Bitcoin, the reigning titan of the cryptocurrency market, finds itself in an unusual position as it lags behind lesser-known digital currencies in recent price gains. And on Wall Street, stocks remain resilient despite the economic rollercoaster.
Bitcoin is underperforming smaller, less well-known digital currencies following the market bellwether's spectacular recent gain.
On Friday, Cardano surged 30%, Solana saw a gain of around 8%, and Avalanche rose 12%.
Ether was down roughly 1%, while Bitcoin was up about 2%. The combined value of the two biggest tokens in cryptocurrency is around $1.6 trillion.
All eyes on the Fed ahead of Wednesday's monetary policy announcement.
S&P 500's gains of over 35% year-to-date have prompted warnings of an overbought market. Also, why Japanese stocks went down to their worst level since October 4th.
The S&P 500 set its fifteenth record of the year with a rise above 5,100 on Friday but paused near those highs on Monday. Also, what to look out for in the week ahead.
As investors prepared for a busy data week, US stocks paused after their all-time highs last week.
The HKMA handed its first approvals to the banks that already print the Hong Kong dollar. That tells you everything about what these tokens are meant to be.
Geopolitical pressure from the Strait of Hormuz standoff continues to weigh on BTC, which has failed to sustain gains above $72,500 even as whale selling dries up and leveraged shorts accumulate.
BTC retreated from a weekend high near $73,000 after the U.S. announced naval interdiction of vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, compounding an already fragile market structure.
DRW founder Don Wilson's blunt critique of MEV cuts to a deeper flaw: blockchain market design has drifted into engineering complexity that extracts value without improving price discovery or capital allocation.
