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Ethereum pays validators to secure the network: creating a reference rate for an entire on-chain financial economy. A proposal to taper it to zero ignited a debate among core developers, The post The Fight Over Ethereum s Security Budget appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
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Equities spent the past two weeks setting all-time highs (ATH) while bitcoin met resistance at the same $65,000-65,500 region level six times. Between 5 and 10 August, the market printed The post Strong Resistance at $62-65,000 Continues as Long-Term Holder Supply Declines appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Few things frustrate traders more than a false breakout. You sell the breakdown, only to watch the price recover yet again. You buy the recovery, only for momentum to disappear. The post Chart Decoder Series: Rate of Change: How Traders Measure Momentum Behind A Move appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Wall Street, DeFi engineers and corporate treasurers have converged on the same conclusion: it would be good if bitcoin could pay. So-called bitcoin yield products provide a potential solution. For The post How Bitcoin Is Being Put To Work appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
In this week’s Bitfinex Alpha we argued that the bitcoin narrative lies in how the broader market responds to key levels. Isolated short-term price moves carry less signal. One of The post Bitcoin Decouples While the Range Holds appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
On August 11, 2020, a business intelligence company bought 21,454 Bitcoin at roughly $11,650 per coin. Then over the next 6 years, it just kept buying. It bought through euphoric The post Master Dollar-Cost Averaging with Bitfinex Recurring Buy appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Solana’s Alpenglow upgrade aims to finalise transactions in less time than a webpage takes to load, as part of an extensive upgrade cycle running throughout 2026 that touches everything from The post Why Solana s Alpenglow Upgrade is More Than Just About Speed appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
August will test whether the economy is in a conventional slowdown, a renewed inflation phase, or an uncomfortable mix of both. The key catalysts to watch will be employment (7 The post What Bitfinex Traders Should Watch in August 2026 appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Today’s Fed decision on rates will likely set Bitcoin’s near-term trajectory, but the real signal will show in the trading sessions that follow. Flow data will reveal if ETF demand The post Reaching $68,000 Rests On Whether Buyers Return appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Three years after Bitfinex covered Ark as an unimplemented proposal, two different implementations — Ark Labs Arkade and Second s Bark — are now live on Bitcoin mainnet and gaining real-world The post Building Financial Infrastructure on Bitcoin with Ark appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Bitcoin has ground higher for a second week, printing $66,990 on 21 July, 2026, its highest price since mid-June. The price is now up 15.9 percent since the $57,803 current The post The Climb Towards $68,000 Continues appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
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The anticipated launch of USDt on RGB in 2026 would bring the stablecoin back to Bitcoin for the first time since its early Omni Layer implementation. When Bitfinex last wrote The post Will USDt-on-RGB accelerate RGB Adoption? appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Margin trading isn t new. Long before crypto existed, traders were borrowing capital to take larger positions in stocks, commodities and fiat currencies. Cryptocurrency simply took the same idea and made The post How to Trade Margin on Bitfinex appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
The softest US inflation print since 2020 drove bitcoin to a $65,086 close on Tuesday, up 4.4 percent and its highest level since 22 June. A repricing of macroeconomic expectations The post The Borrowed Bid appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Bitcoin has rebounded from its late June lows, climbing back above $64,000 even as the Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, began monetising part of its Bitcoin holdings. At the same time, The post Chart Decoder Series: Donchian Channels: How Traders Spot Breakouts appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Bitcoin’s temporary soft-fork proposal, BIP-110, has struggled to attract broad support, but its significance extends beyond whether it is ultimately implemented. Supporters see the proposal as a principled defence of The post BIP-110 and Bitcoin’s High Bar for Consensus Change appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Bitcoin’s largest corporate treasury accumulator, Strategy, announced its first major bitcoin sale over the last week. However, the market has taken it well. After reaching a cycle low of $57,803 The post Strategy s BTC Divestment Sparks Buying Not Exodus appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Tokenisation is widening access to real-world assets, from Treasury-linked products and gold to more specialised credit, commodity and cash-flow structures. As the RWA category expands, however, the token itself is The post Tokenised RWAs: Access Is Just the Beginning appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
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Key Levels at a Glance Level Value Read Cycle low $58,000 (25 June) Retested 30 June, held by $56 Weekly Open $59,590 (29 June) Spot trades below it $60,000 shelf The post The Retest, and the Seller That Never Left appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Wednesday 1 July: Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing survey Prices-paid is the live cost-push gauge to watch. The May headline hit 54, the strongest reading since 2022. Thursday 2 The post What Bitfinex Traders Should Watch in July appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
The Bank of England has abandoned proposed individual holding limits for systemic sterling stablecoins, moving instead to a £40 billion issuer-level cap. On the eve of MiCA entering full enforcement The post Could the UK Become Crypto s Stablecoin Hub? appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Bitcoin is holding its range, but that range is below the gamma flip, with aggregate market maker exposure now negative rather than positive. In this regime, dealer hedging amplifies moves The post Options Expiries To Trigger Potential BTC Volatility appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Bank of England policymaker Megan Greene predicts tokenised deposits will overtake stablecoins within five years. Yet the more important question is what kind of digital money ecosystem emerges. In the The post The Battle between Stablecoins and Tokenised Deposits appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
BTC spot prices have recovered 13 percent off its low, but this reflects selling exhaustion, not demand. Our view below on the triggers that decide the next leg and what The post Complacency Bounce Reaches Resistance appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
The discovery of a years-old vulnerability in Zcash s shielded pool, found with the help of an Anthropic AI model just days before the company launched its most powerful version yet, The post Could AI Be Crypto s Next Security Reckoning? appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
SAN SALVADOR, EL SALVADOR, 11 June, 2026 – Bitfinex Securities, a regulated platform for raising capital and trading tokenised securities, today released new analysis of how tokenisation can play a The post Bitfinex Securities Report identifies tokenisation as a tool for rebuilding Venezuela’s economy appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
The Bitfinex Change Log is an overview of all performance and UI changes made to the Bitfinex trading platform. For an overview of all previous changes, please refer to blog.bitfinex.com/category/changelogs. The post Change Log: Version 1.133 appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
What the data confirmed In last week’s Bitfinex Alpha Intelligence Update, The Floor That Broke, we highlighted the ‘air gap’ present below $72,000, a thin band of realised-price distribution that The post The BTC Air Gap Closes appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Bitcoin s recent slide from above $82,000 to $59,200 has been one of the sharpest corrections of the year. As ETF outflows accelerated and leveraged positions got flushed from the market, The post Chart Decoder Series: Parabolic SAR: How Traders Spot Potential Trend Reversals appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Hyperliquid has become one of crypto’s most closely watched derivatives venues in 2026. Its native token, HYPE, has climbed roughly 180% this year, reaching a new all-time high above $75 The post Can HYPE Sustain its Momentum? appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
In late May Bitfinex Alpha flagged that the institutional bid was gradually disappearing and that $70,000 for Bitcoin was the next structural floor. The spot Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) tape The post The Floor That Broke appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Friday 5 June, US Non-Farm Payrolls (May) This opening salvo for the month will shape interest rate expectations heading into the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Soft employment data will The post What Bitfinex Traders Should Watch in June appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Vitalik Buterin wants Ethereum to stop competing primarily on speed and focus instead on what the Ethereum Foundation calls CROPS, the cypherpunk properties of censorship resistance, openness, privacy and security. The post Vitalik’s Vision for Ethereum: CROPS Not Speed appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Originally published in American Banker on 26 May 2026 A recent note from the IMF highlights tokenisation as a structural shift in financial architecture; it reconfigures trust, settlement, and risk The post The IMF Is Right About Tokenisation but Misses the Point appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Our view on bitcoin is cautious heading into Thursday s, May 29, Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) report for April. Spot price has stabilised within a tight $74,000-$80,000 channel following the $766 The post Leverage Reheats as BTC Price Structure Weakens appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
As the CLARITY Act moves closer to a full Senate vote, one of its most important contributions may ultimately be a mechanism for separating a token s secondary-market status from the The post How The CLARITY Act Could Reshape Crypto s Secondary Markets appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
BTC is under pressure. After repeated rejections from the $80K to $83K region, price has now broken lower and is testing below $78K, right around the monthly open. At the The post Chart Decoder Series Volume Profile Fixed Range: How This Move Was Built appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
The Bitfinex Change Log is an overview of all performance and UI changes made to the Bitfinex trading platform. For an overview of all previous changes, please refer to blog.bitfinex.com/category/changelogs. The post Change Log: Version 1.132 appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
What actually moved the tape The week opened with markets pricing in a fragile ceasefire in Iran and a 10-year Treasury yield of 4.6 percent. Sentiment shifted rapidly as Donald The post BTC Monthly Open In Focus After $584 Million Longs Liquidations appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
North American listed miners are responding to challenging post-halving economics by pivoting toward AI infrastructure — but not uniformly, and not without risk. The shift is splitting the sector into The post What the AI Pivot Means for Bitcoin Miners — and Bitcoin appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Bitcoin is holding within a tight range since the weekend, after reclaiming the two cost-basis levels that defined resistance: the True Market Mean (TMM) at $79,200 and the Short-Term Holder The post ETF Flows Anchor Bitcoin As On-Chain Profits Return appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
San Salvador, El Salvador – 12 May, 2026 – Bitfinex, one of the longest-running and premier digital asset trading platforms, today announced that it has received a Digital Asset Service The post Bitfinex Secures Licence and Completes Its Regulated Footprint in El Salvador appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
The US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve already exists as an executive-order framework for retaining government-held Bitcoin. ARMA would seek to codify it in law and potentially extend it into an active The post Can ARMA Turn the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Into Law? appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
After printing through $80,000 on Monday, 4 May, Bitcoin has finally made its first sustained move above this key psychological barrier since 31 January, and the cleanest session of acceptance The post Bitcoin Clears Sell Wall as STRC, Derivatives and ETFs Build Momentum appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
Friday 1 May, ISM Manufacturing PMI (April) An early read on US industrial activity and pricing pressures. Given recent weakness in manufacturing and elevated input costs (energy), this print will The post What Bitfinex Traders Should Watch in May appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
The exploit of Litecoin last week shows why Bitcoin users are wary of adding complexity to a monetary base layer. A day earlier, Bitcoin developer Paul Sztorc announced an eCash The post The Bitcoin Debate: Ossify or Change appeared first on Bitfinex blog .
The Bitfinex Change Log is an overview of all performance and UI changes made to the Bitfinex trading platform. For an overview of all previous changes, please refer to blog.bitfinex.com/category/changelogs. The post Change Log: Version 1.131 appeared first on Bitfinex blog .