Today's Crypto Pulse
Bitcoin slides below $70k as energy‑price worries spark $1.8B in liquidations
Bitcoin fell under $70,000 amid heightened energy‑price uncertainty linked to U.S.–Iran tensions. The dip triggered roughly $1.8 billion in crypto liquidations, while institutional investors pulled more than $4.2 billion from digital‑asset positions.
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By the numbers: Strive acquires 2,500 Bitcoin for $185.2M
Unhackable Random Number Generator Sidesteps Device Flaws for Ultimate Security
Researchers from Shanxi University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have unveiled a semi‑device‑independent quantum random number generator (QRNG) that tolerates device imperfections while resisting general attacks. By imposing only an energy bound on emitted quantum states and applying the Kato inequality, the protocol extracts more randomness than it consumes. Implemented with heterodyne detection, the system operates at 100 MHz and achieves a net generation rate of 1.165 Mbps after 5.3 × 10⁹ rounds. The work marks a practical step toward high‑speed, secure QRNGs for real‑world cryptographic applications.
Cipher Mining and TeraWulf Are Buys, MARA a Sell, as Morgan Stanley Begins Bitcoin Miner Coverage
Morgan Stanley launched coverage of three listed bitcoin miners, giving Overweight ratings to Cipher Mining (CIFR) and TeraWulf (WULF) with price targets of $38 and $37, while assigning an Underweight rating to Marathon Digital (MARA) with an $8 target. The...
BoE's £20k Stablecoin Cap Threatens UK Innovation
It seems the Bank of England is unwilling to budge on the £20k stablecoin holding limit for individual users, which significantly restricts many use cases. Apparently, BoE staff understand this, but it may be that the restriction is coming from the...
What Does Market Cap Really Mean in Crypto — and Why Australians Care
Market capitalization, calculated as price multiplied by circulating supply, is the primary gauge of a cryptocurrency’s overall size. In Australia’s fast‑moving crypto scene, the metric helps investors differentiate between established large‑cap assets and speculative smaller projects. Platforms like Ridgewell Tradebit...
How Swiss Traders Use Automation to Trade Crypto Smarter in 2025
Swiss fintech Ruhig Finlore is emerging as a leading automated cryptocurrency platform, offering Swiss investors rule‑based trading and investment tools. The system connects to exchanges via secure API keys, executing predefined entry, exit and risk‑management rules 24/7 without requiring manual...
AO Cryptocurrency Explained: Why This AI Coin Is Turning Heads in 2026
AO Cryptocurrency merges artificial intelligence agents with a decentralized blockchain, creating a platform where AI can autonomously analyze data, execute smart contracts, and adapt to market conditions. The AO token serves as the utility medium, granting access to AI services,...
Markets Bottomed, Bitcoin Signals Recovery, ETH Accumulation
The markets have experienced a sharp decline. My personal view: I think we've seen the low and are slowly grinding back upwards. All technical indicators compare #Bitcoin to previous market bottoms and have signaled the same again. However, most people are stuck thinking...
Bubble in Cryptocurrency: How Canadians Can Avoid the Next Crash
The article explains how cryptocurrency bubbles form and how Canadian investors can spot early warning signs. It highlights historical cycles, media‑driven hype, and the gap between speculative and fundamental value. Practical risk‑management tactics such as position sizing, diversification, and clear...
Senvix Trading Platform in Canada Reviews 2026: A Deep Dive Here.
Senvix, an AI‑powered automated crypto trading platform launched in early 2023, provides both novice and experienced investors with algorithmic tools previously limited to institutions. The service combines technical and sentiment analysis models into a Convergence Engine that executes trades in...
Banana Gun Announces “Day 0” Support for MegaETH Mainnet, Extending Execution Layer to the “Rabbithole”
Banana Gun has announced Day 0 support for the newly launched MegaETH mainnet, integrating the high‑throughput blockchain into its Banana Pro trading platform from the first block. MegaETH, dubbed “The Rabbithole,” aims for 100,000 transactions per second with millisecond‑level finality, positioning itself...
Payscribe Expands Global Financial Access: Empowering Fintechs and Fast-Growing Businesses with Global Accounts, Stablecoins, APIs, and Merchant Growth Support
Payscribe, a fast‑growing payment infrastructure firm, launched Global Accounts, Stablecoin Payments, and a Merchant Growth Support credit line to broaden financial access for fintechs and SMEs across Africa and emerging markets. The new multi‑currency accounts let businesses receive USD, GBP,...
Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Added 40,613 Ether Last Week as Prices Crashed
Bitmine Immersion Technologies, led by Tom Lee, added 40,613 ETH to its holdings last week, raising its total to over 4.3 million tokens valued at about $8.7 billion. The purchase occurred as ETH price fell from above $2,300 to just over...
Bitcoin Sell‑Off Explained: Is the Worst Over?
Bitcoin sold off sharply. We break down what likely drove the move and how to assess whether the worst is behind us. Plus: Bitcoin appears 1,000 times in the Epstein files. We separate headlines from facts and address the questions...
Bitcoin Miner Cango Sells $305M BTC to Cut Leverage and Fund AI Pivot
Cango, a Bitcoin mining firm, sold 4,451 BTC on the open market, netting roughly $305 million. The proceeds are earmarked to partially repay a Bitcoin‑collateralized loan and lower the company’s financial leverage. Cango also announced a strategic pivot to provide distributed...
Canton’s Yuval Rooz Says Crypto Is Finally Repricing ‘Empty Shell’ Models
Yuval Rooz, co‑founder and CEO of Digital Asset, says the crypto market’s recent sell‑off is forcing investors to favor blockchains that deliver real business models rather than speculative narratives. He points to his privacy‑enabled Canton Network and the derivatives exchange...
Buy These Crypto Assets at Bargain Prices Now
If there are assets that you'd wish to accumulate here, well, the following ones are definitely the ones to go for: - $BTC --> simple, must buy at these ranges. - $ETH --> another blue chip, currently the best protocol in...
Top 10 Crypto Payment Gateways 2026: The Definitive Guide
The 2026 guide ranks the top ten crypto payment gateways, emphasizing sovereignty, stable‑coin efficiency, and agentic commerce. PayRam leads for self‑hosted, non‑custodial control, while BVNK offers enterprise‑grade fiat settlement via virtual IBANs. Other notable players include 0xProcessing’s volatility protection, Coinbase...
Rising Losses Mirror Past Bear Markets, Time to Accumulate
Another incredible chart. The holder's supply in profit/loss is rising. This means more people aren't profiting from #Bitcoin, and the loss is growing significantly. This is something we've only been seeing during peak bear markets in 2015, 2018, and 2022. We are flashing...
Binance Adds $300M in Bitcoin to SAFU Reserve During Market Dip
Binance purchased 4,225 Bitcoin, roughly $300 million, adding it to its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) emergency reserve. The addition pushes SAFU's Bitcoin holdings above $720 million, part of a plan to convert the entire fund to Bitcoin within 30 days. Binance...
Vitalik Draws Line Between ‘Real DeFi’ and Centralized Yield Stablecoins
Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin warned that many DeFi products, especially USDC‑centric yield strategies, do not truly decentralize risk. He emphasized that DeFi’s value lies in reallocating risk to market participants rather than relying on centralized issuers. Buterin outlined two preferred...
Kyle Samani’s Hyperliquid Critique Sparks Speculation After Multicoin Exit
Kyle Samani departed Multicoin Capital and immediately launched a harsh critique of the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid, calling it “everything wrong with crypto.” On‑chain analytics revealed Multicoin‑associated wallets buying more than $40 million of Hyperliquid’s HYPE token around the same time. Samani’s...
Emerging Economies Are Most Bullish on Crypto Opportunities
Emerging economies are showing the strongest optimism toward cryptocurrency opportunities, driven by rapid expansion in mobile money and payment gateway ecosystems. Projections indicate mobile money users will surpass 2.2 billion by 2030, while the global payment gateway market is expected to...
DClimate Launches Tyche to Bring On-Chain Transparency to Catastrophe Reinsurance
Decentralised climate platform dClimate has launched Tyche, a blockchain‑based marketplace that tokenises catastrophe reinsurance using ERC‑20 assets. The platform recorded $20 million of notional risk during last year’s hurricane season and relies on dClimate’s AI‑driven Aegis engine for real‑time pricing and...
Bitcoin Likely to Hit $100K in 2‑3 Months
I think the COVID crash resonates strongly with current market conditions. During the COVID crash, the lows were never tested again. Yes, we've hit some higher lows, that's great, but not another sweep of the low. As a result, it took 55...
Mystery: How Did Exchange Acquire 620,000 Bitcoins?
The story is funny, yes, but it left me wondering - where did the exchange get the 620,000 bitcoins from in order to incorrectly send them out? https://t.co/P23ERkGl2R
How Blockchain Is Revolutionizing Online Platforms
Blockchain is reshaping the online casino sector as the U.S. market eyes $22 billion in revenue by 2030, while the broader blockchain industry is projected to exceed $400 billion by the same year. Decentralized ledgers and smart contracts deliver immutable records, provably...
Ethereum Poised to Outpace Bitcoin, Buy the Dip
I think that we're in for a stronger $ETH market and that Ethereum will outperform Bitcoin going forward. Good day today on the $ETH chart vs. Bitcoin. There's more to come. Accumulate the dip. https://t.co/6Wl4220Tfm
Crypto Market Buzz: Regulation, Institutional Buying, New Futures
Crypto things you might have missed: -White House stablecoin talks resume Feb 10 -CFTC updates rules for stablecoins -Bitcoin critical support $68k -Institutions bought the dip on BTC & ETH -CME launches ADA, LINK, XLM futures -21Shares files for ONDO ETF - Crypto Com x AI...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drops by Most Since 2021 as Miners Capitulate
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty fell 11 percent to 125.86 trillion, the steepest decline since the 2021 China crackdown. The drop follows a halving of Bitcoin’s price from its $126,000 peak and a 50 percent slump in miner revenue per terahash, now around $35. Winter...
Analyzing Feb 5 Crash: OG Bitcoin
Was the Feb. 5 crash OG Bitcoiners, ETF plumbing, or paper deleveraging? At 3:30 pm ET, we start on Unchained, then carry it straight into @bitsandbips. Turn your notifications on 🔔🔔
Bitcoin's Dip Signals Shift From Tech to Hard Asset
Bitcoiners have long viewed Bitcoin as the solution to currency decline. Better gold. Ultimate money. Instead, the broader market has treated it like a software stock. Painful, but this dip may be how Bitcoin stops trading like tech and starts trading like...
What AI Can (and Can’t) Tell Us About XRP in ETF-Driven Markets
The crypto market has slowed, with ETF‑driven capital flows now shaping price dynamics more than headline‑driven sentiment. Binance Research reports over $2 billion net inflows into altcoin ETFs, led by XRP and Solana, while Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs have been...
China Clamps Down on RWA Tokenization, Offshore Yuan Stablecoins
China tightens stance on RWA tokenization and offshore yuan stablecoins, reiterates crypto ban https://t.co/0fTIJyHi7z https://t.co/P9fjIsMyex
Institutions Favor Ripple’s Integrated Stack; DeFi Chooses Flexibility
Will the vertical integration (Ripple closed loop model - stablecoin + settlement layers) or horizontal distribution (Paxos/Circle model) dominate institutional adoption? Institutions might prefer the seamless Ripple stack, but developers and DeFi protocols favor the flexibility of multi-chain stablecoins.
Euronext Launches Professional Crypto ETP Segment on Milan’s ETFplus Market in Italy
Euronext has opened a professional‑only crypto‑linked ETP segment on Borsa Italiana’s ETFplus market, giving Italian institutional investors regulated access to digital‑asset products. The new segment trades in euros, is cleared by Euronext Clearing and settled through Euronext Securities Milan, mirroring...
BTC Often Dips Below 50‑Month EMA After Initial Bounce
#BTC Upon breakdown from the Macro Triangles, Bitcoin tends to initially react from the 50-Month EMA (purple) However after that initial reaction, Bitcoin has historically tended to perform a downside deviation below the 50-Month EMA $BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin https://t.co/RuOTQjclnd
Marketing Compliance in Cryptocurrency – Lessons for Martech
Cryptocurrency marketers, led by exchanges such as Binance, have made regulatory compliance a core design constraint rather than an after‑thought. By embedding automated approval workflows, jurisdiction‑aware messaging, and transparent disclosures into their martech stacks, they maintain scale while avoiding violations....
Wallet Tied to Infini Exploiter Resurfaces to Buy Ether Dip for $13M
An address linked to the $50 million Infini exploit resurfaced after a year of inactivity, purchasing $13.3 million worth of Ether as the price fell to $2,109. The newly acquired ETH was promptly transferred to the Tornado Cash mixing service, obscuring the...
Cryptocurrency Markets a Testbed for AI Forecasting Models
Cryptocurrency markets are being leveraged as a high‑speed testbed for AI forecasting models, thanks to their continuous trading and transparent on‑chain data. Developers are deploying LSTM‑based neural networks enhanced with attention mechanisms and NLP sentiment analysis to capture both price...
LAX Enhances Digital Payment Architecture for Scalable Web3 Commerce
LAX announced a major upgrade to its digital payment architecture aimed at supporting scalable Web3 commerce. The new framework improves transaction flow, settlement reliability, and overall system scalability to accommodate rising on‑chain demand. By simplifying integration for merchants and platforms,...
Crypto Guarantee Service Xinbi Processed $17.9B After Telegram Ban: TRM Labs
TRM Labs reports that Chinese‑language crypto guarantee marketplace Xinbi processed roughly $17.9 billion in on‑chain volume despite a 2025 Telegram ban and U.S. enforcement actions. The platform kept activity alive by shifting users to alternative messaging apps and launching its own...
Here's How Market Makers Likely Accelerated Bitcoin's Brutal Crash to $60,000
Bitcoin plunged from $77,000 to near $60,000 in early February 2026, erasing billions in market value. Analysts attribute the steep drop not only to macro pressures but also to market makers’ hedging actions in the options market. With roughly $1.5 billion...
GetBlock Becomes Asia’s Fastest RPC Provider for Solana, February 2026 Data Says
GetBlock has become Asia’s fastest Solana RPC provider, posting an average latency of 147 ms—about 62% quicker than rivals—according to February 2026 CompareNodes data. The Singapore‑based cluster drives the bulk of the company’s Asian revenue, with the region accounting for over half...
TON Pay Aims to Turn Telegram Into a Crypto Checkout Layer for TON
The Open Network Foundation unveiled TON Pay, a wallet‑agnostic SDK that embeds cryptocurrency checkout directly into Telegram Mini Apps. The tool supports Toncoin, USDT and other tokens, promising sub‑second transaction speeds and fees below one cent. By leveraging Telegram’s 1.1 billion monthly...
Crypto Investment Outflows Ease After Three Weeks of Heavy Selling
Crypto exchange‑traded products (ETPs) saw outflows drop sharply to $187 million last week, a steep decline from the $3.43 billion drained over the prior two weeks. Bitcoin‑linked ETPs led the outflow category with $264.4 million exiting, while XRP‑focused funds attracted $63 million in fresh...
Exploring the Future of Stablecoins and Digital Transformation
In a Fintech Times podcast, MoneyGram CEO Anthony Soohoo discusses stablecoins, digital transformation, and AI's role in financial services. He outlines MoneyGram’s strategy to integrate stablecoins for faster, lower‑cost cross‑border transfers and highlights ongoing regulatory challenges. Soohoo also emphasizes how...
Crypto.com Founder Acquires AI.com in Record Domain Deal
Crypto. com Founder Buys AI. com in ‘Largest Domain Purchase in History’ Source: https://t.co/pUfyJusXXV https://t.co/ZLZbq1buMF
Signe Krogstrup: Stablecoins and Money
In a January 21, 2026 speech in London, Signe Krogstrup, Governor of Danmarks Nationalbank, addressed stablecoins from a monetary and financial perspective. She defined stablecoins as fiat‑backed digital tokens that aim to maintain a fixed value, likening them to money‑market...
Whales Ramp Up BTC Buying Amid Current Correction
According to CryptoQuant data, whales have significantly increased their BTC purchases during the current correction https://t.co/mmojO9762c
Story Co-Founder Defends Token Unlock Delay, Says Project Needs ‘More Time’
Story Protocol co‑founder S.Y. Lee justified delaying the first major IP token unlock to August 2026, arguing the blockchain needs additional time to build usage and that on‑chain revenue is an inappropriate performance metric. The six‑month extension keeps team and investor...