XRP is sliding even as the XRP Ledger (XRPL) rolls out features that supporters have long framed as a bridge to institutional adoption. According to CryptoSlate's data, the token has been trading around $1.47, while a mix of fresh supply signals, cooling marginal demand, and broader risk-off behavior continues to pressure the price. At the […]
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Bitcoin's recent price crash towards $60,000 did more than just shave billions off market capitalizations or liquidate leveraged positions. It served as a massive, chaotic stress test that exposed a widening behavioral fracture between the two most dominant venues in the digital asset economy. On one side stands Coinbase, the largest US exchange, where Chief […]
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The scoop: The Netherlands has just moved to tax Bitcoin like a stock, marked to market. Lawmakers in the Dutch House backed a Box 3 overhaul that would tax “actual returns,” including annual price changes in liquid assets like BTC, at a flat 36%, even if you never sell. The plan targets Jan. 1, 2028 (pending […]
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I came across some analysis this morning that cut through the usual stream of charts and market takes with a stark claim: there is “almost no cash on the sidelines.” If true, it challenges one of the most persistent assumptions in both crypto and traditional markets, that a wall of idle capital is waiting to […]
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Bitcoin derivative traders are increasingly positioning for further downside rather than a clean bounce as the leading cryptocurrency continues to trade in a tight range below $70,000. According to CryptoSlate's data, BTC price bottomed at $65,092 during the last 24 hours but has since recovered to $66,947 as of press time. This continues a weeklong […]
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On Feb. 12, RippleX, Ripple's development arm, announced that Token Escrow is now live on the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) mainnet. The change, labeled Token Escrow (XLS-85), extends conditional locking and release to trustline-based tokens (IOUs) and Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs). This expands the network’s escrow function beyond XRP to cover issued assets used for stablecoins and […]
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Coinbase just posted the kind of earnings report that makes two groups of people sweat at the same time. The first group is obvious, COIN shareholders who saw the company swing into a loss while crypto prices and activity cooled. Coinbase reported about revenue of roughly $1.78B for the quarter and a loss of -$2.49 […]
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The US economy is starting 2026 with an uncomfortable split-screen scenario that is complicating the outlook for Bitcoin's recovery towards $100,000. While Wall Street credit pricing still looks calm, the “real economy” stress gauges are flashing late-cycle warning lights. This disconnect matters for Bitcoin because its path to $100,000 is no longer just about crypto-native […]
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Binance is at the center of renewed speculation as the specter of insolvency has once again cast a long shadow over the crypto sector. Over the past weeks, rumors have emerged that the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is facing a liquidity crunch, and these rumors have spread across social media platforms, underscoring the fragility of […]
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Ethereum's slide toward $2,000 has left its exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors holding more than $5 billion in paper losses, extending a marketwide crypto drawdown that has also hit Bitcoin. According to CryptoSlate's data, the move has tracked a broader risk-off wave that has pushed the global crypto market value down by $2 trillion since October’s […]
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On Feb. 11, Uniswap announced that BlackRock's $2.2 billion USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) would trade on UniswapX via a partnership with Securitize. The integration enables BUIDL holders to swap into USDC via an on-chain request-for-quote system that settles atomically with quotes from allowlisted market makers, including Flowdesk, Tokka Labs, and Wintermute. Additionally, BlackRock […]
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The XRP Ledger (XRPL) has overtaken Solana on one closely watched metric over the past month, flipping it in real-world asset tokenization, excluding stablecoins. Data from RWA.xyz indicate that the Ledger has approximately $1.756 billion in total on-chain real-world asset value, excluding stablecoins, compared with approximately $1.682 billion for Solana. While this gap is not […]
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Washington’s stablecoin stalemate is hardening into a fight that banks recognize immediately as a deposit issue. The dispute is no longer centered on whether dollar-linked tokens should exist. It centers on whether they should be treated as deposits, especially if consumers can earn interest-like rewards simply for holding them. A recent White House meeting aimed […]
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Last week’s downturn was driven by yen carry trades and macro leverage, highlighting how deeply digital assets are now tied to traditional markets, panelists at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 said.
Ripple has enabled staking for Ethereum and Solana within its institutional custody business, expanding beyond safekeeping to include asset servicing features that large investors increasingly consider standard. The new capability, delivered through a partnership with staking infrastructure provider Figment, enables Ripple Custody clients to offer staking on major proof-of-stake networks without setting up validator infrastructure. […]
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Bitcoin’s sharp selloff last week appears to have triggered one of the largest buy-the-dip episodes of this market cycle. Data tracking accumulator addresses showed a record surge of coins moving into wallets associated with long-term holding behavior, even as flows through exchange-traded fund (ETF) products stayed net negative. The timing mattered. The inflow landed right […]
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Ripple is working to make decentralized finance more familiar to regulated institutions and is placing XRP at the center of that effort. DeFi’s earlier growth cycles were built around open, retail-facing liquidity pools and the associated risk tolerance. Total value locked across major protocols climbed into the tens of billions of dollars and, at previous […]
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China’s gradual retreat from US government debt is evolving from a quiet background trend into an explicit risk-management signal, and Bitcoin traders are watching the market for the next domino. The immediate trigger for this renewed anxiety came on Feb. 9 when Bloomberg reported that Chinese regulators were urging commercial banks to limit their exposure […]
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Bitcoin’s slide through $65,000 and toward $60,000 felt like a stress test the market had been postponing. The move was sharp enough to force a reset in positioning, and broad enough to pull the conversation away from single-catalyst explanations. Even mainstream media described the week as Bitcoin’s worst weekly performance since late 2022, with price briefly […]
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The crypto market that surged on Donald Trump’s campaign promise of a friendlier US posture is now back near where it started, after an 18-month round trip that added close to $2 trillion in value and then erased roughly the same amount. Data compiled by CryptoSlate put the total crypto market value at about $2.4 […]
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Bitcoin experienced a steep decline over the last 24 hours, pushing its price to approximately $60,000 amid an accelerated selloff comparable to the 2022 FTX collapse. BTC had recovered to $69,800 as of press time, according to CryptoSlate data. Still, Glassnode data helped frame the extent to which the price had slipped relative to widely […]
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Big Tech companies' planned $500 billion war chest to dominate artificial intelligence could offer a lifeline to a Bitcoin mining industry teetering on the edge of capitulation. The headline numbers are eye-watering. Alphabet, Google’s parent, alone plans to spend as much as $185 billion this year. However, the capital surge will involve more than buying […]
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The crypto market has entered a fragile phase as Bitcoin dropped under the critical $70,000 level and bounced off $60,000, a zone that has increasingly acted as a gravitational pull rather than a launchpad. This subdued price action came as the stablecoin market has surged, with Tether and Circle minting billions of dollars’ worth of […]
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Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP have all retreated to deep cycle lows, dragging the broader crypto market back to valuation levels not seen since late 2024, according to CryptoSlate's data. While price action across the board appears uniformly grim, with BTC heading below $70,000 and XRP recently trading around $1.35, sentiment toward the Ripple-linked token is […]
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Bitcoin retreated below the closely watched $70,000 threshold, leading a broad selloff in digital assets that has erased over $1 billion in trading positions. According to CryptoSlate's data, the world’s largest cryptocurrency fell to lows not seen since the November 2024 election, dragging the wider market into the red. Ethereum slid 7% to around $2065, […]
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On Feb. 4, the XRP Ledger (XRPL) activated the highly anticipated Permissioned Domains with 91% validator approval. At first glance, the approval appears contradictory, as it involves a public blockchain hosting “permissioned” zones. However, a deeper look at the mechanics shows how the upgrade operates. Permissioned Domains introduces an on-ledger access-control object that enables other […]
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has signaled a fundamental shift in the blockchain’s roadmap that declares the era of the “branded shard” effectively over. On Feb. 3, Buterin argued that the industry’s previous “rollup-centric” vision no longer makes sense, citing faster scaling on the main Ethereum layer and the sluggish pace of decentralization among major rollups. […]
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The United States factory engine just delivered its loudest “risk on” signal in years, and it is landing at a brutally awkward time for Bitcoin. On Feb. 2, Howard Lutnick, the United States Secretary of Commerce, announced that: “The United States has delivered manufacturing expansion, all thanks to President Trump's trade policies.” This announcement followed […]
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Bitcoin’s slide below $80,000 has pushed a significant portion of US spot BTC exchange-traded fund (ETF) buyers into $7 billion in paper losses. According to CryptoSlate's data, the world’s largest digital asset fell to as low as $74,609 over the weekend amid liquidity concerns and a risk-off tone in global markets. BTC has recovered to approximately $77,649 as […]
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Bitcoin treasuries are designed to look uncomfortable in drawdowns, because the trade they're running is simple: take a volatile asset, put it on a corporate balance sheet, and finance more of it through capital markets. When Bitcoin drops, the mark-to-market hit is the point, not the punchline. The real question is whether the company can […]
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