Crypto

Despite strong fundamentals including $15 billion in stablecoins and $1 billion in tokenized real-world assets, technical signals suggest growing uncertainty.

The hacker used a flash loan to inflate prices on Makina’s USD-USDC liquidity pool, and then traded to make over $4 million.

Ether is the worst performer among the major cryptos, down more than 6% over the past 24 hours and tumbling below $3,000.

The feature allows non-technical teams to conduct onchain investigations and compliance analyses without relying on custom code. Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis has rolled out a new automation feature aimed at broadening access to onchain investigative and compliance tools beyond technical users. The feature, called Workflows, allows investigators and compliance teams to run predefined blockchain analyses without writing code, reducing reliance on custom SQL or Python queries. Chainalysis told Cointelegraph that the tool is intended to standardize common investigative processes with prebuilt templates, making them easier to repeat and apply across multiple cases, as the company adapts its data products for a wider range of users. “What previously required technical expertise and lots of time, can now be done by any user in minutes,” said Ekim Buyuk, senior product manager at Chainalysis. “Instead of asking users to understand data schemas, it asks investigation-level questions such as which actors, w...

Bitcoin sellers entered at the Wall Street open to drive BTC price action below $90,000, but a six-figure price target stayed in play. Bitcoin (BTC) narrowly avoided major losses at Tuesday’s Wall Street open as US markets reacted to EU trade-war fears. Key points: US markets offer their first reactions to the EU trade war over Greenland with $90,000 BTC price support on the line. Read more

The company now holds 4.203 million ETH, 193 BTC, a $22 million stake in Eightco Holdings, and nearly $1 billion in cash.

Bitcoin is no longer an outlier, says OKX President Hong Fang. It now behaves more like a macro proxy — one that traders use to express their views on growth, risk appetite, and volatility.

The public blockchain infrastructure firm said it expects Tezos staking yields in the high single digits and plans to disclose rewards in its financial reporting.

"Without a solid factor, ADA's gains might be more measured and steady," ChatGPT suggested.

Solana (SOL) joined Internet Computer (ICP) as an underperformer, falling 4.5% from Monday.

Vanguard increased its position in Metaplanet from 14.12 million shares at the end of November to 15.64 million shares by Dec. 31, an 11% jump that sent speculation rippling through Bitcoin (BTC) treasury circles. The move arrived at a moment when digital asset treasury companies had spent months nursing underwater positions and watching their market […] The post Why Metaplanet is the only Bitcoin treasury surviving a brutal market shift that left Strategy investors totally exposed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin is undergoing a decisive pullback after the strong recovery that followed the early-January reset. The price has been rejected from a major confluence area around $98,000, where higher-timeframe resistance and a key moving average cluster are. It is now rotating lower while still holding above the most important higher-low zones established during December. The […]

Strategy acquired 22,305 BTC last week at about $95,284 per coin, lifting its holdings to 709,715 BTC. Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public Bitcoin holder, blasted past 700,000 BTC in holdings with its latest large-scale purchase. Strategy bought 22,305 Bitcoin (BTC) for $2.13 billion last week, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday. The purchases were made at an average price of $95,284 per BTC, with Bitcoin briefly rising past $97,000 on Wednesday, according to CoinGecko data. Read more

Donald Trump, Greenland and EU trade tensions are grabbing most of the headlines, but financial pros are eyeing Tuesday's shocking surge in Japanese bond yields.

Crypto led the way and Wall Street is finally following, as the NYSE prepares to support 24/7 trading of tokenized stocks and ETFs.

Some lenders are willing to accept Bitcoin and recognize crypto holdings when considering a mortgage application, but issues around risk remain. On Jan. 16, Pennsylvania-based lender Newrez announced plans to accept certain cryptocurrency holdings when considering mortgage applications. The change, which the company said will take effect in February, will apply to loans for homes, refinancing and other investment properties. For Newrez, the plan comes on the tailwinds of directions from the US Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) last year. In June 2025, the FHFA ordered Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) to develop plans for recognizing crypto in loan applications. In doing so, crypto gained at least partial recognition from two major government enterprises that provide liquidity and stability to mortgage markets. At the time, Michael Saylor, chair of Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company Strategy, said, “Future generations will remember this...

The company now holds 709,715 bitcoin, acquired for nearly $54 billion.

The policy paper argues that access to capital markets, rather than income or banking, now defines who can build wealth and says tokenization could widen participation. A new Coinbase Institute report argues that the most important divide in global finance is no longer rich versus poor, but between those who have direct access to capital markets and those who do not, which it describes as the “brokered” versus the “unbrokered.” The report estimates that traditional intermediated rails exclude roughly four billion unbrokered individuals from owning productive assets or raising capital at scale. Closing this gap, it argues, will require rebuilding core market infrastructure so smaller investors and issuers can participate directly rather than through layers of intermediaries. According to the report, over the last 40 years in the United States alone, capital income grew 136% while labor income lagged at just 57%.  Read more

Brian Armstrong is set to meet bank CEOs a week after Coinbase pulled support for the crypto market structure bill.

Patrick Gruhn and Robin Matzke were the co-founders of Digital Assets, which was acquired by FTX’s Sam Bankman Fried in 2021 and rebranded as FTX EU.