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.
He would become at least the tenth of 18 co-defendants to admit guilt in a case prosecutors have built as their first Bitcoin-focused RICO prosecution.
The Singapore-to-New York transfer settled in minutes rather than the usual two business days, adding a concrete use case to banks' broader push toward always-on tokenized settlement rails.
The federation's peg-out authorization key needed just 11 of 15 signatures to move nearly 4,000 BTC out of the sidechain, exposing a validation bug that Blockstream says had gone unpatched in its Elements codebase for more than two years.
Bitcoin looks calm on the surface, but ETF inflows, thin liquidity, leverage and geopolitical risk are building a market primed for a sharp move in either direction.
