As bitcoin BTC held above $118,000 after hitting a record high, U.S. crypto stocks showed gains in pre-market trading. Strategy (MSTR), the holder of the biggest BTC stash among publicly traded companies, rose more than 3% and BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) added 4%. Crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN)...

This is a daily analysis of top tokens with CME futures by CoinDesk analyst and Chartered Market Technician Omkar Godbole. Bitcoin: Resistance at $120K? Bitcoin’s (BTC) upswing has gathered pace, as indicated by the “negative dealer gamma buildup” and IBIT’s bull flag breakout. Bull momentum looks strong, evidenced by...

Bitcoin BTC reached an all-time high on Thursday, and is now in price discovery above $117,000, but the largest cryptocurrency by market cap remains below earlier records set against gold, benchmark equity indexes and the British pound. That’s because much of the recent rally reflects the weakness of the...

Bitcoin’s (BTC) decisive break above $118,000 has flipped the risk-on switch for crypto markets, and traders are now watching if altcoins follow with similar momentum or get left behind in a BTC-dominant rally. Historically, bitcoin breaking to new highs acts as a liquidity signal, pulling sidelined capital back into...

Bitcoin’s (BTC) bull runs have evolved. Gone are the days of adrenaline-pumping rallies marked by wild price swings that kept traders awake night after night in fear of sudden whipsaws and liquidations of leveraged bets. Now, prices climb steadily, much like the boring bull runs in stock markets. For...

Pump.fun has acquired Kolscan, a real-time wallet tracker known for monitoring the activity of top onchain traders, in a move aimed at deepening its presence in the crypto data and trading ecosystem. Kolscan tracks wallet behavior, token profit and loss, and ranks trader performance on a public leaderboard, giving...

News BackgroundMarket sentiment around XRP improved following the rise of Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin, which crossed $500M in market cap earlier this week — a symbolic milestone for the XRP-backed ecosystem.Meanwhile, traders are increasingly pricing in favorable regulatory outcomes for Ripple in U.S. and Asia-Pacific jurisdictions. This optimism, coupled with...

Web3 gaming continued its retrenchment in the second quarter of 2025, with daily unique active wallets falling 17% quarter-over-quarter, and funding collapsing 93% year-over-year to just $73 million – the lowest in two years – according to a new report from DappRadar. The downturn marks a broader correction in...

What to know: DOGE surged 10.3% between July 10 04:00 and July 11 03:00, jumping from $0.180 to $0.199 with a breakout fueled by 564.05M volume — well above the 24-hour average of 334.72M. The breakout began at 16:00, with key support cemented at $0.179 and high-volume rejection zones...

Bitcoin (BTC) blew past $118,000, resulting in the biggest bloodbath of the year for leveraged bears. In the past 24 hours, over $1.13 billion in positions were liquidated, with a staggering $1.01 billion of that coming from short sellers, marking the largest short-side wipeout of 2025 so far.Open interest...