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Crypto majors are very red following a red Tuesday across markets; BTC -3% at $88,200; ETH -6% at $2,905, SOL -2% at $127; XRP -2% to $1.88. MYX (+11%) and ZRO (+10%) led top movers. Bitcoin and Solana both fell below key technical support levels as selling pressure accelerated. Over $1B in longs were liquidated during Bitcoin’s slide below $88k. Delaware Life added Bitcoin exposure to a fixed indexed annuity by linking performance to BlackRock’s spot BTC ETF, one of the first big moves to expand crypto access inside traditional insurance products. Trump Media announced plans to airdrop crypto tokens to shareholders in February, marking its first onchain incentive tied directly to equity ownership. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong traveled to Davos to push for a “win-win” U.S. crypto market structure bill amid renewed regulatory momentum. Portugal’s gambling regulator blocked access to Polymarket, citing unlicensed gambling concerns as prediction markets face mounting global scrutiny. The CFTC warned it is underp...

However, the tariff threats between the US and EU continue.

The Central Bank of Iran no longer holds any of the flagged USDT, after using it to support the rial and settle international transactions.

Bitcoin declined more than 6% over the past week as Japanese government bond yields climbed to 2.29%, the highest since 1999, while escalating U.S.–Europe trade tensions over Greenland tariffs tightened financial conditions and eroded risk appetite across global markets. The post Rising JGB Yields and Tariff Tensions Push Bitcoin into Defensive Mode, Says Analyst appeared first on Cryptonews.

Two new filings to the SEC Crypto Task Force call for clear rules on self-custody and DeFi trading as Congress debates federal crypto legislation amid delays in CLARITY Act. The post SEC Crypto Task Force Pressed on Self-Custody Rights and DeFi ‘Dealer’ Rules in New Filings appeared first on Cryptonews.

This follows news from a few days ago that the company added $10 million worth of bitcoin to its corporate treasury.

Hackers are exploiting trusted Snap Store packages to steal cryptocurrency by hijacking existing publisher accounts. The post Hackers Hijack Snap Store Accounts to Push Crypto-Stealing Malware on Linux appeared first on Cryptonews.

The $10 trillion asset manager includes bitcoin, ether and stablecoins in its 2026 outlook, spotlighting blockchain as a rising force in modern finance.

Ripple’s US dollar-backed stablecoin RLUSD is set to debut spot trading on Binance, expanding the token’s reach. The post Ripple’s RLUSD Stablecoin to Launch Spot Trading on Binance appeared first on Cryptonews.

Scheduled for release from a halfway house on Wednesday, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison will have served 440 days in federal custody. Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, is scheduled for release from federal custody after serving 440 days of a two-year sentence. According to inmate records with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Ellison is expected to be released from the Residential Reentry Management field office in New York City on Wednesday, more than a year after she reported to prison in Danbury, Connecticut. The former Alameda CEO was one of three executives linked to the defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX to serve prison time, along with former FTX CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried and former FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame. Read more

Sacks believes the divide between banking and crypto industries will disappear, with banks potentially seeing stablecoin issuance as a way to enter the market.

Ethereum is currently reporting the highest daily network growth in its history, a statistical surge that ostensibly signals a massive return of user activity. Over the past week, the Ethereum mainnet processed 2.9 million transactions, a new all-time high according to Token Terminal data. This activity was accompanied by a sharp jump in daily active […] The post How an industrial-scale scam is driving Ethereum transactions to record highs because of cheap gas fees appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin joined stocks in a relief bounce as US President Donald Trump hinted at new legislation "very soon" and a doubling of the Dow Jones. Bitcoin (BTC) sought a $90,000 reclaim around Wednesday’s Wall Street open as US President Donald Trump pledged to sign pro-crypto legislation. Key points: Trump breathes modest gains into BTC price action with his World Economic Forum speech. Read more

The crypto industry assumes institutions discover products the way retail traders do: stumbling across them on Twitter, experimenting quickly, and iterating in public. But that's not how asset allocators at pension funds or family offices operate, argues Dean Khan Dhillon, head of growth at RWA.xyz.

The launchpad that set up every major SHIB bull run may have been confirmed again – this could be the moment that Shiba Inu price predictions flip bullish.  The post Shiba Inu Price Prediction: SHIB Confirms Life-Long Launchpad – Is This the Bottom Dip Buyers Have Waited For? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Crypto’s move into banks and state-backed systems is accelerating a clash between financial privacy and public ledger design, said Aleo’s Yaya Fanusie. Financial privacy is becoming the next structural battle in crypto, and neither governments nor the technology are fully prepared for mass digital surveillance or large-scale privacy. Institutional adoption of cryptocurrencies is accelerating, as more banks and payments companies test blockchain for settlements, but the technology itself exposes transaction data to the public. “What people are not comfortable with is having their transactions broadcast to the entire world,” Yaya Fanusie, head of global policy at Aleo Network and a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) economic and counterterrorism analyst, told Cointelegraph. Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said he supported efforts to legislate crypto because of the political support he received for doing so.

The expansion comes as tokenized real-world assets continue to gain traction across crypto markets.

Aave hands stewardship of Lens Protocol to Mask Network, shifting the decentralized social platform’s focus from infrastructure toward consumer adoption and ecosystem growth. The post Aave Hands Lens to Mask Network, Doubles Down on DeFi Ambitions appeared first on Cryptonews.

Analyst Lance Vitanza noted the role of the company’s preferred equity in last week’s $2.1 billion bitcoin purchase.