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Leading cryptocurrencies traded mixed on Monday as escalating geopolitical tensions curbed investors’ risk appetite. Cryptocurrency24-Hour Gains +/-Price (Recorded at 9:25 p.m. EDT)Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)+0.86%$65,438.98Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) +1.51%$1,909.75XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) +1.30%$1.11Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) +1.27%$77.93Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) -0.70%$0.07226 Crypto Trading Volume Spikes Bitcoin traded in the $65,000 area through most of the day as 24‑hour volume increased 92%. Ethereum continued to

IREN lifts cloud revenue forecast, as it upgrades contracts with AI leaders. Hut 8 lands a new $9.8 billion deal, with room to grow.

Sweden's BTC AB lists Europe's first Bitcoin-backed preferred stock paying 10%, yet nearly half the offer went unsold.

Despite the governance milestone, ADA’s price remained under pressure.

"The reduced pace of buys reflects that Bitmine repurchased 5.5 million common shares," Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said in a statement.

XRP sat frozen near $1.08 while Bitcoin climbed and Solana led the market higher, and the reason it keeps getting left behind points to a single make-or-break moment working its way through the U.S. Senate right now.

If you’re in it for the long-term, you can acquire more tokens at a lower average cost during a dip, while short-term trades are riskier.

IREN and Hut 8 rocketed higher Monday as both companies said more customers were spending on their cloud-computing infrastructure. IREN shares rose 16% in morning trading after the company said it had agreed to new multiyear cloud contracts with artificial-intelligence developers, representing $2.8 billion in total contract value. The company raised its target for annualized run-rate revenue from AI cloud services at the end of the year to more than $4 billion from $3.7 billion previously.

A surprise lease announcement just sent one battered energy infrastructure stock soaring 10% while dragging its crypto mining peers along for the ride, even as Bitcoin itself slipped lower.

Strategy stock rose early Monday after the bitcoin juggernaut disclosed that it raised $263 million by selling common stock last week.

Hut 8 plans to bring a 352 MW Nvidia-powered AI data hall online by 2028, with the fully built-out campus expected to generate $1.31 billion in annual net operating revenue.

The company has now gone four consecutive weeks without increasing its Bitcoin position, including two weeks of sales followed by two weeks without purchases.

Prediction markets are quietly pricing a cascade of risks into MicroStrategy's bitcoin-heavy balance sheet, and the odds on margin calls, index removal, and the one-million BTC milestone tell a very different story than Wall Street analysts are projecting.

Mallers argued speculative capital chasing AI and prediction markets was never sustainable, Bitcoin demand to begin with.

Crypto-linked stocks, including Coinbase, Circle, Strategy and Bitmine, edged higher while investors awaited updates on the CLARITY Act and corporate crypto treasury announcements.

Martin Pelletier: Today's market environment is driven less by company specific fundamentals and more by broad macroeconomic themes

Sterling rose as Andy Burnham was set to become the U.K.'s prime minister Monday. It completes a surprisingly smooth transition of power from Keir Starmer who announced his resignation as prime minister last month, Commerzbank's Thu Lan Nguyen said in a note. The market appears to be betting that the period of political turmoil and recurring scandals in recent years is coming to an end, she said.

Bitcoin and gold were the worst-performing assets in 2026 amid growing macroeconomic volatility and capital rotation into AI names.

Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ:MSTR) founder Michael Saylor made a case on Sunday against the BIP-110 software upgrade for Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), arguing that the “proposed cure is more dangerous than the condition.” What Is The Upgrade About The upgrade is aimed at temporarily restricting the use of Bitcoin for storing large amounts of “non-monetary data,” including Ordinal inscriptions, and refocusing priorities on improving Bitcoin as “money.” Supporters of BIP-110 argue that this “spam” bloats the bl

Leading cryptocurrencies moved sideways on Sunday as U.S. strikes on Iran continued into their “ninth consecutive night.” Cryptocurrency24-Hour Gains +/-Price (Recorded at 9:30 p.m. EDT)Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)-0.03%$64,703.37Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) +0.78%$1,872.63XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) +0.48%$1.09Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) +1.40%$76.59Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) +0.11%$0.07249 Crypto Market Coagulates Bitcoin hovered between $64,000 and the low $65,000 range, even as trading volume surged 12% over the past 24 hou