Key takeaways

• Pi Network edges higher on Monday as buyers defend the $0.0839 support level following two consecutive daily declines.
• The Pi Core Team released Node version 0.6.2 after successfully testing distributed computing capabilities across the network.
• A break below $0.0786 could invalidate the recent channel breakout, while a recovery above $0.1000 could strengthen the bullish outlook.

Pi Network (PI) edges higher on Monday as buyers attempt to defend the key $0.0839 support level following two consecutive days of losses.

The mild recovery comes after the Pi Core Team released a new Node upgrade focused on advancing the network’s distributed computing capabilities. However, PI’s technical outlook remains mixed, with weak derivatives activity and indecisive momentum limiting confidence in a sustained rebound.

Weak market sentiment weighs on Pi Network

Pi Network remains a highly speculative cryptocurrency whose price is heavily influenced by broader market conditions, retail demand and the strength of its community.

CoinMarketCap’s Crypto Fear and Greed Index stands at 38 on Monday, reflecting cautious sentiment and reduced risk appetite among investors.

Renewed geopolitical tensions involving Israel, Lebanon, the United States and Iran have contributed to uncertainty across risk assets. This defensive environment could make it more difficult for speculative tokens such as PI to attract fresh capital.

The Pi Network community continues to anticipate further ecosystem development around its reported base of 18 million Know Your Customer-verified users.

The Pi Core Team released version 0.6.2 of its Node software on Saturday. The upgrade follows a successful test of distributed computing capabilities across Pi Nodes and could provide a foundation for additional network utilities.

Expanding the role of individual Nodes beyond transaction validation could strengthen the network’s functionality and provide new use cases for participants. However, the upgrade’s long-term impact will depend on whether developers introduce applications that generate sustainable user demand.

Social activity showed a modest increase following the announcement. Santiment data indicates that Pi Network’s Social Dominance rose to 0.01% on Sunday from 0.009% on Saturday. Social Volume also increased to 12 from 8 over the same period.

The figures suggest that the Node upgrade generated slightly more discussion, although overall social engagement remains limited.

Pi Network’s derivatives market continues to show reduced trader participation. According to CoinAnk, PI futures Open Interest declined to $8.81 million from $9.12 million on Friday.

Open Interest measures the notional value of outstanding derivatives contracts. A decline generally indicates that traders are closing leveraged positions or reducing their exposure.

The continued reduction in PI futures Open Interest suggests that speculative interest is weakening despite the latest technical upgrade and Monday’s mild price recovery.

Pi Network struggles to extend falling-channel breakout

Pi Network maintains a bearish short-term bias as its price consolidates below $0.0900.

PI previously broke above a falling-channel pattern on the daily chart, creating the possibility of a bullish reversal. However, the token has failed to produce meaningful upside follow-through, reflecting weak buying demand.

At the time of writing, buyers are defending the 78.6% Fibonacci retracement level at $0.0839. The retracement is measured from the recent decline between $0.1341 and $0.0703.

A sustained break below $0.0839 could expose the former channel resistance trendline near $0.0786. A decisive daily close below this level would weaken the bullish breakout structure and raise the risk of deeper losses.

Pi Network’s daily momentum indicators provide little evidence of a strong recovery. The Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator remains only marginally above its signal line and is at risk of forming a bearish crossover. Such a move would indicate that downside momentum is beginning to strengthen.

The Relative Strength Index stands at 45, below its neutral midpoint of 50. This reading reflects modest bearish pressure but remains consistent with range-bound trading rather than an oversold market.

On the upside, the psychological threshold at $0.1000 represents the first major resistance level.

This area is reinforced by the 50% Fibonacci retracement at $0.1022, creating a meaningful supply zone where sellers could limit any recovery.

A decisive breakout above $0.1022 would strengthen PI’s recovery prospects and could open the way toward the 23.6% Fibonacci retracement at $0.1190.

Until PI generates stronger buying demand and derivatives participation begins to recover, its near-term outlook is likely to remain cautious.

Sterling enters this week on a mixed footing. Last month’s Bank of England decision struck a notably hawkish tone, with the vote split 6-3 in favor of holding rates, three members pushed for a hike, a signal the Bank remains genuinely worried about inflation as Middle East-driven energy costs work through the economy. Yet political uncertainty continues to simmer following Keir Starmer’s unexpected June resignation, leaving fiscal credibility, and by extension sterling, more sensitive than usual to how Labour manages the transition.

The kiwi, meanwhile, is being propped up almost entirely by rate expectations. Markets currently price an 88% probability of an RBNZ hike in September, even after New Zealand’s unemployment rate climbed to a decade-high 5.6%. UBS argues the labor data isn’t as bearish as it looks, since the rise was driven mainly by more people entering the workforce rather than layoffs, keeping the central bank’s tightening path intact. Softer inflation expectations and a weaker July manufacturing PMI, however, have started to inject some doubt into just how far the RBNZ can realistically go.

The result: a pound navigating political noise against a kiwi riding hawkish rate bets that may be more fragile than markets currently assume.

Technical Analysis of GBP/NZD

As GBP/NZD chart shows, the pair has been compressing into a broad symmetrical triangle since early June, with a descending trendline from July’s highs near 2.3550 converging with an ascending trendline off June’s lows, both meeting right around current price near 2.2900-2.2980, where the 100-period EMA also sits. This confluence, together with the well-established 2.2900-2.3100 support and resistance zone, marks a decisive juncture for the pair.

Bullish Scenario

Should buyers defend the ascending trendline and reclaim the 100-period EMA, the path would open toward the 2.3100 resistance, the upper boundary of the recent range. A confirmed break above this zone, and the descending trendline itself, would signal a genuine shift in momentum, opening the door toward a retest of the July highs near 2.3550.

Bearish Scenario

Conversely, a break below the ascending trendline and the 2.2900 support would expose the broader downtrend that has dominated since early July, with price risking a slide back toward the 2.2800 area and beyond, as the months-long descending structure reasserts itself.

With price coiled right at the apex of this triangle, sitting exactly on the 100-period EMA, GBP/NZD looks primed for a decisive move—will sterling’s political noise finally give way to the kiwi’s rate story, or does this range hold just a little longer?

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Tudor Investment has increased its BlackRock Bitcoin ETF stake by 18.9% in the second quarter, ending a year-long run of reductions while cutting most of its reported call-option exposure to the fund.

The Securities and Exchange Commission filing submitted on Aug. 14 showed that the macro hedge fund founded by billionaire Paul Tudor Jones held 688,529 shares of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust, or IBIT, as of June 30, up from 579,083 shares at the end of March.

Tudor added 109,446 shares during the quarter, taking the reported value of the position to about $22.9 million. The purchase reversed the direction of its IBIT holdings after the firm spent much of 2025 reducing a position that had once exceeded 8 million shares.

At the end of 2024, Tudor held more than 8 million IBIT shares worth roughly $427 million. Successive reductions through 2025 left the latest share count more than 90% below that peak, meaning the second-quarter purchase recovered only a small part of the exposure previously sold.

The position is also limited compared with the size of Tudor’s portfolio. The firm manages more than $100 billion in assets, while the $22.9 million IBIT stake represented only a fraction of its reported securities holdings at the end of June.

Tudor Investment increased shares while cutting IBIT calls

Alongside the purchase of direct shares, Tudor substantially reduced the call options it reported against BlackRock’s Bitcoin fund.

Its IBIT call position fell by about 85% during the quarter, dropping to the equivalent of 148,000 underlying shares from 998,000 at the end of March. The firm’s reported put exposure remained roughly unchanged.

The filing establishes Tudor’s positions at June 30 but does not disclose the strike prices or expiry dates for the options. It also does not show whether the reduction resulted from sales, expirations or another change in the firm’s strategy, limiting what can be inferred from the lower call position.

Form 13F itself provides only a quarter-end snapshot of certain U.S.-listed securities held by institutional investment managers. Filers generally have up to 45 days after a quarter ends to submit the report, while short positions and many other forms of exposure are not disclosed.

As previously explained by crypto.news in June, 13F reports can show long positions in listed crypto investment products but not directly held cryptocurrencies, complete hedges, cost bases or trades that were opened and closed within the reporting quarter.

Tudor’s filing therefore confirms that its direct IBIT share count increased between the March 31 and June 30 reporting dates, while providing only a partial view of the hedge fund’s total Bitcoin-related exposure.

Other institutions also added BlackRock Bitcoin ETF shares

Tudor’s purchase was disclosed during a busy round of second-quarter institutional filings involving BlackRock’s Bitcoin product.

Morgan Stanley reported on Aug. 14 that it had increased its IBIT stake by 23% during the second quarter, taking its position to about 16.5 million shares from roughly 13.4 million at the end of March.

The bank added approximately 3.04 million shares, although the reported value of the holding fell from about $667 million to $549 million as Bitcoin prices declined during the quarter. Morgan Stanley also disclosed 2.57 million shares of its own Bitcoin Trust, valued at about $43.3 million, after the fund began trading in April.

UBS likewise reported a larger position in BlackRock’s fund. An Aug. 13 SEC filing showed the Swiss bank held about 2.5 million IBIT shares valued at nearly $90 million at June 30, compared with about 549,000 shares at the end of 2025.

The change represented an increase of roughly 355% in its share count over six months, according to the UBS filing coverage published Aug. 13. Like other 13F reports, however, the filing does not determine whether all of the reported shares represented proprietary investments or assets held for clients.

Not every large holder increased its allocation. Harvard Management Company kept its 3.04 million IBIT shares unchanged during the second quarter, ending two consecutive quarters of reductions.

Harvard previously held 6.81 million shares at the end of September 2025 before cutting the position to 5.35 million in the fourth quarter and then reducing it by another 2.31 million shares during the first quarter of 2026. Its remaining position was valued at about $101.4 million at June 30.

The same second-quarter holdings report showed that Abu Dhabi investment entities Mubadala Investment Company and Abu Dhabi Investment Council also left their IBIT share counts unchanged. Mubadala held 14.72 million shares worth about $490.1 million, while the council reported 8.22 million shares valued at approximately $273.6 million.

Paul Tudor Jones has backed Bitcoin as an inflation hedge

Tudor’s renewed purchase follows several years of public support for Bitcoin from Jones, who first laid out his investment case for the asset in 2020.

Jones initially presented Bitcoin as protection against monetary expansion and inflation, later continuing to discuss it alongside gold and other scarce assets. His position focused in part on Bitcoin’s fixed supply and the potential loss of purchasing power in traditional currencies.

During a June 2025 Bloomberg interview, Jones said Bitcoin, gold and equities could form part of a portfolio designed to protect against inflation, with allocations adjusted to account for Bitcoin’s higher volatility.

At the time, he argued that policymakers dealing with large debt burdens could seek to keep real interest rates below inflation. Jones said assets such as Bitcoin and gold would become important stores of value under those conditions.

Jones had earlier discussed allocating roughly 1% to 2% of a portfolio to Bitcoin but did not provide a new percentage during the 2025 interview.

The hedge fund manager also maintained a positive view of Bitcoin during an earlier period of regulatory pressure in the United States. In May 2023, he said he intended to retain a small allocation to the cryptocurrency while citing its fixed supply as part of its investment case.

Bitcoin ETF inflows returned ahead of Tudor filing

Tudor’s quarter-end position was disclosed after U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded another period of net inflows in early August.

The funds attracted about $853.5 million over five consecutive trading days from Aug. 3 through Aug. 7, according to SoSoValue data cited in an Aug. 8 report. BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for about $694 million of the total.

The five-day inflow streak began with $170.1 million in combined net inflows on Aug. 3, followed by $211.5 million on Aug. 4 and $244.4 million on Aug. 5. The products then received about $128.8 million on Aug. 6 and $98.85 million on Aug. 7.

BlackRock’s fund had already recorded a $209.4 million single-day inflow on July 7 as total U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflows reached $265.7 million for the session. Fidelity’s FBTC, Bitwise’s BITB, ARK 21Shares’ ARKB and Grayscale’s Bitcoin Mini Trust also received net inflows that day, while Grayscale’s GBTC posted withdrawals.

BlackRock describes IBIT as a product designed to provide exposure to Bitcoin while reducing the custody and operational requirements involved in holding the cryptocurrency directly. The fund carried a 0.25% sponsor fee and reported a net asset value of $35.58 per share as of Aug. 14.

Bitcoin’s BTC$63,636.81 price has been eerily calm for weeks, locked in a narrow range below $65,000. Options, or derivative contracts offering insurance against wild price swings, should be cheap in a market this quiet. They aren’t.

That may sound counterintuitive, but it really isn’t, and it matters for traders considering options to hedge against, or profit from, a potential volatility boom. Volatility is mean-reverting and often spikes suddenly after a prolonged stretch of dull, range-bound trading.

It comes down to the fact that these options contracts are priced based on what the market expects to happen in the coming days or weeks, not on what has already happened recently.

The present calm is real. Bitcoin’s 30-day realized volatility, the price volatility seen over the past four weeks, has dropped to an annualized 21.80%, the lowest since October 2025. However, the forward-looking measure, the 30-day implied or expected volatility, represented by Volmex’s BVIV index, currently sits at 36%, about two-thirds higher than realized volatility.

Every crypto app needs data. Very few need the same data.

A portfolio tracker asks what an address holds. A DeFi dashboard asks what a protocol holds. A trading terminal asks what a token trades at right now. Those are three different products.

Picking by brand name is how teams end up paying twice. Picking by question is how they stop.

This guide covers five crypto data APIs. Each one answers a different question well. CoinStats Crypto API leads on wallet, market and DeFi data. DefiLlama covers protocol economics. Codex handles real-time DEX and prediction market data. Glassnode measures the network. Blockscout returns the raw record, decoded.

Our guide to choosing the right crypto API also covers swaps and nodes. This one stays in the data lane.

Not All Crypto Data Is the Same Data

Five kinds of question sit behind the word “data”. Each has its own providers.

Portfolio data answers questions about an address. Balances, positions and value, already priced.

Protocol data answers questions about a protocol. Total value locked, fees, revenue and yields.

Market data answers what something trades at. Prices, candles, liquidity and holder flows.

Network data answers what participants are doing together. Supply distribution, cost basis and exchange flows.

Record data answers what actually happened. Decoded transactions, event logs and verified contract code.

A node gives you none of this. It gives you bytes. This primer on how a blockchain API works explains the gap.

1. CoinStats API (Best Overall)

One API for Markets, Wallets, DeFi and Portfolio Data

CoinStats Crypto API is a unified data layer for developers. It combines market data, wallet data, DeFi positions and portfolio analytics. Token security screening sits in the same schema. Coverage spans 100,000+ coins, 200+ exchanges and 120+ blockchains.

Wallet endpoints return balances and transactions across Ethereum, Solana, EVM chains and Bitcoin. Bitcoin support includes extended public keys (xpub, ypub, zpub). DeFi positions resolve per wallet across 10,000+ protocols. That covers staking, lending and liquidity tied to one address.

Token risk checks flag honeypots, hidden fees, blacklists and unrenounced ownership. Those checks run on EVM chains.

CoinStats API also ships an MCP Server for AI agents. It exposes wallet, DeFi and portfolio data to LLMs. Agents in Claude, Cursor and VS Code query it directly. That portfolio layer is the real differentiator. This best crypto API guide breaks down the endpoints.

Pros

• Market, wallet, DeFi, portfolio and token security in one API
• 120+ blockchains and 100,000+ coins under one key
• Per-wallet DeFi resolution across 10,000+ protocols
• Bitcoin xpub, ypub and zpub support
• Native MCP Server for AI and LLM workflows
• Free tier with credit-based pricing

Cons

• Read-only data layer, so no transaction submission
• REST-first, with no streaming for live event data

Best Use Cases

• Multi-chain portfolio trackers
• DeFi dashboards across staking, lending and LP
• Crypto tax and accounting tools
• AI agents that query data through MCP
• Wallet explorers and embedded widgets

Pricing

Pricing is credit-based with a free tier at signup. Paid plans start at $49 per month. Credits scale with endpoint complexity.

Best suited for: most data-driven builds, from portfolio trackers to AI agents.

Limitation: CoinStats API is a data layer, not a node provider. To broadcast transactions, pair it with RPC infrastructure.

2. DefiLlama

Free Protocol Economics Across Thousands of Protocols

DefiLlama tracks the economics of DeFi itself. It publishes total value locked, fees, revenue, yields and stablecoin supply. Coverage runs across hundreds of chains and thousands of protocols. The methodology is open source, so anyone can audit a number.

The open plan is genuinely free and needs no key. It returns TVL, revenue and fee data plus token prices. Most TVL figures quoted elsewhere trace back to it.

A developer API plan runs $300 per month. It allows 1,000 requests per minute and 1 million calls monthly. Extra calls cost $0.60 per thousand after that. A separate $49 Pro plan covers dashboards rather than API access.

DefiLlama also ships an MCP server plus installable agent skills. Each agent query costs one credit from the same API pool.

Best suited for: yield tools, DeFi dashboards and protocol research.

Limitation: DefiLlama works at protocol level, not wallet level. For per-address positions, pair it with CoinStats API.

3. Codex

Real-Time DEX Data and Prediction Markets in One Schema

Codex is an enriched blockchain data API with two pillars. Do not confuse it with the coding tool of the same name. The first pillar is tokens: real-time prices, OHLCV charts, holder analytics and balances. The second is prediction markets across Polymarket and Kalshi, now at record volume.

Odds, volume, trending events and order books share a single schema. Coverage reaches 70M+ tokens, 700M+ wallets and 80+ networks.

Access runs on GraphQL with WebSocket subscriptions and webhooks. Data freshness sits near one second. TradingView, Coinbase, Uniswap and pump.fun all build on it. A TypeScript SDK, an MCP server and agentic payments cover AI workflows.

The free tier allows 10,000 requests per month with full query access. Growth plans start at $350 per month.

Best suited for: trading terminals, token discovery and prediction market apps.

Limitation: Codex reads onchain markets, not exchange balances or DeFi positions. Pair it with a portfolio layer.

4. Glassnode

Network-Level Metrics for Research Teams

Glassnode measures what a whole network is doing. Its catalogue covers supply distribution, cost basis, profitability and exchange flows. Entity-adjusted metrics strip out transfers between wallets with one owner. That single correction changes most raw onchain numbers.

Coverage spans 1,500+ assets and onchain data from 11 blockchains. The Advanced plan costs $49 per month. It includes 300+ metrics at daily resolution plus API Light access. Professional adds longer history, 10-minute resolution and a credit-based API add-on.

Glassnode ships an MCP server, a CLI and an Excel add-in. Agents can also pay per call in USDC on Base. Metric calls cost five cents with no account required.

Point-in-time metrics never get revised, which keeps backtests honest. That pay-per-call route is new, and it suits research agents well.

Best suited for: research desks, market dashboards and macro-style analysis.

Limitation: Glassnode has no free plan and reads networks, not wallets.

5. Blockscout

Open-Source Explorer Data With a Real Free Tier

Blockscout is the open-source block explorer, exposed as an API. It returns decoded transactions, balances, event logs and verified contract ABIs. One key covers 120+ chains on every plan, free included. Endpoints follow the Etherscan V2 shape, so migrating is mostly a URL swap.

The free plan gives 100,000 credits per day at five requests per second. Builder costs $49 per month for 100 million credits. Pro costs $199 per month at 30 requests per second. Most standard calls spend 20 credits each. Keys come from the developer portal with no card required.

An MCP server runs on the same backend, alongside installable agent skills. The explorer stays open source, so any chain can self-host it. Teams debugging contracts get the same data their users see. Response headers return remaining credits on every call.

Best suited for: wallets, debugging tools and contract-level analytics.

Limitation: Blockscout returns chain records, not aggregated market data.

Side-by-Side Comparison

What You Can Build

Portfolio trackers and wallet apps. CoinStats API returns holdings, prices and DeFi positions in one call.

Yield and treasury dashboards. DefiLlama supplies pool APYs, protocol fees and stablecoin supply.

Trading terminals and token screeners. Codex streams live pair data across 80+ networks.

Prediction market products. Codex normalises Polymarket and Kalshi into one schema.

Research and market reports. Glassnode supplies cost basis, supply and flow metrics.

Contract debuggers and audit tools. Blockscout decodes transactions and serves verified ABIs.

AI financial assistants. Every provider here now ships an MCP server for agents.

One Provider or Several?

Most production teams do not run on a single API. They layer by question.

Start with CoinStats API for wallet, market, DeFi and portfolio data. Add DefiLlama when you need protocol economics behind those positions. Add Codex when live DEX pricing or prediction markets matter. Layer in Glassnode when the question turns to whole-network behaviour. Reach for Blockscout when you need the decoded record itself.

Two providers cover most products. Three is common at scale. Developers publish their own comparisons too. This hands-on developer comparison is worth a read.

Wrapping Up

There is no single best crypto data API. There is only the right answer to your question.

CoinStats API is the broadest starting point for application data. It suits most crypto use cases, from trackers to AI agents. DefiLlama owns protocol economics and stays free. Codex owns real-time DEX and prediction market data. Glassnode owns network-level research. Blockscout owns the decoded record.

Four of the five start free. Test the free tiers with real calls before you commit.