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Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) jumped 6% after the US Treasury announced it would double its long-term bond buyback operations, sending gold surging and crypto sharply higher across the board.

What the Treasury Actually AnnouncedAccording to a Treasury press release, the department will increase liquidity support buyback operations for longer-dated nominal coupon securities from a maximum of $2 billion per operation to at least $4 billion per operation. 

The change takes effect September 9 and runs through November 4, 2026.

The announcement sent markets sharply higher within hours. Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) jumped 6%, Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) surged 8%, Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) spiked 7%, and XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) gained 4% on the session.

Why Schiff Says This Sends Inflation HigherPeter Schiff posted on X that the Treasury is stepping in to buy long-term bonds that private investors no longer want, with the money to fund those purchases ultimately created by the Fed. 

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“That’s why gold is already up $125 on the news,” Schiff wrote.

In a follow-up post, Schiff added that funding the buybacks through short-term debt issuance makes it harder for the Fed to raise rates, since it drives up federal interest expense and widens the deficit. 

The result, he argued, is growing pressure for rate cuts and quantitative easing even as inflation rises.

Why Is Crypto Rallying on the News?According to Reuters, the Treasury announcement knocked 30-year yields sharply lower from near 19-year highs while the dollar index fell 0.8%. 

Gold surged 3.5% to $4,487 per ounce, its highest level since June 4, as markets immediately priced in the liquidity signal.

Falling yields and a weaker dollar have historically pushed capital into hard assets and risk assets like crypto. 

Traders are reading the buyback program as QE Lite, a sign that the Fed’s ability to keep tightening is now constrained, the same backdrop that fueled Bitcoin’s biggest prior rallies.

TD Securities wrote in a note cited by Reuters that Treasury liquidity support, a Fed willing to look through an energy shock, and a growing stagflation narrative should all push real rates lower, a setup that favors gold and crypto alike.

Where Bitcoin Stands TechnicallyBTC blasts to $68,500 Wednesday, clearing the descending trendline, and the three-month range ceiling in a single session. 

The 20-day and 50-day EMAs now sit firmly below as rising support. The next meaningful ceiling is the 200-day EMA at $71,468.

Key levels for BTC: $65,800 — prior resistance, must hold as new support $71,468 — 200-day EMA, next upside target Photo via Shutterstock

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What's First For Bitcoin (BTC): $70,000 or $60,000? XRP Fights For $1 Threshold, Shiba Inu (SHIB) Billion Flows Gone: Crypto Market Review

$1,930,000,000 in Bitcoin and Crypto Liquidated As BTC Price Crosses $68,000

Cryptocurrency markets saw their biggest short position liquidation day in history on Wednesday, with over $1 billion in shorts liquidated over the space of a few hours.

Notable Statistics:

Coinglass data shows 126,017 traders were liquidated in the past 24 hours for $1.92 billion.        SoSoValue data shows net inflows of $189.3 million from spot Bitcoin ETFs on Tuesday. Spot Ethereum ETFs saw net inflows of $71.5 million. In the past 24 hours, top gainers include Bitway, Pump.fun and MemeCore. Notable Developments:

Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP Explode Over 6% Higher: Treasury’s Move Will Send ‘Inflation Soaring,’ Peter Schiff WarnsBTC Cracks $68,000 and You May Want to Look at Kalshi to Predict Bitcoin’s Next Move Before Binance DoesStrategy, Bitmine, Coinbase Surge Over 12% as CLARITY Act Optimism BuildsCameron Winklevoss Calls Bitcoin at $65,000 an ‘Unprecedented’ Buy: Does the Data Agree?XRP Open Interest Hits 2-Month High: Is That Bullish?Bitcoin Volatility Craters to 27% as VanEck Flags 8 Of 12 Capitulation Signals FiringCLARITY Act Has a ‘Really Good Shot’ to Pass in September, Tim Scott SaysBitcoin ETFs See $486M Inflows in 2 Days: Could This Be the Best Week Since January?Trader Notes:

Trader Michael van de Poppe said Bitcoin’s surge to $69,000 wiped out shorts and cleared liquidity above $68,200.

He expects a pullback rather than an immediate continuation, viewing $66,500–$67,000 as a buying zone before a potential move toward $72,000–$73,500.

Trader KillaXBT compared Bitcoin’s current 2026 structure with its 2022 bottom, suggesting a pullback from $68,000–$70,000 could still hold above previous lows.

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However, the pattern would require BTC to re-enter the range and show clear 4-hour/daily exhaustion; failure to do so would invalidate the fractal.

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Japanese and South Korean stock indexes opened higher, with South Korea’s KOSPI index rising 3.2% at the open.

According to Bitget market data, the Nikkei 225 index opened 461.11 points higher on Thursday, August 20, with a 0.71% gain to 65,787.53 points. South Korea’s KOSPI index opened 3.2% higher, with SK Hynix surging over 7% and Samsung Electronics climbing more than 3%.

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Linera claims it aims to become the 'next Hyperliquid' and will promote the LNRA token sale.

New public blockchain Linera, founded by former Libra employees, announced today that it aims to become the "next Hyperliquid" and teased an upcoming LNRA token sale. Linera said it is following Hyperliquid’s playbook: building its own dedicated chain, focusing on consumer products, operating with a small team, generating real revenue first, and prioritizing user rewards. Its core product is a real-time prediction market at app.linera.xyz, which can launch, operate, and settle within one minute. The project uses a parallel microchains architecture, supporting thousands of small markets to run simultaneously, with final confirmation times typically under one second—solving congestion and high fees that plague general-purpose blockchains in real-time use cases. All markets operate on a pure player-versus-player (PvP) model, with no house and no external market makers required. The core team numbers just five members. Users who earn badges by engaging with the product will get priority access to an exclusive subscription pool for the LNRA sale. Detailed sale information will be announced at a later date.

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US CFTC Seeks Public Comment on AI Computing Power Futures

As industry giants begin to accept compute power as a tradable asset, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is seeking public comments on compute power futures contracts. Multiple exchanges, including CME Group (CME), Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), and emerging fintech firm Architect Financial Technologies, have announced plans to launch such contracts once regulatory approval is secured. These exchanges argue that establishing a compute power futures market would help end-users and speculators hedge against risks like energy shortages or other issues that could hinder technological progress for AI developers. CFTC Chair Michael Selig said in a Wednesday statement: "Without a robust compute power derivatives market, the U.S. cannot win the AI race. This public comment period is the first step toward establishing clear rules for the U.S. compute power market." One of the issues covered in the CFTC’s public comment process is how compute power futures differ from other derivatives or underlying commodities already regulated by the agency. If compute power futures are permitted to list on CFTC-regulated exchanges, further standardization of variables affecting compute power prices may be required, including price indices used for settlement reference and other related factors.

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U.S. stocks: The three major indexes closed higher this morning, Moderna surged 177%, and crypto-related stocks rallied sharply.

According to market data from BIT (Bit.com), U.S. stocks closed on Wednesday: the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially rose 0.22%, the S&P 500 gained 0.21%, and the Nasdaq advanced 0.16%. Moderna (MRNA.O) surged 176.9%, while Merck (MRK.N) climbed 12.6%. Moderna and Merck announced that their jointly developed personalized mRNA cancer vaccine intismeran autogene (formerly mRNA-4157/V940), in combination with Merck’s immunotherapy drug Keytruda (pembrolizumab), met both the primary endpoint and key secondary endpoints in the Phase III clinical trial (INTerpath-001) for patients with high-risk melanoma (skin cancer). Marvell Technology (MRVL.O) rose over 9.8%, SK Hynix (SKHY.O) gained 0.35%, SanDisk (SNDK.O) fell 3.5%, and Micron Technology (MU.O) dropped 0.39%. In terms of crypto-related stocks: Strategy’s share price rose 11.95% to $103.58, having surged more than 13% intraday; Coinbase climbed 9.05% to $159.47; stablecoin issuer Circle increased 9.44% to $78.50; and Ethereum reserve firm BitMine gained 9.68% to $20.05.

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Key takeaways from Trump’s crypto-friendly remarks: He disclosed that the U.S. government has discussed accumulating a "significant amount" of Bitcoin, vowed to end the "war on crypto" entirely, and urged the prompt passage of the Genius Act.

U.S. President Donald Trump met with executives from crypto and fintech firms including Coinbase, Ripple, Robinhood, Gemini, and Chainlink at the White House’s Roosevelt Room on Wednesday local time, delivering a speech in support of cryptocurrencies. Trump said his administration has “completely ended the war on cryptocurrencies,” noting the industry is thriving, and the U.S. must retain its “undisputed leadership” in areas such as Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, prediction markets, and artificial intelligence, while committing to becoming the “world’s crypto capital.” He added that the U.S. government has discussed accumulating “significant quantities” of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, claiming crypto assets “have greatly eased pressure on the U.S. dollar.” Meanwhile, he urged Congress to pass a “fair version” of the Clarity Act (Digital Asset Market Clarity Act) promptly, arguing this would keep the U.S. ahead of China and other countries. Trump also noted that the SEC Chair is working to bring Hyperliquid to the U.S. market in a compliant manner, and highlighted policy achievements including the signed Genius Act (stablecoin legislation), strategic Bitcoin reserves, and the ban on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

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Kalshi Seeks CFTC Approval for Copper Perpetual Futures, Prediction Market Platforms Accelerate Expansion Into Derivatives Sector

Prediction market platform Kalshi has submitted an application to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to launch copper price-linked perpetual futures contracts. According to an August 18 filing, the proposed COPPERPERP contract will track copper spot prices priced in U.S. dollars per pound, utilizing price data from blockchain data service provider Pyth Network. The contract will be cash-settled with no physical copper delivery involved. Unlike traditional futures, perpetual futures have no expiration date, enabling traders to hold positions long-term without rolling over, and maintain price alignment with the spot market via a periodic funding rate mechanism between long and short parties. This application signals Kalshi’s further expansion beyond the bounds of traditional event prediction markets into the commodities and financial derivatives space. Earlier this May, Kalshi secured CFTC approval to launch bitcoin perpetual futures. Additionally, the firm has recently submitted applications for stock index perpetual futures. Copper, a critical raw material for infrastructure including power grids, construction, electric vehicles, electronic devices, and AI data centers, is already widely traded on exchanges such as CME COMEX, London Metal Exchange (LME), and Shanghai Futures Exchange.

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Bitcoin, son haftalarda yönünü belirlemekte zorlanırken VanEck’in yeni analizi piyasadaki olası dip sürecine ışık tuttu. Varlık yönetim şirketine göre 12 kapitülasyon göstergesinin 8’i hâlâ aktif ve bu tablo Bitcoin’in dip oluşumuna yaklaşmış olabileceğini gösteriyor. Ancak şirket, bu sinyallerin kısa vadede güçlü getiri garantisi vermediğini özellikle vurguluyor.

Bitcoin Neden Bu Kadar Sıkıştı? Bitcoin 11 Ağustos’ta 63.549 dolardan kapanırken aylık bazda yalnızca yüzde 0,3 geriledi. Son 30 günde fiyat 62.265-66.509 dolar aralığında hareket etti ve 30 günlük gerçekleşen volatilite yıllıklandırılmış olarak yüzde 27,2’ye düştü.

VanEck, uzun vadeli volatilite ortalamasının yaklaşık yüzde 80 olduğunu belirtiyor. Dolayısıyla mevcut hareketlilik Bitcoin için olağanüstü düşük seviyede bulunuyor. Şirket, bu sakinliğin ilkbaharda başlayan düşüş trendinin durduğuna işaret edebileceğini ve 30 Haziran’da yaklaşık 58.500 dolarda bir dip oluşmuş olabileceğini değerlendiriyor.

BTC şu anda 69.884 dolarlık 200 günlük hareketli ortalamanın yüzde 9 altında. Bir ay önce bu fark yüzde 14’tü. Ayrıca Bitcoin, tüm zamanların en yüksek seviyesinin yaklaşık yüzde 49 altında işlem görüyor.

ETF Para Girişleri Neden Önemli? ABD’deki spot Bitcoin ETF’lerine son 30 günde yaklaşık 663 milyon dolar net giriş gerçekleşti. Bu rakam mevcut fiyatlarla yaklaşık 10.400 BTC’ye denk geliyor. Önceki 30 günlük dönemde ise yaklaşık 40.010 BTC, yani 2,4 milyar dolarlık net çıkış yaşanmıştı.

Buna rağmen spot işlem hacmi zayıf kalıyor. 30 günlük toplam hacim aylık bazda yüzde 27 düşerek tarihsel dağılımın yalnızca 10. yüzdelik dilimine indi. VanEck, 2026 yazındaki hacimlerin 2023 ayı piyasasındaki seviyelere yaklaştığını belirtiyor.

8 Kapitülasyon Sinyali Ne Anlama Geliyor? VanEck’in takip ettiği 12 kapitülasyon göstergesinin tamamı son üç ayda en az bir kez aktif oldu ve 8 tanesi hâlen aktif. Şirket, Bitcoin’in zirvesinden yüzde 35 veya daha fazla düşmesini fiyat kapitülasyonu açısından yeterli kabul ediyor; bu kriter kullanılmasaydı aktif sinyal sayısı 7 olacaktı.

Önceki ayı piyasalarında zirveden dibe kayıplar yüzde 78-94 arasında değişti. Ancak VanEck, spot Bitcoin ETF’leri, daha geniş kurumsal yatırımcı tabanı ve Celsius, Three Arrows Capital ile FTX gibi büyük çöküşlerin yaşanmaması nedeniyle mevcut döngüde daha sınırlı bir düşüş bekliyor.

Ekim 2025 zirvesinden bu yana yaklaşık 10 ay geçti. Geçmiş döngülerde zirveden maksimum düşüşe ortalama 11 ayda ulaşılırken, 2011 hariç tutulduğunda son üç döngünün ortalaması 12,7 aya çıkıyor. Bu nedenle olası dip bölgesi Eylül-Kasım 2026 arasında şekillenebilir.

Bitcoin Opsiyonları Ve Vadeli İşlemleri Ne Söylüyor? Bitcoin opsiyonlarında yatırımcıların savunmacı pozisyon aldığı görülüyor. Toplam prim yüzde 21 artarak 789,3 milyon dolara çıkarken put primi yüzde 42 yükselerek 551,8 milyon dolara ulaştı. Call primi ise yüzde 10 düşerek 237,6 milyon dolar oldu ve put/call oranı 2,30’a çıkarak 2021’den beri yüzde 99’luk dilime ulaştı.

Vadeli işlemlerde fonlama yeniden pozitife döndü ancak yıllıklandırılmış oran yüzde 4,7 ile yüzde 8,4’lük uzun vadeli ortalamanın altında kaldı. Açık pozisyonlar yüzde 4,5 artarak 30,7 milyar dolara ulaşırken likidasyonlar 510 milyon dolarlık long ve 470 milyon dolarlık short tasfiyesiyle son ayların en düşük seviyelerine indi.

Uzun Vadeli Yatırımcılar Satışa Mı Hazırlanıyor? Bir yıldan uzun süredir hareket etmeyen Bitcoin miktarı 30 günde 356.000 BTC azalarak 11,84 milyon BTC’ye düştü. 1-2 yıllık grupta 156.000 BTC, 2-3 yıllık grupta 76.000 BTC ve 3-5 yıllık grupta yaklaşık 62.000 BTC azalma gerçekleşti. 10 yıldan uzun süredir hareketsiz BTC ise yalnızca 4.000 BTC azaldı.

Bu hareketlilik satış baskısı yaratabilir ancak VanEck, eski Bitcoin transferlerinin tamamının borsalara satış amacıyla gönderilmediğini hatırlatıyor. Geçmiş verilerde 8-12 kapitülasyon sinyali aktifken 90 günlük ortalama getiri yüzde 12,8, 180 günlük getiri yüzde 32 oldu; genel ortalamalar ise yüzde 15,2 ve yüzde 36,3’tü. Bir yıllık vadede ise kapitülasyon dönemlerinde yapılan Bitcoin alımları genel performansı aştı.

VanEck, verilerin küçük ve birbiriyle örtüşen bir örnekleme dayandığını belirtiyor. Bu nedenle mevcut tablo kesin bir dip tarihi değil, Bitcoin’in birikim aşamasına yaklaşabileceğine dair bir sinyal olarak değerlendirilmeli.

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Bitcoin.com has announced the integration of USDU, a US dollar-backed stablecoin registered with the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, into its self-custodial web and mobile wallet. The new addition aims to enhance the wallet’s range of supported assets and expand options for users seeking regulated stablecoins.

USDU stablecoin and regulatory backingUSDU is an Ethereum-based stablecoin issued by Universal Digital, a fintech company headquartered in Abu Dhabi. The token stands out as the first and only Foreign Payment Token currently registered under the UAE central bank’s Payment Token Services Regulation. Universal Digital holds authorization from the Abu Dhabi Global Market’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority, enabling it to issue fiat-referenced tokens.

Mini dictionary: Universal Digital, an Abu Dhabi-based fintech firm, issues the USDU stablecoin and is regulated under Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), an international financial center that oversees fintech and financial activities within the UAE.

Launched in January, USDU operates under the UAE’s Payment Token Services Regulation. This regulation stipulates that payments related to digital assets and their derivatives must be made either in traditional fiat currency or a registered Foreign Payment Token, ensuring compliance for businesses and users transacting within the region.

Wallet integration and upcoming featuresBitcoin.com’s wallet users can now hold, send, and receive USDU directly. The company stated that it plans to extend functionality, with swap and buy-and-sell features for USDU slated to be available through third-party providers in the near future. Additionally, Bitcoin.com revealed plans to accept USDU as a form of payment for designated services and to facilitate payments between users and merchants on its platform. However, the availability of these services will depend on local jurisdictional regulations.

Bitcoin.com revealed, “The Ethereum-based stablecoin will be available for users to hold, send and receive through the wallet, while swap and buy-and-sell functionality is expected to be added later through third-party providers.”

Recent developments and broader adoptionThe move to integrate USDU follows a series of initiatives aimed at expanding the token’s presence across the industry. In July, Zodia Custody, an institutional-grade digital asset custodian, added support for USDU, granting institutional clients the ability to hold and transfer the stablecoin. The partnership marked a significant milestone for USDU’s broader distribution and adoption.

In August, a USDT-USDU liquidity pool went live on Uniswap, one of the most widely used decentralized exchanges. The pool has provided decentralized liquidity for USDU, enabling users to swap between USDT and USDU and supporting further integration for the token within the DeFi ecosystem.

Platform/ProviderUSDU FeatureDate IntroducedBitcoin.com WalletSend, receive, hold; swap and buy/sell plannedSeptember 2024Zodia CustodyInstitutional custody and transferJuly 2024UniswapUSDT-USDU liquidity poolAugust 2024Industry observers view these steps as part of a larger effort to position USDU as a regulated alternative to other dollar-backed stablecoins in global markets. With multiple integration partners and ongoing functionality updates, USDU is expected to further increase its presence within both retail and institutional digital asset platforms.

Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.

On October 10 last year, a Friday, a tariff headline hit an over-leveraged market, and roughly $19 billion in positions were liquidated within 24 hours, most of them longs, most of them retail.

Bitcoin fell from above $120,000 to around $105,000. Solana lost 40% before finding a bid, and more than 1.6 million accounts went to zero or close to it. Prices eventually stabilized. The people did not come back the same way.

Ten months on, October 10 will be remembered less for the crash itself than for what it did to retail behavior. The risk appetite survived. It just stopped showing up in the same places.

Biggest Crypto Liquidations of All-Time. Source: Coinglass
A Drawdown for Some, a Wipeout for Others
The October 10 crash showed how different spot and futures trading are, if it wasn’t clear before. A spot trader took a brutal hit that day, but they still held on to their coins. They can still wait for prices to eventually go back up. But a perpetual futures trader likely has nothing left. 

Rebuilding capital from zero is a different project than sitting through a bad year.

Every dataset since carries the mark. On-chain perp volumes fell for five straight months after October, from $1.36 trillion to under $700 billion, with no bounce in between. 

An estimated 38% of altcoins now sit near all-time lows, a worse reading than the aftermath of FTX, and the median altcoin trades roughly 79 percent below its cycle peak. 

Tokens that carried multi-billion-dollar valuations in September learned in October that there was no bid underneath them until they were 50-80% lower.

Something else shifted alongside the prices. With stock markets setting records on AI, crypto stopped being the only destination for risk capital, and investors started demanding an answer to a question this industry dodged for years: what is a token actually worth when speculators’ attention moves elsewhere?

Bitcoin Price Chart Since October 10, 2025. Source: CoinGecko
Why Hyperliquid Went Up While Markets Crashed
Hyperliquid is instructive because it had an answer. HYPE traded down into the mid-$20s over the winter, then set a new all-time high near $77 in June on the back of more than $650 million in annual revenue, and now carries a market cap above $12 billion.

A crypto business with real cash flow got repriced upward in the middle of a bear market. The wave of perpetual DEXs that launched to copy it mostly did not, because they were not creating new traders so much as renting the same ones from each other. 

One prominent venue lost 83% of its monthly volume the moment its incentive season ended. The industry kept adding venues while the pool of perp traders shrank. Hyperliquid is starting to look like the exception, not the template.

Hyperliquid Monthly Revenue and TVL. Source: DeFilLama
The Game That Never Needed Leverage
Meanwhile, the traders everyone assumed would be the first casualties were barely noticed. Meme coin traders came through October relatively intact because their game never ran on leverage, and by January, while altcoins bled out, pump.fun was printing an all-time high above $2 billion in daily volume.

Roughly 97% of meme coins die. Every serious participant knows it and plays anyway. There is no white paper to read and usually no technology to evaluate. Because dead tokens are part of the design, the way lost hands are part of poker. 

What gets analyzed instead is holder counts, wallet concentration, supply distribution, who bought and when, and how fast attention is spreading. Market structure, attention, and social coordination. That is the asset.

The closest analogy is competitive gaming rather than investing. These traders grind, refine their tactics, study the other players at the table, and treat a losing trade as one bad round in a long session rather than a failed thesis. 

The goal is not to invest in an asset. It is to win a PvP game.

Where the Volume Went
So are the perpetual futures dying along with the altcoin market it grew up on? The volume data points the other way.

In the first five months of 2026, exchanges processed $1.32 trillion in perpetual futures tied to stocks, indices, and commodities, against $104 billion in all of 2025. The first regulated tokenized-equity perps went live in February. 

The S&P 500 now has a licensed on-chain perpetual, and when Wall Street closes on Friday afternoon, these contracts keep trading through the weekend, increasingly setting the price Monday opens against.

Some exchanges, like Phemex, launched TradFi futures. This is because users have been demanding it through their behavior, if not their words. 

Tesla, Apple, Nvidia, gold, silver, and the major indices now trade around the clock on the same USDT account and margin system as their crypto positions, and volume crossed $100 million on day one. Nobody was holding out for another altcoin listing. They wanted something worth trading at 3 a.m. on a Sunday.

As today’s meme coin traders age and accumulate capital, many of them will likely diversify into exactly these markets, on rails they already know how to use.

The Rewiring: Crypto Will Never Be the Same Again
The 2020 version of this industry, hundreds of tokens sustaining deep valuations and deep perp books all at once, is probably gone for good. What replaced it is narrower and more honest.

On one end, a fast, explicitly player-versus-player game in the memecoin ecosystem. On the other hand, perpetual futures are quietly becoming infrastructure for global markets.

The market that produced the last altcoin boom may never come back. The infrastructure it built is getting started, and it is already moving markets far beyond crypto. Our job is to be where speculation is going, not where it was.

Bitcoin Traders Made Their Boldest Bet in 20 Months: What Happens Next?

The US Treasury said Wednesday it will at least double the size of its long-end debt buybacks. The 30-year yield reversed sharply from a 19-year high, and Bitcoin climbed past $65,000.

The larger operations start September 9 and cover bonds maturing in 10 to 30 years. Treasury framed the move as liquidity support, but traders heard a message about borrowing costs.

Bitcoin Price and 30-Year US Treasury Yield Performance. Source: TradingViewWhy Treasury Buybacks Doubled After a 19-Year Yield HighThe 30-year Treasury yield touched 5.337% on Tuesday, its highest level since 2007. Heavy issuance and rising term premiums had kept long-dated bonds under sustained selling pressure for weeks.

Hours after the peak, the announcement lifted the cap on each buyback operation from $2 billion to at least $4 billion. The change applies to the 10 to 20-year and 20 to 30-year sectors and runs through November 4, when the next Quarterly Refunding is scheduled.

Treasury said it is at least doubling the maximum size of purchases of longer-dated nominal coupons in its program to buy back government debt, raising the cap from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation beginning Sept. 9. https://t.co/LKAXZ7L5bY

— Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) August 19, 2026
An updated tentative schedule of operations will follow at a later date.

Buybacks let the government repurchase older, less liquid bonds with cash it already holds. They differ from Federal Reserve quantitative easing because no new bank reserves are created.

Treasury said the decision reflects the large volume of high-quality offers it routinely receives in these operations.

The backdrop makes the timing hard to ignore. Total US debt is approaching $40 trillion, and rising interest costs already squeeze household budgets across the country.

Markets Read a Line in the Sand at 5.3%The reaction was immediate. The 30-year yield sank to 5.192%, roughly 15 basis points below Tuesday’s peak. The 10-year eased to 4.649% over the same stretch.

US 30-year and 10-year yield 1-hour charts. Source: TradingViewStocks rallied alongside bonds, a reversal from earlier this week when bonds slammed stocks off record highs. The Dow added about 230 points after the news crossed, per data from Yahoo Finance.

Jim Bianco, president of Bianco Research, argued the bond market finally got the panic signal it had been waiting for.

“I’ve been saying ‘bond traders can stop panicking when the Fed starts panicking.’ I guess I should have said, ‘bond traders can stop panicking when Scott Bessent starts panicking,” he wrote in a post.

Others called the dollar amounts small against net issuance but heavy on signal, arguing that timing did the talking, since the announcement landed the same week borrowing costs peaked.

BREAKING: The US 30 year yield just crashed below 5.20% after the Treasury doubled its long term bond buybacks.

The yield hit 5.337% yesterday, a 19 year high, before dropping to 5.189%.

A buyback is when the Treasury goes into the market and buys back bonds it already issued.… pic.twitter.com/grDig7Ui9F

— Bull Theory (@BullTheoryio) August 19, 2026
Treasury insists the program targets liquidity, not any specific yield level.

The move also came mid-quarter, weeks ahead of the scheduled November refunding. That break from routine arguably told markets more than the official statement did.

Bitcoin Climbs Past $65,000 as Yields RetreatBitcoin (BTC) caught a bid as the yield slide spread across markets. The BTC price today stood near $65,150, up 1.3% over 24 hours. The pioneer crypto had drifted sideways overnight before breaking higher after the announcement.

Bitcoin Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoThe mechanics are simple. Lower long-term yields shrink the return on the main alternative to risk assets. That lowers the hurdle for holding non-yielding assets such as bitcoin, and it loosens financial conditions more broadly.

Still, perspective matters. A $4 billion operation is tiny against a Treasury market measured in tens of trillions.

The breadth of the reaction across bonds, stocks, and crypto suggests the signal counted for more than the size.

The first enlarged operations begin September 9, and Treasury will update its plans at the November 4 refunding. The open question is whether 5.3% now acts as a ceiling the government defends whenever yields climb again.

Bitcoin is flashing 8 of 12 capitulation signals, but bottom's not yet in, says VanEck

Bitcoin has been in a bear market since October 2025 and has experienced sharp declines. Having fallen by more than 50% since its all-time high of $126,000 in October, BTC tested the $57,000 level. While BTC is currently trading sideways around $63,000, BlackRock has offered a noteworthy Bitcoin analysis.

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, stated in its latest report that the correction exceeding 50% in Bitcoin does not mean that the long-term investment thesis for the leading cryptocurrency has collapsed.

BlackRock stated that this correction was primarily due to delegitimization, changing market positions, a shift in capital from Bitcoin to AI-focused investments, weaker capital flows, and slower purchases of digital asset treasuries, adding that there was no change in Bitcoin’s long-term investment thesis.

BlackRock stated that a significant factor in the decline was the over $90 billion in open positions in crypto futures, with approximately 80% of that coming from perpetual futures contracts outside the CME.

BlackRock also stated that sales by digital asset treasury companies, particularly Strategy, and large Bitcoin holders increased market pressure and contributed to the decline. Net outflows from spot Bitcoin ETFs were also noted as increasing selling pressure on BTC.

Despite all these drawbacks, BlackRock argues that its long-term investment thesis for Bitcoin remains unchanged. BlackRock states that Bitcoin, due to its limited supply and potential to behave differently from traditional financial assets, can be used as a portfolio diversification tool and a potential hedge against declining fiat purchasing power.

In conclusion, BlackRock argues in its latest report that the sharp drop in Bitcoin does not invalidate its long-term investment thesis, but rather signals a rebalancing of leverage and capital flows in the market.

*This is not investment advice.

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 Is Bitcoin at a bullish STH-to-LTH transition?

According to Lookonchain data, the Royal Government of Bhutan has moved another 300 BTC worth $19.28 million, adding to its recent selling spree.

The timing couldn’t be worse, with BTC trying to break into the $65k-$70k range, which is a zone they haven’t been able to return to since losing it in late May. This suggests that this range has the potential to be a strong resistance.

On the contrary, when it comes to whales, the situation is completely different.

As we can see in the chart below, whales have bought $2.64 billion worth of BTC in the last two months. So, structurally speaking, this may indicate a bullish STH-to-LTH transition as BTC moves from short-term holders to long-term ones.

Source: CryptoQuant However, the significance extends beyond structure.

The logic is simple: Sure, the development suggests increased conviction from whales. This could be positive for Bitcoin, giving it a stronger base, especially with all the selling pressure building around resistance.

That said, this dynamic could also strengthen Bitcoin’s [BTC] technical credibility.

Despite the absence of ETF inflows, rising institutional selling, and heightened market FUD, BTC has been able to maintain a narrow range for the past two months, a pattern that aligns with the observed accumulation by whales.

That makes this accumulation look more “strategic” than random, a divergence that could prove important against the current macro backdrop and heading deeper into the Q3 setup.

Bitcoin whale accumulation raises fresh bear trap signals The resilience of Bitcoin in the current market environment is difficult to ignore.

With yields on the 10-year Treasury up to 4.7% and those on the 30-year nearing 5.3%, the environment is hostile to risk assets. Meanwhile, the situation between Iran and the U.S. continues to be a source of concern for investors.

The result? A widening Bitcoin-Nasdaq divergence.

Interestingly, the bears’ activity in the equity market has increased, with the Nasdaq down almost 3% for the quarter. This places the Nasdaq well below Bitcoin, which has delivered a positive ROI of almost 9% for the same period.

This is an intriguing observation as it provides further validation for Bitcoin as a superior asset in a risky environment, able to withstand macro FUD that hurt traditional investments.

Source: TradingView (BTC/USDT) Against this backdrop, Bitcoin whale accumulation takes on an even more bullish light, with BTC’s consolidation near $65k increasingly looking like strategic positioning. This is especially the case compared to the broader market, causing the BTC-Nasdaq gap to widen by the day.

This trend naturally puts Bitcoin shorts at risk, as an STH-to-LTH transfer is underway, which could very well be the setup for a significant bear trap to unfold underneath BTC’s accumulation. If this scenario plays out, liquidation of short positions would propel Bitcoin to $70k and higher by the end of Q3.

Final Summary

Sweden-based health-tech and Bitcoin treasury company H100 Group reported a pre-tax loss of 98 million Swedish kronor ($10.3 million) for the second quarter of 2026, with first-half losses reaching 253 million kronor.

Q2 loss driven by non-cash write-downsThe company stated that nearly the entire second-quarter loss stemmed from a non-cash write-down linked to the decline in Bitcoin’s price during the period. H100 Group, which is listed on Sweden’s stock exchange, operates both as a health-technology firm and as a treasury that manages cryptocurrency assets.

Operating income came in at 3 million kronor for Q2 2026, matching the same period in 2025. For the first half of 2026, operating income totaled 6.1 million kronor, a slight increase from 5.8 million kronor in the first half of 2025.

In its interim report published Wednesday, H100 noted that the majority of its second-quarter loss was attributable to “a non-cash write-down following the period’s Bitcoin price decline.”

Major acquisition strengthens treasury positionEarlier in August, H100 Group became Europe’s second-largest Bitcoin treasury company after acquiring two Norwegian Bitcoin treasury firms and their cryptocurrency portfolios. This acquisition boosted the group’s Bitcoin holdings to 3,506 BTC, which were valued at about $226 million at the time.

The only company in Europe with a larger Bitcoin treasury is Germany’s Bitcoin Group, which holds 3,605 BTC, according to data from BitcoinTreasuries.

Mini dictionary: H100 Group, a Swedish company specializing in health technology solutions and digital asset treasury management, has actively expanded its Bitcoin reserves through acquisitions.

CompanyBTC HoldingsBTC Value (approx.)Bitcoin Group (Germany)3,605$232 millionH100 Group (Sweden)3,506$226 millionH100 Group’s shares closed 4.2% lower on Tuesday, bringing its year-to-date slide to 24%, according to data from StockAnalysis. The combination of falling Bitcoin prices and ongoing losses appears to be weighing on investor sentiment.

Despite these challenges, H100 continues to maintain its dual focus on digital asset management and health-tech solutions as it adapts to market volatility.

Following the acquisition, H100’s Bitcoin holdings placed it just behind Bitcoin Group, cementing its position as Europe’s second-largest Bitcoin treasury.

Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.

Strategy Just Stopped Bitcoin News: Is the Market’s Biggest Corporate Bid Gone for Good?

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In the latest Bitcoin news, Strategy held its bitcoin position flat at 840,447 BTC through the week ended Aug. 16, according to a Form 8-K the company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, while its dollar reserve climbed to $4.8 billion.

The larger question isn’t whether Strategy still owns bitcoin, it does, at an average cost of $75,385 per coin, it’s whether the market can absorb weakness without the recurring corporate bid that shaped price action for years.

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A Predictable Buyer Goes QuietStrategy made no bitcoin purchases or sales between Aug. 10 and Aug. 16, the filing confirmed. That silence follows a stretch in which the company sold 1,690 BTC for $108.6 million the prior week, redirecting proceeds toward its preferred-stock obligations rather than adding to its core position.

Instead of buying bitcoin, Strategy sold 3,458,866 MSTR shares through its at-the-market program for $333.7 million in net proceeds.

It put $149.1 million of that into its USD reserve, spent $132.2 million repurchasing 1,388,720 shares of its STRC preferred stock, and used $52.4 million to fund preferred dividends. Michael Saylor, Strategy’s executive chairman, framed the moves in an Aug. 17 post on X as extending the company’s financial runway rather than expanding its bitcoin exposure.

Strategy added $150M to its USD Reserve and repurchased $132M of $STRC, extending USD Duration to 2.8 yrs (+41 days) and tightening STRC BTC Credit to 114 bps (-4 bps). As of 8/16/26: ₿840,447 BTC Reserve; $4.8B USD Reserve. $MSTR https://t.co/kNWPowilmT

— Michael Saylor (@saylor) August 17, 2026 “Strategy added $150M to its USD Reserve and repurchased $132M of STRC, extending USD Duration to 2.8 yrs (+41 days) … As of 8/16/26: 840,447 BTC Reserve; $4.8B USD Reserve.”

The dollar reserve, launched under Strategy’s Digital Credit Capital Framework on June 29 with $2.55 billion, has now grown to $4.8 billion in roughly seven weeks. It exists to cover preferred dividends and debt interest, functioning as a liquidity buffer separate from, and increasingly prioritized over, the bitcoin balance sheet itself.

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Bitcoin News: What the Pause Actually ProvesThe data confirms a shift in marginal capital allocation: Strategy is issuing common stock, defending its STRC price band near $99–$100, and building cash rather than deploying every available dollar into bitcoin.

It does not confirm that Strategy is abandoning its treasury model; 840,447 BTC remains one of the largest corporate holdings anywhere, and the company still holds $653 million of unused STRC repurchase capacity plus a fully intact $1 billion MSTR buyback authorization.

Source: STRCUSD / TradingviewThat distinction matters for how traders price risk. Strategy’s leveraged accumulation model trained the market to treat its purchases as a floor during drawdowns, and the disappearance of that bid, even temporarily, removes a source of demand that didn’t depend on retail sentiment or ETF flows. Whether that gap gets filled by other buyers is now an open question rather than an assumption.

The Underwater Position Still MattersStrategy’s $63.36 billion cost basis works out to $75,385 per bitcoin, a level well above spot prices trading near $64,268 at the time of this report. Saylor has separately disclosed that STRC returned 9% over the trailing year through Aug. 14 even as bitcoin fell 47% over the same span, a gap that explains why capital is flowing toward preferred-stock defense rather than fresh accumulation.

That cost basis also constrains future buying. Adding to the position at current prices while shares trade below net asset value risks diluting existing holders more than it improves per-share bitcoin exposure, a tension that didn’t exist when MSTR traded at a premium, and every new purchase looked accretive.

Where Support Comes From NowWith Strategy’s recurring bid gone for now, bitcoin’s near-term price action depends more heavily on ETF flows, derivatives positioning, and organic spot demand than it has in years.

Traders watching for a floor should track the levels outlined in ongoing bitcoin price analysis, since the absence of a predictable corporate buyer raises the odds that any break below current support extends further than it would have with Strategy still stepping in.

Strategy also faces an unresolved MSCI index-eligibility review, with feedback due Sept. 30 and a decision expected by Oct. 16 ahead of the November index rebalance.

If MSCI moves to exclude MSTR from global equity indexes, passive-fund selling could compound the pressure already building from the pause in bitcoin purchases, a scenario that would test the company’s cash reserve as a genuine buffer rather than a talking point.

The trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) features digital displays and trading pods.If Strategy resumes purchases once its STRC obligations stabilize, the market regains a known source of demand, and the current pause reads as tactical.

If the pause extends through the fall alongside a negative MSCI outcome, expect volatility to widen as the market recalibrates around bitcoin’s organic supply-and-demand balance without its largest corporate buyer at the table.

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In brief Nasdaq-listed Zhibao Technology closed a $154.7 million PIPE financing paid for with 2,380 Bitcoin contributed straight to a company wallet. Director Botao Ma called the deal one of the most transformational moments in the firm's decade-long history. The all-crypto funding structure sets Zhibao apart from the usual cash-raise-then-buy treasury model; it joins a crowded field—including Metaplanet's U.S. treasury push and Strategy—even as cracks in DATs show. Zhibao Technology, a Nasdaq-listed Chinese insurance-technology company, has stepped into the corporate Bitcoin treasury arena, closing a $154.7 million private placement funded entirely in cryptocurrency.

The Shanghai-based firm said Monday that a syndicate of non-U.S. investors paid for the raise by contributing 2,380 Bitcoin directly to a company wallet, rather than cash. The coins were valued at a reference price of $65,000 each, pegged to market levels as of July 30.

Myriad: Bitcoin next price move? Click to make your prediction.In exchange, the investors received 442 million units priced at $0.35 apiece, each pairing a Class A ordinary share with a two-year warrant. Roughly 396 million units were delivered at closing, with the remainder to follow shareholder approval.

Zhibao, which bills itself as a pioneer of embedded digital insurance in China, framed the deal as a turning point rather than a departure from its core business. Director Botao Ma called the financing one of the most transformational moments in the company's decade-long history, saying it strengthens Zhibao's financial base and positions it to expand its AI-driven insurance products. He added that the investors bring deep expertise in crypto markets and infrastructure, which he expects to open new opportunities for the firm.

The move adds Zhibao to a swelling roster of public companies parking Bitcoin on their balance sheets, though its all-crypto funding structure stands out from the cash-raise-then-buy model most treasury firms use.

Japan's Metaplanet is seeding a U.S. treasury vehicle with 2,100 BTC, worth roughly $132 million. Meanwhile, Strategy, the pioneer of the playbook, has halted its weekly Bitcoin buys and has instead begun to sell batches of its holdings in an attempt to right its financial ship. The company recently raised $334 million by selling stock without touching its Bitcoin holdings.

The digital asset treasury strategy carries real risks alongside its upside. Treasury firms tie their fortunes to a volatile asset, and cracks have begun to show across the sector. Strategy has shifted to what it calls a capital-management framework and is using its Bitcoin sales to fund dividends and buybacks, while some newer entrants have started unwinding their positions entirely as the trade cools.

Zhibao said it will file a resale registration statement with the SEC within 45 days of the July 31 effective date, covering the shares and warrants issued in the deal.

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Fidelity’s clients scooped up $136 million worth of Bitcoin in just two days, according to on-chain data from Arkham Intelligence.

The concentrated buying activity is being read as a signal that institutional demand for Bitcoin is heating up again after a stretch of mixed flows across the spot ETF landscape in 2026.

What the numbers tell us A $134 million two-day accumulation is notable not because of its absolute size, but because of its velocity. Fidelity’s client base spans institutional investors, high-net-worth individuals, and retail participants accessing Bitcoin through products like the Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund, better known by its ticker FBTC.

FBTC launched in January 2024 as part of the first wave of US spot Bitcoin ETFs. Since then, it has established itself as one of the two dominant funds in the category, alongside BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT).

ETF flow data throughout 2026 has been choppy, with daily inflows and outflows ranging from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars. Against that backdrop of variability, a $134 million burst concentrated in 48 hours stands out.

Fidelity Digital Assets, the firm’s dedicated crypto arm, provides custody, execution, and research services specifically designed for institutional participants.

The institutional temperature check Fidelity itself has contributed to this narrative shift. The firm has published research in 2026 examining Bitcoin’s potential role within institutional portfolios, essentially giving its own clients the intellectual framework to justify allocation.

BlackRock’s IBIT has also experienced significant inflows during comparable periods, reinforcing the idea that this isn’t a Fidelity-specific phenomenon but part of a broader institutional recalibration.

What this means for the market The regulatory environment plays a role here too. As more capital flows through regulated vehicles like FBTC and IBIT, the case for additional regulatory clarity strengthens. Every dollar that moves through these channels makes the next dollar slightly easier to justify from a compliance perspective.

The persistent volatility in crypto markets throughout 2026 has not deterred these flows. If anything, it appears to have created buying opportunities that institutional investors are willing to exploit through the comfort of familiar, regulated wrappers.

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The White House Tech Leadership Summit is taking place today, with Trump attending alongside the chairs of the SEC and CFTC and multiple crypto industry executives.

Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett posted that the White House Tech Leadership Conference will kick off at 2:30 PM ET today. U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to deliver remarks alongside SEC Chair Paul Atkins and CFTC Chair Selig. Expected attendees from crypto and traditional finance sectors include Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Payward/Kraken Co-CEO Arjun Sethi, Gemini co-founders Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov, a16z partner Chris Dixon, Blockchain.com CEO Peter Smith, BitGo CEO Mike Belshe, and others. Additionally, leaders of industry groups such as the Digital Chamber, Blockchain Association, and Crypto Council for Innovation, as well as ICE (parent company of the New York Stock Exchange) CEO Jeff Sprecher and Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman, are also set to attend. Patrick Witt, executive director of the White House Crypto Council, will also participate in the conference.

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The yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury note fell 10 basis points intraday to 5.18%.

According to Bitget data, the yield on the US 30-year Treasury bond fell 10 basis points intraday to 5.18%.

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US retail investors’ put option buying volume surged, with defensive demand rising, though they continued to buy tech stocks on dips.

According to data from research firm Vanda Research, U.S. retail trading behavior has clearly shifted to a defensive posture since April this year. While the total volume of direct stock purchases has declined, the buying volume of put options for the 12 most popular stocks favored by retail investors in 2026 has nearly doubled compared to the first quarter; the proportion of related option purchases to net cash purchases has also risen from around 26% to 110%. Kaidi Meng, global equity strategist at Vanda, noted that unlike the past when retail investors almost uniformly "buy the dip", this year they have become more selective, starting to rotate quickly between stocks, or allocate protective put options while purchasing individual stocks. Since mid-April, trading activity in bullish tech ETFs has dropped by around 50%, while bearish ETF activity has fallen by about 35%, indicating that overall long exposure has contracted. However, data from Charles Schwab shows that retail investors as a whole have not turned bearish. In July, the number of buyers on its platform still outnumbered sellers by more than two times, and the STAX trading activity index rose from 59.12 in June to 59.80, hitting its highest level since January 2022. Retail investors continued to buy high-volatility popular individual stocks during tech stock pullbacks, while funds also rotated from Nvidia to other assets. Joe Mazzola, chief trading and derivatives strategist at Charles Schwab, said some investors are selling put options on Nvidia, Micron, and SanDisk to collect option premiums, while moderately increasing holdings of low-cost QQQ put options to hedge against downside risks in the broader tech sector. He believes that current portfolio defensive moves are evident, but not overly aggressive.

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According to market data from BIT (bit.com), the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index climbed 5.3% to hit a new all-time high, while Moderna (MRNA) surged 153%.

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X Layer launches RWA ecosystem liquidity incentive program, with a total incentive pool of $5 million.

According to official announcements, X Layer has officially launched its RWA ecosystem liquidity incentive program, with a total incentive pool of $5 million, aimed at enhancing the liquidity and trading experience of RWA ecosystem assets. The incentive will be implemented in multiple rounds; the first round will allocate $300,000 in liquidity incentives, covering liquidity for all RWA-related trading pairs, including pairs of RWA assets and stablecoins, as well as pairs of RWA assets and ecosystem tokens. It is reported that X Layer is continuously refining its RWA ecosystem infrastructure to support the on-chain issuance, trading, and circulation of more RWA assets.

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Bitcoin’s (BTC) upside remains capped on Wednesday while the downside appears strongly supported above $64,000. The Crypto King’s early week rebound lost momentum near $65,000 as investors assessed the impact of geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.

Altcoins, including Ethereum (ETH) and Ripple (XRP), are broadly consolidating with ETH trading above $1,900 and XRP above $1.00. Rebounds are increasingly difficult to sustain, despite the tokens holding key support levels and sentiment improving.

Crypto market sentiment is currently embedded in the Fear territory of the Fear & Greed Index on Wednesday, up slightly from 41 the day before and 27 in the previous week. If this growth continues, risk-on sentiment could boost investor engagement and demand, raising the odds of an extended recovery.

Crypto Fear & Greed Index | Source: AlternativeBitcoin spot Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) extended a recently renewed bullish streak, with inflows totaling $189 million on Tuesday. This followed $298 million recorded on Monday, showing a reduced impact from rising US-Iran tensions.

Bitcoin ETF flows | Source: SoSoValueThe Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) both countries signed in June expired on Monday. Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that there are talks underway or scheduled with Iran.

Ethereum spot ETFs marked their second consecutive day of inflows on Tuesday with institutional investors depositing roughly $71 million, more than double Monday’s $31 million. Cumulative inflows ticked up slightly to $11.56 billion, from $11.48 billion over the same period.

Ethereum ETF flows | Source: SoSoValueAs for XRP, spot ETF inflows returned on Tuesday, amounting to nearly $6 million after two days of muted activity. According to SoSoValue, cumulative inflows average $1.52 billion, with net assets under management at $941 million.

XRP ETF flows | Source: SoSoValueTechnical analysis: Bitcoin lacks upside momentum Bitcoin trades above $64,000, but remains beneath a stack of key Exponential Moving Averages (EMAs), keeping the near-term tone capped and mildly bearish. The pair sits just under the 50-day EMA, while the 100-day and 200-day EMAs reinforce the overhead supply zone.

The spot price remains above the Bollinger middle band, now support at $63,889, with the Relative Strength Index (RSI) hovering around 52 on the daily chart and a slightly positive Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) reading, which together hint at tentative buying interest but not enough to shift the broader topside constraints.

BTC/USDT daily chartImmediate resistance is defined by the 50-day EMA at $64,372. A decisive daily close above this level could open the way toward the upper Bollinger band near $65,337 and then the 100-day EMA at $66,366, with the 200-day EMA at $72,128 acting as a more distant bullish objective. On the downside, initial support lies at the 20-day Bollinger middle band at $63,889, ahead of stronger Bollinger support near $62,442. A deeper retreat would expose the rising trend-line support around $56,666, where medium-term dip-buying interest would be expected to re-emerge.

"Current holders remain reluctant to sell, while external investors remain reluctant to buy, leaving BTC virtually petrified over the summer. At the same time, leverage is gradually expanding, echoing the classic pattern where prolonged stability eventually breeds instability. The range may persist for a few more weeks, but the longer it does, the larger the eventual move is poised to be," K33 Research analysts said in a weekly report.

Altcoins technical outlook: Ethereum and XRP hold key supportEthereum trades above $1,900, with the pair capped below the 100-day EMA at $1,920 and the 200-day EMA at $2,109, maintaining a mildly bearish near-term bias despite holding above shorter-term supports. The 50-day EMA at $1,872 and the rising trendline support derived from prior lows around $1,885 both sit beneath the market, hinting at an underlying bid, while the RSI above 57 stays in neutral-positive territory. Meanwhile, the MACD indicator hovers just below the zero line with a flattening negative reading, suggesting waning downside momentum rather than a clean bullish shift.

ETH/USDT daily chartImmediate resistance sits at the 100-day EMA at $1,920, with a stronger barrier at the 200-day EMA near $2,109. Bulls would need a decisive daily close above the former to ease the current cap. On the downside, initial support is seen at the recent price pivot around $1,900, followed by the trendline floor near $1,885 and the 50-day EMA at $1,872, where a break lower would open the door to a deeper correction within the broader uptrend.

XRP, on the other hand, trades above $1.00, maintaining a bearish near-term bias as it holds below the 50-day, 100-day and 200-day EMA indicators. Momentum is modestly constructive, with the RSI Indicator recovering toward the 40 zone and the MACD edging up toward the zero line. Yet this only hints at waning downside pressure rather than a clear bullish shift while price remains capped by these overhead averages.

XRP/USDT daily chartInitial resistance lies at the downward resistance trendline break price near $1.06, followed by the 50-day EMA at $1.07 as a secondary cap. Further up, the 100-day EMA at $1.15 and the 200-day EMA at $1.34 define a broader bearish structure, and the pair would need to reclaim these levels to meaningfully challenge the prevailing downtrend.

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Crypto ETF FAQs An Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) is an investment vehicle or an index that tracks the price of an underlying asset. ETFs can not only track a single asset, but a group of assets and sectors. For example, a Bitcoin ETF tracks Bitcoin’s price. ETF is a tool used by investors to gain exposure to a certain asset.

Yes. The first Bitcoin futures ETF in the US was approved by the US Securities & Exchange Commission in October 2021. A total of seven Bitcoin futures ETFs have been approved, with more than 20 still waiting for the regulator’s permission. The SEC says that the cryptocurrency industry is new and subject to manipulation, which is why it has been delaying crypto-related futures ETFs for the last few years.

Yes. The SEC approved in January 2024 the listing and trading of several Bitcoin spot Exchange-Traded Funds, opening the door to institutional capital and mainstream investors to trade the main crypto currency. The decision was hailed by the industry as a game changer.

The main advantage of crypto ETFs is the possibility of gaining exposure to a cryptocurrency without ownership, reducing the risk and cost of holding the asset. Other pros are a lower learning curve and higher security for investors since ETFs take charge of securing the underlying asset holdings. As for the main drawbacks, the main one is that as an investor you can’t have direct ownership of the asset, or, as they say in crypto, “not your keys, not your coins.” Other disadvantages are higher costs associated with holding crypto since ETFs charge fees for active management. Finally, even though investing in ETFs reduces the risk of holding an asset, price swings in the underlying cryptocurrency are likely to be reflected in the investment vehicle too.

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A Singapore court has frozen about S$75 million ($58 million) in Bitcoin and USD Coin after a major crypto trading platform alleged that an internal ledger error caused it to mistakenly credit thousands of BTC and Bitcoin Cash to a long-standing customer.

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Singapore’s SICC froze about S$75 million in Bitcoin and USDC linked to a dispute between a major crypto platform and a long-time customer. The platform said an internal ledger error led it to mistakenly transfer 2,500 BTC and 2,500 BCH to the customer’s wallets in July 2024. The customer later moved 780 BTC off the platform and converted another 20 BTC into about 816,773 USDC. The court also ordered the customer to disclose the location of the disputed assets and their proceeds. The platform recovered the remaining 1,700 BTC and 2,500 BCH after discovering the alleged error in January 2025. The Singapore International Commercial Court said the interim proprietary injunction prevents the customer from disposing of, dealing with or reducing the value of about 780 BTC and 816,773 USDC, along with assets, profits or interest derived from them. The order was granted on March 26 after a hearing before Singapore High Court Justice Aidan Xu and SICC International Judges Anthony Meagher and David Goddard.

The dispute involves an anonymised group of companies that operates what the court described as one of the world’s largest digital asset trading platforms and a customer who had used the platform since around 2013. Court documents identified the parties only as DVA, DVB and DVC while an application for confidentiality orders remains pending.

Along with freezing the crypto, the court ordered the defendant to disclose where the disputed assets and their proceeds were being held. The judges declined, however, to give the platform group advance permission to use that disclosure to seek similar injunctions in other jurisdictions, leaving it free to apply for permission later if required.

Singapore court dispute traces back to unsupported wallets At the centre of the case are two specialised wallets that once contained 2,500 BTC and 2,500 Bitcoin Cash. According to the judgment, the wallets were designed as a self-custody product that required security credentials, including a user key held solely by the customer.

Support for the wallet product ended in April 2018, although customers could continue accessing the wallets for a period through an unsupported open-source tool. In March 2020, the entire 2,500 BTC and 2,500 BCH balance was transferred away from the specialised wallets, leaving them effectively empty.

The platform group alleged that a technical problem prevented those withdrawals from being recorded correctly on its internal ledgers. Because the ledger continued to show the assets as remaining in the specialised wallets, the companies operated for several years on the assumption that the customer was still entitled to the balances.

A relationship manager later tried to help the customer recover what the platform believed were assets trapped in the discontinued wallet product. Acting on its ledger records, the platform transferred another 2,500 BTC and 2,500 BCH into other accounts belonging to the customer in July 2024.

The claimants say those digital assets came from their own holdings inside the platform group’s omnibus wallets and were transferred solely because of the mistaken balance shown on the internal system. The customer disputes that account and has maintained that the assets transferred to him were rightfully his.

Mistaken crypto transfers have previously resulted in lengthy recovery disputes. In 2022, crypto.news reported on a Crypto.com transfer error in which the exchange mistakenly sent an Australian customer about $10.5 million instead of a $100 refund and discovered the error months later during an audit.

Customer moved 780 BTC and converted another 20 BTC to USDC After receiving the July 2024 transfers, the defendant began moving part of the crypto away from the platform.

Court records show that on July 13, 2024, the customer converted 20 BTC into about 816,773 USDC and transferred the stablecoins to an unhosted wallet. Five withdrawals between July 17 and Nov. 10 moved another 380 BTC to a separate unhosted address.

A further 200 BTC was transferred on Nov. 24, followed by another 200 BTC on Jan. 7, 2025, bringing the amount sent to a third external wallet to 400 BTC. Some 150 BTC from that wallet was later transferred elsewhere in February 2026, according to evidence submitted by the claimants.

The companies also told the court that subsequent transactions involving the 380 BTC and 816,773 USDC made their current locations difficult to determine. The defendant did not dispute making the transactions but maintained that he had been dealing with crypto that belonged to him.

By the time the platform acted, 1,700 BTC and the full 2,500 BCH transferred in July 2024 remained in the customer’s accounts. The companies froze those wallets on Jan. 29, 2025, and re-credited the remaining assets to themselves in an attempt to reverse part of the earlier transfer.

The platform group subsequently sought the return of the 780 BTC and 816,773 USDC that had already left its system, but the customer refused. The companies valued the assets at roughly S$75 million at the time of the injunction hearing.

Platform alleges unjust enrichment and constructive trust Proceedings were initially filed in the General Division of Singapore’s High Court in November 2025 before being transferred by consent to the SICC.

The claimants’ 62-page statement of claim contains four causes of action, including unjust enrichment, a proprietary claim, deceit or negligent misrepresentation, and an alleged breach of the contractual provisions governing the platform’s services. They are also seeking a declaration that the defendant holds the disputed assets on constructive trust for one of the claimant companies and must return them.

According to the claimants, the July 2024 transfers resulted from their incorrect understanding of the old wallet balances, while the customer allegedly knew about the mistake and took advantage of it.

The defendant has rejected that version of events. He told the court that he did not remember making the March 2020 transfers, although he accepted that blockchain records show the transfers occurred, and argued that the platform’s own admission of faulty internal ledger records weakened its claim that the assets transferred in 2024 belonged to the companies.

He also argued that the transferred crypto could have represented his own assets held elsewhere on the platform or assets belonging to other customers. Having maintained extensive crypto holdings and activity, the defendant said he relied on the platform to keep track of what he held and believed that the July 2024 assets belonged to him.

The customer has counterclaimed for the assets that remain frozen on the platform or compensation of equivalent value, while denying that he knew the companies had made any mistake.

Singapore courts have dealt with several high-value crypto disputes involving exchange operators over the past year. Earlier in August, Binance and RedotPay gave conflicting accounts over the status of a separate Singapore proceeding tied to claims worth nearly $473 million.

Singapore’s courts have also played a role in handling distressed crypto businesses, including proceedings involving WazirX’s Singapore-based parent Zettai, whose restructuring proposal returned to court after receiving 95.7% creditor support in August 2025.

Judges find serious ownership question to be tried For the interim stage of the case, the three-judge panel found enough evidence to establish a serious question over whether the platform companies retained a proprietary interest in some or all of the disputed assets.

The court said it was arguable that the specialised wallet balances were effectively zero before the July 2024 credits and that the platform transferred 2,500 BTC and 2,500 BCH because its internal records incorrectly showed the earlier holdings as still present.

Judges also found an arguable case that the customer knew about the platform’s mistake either when the transfers were made or, at the latest, after the platform discovered the issue and contacted him in 2025. Under that scenario, the court said an argument could be made that identifiable assets and traceable proceeds were held on constructive trust for the claimants.

On whether an injunction was necessary, the court considered the risk that the companies could win at trial but still be unable to recover the crypto if the assets were moved or dissipated.

The judges noted evidence that the defendant had used part of the disputed assets as security for a loan to cover legal costs and had not provided updated evidence about his financial position or current asset holdings. The court found sufficient doubt over his ability to satisfy a substantial judgment if the companies eventually succeeded.

At the same time, the platform group gave the court an undertaking to compensate the customer for losses caused by the injunction if it later turns out that the order should not have been granted.

The disclosure order requires the defendant to identify the whereabouts of assets covered by the injunction, including relevant crypto controlled through third parties acting under his direct or indirect instructions. The SICC left both sides free to return to court, including if the claimants later seek permission to use the disclosed information in civil proceedings outside Singapore.

Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss says the artificial intelligence (AI) trade has handed investors a Bitcoin (BTC) time machine, with the asset now trading near half of last year’s price.

He posted the argument on X, urging investors to treat the drop as an entry point rather than a warning sign.

Why Winklevoss Calls This a Bitcoin Time MachineWinklevoss argues that capital chasing AI stocks has suppressed crypto prices. As a result, buyers can now reach levels that looked out of reach twelve months ago.

The AI trade has given the world a time machine to go back in time and invest in Bitcoin at $65k. A year ago, if Bitcoin was offered at a 50% discount to its then-current price of $120k, there would be an unlimited amount of buyers. This is an unprecedented time to buy the dip —…

— Cameron Winklevoss (@cameron) August 18, 2026 Cameron Winklevoss. Source: XHe ties the weakness to competition for capital. AI equities absorbed flows that once moved into risk assets such as BTC.

The comparison rests on a simple counterfactual. A year ago, BTC traded above $120,000, and a few holders expected a slide back toward $60,000.

Bitcoin peaked at $126,080 on October 6, 2025, according to BeInCrypto price data. BTC now changes hands at $64,231, roughly 49% below that record. Meanwhile, the market value of the asset sits near $1.29 trillion.

Bitcoin Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoThe chart shows where the damage landed. BTC broke down sharply in February 2026 and has traded below $80,000 ever since.

The pitch also echoes his earlier calls. In July, Winklevoss backed Bitcoin and Zcash as the AI rout dragged South Korea’s Kospi index down almost 11%.

His own trading record complicates the message. In March, the twins moved $130 million in BTC to Gemini wallets, which analysts read as preparation to sell.

Gemini has felt the downturn directly. The exchange cut roughly 30% of its workforce earlier this year and posted a $585 million loss for 2025.

Analysts Still See Room Below $64,000Not everyone treats the discount as a floor. One BeInCrypto study of cycle timing placed the bear market bottom near $47,000.

Institutional demand also looks thin. Last week, spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) recorded $390 million in outflows as oil prices climbed.

The AI question cuts both ways. Money rotating out of AI stocks could lift crypto. However, a broad risk selloff would probably drag BTC lower first.

Still, Bitcoin has shown some independence this week. On Monday, the S&P 500 slipped while BTC pushed above $64,000 ahead of the Federal Reserve minutes.

Winklevoss closed his post by asking when Bitcoin goes back to the future. Traders watching the current Bitcoin price may read part of that answer in this week’s Fed minutes.

Kripto para piyasası, 19 Ağustos gününe sınırlı yükselişle başladı. Toplam piyasa değeri yüzde 0,18 artarak 2,19 trilyon dolara çıkarken Bitcoin ve önde gelen altcoin fiyatlarında da pozitif hareket görüldü. Buna rağmen yatırımcılar temkinli davranıyor ve özellikle ABD Merkez Bankası’nın (FED) temmuz toplantısına ilişkin tutanaklarını bekliyor.

Bitcoin son 24 saatte yüzde 0,20 yükselerek 64.302 dolara ulaştı. Ethereum yüzde 0,86 artışla 1.912 dolara çıkarken XRP yüzde 0,49 yükselerek 1 doları gördü. Solana ise yüzde 1,45 değer kazanarak 76,87 dolara yükseldi.

ETF Girişleri Bitcoin Talebini Güçlendiriyor Kripto piyasasındaki yükselişi destekleyen önemli faktörlerden biri kurumsal yatırımcıların spot ETF ürünlerine ilgisi oldu. 18 Ağustos tarihinde spot Bitcoin ETF’lerine toplam 189,30 milyon dolarlık net para girişi gerçekleşti. Ethereum ETF’leri ise aynı gün 71,47 milyon dolarlık net giriş gördü.

Altcoin tarafında ETF hareketleri daha sınırlı kaldı. XRP ETF’lerine 5,81 milyon dolar, Solana ETF’lerine 1,58 milyon dolar ve LINK ETF’lerine 841,65 bin dolar net giriş gerçekleşti.

Buna karşılık DOGE, HYPE, BNB, LTC, AVAX, HBAR ve DOT ETF’lerinde net giriş veya çıkış görülmedi. Bu tablo, kurumsal talebin şimdilik ağırlıklı olarak Bitcoin ve Ethereum üzerinde yoğunlaştığını gösteriyor.

FED Tutanakları Kripto Piyasasını Nasıl Etkiler? Piyasanın kısa vadeli yönü açısından en önemli gelişme, FED’in temmuz toplantısına ait tutanakların açıklanması olacak. Tutanaklar, merkez bankası yetkililerinin faiz politikasına nasıl baktığını ve önümüzdeki dönem için hangi yaklaşımı benimsediğini daha net ortaya koyabilir.

Son dönemde ABD ekonomisinden gelen zayıf veriler, faiz artırımı beklentilerinin gerilemesine yardımcı oldu. Bunun yanında ABD Hazine tahvil getirilerindeki düşüş de Bitcoin gibi faiz getirisi bulunmayan riskli varlıklar açısından olumlu bir ortam yaratıyor.

FED tutanaklarında güvercin bir yaklaşım görülmesi halinde yatırımcıların daha yüksek risk taşıyan dijital varlıklara yönelme isteği artabilir. Ancak yetkililerin faizlerin daha uzun süre yüksek kalması gerektiğine yönelik mesajlar vermesi, kripto piyasası üzerinde yeniden satış baskısı oluşturabilir.

Hürmüz Boğazı Neden Yakından İzleniyor? Küresel piyasaların gündeminde para politikasının yanı sıra jeopolitik riskler de bulunuyor. Hürmüz Boğazı çevresindeki belirsizlik, özellikle enerji fiyatları ve küresel risk iştahı açısından önem taşıyor.

ABD Başkanı Donald Trump, salı günü İran ile herhangi bir görüşme gerçekleştirilmediğini ve Hürmüz Boğazı’nın açık olduğunu söyledi. İran ise kritik su yolunun deniz taşımacılığına hâlâ kapalı olduğu yönündeki açıklamasını korudu.

Tarafların birbirinden farklı açıklamalar yapması, bölgedeki belirsizliği canlı tutuyor. Hürmüz Boğazı küresel enerji ticaretinde kritik bir geçiş noktası olduğu için bölgede yaşanabilecek yeni bir gerilim petrol fiyatlarını ve buna bağlı olarak enflasyon beklentilerini etkileyebilir.

Bitcoin İçin 64 Bin Dolar Seviyesi Ne Anlama Geliyor? Bitcoin’in 64.302 dolara yükselmesine rağmen piyasanın genel görünümü henüz güçlü bir risk iştahına işaret etmiyor. ETF girişleri talebin devam ettiğini gösterirken, FED tutanakları ve jeopolitik gelişmeler yatırımcıların pozisyonlarını belirlemesinde önemli rol oynayacak.

Özellikle Bitcoin’in 64 bin dolar üzerindeki hareketini koruyup koruyamayacağı takip edilecek.

Bu içerik kesinlikle yatırım tavsiyesi niteliği taşımamaktadır. Piyasalar yüksek risk içermektedir ve yatırım kararlarınızı almadan önce kendi araştırmanızı yapmanız önemlidir.

Son Dakika kripto para haberleri için hemen tıkla.

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Michael Saylor has spent six years telling the world to buy Bitcoin. In Bitcoin news today, he told short-term traders something that sounds like a reversal but is actually the clearest articulation yet of who Bitcoin is for.

“If you’re a short-term price predictor, you’re a trader, I don’t really have much useful wisdom for you,” Saylor said.

Here is the central tension this article unpacks: Saylor is not softening his Bitcoin conviction; he is drawing a hard line between people who trade price action and people who allocate capital for years, and he is telling the first group to look elsewhere.

The Physics of Money

Every monetary instrument has a natural frequency — the time you need to hold it to use it as money.

Digital Capital: ~4 years
Digital Credit: ~4 months
Digital Money: ~4 days
Digital Currency: ~4 hourspic.twitter.com/sCB2R1dYbV

— Michael Saylor (@saylor) August 18, 2026

Three Buckets, One Hard Cutoff Saylor’s framework sorts capital into three time horizons. Money needed within four months belongs in a money-market instrument, plain and simple. Capital with a four-month to four-year window is, in his words, credit territory. He also pointed to yield-bearing products like STRC as a fit there, since they carry less volatility than Bitcoin itself.

“My advice is: don’t invest in Bitcoin unless you’re going to hold it for more than four years. Ideally, hold it for 10 years,” Saylor said.

The line between a trader chasing weekly candles and a holder underwriting a multi-year thesis is exactly where leveraged Bitcoin futures positions and open interest tend to get liquidated hardest – short time horizons and leverage are a rough combination, which is part of why Saylor draws the boundary so bluntly.

Saylor’s rationale is anchored in a single on-chain metric: the 200-week moving average, a rolling average of Bitcoin’s price calculated over roughly four years of weekly closes. “When we look at Bitcoin, we look at the 200-week simple moving average. That gives you the four-year cycle view,” he said during the Q&A.

Photo by Rafael Minguet Delgado on Pexels Separately, during Strategy’s second-quarter earnings call, Saylor described the same metric as functioning like a book-value benchmark for Bitcoin, according to a Benzinga report carried on TradingView.

He noted Bitcoin has traded above that average for roughly 91% of the network’s history, which is his argument for treating short-term dips below it as noise rather than trend reversals. Strategy has since added the 200-week average to its investor website alongside metrics like ETF flows and hash rate.

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The most uncomfortable moment in the Q&A came from a shareholder named Rob, who said he had invested $73,000 each for three children into MSTR positions now worth roughly $20,000 apiece. Saylor didn’t dodge it.

“Bitcoin was at an all-time high about a year ago. When Bitcoin is down 50%, we will be down 75%. When Bitcoin is in a bull market, we expect to outperform Bitcoin,” he said, describing the amplified volatility baked into holding equity in a company whose core treasury asset is Bitcoin. He added a personal note: “I have more than 19 million shares of equity. I feel your pain.”

That amplification is the mechanical reason MSTR isn’t a substitute for spot Bitcoin exposure; it layers corporate financing and equity-market dynamics on top of crypto trading volatility, which is also why Strategy’s own Bitcoin treasury and capital-raising activity is worth tracking separately from the coin’s price.

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