Crypto enters CPI day at significant price zones for BTC and ETH, with ETH’s breakout above $4K fueling a broad risk-on tone.
Institutional positioning remains net long, although ETF MVRV’s rise to 2.43 points to elevated unrealized profits and potential profit-taking risk. ETF flow resilience and on-chain accumulation signal structural demand remains intact, even if short-term volatility spikes post-data.
On-chain and derivatives data confirm seller exhaustion and measured re-leveraging, but CPI is now the critical short-term trigger.
The shift follows a 2025 edition that drew more than 11,000 attendees from 90 countries, and adds closed-door tokenization roundtables to a festival previously built around a single unified stage.
The exchange is enforcing Brussels' sanctions list to the letter, down to the exact spelling of each entity's name — the same pattern it followed with Iran-linked platforms two weeks earlier
After weeks of selling BTC to fund preferred dividends, Strategy raised $334 million through MSTR share sales and made no bitcoin purchases or sales at all — a pause inside a $5 billion monetization program the company approved just weeks earlier
Anchorpoint's HKDAP entered phase-one Beta Access on August 12 with HashKey and OSL as distributors — a controlled first step for the token Blockhead called a parallel, tightly controlled track rather than an open market
