Technology

Crypto & Web3

Markets, protocols, and decentralized everything

Stories
200
stories
Sources
10
sources
Page
Page 4 of 10
Updated hourly

Why Owl Post covers Crypto & Web3

Crypto coverage is a tax on attention. Half is shilling, the other half is doom-baiting, and the actually useful stuff — protocol upgrades, regulatory clarity, on-chain anomalies, real adoption signals — gets buried. Owl Post separates the layer-2 hype from the layer-2 reality, separates rug pulls from real launches, and reads the SEC enforcement actions so you don't have to.

The voice you read it in is yours. Pick a dry, deadpan voice if you want skepticism delivered with a perfectly straight face. Pick an analytical, finance-trained voice if you want a hardened pro's eye on what's real and what's a scam. Same coverage, the dry voice it deserves.

A daily crypto digest with the noise filtered out. 3 minutes of signal, no shilling.

Get your free digestSee a sample
Featured

Someone Just Inscribed the U.S. Constitution onto the Bitcoin Blockchain

Bitcoin Magazine Someone Just Inscribed the U.S. Constitution onto the Bitcoin Blockchain An unknown actor etched the full text of the U.S. Constitution onto the Bitcoin blockchain in a $83 transaction, permanently embedding it within the network. This post Someone Just Inscribed the U.S. Constitution onto the Bitcoin Blockchain first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

bitcoinmagazine.com
Someone Just Inscribed the U.S. Constitution onto the Bitcoin Blockchain
Bitcoin Has Hit A Ceiling, Analyst Says No Buying Until Price Hits This Level

Bitcoin Has Hit A Ceiling, Analyst Says No Buying Until Price Hits This Level

Bitcoin has hit what one analyst describes as a major ceiling after losing the support level that held the market together for months. Following a failed push toward $83,000, the analyst now believes buying Bitcoin at current prices carries more risk than opportunity. Instead, he points to a much lower target, a level where buyers may finally step back into the market with conviction. Bitcoin’s Former Support Has Turned Into Resistance The analyst’s outlook centers on the collapse of the $80,500 area, a level that previously acted as the backbone of Bitcoin’s trading range for months. During earlier pullbacks, buyers repeatedly defended that zone and helped stabilize price action, allowing Bitcoin to recover and attempt new highs. That dynamic now appears to have reversed. Related Reading: Can The Ripple Banking License Serve To Push The XRP Price To $25? After briefly climbing toward $83,000 in May, Bitcoin failed to maintain momentum and quickly lost strength. The rejection created what the analyst described as a bull trap, where buyers entered expecting a breakout only for the market to reverse sharply lower. Since then, the same price region that once attracted demand has started functioning as resistance. This suggests that buyers who previously defended the area are either exhausted or stepping aside, while sellers are becoming increasingly aggressive on rebounds. According to the analyst, this shift explains why recent recovery attempts have lacked conviction and faded quickly. The breakdown also exposed how fragile the structure beneath the market had become. Once Bitcoin slipped below the range floor, selling pressure increased rapidly, creating what traders sometimes describe as an “air pocket” — a zone where there is little strong buying interest to slow the decline. Although Bitcoin is still trading above the mid-$70,000 region, the analyst does not believe that area represents a durable floor. Instead, it is viewed as temporary support within a broader

newsbtc.com

Texas Names Bitcoin Reserve Advisory Committee as State Eyes Direct Bitcoin Custody

Bitcoin Magazine Texas Names Bitcoin Reserve Advisory Committee as State Eyes Direct Bitcoin Custody Texas has appointed a five-member advisory committee to oversee its Strategic Bitcoin Reserve as the state prepares to transition from ETF exposure to directly custodied bitcoin. This post Texas Names Bitcoin Reserve Advisory Committee as State Eyes Direct Bitcoin Custody first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Micah Zimmerman.

bitcoinmagazine.com

The Mistake Investors Are Making About Ethereum That Could Cost Them Money; Analyst

Crypto analyst The Short Bear has addressed investors who are currently capitulating on Ethereum and offloading their coins. He cited a mistake these investors are currently making that could cost them money when the bull thesis for ETH eventually plays out. Analyst Reveals Misconception Investors Have About Ethereum In an X post, the Short Bear said that many people are mistaken in treating Ethereum like an end-stage Amazon as if the main question is already about mature margins, fees, and cash flows. He explained that, in reality, the layer-1 network is still very much earlier in its economies-of-scale phase, with nearly all metrics in the top-right corner and growing at mid-double-digit to triple-digit rates. Related Reading: Can Ethereum Stage The Biggest Comeback In History? Why Price Could Double The analyst further stated that most of the market is focused on the wrong battle, of which network can become the fastest and cheapest payment processor. However, he opined that the real value may not be in the transaction fee itself. Instead, the Short Bear believes that the real value lies in the amount of economic activity secured by the network, the credibility of that security, the neutrality of the base layer, and the difficulty of replacing such a network once it gains widespread adoption. The Short Bear remarked that this is where Ethereum seems different to him and why many institutions are choosing ETH. He noted that most other networks still feel replaceable and that if their advantage is mainly technical efficiency, it can eventually be copied or rendered irrelevant. However, the analyst believes that Ethereum stands out because the network is looking to become the most secure, decentralized, credibly neutral settlement layer for the internet economy. In line with this, the analyst declared that the most valuable network may not be the one with the lowest transaction costs. Instead, it may be the one people trust most to secure the highest-value assets an

newsbtc.com

Dogecoin Bulls Face A Whale Problem As Capitulation Signals Deepen

Dogecoin is showing classic signs of valuation stress, but Alphractal AI’s breakdown suggests DOGE bulls are still missing one crucial ingredient: stronger whale support. The analysis shows DOGE trading below holder cost basis while several market structure and participation metrics remain weak. DOGE was recently priced at $0.099, with a market capitalization of $15.48 billion and $1.06 billion in 24-hour trading volume. The asset ranked ninth by market cap, but its broader performance profile remained under pressure. DOGE was up 2% over 24 hours, yet still down 5.96% over seven days, 4.28% over 30 days, 30.82% year-to-date and 54.39% over one year. Whale Data Weakens Dogecoin’s Recovery Case The most notable issue is positioning. Alphractal shows a whale-vs-retail delta of -0.2464 and a whale-vs-retail ratio of 0.8963, suggesting larger players are not leading the move. The report described the setup as “mixed but fragile,” noting that funding remains subdued while whale behavior is not confirming a stronger bullish turn. “Funding is only 0.01%, so leverage is not overheated, but the negative whale-vs-retail delta suggests larger players are less aggressive than smaller participants,” the analysis said. “That weakens the quality of bullish positioning.” Related Reading: Dogecoin Monthly Triangle Pattern That Triggered 30,000% Parabolic Rally In 2021 Has Returned The distinction matters because DOGE’s depressed valuation metrics could otherwise make the asset appear attractive to dip buyers. A market can trade below aggregate cost basis for extended periods if larger holders are not accumulating or if exchange supply remains elevated. In DOGE’s case, exchange reserves stood at 28.26 billion DOGE, worth roughly $2.77 billion, with balances rising 0.45% over seven days. Alphractal called that “mildly negative” because it suggests available sell-side supply is not being withdrawn aggressively into long-term storage. Capitulation Signals Are Clear, But Not Enough DOGE’s

newsbtc.com

Unknown Wallet Destroys $8.5 Million In Bitcoin In Shocking Burn

An exchange may have accidentally torched $8.5 million worth of Bitcoin — that’s one of the leading theories after an unidentified wallet sent 107 BTC to an address from which the funds can never be recovered. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s 4-Year Rhythm Is Still Playing Out, Says Crypto CEO Conor Grogan, head of product business operations at Coinbase, said the burn was most likely caused by an exchange that made an error during a cold storage transfer. No Public Explanation From Anyone Involved Five separate Bitcoin addresses carried out the transfers on Monday, all sending funds to a long-established burn address beginning with “11111,” according to onchain data shared by Galaxy Research. The move brought the total amount of Bitcoin ever sent to that address to 807 BTC, now worth close to $60 million, based on data from blockchain platform Arkham. 1111111111111111111114oLvT2 corresponds to Hash160 = 0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (twenty zero bytes). Base58Check-encode that with the P2PKH version byte and you get this address. Because finding a public key whose Hash160 is all zeros would require either… pic.twitter.com/WAii2UbQ0U — Galaxy Research (@glxyresearch) May 27, 2026 The 107 BTC being destroyed made the event one of the biggest reported Bitcoin burns of 2026 so far. What made it more striking was the age of the coins — most of them had sat untouched for more than 12 years, acquired when Bitcoin was trading below $600. At today’s prices, that early buy had grown by 12,700%, according to TradingView data. What Happens When Bitcoin Gets Burned Bitcoin, unlike some other cryptocurrencies, has no built-in mechanism for removing coins from supply. Burning it means sending funds to an address that has no known private keys — the coins show up on the ledger but cannot be touched or moved by anyone. The burn address used in this case had been used before, including by the project Stacks, which sent 40 BTC to it in September 2015 for a namespace registrati

newsbtc.com
Arca CIO Warns Strategy’s Bitcoin Bet Has ‘Gotten Out Of Hand’

Arca CIO Warns Strategy’s Bitcoin Bet Has ‘Gotten Out Of Hand’

Arca CIO Jeff Dorman warned that Strategy’s Bitcoin-heavy balance sheet has entered a more dangerous phase, arguing that the company, Bitcoin holders and its preferred shareholders are now locked in a difficult capital-structure tradeoff. In a May 28 post on X, Dorman said he is “not in Saylor’s inner circle,” but argued that the MSTR story has “gotten so out of hand” that the company’s recent moves now look increasingly hard to reconcile with a stable long-term financing plan. His central concern is not simply Strategy’s Bitcoin exposure, but the layering of preferred equity obligations, cash management decisions and potential pressure to eventually sell BTC if market conditions deteriorate. Arca CIO Warns MSTR Faces Bitcoin Crunch Dorman said Strategy could have avoided much of the current tension by slowing down after its initial Bitcoin accumulation strategy became a dominant part of the company’s identity. “MSTR could have sat and done nothing before they started pumping out $billons of prefs,” he wrote, adding that such a path “would have made MSTR boring” but more stable. Related Reading: Bitcoin’s Famous CME Gap Playbook May Be Nearing Its End Instead, Dorman argued, the company’s push into preferred stock appeared to rest on an aggressive assumption that Bitcoin was about to move sharply higher. “The push into these prefs was based on him clearly thinking BTC was about to moon — not sure what he saw to think that,” Dorman wrote, pointing to possible explanations such as the four-year cycle or fund flows. “But that’s the only reason to take that sort of miscalculated risk to screw up his balance sheet so badly — he must have thought BTC was about to fly and he could easily pay the pref dividends with future BTC sales.” The issue, according to Dorman, became more acute once Bitcoin began falling. He said the market grew nervous because Strategy’s roughly $15 billion in preferreds carry about $1.5 billion in annual dividends. In response, Dorman said the compa

newsbtc.com

Cardano Millionaire Wallets Reach Highest ADA Holdings Since 2017

On-chain data shows the Cardano addresses with at least 1 million tokens have seen their combined holdings hit the highest point since 2017. Large Cardano Holders Have Continued To Accumulate Recently In a new post on X, on-chain analytics firm Santiment has discussed the latest trend in the Supply Distribution of the large Cardano investors. The “Supply Distribution,” here refers to an indicator that tells us about the amount of ADA supply that a given wallet group is holding right now. Related Reading: XRP Flashes TD Sequential Buy Signal, Analyst Eyes Rebound Addresses or investors are divided into these cohorts based on the number of coins that they are carrying in their balance. The 1 to 10 coins group, for instance, includes all holders carrying between 1 and 10 ADA in their balance. In the context of the current discussion, the range of interest is the one with a lower bound of 1 million ADA and no upper bound. At the current exchange rate of the cryptocurrency, the cutoff for the group converts to about $230,000. This is a substantial amount, so only the investors with a notable amount of capital would fall inside this range. Below is the chart shared by Santiment that shows the trend in the Supply Distribution for these Cardano millionaire wallets over the past decade. As is visible in the graph, the Cardano supply held by the 1 million+ ADA wallets has been following an uptrend since 2024, indicating that entities like the sharks and whales have been loading up on the asset. As Santiment noted: When key stakeholders accumulate, this is generally a sign of confidence from the groups that are most deeply invested and have the most to gain/lose. Interestingly, the upward trajectory in the Supply Distribution of the millionaire wallets has maintained despite the bearish shift that the cryptocurrency sector as a whole has faced since Q4 2025. Thus, it would appear that the price drawdown hasn’t dissuaded large investors from accumulating the altcoin. Following

newsbtc.com

Bitcoin Tests Critical Support As Bearish Signals Point To $60,000 Retest

Bitcoin (BTC) is at a pivotal level as geopolitical tensions rise and bearish setups emerge, prompting some analysts to warn of a potential 15% correction if a critical support area doesn’t hold. Related Reading: Dogecoin Rally Loading? Analyst Eyes ‘Imminent Breakout’ From Textbook Falling Wedge Pattern Bitcoin Eyes Channel Support For Next Move Following news of renewed US strikes against Iranian targets, Bitcoin dropped roughly 5% from $76,000 to a one-month low of $72,589. At the start of the week, the cryptocurrency had been trading between $77,000-$78,000 after recovering from last week’s pullback. However, the growing geopolitical tensions have pushed the price toward a critical area. Analyst Ali Martinez affirmed that BTC reached a major support zone after losing the $75,000-$76,000 area. He previously said that leading crypto has been consolidating inside an ascending channel that has been developing since the early February crash, with two crucial levels likely to define the direction of its next move. As he explained, if Bitcoin broke above the $78,258 resistance, it could trigger a rally toward the $84,000 barrier, while breaking below the $75,733 support could push the price toward the late March-early April lows. Now, the price is consolidating at the lower boundary of the ascending channel, which could set the stage for a 15% drop. According to the post, the channel’s floor aligns with the 100-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) and the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement level, making the current price levels a crucial area. “This cluster between $73,000 and $71,300 serves as a major structural floor,” he stated, noting that if buyers defend this zone, a “steady expansion back toward $77,000 or even $79,500” could be expected. On the contrary, he warned that if Bitcoin loses the $71,300 flows, “it would open the door to an extended value window near the February base of $60,000.” BTC Bearish Setup Signals Risk Of Further Decline Market observer Mister Crypto sha

newsbtc.com

Get Crypto & Web3 delivered to your inbox

Owl Post delivers a personalized crypto & web3 digest every morning, curated by AI, written in your voice.

Get your free digest
See a sample Crypto & Web3 digest →
More in Technology