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Live updates: Bitcoin closing out best quarter since 2024, ether its best since 2021
Crypto prices rose early Wednesday after better-than-forecast inflation data, but gave up those gains as interest rates continued to surge.

Robinhood adds AI agents, perps and weekend trading in push to win active traders
The brokerage is expanding its trading hours and adding leveraged crypto products and automated trading tools to attract more active investors.

Goldman Sachs brings $100 billion Treasury fund into crypto’s institutional plumbing
The bank is bringing its roughly $100 billion Treasury fund to institutional crypto firms without creating a tokenized version of it.

Live updates: Bitcoin remains under pressure as Iran denies report of peace progress
The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield is sharply higher again, rising to a new cycle high above 5.27%.

New York sues Polymarket, alleging it is running an illegal gambling operation
The state wants to block Polymarket from operating without a gambling license and recover allegedly illegal gains.

Bitcoin’s bear markets are getting milder. Bull markets may be next
Bitcoin’s latest bear market was milder than past crashes as ETFs, institutional investors and a maturing market reshape its cycles.

Kalshi says it is not being investigated by the CFTC over trading activity
The prediction market says unusual patterns in its ether perpetual market are the result of liquidity incentives.

Live updates: Bitcoin pulls back to $84,000 as bond yields fly higher
The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield has soared 18 basis points on Wednesday to its highest level since 2007.

Live updates: Bitcoin trades near $86,000 as U.S. stocks post small gains
WTI crude oil dropped to $90 as reports suggested Iran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days.

Bitcoin could test $90,000 after shorts get squeezed, but traders warn leverage is building
Bitcoin has broken out to $86,000, but analysts say the next leg depends on whether spot buyers continue to show up as leverage builds.

