Bitcoin Liquidity Magnets Determine BTC’s Directional Price Moves

Increased activity across Bitcoin’s (BTC) futures markets is playing the dominant role in its short-term price action, which keeps tracing back to where leveraged positions are stacked. Prices tend to gravitate toward where liquidity is most concentrated, and as Bitcoin battles to hold above $64,000, reviewing current liquidation scenarios may provide insight into BTC’s next…

Crypto.com lands $400 million investment from Citadel Securities at $20 billion valuation

Crypto.com secured a $400 million strategic investment from market maker Citadel Securities in a deal that values the crypto exchange at $20 billion, marking the firm’s first institutional funding round since it was founded a decade ago, the company said in a press release Thursday. The funding comes as digital assets draw greater participation from…

Ethics in Crypto Market Structure ‘Really Not Our Concern,’ Says Blockchain Association CEO

Summer Mersinger, the CEO of the Blockchain Association and a former commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), anticipated a vote on a cryptocurrency market structure bill as soon as next week with the window closing for lawmakers before August state work periods.  Speaking at the Injective Summit in Washington, DC, on Thursday,…

Bitcoin Bulls Hold $64K, But For How Long?

Bitcoin (BTC) spent the week split across two scenarios. One highlighted improving onchain buying pressure and ETF inflows, while the other remained synced to sentiment gauges and news events that projected fear. The spot and futures cumulative volume delta, a running tally of buy and sell orders, confirmed a $925 million net buying day for…

Injective Files SEC Transfer Agent Application for Onchain Securities

Injective said Thursday it has filed a transfer agent registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to bring one of the core record-keeping functions of securities markets onto blockchain infrastructure. Transfer agents are a core part of US market infrastructure, maintaining shareholder records and tracking changes in securities ownership. Injective, a layer-1 blockchain…

$1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price bets on active management with first multi-token crypto ETF

T. Rowe Price has brought what it said is the industry’s first actively managed multi-token spot crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) to the market. The T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF (TKNZ) began trading on Thursday, giving investors exposure to a portfolio of crypto assets rather than a single token. The launch marks a milestone for…

FATF Flags Rising Stablecoin Crime, Gaps in Global Crypto Oversight

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OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK and OP_CAT

This is Part 4 in the technical article series about Bitcoin covenants by Cointelegraph Research. To read the previous article, click here.  The following opcodes do not independently implement full covenant functionality. Instead, they are building blocks for constructing covenants when combined with other opcodes or script elements. OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (OP_CSFS) and OP_CAT OP_CSFS is a…

ARK pushes back against a16z’s ‘TradFi wants blockchain, not DeFi’ claim

ARK Invest’s director of research disputed a16z crypto’s thesis that traditional finance will adopt permissioned blockchain infrastructure instead of decentralized finance, saying institutions will increasingly rely on DeFi rails. Source link

Trump to Meet Senators on CLARITY Act push

US President Donald Trump is set to meet with several senators at the White House on Thursday to discuss progress on the crypto market structure bill.  According to Politico, Senator Bernie Moreno said a group of senators will brief the president on the bill and “its path to success.” Senator Cynthia Lummis will also attend,…