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Retail is rushing into gold, but institutions are buying Bitcoin again – so why the split?

Retail investors became the main force behind gold-fund buying over the past six months, helping extend bullion’s rise even as some institutional money started to step back. At the same time, fresh inflows into US...

Even at $70,000 Bitcoin is now exposed to a bigger fight that it cannot control

The Fed kept rates unchanged at 3.50%-3.75% on Mar. 18, lifted its 2026 inflation projections to 2.7% for both headline and core PCE, and held to a median year-end fed-funds path of 3.4%. Chair Jerome...

Vanity Fair “bathrobe-gate” proves $135 million bought the crypto industry leverage but not respect

When Vanity Fair published “Crypto’s True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously” on Mar. 17, the backlash arrived within hours. Hayden Adams said he had passed on the shoot after being asked to pose in...

Why are traders still bracing for a drop toward $50k when Bitcoin is beating gold and stocks?

Bitcoin investors are buying protection around $50,000 even as the flagship digital asset holds near $70,000 and has recently outperformed gold, the S&P 500, and the US dollar during the ongoing Iran war. According to CryptoSlate’s...

Ethereum is outperforming Bitcoin when it shouldn’t be — what’s driving it?

Ethereum is outpacing Bitcoin as tensions involving the United States, Israel, and Iran continue to shape global markets. Data from CryptoSlate shows ETH has risen 18% against the dollar since the start of March, compared...

Why the US-Iran conflict sent traders to Hyperliquid — and pushed HYPE into crypto’s top 10

Hyperliquid’s HYPE token moved into the top 10 crypto assets by market capitalization, beating Cardano’s ADA amid a 1,700-fold rise in trading volume tied to oil volatility during the US-Iran conflict. Notably, Bitcoin benefited significantly...

Banks risk another 2008 crisis after moving the equivalent of 18 million BTC into shadow lenders

US banks “reduced” their credit risk after 2008 by shifting more of it to nonbank lenders. Since 2008, banks have shifted a growing share of their lending to nonbanks like private credit funds, making it...

Over $2B in “lost” Bitcoin to hit markets this month creating sell pressure within fragile $67k–$74k range

FTX’s fourth round of distributing bankruptcy recoveries arrives at a different moment. The estate will begin sending roughly $2.2 billion to eligible creditors on Mar. 31, just as Bitcoin (BTC) pushed back above $70,000 into...

Stablecoins just lost key battle as insurance protection to be reserved only for bank-issued tokens

The stablecoin debate in Washington is increasingly becoming a fight over a single question: who gets to keep deposit insurance on-chain? FDIC Chair Travis Hill signaled that payment stablecoins under the GENIUS Act should not...

Crypto just opened S&P 500 trading for the weekend while Wall Street shuts down

For decades, the benchmark for US risk lived on US time. S&P 500 opened at 9:30 a.m. Eastern and closed at 4:00 p.m., with premarket whispers and after-hours fragments filling the gaps. On Mar. 18,...

Bitcoin hits a high-stakes $75k zone where the next move could accelerate fast in either direction

For weeks, Bitcoin (BTC) couldn’t convincingly break out of the $70,000 zone, which it kept circling as a real problem area. BTC repeatedly failed to close above that level from early February through early March,...

XRP jumps as users pile in, even as institutional money pulls out

XRP gained nearly 10% over the past week, presenting a sharp divergence from the institutional sector as investment products tied to the token posted their steepest monthly outflows of the year. Data from CryptoSlate showed...

Recession risk hits historic danger zone, setting up Bitcoin’s biggest test yet

Bitcoin is heading toward its first real recession-era test as a mature institutional asset after Moody’s recession model rose to 48.6%, a level that, in that historical series, has not previously been reached without a...

Citi slashes Bitcoin target by $31,000 despite rising prices as Washington delays stall crypto breakout

Citigroup cuts Bitcoin and Ethereum targets as slower US policy timeline trims the upside case Citigroup has cut its 12-month targets for Bitcoin and Ethereum, lowering its Bitcoin forecast to $112,000 from $143,000 and its...

Crypto tried to cut out Visa and Mastercard — now they’re buying up blockchain companies

Mastercard agreed to pay up to $1.8 billion for BVNK, a stablecoin infrastructure firm that connects blockchain payments with traditional banking rails. The deal includes $300 million in contingent payments and closes what Mastercard told...

Fed decision tonight will likely decide whether Bitcoin gets past $80k or fall further

Bitcoin has mostly traded around $74,000 on Wednesday as investors waited for the Federal Reserve’s policy decision. However, as of press time, Bitcoin has just lost the $73,500 support, with a route to $72,000 now...

The DAO dream is over? Billion dollar crypto company shuts down, kills token launch citing ‘no users’

Crypto governance company, Tally, processed more than $1 billion in payments, served more than a million users, helped secure over $80 billion in protocol assets, completed a 60-day US ICO registration process, and then decided...

SEC makes huge U-turn, declares crypto tokens are ‘digital commodities’ after years of legal battles

The SEC just made its biggest crypto classification move in years, placing major tokens such as Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, Dogecoin, Avalanche, XRP, and Chainlink into a “digital commodities” bucket while saying some token sales can...