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Bitcoin’s BTC$75,370.02 price action looked strangely lethargic early last month even as traditional assets such as precious metals and equities pushed to fresh highs.The world’s largest cryptocurrency repeatedly failed to clear the $90,000 level — a stall that, in hindsight, foreshadowed the recent sharp sell-off to $75,000. At the time, traders blamed everything from a flight to safer assets and fading crypto demand to churns in spot ETF flows and month-end positioning. But some analysts say the real story was visible well before prices broke down — sitting in plain sight in exchange order books.According to Keith Alan, co-founder of…

This is the lowest levels in well over a month for the index. It’s almost difficult to imagine that just a couple of weeks ago, bitcoin was riding high above $95,000, and the community was speculating about a potential run toward a six-digit price territory for the first time in 2026. Not only did that rally fail to materialize, but the bears woke up in the middle of winter and initiated several consecutive leg-downs that ultimately crashed BTC to a multi-month low. With that, the overall sentiment plummeted as well. Fear and Greed Goes South The popular Bitcoin Fear and…

The Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow has reportedly ordered that BitRiver CEO Igor Runets be held in house arrest amid tax evasion charges.  The founder and CEO of Russian Bitcoin mining firm BitRiver, Igor Runets, has reportedly been detained and charged with multiple counts of tax evasion. According to reports from local media outlets such as RBK and Kommersant on Sunday, Runets was detained on Friday and is facing three charges for allegedly concealing assets to evade taxes.The outlets cite court documents from the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow indicating that Runets was charged on Saturday and ordered to be placed under house arrest…

Standard Chartered warns stablecoins could pull up to $500B from bank deposits in developed markets by 2028. U.S. banks are increasingly at risk of losing deposits to the digital assets space as stablecoins continue to gain traction. The concern comes amid growing stablecoin adoption, with the total supply in circulation having risen by roughly 40% over the past year to just over $300 billion. Long-term Funding Concerns A Bloomberg report citing analysis from Geoff Kendrick, global head of crypto research at Standard Chartered, estimates that stablecoins could cause the exit of as much as $500 billion in deposits from lenders…

Key takeaways:SOL fell to 2026 lows as tech sector layoffs and artificial intelligence revenue concerns hit markets.Despite the bleak environment, Solana outpaced competitors with network fees jumping 81%, securing its vice-leadership.Solana’s native token, SOL (SOL), traded down to $100.30 on Saturday, reaching its lowest levels since April 2025. While the 18% price correction over 30 days took traders by surprise, the movement largely mirrored broader altcoin market capitalization trends. A 26% crash in silver prices on Friday further prompted cryptocurrency traders to brace for additional downside. SOL/USD (orange) vs. altcoin market capitalization (blue). Source: TradingViewSOL was able to reclaim the…

Crypto prices extended their recent decline Saturday, with top assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP plunging to prices not seen in several months or more, with liquidations continuing to climb throughout the day.Bitcoin is down 8% over the last day at a recent price of $77,195, according to CoinGecko, marking the lowest price seen in nine months and extending its weekly slide to over 13%. The price of the top cryptocurrency has fallen nearly 39% since peaking above $126,000 in October.Meanwhile, Ethereum is showing a much harder hit, falling 13% on the day to a recent price of $2,362 and…

Pay-on-behalf experiments are expanding crypto payment acceptance, but some experts have regulatory concerns. A small group of startups is quietly showing that crypto can be spent at regular stores without forcing merchants to change their point-of-sale systems or learn complicated new procedures.They work through a pay-on-behalf system, where shoppers scan the merchant’s usual bank QR code, send crypto into an app or escrow wallet, and a local partner pays the merchant in fiat. The crypto goes to the local partner after the merchant gets paid, so the app or escrow wallet holds the funds until the payment is settled, acting…

Bitcoin’s fall of around 7% to $77,000 on Saturday might have marked the low of this cycle, according to Bitcoin analyst PlanC.It comes as other crypto analysts continue to call for further downside for Bitcoin (BTC) in the coming months.“Decent chance this will be the deepest pullback opportunity this Bitcoin bull run,” PlanC said in an X post on Saturday.PlanC compares Bitcoin’s fall to previous bear market cyclesBitcoin fell 7% to around $77,000 on Saturday and has since slightly moved up to $78,690 at the time of publication, according to CoinMarketCap. Bitcoin is down 11.44% over the past 30 days.…

As the Ethereum (ETH) price reels from a sharp sell-off, few names have drawn more attention than BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the public company chaired by Fundstrat’s Tom Lee.Once a modest crypto-mining hardware firm, BitMine reinvented itself as the largest corporate holder of Ethereum, amassing roughly 4.24 million ETH, or about 3.5% of the total supply.BitMine’s $6 Billion Wound Puts Tom Lee’s ETH Treasury on the BrinkWith the ETH price now trading near multi-month lows and social media buzzing about $5–7 billion in unrealized losses, a single question dominates crypto Twitter: what would actually happen if BitMine sold its Ethereum…

SUI is approaching a critical smart money zone, with price action signaling that big moves could be on the horizon. Sustained trading above $2 may trigger a breakout, setting the stage for the next significant leg higher. SUI Reaches Stage For Major Money Entry Crypto analyst Crypto Patel, in a recent post, highlighted that SUI is at the same stage where big money typically enters the market, urging traders not to miss this opportunity. According to the weekly chart, the long-term ascending channel remains intact, and price is currently trading near a sell-side liquidity grab close to trendline support, signaling…