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At the glittering Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas-where fortunes are made and dreams are dashed-a grand pronouncement echoed through the casino-laden halls: MARA Holdings is serious about Bitcoin’s long-term security. Who wouldn’t want their financial fairy tale to last forever?

Galaxy Digital’s shares have crept up to the neighborhood of $25.00, a modest uptick of roughly 14% for the year, while the books show a net loss of $216 million for the first quarter of 2026. The loss, mind you, is about what you’d expect when digital assets go through the crypto wringer-money vanishes like coins in a magician’s sleeve when the market gets twitchy.

The number of miner deposit transactions on exchanges has dwindled to a mere 8,138-a ghost town compared to the gold rush days. To understand why that matters, you gotta remember what this land looked like just moons ago.

By the end of the quarter, total assets stood at a princely sum of approximately $10 billion. Equity, however, took a slight tumble, coming in at $2.8 billion-down 8% from the previous quarter. On the bright side, the company still held $2.6 billion in cash and stablecoins, which should provide quite the liquidity cushion, perfect for those moments when one is feeling particularly brave in a turbulent trading environment. Alas, digital asset holdings fell 19% quarter on quarter to $1.36 billion, keeping pace with the broader market’s unfortunate decline.

Bitcoin dipped below $76,000 after hitting the $80k ceiling-again. Because, you know, psychological thresholds are so last season. The Strait of Hormuz drama and macro tightening? Just the universe’s way of keeping things spicy. Traders are stuck in a range so narrow, it’s giving claustrophobia.

Polymarket, the prediction market platform that somehow convinced people that betting on global events is a hobby, has finally activated its upgraded CLOB v2 exchange. In a stunning twist of fate, the public website is “coming back shortly”-a phrase that may or may not mean it will return before the heat death of the universe.

This fine day, TON Tech, a collective of earnest developers supported by the illustrious TON Foundation, has unveiled their Agentic Wallets on The Open Network (TON). Such a grand name for a wallet, one might think it contains the secrets of the universe-or just a few cryptocurrencies.

Take a gander at the daily chart, and you’ll see BTC busted out of a descending channel that’s been tighter than a new pair of boots since its $120k glory days in ’25. The 100-day moving average-$72k to $73k, for those keeping score-has been tossed aside like yesterday’s newspaper. Two big support pillars now sit below the price, playing hide-and-seek. The RSI, that ol’ market mood ring, hovers above 50 but hasn’t screamed “OVERBOUGHT!” yet. So, bullish momentum? It’s sipping lemonade on the porch, not sprinting.