The State of Crypto at Mid-Year 2026: Quieter, Sturdier, Divided
Six months in, institutional Bitcoin holdings are near record highs even as ETF assets slip, and Wall Street forecasts for the rest of the year could not be more split.
Jun 18, 2026

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Six months in, institutional Bitcoin holdings are near record highs even as ETF assets slip, and Wall Street forecasts for the rest of the year could not be more split.
Jun 18, 2026

T. Rowe Price's new actively managed crypto ETF moves regulated access beyond single-asset Bitcoin and Ether products, but delegation introduces a different set of risks.
Jul 25, 2026

Bitcoin is trading near $64,000 as clearer US rules meet a difficult macro environment, proving that legitimacy and price stability are different things.
Jul 31, 2026

Bitcoin hit a record near $126,000, stablecoins topped $290 billion, and then Q4 delivered the sharpest reset in years. Here is what actually happened.
Jan 6, 2026

Bitcoin crossed six figures for the first time this week, capping a rally that started at the ballot box and accelerated with every crypto-friendly appointment.
Dec 9, 2024

Bitcoin's fourth halving cut miner rewards in half overnight. Months of doomsday and moonshot forecasts met a much quieter, messier reality.
Apr 23, 2024

The first crypto backed conforming mortgages are being written in the United States. Pledge bitcoin, keep the coins, skip the taxable sale. The catch is not a margin call. It is that you must post 250 dollars of bitcoin for every 100 dollars you borrow.
Aug 28, 2026

A joint classification named sixteen assets as digital commodities outside securities law. It resolved a long-running fight for those tokens and left the harder question completely open.
Aug 8, 2026

The SEC proposed a framework, the president pushed the Senate on the Clarity Act, and the market moved before either was settled. What the bill would actually decide is the oldest unanswered question in the industry.
Aug 21, 2026

Holding your own keys removes one kind of counterparty risk and introduces operational risks that require backups, phishing discipline and inheritance plans.
Jul 28, 2026

A leading crypto market maker registered a US broker-dealer arm and a very large custodian moved towards institutional staking. Neither made headlines. Both change who is allowed to participate.
Aug 7, 2026
