Weekly Crypto Brief — August 9, 2026
A very different week than last. This weekly crypto brief opens with a genuine surprise: the July US jobs report
A very different week than last. This weekly crypto brief opens with a genuine surprise: the July US jobs report
This weekly crypto brief opens with the two biggest stories of the summer. First: Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed
This weekly crypto brief opens on a real news week: Bitcoin traded between $63,700 and $65,406 through the week — flat-ish
This weekly crypto brief opens on a split week: Bitcoin touched $65,000 mid-week — its highest level since early June
A DEX (decentralized exchange) is software that lets you swap one crypto for another directly from your own wallet —
Bitcoin spent the week clawing back from last Sunday’s 21-month low near $58,000, ending around $63,500 after a mid-week peak
Bitcoin spent most of the last two weeks in the low $60,000s, dipped to a 21-month low near $57,950 in
Dollar-cost averaging is what people who don’t try to time the market do instead. You pick an amount, you pick
Understanding how crypto wallets work starts with one fact: a crypto wallet doesn’t actually hold your crypto. It holds the
Welcome to the first Weekly Crypto Brief — our recurring summary of what actually mattered in crypto this past week.