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Crypto news today is dominated by macro. The US ISM Manufacturing PMI came in at its strongest level in more than four years, oil crashed after Washington called off strikes on Iran, US equities opened sharply higher, and Bitcoin pushed back above $63,800. On the policy side, B...

$XRP is trading at $1.0662 on the Bitstamp daily chart as of 3 August, down 1.75% on the session after opening at $1.0858 and printing a low of $1.0618. That is roughly 43% lower on the year and about 70% below last summer's high near $3.65. Every conversation about buying XRP at these levels starts from the same place: the chart is cheap relative to 2025, and cheap relative ...

At the end of July 2026, one of the most closely watched funds in global markets lost roughly three quarters of its assets in a matter of days. Situational Awareness, the artificial intelligence fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, was forced to sell its entire public equity book to Ken Griffin's Citadel at a discount after prime brokers issued marg...

Consolidation phases are where positioning happens. Prices stop trending, volume thins out, retail attention drifts elsewhere, and the assets that will lead the next expansion quietly change hands. That is roughly where the crypto market sits in early August 2026.

Bitcoin trades at $63,043, down roughly 28% year to date and compressing between support at $62,000 and a d...

The week of 27 July to 2 August delivered an unusually dense run of catalysts: a hawkish hold from the Federal Reserve, the largest hardware wallet failure in Bitcoin's history, a month-end ETF redemption wave and a market structure bill running out of legislative runway.