Bitcoin Bears Boost Shorts, Will Bulls Liquidate Them And Reverse BTC Price?

Rewrite this content into a 1000-word SEO friendly article: Key takeaways: Over-leveraged Bitcoin short positions between $63,000 and $66,000 have created a potential $2.6 billion squeeze trap for bears. Negative perpetual funding rates indicate that bulls have fully deleveraged, significantly reducing downside risk. The Bitcoin (BTC) crash to $61,100 on Friday wiped out $335 million … Read more

Crypto Tax Proposals Weighed Ahead of Tuesday House Hearing

Rewrite this content into a 1000-word SEO friendly article: The US House Ways and Means Committee circulated seven discussion drafts of bills to address digital asset taxation ahead of a Tuesday hearing on the matter, covering stablecoins, staking, mining and transactions. Among proposals in the draft legislation are reducing the tax paperwork required for crypto … Read more

Travala Launches AI Hotel Booking Protocol With USDC on Base

Rewrite this content into a 1000-word SEO friendly article: Singapore-based crypto travel platform Travala has launched a protocol it says lets artificial intelligence agents search, reserve and pay for hotels with USDC (USDC) on layer-2 blockchain Base, extending agentic AI stablecoin payments into travel bookings. The Travala Travel MCP is live through Claude Desktop, with … Read more

Visa Tests Private Stablecoin Settlement on Canton Network

Rewrite this content into a 1000-word SEO friendly article: Visa is testing whether privacy-enabled blockchain networks can support institutional stablecoin settlement without exposing sensitive transaction data, in a proof of concept with stablecoin infrastructure company Brale and the Canton Network, a permissioned ledger backed by major Wall Street firms. The project, announced Thursday, uses SBC, … Read more

Crypto Billionaires Bankroll Reform UK in First-Quarter

Rewrite this content into a 1000-word SEO friendly article: Nigel Farage’s Reform UK received 7 million British pounds ($9.4 million) from two crypto billionaires this year, with total funds raised outstripping all other political parties. The party received a $4 million donation from Christopher Harborne, who has a stake in the stablecoin issuer Tether, and … Read more

OCC Head Says he only Feels ‘Political Pressure’ from Democrats over Crypto Trust Charter

Rewrite this content into a 1000-word SEO friendly article: Jonathan Gould, the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) nominated by Donald Trump, implied that the US president had not ordered him to approve or give special consideration to a national trust charter application tied to his family’s financial interests. In a Thursday hearing of the House Financial … Read more

Saylor Says Bitcoin Slide Is Capital Rotation as Strategy Loss Grows

Rewrite this content into a 1000-word SEO friendly article: Strategy’s Bitcoin holdings fell deep into paper-loss territory as BTC traded below the company’s average purchase price, renewing scrutiny of Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin treasury model. Strategy holds 843,706 Bitcoin (BTC) acquired at an average price of $75,699 per coin, with a total cost basis of $63.8 … Read more