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Three Fed signals that could make bitcoin pop today

Fed decision today. Three signals could make bitcoin pop. Long-term holders absorbed 125,000 BTC in June. A Gulf dynasty is moving $6T in trade onto blockchain. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ SPONSORED BY Tuesday, June 17, 2026   The day’s main event is Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s first interest-rate decision — and no change in rates is expected, which means all the action is in the details. Fed funds futures price in an 80% chance of a 25bps hike by December. That number is the baseline. Three signals in today’s release could move BTC meaningfully: the dot plot, the economic projections, and Warsh’s press conference tone. Any one of them printing dovish relative to that 80% baseline could be the catalyst. Meanwhile long-term holders absorbed 125,000 BTC in June alone — a bottom signal that has historically preceded recoveries — and a 135-year Gulf trading dynasty is moving $6 trillion in trade finance onto blockchain rails. Read today’s full report → Market snapshot As of 8:30am EST Asset Price 24h BTC $65,285 −0.30% ETH $1,784 +0.60% SOL $73.17 −1.69% XRP $1.21 −2.09% Prices approximate. Visit coindesk.com/price for live data. A message from Ledn Better Rates. Same Gold-Standard Protection Ledn has introduced their lowest rates ever. No complexity, no fine print. The larger the loan the lower the rate. These new rates apply to all new loans, refinances, and renewals. You’ll see all the rates upfront, before you apply. The new, lower rates come with Ledn’s gold standard protection. Your bitcoin remains custodied and is never lent out for interest. Perfect 8 year track record of keeping clients assets safe Auto top-up, LTV alerts, and partial repayments to keep you in control Repay whenever you want—with zero penalties or monthly payments Ledn’s perfect $11B+ track record through every market cycle in the last eight years speaks for itself. Don’t choose between a great rate and the safety of your bitcoin. Get both, at Ledn. Check out your rate by using their loan calculator at ledn.io Find out more CoinDesk Disclosure: The information contained in this newsletter, and any information linked through the items contained herein, is not intended to provide sufficient information to form the basis for an investment decision. You should seek additional information regarding the merits and risks of investing in any cryptocurrency or digital assets. L1.co Disclosure: This material is for informational purposes only, and the content contained herein should not be considered investment advice or a solicitation, offer, or recommendation to sell or buy any asset, strategy, or product. Investing in digital assets involves a high degree of risk, including the loss of principal. What matters today Macro   Story 1 of 3 Three Fed signals that could make bitcoin pop today. No rate change is expected from Warsh’s first FOMC decision — the market has that fully priced. What matters is how three components of today’s release compare to the baseline: Fed funds futures currently price an 80% probability of a 25bps hike by December 2026. Signal one: the dot plot. If fewer than 80% of Fed members are projecting a December hike, the market re-prices dovish and BTC moves up. Signal two: the economic projections. If GDP is revised down or unemployment up, the Fed’s growth concern softens the case for further tightening. Signal three: Warsh’s press conference. As a known hawk who has spent months signalling tighter policy is warranted, any dovish lean in his tone — acknowledgement of ceasefire-related disinflation via lower oil, or uncertainty about the rate path — would be read as a pivot signal. All three together would be the most bitcoin-positive outcome since the ceasefire news; any one alone could be enough to push BTC through the $68,000 resistance level that has capped the bounce since June 9. Read more → Markets   Story 2 of 3 A bitcoin bottom signal flashed as holders absorbed 125,000 BTC in June. Long-term bitcoin holders — defined as wallets holding BTC for more than 155 days without movement — absorbed 125,000 BTC during June alone, even as price fell from above $65,000 to the low-$60,000s and back. The scale and pace of long-term holder accumulation at these levels is consistent with every prior major bear market bottom: in November 2022, March 2020, and December 2018, on-chain data showed the same pattern of experienced holders buying heavily into weakness while short-term traders sold. The signal does not set a precise bottom price — it sets a conviction signal. Combined with last week’s supply-in-loss crossover, the 200-week SMA touch at $61,300, and the ceasefire-driven macro relief, it adds one more piece of evidence that the worst of the June selloff is likely behind the market. Read more → Business   Story 3 of 3 Heir to a 135-year Gulf dynasty is moving a $6 trillion trade market onto blockchain rails. The heir to one of the Gulf region’s oldest and largest trading families is leading an initiative to migrate $6 trillion in annual commodity trade finance — letters of credit, cargo documentation, settlement, and counterparty verification — onto blockchain infrastructure. The dynasty’s trading house has operated for 135 years across oil, metals, and agricultural commodities, and the move represents one of the largest institutional commitments to blockchain adoption by a non-financial entity anywhere in the world. The project targets the inefficiencies in trade finance that still cost global commerce an estimated $1.5 trillion annually in delays, fraud, and duplicate documentation — a problem blockchain's immutability and programmability are uniquely positioned to solve. The announcement arrives the same week that Citi projected the tokenized securities market will hit $5.5 trillion by 2030, adding another data point to a growing consensus that RWA tokenization is moving from pilot to infrastructure. Read more → CoinDesk Disclosure: The information contained in this newsletter, and any information linked through the items contained herein, is not intended to provide sufficient information to form the basis for an investment decision. You should seek additional information regarding the merits and risks of investing in any cryptocurrency or digital assets. L1.co Disclosure: This material is for informational purposes only, and the content contained herein should not be considered investment advice or a solicitation, offer, or recommendation to sell or buy any asset, strategy, or product. Investing in digital assets involves a high degree of risk, including the loss of principal. Crypto Daybook Americas: A newsletter from CoinDesk Were you forwarded this newsletter? Sign up here.  Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.  CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA Unsubscribe Manage preferences

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Did Coinbase just become a stockbroker?

Coinbase just became a stock broker, an AI advisor, and a pre-IPO market. Spot trading is at a 2.5-year low. And bitcoin ETFs bled Monday while everything else gained. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Tuesday, June 16, 2026 Coinbase introduces AI advisor, stock options and pre-IPO markets in finance push At a Manhattan event Tuesday, Coinbase unveiled what CEO Brian Armstrong called the company's push to become an "everything exchange" — announcing a sweeping product expansion that takes it well beyond crypto. The new lineup includes U.S. stock and ETF trading on Coinbase Advanced, equity and crypto options, thematic and pre-IPO perpetual futures, and tokenized stocks backed one-for-one by U.S. equities for international users. On the AI side, Coinbase launched Coinbase Advisor — an SEC-registered automated investment advisory tool offering portfolio recommendations, tax-loss harvesting, and market analysis — as well as automated AI trading agents under the Coinbase for Agents banner. Consumer finance additions include a USDC-backed credit card, bitcoin travel rewards, and a new borrowing product against staked Solana. The announcement positions Coinbase directly against Robinhood, which launched its own Agentic Trading product in May, and against Morgan Stanley's E*Trade crypto expansion. The competitive subtext: as TradFi enters crypto and crypto enters TradFi, the "everything exchange" strategy is a direct bet that platform breadth beats specialization. Read the full story → Sponsored Research Spot trading at lowest since November 2023 as volumes fall for fourth straight month Combined exchange spot volumes fell 3.45% in May to $4.41 trillion — the lowest monthly total since November 2023 and the fourth consecutive monthly decline. The data points to sustained retail disengagement from crypto markets, with capital rotating into AI stocks, IPO opportunities, and traditional fixed income rather than digital assets. One notable counter-trend: RWA perpetual futures volumes rose 10.4% against the grain, hitting a new all-time high and underlining that institutional-grade onchain products are finding demand even as broader spot activity contracts. Read more → Markets Bitcoin ETFs bled cash Monday while every other crypto ETF gained Bitcoin ETFs recorded net outflows Monday — driven almost entirely by Grayscale's GBTC, which continued its structural bleed as investors migrate to lower-fee IBIT and FBTC — while ether, XRP, Solana, and Hyperliquid funds all posted net inflows. Bitcoin fell below $66,000 intraday as SpaceX rallied sharply on news of its Cursor acquisition agreement, drawing risk capital back into the AI trade. The divergence is a clean summary of the current macro: bitcoin is losing its claim to the dominant risk-on trade, while the altcoin and tokenization ETF ecosystem is quietly building a broader, more diverse institutional base. Glassnode data shows buyers added over 250,000 BTC between $59,000 and $67,000 during the recent accumulation phase, with the Accumulation Trend Score reaching its strongest level of the current drawdown — a structural bullish signal even as the near-term price action remains choppy heading into the FOMC decision later today. Read live updates → Know someone who should be reading this? Share this newsletter See all of CoinDesk’s newsletters    CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York,NY,10011,USA, Unsubscribe Manage Preferences   Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.

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