Is BTC’s Bull Market Finished?

Key takeaways: ETFs, treasuries, and macro tailwinds may snap Bitcoin’s four-year boom-and-bust pattern. A bearish phase should not be ruled out before new all-time highs. Bitcoin (BTC) has historically moved in four-year cycles tied to its halving events, with prices typically peaking 12-18 months after each supply cut before sliding into a prolonged bear market….

How YouTube’s Stablecoin Payouts Change How Creators Get Paid

Key takeaways YouTube isn’t changing how creators earn — only how they get paid. The stablecoin payout runs through PayPal’s existing payout infrastructure, with PayPal converting dollars into PYUSD. The feature positions PYUSD as a digital dollar for settlement and fund transfers. Creators may gain faster access and alternative treasury options, but they must also…

How YouTube’s Stablecoin Payouts Change How Creators Get Paid

Key takeaways YouTube isn’t changing how creators earn — only how they get paid. The stablecoin payout runs through PayPal’s existing payout infrastructure, with PayPal converting dollars into PYUSD. The feature positions PYUSD as a digital dollar for settlement and fund transfers. Creators may gain faster access and alternative treasury options, but they must also…

CAR Crypto Push Deepened Elite Control, Exposed State to Crime: Report

The Central African Republic’s push into crypto has deepened elite control and exposed the country to “foreign criminal organizations,” according to a recent report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC). In the report titled “Behind the blockchain: Cryptocurrency and criminal capture in the Central African Republic,” researchers claimed that the CAR’s crypto…

Hut 8 Lands Google-Backed $7B AI Data Center Lease

Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $7 billion lease to deliver 245 megawatts of artificial intelligence data center capacity at its River Bend campus in Louisiana, marking one of the biggest infrastructure agreements between a crypto-native company and hyperscale AI demand.  Hut 8 announced on Wednesday that infrastructure provider Fluidstack will lease the…

Bitcoin Must Hold $81.5K Support Amid Increased Whale Selling

Bitcoin’s (BTC) market is at a “crucial moment” after breaking key long-term support levels, coinciding with large BTC transfers from a digital asset treasury company to a major exchange. Key takeaways: Bitcoin risks plunging into a bear market if it breaks below the True Market Mean at $81,500. Two wallets linked to Matrixport transferred 4,000…

Bitcoin extends downtrend as risk appetite remains muted

The crypto market slipped overnight, with bitcoin BTC$86,921.82 dropping 1.5% from the high it hit in the early hours of Wednesday. The broader market followed suit. The CoinDesk 20 (CD20) fell 1.6% since midnight UTC with all members of the index declining. Bitcoin’s sell-off after failing to break above $94,700 last week has extended a…

Hyperliquid Validators Vote to Exclude Inaccessible HYPE From Supply

The Hyper Foundation proposed a validator vote to formally recognize HYPE tokens held in the Hyperliquid protocol’s Assistance Fund system address as permanently inaccessible, excluding them from the asset’s circulating and total supply.  According to the foundation, the Assistance Fund is a protocol-level mechanism embedded in the layer-1 network’s execution. It automatically converts trading fees…

Hyperliquid Validators Vote to Exclude Inaccessible HYPE From Supply

The Hyper Foundation proposed a validator vote to formally recognize HYPE tokens held in the Hyperliquid protocol’s Assistance Fund system address as permanently inaccessible, excluding them from the asset’s circulating and total supply.  According to the foundation, the Assistance Fund is a protocol-level mechanism embedded in the layer-1 network’s execution. It automatically converts trading fees…

Buterin Proposes Onchain Solution to X’s Centralized Control

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is calling for social media platforms to use cryptography and blockchain tools to make their content-ranking systems more transparent and verifiable. In a Monday X post, Buterin argued that X should use zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs) and blockchain to prove the fairness of the algorithm that determines the reach of content on…