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Oil Price Drops 5% on Iran Deal, But Recovery Won’t be Easy

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Spot Brent crude oil prices crashed more than 5% on Wednesday after President Donald Trump told PBS a US-Iran agreement could land before his upcoming visit to China. The slide reflected investor bets that the closed Strait of Hormuz will fully reopen. However, Rystad Energy warned a breakthrough alone will not restore normal flows. Trump … Read more

XRP Flashes a 17% Breakout Hope But 1.5 Billion Tokens Stand in the Way

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XRP price has flashed multiple breakout signals at once, but a wall of 1.5 billion tokens at break-even stands in the way of the 17% rally target. A cup and handle pattern just broke out and a standard bullish divergence triggered the reversal. Meanwhile, a potential bullish crossover could be forming. While the technical setup … Read more

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Discusses a New Asset Class

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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink told the Milken Institute that surging compute demand could spawn an entirely new asset class. Traders may one day buy and sell futures contracts on raw computing power, he said. Speaking at the conference in Beverly Hills, Fink described compute as scarce enough to need its own derivatives market. He placed … Read more

Hantavirus Scare Sparks Bitcoin Crash Fears, Is 2020 Repeating?

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The WHO has sounded global alarms over a hantavirus outbreak that has already claimed three lives on the MV Hondius cruise ship. Bitcoin investors are recalling Black Thursday in March 2020. The parallel with the start of COVID-19 reopens doubts about a possible sharp reaction from the crypto market. What is Hantavirus and why is … Read more

BloFin Research: Gold’s Three-Phase Demand Expansion

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Gold’s current rally is rooted in a sequential expansion of structurally distinct buyer classes, sovereign, institutional, and crypto-native, each adding demand without displacing prior layers, in contrast to prior gold cycles where price strength depended on a single dominant category of buyer. Central banks purchased above 1,000 tonnes annually for three consecutive years (2022–2024), establishing … Read more

Jim Cramer’s Reset Call Could Impede Bitcoin Move Reclaiming Its Bull Market Support

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Bitcoin (BTC) climbed back above $82,000 on Tuesday, recovering ground last held in late January, as CNBC’s Jim Cramer told viewers US equities had cooled enough to support another leg higher. BTC traded near $82,450 on Binance, up roughly 1.9% on the day. Cramer flagged compute-AI, financials, travel and leisure, and Middle East rebuild manufacturing … Read more

Bitcoin Bear Market Not Over, Benjamin Cowen Says Despite Recent Rally

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Bitcoin’s recent rally has not convinced Benjamin Cowen that the bear market is over. The Into the Cryptoverse founder warns the current move is likely to top within weeks before another decline, with a possible low arriving in October. His thesis hinges on a pattern that repeated in 2014, 2018, and 2019, when Bitcoin climbed … Read more

South Korea’s KOSPI Breaks 7,000 Ceiling To Hit a New Record High

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South Korea’s KOSPI broke through 7,000 for the first time in history on Wednesday. The index closed 6.45% higher at a record 7,384.56 in a rally driven by surging demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips. The benchmark is up roughly 75% year-to-date after gaining 76% in 2025, its strongest year since 1999. Follow us on … Read more

Solana Works With Google Cloud To Make AI Agents Pay in Stablecoins

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The Solana Foundation and Google Cloud launched Pay.sh, a pay-as-you-go marketplace that lets AI agents settle payments in stablecoins on Solana. The platform replaces accounts and subscriptions with pay-per-use API payments via the x402 protocol. This lets services like Gemini, BigQuery, and Vertex AI be used directly, even by autonomous software. Solana Powers a New … Read more