Blockchain Optimism’s governance has approved a proposal to repurpose 546.9 million OP tokens previously reserved for user airdrops to support ecosystem growth and institutional adoption. OP currently has a market cap of roughly $214 million, with a circulating supply of about 2.29 billion tokens, according to CoinGecko data. The new Strategic Ecosystem Fund will support … Read more
Pakistan has announced a new regulatory framework for crypto after banning the asset class for close to a decade, Announcing the news in an X post Friday, Bilal Bin Saqib, the special assistant to the prime minister on blockchain and cryptocurrency, invited foreign businesses to come to the country and set up shop. Pakistan’s Virtual … Read more
Bitcoin (BTC) hit $77,000 on Friday as business intelligence company Strategy’s corporate treasury returned to profit. Key points: Bitcoin reaches its highest level since May 26 as it revisits $77,000. Price returns above the cost basis for Strategy’s BTC corporate treasury at $75,385. Around 11% of the BTC supply constitutes a new band of support … Read more
Bitcoin continued its rise on Friday, having its best week since 2023 as over $1 billion in shortsellers’ positions got ruined and exchange-traded funds received billions in new cash. The leading cryptocurrency on Friday was recently trading 23% higher over a seven-day period after flying past $77,542. It earlier in the day reached as high … Read more
MiCA left crypto lending outside its original rulebook — but now Brussels is considering whether to bring it in. On May 20, 2026, the European Commission asked stakeholders to weigh in on areas left outside the original Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework. These include issues around decentralized finance (DeFi) and crypto lending and borrowing. … Read more
Top investor Ray Dalio has again sung Bitcoin’s praises. But only a little bit. The billionaire hedge fund boss said in his latest essay that he expected “non-government-produced monies like gold and bitcoin to do relatively well” as government debt grows. Dalio, who founded one of the world’s largest hedge funds, Bridgewater Associates, has long … Read more
Bitcoin and the broader digital asset market got a taste of “not-QE” this week — and liked it. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) jumped more than 23% toward $79,000 and Ether’s price crossed $2,400 after the US Treasury moved to double certain long-dated bond buybacks, adding fuel to an increasingly important question for digital asset … Read more
American investment firm Pantera Capital’s portfolio manager has said “smart money” is helping push bitcoin’s price higher. Cosmo Jiang, portfolio manager at the firm, said in a Friday CNBC interview that the next resistance for the coin’s price could be around $80,000 and that while small pullback was possible, “smart money” was now flooding into … Read more
Something huge just happened in the crypto world, and it’s all about Shiba Inu. The popular meme coin, often called the “Dogecoin killer,” has seen an absolutely massive price surge today. We’re talking about a jump of over 300% in just a few hours! This incredible spike wasn’t random. It was triggered by a massive … Read more
MarketsPublishedAug 21, 2026 Bitcoin’s rally above $79,000 lifted miners and treasury companies, with Canaan, Strive and Metaplanet posting double-digit gains as crypto stocks surged. Shares of Bitcoin miners and digital asset treasury companies surged toward the end of the week, tracking a broader rally across crypto markets after the US Treasury announced it would double … Read more