On July 1, Robinhood launched its own blockchain, joining Coinbase, Stripe, Circle, and Tether in the fastest-moving infrastructure race in crypto: giant consumer companies building their own rails instead of renting someone else’s. The land grab has a clear logic, clear winners, and one uncomfortable question about what happens to the neutral chains everyone used…
Some exchanges reported that nearly half of new users placed their first-ever prediction trade on soccer matches. The FIFA World Cup’s round of 16 matches are set to kick off on July 4, and football, or soccer as it’s known in the United States, has become the biggest driver of activity on prediction platforms,…
Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Gold’s modern market history reflects decades of price swings shaped by inflation, interest rates, central bank actions, and geopolitical events. Summary Gold’s post-1971 history reflects decades of inflation, monetary policy, crises, and shifting investor…
On July 7, 3 weeks after the largest IPO in history, SPCX enters the Nasdaq-100 with billions in passive index buying behind it. The more interesting market is the one Wall Street does not run: tokenized shares on Solana, perpetual futures that priced the listing before bankers did, a $557 million subscription campaign that had…
June delivered the worst month in the history of United States spot Bitcoin ETFs, with more than $4 billion pulled and 2026 flows turning negative for the first time. Over the same 2 weeks, the largest wallets on the network absorbed 270,000 BTC. One of these cohorts is going to be wrong, and the last…
A closer look at everything most intriguing surrounding XRP, ETH, and PI. The cryptocurrency market has shown signs of a revival over the past few days, yet Ripple’s XRP and Ethereum (ETH) still don’t seem to be out of the woods. Pi Network unveiled three new features during the highly anticipated Pi2Day, but the…
On June 30, more than 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Google, and Circle’s most important ally, Coinbase, unveiled a stablecoin designed to give away the exact revenue stream Circle lives on. CRCL cratered 17% in a day and is down nearly 40% on the month. This is the story of how a moat…
Here’s what the company announced on the 250th birthday of the US. As the world’s most powerful economy and the widely regarded leader of the free world celebrates its 250th Independence Day, various initiatives are emerging to contribute in some way, including one from Ripple. The company behind the popular XRP altcoin announced that…
Bitcoin investors have entered an average unrealized loss of about 20%, while a key on-chain cost basis indicator has climbed to roughly $76,700, creating a resistance level that analysts say is weighing on the market. Summary CryptoQuant’s Darkfost says active Bitcoin investors are sitting on an average unrealized loss of about 20%. Bitcoin’s True Market…
CryptoQuant’s CEO Ki Young Ju says that Bitcoin may still have another parabolic cycle ahead, but it will likely require a considerable amount of institutional-scale capital inflows. Bitcoin might still enter another major bull cycle, but the amount of money needed to fuel it has grown dramatically compared to previous bull markets, according to…
