A sudden wave of selling hit crypto markets in the early hours of Friday, as reports of an Israeli airstrike on Iran set off fresh jitters. Bitcoin sank 5%, slipping under the $104,000 mark. Altcoins fared worse, with losses ranging from 6% to 9%. Based on reports from Coinglass, more than $1 billion was wiped…
First slowly, then all at once. For years, crypto toiled in the darkness, a band of outlaws frowned upon by elites in Washington and in the media. Then came the market rallies, and Trump, and legislation like the GENIUS Act. Now crypto is finally everywhere. Look at the big news this week. Amazon and Walmart…
Solana’s SOL SOL dropped 7.87% to $147.07 over the past 24 hours, as traders reacted to renewed volatility across crypto markets. After opening at $159.60, SOL fell sharply during late Thursday and early Friday trading, reaching a low of $142.13 before stabilizing above the $147 mark. Key intraday volume spikes suggest some accumulation near support,…
Cardano’s ADA token declined 6.01% to $0.6412 as the market reacted to both macro volatility and a heated governance debate over a proposed $100 million treasury allocation aimed at strengthening the DeFi ecosystem. On Wednesday, the TapTools team asked its followers on X what they think about the idea of deploying 140 million ADA (around…
Bitcoin’s recent price action has shown signs of fading momentum three weeks after reaching a new all-time high of $111,814. The leading cryptocurrency climbed back above $110,000 on Monday off the back of cooling U.S. inflation data and a temporarily weaker dollar. However, the rally was short-lived. Profit-taking, compounded by geopolitical tensions between Israel and…
The cryptocurrency ATOM has experienced significant volatility amid growing concerns about the situation in the middle east. Israel started a bombing campaign in Iran on Friday morning, spurring a market wide sell off. After falling 9.25% from $4.43 to a low of $4.02, ATOM found critical support around the $4.04 level before stabilizing near $4.08….
Conflict between Israel and Iran spurred a crypto market sell-off on Friday, with NEAR Protocol experiencing significant price volatility despite impressive adoption metrics. The protocol has emerged as a leading Layer-1 solution, surpassing established competitors like Ethereum, Binance Chain, and Tron in monthly active users, highlighting a growing shift in user preferences toward platforms offering…
SharpLink Gaming (SBET), the public firm pivoting to a crypto treasury strategy focused on Ethereum, revealed on Friday it acquired 176,271 ether ETH for nearly $463 million. The purchase makes the firm the largest ETH holder among publicly traded companies, SharpLink said in a press release. The company tapped its $1 billion at-the-market (ATM) common…
Bitcoin Magazine UK Gold Mining Company Bluebird to Convert Gold Revenues into Bitcoin Bluebird Mining Ventures Ltd., a pan Asian gold project development company, recently announced a major strategic shift. It plans to convert future revenues from its gold mining projects into bitcoin and adopt bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. Strategy shift to covert…
Ethereum faced intense selling pressure earlier today as geopolitical tensions flared following Israel’s attack on Iran, shaking global markets and triggering risk-off behavior across crypto. The sudden spike in volatility pushed Ethereum away from its recent highs, as it retraced after failing to break above the critical $3,000 resistance level. This marks a pivotal moment…
