Israel Crypto Industry Pushes Regulatory Changes Amid Strong Public Support
The Israeli Crypto Blockchain & Web 3.0 Companies Forum launched a lobbying campaign to push regulatory reforms that could add 120 billion shekels ($38.36 billion) to the economy by 2035 and create 70,000 jobs. The effort is backed by KPMG research showing strong public interest, with over 20% of Israelis currently holding digital assets. Forum leader Nir Hirshman‑Rub highlighted obstacles such as restrictive stable‑coin rules, punitive token‑option taxes, and banks’ reluctance to serve crypto firms. A national crypto strategy and a new voluntary disclosure scheme are also under discussion.
Ripple Expands Institutional Custody Stack with Staking and Security Integrations
Ripple announced new integrations with Securosys and Figment, bolstering its institutional custody platform with hardware security modules and staking capabilities. The upgrades let banks and custodians manage cryptographic keys on‑premises or in the cloud while offering staking on Ethereum, Solana...
Farcaster Founders Join Stablecoin Startup Tempo After Neynar Acquires Social Protocol
Farcaster co‑founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan have left the crypto‑social platform to join stablecoin startup Tempo after Neynar acquired Farcaster. Their exit follows the transfer of Farcaster’s infrastructure to Neynar, prompting the founders and key engineers to step away....
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...
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,...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
When Bitcoin Pulls Back, Opportunity Emerges: Why Falling Prices Could Be the Miner’s Golden Moment
Bitcoin’s recent price pullback is lowering demand for mining hardware, creating a buyer’s market. ASIC and GPU prices are falling, and hosting capacity is more available. This environment reduces entry costs and gives newcomers a strategic advantage. Veteran miners see...
Mey Real to Launch Scarcity Driven Property Token Offering on February 3rd
Mey Real will launch its Property Token Offering (PTO) on February 3, 2026, issuing a fixed supply of 2,000 blockchain‑based property NFTs. The tokens represent fractional ownership in real‑estate assets, with 70% allocated to a whitelist and the remaining 30%...
$44B Bitcoin Blunder Puts South Korea Regulators on Alert over Local Crypto Exchanges
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) is tightening crypto oversight after Bithumb mistakenly credited users with roughly 2,000 bitcoin each, a $44 billion error. The regulator announced investigations into high‑risk practices such as whale manipulation, pump‑and‑dump schemes, and suspended deposit trading....
Exploring Private Cryptocurrency Swaps Beyond Traditional Exchange Verification
The article highlights a rising demand for anonymous crypto swap platforms that let users trade Monero (XMR) without KYC verification. Monero’s built‑in privacy features—ring signatures, stealth addresses, and confidential transactions—make it ideal for privacy‑focused traders. KYC‑free services operate as direct...
ENS Abandons Plans for Namechain L2, Citing Ethereum Scaling
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) has scrapped its planned Namechain layer‑2, opting instead to launch the ENSv2 upgrade directly on Ethereum’s mainnet. The decision follows a 99% reduction in registration gas fees and the recent Fusaka upgrade, which raised the block...
Bitcoin Sharpe Ratio Slides to Levels Seen in Previous Market Bottoms
The Bitcoin Sharpe ratio has plunged to –10, its lowest reading since March 2023, placing it in negative territory typically seen at the end of bear markets. CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost notes that such levels historically align with market bottoms, signaling an...
Takaichi Triumph: Japan’s Record 56,000 Nikkei Surge Sends Bitcoin to $72,000, Gold Past $5,000
Japan’s Nikkei 225 surged past 57,000, climbing 3.4% after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a supermajority in the February 9 election. The win unlocked a $135 billion expansionary fiscal package focused on infrastructure spending and tax cuts. The so‑called “Takaichi Trade”...
VCs Clash over Non-Financial Use Cases in Web3 and Crypto
Prominent crypto VCs are publicly sparring over the fate of non‑financial Web3 applications. a16z partner Chris Dixon blames years of scams, extractive behavior and regulatory pressure for the lack of traction, while Dragonfly’s Haseeb Quereshi argues the products simply failed...
Bitcoin Bulls Spot Bottoming Signs as Longtime Bears Take Victory Laps
Bitcoin slipped below $70,000 as the market entered a sharper free‑fall, prompting long‑time skeptics at the Financial Times and gold‑bug Peter Schiff to celebrate the decline. The article highlights the continued erosion of institutional exposure, noting MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin holdings are down roughly...
UK Construction Firm Hit by Prometei Botnet Hiding in Windows Server
A UK construction company discovered the Russian‑linked Prometei botnet hidden on its Windows Server in January 2026. The malware entered via weak RDP credentials, installed persistent services, and used Mimikatz to steal network passwords while mining Monero cryptocurrency. Researchers from eSentire’s...
Odds of Jesus Christ Appearing in 2026 Double, Beating Return on Bitcoin
Traders on Polymarket have pushed the implied probability of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ in 2026 to roughly 4%, more than doubling the odds since early January. The binary contract, now trading at about four cents, has generated a...
Execution Quality Becomes The Deciding Factor For Professional Perp Traders
Execution quality has become the primary criterion for professional perpetual futures traders, eclipsing pure speed and fee considerations. HFDX addresses this shift by delivering fully on‑chain trade execution against shared liquidity pools, eliminating privileged market makers and manual overrides. The...
Sumsub Launches ‘Risk Intolerant’ Registry to Spotlight Crypto and Fintech Safety Champions
Sumsub, a global verification and fraud‑prevention platform, has unveiled a public "Risk Intolerant" registry that awards badges to fintech, crypto, gaming, edtech and mobility firms demonstrating strong KYC, AML and fraud‑mitigation controls. The highest "Titan" badge has been granted to...
PulseChain Bridge Guide: How to Use PulseBridge to Transfer Assets Secure
PulseBridge is the primary cross‑chain bridge enabling asset transfers between Ethereum and PulseChain. The platform lets users move tokens, NFTs, and other digital assets while avoiding Ethereum’s high gas fees and slow speeds. It offers a step‑by‑step UI, supports MetaMask...
The Finanser’s Week: 2nd February – 8th February 2026
The post warns that cryptocurrency fraud and money‑laundering remain rampant, urging tighter AML controls. It connects widening wealth inequality to heightened risk of social unrest, suggesting political volatility for financiers. It highlights a shift in perception of AI, citing Lloyds...