Bitcoin vs gold ratio hits record oversold territory—echoing patterns that preceded 660% rallies—while China’s AI usage surges past the US and global regulators tighten crypto rails.
Popular DeFi dashboard and portfolio tracker Zapper is shutting down, according to an announcement on Wednesday. “After close to 7 years building Zapper, I regret to announce that Zapper will be winding down,” Seb Audet, CEO and co-founder of Zapper, wrote in an X post. “We evaluated a number of different options, pursued some to … Read more
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published his takeaways from an updated version of the network’s draft long-term roadmap, describing the multi-year “Lean Ethereum” effort as a near-total rebuild of how the network operates. In an X post Saturday, Buterin wrote that Lean Ethereum “is not a single one-shot upgrade” but a series of improvements arriving over … Read more
The AI computing power market is undergoing a significant shift, with funds flowing from storage chips to cloud vendors. Cloud-based services are becoming increasingly popular, and significant investments are being made in AI technologies. NVIDIA’s new revenue-sharing program is another significant development, allowing AI startups to use its chips and paying with a share of future revenue.
CryptoQuant’s report highlights a surge in bitcoin, ether, and altcoin deposits to exchanges, historically signaling periods of higher volatility across the crypto market. The spike in deposits, coupled with the breach of the $60,000 support level, increases the probability of higher volatility.
Alex Thorn, Head of Galaxy Research, stated that the recent capital management reforms introduced by Michael Saylor’s Strategy (MSTR) have effectively alleviated market concerns—albeit temporarily—regarding its liquidity and pressure on its preferred stock structure; however, these measures are more about “buying time” than fundamentally resolving structural issues. Strategy has faced mounting pressure over the past … Read more
eToro pairs its Zengo wallet with an onchain perps exchange to future-proof its crypto offering—potentially reshaping how regulators and users think about DeFi access.
OUSD’s celebrity-backed launch won’t dethrone USDC—Circle’s liquidity moat and Coinbase’s entrenched reliance on USDC make the threat purely symbolic. Smart money stays long CRCL and watches COIN’s reserve shifts for real signals.
Invesco is entering the stablecoin reserve race with a $2.45T-scale compliant money market fund—leveraging Superstate to tokenize shares on Ethereum/Solana—potentially accelerating institutional control over digital dollar infrastructure and pressuring DeFi-native reserve protocols to adapt or lose share.
The Google search volume for “stablecoins” has plunged 54% in June, as aggregate stablecoin supply growth stalls. Regulatory developments in the fourth quarter of 2026 may impact the stablecoin market, with potential benefits for new entrants and undervalued issuers.