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Bitcoin’s abrupt sell-off shocked markets, but a dip below $76,000 may reverse the trend. Will altcoins follow?

A US House representative asked Polymarket and Kalshi on how the platforms “monitor suspicious trading activity to guard against insider trading.”

AI tokens are making a strong comeback as NEARs 32% 24-hour rally to $2.30 catches traders’ attention.

Institutional crypto adoption continues to expand as Tether increases its Bitcoin exposure, Bitcoin miners pivot toward AI infrastructure and Polymarket partners with Nasdaq — despite $1 billion in crypto fund outflows driven by geopolitical tensions.

Bitcoin suffers from continuing weak US demand as BTC price action heads lower despite US stock markets breaking into price discovery.

ICE and OKX will launch Brent and WTI oil perpetual futures, expanding crypto derivatives into energy benchmarks with access limited to licensed jurisdictions.

Bitcoin mining company MARA Holdings spent $430,000 on vehicle armoring and $4.3 million on the security expenses of its CEO, Fred Thiel, during the fiscal year of 2025.

SpaceX’s IPO could turn the Mag 7 into a Mag 8, giving Elon Musk 25% of the group's Bitcoin balance-sheet exposure.

Institutions exploring DeFi are growing wary of bridge exploits, opaque risk exposure and yields that no longer justify the security tradeoffs.

The $10 million THORChain exploit was caused by a vulnerability in its GG20 signing framework, which allowed the hacker to reconstruct a private key that controlled one of the protocol vaults.

XRP Ledger added 4,300 new wallets in 24 hours while ETF inflows remain consistent, but XRP price remains stuck below key resistance levels.

Blockchain data platforms said losses climbed above $600,000 after ZachXBT flagged activity tied to a Polymarket-linked adapter.

The hacker behind the Verus bridge exploit returned $8.5 million, representing about 75% of the stolen funds, after the team successfully negotiated the recovery deal.

Bitcoin ticks boxes for a full bullish comeback as a 90-day BTC price rally makes history for uptrends that occur within a bear market.

Hamilton ETFs filed for a leveraged Bitcoin income ETF in Canada that would use covered-call and short-term options strategies to generate yield alongside BTC exposure.

UAE-backed DDSC processed a $30 million transaction on ADI Chain following recent approval from the UAE central bank for the dirham-backed stablecoin ecosystem.

Tiger Research flagged liquidity and revenue fragmentation risks tied to the SEC’s innovation exemption for third-party tokenized stock listings.

Galaxy Digital founder Mike Novogratz faced off against BitGo CEO Mike Belshe in court and told a judge he had pushed for a $1.2 billion merger with BitGo in 2021, Bloomberg reported.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has clarified that the “innovation exemption” for tokenized stock trading would only apply to digital representations of underlying equities.

The Coinbase premium hit a monthly low as institutions sold aggressively and Bitcoin ETFs saw a four-day outflow streak.

CertiK reported earlier this month that criminal wrench attack teams usually consist of three to five people and are often made up of amateurs, while the masterminds are outside the country.

Over a dozen US lawmakers have backed a new bill seeking to make Bitcoin a strategic reserve asset, which can only be sold for the purposes of slashing national debt.

The crypto industry saw three high-profile projects wind down on Thursday, bringing the total to five major companies that have shuttered in the past week.

Bitcoin’s push toward $80,000 is being backed by futures traders opening longs and stop hunting short positions.