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The president confirmed his pick on Friday to replace the incumbent Jerome Powell when his term ends in May.

The Brazilian digital bank announced it received conditional OCC approval to provide deposit accounts, credit cards, lending and digital asset custody in the United States.

Bitcoin falls below $84K after repeated resistance, with analysts warning of a potential drop to $76K amid rising macro and market pressure.

The move comes as the Ethereum Foundation enters a period of “mild austerity” while sticking to its core technical roadmap, Buterin said. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he has earmarked 16,384 Ether, worth about $45 million, to support privacy-preserving technologies, open hardware and secure, verifiable software systems.  In a post on X, Buterin said the funds were withdrawn from his personal holdings and will be deployed over the next few years. He framed the move as part of a broader shift as the Ethereum Foundation enters what he called a period of “mild austerity,” while continuing to pursue an aggressive technical roadmap. Buterin said he is also taking on responsibilities that might otherwise have been handled as special projects of the foundation. “Specifically, we are seeking the existence of an open-source, secure and verifiable full stack of software and hardware that can protect both our personal lives and our public environments,” he wrote.  Read more

Crypto markets fell further overnight as bitcoin and ether extended losses, metals tumbled and liquidation pressure hit leveraged traders across derivatives markets.

Still, Bitcoin often rebounds toward its energy value after long downtrends, with one model pointing to a fair price near $121,000. A Bitcoin (BTC) metric tracking the electricity cost to mine one coin is flashing a warning for the bulls, with a so-called “miner exodus” adding to the bearish outlook. Key takeaways: BTC could fall toward the $59,000–$74,000 miner cost zone. Read more

Bitcoin’s crash to a nine-month low, coupled with growing uncertainty about macroeconomic policy, catalyzed $817 million in ETF outflows.

These are the five altcoins that lost the most during the bloodbath of the past 24 hours.

Bitcoin experienced another significant decline as leverage unwinds across derivatives markets and miners’ balance sheets tighten. Price weakness below $90,000 has coincided with elevated liquidation volume and thinning liquidity, resulting in a crash toward $82,000. Within this environment, Bitcoin Everlight has emerged as an infrastructure-layer project focused on transaction routing and node participation. It offers […]

The bitcoin-to-gold ratio rebounded from recent lows, mirroring a pattern seen in the 2019-2020.

While Fed chair speculation drives uncertainty across equities, rates, and crypto.

A U.S. jury found Linwei Ding guilty of economic espionage and trade secret theft after he stole Google’s sensitive AI infrastructure data.

Bitcoin is struggling to avoid a fourth consecutive monthly decline as the cryptocurrency market grapples with a fundamental shift in momentum that has left most investors underwater. Data from CryptoSlate indicate that the largest digital asset declined by nearly 7% over the last 24 hours to $82,513. According to CoinGlass data, long traders speculating on […] The post Bitcoin ready to record fourth straight red month and the $81,000 floor is suddenly everything appeared first on CryptoSlate.

BTC could drop to as low as $50,000 in the worst-case scenario after BTC price failed to hold the important $84,000 support level. Bitcoin (BTC) has finally slid below a key support level at $84,000, which has held the price since mid-November 2025. Where will BTC price action head next? Key takeaways: Bitcoin dropped to a two-month low of $81,000 on Thursday, fueled by $1.6 billion in long liquidations  Read more

The shift will take Binance’s insurance-style fund out of US dollar-pegged assets and into Bitcoin within 30 days, raising questions about user protection. Binance is shifting its flagship user protection vehicle, the Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU), from stablecoin holdings into Bitcoin over the next 30 days, re‑denominating the fund’s reserves into BTC. In an open letter to the crypto community, the exchange framed the move as an expression of its conviction that Bitcoin (BTC) is the core long‑term asset of the crypto ecosystem rather than just another trading product, and said it will rebalance the fund back up to $1 billion if market volatility drives its value below $800 million.  That decision effectively makes the fund more exposed to Bitcoin price swings, raising questions about whether a sharp BTC drawdown could weaken the buffer precisely when a major security or insolvency event might require rapid payouts. Read more

Bybit’s upcoming neobank launch via Tether-backed Pave Bank highlights the regulatory hurdles and challenges that crypto exchanges face when entering traditional finance. Bybit’s push to offer neobank-style services is testing how far crypto exchanges can expand into traditional finance (TradFi), highlighting regulatory hurdles and a growing reliance on licensed banking partners. Bybit CEO Ben Zhou announced the exchange’s push into retail banking on Thursday, with a planned February launch of its retail banking product, MyBank. The move would mark one of the most ambitious attempts yet by a major exchange to offer bank-like services to retail users. As crypto increasingly intersects with TradFi, industry observers and executives warned that Bybit’s neobank move could trigger major challenges as it enters largely uncharted territory for a crypto-native company in pursuing banking services. Read more

Ethereum’s co-founder said the $43 million withdrawal will support a broader “full-stack openness and verifiability” vision as the foundation tightens spending.

XRP dumped to $1.70 hours ago.

U.S.-listed spot bitcoin and ether ETFs saw one of their worst combined outflow days of 2026 as falling prices, rising volatility and macro uncertainty pushed investors to cut exposure.

A final court order transfers the legal title of seized cryptocurrency and assets to the US government, closing a case tied to Helix’s operations from 2014 to 2017. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) finalized the forfeiture of over $400 million in cryptocurrency and other assets tied to Helix, an early Bitcoin-era darknet mixing service, according to a statement released Thursday.  The assets were seized from Larry Harmon, the operator of Helix, which processed transactions between 2014 and 2017. The crypto mixer was designed to obscure the source and destination of Bitcoin (BTC) that was linked to darknet markets.  The forfeiture follows a Jan. 21 order by the US District Court for the District of Columbia, formally transferring ownership of the assets to the government. The final court order gives the government legal title to the seized digital assets, real estate and financial assets connected to Helix’s operations.  Read more