Binance Dominates the Futures Battlefield Binance controls the largest share of bitcoin futures open interest, according to Coinglass.com futures stats logged on Wednesday. The total value of contracts still outstanding is 148,500 $BTC worth $9.61 billion. CME ranks second at 102,840 $BTC, or $6.66 billion, after posting a 6.82% jump in just one day. MEXC […]
Dubai Duty Free has become the first airport retailer in the Middle East to accept regulated cryptocurrency payments, launching Crypto.com Pay at both Dubai International Airport and Al Maktoum International Airport, as well as its online store. The payment option is available exclusively to eligible UAE residents. Customers authorize payments through the Crypto.com app by […]
Strategy, chaired by Michael Saylor, sold 1,638 Bitcoin today for approximately $105 million, reducing its total assets to 842,138 $BTC. Following the sale, Saylor stated that his personal Bitcoin investments and Strategy’s capital management policies as a publicly traded company should be kept separate. According to Strategy’s official data, the company sold its Bitcoins at […]
KuCoin has unveiled a new performance report, published with support from crypto data platform CoinGecko, highlighting the exchange’s rapid global expansion, growing regulatory footprint, and resilient performance through the first half of 2026 as it approaches its ninth anniversary. According to the report, KuCoin has grown from 5 million users in 2017 to more than […]
Strategy’s (MSTR) perpetual preferred stock, Stretch (STRC), has risen more than 30% from its June low. It is currently trading around $94, after gaining another 1% on Wednesday. STRC bottomed in late June around $71 as bitcoin fell below $60,000. Since then, Strategy has sold 5,226 $BTC for $321 million across three separate transactions, reducing […]
The mainstream adoption of XRP Ledger (XRPL), which uses XRP as its native token, has continued to grow as of August 5, following a recent catalyst from Ripple Labs’ Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) license. Ripple received its Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), as Finbold […]
As the Bitcoin network debates the fate of BIP-110, a proposal aimed at curbing non-monetary data on the blockchain, developer Chris Guida has taken proactive steps to prepare a contingency plan. Guida has reworked the 2017 proof-of-work (PoW) change code to be compatible with the latest version of Bitcoin Knots, a full-node implementation, according to […]
Although Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: SPCX) crushed Wall Street’s expectations in its debut quarter earnings report, SpaceX reported a loss of nearly $540 million on its Bitcoin (BTC) position. SpaceX saw its Bitcoin trove record a loss of $539 million, from $1.637 billion on December 31, 2025, to $1.098 billion at the end of […]
Bitcoin price-metric basket sees longest capitulation since FTX blow-up: Glassnode Bitcoin ($BTC) is seeing its longest capitulation since the end of the 2022 bear market, onchain analytics platform Glassnode reported on Monday. Key points: 45 Bitcoin price metrics tracked by Glassnode are in their longest “capitulation” phase since the collapse of FTX in late 2022. […]
Bitcoin (BTC) could be on track to establish a major cycle bottom near $50,000 within the next two months, according to a trading analysis. The analysis, shared by TradingShot in a TradingView post on August 5, was based on the Coin Value Days Destroyed (CVDD) indicator, one of the most reliable signals for identifying long-term […]