Over the last hour, the digital heavyweight stands at $89,884 to $90,136 per coin with a market cap of $1.79 trillion. In the past 24 hours, its trading volume soared to $47.40 billion, squeezing between an intraday low of $87,315 and a high of $89,963. Despite some faltering momentum, the charts suggest bitcoin is playing the long game—calculated, poised, and just a bit coy with the next move.

Crypto ETF flows turned mixed once again as bitcoin and ether slipped back into outflows, while XRP and solana quietly extended their winning streaks. The session reflected cautious positioning rather than broad capitulation.

Rootstock Labs and Animoca Brands Japan announce a partnership to develop Bitcoin‑native treasury and BTCFi use cases for Japanese institutions.

OKX introduces OKX Pay and OKX Card in the EU as a compliant gateway for onchain payments and DeFi access.

A Paypal and National Cryptocurrency Association survey finds 39% of U.S. merchants accept crypto and 84% expect common use within five years.

Orbs has partnered with Gryps to integrate Perpetual Hub Ultra on the Sei Network, delivering a professional‑grade perpetual futures stack powered by Layer 3 technology and Symmio smart contracts.

Steak ‘n Shake increases its bitcoin exposure by $5 million, raising the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve to $15 million.

New research shows stablecoin issuers, led by Tether, generated the majority of crypto protocol revenue in 2025, highlighting a shift away from trading-driven income toward payment and settlement infrastructure.

A new ethereum staking report shows 2025 delivered major technical upgrades and

XRP is cementing its role in live institutional payment infrastructure as Ripple’s RLUSD anchors regulated stablecoin settlement, signaling blockchain rails are now trusted, production-grade systems for global liquidity, cross-border payments, and high-value financial flows.

Silver’s explosive rally is reshaping precious metals markets as investment flows overwhelm fundamentals, pushing prices far beyond expectations and forcing Citi to dramatically lift its short-term forecast amid rising geopolitical and monetary risks.

A violent surge in gold and silver is signaling a collapsing confidence in the U.S. dollar and sovereign debt, pointing to a looming monetary crisis that investors are dangerously underestimating, Peter Schiff warns.

Bitcoin’s upside pressure is quietly building as gold and silver absorb short-term leverage, a familiar rotation that Tom Lee says has repeatedly preceded renewed strength in crypto once precious metals’ momentum fades.

Ripple is pushing deeper into corporate finance with the official launch of Ripple Treasury, embedding XRP and RLUSD into enterprise treasury systems to streamline global liquidity, payments, and institutional capital flows at scale.

Bitcoin remains locked in a tight 60-day range as pressure builds beneath the surface, with four looming macro catalysts increasing the likelihood that the market soon breaks decisively in one direction.