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  • Blanket crypto ban targets Russia rails but one chokepoint decides whether flows die or just relocate offshore
    CryptoSlate - 12:06 Feb 11, 2026
    The European Commission's 20th sanctions package proposes a comprehensive ban on all cryptocurrency transactions involving Russia, an escalation from targeting specific bad actors to attempting to sanitize the rails themselves. The question is whether the EU can raise the cost of evasion sufficiently by controlling chokepoints: regulated exchanges, stablecoin issuers, and third-country financial intermediaries. The […] The post Blanket crypto ban targets Russia rails but one chokepoint decides whether flows die or just relocate offshore appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Sam Bankman-Fried requests new trial claiming FTX had $16.5 billion surplus in 2022, but does it matter?
    CryptoSlate - 10:19 Feb 11, 2026
    Sam Bankman-Fried filed a motion for a new trial on Feb. 10, advancing a claim that reframes FTX's collapse not as fraud-driven insolvency but as a recoverable liquidity crisis. The motion invokes Rule 33 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which permits courts to grant new trials when “the interest of justice so requires,” […] The post Sam Bankman-Fried requests new trial claiming FTX had $16.5 billion surplus in 2022, but does it matter? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • China Bitcoin legalization is priced at 5% but Beijing’s February 2026 Ban 2.0 made one detail brutal
    CryptoSlate - 21:15 Feb 10, 2026
    Polymarket traders are pricing the prospect of China legalizing onshore Bitcoin purchases at roughly 5%. At first glance, the number appears dismissive. Still, it raises the question of whether the Chinese government will explicitly permit citizens to convert renminbi into Bitcoin within mainland China by the end of 2026. That distinction matters because the regulatory […] The post China Bitcoin legalization is priced at 5% but Beijing’s February 2026 Ban 2.0 made one detail brutal appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Why Bitcoin ETFs bleed billions while Gold makes 53 new all-time highs with $559B in demand
    CryptoSlate - 19:45 Feb 10, 2026
    Gold demand reached a record $555 billion in 2025, driven by an 84% surge in investment flows and $89 billion in inflows into physically backed ETFs. The World Gold Council reports ETF holdings climbed 801 tons to an all-time high of 4,025 tons, with assets under management doubling to $559 billion. US gold ETFs alone […] The post Why Bitcoin ETFs bleed billions while Gold makes 53 new all-time highs with $559B in demand appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Ripple Custody just unlocked Ethereum and Solana staking, and institutions may finally get XRP yield without messy validator risk
    CryptoSlate - 17:35 Feb 10, 2026
    Ripple has enabled staking for Ethereum and Solana within its institutional custody business, expanding beyond safekeeping to include asset servicing features that large investors increasingly consider standard. The new capability, delivered through a partnership with staking infrastructure provider Figment, enables Ripple Custody clients to offer staking on major proof-of-stake networks without setting up validator infrastructure. […] The post Ripple Custody just unlocked Ethereum and Solana staking, and institutions may finally get XRP yield without messy validator risk appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin whales just moved $4.7B dollars into cold storage while regular investors are busy panic selling the dip
    CryptoSlate - 15:15 Feb 10, 2026
    Bitcoin’s sharp selloff last week appears to have triggered one of the largest buy-the-dip episodes of this market cycle. Data tracking accumulator addresses showed a record surge of coins moving into wallets associated with long-term holding behavior, even as flows through exchange-traded fund (ETF) products stayed net negative. The timing mattered. The inflow landed right […] The post Bitcoin whales just moved $4.7B dollars into cold storage while regular investors are busy panic selling the dip appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Ethereum wants home validators to verify proofs but a 12 GPU reality raises a new threat
    CryptoSlate - 13:20 Feb 10, 2026
    Ethereum researcher ladislaus.eth published a walkthrough last week explaining how Ethereum plans to move from re-executing every transaction to verifying zero-knowledge proofs. The post frames it as a “quiet but fundamental transformation,” and the framing is accurate. Not because the work is secret, but because its implications ripple across Ethereum's entire architecture in ways that […] The post Ethereum wants home validators to verify proofs but a 12 GPU reality raises a new threat appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin failing 7 times to break $71,500 is much more ominous than boring ‘sideways action’
    CryptoSlate - 11:15 Feb 10, 2026
    Bitcoin has a habit of turning certain numbers into places. A number becomes a shared memory, a public square where enough humans stare at the same line long enough that it starts to feel real. For the last few days, that place has been $71,500. Two days ago, I published a piece saying Bitcoin needed […] The post Bitcoin failing 7 times to break $71,500 is much more ominous than boring ‘sideways action’ appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • The real drivers of XRP supply: A guide to understand Ripple’s monthly releases and what matters
    CryptoSlate - 09:40 Feb 10, 2026
    XRP supply and escrow unlocks: a guide to modeling 2026 net flows XRP supply in 2026 hinges on how much escrowed XRP Ripple chooses to distribute after monthly unlocks. The process is capped by the ledger, while market impact still depends on net flows and demand. According to the XRP Ledger, total supply is fixed […] The post The real drivers of XRP supply: A guide to understand Ripple’s monthly releases and what matters appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Ripple says compliance controls will unlock DeFi, but XRPL liquidity is still too thin to prove it
    CryptoSlate - 19:45 Feb 09, 2026
    Ripple is working to make decentralized finance more familiar to regulated institutions and is placing XRP at the center of that effort. DeFi’s earlier growth cycles were built around open, retail-facing liquidity pools and the associated risk tolerance. Total value locked across major protocols climbed into the tens of billions of dollars and, at previous […] The post Ripple says compliance controls will unlock DeFi, but XRPL liquidity is still too thin to prove it appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Why Bitcoin faces a brutal liquidity trap because China’s $298B of US Treasuries are up for sale
    CryptoSlate - 17:05 Feb 09, 2026
    China’s gradual retreat from US government debt is evolving from a quiet background trend into an explicit risk-management signal, and Bitcoin traders are watching the market for the next domino. The immediate trigger for this renewed anxiety came on Feb. 9 when Bloomberg reported that Chinese regulators were urging commercial banks to limit their exposure […] The post Why Bitcoin faces a brutal liquidity trap because China’s $298B of US Treasuries are up for sale appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Your US dollar is worth 89 cents today for the same reason Bitcoin traders are actually still winning
    CryptoSlate - 14:35 Feb 09, 2026
    If you hold either US dollars or Bitcoin, then you're a little poorer this morning than when you went to bed last night. It doesn't matter whether there's cash in your pocket or sats in your wallet; both have less purchasing power today than they did yesterday. That's because Bitcoin is down, the dollar is […] The post Your US dollar is worth 89 cents today for the same reason Bitcoin traders are actually still winning appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Crypto market bottom is closer than you think as Bitcoin miner reserves crash to historic lows
    CryptoSlate - 12:25 Feb 09, 2026
    Bitcoin’s price story lately has been told like it only has one main character, the ETFs. Money goes in, price goes up, money goes out, price goes down. It’s a clean narrative, and it’s not wrong, but it’s incomplete, because Bitcoin is not just a ticker. The network has its own internal plumbing, and some […] The post Crypto market bottom is closer than you think as Bitcoin miner reserves crash to historic lows appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • White House meeting could unfreeze the crypto CLARITY Act this week, but crypto rewards likely to be the price
    CryptoSlate - 10:48 Feb 09, 2026
    White House stablecoin meeting could unfreeze the CLARITY Act, but your USDC rewards may be the price The newly confirmed Feb. 10 White House meeting on stablecoin policy is being framed by some market observers as a step toward breaking the logjam around the CLARITY Act, a broad crypto market-structure bill that has already run […] The post White House meeting could unfreeze the crypto CLARITY Act this week, but crypto rewards likely to be the price appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin bears could sleepwalk into a $8.65 billion trap as options max pain expiry nears $90,000
    CryptoSlate - 21:15 Feb 08, 2026
    Bitcoin’s next big options gravity well sits on Mar. 27 (260327), and the reason is simple: this is where the market has parked a thick stack of conditional bets that will need to be unwound, rolled forward, or paid out as the clock runs down. The Mar. 27 expiry carries about $8.65B in notional OI […] The post Bitcoin bears could sleepwalk into a $8.65 billion trap as options max pain expiry nears $90,000 appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin ETF flow numbers are fundamentally broken and most traders are missing the specific sign of a crash
    CryptoSlate - 19:31 Feb 08, 2026
    On Jan.30, 2026, US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $509.7 million in net outflows, which looks like pretty straightforward negative sentiment until you look at the individual tickers and realize a few of them stayed green. That contradiction aged fast over the next few days. Feb. 2 snapped back with $561.8 million in net inflows, then […] The post Bitcoin ETF flow numbers are fundamentally broken and most traders are missing the specific sign of a crash appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Do CME gaps always have to fill? Bitcoin’s $60k flush says no
    CryptoSlate - 17:00 Feb 08, 2026
    Bitcoin trades every minute of every day, but CME Bitcoin futures stop for the weekend. That mismatch is how a CME gap is born, and why it keeps turning up in the middle of the most stressful weeks. A CME gap is the blank space on a CME futures chart between Friday’s final traded level […] The post Do CME gaps always have to fill? Bitcoin’s $60k flush says no appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin must retake $71,500 very soon or the mid-range drift back toward $61,000 begins
    CryptoSlate - 14:15 Feb 08, 2026
    Bitcoin keeps knocking on $71,500, sooner or later the door opens Bitcoin made a familiar but stressful move this week; it bounced hard enough to make the skeptics quiet and the dip buyers loud again. After the crash down to around $60,000, the price clawed its way back to the a spot that has become […] The post Bitcoin must retake $71,500 very soon or the mid-range drift back toward $61,000 begins appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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  • Bitcoin short term holders are panic selling at a loss but was this capitulation or just a leverage reset?
    CryptoSlate - 12:35 Feb 08, 2026
    Bitcoin’s slide through $65,000 and toward $60,000 felt like a stress test the market had been postponing. The move was sharp enough to force a reset in positioning, and broad enough to pull the conversation away from single-catalyst explanations. Even mainstream media described the week as Bitcoin’s worst weekly performance since late 2022, with price briefly […] The post Bitcoin short term holders are panic selling at a loss but was this capitulation or just a leverage reset? appeared first on CryptoSlate.
    Tags: Bitcoin
  • Tokenized equities approach $1B as institutional rails emerge
    CryptoSlate - 22:35 Feb 07, 2026
    The following is a guest post and analysis from Vincent Maliepaard, Marketing Director at Sentora. A year ago, tokenized equities barely registered as an asset class. Today, the market is approaching $1 billion—a nearly 30x increase—and December 2025 may have delivered the regulatory clarity needed for institutional adoption to accelerate. What changed? Three things: a […] The post Tokenized equities approach $1B as institutional rails emerge appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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