Hedging a $200 billion stablecoin with Bitcoin is impractical due to significant counterparty risk. The perception of risk in the economy affects the value of assets like gold. Gold is likely to reach $10,000 within two years due to its scarcity and historical role as a store of value.
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The DeFi industry recently experienced a cyclical high followed by a significant decline in token valuations. Total Value Locked (TVL) is a crucial metric for assessing DeFi protocols' value. Crypto lending markets are sustainable due to their unique value proposition.
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The line between general chatbots and coding is becoming less distinct, with coding increasingly done in plain English. AI coding agents are not expected to disrupt established tech giants like Facebook, Google, or Microsoft. Opus 4.5 marks a significant leap in AI coding capabilities, especially...
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Stablecoins face censorship risks due to issuer control, which can undermine decentralized infrastructure. Moving financial services on-chain requires solving privacy issues and careful problem identification. A conservative approach to blockchain development, involving extensive testing, is cruc...
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The fast-food chain said employees will receive a BTC bonus per hour worked, with payouts vesting after two years and limited to company-operated locations.
Farcaster raised $150 million by Paradigm and a16z in 2024 but has struggled to sustain growth.
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The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee's next draft is expected to shield developers from liability, insiders have been advised, but it may without Democrat backing.
Neynar acquires Farcaster as co-founders Romero and Varun step down, with infrastructure provider to unveil builder-focused roadmap.
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Decentralized social media infrastructure firm Neynar is acquiring Farcaster, the Ethereum-based protocol last valued at $1 billion.
The crypto market moved sharply lower on Tuesday, even after U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to sign a major crypto market structure bill “very soon.” Total crypto market value slipped to $2.96 trillion, down about 2% in 24 hours, while investor sentiment stayed weak. Top coins trade lower Bitcoin fell to around $87,800, …
Bitcoin tumbles below $88K with $150M liquidated in an hour, marking a 2026 low as the Bitcoin market decline continues.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to sign a major crypto market structure bill “very soon,” signaling a push to position the United States as the global capital for cryptocurrency. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump said backing crypto legislation is both politically smart and strategically important, especially as competition grows …
Bitcoin is showing early signs of stability after dropping into a key support zone, but analysts say it is still too soon to call a strong reversal. Bitcoin recently moved down to fill a CME futures gap between roughly $88,250 and $88,735, a level many traders were closely watching. Once the gap was filled, the …
Caroline Ellison exits federal custody Jan 21 after FTX cooperation, faces 10-year industry ban and supervised release.
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Bitcoin tumbled sharply this week and erased the gains it had made in 2026. Reports from CoinGlass show that over the past 24 hours, 167,513 traders were forced out of their positions, with total liquidations reaching $857 million, with most of those losses coming from long bets. The price slid below the key $88,000 area on major exchanges as traders were forced out of leveraged positions. Related Reading: Bitcoin Senses Risk As Trump Balks At Europe With Major Tariffs Liquidations And Quick Drop According to CoinGlass and market trackers, the liquidations were concentrated in long positions, which amplified the fall and made the move faster than a simple sell-off would have been. Crypto market value fell by hundreds of millions over the same short span. Markets Turned Risk-Averse As Tariff Threats Spread Reports note that renewed tariff threats from US President Donald Trump toward some European countries set off a fresh “Sell America” trade, which pushed investors away from US assets and toward safer bets. Stocks fell and the dollar weakened. At the same time, traders were watching big moves in Japan’s bond market, where yields jumped sharply, increasing pressure on global liquidity. Those bond moves are important because they can force carry trades to unwind, pulling money out of risk assets — including crypto. A Tug Between Liquidity And Safe Havens The sell-off did not happen for only one reason. Reports point to a mix of political shocks, bond-market stress, and a wave of forced liquidations as the main drivers. As cash flowed into safe havens, gold surged to fresh highs while crypto lost ground. Many investors treated Bitcoin like a risky asset in this episode, selling it to cover losses or margin calls elsewhere. Different trackers gave slightly different figures on total market losses and exact liquidations over 24 and 48 hours. That is normal when markets move fast and data is pulled from different exchanges and windows. Still, the broad picture was clear: a fast, leveraged unwind sent prices lower and erased the year’s gains for Bitcoin. Related Reading: Trove’s New Token Craters 95%, Sparking Investor Revolt Markets Will Watch Liquidity And Diplomacy Looking ahead, investors will likely watch three things closely: moves in global bond markets, any escalation or de-escalation around the tariff threats tied to Greenland, and whether forced selling slows. If liquidity conditions calm, risk assets can recover more easily. If they keep tightening, the pressure on crypto and stocks could persist. Featured image from Pexels, chart from TradingView
Gold’s record-breaking rally inadvertently put pressure on Bitcoin’s allure, but analysts say historical data shows BTC eventually starts a catch-up rally.
The collaboration accelerates the development of scalable quantum-secure hardware, crucial for safeguarding future digital infrastructures.
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This follows a report stating Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two UK crypto exchanges to move approximately $1 billion.
Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, walked onto the World Economic Forum's Davos stage yesterday and said the quiet part out loud. The rules-based order, the thing leaders love to invoke when they want the world to behave, is fading. Carney called it a “pleasant fiction.” He said we are living through a “rupture.” He said […]
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In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, David Mercer of LMAX Group writes on tokenization and capital markets that won’t sleep. Then, Andy Baehr looks ahead to crypto’s “sophomore year.”
The update formalizes Figure’s role as the primary operator behind Provenance as it increases support for onchain equities and other RWAs.
There was a modest bounce after the president said the U.S. had no intention of taking Greenland by force, but prices quickly resumed their decline.
After nearly a year in federal custody, Caroline Ellison — the former co-CEO of Alameda Research — is scheduled to be released on Wednesday.
Network activity has risen, driven by speculation around AI tokens, with active addresses increasing from 14.7 million to 18.9 million in a week.
Elliptic traced more than $500 million in USDT tied to Iran’s central bank, suggesting the stablecoin was used to manage foreign-exchange pressures and build a “sanctions-proof” alternative to dollar banking.
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On January 21, 2026, the crypto market is witnessing a powerful institutional-led breakout, with River (RIVER), MYX Finance (MYX), and Canton Network (CC) emerging as today’s top performers. This surge is largely driven by a massive rotation into protocols that provide real financial infrastructure, moving away from pure speculation and into “utility-first” assets. Today’s crypto …
Dogecoin price has returned to a level that should be watched closely for long-term price action, as multi-year chart structures begin to resemble conditions that preceded its last historic rally. Still spending years correcting from its 2021 peak, Dogecoin is now trading inside a well-defined accumulation zone on the higher time frame, according to a new technical analysis shared by Crypto Patel on X. The analyst noted that this phase may be setting the stage for a macro Wave 5 expansion that takes the meme coin to new price highs, provided important support levels continue to hold. Dogecoin Sitting In High-Timeframe Accumulation Zone Technical roadmap on the 2-week candlestick timeframe chart breaks Dogecoin’s price action after the 2021 price high into Elliott Wave phases. Wave 1 and Wave 2 are marked as complete, followed by a strong Wave 3 advance that topped around $0.48 in December 2024. Since then, DOGE has entered a Wave 4 corrective phase, forming a descending channel that has guided price lower for over a year without invalidating the broader bullish structure. Related Reading: Why The Dogecoin Price Could Outperform Bitcoin Again This descending channel is important to this technical analysis. Similar corrective behavior appeared just before Dogecoin’s last major expansion in 2021, where the price consolidated for an extended period before breaking upward decisively. Dogecoin is now trading inside a high-timeframe demand zone that acted as the base for its 2020 to 2021 parabolic rally. This area sits just above a long-term horizontal support level that has held firm for an extended period, including through the depths of the 2022 bear market. According to the analyst, this region between $0.115 and $0.09 is a clear zone of sustained accumulation, where buying pressure has consistently prevented deeper breakdowns. Wave 5 Targets Multi-Year Expansion Path If the accumulation zone continues to hold and the price breaks out of the descending channel, then the next projection is the playout of a Wave 5 impulse move. Crypto Patel’s mapped targets for this phase start around $0.28, followed by higher extensions at $1, $2, and ultimately $4. Related Reading: Dogecoin Is Breakout Ready: Analyst Shows Major Target For The Meme Coin King At the time of writing, Dogecoin is trading at $0.1247. Therefore, from current levels, that final target of $4 would represent a move of over 3,100%. However, this is small compared to the magnitude of Dogecoin’s previous macro expansion of 26,800% in the previous cycle. On the other hand, the analysis noted that invalidation is also well defined. A weekly close below $0.06 would break the higher-timeframe structure and invalidate the Wave 5 thesis. Until then, the technical analysis suggests Dogecoin is in a compression phase where downside risk is increasingly defined, but upside expansion into new price highs is possible if Dogecoin embarks on the final impulse of the cycle. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com
A macro market expert has offered a simple explanation for why large institutions are increasingly comfortable with XRP, using Toyota as a real-world example to describe how trust is built in global payments. Speaking in an interview, the expert Jim Willie described XRP as a “trusted bridge asset” that works through what he called a …