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Bitcoin broke below $73,000 for the first time in months as fresh U.S. strikes on Iran sent risk assets lower and triggered one of the largest liquidation events of the year.Bitcoin BTC$73 069,66 traded at $72,978 in Asian hours Thursday, down 3.4% over 24 hours and 6.3% over the past seven days, per CoinDesk data, after touching a low of $72,912. TEther (ETH) fell 4.2% to $1,976, losing the $2,000 level, and is down 7.7% over the past seven days. Solana (SOL) dropped 3.5% to $80.57, XRP slid 3.6% to $1.28, and Dogecoin lost 3.2% to $0.0979.Hyperliquid (HYPE) was the only…

Bitcoin’s (BTC) rising funding rate and aggregated open interest suggest bullish investors are opening longs in an attempt to defend the range lows and an important support at $70,000, but another day of spot ETF outflows has investors concerned that the institutional stance on BTC is shifting.As shown in the chart below, Bitcoin open interest remains relatively stable despite the day-over-day selling, further re-enforcing the view that long positions are either topping up to stay open or newly created. The cross-exchange funding rates (the last indicator at the bottom of the chart) are also mostly positive to neutral, indicating a…

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Crypto markets have tanked to their lowest levels in six weeks after the US President said he saved it. Former SEC chair Gary Gensler and the “anti-crypto army” nearly destroyed the American crypto industry by driving Bitcoin, crypto perpetuals, and innovation offshore, but “Trump saved it,” the president said on Truth Social on Wednesday. “America is now the crypto capital of the world, and builders and entrepreneurs are coming back to the United States where they belong,” he added. “Under my leadership, we will codify a future-proof digital asset market structure that cannot be undone by the crypto haters. The…

XRP finally slipped below the $1.30 area traders had been defending for months, and the move came with enough volume to matter. The market had already been weakening beneath resistance near $1.35, but once support gave way, sellers pushed price lower quickly before dip buyers stepped in near session lows.News Background• XRP derivatives positioning continued cooling during the session, with falling open interest signaling weaker trader conviction across futures markets.• Analysts also kept pointing to a symmetrical triangle structure that has compressed XRP price action since early 2025, with the market now nearing the apex of that range.• On-chain data…

One fund manager has issued a stark warning: Bitcoin’s BTC$72,806.26 ongoing selloff may deepen as upcoming U.S. Treasury operations are expected to drain roughly $150 billion in liquidity from the financial system.”In my experience, Bitcoin tends to be a better liquidity indicator than most other instruments. If the Treasury settlements are a drain on liquidity, then Bitcoin could be heading much lower,” said Michael Kramer, founder and CEO of Mott Capital Management, a registered investment advisory firm, in his latest market analysis note.The U.S. Treasury regularly issues bonds and bills to finance government spending. When the Treasury sells new securities,…

BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust shed $527.84 million on Wednesday, the second-largest single-day net outflow since the fund launched in January 2024, per SoSoValue data.The figure missed the record by a razor-thin margin. IBIT’s biggest outflow on record remains the $528.3 million pulled on Jan. 30, which Wednesday’s draw came within about $500,000 of matching. The fund holds roughly $59 billion in assets and accounts for close to 4% of bitcoin’s total supply, making it the largest single vehicle for institutional bitcoin exposure.The outflow was part of a broader exodus. The 11 U.S.-listed spot bitcoin ETFs lost a combined $733.43 million…

Bitmine owns more than 4.47% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 89% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 11 months Ethereum continues to benefit from the dual tailwinds of Wall Street tokenizing on the blockchain and from agentic AI systems increasingly needing public and neutral blockchains Bitmine uplisted to the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) from the NYSE American effective as of April 9, 2026 Bitmine has 4,712,917 staked ETH, representing $10.1 billion at $2,134 per ETH MAVAN (Made in America VAlidator Network) is a premier Ethereum staking destination for BMNR…

VICTORIA, Seychelles, May 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has released its March–April bimonthly security report, including the strategic deployment of 1,000 BTC to its treasury reserves to strengthen user protection. MEXC’s security infrastructure intercepted and restricted 26,897 accounts tied to coordinated fraud within 60 days, an 18.9% increase from the previous reporting cycle. Threat intelligence engines mapped 6,903 malicious syndicates (up 33.6%), with the heaviest concentrations emerging from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Indonesia, tracking 3,567 and 1,524 threat clusters, respectively. All identified entities were immediately banned across the platform to…

Victoria, Seychelles, May 26th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has released its March–April bimonthly security report, including the strategic deployment of 1,000 BTC to its treasury reserves to strengthen user protection. Alongside this massive capital injection, the exchange continues to scale its compliance architecture to neutralize evolving market threats. Intercepted 26,897 Accounts Linked to Organized Risk Activities During this 60-day period, MEXC’s security infrastructure intercepted and restricted 26,897 accounts tied to coordinated fraud—an 18.9% increase from the previous reporting cycle. Threat intelligence engines mapped 6,903 malicious syndicates (up 33.6%), with the heaviest concentrations emerging from…