Bitcoin jumps above $62,000 after CPI report gives traders room to defend $60,000The report showed inflation remains elevated, but not hot enough to trigger the deeper crypto selloff investors feared.
Your Wednesday crypto briefing is here.Bitcoin jumps above $62,000 after CPI report gives traders room to defend $60,000. The report showed inflation remains elevated, but not hot enough to trigger the deeper crypto selloff investors feared. Crypto’s next phase is being shaped less by price alone than by a credibility test: who captures value, who absorbs losses, and which products can survive institutional scrutiny. That tension is stark as Reuters ties a Trump family crypto windfall to roughly matching investor losses, while Washington’s CLARITY Act stalls over ethics rules. The same trust gap runs through product design and market structure: Circle is trying to make wrapped Bitcoin collateral look bank grade, tokenized stocks are emerging as a stronger retail fit than new tokens, and Humanity Protocol’s sharp collapse is reviving old questions about key control. The global crypto market cap is $2.14 trillion, with a 24-hour volume of $81.19 billion. The price of Bitcoin is $62,376.86, and BTC market dominance is 58.3%. The price of Ethereum is $1,651.83, and ETH market dominance is 9.3%. The best-performing sector is Liquid Staking, which gained 9%. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index is currently Extreme Fear (9). 📰 Top News
Bitcoin jumps above $62,000 after CPI report gives traders room to defend $60,000The report showed inflation remains elevated, but not hot enough to trigger the deeper crypto selloff investors feared. Trump family’s $2.3B crypto windfall matched by $2.25B in investor losses, Reuters findsThe family’s ventures out-earned major digital asset companies while more than 1 million buyers sat on roughly $2.3 billion in losses. Lamborghini Bitcoin carjacking puts crypto’s wrench-attack crisis in a US courtroomA Missouri man’s guilty plea links a Danbury kidnapping to the same human-targeting pattern already visible in France.
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