Despite Ether’s drop below $3,000, data suggested that ETH price could see a sustained recovery over the next few weeks, as long as the $2,800 support level held. Ether (ETH) price is up 11% since plunging below the $3,000 mark on Nov. 22, reclaiming key support levels. Analysts say that increased demand from institutions, coupled with the end of quantitative tightening, could lead to a recovery toward $3,600 next. Key takeaways: Ethereum demand is recovering along with ETF inflows. Read more
Learn how falling inflation influences Bitcoin’s identity, investor sentiment and price patterns while highlighting consistent trends across past macro cycles. Inflation sits at the center of modern economic cycles. When inflation is high, central banks raise interest rates, reduce liquidity and push investors toward safer assets. When inflation falls, liquidity usually improves, risk appetite returns and markets start to focus on future growth. In this environment, Bitcoin (BTC) serves two distinct purposes: Read more
Santiago Roel Santos argues that crypto lacks true network effects and is overpriced as a result, but other experts counter that L1 network effects are present. Santiago Roel Santos, founder and CEO of crypto investment company Inversion Capital, said cryptocurrencies are not subject to positive network effects, but other experts disagree. In a recent Substack post, Santos wrote that “crypto is priced for network effects it doesn’t have.” He also pointed to the network effect valuation system, Metcalfe’s Law, saying that it “doesn’t justify crypto’s valuation” and instead “exposes it.” Santos claimed that many of crypto’s network effects are adverse, due to congestion, such as higher fees, a worse user experience, and slower transactions. “Facebook didn’t get worse when it added 10 million users,“ he said. Read more
Sam Altman-backed digital ID project World halts Thai operations after authorities cite violations of the WLD token exchange and the Personal Data Protection Act. Authorities in Thailand have officially requested World, a Sam Altman-backed digital identity project, to suspend operations and delete all user identification data. Thailand’s Economic and Social Development Board, the country’s strategic planning agency, has ordered World to delete iris scans of 1.2 million local users, according to a statement by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (MDES) on Monday. The order detailed that World’s iris scanning in exchange for its Worldcoin (WLD) token violated Thailand’s Personal Data Protection Act, which governs the collection, use and disclosure of personal data. Read more
A car accident left Trevor Koverko with brain injuries. But his fortunes turned around when Vitalik handed him the Ethereum white paper. Not everyone can say they were there when history was being made. But former ice hockey star Trevor Koverko, on the mend from a serious car accident, witnessed it firsthand in his hometown. I was at a meet-up in Toronto and this guy named Vitalik was handing out documents, which turned out to be the Ethereum whitepaper. We had a cluster of really important high-profile people that came out of that time in Toronto. Vitalik, Joe Lubin and Charles Hoskinson, for example. In Canada, ice hockey is its own kind of subculture. Koverko had fallen in love with the sport at a young age, and by the time he was a teen, he was competing at the semi-pro level and moved away from home, playing to crowds of 10,000. Read more
A car accident left Trevor Koverko with brain injuries. But his fortunes turned around when Vitalik handed him the Ethereum white paper. Not everyone can say they were there when history was being made. But former ice hockey star Trevor Koverko, on the mend from a serious car accident, witnessed it firsthand in his hometown. I was at a meet-up in Toronto and this guy named Vitalik was handing out documents, which turned out to be the Ethereum whitepaper. We had a cluster of really important high-profile people that came out of that time in Toronto. Vitalik, Joe Lubin and Charles Hoskinson, for example. In Canada, ice hockey is its own kind of subculture. Koverko had fallen in love with the sport at a young age, and by the time he was a teen, he was competing at the semi-pro level and moved away from home, playing to crowds of 10,000. Read more
Polygon’s co-founder said even small merchants and drivers recognized MATIC, but many struggle to locate POL since the token’s rebrand. Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal spurred public discussion about the project’s token branding, asking the community if the network should consider reverting its ticker from POL to MATIC. On Wednesday, Nailwal said that while he personally thinks that they should stick to POL, he continues to hear feedback that the original MATIC ticker had stronger recognition, especially among retail users who are now confused about the asset’s whereabouts. “The counter-argument I keep getting is: the guy in the Philippines running a sari-sari store, or an Uber driver in Dubai, knew MATIC… and now he has no idea where it went,” he wrote. Read more
Strategy said it has a 70-year dividend runway even after Bitcoin’s slide, rolling out a new credit rating metric to ease fears over DAT liquidation risks. Michael Saylor’s Strategy is attempting to calm investor concerns about its balance sheet after the recent Bitcoin market downturn and a sharp pullback in digital asset treasury (DAT) stocks. Strategy, the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin (BTC) holder, has rolled out a new credit rating dashboard based on the company’s preferred stock notional value, and claims to have another 70 years’ worth of dividend payment runway to service its debt, even if Bitcoin’s price remains flat. “If $BTC drops to our $74K average cost basis, we still have 5.9x assets to convertible debt, which we refer to as the BTC Rating of our debt. At $25K BTC, it would be 2.0x,” said Strategy in a Tuesday X post. Read more
Blockrise secures a MiCA license in the Netherlands, unlocking regulated Bitcoin custody and trading while paving the way for BTC-backed business loans across Europe. Blockrise, a Netherlands-based Bitcoin-only startup, has secured a regulatory license that opens the door for fully regulated Bitcoin financial services across Europe. The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) has granted Blockrise a license under the new Europe-wide Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework, the company announced Wednesday. Issued on Tuesday, the MiCA license allows Blockrise to provide its Bitcoin (BTC) services, including custody solutions, trading and asset management, throughout Europe. Read more