Volksbanken and Sparkassen Open Crypto Retail: Germany Banks Bitcoin
German cooperative banks open crypto trading to millions of retail customers under the MiCA framework. Banked retail crypto is scaling up.
6 h ago 7 8
Robinhood Launches AI Trading Agents and Credit Card: From Retail Broker to Financial Super-App
Autonomous AI agents, credit card, in-house blockchain: Robinhood no longer wants to be just a broker. This full-stack vertical integration is redrawing the boundaries between TradFi, FinTech, and DeFi.
Jul 2, 2026 at 16:36 10 10
Aisha Bello
Robinhood Launches a Public Blockchain: The Retail Broker Enters the Crypto Infrastructure Era
Robinhood no longer just wants to provide access to crypto—it wants to become its infrastructure. A proprietary public blockchain is a category shift.
Jul 1, 2026 at 22:49 7 8
Lars Eriksson
Bitcoin Below $60,000: Toward an Unprecedented Quarterly Double Loss Since 2022
BTC breaks below the psychological threshold of $60,000, poised to record two consecutive quarters of losses—a structural bear market setup unseen since the Terra/FTX collapse.
Jun 28, 2026 at 12:53 9 13
Yuki Tanaka
**BITX and Leveraged Bitcoin ETFs: Why Daily Rebalancing Eats Your Capital**
**2x Leveraged Bitcoin ETFs like BITX appeal with their promise of amplified returns.** But their daily rebalancing mechanism creates invisible structural value destruction-something Bitcoin’s recent performance has temporarily masked.
Jun 23, 2026 at 04:29 7 4
Yuki Tanaka
Gold and central banks: the WGC 2026 survey confirms a structural accumulation cycle
90% of the central banks surveyed cite inflation hedging, long-term performance, and diversification away from the dollar as reasons for their gold purchases. A structural anchor, not cyclical.
6 h ago 6 7
Heinrich Vogel
ETF Bitcoin spot: -$8.95 billion in May-June, the bleeding continues
Two months of record outflows: US spot Bitcoin ETFs lose nearly $9B cumulatively. The institutional channel withdraws as the price rebounds on the dovish NFP.
6 h ago 6 6
Lars Eriksson
Solana +19% on Securitize listing: tokenization validates a secondary rail
The listing of an entity linked to Securitize on NYSE boosts SOL by 19%. The market is betting on Solana as the preferred institutional tokenization rail, alongside Ethereum.
6 h ago 4 4
Elena Fischer
Shortened week, strong signal: June's jobs report validates the Fed pause and reignites global risk-on
147,000 jobs in June, below expectations - but unemployment falls due to contraction in the labor force. Markets have chosen their interpretation: dovish. The question remains whether this will hold until the FOMC on July 29-30.
21 h ago 8 8
Eleanor Whitfield
NFP June 2026: 147K jobs below consensus, unemployment down due to contraction - market reads dovish ahead of July 4th
Fewer jobs than expected, unemployment declining for the wrong reasons: June's NFP report gives markets the dovish reading they were waiting for. July's FOMC meeting becomes the pivotal issue under Warsh.
yesterday 7 9
Heinrich Vogel
NFP June 2026: Disappointing Jobs, Deceptive Unemployment - The Fed Trapped Ahead of the FOMC
The U.S. employment report for July 3 presents an end-of-cycle paradox: job creation is slowing, but the unemployment rate is falling—not due to economic strength, but because of a shrinking labor force linked to tighter migration policies. Markets are relieved, but Warsh's Fed doesn't have a free hand.
yesterday 9 13
Heinrich Vogel
AI Infrastructure: $638 Billion Order Book, 18-Month Low Prices - The Cycle Discount
The AI paradox: the companies building tomorrow's data centers see their stocks decline while their order books overflow.
Jul 2, 2026 at 16:36 9 9
