Bitcoin is close enough to my lower channel levels that the old $49K framework is back in play, but confirmation still depends on acceptance below the high-$50Ks and stress from flows, leverage, and miners.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright1 Jul
Bitcoin is close to losing $58,000, and the test below that level is whether the buyer stack that defined the post-ETF bull case still holds. Near $58,522 with an intraday low near $58,135, the market is asking whether anyone will buy in size at current prices, and the answer depends on two pillars of demand […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos1 Jul
Crypto users spent years making USDC the default dollar of institutional DeFi trading, lending, and settlement, but Open Standard's new Open USD stablecoin is testing whether the dollars users hold can be repaid. Open Standard says businesses will be able to mint and redeem Open USD for free, at unlimited volume, and that reserve earnings […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos1 Jul
President Donald Trump's 2025 annual financial disclosure was filed with the Office of Government Ethics on June 29 and certified on June 30, arriving as the CLARITY Act stalls over whether elected officials and their families should be allowed to hold, issue, promote, or profit from digital assets while writing the rules for those markets. […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos1 Jul
DeFiLlama data shows $780.3 million in Q2 known losses as bridges, keys and protocol logic turn security into a live cost of participation.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright30 Jun
Large channels still look big by audience size, but recent view velocity shows a thinner and more selective market.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright30 Jun
The FCA's new regime will force exchanges, custodians and stablecoin firms to decide whether UK access is worth a full FSMA authorisation process, even if they already hold AML registration.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright30 Jun
US agencies are formalizing identity checks at the issuer gate while leaving the transfer layer politically exposed.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright30 Jun
JPMorgan has warned that Congress could create new gaps in financial oversight if it moves too quickly to write new rules for the crypto industry. The warning comes as Senate leaders try to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, a broad bill that would divide federal oversight of digital assets between the Securities and […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo30 Jun
Ripple is trying to move the XRP Ledger (XRPL) deeper into institutional credit, a push that could expand the network’s role beyond cross-border payments and give XRP a broader claim on the next phase of onchain finance. The company is backing a proposed lending upgrade that would allow institutions to borrow against assets they hold […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo30 Jun
The EU deadline is not a direct UK cutoff, but account entity and platform notices still matter.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright30 Jun
Congress is moving to fix how the US tax code treats crypto mining and staking rewards, and for validators and their institutional clients, the fix is long overdue. H.R. 9175, the Tax Clarity for Mining and Staking Act, would let miners and stakers defer tax on newly minted tokens until they sell them, ending a […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos30 Jun
Strategy's preferred stack and Bitcoin's price are facing two separate tests this week, and only one of them has been resolved. The company's Digital Credit Capital Framework centers on a $2.55 billion dollar-denominated reserve, a revised STRC dividend policy, $2 billion in combined buybacks, and a board-authorized BTC monetization program. MSTR rose roughly 6% in […]
CryptoSlate•Gino Matos30 Jun
Bitcoin’s break below the $60,000 area has pushed digital asset markets into a more defensive phase, ending months of narrow trading and exposing a market structure that traders say could amplify the next major move. CryptoSlate's data show the largest cryptocurrency had been moving sideways since February, when it first tested the $60,000 area. That long […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo29 Jun
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) shares rose Monday after the Bitcoin holder moved to reassure investors that it can meet its preferred stock obligations, authorizing up to $2 billion in buybacks and opening the door to Bitcoin sales that could fund dividends, interest payments, and repurchases. The company, led by Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, announced a new […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo29 Jun
Illinois just became the first state to tax crypto by the transaction. The new 0.2% levy hits nearly every trade, transfer, or custody service an exchange runs for an Illinois resident, and it takes effect January 1, 2027. Governor JB Pritzker signed the Digital Asset Tax Act in mid-June, tucked inside a $55.9 billion budget. […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac29 Jun
Aave's latest market move is becoming a referendum on how investors value DeFi lending as its economics begin to resemble those of financial infrastructure. The token rallied as AAVE traded around $94.32 on June 27, up 13.16% over 24 hours. At the same time, a reported Standard Chartered bull case described Aave in automated-bank terms, […]
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright29 Jun
Over the past year, the artificial intelligence trade has become one of the main pillars supporting global risk appetite. However, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is now warning that the same spending boom could become a source of financial stress if expected returns fail to arrive. The Basel-based organization, which advises central banks, said […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo29 Jun
On June 22, Strategy sold $335.5 million of its own common stock, set aside roughly $300 million of it in cash to bring its reserve up to $1.4 billion, and bought a total of 520 Bitcoin with what was left. So the company that wrote the entire corporate Bitcoin playbook spent the bulk of a […]
CryptoSlate•Andjela Radmilac29 Jun
Prediction markets are drawing one of their largest sports audiences yet from the World Cup, but the surge is creating an unusual picture beneath the headline numbers. World Cup-linked contracts on Polymarket have generated more than $3.3 billion in trading volume, a level that puts the tournament well ahead of this year’s Super Bowl, which […]
CryptoSlate•Oluwapelumi Adejumo29 Jun