
Bitcoin Surges Past $86,000 Despite Clarity Act Failure
Bitcoin rose nearly 7% to over $86,000 after the crypto market structure bill stalled due to Democratic concerns over Trump family conflicts of interest.
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Bitcoin rose nearly 7% to over $86,000 after the crypto market structure bill stalled due to Democratic concerns over Trump family conflicts of interest.

Bitcoin traded as high as $86,332 on Monday, its highest level since January. CoinGlass recorded $877.31 million in crypto liquidations over 24 hours, with $740.79 million coming from short positions…

xAI launched Grok 4.7 with 2.1 trillion parameters and SpaceX data integration, but it scored second to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 on major benchmarks.

Fairshake, a crypto-funded political action committee, plans to spend $30 million opposing Democrat Sherrod Brown’s bid to return to the US Senate in Ohio.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon stated that hyperscaler AI investment could reach $1 trillion next year, up from approximately $700 billion this year.

Average Bitcoin ETF investors are back above their cost basis for the first time since January as the cryptocurrency surged past $86,000.

Corporate treasuries Strategy and Strive purchased a combined 2,305 BTC for $182.7 million, coinciding with Bitcoin's price rising to $86,008.

Venice AI's native token VVV reached an all-time high of $34.51, driven by privacy concerns and a staking model that replaces traditional subscriptions.

Ondo Finance introduced a system allowing approved institutions to convert stocks and ETFs directly into tokenized equivalents via Alpaca accounts, reducing capital requirements.

FutureBit demonstrated a browser-based simulation using 2,914 neural traces from a fruit fly brain to perform simplified Bitcoin hashing.

Multicoin Capital co-founder Kyle Samani predicts Solana will surpass Ethereum in market capitalization this cycle, citing superior functionality and fee generation.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy purchased 950 Bitcoin for $75.7 million, bringing total holdings to 846,000 coins and closing the gap to its all-time high.