Ethereum Drags Altcoins Below $880B as 22% Weekly Slide Shakes Trader Confidence

ETH price crashed below $1,600 as a vulnerability in Zcash emerged and Bitcoin sold off below $60,000 for the first time in months.

Bitcoin fell to its lowest price of 2026 on Friday, touching $59,100 intraday as over 351,000 traders were liquidated across crypto markets in a single 24-hour window. Bitcoin Falls 19% in 7 Days and Touches $59,100 The move extended a sharp selloff that has taken bitcoin down 19.3% in seven days, 22.2% in the past […]

Zcash has plunged nearly 50% from its recent high after disclosure of a critical network vulnerability triggered panic selling, forced liquidations, and the exit of one of the privacy coin’s most prominent supporters. According to crypto.news market data, Zcash (ZEC)…

Uniswap has recorded its largest daily UNI burn under the UNIfication mechanism as Hayden Adams renewed his bullish view on DeFi and Ethereum. Hayden Adams, the creator of Uniswap, said on X that he is “extremely bullish on DeFi and…

Crypto markets endured further pressure this week as the sell-off spread to some of the industry’s largest digital asset treasuries (DATs). As of Friday, Bitcoin (BTC) had slipped back below $60,000 for the first time since 2024, Ethereum (ETH) was trading around $1,550, and Hyperliquid (HYPE) was near $57.  While the declines weighed on the broader market, the impact has been most visible in the large treasury companies associated with BTC and ETH—specifically Strategy (MSTR) and Bitmine (BMNR).  Hyperliquid Strategies (PURR), however, has continued to post gains on an unrealized basis, highlighting how its performance still outpaces the market’s major benchmarks. Hyperliquid Strategies Avoids The Worst With $1.2B Gains According to Artemis data, Strategy and Bitmine are carrying significant unrealized losses of about $12.8 billion and $10.3 billion, respectively. In contrast, Hyperliquid Strategies is positioned differently.  Artemis data further indicates that Hyperliquid Strategies

Fallout from a bug that enabled undetectable Zcash counterfeiting shows that privacy can sometimes present tradeoffs, experts say.

Zcash patched a critical privacy pool bug that could have enabled fake ZEC, though it can't prove, as of now, no fake ZEC was already minted.

Bitcoin dropped to around $61,500 in recent days, its weakest level in roughly four months, and Peter Schiff wasted no time connecting that slide to a broader argument he has been making about stablecoins. Related Reading: Bitcoin Faces Pressure As Investors Rotate Capital Into AI Buildout: Saylor A Stablecoin On The Move Tether’s USDT has already climbed to a market capitalization of nearly $188 billion, according to data from DeFiLlama, closing the gap with Ethereum to just under $26 billion. Schiff, the economist and longtime Bitcoin critic, says the numbers point to an inevitable outcome. “The market cap of Tether will soon surpass the market cap of Ethereum,” Schiff wrote on X. “It will eventually surpass the market cap of Bitcoin, too. The only question is how long it will take.” USDT has become a dominant tool for moving money across crypto markets, and its reach now extends into payments, remittances, and digital dollar transfers — a trend he says supports his case. USDT holds