A $75 million loan backed by nearly half a billion dollars worth of a company’s own tokens is now at the center of a Senate push to get regulators involved in the Trump family’s crypto operations. The Loan That Raised Questions World Liberty Financial, the crypto project tied to US President Donald Trump and his…
View More Warren Zeroes In On Crypto Deal Structure As $75M Loan Draws Attention
A fire broke out at a petroleum facility in Fujairah after Iran launched four ballistic missiles at the UAE, confirming what many feared — the fragile ceasefire between Iran and the US was fracturing in real time. Oil Markets Feel The Burn Brent crude futures jumped more than 4%, hitting an intraday high above $114…
View More Iran Launches Missiles At UAE — Bitcoin Price Barely Blinks
World Liberty Financial’s native token WLFI lost roughly 17% of its value on Wednesday as a governance proposal affecting more than 62 billion WLFI tokens officially opened for community voting — and the backlash was immediate. A Token Already Deep In The Red WLFI was trading at around $0.06 at the time of writing, according…
View More WLFI Selloff Deepens After Controversial Governance Vote Goes Live
A bill to lock in the US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is being renamed the American Reserves Modernization Act — and that’s just one sign that the policy is moving faster than many expected. Congress And The White House Move In Parallel Patrick Witt, executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors for Digital Assets, told…
View More Trump’s Bitcoin Reserve Could Be Near As White House Signals Major Update
The Crypto Fear & Greed Index crept up two points to 29 out of 100 on Monday — its highest reading since late January — but that number still signals fear among Bitcoin investors. Markets had barely settled from a rough weekend before the index was being watched again as a barometer of just how…
View More Bitcoin Pulls Back Below $74K As Iran Tensions Rise Again
Bitcoin traders are already betting the wider US-Iran ceasefire will hold. Data from prediction market Polymarket puts the odds of a permanent peace deal by April 22 at 23%. Markets React To Diplomatic Breakthrough That confidence is showing up in Bitcoin’s price. The world’s largest cryptocurrency climbed to $74,650 on Thursday, bouncing back from an…
View More Bitcoin Rallies On Fragile Peace Deal Between Israel And Lebanon
(Editor’s note, April 18 – This article has been updated to include the latest cryptocurrency prices) US President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to announce that the Strait of Hormuz is now fully open for passage — a declaration that came hours after Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, confirmed the waterway would be unblocked…
View More BREAKING – Bitcoin Breaks $78K As Iran Reopens Strait Of Hormuz
Fundstrat’s chief investment officer, Tom Lee, says the next big move in markets won’t be led by stocks — it’ll be driven by crypto. Speaking Wednesday on CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” Lee argued that Bitcoin and Ether are positioned to lead the next leg of the rally, alongside the Magnificent 7 tech stocks and the broader…
View More Bitcoin Hits $76K As Tech Stocks Push Wall Street To Fresh Records
Over 97% of the TRUMP memecoin’s total supply is held by just the top 100 wallets — a concentration so extreme that even aggressive buying by large holders can be easily offset by insider selling. Whales Move Fast Before April Deadline Multiple large holders have been pulling significant amounts of the token off crypto exchanges…
View More TRUMP Buying Frenzy Builds Ahead Of Mar-A-Lago Power EventGold has quietly outrun Bitcoin by a wide margin — and one Wall Street analyst says that gap tells the real story of where markets are headed. Bitcoin’s ETF Gains Pale Against Gold’s Run Since the launch of US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds in early 2024, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust helped push Bitcoin’s price up…
View More Bitcoin ETF Hype Hits Ceiling, Sharp Drop Risk Emerges: Analyst