According to Thielen, traders are missing the key point that BTC’s failure to move lower despite the hawkish Fed is itself a bullish signal. “Traders are underestimating the upside risk from a less hawkish Fed, and overlooking the possibility that the four-year cycle has already bottomed,” he noted. Other market watchers point to erratic demand
In the last installment of this series, we talked about what “smart contracts” (or, perhaps more accurately, “self-enforcing contracts”) are, and discussed in detail the two main mechanisms through which these contracts can have “force”: smart property and “factum” currencies. We also discussed the limits of smart contracts, and how a smart contract-enabled legal system
Strategy will contribute $250 annually to Trump Accounts for eligible children of its U.S. employees, expanding its benefits beyond its core Bitcoin treasury operations. Summary Strategy will provide $250 annually for every eligible employee’s child under 18. Eligible children born from 2025 will also receive a one-time $1,000 company contribution. The benefit will begin after
There are a lot of interesting changes to the Ethereum protocol that are in the works, which will hopefully improve the power of the system, add further features such as light-client friendliness and a higher degree of extensibility, and make Ethereum contracts easier to code. Theoretically, none of these changes are necessary; the Ethereum protocol
Time is running out to get a vote on the long-awaited crypto Clarity Act, though bipartisan work is intensifying with the White House reviewing the latest draft behind closed doors, according to reports. Senator Thom Tillis said that bipartisan language drafted and sent to the White House last week is currently being reviewed by the
Senator Cynthia Lummis is pressing the Senate to vote on the CLARITY Act before its August recess as bipartisan negotiations continue over several unresolved provisions. Summary Lummis said lawmakers are negotiating the bill daily as the Senate’s legislative window narrows. Talks remain focused on CFTC authority, ethics rules, illicit finance and stablecoin yield. The legislation
In the past two weeks our lead C++ developer, Gavin Wood, and myself have been spending a lot of time meeting the local Ethereum community in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. We were very excited to see such a large amount of interest in our project, and the fact that after only two months we
AI trading agents now execute a growing share of crypto order flow with little or no human input — but the safeguards around them have not kept pace. The result is a new kind of market risk that shows up both in individual account security and in the collective behaviour of autonomous systems at scale.
Pi Network price gained more than 10% this week as rising volume, the Protocol 26 upgrade, and a new RoboPay integration improved short-term demand. Summary Pi Network price gained more than 10% this week, with trading volume rising 75% to $11.5 million. The token is testing resistance between $0.0882 and $0.0900 on the 4-hour chart.
One of the main applications of Ethereum that people have been interested in is financial contracts and derivatives. Although financial derivatives have acquired a reputation as a highly risky and destabilizing device with the sole function of enriching speculators, the underlying concept in fact has a number of legitimate uses, some of which actually help
