Major financial assets and the U.S. consumer are moving in opposite directions, telling two very different stories about the U.S. economy. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market value and a macro asset, surged 11.8% last month, the biggest gain since April 2025, and has since extended the rally by nearly 6% to $80,700, according to […]
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Oil prices rose and stock futures fell on Monday as investors reacted after the two sides failed to agree on a U.S.-Iran peace deal. President Trump said on social media Sunday that the latest Iranian proposal was “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” » He did not share details of what Iran had proposed. Tehran said the two countries
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U.S. Federal Reserve changes, inflation and earnings data dominate the week’s calendar as markets weigh on bitcoin. BTC$80,814.36 a newfound strength in the face of a full macro list. “The market is entering a phase where liquidity is becoming more selective than purely speculative,” Jake Seltzer, CEO of Quantix Finance, told CoinDesk in an emailed
Bitcoin stabilizes near $81,000 with Iranian tensions and US regulations in focus
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The biggest decentralization move Bitcoin mining has seen in years has happened quietly, with seven of the largest pools agreeing to support the same open standard. Foundry, AntPool, F2Pool, SpiderPool, MARA Pool, Block Inc and DMND have all joined the Stratum V2 working group, the group announced last week. Stratum V2 is an open source
XRP finally broke the $1.45 area that had capped rallies for weeks, and the move was rapid. Volume came all at once during the breakout, which generally indicates broader positioning rather than retail chasing, although the rally began to lose momentum as the price approached the psychological $1.50 level. News context • Traders had been
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A Bitcoin whale came back to life on Sunday, moving coins worth $40 billion to a new address after more than a decade of inactivity. The transfer took place around 7:16 p.m. UTC, according to blockchain tracking service Whale Alert. The coins have been moved from the address “1KAA8GGhVjjUjVTz1HKAjCyGNzAKQd882j” to “bc1qm6m6d33d02edr0k8yj9jgt027zl6dvx6thjrxy”. The wallet has been
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White House adviser Patrick Witt said it was possible the Clarity Act could become law by July 4, while Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand pushed for an ethics provision in the Market Structure bill. Consensus Miami 2026 ended with a fiery debate over the role of prediction markets, and much more happened at our first conference in
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Executives from Google Cloud and PayPal said Thursday at CoinDesk’s Consensus conference in Miami that the next wave of internet commerce will take place on crypto rails because AI agents structurally cannot use traditional financial accounts. Richard Widmann, global head of Web3 strategy at Google Cloud, said the existing Internet user
Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) non-fungible tokens are rising again, fueling hopes of a broader recovery in the struggling NFT market as speculative appetite returns to the crypto space. Price floors, or the lowest value of Yuga Labs’ flagship collection, have risen from around 5 ETH to 10 ETH over the past month, while apecoin
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