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An updated investigation maps the movement of funds after Bitget’s $387.5 million breach, identifying a traceable Bitcoin position alongside growing use of privacy tools.
An AI signal is only as useful as the data feeding it, and the data is only as useful as the markets it can actually see. A model focused entirely on US equities may be excellent within that universe, but it is not necessarily the tool a trader wants when Bitcoin breaks out, oil spikes or a currency cross reprices after a central-bank decision.
After years of lobbying, legal battles and legislative false starts, the digital assets industry is approaching a consequential moment in Washington. A Senate vote on September 15 could move the CLARITY Act forward—or deliver another bruising setback to the effort to establish lasting US crypto rules.
Bitcoin’s recovery above its major weekly moving averages has strengthened the long-term technical picture, but bulls still face an important test near $82,500. Is it time to buy Bitcoin?
After spending much of 2026 watching equities, AI companies and other risk assets command investors’ attention, Bitcoin broke decisively out of its summer range. The cryptocurrency climbed more than 20% in five days, briefly reaching a three-month high near $79,500 before settling around $77,000.
After months of shrinking volatility, exhausted traders and seemingly endless sideways price action, Bitcoin has finally produced the kind of candle capable of changing the entire conversation. Dave the Wave’s Bitcoin chart reveals a major trendline breakout as BTC approaches $70,000, triggering comparisons with the explosive April 2019 rally.
Bitcoin briefly touched $70,000 on Wednesday for the first time since early June, capping a dramatic session that combined Washington’s renewed push for crypto legislation, a surprise intervention in the Treasury market and one of the most violent short squeezes of the summer. President Donald Trump used a White House gathering of crypto executives to demand movement on the stalled CLARITY Act, while revealing that regulators are exploring a compliant pathway for decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid to enter the United States.
Elon Musk's payments app launched with a 6% yield, a metal Visa card and no crypto at all. The deposits sit at Cross River, and the regulator that would have policed it no longer meaningfully exists.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just gave the crypto market structure bill its most senior endorsement yet, the revised text is finally public, and prediction markets have snapped back off their lows. Here is where things stand, and what passage would unlock.
The breakthrough on the bill's most stubborn provision arrives with days to spare before the August break, and it removes the single obstacle that had stalled crypto's landmark market-structure law.
