- Bitcoin’s sharp weekend drop triggered fresh liquidations, with analyst Eric Crown warning the market may face months of further downside.
- The Hong Kong lawmaker and Web3 advocate said common law, open capital flows and ties to southern China give the city a unique role in global crypto markets.
- Senator demands probe after report links Emirati intelligence chief to secret investment in U.S. crypto venture.
- Months after the Oct. 10 liquidation cascade, market depth has yet to recover, and traders are divided over Binance's role as bitcoin continues to crash.
- The White House is meeting folks, Congress advanced a bill and key regulators are back to joint press appearances.
- Society is experiencing a shift toward gambles that offer rapid feedback and immediate stimulation over long-term investment.
- This surge in demand for lower-strike puts contrasts with the post-Trump-election pattern of enthusiasm for high-strike calls.
- Strategy’s ability to fund a large bitcoin purchase appears limited after a weak performance for the price of its common and preferred shares.
- Earlier in January, the Ethereum Foundation formally elevated post-quantum security to a strategic priority, creating a dedicated Post-Quantum team.
- Holders with large troves of unreported crypto held offshore are rightly getting nervous about new and invasive tax-reporting regimes.
- The dividend increase follows renewed pressure on STRC, which has been trading below its $100 par value.
- A massive ETH liquidation on Hyperliquid led a leverage-driven wipeout that pushed total crypto liquidations past $2.5 billion in 24 hours.
- The firm’s recent ETH purchases came just ahead of a sharp market slide, pushing unrealized losses past $6 billion as liquidity thinned and liquidations picked up.
- Bitcoin sank to its lowest levels since April as profit-taking by early holders collided with thinning liquidity and a sharp drop-off in fresh capital.
- The main impact of the price decline is slowing Strategy's ability to buy more bitcoin without diluting shareholders, as its stock now trades at a discount to its bitcoin holdings.
- A severe winter storm has forced US miners to curtail operations, dragging bitcoin’s hashrate, output and miner margins to their weakest levels in months.
- Glassnode data shows large bitcoin holders accumulating, while retail remains in distribution.
- The platform's governance token (STEP) plummeted over 80% following the announcement amid a wider crypto market drawdown.
- Tokenized AI will democratize access to the world’s most valuable resource, argues Brukhman.
- Ether also declined significantly, dropping to 56th place with a market cap just above $300 billion and losing 14.5% of its value.