The firm said a criminal group is attempting to extort it over limited insider-related data access incidents affecting about 2,000 accounts. Kraken says it will not pay and is working with law enforcement.
Stablecoins' perceived safety challenges traditional banking, but DeFi's infrastructure gaps pose significant risks.
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Ethereum price has pushed back above the $2,200 level, reclaiming a key psychological zone after weeks of uneven price action. On the surface, the ETH price looks constructive as the buyers are stepping in, and momentum appears to be stabilizing, but the structure behind this recovery is far from clear. Price is now sitting within …
Aave's grant approval boosts development potential but highlights governance risks, as dissent and delegate exits could challenge decentralization.
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Shares of Coinbase stock remain roughly 60% below their July 2025 peak of $445, even after a rebound in March.
Circle defends its hands-off approach to freezing funds as critics point to hundreds of millions in losses tied to delayed action.
A new study from the American Bankers Association says the White House economists went after the wrong premise in their recent look at the issue.
Hyperbridge, a decentralized bridge connecting the Polkadot ecosystem to the Ethereum network, suffered a major security breach that allowed an attacker to mint 1 billion unauthorized DOT tokens. However, the hacker’s potential multimillion-dollar payday was drastically cut short to around $240,000 as there simply was not enough liquidity to cash out the fabricated assets. While […]
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Ondo Finance has filed a no-action request with the US Securities and Exchange Commission seeking confirmation that recording securities entitlements on Ethereum Mainnet will not trigger enforcement action – a filing that arrives less than five months after the SEC closed a two-year investigation into the company without charges. The request marks a significant shift …
Ice Open Network announced on Sunday that it is not shutting down, reversing course days after its CEO suggested the project might close if community confidence did not return. “We stay. We build. We win,” the project posted on X. “We’re restructuring the company from the ground up. Cutting waste. Dropping distractions. Doubling down on …
Building a crypto product in 2026 means dealing with data from dozens of blockchains, hundreds of exchanges, and thousands of tokens. Most teams do not have the time or the resources to index all of that themselves. That is where crypto APIs come in. Whether you are building a portfolio tracker, a trading bot, an …
Bitcoin price may be showing signs of holding steady, but that alone does not confirm a bottom is in place. A recent post by crypto analyst @CryptoTice_ argues that the current market phase does not yet meet the conditions historically associated with a true Bitcoin price bottom. Instead of focusing on short-term stability, he points to what investors should actually be watching before calling the cycle complete. BTC Price Cycles Suggest A Later Bottom Formation One of the clearest signals highlighted by the analyst is timing within Bitcoin’s well-known four-year cycle. The chart he shared alongside his analysis compares previous cycles following the 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 halvings, revealing a consistent structure. In each case, a Bitcoin price bottomed after extended declines and a period of consolidation. Related Reading: XRP Whales Are Rapidly Buying While Retail Is Panicking, Do They Know Something You Don’t? In the current cycle, a key region is identified between roughly 800 and 950 days after the halving, marking the stage where previous cycles began to approach their final lows. This portion of the chart is further reinforced by a vertical marker that aligns this phase more closely with the last quarter of 2026. This timing is significant because it challenges the growing belief that a bottom could form earlier in the year. Historically, there is no clear precedent for a Q1, Q2, or Q3 bottom within this cycle structure. Instead, past patterns consistently show prolonged declines followed by a delayed period of stabilization before the market fully bottoms out. What this means in practical terms is simple: if the cycle remains consistent, the market is still too early. The timing alone suggests that the process of forming a true bottom has not yet fully played out. What To Watch Before Calling The Bottom Timing is only part of the picture. The second, and equally important factor, is market behavior. According to the analysis, bottoms are also defined by how participants react as the market declines. A recurring pattern can be observed across cycles. Price tends to fall first, followed by narratives that attempt to explain the drop. After that comes capitulation, where confidence fades, and weaker participants exit. Only then does a lasting bottom take shape. Related Reading: 2018 Footage Of Ripple CEO Saying They’re Taking Over SWIFT Resurfaces, But How Have They Fared Since Then? Right now, that final phase does not appear to be complete. Market sentiment still shows signs of confidence, with participants buying aggressively and expecting a near-term recovery. This behavior often indicates that the market has not yet reached its lowest point. For investors, the takeaway is clear: rather than focusing solely on whether the price has stopped falling, attention should shift to signs of exhaustion such as declining confidence, rising volatility, and a broader sense of capitulation. Until these conditions align with the later stage of the cycle, the likelihood that the market has already formed a bottom remains low. Ultimately, identifying a Bitcoin price bottom requires alignment between timing and sentiment. Based on both historical patterns and current behavior, those signals are not yet fully in place. Featured image created with Dall.E, chart from Tradingview.com
US markets have opened Monday with Bitcoin trading at $70,925.76, down 0.78% over the last 24 hours, as traders digest President Trump’s order for a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz following the collapse of US-Iran peace talks over the weekend. The Iran war escalation sets a volatile backdrop for what is already a …
TRX price is doing something most traders didn’t expected today, but it’s staying calm while chaos unfolds right next to it. And not just any chaos. We’re talking about a full-blown public clash between Justin Sun and World Liberty Financial (WLFI), complete with allegations of hidden backdoors and threats of legal action. Yet somehow, TRX …
The SEC's conditional framework for crypto apps may foster innovation while highlighting the need for comprehensive regulatory clarity.
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As the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz goes into effect, reports say Iran is considering the abandonment of uranium enrichment as a way to end the war.
The SEC said certain user interfaces that allow users to transact and use their crypto wallets may not need to register as broker-dealer.
The European Central Bank said tokenization could improve EU capital markets, but only with central bank money, interoperable infrastructure and resilient regulation.
The U.K.- and EU-regulated credit institution gains crypto-asset service provider status and said it will connect clients to regulated stablecoin rails over Circle Mint
Most visited crypto after Bitcoin today isn’t some blue-chip altcoin like ETH, SOL or XRP but today’s gems are JUNO and RAVE, two names that suddenly found themselves sitting just behind BTC on CoinMarketCap. And yeah, that raises eyebrows as next to BTC shining are thos two. Because when obscure or mid-tier tokens start competing …
Most visited crypto after Bitcoin today isn’t some blue-chip altcoin like ETH, SOL or XRP but today’s gems are JUNO and RAVE, two names that suddenly found themselves sitting just behind BTC on CoinMarketCap. And yeah, that raises eyebrows as next to BTC shining are thos two. Because when obscure or mid-tier tokens start competing …
The White House said the banking industry was wrong about stablecoin yield. The banking industry just said the White House asked the wrong question entirely. The American Bankers Association published a formal rebuttal today to the White House Council of Economic Advisers’ stablecoin report, pushing back on its core framing and warning that policymakers are …
Bitmine expanded its Ethereum treasury to 4.87 million ETH, controlling 4% of supply as total holdings climb to $11.8 billion.
Bernstein says Bitcoin’s selloff already reflects quantum risk and that developers still have time to agree on a post-quantum upgrade path.
Understanding past financial crises can guide effective policy responses and prevent future economic disasters.
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Bitmine's aggressive Ethereum accumulation and staking strategy could significantly influence market dynamics and blockchain adoption trends.
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Data shows the XRP social media sentiment has dropped to its third-worst level in the past two years, a sign that the crowd has turned bearish on the asset. XRP Positive/Negative Sentiment Has Declined Recently According to data from on-chain analytics firm Santiment, the Positive/Negative Sentiment has plummeted for XRP. This indicator tells us about how the degree of positive sentiment surrounding a given asset compares to that of the negative one on major social media platforms. Related Reading: Bitcoin Surges To $72,000, But Remains Stuck In Key Supply Zone The metric works by filtering for social media posts/threads/messages containing mentions of the asset and putting them through a machine-learning algorithm to separate between bullish and bearish comments. Then, it counts up the number of each and finds their ratio. Now, here is the chart shared by Santiment that shows the trend in the Positive/Negative Sentiment for XRP over the last couple of years: As displayed in the above graph, the XRP Positive/Negative Sentiment shot up to high levels in December and January, implying that social media users became optimistic about a market turnaround following a pause in the bearish momentum. This optimism, however, didn’t pay off as the price drawdown picked back up at the end of January. While sentiment initially deteriorated after this decline, the dominance of positive posts returned again, although to a notably lower degree than the earlier highs. This suggests that social media users still didn’t entirely turn bearish about the cryptocurrency. That is, until the past week rolled around. From the chart, it’s visible that the Positive/Negative Sentiment has plummeted for XRP, a potential sign that the drawn-out consolidation has finally broken trader conviction. Currently, the metric is sitting at 1.02, which suggests that there are about as many positive posts related to the asset as negative ones. While this still doesn’t signal an outright shift to a bearish dominance, it’s still a pretty low level when compared to the last two years. “According to our weekly social data for crypto’s #4 market cap, FUD is at its 3rd highest point in the past 2 years,” noted the analytics firm. The two instances in this window where a bearish mentality was more dominant occurred in February and October of last year. Both of these led to price rebounds. This is actually a pattern that has been witnessed time and again in digital asset markets: prices often move against the expectations of the majority. Related Reading: Top Toncoin Whales Silently Accumulate 189,730 TON Despite Market Weakness The effect tends to be the strongest inside the “FUD” and “FOMO” zones highlighted by Santiment in the chart. The latest decline in the Positive/Negative Sentiment has taken XRP into the former of the two regions. “Historically, when bullish comments get replaced by this level of bearish ones, the probability of a relief rally climbs significantly higher,” explained the analytics firm. XRP Price At the time of writing, XRP is floating around $1.32, down 1% in the last seven days. Featured image from Dall-E, chart from TradingView.com
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the decentralized finance platform backed by President Donald Trump, is navigating a deepening crisis as a precipitous drop in its token price collides with a bitter public dispute involving Tron founder Justin Sun. The turbulence centers on two distinct but compounding controversies: accusations from Sun that the protocol's team used centralized […]
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XRP is flat over the past 24 hours, but down more than 60% from its summer 2025 peak.
The company now holds 4.04% of all ether in existence and currently earns $212 million in annualized revenue from staking.