🎯Today's Crypto Pulse
Updated 15m agoWhat's happening: Michael Saylor’s Strategy adds $204M of Bitcoin in 101st purchase
The firm bought 3,015 BTC for $204.1M, raising its total holdings above 720,000 BTC and bringing the cumulative cost to roughly $54.8B. The average price of $67,700 per BTC was below its overall cost basis of $75,985.
Also developing:
By the numbers: Pepeto raises $7M in token presale
News•Nov 20, 2025
Ethereum’s Fusaka Upgrade Signals New Era for Value Accrual: Fidelity Digital Assets
Fidelity Digital Assets says Ethereum’s upcoming Fusaka hard fork, slated for December, marks the blockchain’s most value‑driven roadmap to date, consolidating consensus and execution layer changes to boost layer‑1 scalability and usability. Analyst Max Wadington argues the upgrade signals a governance shift toward clearer economic intent, aligning developers, users and investors around ether’s value accrual. The changes could reshape layer‑2 economics by pulling more activity back to the base layer, enhancing ether’s pricing power and revenue‑generating potential, though the report warns that aggressive monetization may risk broader adoption.
By CoinDesk
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Spot Bitcoin ETF Fuels Global Institutional Store‑of‑value Shift
My conversation with @BlackRock's @robbiemitchnick about the explosive rise of the spot Bitcoin ETF, institutional adoption, BlackRock’s allocation models, and why Bitcoin is becoming a global store-of-value alternative. Robbie explains what’s driving inflows, how institutions think about correlation and portfolio construction,...
By Natalie Brunell
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Bitcoin Dips at US Open, Altcoins Hold Stronger
Classic recipe. US starts trading, and #Bitcoin pukes in the first few hours. Probably we'll hit the low in 3-4 hours and bounce back upwards until this repeats again. It's going to take time before we're going to reverse back up,...
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Nov 20, 2025
Crypto for Advisors: Crypto Indices Explained
CoinDesk’s “Crypto for Advisors” newsletter featured WisdomTree’s digital‑assets research director Dovile Silenskyte explaining how crypto index design—asset selection, weighting, rebalancing, and data governance—determines trust, transparency, and the viability of institutional products. She highlighted that unlike equity indices, crypto indices must contend...
By CoinDesk
Social•Nov 20, 2025
ValanniaGame TGE Approaches – Free Mint Recap Available
Did an overview of @ValanniaGame a few weeks ago. The intel was hot & their mint was FREE, did you get in on it? Now their TGE for the $VALAN token is set. If you DIDN'T watch my video, now is a good...
By CryptoStache (Shea Newkirk)
News•Nov 20, 2025
Core Foundation Wins Injunction Against Maple Finance on Alleged Confidentiality Breach
Core Foundation secured an injunction from the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands prohibiting Maple Finance from launching its own liquid‑staking token, syrupBTC, or dealing in CORE tokens while arbitration proceeds. The foundation alleges Maple breached exclusivity clauses and misappropriated...
By CoinDesk
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Beyond Money: Art, Science, and Ideology Power Tech
Different people are wired differently, but I basically agree. Salesforce and Oracle were indeed built by money-motivated men. But Apple and Twitter were art projects. SpaceX and Tesla were engineering feats. And Bitcoin and Zcash are ideological campaigns. So: money is a...
By Balaji Srinivasan
News•Nov 20, 2025
Solana ETFs Post Second-Biggest November Inflows as Demand Grows During Downturn
Solana spot ETFs have recorded a 17th consecutive day of net inflows since their debut on Oct. 28, adding $48.5 million on Wednesday and bringing cumulative inflows to $476 million, the second‑largest daily addition in November. The inflow streak is the longest...
By CoinDesk
News•Nov 20, 2025
Crypto Market Holds Steady as Traders Digest Delayed US Jobs Report
Crypto markets remained largely flat on Tuesday, with Bitcoin hovering around $91,000—a 0.5% dip in 24 hours and an 11% decline for the week—while Ethereum slipped 1.4% to just above $3,000. The Crypto Fear and Greed Index stayed in extreme‑fear...
By The Defiant
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Analyzing Bitcoin's Worst-Case Scenario in Current Cycle
Worse case scenario for Bitcoin at this point in the cycle? We discuss scenarios in more detail in the video. 🚀Follow @rektcapital for more level-headed insights on Bitcoin
By Rekt Capital
News•Nov 20, 2025
Securitize Leverages Plume to Expand Global Real-World Asset Reach
Securitize announced a partnership with modular RWA‑focused layer‑2 blockchain Plume to launch its institutional‑grade tokenized funds on Plume’s Nest staking protocol, linking the assets to Plume’s network of over 280,000 real‑world asset holders. The collaboration, which begins with Hamilton Lane...
By CoinDesk
News•Nov 20, 2025
Securitize to Launch Institutional Assets on Plume’s Nest Protocol
Plume, a real‑world asset finance blockchain with $159 million TVL, announced that tokenization platform Securitize will deploy institutional‑grade assets on its Nest staking protocol. The rollout will begin with Hamilton Lane funds, targeting $100 million in capital and expanding to additional issuers...
By The Defiant
News•Nov 20, 2025
Aztec Launches Decentralized and Private Ethereum L2 on Mainnet, Almost
Ethereum layer‑2 Aztec launched its "Ignition" mainnet on Wednesday, delivering a fully decentralized consensus chain that can produce blocks but currently lacks the smart‑contract execution layer. The network is the first community‑launched L2, with the Aztec Foundation, core team and...
By Cointelegraph
News•Nov 20, 2025
S& P Ratings Gives Justin Sun-Linked TrueUSD Lowest Score
S&P Global Ratings assigned TrueUSD (TUSD) the lowest possible stability score of 5, indicating a weak ability to maintain its $1 peg. The rating reflects concerns that most of TUSD’s reserves are held by a single custodian, First Digital Trust,...
By The Defiant
News•Nov 20, 2025
Ether Treasury Firm FG Nexus Unloads Nearly 11K ETH to Fund Share Buyback
FG Nexus, an Ethereum‑focused digital‑asset treasury firm, sold 10,922 ETH—worth about $33 million at current prices—and borrowed $10 million to repurchase 3.4 million shares, roughly 8% of its float, at an average price of $3.45 per share, below its reported NAV of $3.94....
By CoinDesk
Social•Nov 20, 2025
L2s Boost ETH Holders by Burning More ETH
ethereum fusaka upgrade dec 3 will burn more eth through L2 transactions EIP 7918 adds a reserve price floor for blob fees which link them to execution base fees so blobs aren't free when execution costs are high tldr; L2s give...
By David Hoffman
News•Nov 20, 2025
Cipher Mining Inks New 10-Year HPC Deal With Fluidstack; Shares Rise 13%
Cipher Mining signed a 10‑year high‑performance computing (HPC) hosting agreement with Fluidstack, adding 56 MW of capacity at its Barber Lake, Texas site and bringing Fluidstack’s lease to the full 300 MW. The contract secures roughly $830 million of revenue for the initial...
By CoinDesk
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Real‑time ZK Proofs Unleash Limitless Ethereum App Possibilities
My biggest 'ah-ha' moment from the @Bankless Summit was from @no89thkey's talk His point is that unlocking real-time proving for the Ethereum L1 doesn't JUST scale the ETH L1 by 1,000x... But it also unlocks a whole new arenas for app-layer...
By David Hoffman
News•Nov 20, 2025
21Shares Lists Six More Crypto ETPs in Europe: Aave, Cardano and More
21Shares announced the cross‑listing of six new crypto exchange‑traded products (ETPs) on Nasdaq Stockholm, adding Aave, Cardano, Chainlink, Polkadot and two basket funds to its portfolio and bringing its total Stockholm offerings to 16. The move follows the launch of...
By Cointelegraph
News•Nov 20, 2025
World App Starts Virtual Bank Accounts Pilot for USDC Payroll Deposits
World App has launched a pilot of virtual bank accounts in the United States, issuing unique account numbers that let users receive direct deposits such as payroll payments directly into the app. Incoming funds are automatically converted to USDC, eliminating...
By CoinDesk
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Record Global Liquidity Sparks Bull Market Uncertainty
President Trump is planning $2,000 stimmy checks Japan is preparing for a $110 billion stimulus package China is giving a $1.4 trillion stimulus package The US is issuing $1.9T in treasuries every year The Fed is about to end QT Canada is starting QE Global...
By Lark Davis
News•Nov 20, 2025
B. Riley Cuts Digital Asset Treasury Company Price Targets as Crypto Slump Deepens
B. Riley Securities trimmed its net asset value (mNAV) assumptions and price targets for a slate of digital‑asset treasury companies (Datcos) as crypto asset prices continue to slump, with Bitcoin down about 16%, Ether 22% and Solana 28% while the...
By CoinDesk
News•Nov 20, 2025
JPMorgan Warns MSCI Decision Could Force Strategy Out of Top Equity Indices
JPMorgan warned that MSCI’s upcoming Jan. 15 ruling on MicroStrategy (MSTR) could strip the company from major equity benchmarks such as the Nasdaq 100, MSCI USA and MSCI World. The bank estimates that removal could trigger $2.8 billion in passive outflows, rising to...
By CoinDesk
News•Nov 20, 2025
Bitcoin Whale Owen Gunden Dumps Entire $1.3B Stack as Institutions Tighten Grip
Early Bitcoin investor Owen Gunden liquidated his entire on‑chain holding, moving the last 2,499 BTC – valued at about $228 million – to Kraken and completing sales of roughly 11,000 BTC worth $1.3 billion since October 2021. The dump comes as retail...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Altcoins Hint BTC Breakout; Watch 4H 20MA
Another low yesterday, and another bounce. However, no new higher high in this lower timeframe construction. Many #Altcoins start their upwards moves: $DYM, $XAI, some other Binance coins start to follow the trend. It's the first sign, and it shows what is likely...
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Nov 20, 2025
FogSwap Launches Privacy-First Cross‑chain Swaps, 2026 Roadmap Unveiled
FogSwap is a privacy-first DeFi platform that lets you swap tokens across over 115 chains with multi-hop, randomized paths, keeping your transactions fully anonymous. The 2026 roadmap includes airdrops, a privacy stablecoin, private lending, private memecoin trading, dark liquidity pools, and...
By Wendy O
News•Nov 20, 2025
Samourai Sentences Cement DOJ’s Money Transmitter Theory for Crypto Mixers
Co‑founders of the privacy‑focused Samourai Wallet, Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, were sentenced to four and five years in federal prison for operating an unlicensed money‑transmission business and facilitating illicit crypto transactions through the wallet’s Whirlpool CoinJoin mixer. The...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Stick to Trend Until Structure Breaks, Simplicity Wins
Bet on trend continuation until bearish structure breaks. This sounds simple, but it's the same idea I've used to short on BTC from $116K → $88K. Simple works. Stop trying to complicate it.
By Koroush Khaneghah
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Anoma's VM Rivals Aztec, Miden with Flexible Deployment
People don’t know that Anoma made a VM that like Aztec or Miden but deployable in much more flexible setting
By Zaki Manian
News•Nov 20, 2025
AI and HPC Bitcoin Miners Surge Pre Market Following Stellar NVIDIA Earnings
AI- and high‑performance‑computing‑focused bitcoin miners rallied in pre‑market trading after NVIDIA posted a Q3 earnings beat and a robust Q4 outlook, lifting sentiment across the sector. IREN jumped more than 8% to around $50, Cipher Mining surged 11% to over...
By CoinDesk
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Coinbase Launches ETH‑Collateral Loans for USDC Borrowing
ETH-backed loans are now on Coinbase. You can use your ETH as collateral to borrow USDC. Ethereum.
By Brian Armstrong
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Ray Dalio Admits Bitcoin Makes up Just 1%
UPDATE 🚨 BILLIONAIRE RAY DALIO TOLD CNBC THAT ROUGHLY 1% OF HIS PORTFOLIO IS BITCOIN! 🚀 https://t.co/cXgEbgKDZg
By That Martini Guy
Social•Nov 20, 2025
DeFi Made Accessible for All Users
DeFi for everyone.
By Stani Kulechov
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Is Bitcoin Entering a New Bear Market?
The #Bitcoin bear market. Has it started? Where are we in the cycle? What are the charts telling us? Today, we discuss this topic. Watch the update here: https://t.co/81x6DjYIH6
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Poll: What I’ll Do If Bitcoin Hits $100K
POLL: If $BTC rallies back to $100K I will... 🤔
By Paul Barron
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Questioning the Relevance of the Four-Year Cycle
Do you still believe in the 4 year cycle?
By Layah Heilpern
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Bitcoin 150K Target By
ODDS OF $BTC HITTING $150K BEFORE APRIL 2026 DROP TO 16% ON KALSHI! https://t.co/dylz0WeoVy
By That Martini Guy
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Bitcoin's Survival Is Essential for All Crypto Trust
One of the dumbest fallacies is people thinking their coin is gonna win if only Bitcoin dies, like zec people fudding Bitcoin over quantum. It’s precisely the opposite. If Bitcoin dies, no one will ever trust internet money ever again....
By Nick Carter
Social•Nov 20, 2025
ZEC Eyes $720 Breakout as Strongest Long Candidate
ZEC $655-> $550 breakdown completed ✅ Next play: Looking for a breakout long above $720 if the market regains some strength. ZEC is by far the strongest asset to be looking for longs on. https://t.co/gHEG3r5P1c
By Koroush Khaneghah
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Ignored Q3‑Q4 Profit Advice, Now Facing Losses
Confirmed by Grok. I told you to take profits throughout Q3 and Q4. But you didn’t listen…
By Layah Heilpern
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Key Catalysts That Could Drive Crypto Higher
What could push crypto higher from here? Here’s what @ramahluwalia points to on @bitsandbips: https://t.co/EUBPpXnVpV
By Laura Shin
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Zcash Sparks Deep Privacy Debate Among Enthusiasts
Bunch of nerds talking about Zcash and privacy.
By Zaki Manian
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Bet on Bitcoin's Continued Downtrend Until $100K
Bitcoin #1 scenario to bet on: The downtrend will continue. Until price claims $100K, this thesis isn't invalidated. https://t.co/IqPMWSyobm
By Koroush Khaneghah
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Pure Bitcoin: No Fluff, Just the Cryptocurrency
Just Bitcoin https://t.co/RTp1Pyqjpt
By Michael Saylor
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Grayscale Sui Trust Launches on OTCQX Market
Grayscale Sui Trust (GSUI) Begins Trading on OTCQX Market $SUI $GSUI https://t.co/bgur9QKhGl
By Barry Silbert
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Future of Privacy: ZK, Post‑Quantum, Zcash, Starknet
1 minute about Privacy-technologies, ZK, post-quantum security, Zcash, and Starknet. Smart questions and smart takes, with @NathanOnCrypto and @kkirkbos. https://t.co/RPLYaG3mEJ
By Eli Ben-Sasson
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Bitcoin’s Volatility Signals Its Rise as a Store of Value
Bitcoin is not behaving like a risk asset, it’s behaving like an emerging store of value Volatility is not a flaw, It’s simply the adoption curve at work A Thread 🧵
By Mark Yusko
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Rep. Warren Davidson to Reveal Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
UPDATE 🚨 Rep. Warren Davidson teases major announcement on a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve later today! https://t.co/Lk2B2pRdd5
By That Martini Guy
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Aave Labs Makes First Crypto Donation to Irish University
Aave Labs is proud to donate to Trinity College Dublin, making it the first crypto donation to an Irish university and helping support the local community.
By Stani Kulechov
Social•Nov 20, 2025
Bitcoin Gains DeFi Gateway with $BOB Launch
BREAKING 🚨 BITCOIN GETS A NEW DEFI GATEWAY $BOB launches today on Binance Alpha, Kraken, Gate, KuCoin and more. Native BTC via BitVM, 1-click intents across 11+ chains, plus an ecosystem with Uniswap, Chainlink, Fireblocks, Euler, Solv etc. Huge backing behind this. DYOR....
By That Martini Guy