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BreakingMay 8, 20265 min read

Bitcoin Holds $80K as Whale Cost Basis at $66K-$70.6K Defines the Floor

Bitcoin trades above $80,000 after the $66K-$70.6K whale realized-price band held during the correction, per a CryptoQuant report cited by NewsBTC.

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BreakingMay 8, 20263 min read

XRP Slips Below $1.40 As Range Bid Fails, Hourly Trend Turns Bearish

XRP fell below $1.40 Friday after a failed run at $1.4120, printing a $1.380 low. The 100-hour SMA flipped resistance and MACD turned bearish on the hourly.

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Solv Migrates $700M in Wrapped Bitcoin From LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP

UBS Discloses XRP Exposure in 13F Filing, First Major Bank to Hold the Token

Breaking Crypto News

Bitcoin Holds $80K as Whale Cost Basis at $66K-$70.6K Defines the Floor

XRP Slips Below $1.40 As Range Bid Fails, Hourly Trend Turns Bearish

Solv Migrates $700M in Wrapped Bitcoin From LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP

UBS Discloses XRP Exposure in 13F Filing, First Major Bank to Hold the Token

Stand With Crypto Maps Midterm Push as Lynaugh releases 2.7M-Voter Plan at Consensus Miami

JPMorgan Sees Strategy Buying Up To $30B in Bitcoin This Year as TD Cowen Lifts MSTR Target to $395

Cardano's Chang Hard Fork Activates on Preview as SPO Adoption Tracks Toward 80% Mainnet Trigger

Ethereum Holds Bullish Setup Below $2,400 as Institutional Demand Steadies, Crypto.News Reports

Roobet Launches Prediction Markets, Becomes First Major Crypto Casino in the Format

Solana Stalls Below $90 After SOL Wicks to $89.95, Traders Eye $87.40 Trendline

Bitcoin Dominance Pushes Above 61% as BTC Absorbs Flows, Altcoin Volume Lags

Bitcoin's Post-Quantum Migration Will Be Harder Than Taproot, Project Eleven's Pruden Warns

Binance, Revolut, Circle Tell Consensus Miami Crypto's 'Mainstream Moment' Has Arrived

Ethereum Reclaims $2,380 as Taker Buy Volume Builds, Eyeing $2.4K Break

Arthur Hayes Rejects CLARITY Act at Consensus Miami, Says Bitcoin's Value Lives Outside Regulation

XRP Clears $1.40 Resistance, Trades Near $1.44 as Recovery Bid Builds

Solana, Google Cloud Launch Pay.sh Stablecoin Gateway for AI Agents Across 50-Plus APIs

Crypto Market Adds $21B as Bitcoin Tops $81,500 and Zcash Leads Privacy Names Higher

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse: CLARITY Act Odds Drop 'Precipitously' If Senate Markup Slips

Analyst Calls For $250K Bitcoin Supercycle Top, Says BTC Has Entered Uncharted Territory

Anthropic Nears $1.5B Joint Venture With Blackstone, Goldman Sachs To Sell AI Into Private Equity Portfolios

Pi Network Co-Founders Take Consensus 2026 Stage Six Days Before Protocol 23 Activation

Bitmine Crosses $10B Staked ETH, Locking 88% Of Holdings Into Ethereum Validators

BlackRock's IBIT Becomes Bitcoin's Safety Net as Fink Pushes for Permissioned Institutional Inflows

Andreessen Horowitz Raises $2.2B for Fourth Crypto Fund as Venture Pulse Returns

K Wave Drops Bitcoin Treasury Plan, Pivots to AI Infrastructure With $485M War Chest

CoinsPaid's CryptoProcessing Hits CCSS Level 3, Top Tier for Crypto Wallet Security

Bitcoin Climbs Back Toward $80,000 As QCP Capital Flags ETF Inflows, Hormuz Relief

Haun Ventures Folds AI Agents Into New $1B Crypto Fund

XRP Doesn't Need CLARITY Act To Run, Digital Ascension's Claver Says At Bitcoin 2026