Bitcoin surged above $76,000, capping a roughly 18% two-day advance driven by accelerating spot ETF inflows and a wave of short liquidations. U.S. 10-year Treasury yields fell to…
MicroStrategy Stock Hits Two-Month High on Bitcoin Rally MicroStrategy (MSTR) shares surged to a two-month high on Thursday, August 20, 2026, as bitcoin (BTC) climbed toward $69,800. The…
Gold and silver pulled back 4-6% after a sharp weekly surge, with the correction attributed to a U.S. Treasury bond buyback program expansion, not ETF flows. The Treasury…
Bitcoin’s climb toward $73,000 has been powered by an 11% rally driven by a record short squeeze and falling U.S. Treasury yields, but analysts caution that sustained spot…
Coinbase CEO Projects $300K–$400K Bitcoin by 2030 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said Thursday, August 20, 2026, that it is “very likely” Bitcoin will trade between $300,000 and $400,000…
Crypto Short Squeeze Adds $190B in Record Liquidations On Thursday, August 20, 2026, the cryptocurrency market experienced its largest short liquidation event on record, with approximately $190 billion…
Dollar Weakness and Fed Bets Drive Bitcoin’s Next Move Bitcoin is trading near $59,400, up 2.3% over the past 24 hours, while Ethereum follows at $2,610, gaining 1.8%.…
The CFTC’s new Innovation Advisory Committee holds its first meeting Thursday, with seven of 35 members representing prediction market and event-contract firms. Kalshi, Polymarket, and DraftKings are among…
Bitcoin surged to a session high of $71,992 on Thursday, pushing its market capitalization to $1.44 trillion as a U.S. Treasury announcement and supportive comments from President Donald…
White House Meeting and Fed Signals Fuel Crypto Rally On Wednesday, August 19, 2026, bitcoin (BTC) surged toward the $70,000 mark, buoyed by a White House meeting with…
Bitcoin Jumps 6% on Doubled Treasury Buyback Program Bitcoin surged above $68,000 on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, climbing about 6% as the U.S. Treasury announced it would double…
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the US has “come to a deal with Canada” on trade, stating Canadian representatives “gave us the points we had to have.”…
Stripe Inc. has agreed to acquire OpenRouter Inc., an AI startup that provides a unified interface for developers to access and switch between multiple AI models. Financial terms…
Cloud Mining Gains Traction as BTC, XRP Holders Seek Lower Barriers As of mid-August 2026, cloud mining has emerged as a practical alternative for cryptocurrency holders, with FT…
The CFTC finalized orders on Aug. 19 banning former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and co-founder Gary Wang from trading for five and three years, respectively. The regulator…
Kalshi Block Trades Open to 3,000 Clients Investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald announced on August 19, 2026, that it will enable its roughly 3,000 institutional clients to execute large…
Bitcoin Rallies as US Treasury Doubles Buyback Size Bitcoin climbed to an 11-week high on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, joining US stocks in a broad rally after the…
Bitcoin surged past $68,000 on Wednesday, trading at $68,473 by 10:30 a.m. in New York after briefly touching $68,982, a nearly 3% gain in 24 hours. The rally…
Standard Chartered Analyst: $100K Bitcoin Target Hinges on Liquidity Bitcoin’s rebound toward $69,000 is gaining momentum, and Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick sees room for further upside. In a…
Bitcoin surged to $69,749 on Aug. 19, its highest level in weeks, breaking out of a prolonged $61,500–$65,000 trading range. The rally was fueled by a $1.3 billion…
Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Sees $16.15M Single-Day Inflow On Tuesday, August 18, 2026, the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF (ticker: BITW) recorded a single-day net inflow of $16.15 million, lifting its…
Bitcoin whales added roughly 43,000 BTC (about $2.75 billion) over the past 60 days, ending a months-long selling spree, per Cryptoquant data. The accumulation occurred in wallets that…
Fed Policy Path Takes Center Stage As of Wednesday, August 19, 2026, markets are fixated on the Federal Reserve’s next move. With inflation data still above the central…
SEC’s New Crypto Framework Draws Rare Praise From Peirce Commissioner Hester Peirce, known as “Crypto Mom,” has called the SEC’s latest regulatory proposal an “important” step forward, contrasting…
Merck and Moderna reported positive top-line results from a Phase 3 trial of mRNA-4157 (V940), a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, in patients with high-risk melanoma. The combination of…
Bullard: Treasury Buyback Expansion Is a Tactical Shift, Not a Fundamental Fix The US Treasury announced plans to increase buybacks of longer-dated debt, aiming to curb the recent…
HTX Concludes Phase 2 of TradFi Trade to Earn HTX, a leading global cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, the successful conclusion of Phase 2 of…
Currency strategists identify Treasury market risk, softening U.S. economic data, and an uncertain Federal Reserve policy path as primary headwinds for the dollar. Persistent fiscal deficit concerns and…
FalconX and Interstice Launch Non-Custodial Cross-Chain Swap Engine On Tuesday, August 18, 2026, FalconX and Interstice Digital unveiled a non-custodial cross-chain swap engine that connects the Canton Network’s…
Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded $297.56 million in net inflows on Monday, snapping a three-session outflow streak that ended the prior week. BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC were the…
