The best-performing Layer-1 this year is not ETH or SOL, it is Bitcoin Cash, up almost 40%. Most other major L1s remain deep in the red, with several down more than 50%.
🚨 BIG: BPCE, one of France’s largest banking groups, will let millions of customers trade $BTC, $ETH, $SOL and $USDC directly in its Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Épargne apps starting Monday.
Every cycle we get the same headline recycled with a new date on it. “Bitcoin is a digital tulip.” Meanwhile it has outlived every comparison, every obituary, every bubble call, and every skeptic who swore it was finished. At some point we should stop pretending this argument is original.
A 21-year-old Ukrainian student named Danylo K. was tortured, robbed of his cryptocurrency, and burned to death in Vienna in November 2025. Danylo was the son of a Kharkiv deputy mayor. Two fellow Ukrainian students were arrested for the crime.
Texas is now the first U.S. state to officially buy and hold Bitcoin. The state purchased $5M of IBIT and approved another $5M for self-custodied BTC, stepping in at a time when ETF flows and political support elsewhere have slowed.
Bitcoin whales are buying the dip. Glassnode’s Accumulation Trend Score is now near 1, signaling strong accumulation from large holders after the drop to $80,000. Small and mid-sized wallets (10–1,000 BTC) have also returned to aggressive buying.
Just In: A Cloudflare outage caused widespread disruptions across crypto apps, including Coinbase and several DeFi front-ends. Cloudflare says a fix has been deployed and monitoring is underway.
The first U.S. product tied to $SUI is now approved. 21Shares’ $TXXS ETF will trade on Nasdaq and is designed to deliver 2x the daily performance of the SUI token.
One of the biggest blows to the altcoin market over the past 2 years was the rise of Pumpfun and every copycat launchpad. And now Pumpfun is slowly dying.