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Bitcoin (BTC) climbed back above the $93,000 level this week as improving liquidity conditions and a major shift in institutional policy helped stabilize market sentiment following sharp volatility. Related Reading: Crypto Investors Brace As Japan Proposes 20% Tax By 2027 The move follows a month-long slide that erased nearly 20% from recent highs and raised questions about whether the broader uptrend was losing strength. Consequently, about $250 million in BTC short positions have been liquidated. Institutional Access Expands as Vanguard Lifts ETF Ban The most notable catalyst for the rebound came from Vanguard, which reversed its long-standing ban on Bitcoin ETFs . The decision immediately opened access to tens of millions of retail accounts and allowed products such as BlackRock’s IBIT to trade on the platform, generating more than $1 billion in volume on day one. The policy shift triggered a rapid surge in demand and helped fuel more than $400 million in short liquidations as...

A new CryptoQuant report from XWIN Research Japan reveals that the sharp +6% Bitcoin rally on December 2–3, 2025 was triggered by a seismic shift in traditional finance: Vanguard’s unexpected policy reversal. The $11 trillion asset manager—long known for its conservative stance—opened its platform to spot ETFs for BTC, ETH, XRP, and SOL, instantly giving more than 50 million investors access to crypto products. The move marks one of the most significant steps toward mainstream adoption in the industry’s history. The catalyst behind this reversal was the appointment of Salim Ramji, Vanguard’s new CEO and a former BlackRock executive who played a key role in launching the IBIT ETF. His leadership signaled a dramatic change in direction, and the market responded immediately. Once US markets opened, Bitcoin surged 6% in a single move, while IBIT surpassed $1 billion in trading volume within the first 30 minutes. Massive inflows from retail and retirement accounts followed, with Bloomber...

Bitcoin (BTC) faced renewed selling pressure on Monday, dropping to around $86,000 after a series of liquidation events erased hundreds of millions of dollars in leveraged positions. The decline deepened over the weekend, pushing BTC briefly under $85,500 amid broader risk-off sentiment and growing macroeconomic uncertainty. Liquidation Wave Accelerates Downtrend Data from multiple exchanges shows that more than $640 million worth of leveraged positions were wiped out within 24 hours, triggering a sharp breakdown below Bitcoin’s recent trading channel. The pullback followed a breach of a major liquidation cluster under the $90,000 level, which rapidly thinned liquidity and intensified the move toward the mid-$80,000 region. On the charts, Bitcoin lost short-term structural support after falling below the lower boundary of its ascending channel. Indicators such as the Chaikin Money Flow (CMF) and the monthly MACD have weakened, with the latter printing a bearish crossover histori...

Reports have surfaced revealing an unusual spike in transaction activity on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) that appears to have come out of nowhere. These movements have been identified as AccountSet transactions, typically used to configure wallets on a large scale. The sudden emergence of these transactions on the blockchain has sparked speculation about the entity behind them.    XRP Ledger Records Bizarre Transaction Spike The XRP Ledger has recently experienced an unprecedented surge in activity , with over 40,000 AccountSet transactions materializing out of the blue. Reports reveal that these transactions have nothing to do with payments or trading . Instead, it indicates that someone is preparing infrastructure on the ledger at an institutional scale. According to analysts, these AccountSet transactions do not reflect regular user activity. They suggested that these activities are often employed to prepare infrastructure for segregated accounts, new custodial vault s...

Reports have disclosed that centralized crypto lending climbed to roughly $25 billion in outstanding loans in the third quarter, a figure that signals renewed activity among centralized platforms. Activity has picked up this year, and some firms that survived the recent shake-out are growing their loan books again. CeFi Surges According to Galaxy Research , the broader crypto lending market totaled about $36.5 billion as of Q4 2024, down from a high of $64.4 billion in Q4 2021. That drop reflects the fallout from earlier platform failures and bankruptcies that cut into both supply and demand. The makeup of the market has shifted. Based on reports , the largest centralized lenders — including Tether, Galaxy and Ledn — now account for a large share of CeFi loans. Those three together held close to $10 billion of CeFi outstanding loans, equal to roughly 88.6% of that segment by the end of last year. Tether alone represented the biggest single slice. DeFi Borrowing Sees A Strong Come...