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Make CryptoSlate preferred on Is Coinbase too big to fail? It has to be now ETFs rely on it dailyWall Street spent two years selling investors on a clean vision of Bitcoin: a regulated exchange-traded fund, cleared and settled through the same institutional machinery that handles equities and bonds, scrubbed of the Wild West baggage that haunted crypto’s earlier chapters.The pitch worked spectacularly well, pulling tens of billions of dollars into an asset class wrapper that felt familiar to advisors and compliance departments alike.But what the industry never seems to talk about is the degree to which that entire apparatus…
Oil futures surged on Hyperliquid after President Donald Trump ordered a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a major global supply chokepoint. The move came after Iran refused to give up its nuclear ambitions during peace talks in Islamabad earlier in the day.Perpetual futures tied to WTI crude oil jumped to $96.40, up 7% on the day, extending early gains. Brent futures rose 6% to $96. Notably, WTI futures registered $1.53 billion in trading volume, making it the third-most-traded instrument on the platform behind BTC and ETH. The data highlights growing investor preference for price discovery on decentralized blockchain…
A pair of young lovers are driving down a dark highway. Suddenly, the car stops and they see a UFO overhead. The teens then pass out when a pair of gray aliens approach their car. Then another spaceship arrives and out comes a furry cyclops alien. In a perfectly human voice, one gray alien says, “Jack, what is that thing?” The other gray alien replies, “How the hell should I know?” Even by X-Files standards, the opening scene of “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space” is truly bizarre. Image: 20th Century Fox/Disney From violent crimes to government conspiracies, The X-Files dealt…
Bitcoin (BTC) fell 3% to trade below $71,000 into Sunday’s weekly close after negotiations to end the US-Iran war broke down.Key points:Bitcoin shed its gains as negotiations between the US and Iran broke down.The Strait of Hormuz becomes a flashpoint again as US President Donald Trump demanded that it be reopened.BTC price downside punishes late long positions.BTC price drops on US-Iran war fearsData from TradingView showed BTC price action dipping below $71,000 after news of a sudden breakdown in negotiations between the US and Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan.BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingViewA failure to reach an agreement on the issue…
The analyst’s chart has a massive target of around $8.50 for XRP during the next bull phase. The popular cross-border token managed to do what many feared was impossible in 2025 and broke its 2018 all-time high in July by setting a new one at $3.65. This meant that it had soared by approximately 500% since its cycle’s starting point at $0.60 before the US presidential elections in late 2024. However, the subsequent retracement has been quite painful, with the asset dumping by over 60% and currently fighting to stay above $1.30. Many market observers, though, remain optimistic about…
A common misconception about me is that, as someone who loves games, I must love all the cables and shiny bits of hardware needed to play them. Truth is, if you need someone to weigh in on which Baldur’s Gate 3 romance is the most narratively satisfying, help you create a solid Diablo 4 build, or walk you through how to get the Master Sword in literally any Zelda game, I’m your girl. However, if your mic mysteriously stopped working mid-match or the PC you built won’t turn on, I’d encourage you to ask literally anyone else to help you…
Jurrien Timmer, director of global macro at Fidelity Investments, characterizes the current market environment as “another wild ride,” where each week seems to deliver headlines stranger than the last. Yet despite the volatility, his overarching message is that conditions are not nearly as dire as they might appear, and he remains relatively constructive on the outlook for markets.Timmer argues that markets, broadly speaking, are “pricing in some form of resolution” to the current geopolitical tensions, particularly around Iran, “sooner rather than later,” he told CoinDesk in an interview.Oil ‘backwardation’ While crude prices surged above $100 a barrel, the futures curve…
Make CryptoSlate preferred on Strategy is one of the most aggressively promoted stocks on Wall Street, with a consensus “Strong Buy” rating and an average analyst price target that implies a 155% upside from recent prices.That’s nearly double the implied upside for any other large-cap name in America. It’s also, by a wide margin, the single largest issuer of new stock on any US exchange, having raised an estimated $50 billion in roughly 18 months and paid around $274 million in fees along the way.But the companies setting and publishing those bullish targets, and the companies profiting from that issuance…
DeFi protocol ZeroLend’s decision to shut down after three years in February, citing thin margins, hacks and inactive chains, landed with a tone the market now recognizes. Another reminder that the industry’s early optimism has given way to a far more demanding reality.Zeroland isn’t alone. Several DeFi protocols and adjacent crypto platforms have wound down in 2025 and early 2026, squeezed by low usage, liquidity collapses, security incidents and token-driven business models that never achieved durable economics. For instance, Polynomial, a DeFi derivatives protocol that processed 27 million transactions, recently paused operations and is prioritizing user fund safety with plans…
Justin Sun, the founder of the Tron layer-1 blockchain network, criticized World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a decentralized finance platform co-founded by US President Donald Trump’s sons, over lengthy lock-up periods for the platform’s governance token.Sun said that he invested “significant capital” in WLFI as an early investor and also said that a March WLFI governance proposal to determine token lock-up periods, in which more than 76% of the voting tokens came from 10 wallets, lacked transparency. In a Sunday post on X, Sun wrote (in translation): “The governance votes cited to justify the above actions were not conducted through fair or…