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Token buybacks spent $880M+ last year, but prices stalled anyway – one number now decides if they work
Optimism announced a 12-month token buyback program on Jan. 8, allocating 50% of Superchain revenue to monthly OP token ...

Bitcoin is stalling, but this low-key “absorption signal” shows a violent supply shock could be inevitable
Bitcoin (BTC) opened 2026 with the kind of price action that tests conviction, with the first five days taking BTC close...

Bitcoin is not the king of the dark web – and the reason why is a $154 billion crypto nightmare
The era of the hooded hacker hoarding Bitcoin in a dark web wallet is over. In 2025, the center of gravity in the illicit cryptocurrency economy shifted decisively away from the volatility of the orig...

How United States could use Greenland for 10,000 EH/s Bitcoin mining hub from stranded energy
Talk of the United States buying Greenland has returned to Washington, and miners are tracking the power projects on the island. The White House said a U.S. purchase of Greenland is an “active discu...

Zcash crashes 20% as entire team walks out, exposing a boardroom battle over the project’s assets
Zcash (ZEC) suffered the steepest decline among top-tier digital assets on Jan. 8, plunging approximately 20% amid a collision of governance turmoil and a leverage-driven market flush. According to Cr...

Trump’s WLFI is pivoting to “narrow banking,” a move that exposes the fatal flaw of competitors
On Jan. 7, Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial (WLFI) formally applied for a national banking charter to establish the “World Liberty Trust Company.” This is a proposed national trust bank sp...

Polymarket seems riddled with insider trading yet a massive Dow Jones partnership just validated prediction markets
Dow Jones announced an exclusive partnership to distribute Polymarket prediction data across The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch on the same day Kalshi claimed it had hit $100 billion i...

Solana is becoming settlement rail for Visa and JPMorgan but one metric still scares insiders
Wyoming launched a state-backed stablecoin on Solana, and Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana trust product this week. Last month, Visa expanded USDC settlement to run on Solana rails, and JPMorgan toke...

Bitcoin is trapped in a $54 billion Nvidia gamble that could trigger a sudden institutional sell-off
Beijing's reported request for Chinese tech firms to halt orders of Nvidia's H200 chips arrives at a moment when Bitcoin has become uncomfortably tethered to AI equity sentiment. As The Information an...

Crypto firms like Ripple are betting on a Senate deal that is rapidly unraveling behind closed doors
The US crypto industry has launched a unified push for Congress to pass federal market-structure legislation, known as the “Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025” (H.R. 3633). The legislation i...