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Crypto markets were in rally mode on Thursday alongside sizable gains in stocks, a U.S. presidential pardon for Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, and ahead of tomorrow’s key reading on September inflation.In mid-afternoon U.S. trading, bitcoin BTC$110,526.76 was up 2.7% over the past 24 hours to $110,700, down a hair from the day’s high of $111,100. The action came following Wednesday’s strong decline which had pushed the price below $107,000. The Wednesday drop came following Tuesday’s sharp rise which had brought BTC as high as $114,000.The back and forth action is commonly known as a whipsaw pattern and usually results in…

Bitcoin trades near $108K after falling below STH cost basis. Analysts eye $37K LTH support as retail selling spikes and whales accumulate. Bitcoin is trading around $109,000 with modest movement over the last day. The weekly chart still shows a broader pullback, and recent data points suggest pressure may continue. Analysts are watching historical support levels, especially those tied to on-chain cost metrics. Realized Price Levels Come Into Focus Bitcoin has slipped below the short-term holder (STH) realized price, which stands at $113,250. Long-term holder (LTH) realized price is much lower, near $36,910. In past cycles, when BTC lost…

In brief Over the past week, investors been pulling money out of Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs. But on Tuesday, they reversed course, putting a combined $618.9 million into the funds. Experts told Decrypt that crypto markets path forward remains uncertain. Investors piled back into Bitcoin ETFs and their Ethereum counterparts Tuesday, reversing days of outflows, although the fresh investments failed to give the two largest cryptocurrencies by market value a long-lasting bump. The price of the two biggest digital assets has in the past risen significantly when investors have bought shares of the American ETFs. Investors sank about $477 million and $142…

When I worked at the Federal Reserve, we used to joke that our job was to protect the status quo. The Fed’s mandate has long included financial stability, certainly not financial disruption. But Fed Governor Chris Waller’s speech calling on Fed staff to research the creation of a new “payments account” for nonbank payment providers at this week’s Fed Payments Innovation Conference marks the first serious challenge to the assumption that only banks get to move money in America and who is allowed access to the Fed’s balance sheet.When I wrote in 2023 that “stablecoins are the battleground for the…

One month ago, Harshvardhan (“Hash”), an alumni of the MIT Bitcoin Club and an organizer for the MIT Freedom Tech Expo, told me in an interview about how a friend of his who is a social worker in Nepal and who was on the ground during the recent protests in the country doesn’t like Bitcoin. “There’s a lot of people with left-leaning ideology who still think bitcoin is a capitalistic tool, and they’re not very comfortable with it yet,” explained Hash. I’ve been thinking a lot about this point he made since we spoke. As someone who was formerly more…

Starting with the upcoming Fusaka hard fork, EIP-7825 introduces a per-transaction gas limit cap of 2²⁴ (≈ 16.78 million gas). This change is already live on Holesky and Sepolia, and will activate on mainnet with Fusaka. Developers and users who rely on very large transactions should verify that their contracts and transaction builders conform to the new cap. Background As Ethereum scales to higher block gas limits and prepares for parallel execution (e.g. EIP-7928 in Glamsterdam), the Fusaka fork introduces a per-transaction gas limit cap. Previously, a single transaction could consume the entire block gas limit (~45 million gas), creating…

As 2025’s crypto market heats up, presale coins are drawing fresh attention from both retail and institutional investors. But in a sea of promises and prototypes, only a handful of projects are showing real traction. The latest wave includes platforms focused on everything from high-speed micropayments to cold wallet security and blockchain interoperability. Yet one name is rising above the noise, BlockDAG. With working infrastructure and growing exchange visibility, it’s setting new standards. This list explores four standout contenders in the current cycle, each with unique value propositions. For many, the search for the best crypto to buy before launch starts…

Key points:Bitcoin bulls are attempting to sustain the price above $107,000, but the bears have continued to exert selling pressure.The recovery in most major altcoins has fizzled out, indicating that the bears continue to sell on minor rallies.Buyers have managed to keep Bitcoin (BTC) above the vital $107,000 support level, but the lack of a solid rebound suggests that the bears have maintained their pressure. The short-term uncertainty has divided the analysts on BTC’s next directional move. Standard Chartered’s global head of digital assets research, Geoff Kendrick, told Cointelegraph that BTC remains on track to hit $200,000 by the end of…

In a shocking announcement yesterday, the Kadena team revealed that the organization is no longer able to continue business operations and will cease all activities immediately. Despite the company’s closure, the Kadena blockchain itself will remain operational, maintained by independent miners and developers under its decentralized proof-of-work structure. Related Reading The news sent shockwaves through the crypto community, triggering a massive sell-off in KDA, Kadena’s native token, which dropped by more than 55% within hours of the announcement. The drop effectively erased nearly all of Kadena’s price gains accumulated over the past five years, marking one of the most dramatic…

FIL$1.6306 surged over 4% to $1.65 on Tuesday early afternoon, breaking above a key $1.60 psychological resistance, according to CoinDesk Research’s technical analysis model.The model showed institutional accumulation with two major spikes above 140% of average volume.The storage token broke decisively through $1.60 resistance after weeks of consolidation, according to the model.Price action demonstrated textbook institutional buying patterns with higher lows at $1.52 and $1.55 confirming the uptrend structure. In recent trading FIL was 4.4% higher over 24 hours, around $1.65.The wider crypto market also rose, with the CoinDesk 20 index up over 3%.Technical Analysis:Primary support locked at $1.52 with…