Whilst Bitcoin is yet to return to its 2021 peak, its 120% pump over the year has demonstrated its formidable resilience. But the question on everyone's mind while Bitcoin ETFs are increasingly more imminent, is whether Bitcoin is primed for yet another leap? Well, if you believe the whales, it certainly is.
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Crypto Whales Are Quietly Stacking Up on Bitcoin, Should You Too?
MicroStrategy just added another 6,130 BTC whilst a mysterious whale (BitMeX) bought 12,070 Bitcoin as the SEC meets with Grayscale and BlackRock
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A Hollow Recovery?
Bitcoin has recovered 31% from its lows, but the capital behind that recovery remains questionable. Whale accumulation is rising while retail distributes, stablecoin growth stays muted and leveraged derivatives drive volume—leaving $77,000 as the next critical test.
The ColdCard "Hack" Should Not Be Called Theft
ColdCard’s security failure exposes an uncomfortable truth about self-custody: if private keys are meant to be the final authority, users cannot invoke the legal system whenever that authority produces an outcome they did not intend.
JP Morgan Is Weighing Its Own Stablecoin – Here's Why the Bank That Resisted Longest Just Moved
Three separate bank-led stablecoin efforts surfaced within days of each other this week, and JP Morgan's internal review shows how completely the competitive incentives have flipped since Jamie Dimon called stablecoins pointless little over a year ago.
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Hyperliquid in Talks With Kraken Parent Payward on US Market Entry
A deal would route a subset of Hyperliquid's perpetual futures through Payward's CFTC-regulated Bitnomial exchange, giving the decentralized platform a compliant path into the US market it has never been able to serve directly.
London Stock Exchange Partners With Payward to Explore Tokenised UK Equity Markets
LSEG plans to bring the 100 largest London-listed companies onchain as Payward's xStocks and is separately assessing a UK tokenised equity structure of its own, with trading targeted for 2027 pending regulatory approval.
Singapore Proposes Stablecoin License With 100% Reserves, No Holder Interest
MAS opened a consultation on the legislative amendments needed to bring its 2023 stablecoin framework into force, formalizing a protected "MAS-regulated stablecoin" label as regulated tokens are already being piloted in payment and settlement projects across the city-state.