Cryptocurrency News

Arthur Hayes backed Collector Crypt's $CARDS token after Maelstrom published a report with a $4 price target.

wo major police groups, GLFOP and NAPO, did not sign the law enforcement letter, highlighting divisions over the provision.

White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt is negotiating with Senate Democrats on ethics language that could restrict Trump-family crypto ventures, according to Politico.

Private stablecoins are preferred over CBDCs, which Warsh called "a bad policy choice" and the Senate outlawed until 2030, leaving GENIUS Act-governed tokens, a $311 billion market, as the preferred digital-dollar path.

CZ dismissed concerns about Strategy's Bitcoin holdings, arguing the company is not a systemic risk to the broader market.

A hawkish hold from new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has left Bitcoin trailing stocks and gold in freefall. Wall Street is split on whether the largest cryptocurrency will rebound or bleed further.

Micron’s recent rollout follows Backpack's tokenized SpaceX launch, which the firm said surpassed 10,000 holders and $350 million in on-chain volume.

An on-chain analyst said Bitcoin's Cycle Momentum indicator was in bear-market territory at -11.4, with a trend reversal requiring a move back above the neutral zone.

Caroline Pham urged the industry to stop framing blockchain as "disruption" and instead present it as a modernization of financial infrastructure.

Peirce warned that passage of the CLARITY Act could significantly expand the SEC's rulemaking responsibilities before her planned departure later this year.

A user inquired why Solana over Zcash, which has risen more than 1,054% in a year amid increasing privacy-coin interest and a reported Multicoin Capital investment.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz warned about the crypto market's lack of fresh buyers and growing pressure over Strategy's massive Bitcoin treasury.

Darkfost classified long-term holders as wallets holding BTC for more than six months since movement likelihood reduces after 155 days of inactivity, according to a 2020 Glassnode study.

CZ responded to Hyperliquid's decentralized branding by saying, "a small team controls the platform," citing his 2024 jail term for Binance anti-money-laundering violations.

zkSync founder Alex Gluchowski separately called Ethereum the "only option" for institutional settlement, citing competing chains from Stripe and JPMorgan.

Missing the legislative window might change jurisdiction over crypto legislation if Republicans lose control after the November midterms, Johnson said.

Republicans are emphasizing fraud prevention and regulatory clarity as Democrats focus on conflict-of-interest concerns.

Saylor called 2026 "the most exciting year in Bitcoin's history," citing the rise of Bitcoin-backed credit and yield products.

Sharplink CEO Chalom explained that Ethereum's edge is cultural and can't be copied.

Schiff and Pompliano clashed on Fox Business over government support for crypto, debating whether Bitcoin can outperform gold over the next decade.

Bankless Co-founder David Hoffman questioned where the next major source of ETH buying would come from after Bitmine’s rapid buildup.

OpenAI's confidential S-1 from last week fueled WLD's appeal as a proxy for AI mega-IPOs, given the token's link to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

The Bank of Japan is expected to hike rates to 1% from 0.75% on Tuesday, the highest since 1995, with over 115,000 speculative yen shorts, the highest since November 2017.

Hayes thinks that if the AI bubble bursts, the resulting financial stress would force renewed money printing, and Bitcoin is well-positioned to absorb that capital.

As debate around the CLARITY Act continues, Galaxy Digital’s Mike Novogratz said after meeting with 14 senators that the bill is down to three solvable issues, including ethics.

Without blockchain, Visser warned, "there'll be 24 million” of Knicks tickers sold at “whatever price" - making crypto the only verification layer that matters in an unreliable world.

Grayscale pointed out that the first-ever S&P 500 perpetual futures product launched on Hyperliquid in March 2026 through a license from S&P Dow Jones Indices.

FTSE Russell confirmed SpaceX will join the Russell 1000 and Russell Top 200 on June 26, with MSCI adding it to its standard and large-cap indexes on June 29.

TAO hit $250 and was one of the top trending tickers on Stocktwits.

Silent Payments' Bitcoin Core integration is awaiting review of the cryptography library.

Binance Chain shows support for meme tokens through strategic purchases.

Charles Schwab's Ferraioli said roughly 20% of spot Bitcoin ETF assets come from Schwab clients and argued that Bitcoin remains attractive from a valuation perspective.

An AI-assisted audit revealed a bug in Zcash, contributing to Mumtaz's argument about the vulnerabilities in crypto systems.

Arthur Hayes is holding ETH despite calling it "dead," betting a financial crisis would force central banks to print money, sending Bitcoin lower first, then sharply higher.

Developer protections and ethics remain among the last hurdles before a Senate floor vote for the CLARITY Act, according to journalist Eleanor Terrett.

Global macro investor Raoul Pal sees crypto hitting $100 trillion in a decade, as Galaxy CEO Novogratz admits nobody cares about crypto right now due to AI shift.

A critical vulnerability forced Zcash engineers into emergency mode, resulting in a rare soft-fork and hard-fork response within days.

Despite Hayes’s exit, HYPE, NEAR, and ZEC outperformed Bitcoin and Ethereum in daily gains on Monday.

MSTR slipped 0.41% after-hours after closing down over 6% Friday. On Stocktwits retail sentiment stayed in the 'extremely bearish' zone.

Bet-David said Bitcoin could go down to $30,000 or up to $130,000 on macro shifts, while Tom Ellsworth said Saylor's paper loss is meaningless until he sells.

Large-scale sales or distributions by major holders could hurt the token's market price and the trust's shares, Grayscale warned.

Cardone called much of the digital asset industry “cancerous.” He said Strategy would probably survive, but called the broader treasury-company trade “embarrassing.”

Veteran trader Peter Brandt said Bitcoin could 'work lower or have a terminal wash-out' and sees no tradable low until October.

Arthur Hayes pushed back on criticism for selling WLD, saying he simply sold to a willing buyer and had successfully achieved his trading objective.

Gromen warned that AI-infrastructure accounting inflates near-term earnings, and a build-out slowdown could lead to capital rotation out of the sector.

Developers addressed the issue, while the Zcash founder affirmed that no money was stolen and no illegal ZEC tokens were created.

The rally pushed WLD to its highest level since January and the token was among the top trending tickers on Stocktwits.

Bitcoin was down 13% on the week, and realized losses have jumped to $1.35 billion per day, according to Glassnode.

Bankless co-founder David Hoffman identified perpetuals, AI tokens, and privacy coins as the strongest areas of the market.

The Wyoming senator said lawmakers are combining the CLARITY Act's SEC structure with the Senate Agriculture Committee's CFTC provisions.