When safe assets compete with risk. Lessons from the 1960s–90s for bitcoin and stocks.
Your dayahead look for Aug. 11 2026 Source：CoinDesk
Bitcoin-backed lending is entering its institutional era: Two Prime
Public companies are increasingly borrowing against their bitcoin holdings to fund acquisitions and capital spending without selling the asset. Source：CoinDesk
Bitcoin sell pressure ‘closer to exhaustion’ after $4B USDT market-cap drop: CryptoQuant
Bitcoin analysis suggested that sell pressure would not increase given the historically large contraction in USDT market cap over a 60day period.…
Wall Street bank urges hedging into July’s CPI — as sell trigger hits highest level in eight years
Well’s Fargo’s sentiment indicator reached 1.4 in August, its most since January 2018. Source：MarketWatch
Bitcoin stuck below $65,000 as Hormuz hopes evaporate, XRP close to dropping below $1
The Strait of Hormuz relief trade unraveled after Trump demanded 50 years of Iranian compensation, pushing oil back to $89 and leaving crypto and equities…
FlightAware sues Kalshi over bets on flight cancellations
The flighttracking company alleges Kalshi used its data and trademark without permission to settle contracts on canceled flights. Source：CoinDesk
Software stocks break away from bitcoin: What the rare divergence means for crypto
IGV’s rebound is reshaping a relationship it held with bitcoin for years, but history suggests bitcoin could still catch up. Source：CoinDesk
These 11 midcaps are popular right now among investment newsletters but not because of their market valuations
Bigger than small caps. Smaller than large caps. Are they, as in the fairytale, “just right”? Source：MarketWatch
Luke Dashjr removed as Bitcoin BIP editor after controversial BIP-110 fork stalls
Dashjr said he is taking a sabbatical from his role as chair and chief technology officer of mining pool Ocean. Source：CoinDesk
Nvidia’s $500 billion AI infrastructure push leaves crypto compute further behind
Nvidia has signed memorandums of understanding with six major Wall Street firms to establish "AI compute" as a bankable infrastructure asset. Source：CoinDesk
UK lawmakers question lenders over lack of banking for the country’s crypto firms
The U.K.’s Crypto and Digital Assets AllParty Parliamentary Group asked banks to explain their approach to providing banking services to crypto and digital…
Why copper — ‘the commodity for all seasons’ — is more precious than gold nowadays
Panumre Liberum argue that copper offers gold’s inflation protection, plus an industrialbacked demand growth story, as well as a relative immunity to movements…