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Bitcoin has now surpassed 78,900 dollars after Wednesday's drop. BTC trades around 78,800 dollars, with a rise of more than 2% during the day. The movement also benefits several altcoins. Arbitrum continues its rally and PONS recorded a new high above 0.50 dollar. The dollar declines in parallel and gives some breathing room back to risky assets.

The digital assets market is seeing an emerging strategy linked to stocks: token buybacks. Since January, crypto groups have dedicated nearly $640 million to their own assets, according to Allium Labs data. Hyperliquid and pump.fun account for nearly 90% of the recorded amounts. For the projects involved, these operations aim to reduce the available supply and strengthen the connection between activity, revenue, and token value.

Trump reportedly earned $1.4 billion from crypto in 2025, while Public Citizen estimates investor losses at $4.7 billion. Analysis.

Despite Trump’s decree on alternative assets, 77% of Americans consider crypto too risky for their retirement savings. Analysis.

A possible sale of Hugging Face raises questions about the value of platforms that structure the open source ecosystem again. According to Business Insider, the company has reportedly hired a bank to probe buyers, with a potential valuation of 13 billion dollars or even more. No agreement exists yet and the buyers remain unknown. This hypothesis comes a few weeks after an intrusion related to an OpenAI AI agent, adding a new issue to this file already followed by global investors.

Peter Schiff believes that artificial intelligence threatens bitcoin by capturing capital, electricity, and data centers.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the priorities of major technology groups. In China, Alibaba is preparing a new step with a $10 billion fundraising round. This operation now takes place as technology investments are sharply reducing profits and cash flows. The group is therefore looking for new ways to support its expansion while accelerating its technological capabilities.

The founder of Evergrande, former 2nd richest in Asia, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for fraud. Impact on the Chinese economy: the summary.

Gold had its best year since 1979 in 2025, with dozens of successive records. Early 2026, it surpassed 5,500 dollars per ounce before falling sharply in spring. This wide fluctuation sums up the question investors ask themselves: should you still buy gold now, and especially how? Between physical bullion, ETFs, mining stocks, and tokenized gold, entry points have never been so numerous or so unequal.

The contraction of the crypto market no longer only affects investors. It now threatens the financial structure of the main trading platforms. eToro provided concrete evidence by publishing its quarterly results on August 11, 2026. Indeed, the decline in crypto trading volume contrasts with the increased interest in stocks and other more conventional investments. This transition forces the major FinTech company to quickly strengthen its diversification while revealing the new emerging power dynamics in the online brokerage field.

Crypto ETF: Grayscale withdraws its Cardano, Hedera and Polkadot files in 190 seconds, without any explanation. Details here!

Intesa Sanpaolo's latest SEC filing reveals a radical shift in its crypto ETF: less BTC, more staked Ethereum. The details!

The South Korean market is going through a phase of high volatility that fuels questions about the valuations of technology companies. In just two sessions, the KOSPI experienced a historic decline, while tensions are also spreading to AI-related bond markets. This correction comes as investors had massively favored semiconductor and digital infrastructure stocks, considered the main growth drivers since the beginning of the year.

Gold rebounds after a 26% drop. Fund managers consider it undervalued for the first time since March 2023. Complete analysis.

This Thursday, July 16, SpaceX, Elon Musk's aerospace company, suffered a major setback on the stock market, ending the euphoria surrounding its IPO. After igniting markets and attracting investors worldwide, its stock crossed a symbolic threshold that changes Wall Street's perspective. This break could mark a turning point for one of the most watched companies of the year.

The venture capital market is evolving rapidly, driven by new technological priorities and increasingly distinct trade-offs. In this context, Paradigm announces the closing of a new 1.2 billion dollar fund aimed at financing projects related to AI and robotics while continuing certain activities in cryptocurrency. This operation illustrates a redistribution of capital towards emerging technologies, as crypto fundraisings become rarer and focus on a limited number of large-scale operations.

With a new purchase of $74M, BitMine strengthens its Ethereum treasury. Comprehensive analysis of a major institutional strategy.

In an already tense context for tokenized real estate, RealT initiates a decisive step with the voluntary liquidation of its American structures. The project, which attracted thousands of investors worldwide, especially in France, now undertakes the progressive sale of its entire real estate portfolio. This decision comes as the company faces increasing legal, financial, and operational pressures, calling into question the solidity of its initial model.

Standard Chartered sees AAVE reaching $3,500 by the end of 2030. This scenario would place the token nearly 50 times above its $70 level observed at the time of the report's publication. The bank is counting on the return of Aave, the rise of DeFi, and the arrival of traditional assets on the blockchain.

The predictive market platform Kalshi is negotiating a valuation of $40 billion. Everything you need to know about this historic fundraising.

Michael Saylor does not seem ready to slow down. As the STRC goes through a turbulent zone, the Strategy boss hints that a new massive bitcoin purchase could be imminent. The market is holding its breath.

BlackRock has just launched BITA on Nasdaq today, a Bitcoin ETF targeting 15 to 25% annual yield via a covered-call strategy on IBIT. All the details here!

While the market questions Ethereum, some institutional investors have chosen to acquire more. BitMine, clearly, fits into this perspective, with massive accumulations of ETH, aiming for a position contrary to the current trend, to better rebound at the end of the tunnel in an ecosystem more than ever plagued with doubt. This strategy today allows the company to approach an unexpected threshold, with a portfolio valued at over 10 billion dollars and a growing share of the global Ethereum supply under its control.

Exchange platforms had to review their operation around tokenized shares. Binance, Bybit, and Bitget refunded their clients after the failure of an allocation linked to SpaceX. This case occurs at a time closely watched by the crypto market, as Elon Musk’s space company attracts strong attention regarding its valuation and its pre-IPO access.

BlackRock is about to launch $BITA, its brand new Bitcoin ETF focused on passive income (Covered-Calls). We explain how this product will change the game for the crypto market.

Tom Lee waters his ethers like a perched gardener, but his beautiful garden suffers 10 billion losses. Crypto no longer understands anything.

While the greatest teams on the planet prepare to step onto the North American fields, another indicator is already drawing attention: that of prediction markets. Before the kickoff of the first match of the 2026 World Cup, bets on dedicated platforms have surpassed two billion dollars, a threshold that testifies to the rise of this new form of collective anticipation. Between trader enthusiasm, tight competition among favorites, and a new competition format, this World Cup is already a large-scale laboratory for the prediction market industry.

Bitcoin loses billions in flows in 2026. Bernstein has just put the figures on the table. And they are conclusive. Decryption.