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BTC, ETH and SOL price forecast as bitcoin dips below $60,000

The pressure on crypto has become its own. The break below $60,000 reflects continued outflows from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, the Federal Reserve’s hawkish turn and a U.S. dollar that has soared to its highest level in seven months, Alex Kuptsikevich, chief market analyst at FxPro, said in an email to CoinDesk. A stronger dollar […]

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Forget maximum pain. Bitcoin Well Below $72,000 Magnet Ahead of $10 Billion Options Expiry

Bitcoin BTC$61,650.42 The price drop ahead of Friday’s quarterly options settlement has once again cast doubt on the popular “maximum pain theory.” The maximum pain level for this expiration stands at $72,000, significantly above current spot prices of around $61,700. On Friday at 8:00 a.m. ET, $10 billion worth of options will expire on Deribit,

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Bitcoin and Ether Lead to Billion-Dollar Liquidation Losses as AI Trading Continues

Bitcoin fell to $59,175 overnight, its lowest point since early June, before climbing back to around $61,500 on Thursday morning, according to CoinDesk data. Nearly $1 billion in futures positions were liquidated in major cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, Ether, Solana and others, into tokenized versions of stocks, such as Micron Technology Inc (MU) and Sandisk

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Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin goes live in Japan after regulatory approval

The launch follows a memorandum of understanding signed by the two companies in August 2025 and builds on a relationship dating back to 2016, when Ripple and SBI began working together on cross-border payments and blockchain infrastructure in Asia. RLUSD “will serve as a bridge for payments, tokenization and collateral management,” connecting Japanese companies to

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Cboe relaunches S&P 500 binary options and pursues popularized Polymarket

Cboe, one of the largest US derivatives exchanges, said it was entering the prediction market arena and relaunching binary options on the S&P 500 index after abandoning them more than a decade ago, a move that puts it in competition with platforms such as Kalshi and crypto-native Polymarket. A binary option is a yes or

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DeFi lending giant Aave could hit $3,500 by 2030, Standard Chartered forecasts

Kendrick likened Aave to an automated blockchain-based bank that operates without employees or discretionary decision-making. At its peak in October 2025, the protocol held around $75 billion in deposits, a level that the analyst said would have ranked it among the 30 largest banks in the United States. Looking ahead, Kendrick expects the value of

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