve may purchase equity ETFs to support the US stock market during the next major downturn, an analyst said, a scenario that crypto researchers say would indirectly benefit Bitcoin and major digital assets. The Case for Fed Equity Purchases Eric Balchunas, Senior ETF Analyst, published a note arguing that the US stock market has effectively become too large and too politically important to allow a prolonged collapse. Approximately 55% of Americans currently own stocks, the highest rate in the world. Trump Accounts are set to bring an estimated 28 million additional people into equity ownership. Social security is…

Hyperliquid Strategies has built its treasury around $HYPE, but its first SEC filings show the strategy already faces a fundamental challenge. The company wants to accumulate more tokens for shareholders while warning investors it may need to sell $HYPE into future capital raises, placing long-term accumulation goals alongside the practical limits of market liquidity. Hyperliquid Strategies says the primary objective to accumulate $HYPE tokens on behalf of stockholders will be funded by proceeds from its Closing PIPE and future capital raises. The company established a committed equity facility with Chardan that allows it to direct up to $1 billion in…

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has established five independent task forces to conduct a comprehensive review of the central bank’s monetary policy framework. The move, announced this week, includes a notable addition: Marc Andreessen, the billionaire co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and a prominent Bitcoin supporter, has been named to an advisory group. Scope of the Policy Review The five task forces will examine distinct areas of Fed operations. According to a report from BeInCrypto, the groups will focus on communication strategies, balance sheet policy, the inflation targeting framework, economic data analysis, and the impact of artificial…

Robinhood announced the addition of $SENT to its spot trading platform, allowing users to buy and sell the token directly through the popular retail brokerage app. The listing, confirmed on [Date of announcement, if known, otherwise remove], marks another expansion of Robinhood’s cryptocurrency offerings, which have grown steadily since the company first enabled crypto trading. What is $SENT? $SENT is a cryptocurrency token associated with the Sentinel network, a decentralized VPN (dVPN) protocol built on the Cosmos ecosystem. The token is used to pay for bandwidth and services within the Sentinel network, rewarding node operators and facilitating secure, private internet…

PayPal, a well-known financial technology entity, is making its $PYUSD stablecoin available on Polygon, a prominent blockchain platform. The integration of $PYUSD into Polygon Open Money Stack is set to expand compliant stablecoin payments. As PayPal disclosed in its official press release, the development permits businesses to leverage $PYUSD for transfers across borders with native compliance, streamlined settlement infrastructure, and regulated off- and on-ramps. This rollout occurs at a time when the stablecoin network of Polygon keeps expanding, with its cumulative stablecoin supply hitting nearly $2.6T following doubling over the year. PayPal’s $PYUSD Goes Live on Polygon Open Money Stack…

Renowned financial analyst Lyn Alden made striking statements regarding Bitcoin and general market dynamics. Alden stated that the current pessimism in the Bitcoin market is at its lowest level in her career. According to Alden, from the fall of 2025 onwards, market liquidity will have shifted largely to companies producing artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and memory (RAM) chips. Alden stated that Paul Tudor Jones’s past description of Bitcoin as “the fastest horse in the race” has been temporarily lost to AI stocks, and that this capital flight is putting significant pressure on Bitcoin and gold. Highlighting that the current bear market…

The Ethereum ETF race is quickly becoming a fee fight. Grayscale’s disclosure of a 0.15% sponsor fee for its Ethereum Mini Trust puts real pressure on the rest of the issuer field, especially as investors compare products that will all be competing for the same basic exposure. That is a big shift from the earlier phase of the story. For months, the market mostly cared about whether spot Ethereum ETFs would get across the regulatory line at all. Now the question is how those products will compete once they are on the other side. For more details, visit the official…

DeFi risk management and blockchain infrastructure firm Gauntlet has raised $125 million in a Series C funding round led by Japan-based financial services group SBI Holdings, marking the company’s largest financing since it was founded in 2018. The SBI Holdings investment was completed in June, according to company announcement. Financial terms beyond the funding amount, including Gauntlet’s latest valuation. The company previously raised nearly $24 million in a Series B round in 2022, led by Ribbit Capital, at a reported valuation of approximately $1 billion. The latest financing comes as institutional investors continue directing capital toward infrastructure companies that support…

An abnormal capital rotation has been recorded inside the $XRP Ledger, with the volume of payments between autonomous AI agents in $XRP rising by 77%, while the turnover of Ripple USD ($RLUSD), the dollar stablecoin, declined by 32%, according to the new hub from t.54. The movement of funds coincided with anomalous activity from the financial protocol ClawBank, whose 67 connected services processed 7,630 transactions over the past 24 hours. Before this daily spike, the project had accumulated only 8,469 operations over its entire lifetime, meaning the system generated around 90% of its historical activity in just one day, choosing…