TL;DR VanEck is positioning its VBNB spot BNB ETF around BNB Chain usage and revenue metrics. The ETF reportedly has around $2 million in AUM and a 0.39% sponsor fee. BNB Chain metrics cited include 33 million monthly active users, 2.1 million daily active users and about $160 million in annual revenue. VanEck Positions BNB […]
Archives for June 13, 2026
Bitcoin Mining Cost Model Points To $47,000 Floor, But Analysts Urge Caution
TL;DR Crypto Rover says Bitcoin has never bottomed below electrical production cost, currently estimated at $47,000. Mining-cost models can help frame downside risk, but they are not fixed price floors. Electricity costs, miner efficiency, difficulty adjustments and market liquidity all affect the usefulness of the model. Bitcoin never bottomed below the electrical cost. Current electrical […]
Bitcoin Trader Says Retail Will Return After A Sudden 20% BTC Candle
TL;DR X trader Cup says Bitcoin may be in a quiet accumulation phase before a larger move. The post claims retail traders could return after a sudden +20% BTC candle. The thesis needs confirmation from ETF flows, on-chain activity, liquidity and spot volume. This is the silence before the BOOOOOOM. Most people think retail will […]
Crypto’s next billion-dollar hacker may move at superhuman speed
However, the two largest incidents were not simple smart-contract exploits of the type AI could engineer. In one, a North Korea-linked group drained about $285 million from Drift Protocol after a six-month social-engineering campaign that won it admin access. For the other, the attacker exploited a single-verifier flaw that allowed roughly $292 million to be […]
Here’s what SpaceX’s IPO means for its $1.3 billion bitcoin reserve
For Elon Musk’s company, it’s a rounding error against a valuation of over $1.8 trillion: small enough that the stock will never trade on it, yet large enough to normalize the asset in a way no dedicated vehicle can. For years, onchain analysts estimated SpaceX held about 8,300 bitcoin. The S-1 then revealed the real […]
Kalshi Odds Show 69% Chance Bitcoin Hits $50,000 Before $100,000
TL;DR Kalshi Crypto says its market shows a 69% chance Bitcoin hits $50,000 before $100,000. Prediction-market odds reflect active positioning, but they can change quickly. The market signal is bearish sentiment around the path between two major BTC levels. BREAKING: 69% chance Bitcoin hits $50,000 before $100,000 pic.twitter.com/XYGC6iGqp9 — Kalshi Crypto (@Kalshi_Crypto) June 12, 2026 […]
Stablecoins Were Meant to Disrupt Finance. Instead, They Became Idle Cash.
Crypto tried to solve this with its own version of yield. We tried staking rewards, liquidity mining, and levered DeFi strategies. At first glance, they looked productive. But too much of that yield was circular. It depended on token emissions and fresh inflows, not real economic activity. That story is a much harder sell now. […]
Bitcoin rises above $64,000 after Pakistan prime minister says Iran peace deal is near
Bitcoin climbed above $64,000 on Saturday, reaching an intraday high of more than $64,200. The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is up more than 1% over the past 24 hours and is now up over 8% from its June low of just above $59,000. Sentiment has also been supported by further positive developments on the […]
Wall Street is moving past crypto pilots and deeper into Ethereum, says Etherealize founder
Yet the growing institutional interest has not translated neatly into ETH’s market performance, a disconnect that has frustrated many investors. Raman attributes that gap largely to timing. “The sales cycles for institutions are especially long,” he said. “The piping is all in place. We just haven’t seen all the assets come onchain yet.” He said […]
Tokenization mirrors the $20 trillion ETF boom as blockchain and AI converge, Ondo exec says
“ETFs were referred to as weapons of mass destruction,” Hoffman said, recalling the skepticism that surrounded the structure before it became one of the dominant ways investors access markets. When he joined the ETF industry in the early 2000s, the market held roughly $200 billion in assets, he said. Today, it’s nearly a $20-trillion global […]
