Price Action Amid Macro Headwinds Bitcoin closed near $81,100 on Sept. 18, capping a volatile week defined by macroeconomic shifts and regulatory setbacks. The asset had reached an intraday high of $81,400 on Friday, but remains within 1% to 1.4% of the immediate resistance zone identified at $82,000 to $82,200. This low-$82,000
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AI Agents Set to Strain L1 Capacity Bart Smith, the chief executive of Avalanche Treasury Company, stated that the entry of artificial intelligence agents into financial markets will create a demand for blockchain blockspace that current networks cannot sustain. Speaking at the Avalanche Summit in New York on Wednesday, Smith argued
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Sentiment Shifts from Greed to Fear Bitcoin (BTC) market sentiment has reversed course, transitioning from a period of fear of missing out (FOMO) to fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD). This shift coincides with recent legislative setbacks and macroeconomic developments that have tempered optimism in digital asset markets. The Fear & Greed Index,
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ETF Reversal Wipes Out Recent InflowsU.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net outflow of $450 million on Sept. 15, according to data from Farside. This single-day withdrawal erased the $159 million net inflow recorded in the previous session. The reversal marks a significant shift in fund flows, which had seen
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Strive Adds 469 Bitcoin to Reach 25,000-Unit Mark Strive, a Nasdaq-listed asset manager, has reached a total Bitcoin holding of 25,000 coins following the purchase of 469 additional BTC between September 8 and September 11, 2026. The company disclosed the transaction in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange
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Relocation of 60 Positions Announced Bitcoin Suisse, a pioneer in Switzerland’s Crypto Valley, has announced plans to relocate up to 60 positions from its headquarters in Zug to Bratislava, Slovakia, or Vietnam. The move affects up to half of the company’s current Swiss-based workforce. This restructuring marks a significant strategic pivot
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Macro Pressure Meets Price Resilience Bitcoin (BTC) is holding the $75,000 level, demonstrating resilience against a backdrop of intensifying macroeconomic headwinds. The primary driver of this pressure is recent U.S. inflation data, which has accelerated significantly. According to AMBCrypto, U.S. inflation rose 0.4% in August, a sharp increase from the 0.1%
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Competing blocks at height 966,500Bitcoin experienced a small blockchain reorganization on Sept. 11 when two mining pools produced valid competing blocks at the same height. The event occurred at block height 966,500, where SpiderPool and AntPool independently built blocks on the same parent block. According to Galaxy Research, SpiderPool’s version
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Petition Centers on Whether Customers Lost Money Sam Bankman-Fried has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate the fraud conviction that sent him to federal prison for 25 years, according to a petition reviewed by The New York Times. The filing, submitted Thursday, asks the justices to intervene in what his
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Two New Pairs, One Supported Chain Upbit, the South Korean exchange that leads the domestic market by trading volume, began matching BFC orders against the South Korean won and USDT at 13:45 KST (04:45 UTC) on Sept. 10. The two pairs join an existing Bitcoin-denominated market on the platform, where BFC
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