Avalanche’s Business Chief Says Crypto Must Grow up and Solve Real Problems
Avalanche’s chief business officer John Nahas announced that the platform is repositioning itself as an enterprise infrastructure rather than a speculative crypto product. The network’s rebranded "Avalanche L1s" (formerly subnets) let companies launch sovereign blockchains with custom validators, fees, and compliance settings. Avalanche now runs more than 70 live L1s, aims for 200 by year‑end, and processes roughly 40 million transactions daily across those chains. The strategy targets real‑world use cases such as tokenized equities, digital sports collectibles, and land‑record registries.
DeFi Lending Platform Aave Sees a Rare $27 Million Liquidations After a Price Glitch
Over the past 24 hours, Aave experienced approximately $27 million in liquidations, which analysts link to a temporary pricing error for wstETH in the platform’s CAPO risk‑oracle. The oracle’s stale parameters caused wstETH to be valued about 2.85 % lower than market...
Investment Firm Multicoin Bets 'Internet Labor Markets' Will Drive Crypto’s Next Wave of Adoption
Multicoin Capital is championing Internet Labor Markets (ILMs), where users earn crypto by completing verifiable tasks rather than buying tokens. The model is gaining traction in the Solana ecosystem, extending earlier DePIN projects into active human labor such as data...
Senators Try to Unlock Stalled Crypto Clarity Act with Compromise on Stablecoin Yield
Senators Angela Alsobrooks and Thom Tillis are negotiating a compromise on stablecoin reward provisions to revive the stalled Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. The compromise would allow limited, transaction‑based rewards while preserving guardrails to prevent deposit flight, addressing bankers’ concerns...
Circle Could Rally 60% More on Stablecoin Adoption, AI Agentic Finance, Bernstein Says
Bernstein analysts project Circle’s stock could rise 60% to $190, citing robust USDC adoption independent of crypto cycles. USDC supply rebounded to just under $78 billion and stablecoin transaction volumes surged 90% year‑over‑year, driven by growing payments use. Visa now supports...
Why Crypto's Privacy Problem Is a Total Dealbreaker for Mainstream Users
The article argues that lack of privacy on public blockchains is a fundamental barrier to mass adoption. While transparency aids auditability, it also exposes personal and corporate transaction data, deterring consumers and institutions. Emerging solutions such as permissioned networks and...
Bitcoin Could Be the Big Winner if the U.S.-Iran Conflict Drags on for Months
Bitcoin could emerge as the biggest beneficiary if a U.S.–Iran war extends for months, according to macro strategist Mark Connors. He argues that heightened government spending, a rapidly expanding debt load—rising about 14% annually since mid‑2025—and a push toward lower...
Global Insurance Broker Aon Tests Stablecoin Payments with Coinbase, Paxos
Aon, one of the world’s largest insurance brokers, completed a proof‑of‑concept using stablecoins to settle premium payments. The firm partnered with Coinbase and Paxos to move USDC on Ethereum and PayPal USD on Solana, marking the first known stablecoin settlement...
Stock Market Volatility Hits One-Year High, Possibly Marking Bitcoin Bottom
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) surged above 35, its highest level in nearly a year, as oil price spikes stoked panic across equity markets. In contrast, Bitcoin rose roughly 5% in 24 hours, trading above $69,000, diverging from the broader...
Crypto Doesn’t Belong in AI Portfolio as It’s ‘a Different Animal,’ Says Tech Investor and Former Snap Exec
Former Snap strategy chief Imran Khan argues that cryptocurrency does not belong in his AI‑focused investment thesis, labeling crypto a "different animal." While Proem Asset Management holds modest crypto positions in Coinbase, Robinhood, a bitcoin miner and the iShares Bitcoin...
Bithumb Faces Proposed 6-Month Partial Ban over South Korea AML Breaches
South Korea’s Financial Intelligence Unit has issued Bithumb a preliminary notice that could impose a six‑month partial suspension, limiting virtual‑asset transfers for newly registered users. The regulator cited repeated AML breaches, including transactions with unregistered overseas firms and inadequate KYC...
Bitcoin Is Still a Great Way to Diversify Portfolio Even if It Trades Like a Tech Stock, Analyst Says
Bitcoin’s price has begun moving in tandem with U.S. equities, pushing its 90‑day correlation with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 to roughly 0.5. NYDIG research head Greg Cipolaro notes that this level means only about a quarter of Bitcoin’s price swings...
Tokenized Assets Exceed $25 Billion After Nearly Quadrupling in a Year
Tokenized real‑world assets have surpassed $25 billion in on‑chain value, nearly quadrupling from $6.4 billion a year earlier. Growth is led by U.S. Treasuries, private credit and commodities, with major managers such as BlackRock, Fidelity and WisdomTree launching tokenized funds. The number...
Canton’s Yuval Rooz Says Smart Contract Blockchains Face a Reckoning over Value Gap
Yuval Rooz, CEO of Digital Asset and co‑founder of the Canton Network, warned that most smart‑contract blockchains are over‑valued because they generate little real‑world financial throughput. He argues that token designs copied from Bitcoin reward validators without tying value to...
Latin America’s Crypto User Growth Outpaced U.S. by 3x in 2025, Report Shows
Latin America’s crypto market surged to $730 billion in transaction volume in 2025, a 60% year‑over‑year rise and roughly 10% of global activity. Monthly active crypto‑app users grew 18% YoY, outpacing the United States by a factor of three. Brazil led...
Bitcoin Purist Jack Dorsey Says that His Firm Is Reluctantly Giving in to Stablecoin Craze
Block CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the company will support stablecoins, marking a pragmatic shift from its long‑standing Bitcoin‑only stance. Dorsey emphasized that the change reflects customer demand rather than a personal belief transformation. Block currently holds about 8,888 BTC...
Bitcoin Slips Below $68,000 as Dollar Posts Steepest Weekly Gain in a Year
Bitcoin slipped below $68,000 on Saturday, dropping 3.4% in the last 24 hours after a mid‑week rally to $74,000. The decline mirrors a pattern of late‑week selling as the U.S. dollar posted its steepest weekly gain in a year, driven...
Dubai Crypto Regulator Says KuCoin Exchange Is Operating without Proper License and Must Stop
Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has ordered cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin to cease operations in the emirate, citing the absence of a required local licence. VARA also warned that any promotion or solicitation of KuCoin’s services violates its regulations and...
Vancouver Mayor's Bitcoin Investment Proposal Blocked by City, Provincial Law
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s proposal to allocate city reserve funds into bitcoin was rejected after staff concluded the investment violates the Vancouver Charter and British Columbia’s Municipal Finance Authority Act. The charter restricts municipal assets to government securities, bonds, and...
Almost Nobody Is Talking About Altseason Anymore. That May Be Bullish
Retail discussion of “altseason” has plunged to its lowest level in at least two years, according to Santiment’s social volume tracker. Historically, such silence has coincided with the end of price tops and the start of altcoin rallies, while major...
XRP Drops 3% After Failing to Break $1.45 Resistance
XRP slipped 3.3% to $1.4108 after another failed attempt to clear the $1.43‑$1.45 resistance zone. Trading volume surged 74% above its average, confirming that sellers dominate the short‑term trend. The $1.40 level now serves as a pivotal support, with a...
OKX Is Building a Social Network Directly Into Its Trading App After Massive $25 Billion Valuation
Crypto exchange OKX, freshly valued at $25 billion after a strategic investment from Intercontinental Exchange, is embedding a native social network called Orbit into its trading app. The feature lets users post market commentary, livestream discussions, and share verified performance metrics...
SEC, Justin Sun Reach Settlement over Tron Lawsuit
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reached a settlement with Rainberry Inc., the company behind the Tron network, imposing a $10 million civil penalty and a ban on future securities violations. All remaining claims against Justin Sun, the Tron Foundation, and...
Short Seller Culper Bets Against Ether, Tom Lee's BitMine Citing 'Death Spiral' Risk
Culper Research has turned bearish on ether after the December 2025 Fusaka upgrade flooded the network with excess blockspace, driving transaction fees down by roughly 90%. Lower fees cut validator earnings, threatening staking yields and potentially weakening network security. The...
How This Week's Rout in Korean Stocks Might Have Triggered Crypto's Surge Higher
South Korea’s Kospi plunged roughly 20% over two sessions, ending a ten‑month rally that had lifted the index nearly 180% on AI‑linked stocks. The sharp equity correction coincided with a modest resurgence in domestic crypto trading, as retail investors reallocated...
Crypto's New Run 'Has Legs' Says Analyst Citing Trump's Press on Policy, Institutional Adoption
Clear Street analyst Owen Lau argues that crypto’s recent 44% drawdown may be ending, signaling an inflection point for the market. Bitcoin has rallied about 11% this week, closing in on the $75,000 resistance level. Positive regulatory cues—including President Trump’s...
CEO of Crypto Investment Firm Keyrock Says Bitcoin Is Undervalued, Entering ‘Transition Year’
Keyrock CEO Kevin de Patoul says Bitcoin, trading around $73,000, is undervalued and that 2026 marks a structural "transition year" rather than a breakout cycle. He points to regulatory progress and growing institutional on‑chain activity as catalysts that have not yet...
Brian Armstrong Met with Trump Before the President Slammed Banks over Crypto Bill
U.S. President Donald Trump met privately with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong shortly before Trump posted a criticism of banks on Truth Social, accusing them of undermining the GENIUS Act. In the post, Trump urged rapid passage of a market‑structure bill...
Crypto Campaign PAC Fairshake Marks First Wins in 2026 U.S. Congressional Primaries
Fairshake, the crypto industry’s super PAC, is celebrating early victories in the 2026 congressional primaries, backing several pro‑crypto Republicans in Texas and incumbents in Arkansas and North Carolina. Jessica Steinmann won Texas’ 8th District with nearly 70% after receiving over...
Institutional Investors May Be Buying the Dip as Traders Pour $1.7 Billion Into Spot Bitcoin ETFs
Institutional investors are adding roughly $1.7 billion to U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs since Feb. 24, reversing months of $9 billion outflows. The inflows suggest a dip‑buying mindset and belief that Bitcoin has found a short‑term floor. Unlike earlier basis‑trade strategies, the new capital...
Crypto Long & Short: Why Bitcoin's Quantum Fears Will Pass Just Like the Climate Panic
Bitcoin’s price dip has reignited fears that quantum computing could break its cryptography, echoing the climate‑risk panic that once threatened the asset’s reputation. The article notes that, as with the 2021 energy debate, the crypto sector is now publishing hard...
International Finance Watchdog Warns Stablecoins Are Increasingly Used in Sanctions Evasion and Money Laundering
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released a 42‑page report warning that stablecoins have become the most frequently used virtual asset in illicit transactions, including sanctions evasion by Iran and North Korea. It cited data showing stablecoins accounted for 84%...
AI Agents Will Be Primary Users of Blockchain, NEAR Co-Founder Says
NEAR co‑founder Illia Polosukhin says artificial‑intelligence agents will become the primary users of blockchain, positioning AI as the front‑end interface and the ledger as the back‑end. He argues that wallets, explorers and transaction hashes will be abstracted away, letting AI...
Bank of Japan Expands Blockchain Settlement Sandbox and Says CBDC Efforts Are Ongoing
The Bank of Japan announced an expansion of its blockchain sandbox to experiment with settlement of central bank reserves using tokenized deposits, targeting interbank and securities use cases. Governor Kazuo Ueda said the pilot will test connections to existing systems...
End of Bitcoin 'HODL': Public Miners Going All-In on AI, Signaling More BTC Selling
Public bitcoin miners are rapidly selling their BTC holdings to finance a strategic shift toward artificial‑intelligence infrastructure. Declining mining margins, higher energy costs, and Bitcoin’s price drop to around $66,000 have eroded the profitability of pure mining operations. Companies such...
Tom Lee's Bitmine Boosts Ether Holdings to 4.47 Million Tokens with $98 Million ETH Purchase
Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies announced a $98 million purchase that lifted its ether holdings to 4.474 million tokens, representing roughly 3.71 % of Ethereum’s total supply. The firm now has 3.04 million ETH staked, valued at about $6 billion, generating $172 million in annualized staking...
Turkey's Ruling Party Unveils 10% Crypto Income Tax Proposal
Turkey’s ruling AK Party has tabled a bill to formalize cryptocurrency taxation, introducing a 10% quarterly withholding tax on gains from regulated platforms and a 0.03% transaction levy on service providers. The president would retain authority to adjust the withholding...
Anthony Pompliano’s ProCap Financial Buys 450 Bitcoin, Steps up Share Buybacks
ProCap Financial, the first publicly‑traded agentic finance firm, bought 450 bitcoin at roughly $66,352 per coin, raising its total holdings to 5,457 BTC and making it the 19th largest public Bitcoin holder. The purchase lowered the firm’s average cost basis....
Bitcoin Losing Trillions in Value Hasn't Stopped Traditional Giants' Interest in Digital Assets Sector
At the iConnections conference in Miami, the sentiment among large allocators toward digital assets has shifted from skepticism to acceptance, with more than 75 crypto funds and roughly 750 manager‑allocator meetings mirroring pre‑crash activity. Nearly 25% of limited partners on...
SpaceX’s $780 Million Bitcoin Stack Now Down to About $545 Million Ahead of IPO Filing
SpaceX is preparing a confidential IPO filing that could value the company above $1.75 trillion and raise up to $50 billion. The filing will reveal a Bitcoin portfolio of 8,285 BTC held in Coinbase Prime, now worth roughly $545 million after a $235 million drop...
Ether, Solana, Xrp Surge up to 10% as Majors Recover Saturday's War-Driven Losses
Crypto markets rebounded sharply on Sunday after a weekend sell‑off triggered by U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. Bitcoin rose to $66,843, up 5.2% in 24 hours, while Solana surged 10.8% and Ether reclaimed $1,994, nearing the $2,000 mark. The...
Here's How Bitcoin's Price Rise Could Be Fueled by Job-Stealing AI Software
NYDIG research chief Greg Cipolaro argues that Bitcoin’s trajectory will be shaped more by AI’s macroeconomic impact than by its own technology. He highlights that AI‑driven automation could cut jobs, suppress consumer demand, and trigger central‑bank liquidity responses that may...
Bitcoin Is Stuck in a Rut but JPMorgan Says New Legislation Could Be the Ultimate Spark
Bitcoin remains range‑bound around $60,000 while crypto volumes thin, leaving the market searching for a catalyst. JPMorgan argues that the pending U.S. Clarity Act could deliver the regulatory certainty needed to revive institutional interest. The bill would split oversight between...
Iran Crisis Puts the Regime's $7.8 Billion Crypto Shadow Economy in Spotlight
Fresh U.S. and Israeli strikes have shone a spotlight on Iran’s parallel crypto economy, now estimated at $7.78 billion. Since legalising mining in 2019, Tehran subsidises electricity for licensed operators who sell Bitcoin to the central bank, using it to bypass...
Buyouts and Bitcoin: Inside the Messy Boardroom Fight at a Treasury Company that May Span to Others
Empery Digital, a publicly traded bitcoin treasury firm with 3,723 BTC worth about $235 million, is embroiled in a boardroom showdown with activist investor Tice P. Brown, who now holds roughly 10 % of the company and is demanding the resignation of co‑CEO Ryan Lane...
Bitcoin's Five-Month Slide: Why BTC Is Set for Worst Losing Streak Since 2018
Bitcoin is on track for its worst monthly losing streak since 2018, with February marking a fifth consecutive month of decline and a 16% drop to around $66,000. The cryptocurrency is down more than 25% year‑to‑date and its bitcoin‑to‑gold ratio...
Bitcoin Sets up Potential Short Squeeze as Funding Plunges to -6%
Bitcoin's perpetual funding rate plunged to -6%, the most negative level in three months, reflecting aggressive short positioning as the price briefly slipped to $63,000. Coin‑margined open interest climbed to 687,000 BTC, showing heightened participation despite the dip. Over $500 million...
Bitcoin Nears $63,000 as U.S. and Israel Launch Strikes on Iran
Bitcoin slipped below $64,000 on Saturday, trading near $63,000 after the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran. The cryptocurrency dropped about 3% in a matter of hours, marking its lowest level since the early‑February crash. Because crypto markets...
Coinbase’s Head of Litigation Says States Are 'Gaslighting' On Prediction Markets
Coinbase’s VP of litigation, Ryan VanGrack, says state regulators are mischaracterizing federal law to block the firm’s new prediction‑market offerings launched with Kalshi. The company has filed lawsuits in Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan and Nevada after those states issued cease‑and‑desist letters...
Citi and Morgan Stanley Expand Bitcoin and Crypto Custody, Trading and Tokenization Efforts
Citigroup announced it will launch institutional‑grade Bitcoin custody later this year, integrating crypto into its existing custody, reporting and settlement infrastructure. The service will allow clients to manage Bitcoin alongside securities and cash through a single master account, with transaction...