Bitcoin mining difficulty reached a new all-time high above 134 trillion, underscoring network strength despite price consolidation.
BTC key levels: support at $109,000, resistance at $113,500–$114,000. ETH levels: support at $4,250–$4,300, resistance near $4,500.
Ethereum spot market share flipped Bitcoin for the first time in five years, now commanding over 50% of activity.
Ethereum ETFs suffered a record $788 million weekly outflow, while Bitcoin ETFs absorbed $246 million in net inflows.
Russia launched its largest airstrike since the start of the war, driving safe-haven demand into Treasuries and gold, while sanction threats risk pushing energy prices higher.
The industry's biggest lobbying group backs Custodia Bank's petition arguing the Federal Reserve has no discretion to deny master accounts to eligible state-chartered banks — a question Kraken's own path around the same wall already shows has more than one answer
The regulator dismantled Australia's largest cash-to-Bitcoin network using powers it already had; the AML/CTF bill now before Parliament would let it do the same to the whole sector without waiting for a company to fail first.
Jeong Sang-ho gets the same sentence as Do Kwon, but on a fraction of the alleged victim count — after a court threw out evidence tied to the case's largest fraud allegation
The Aug. 19 gathering lands a day before a CFTC advisory panel takes up the same state-versus-federal jurisdiction fight now playing out in courtrooms in at least a dozen states.
