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CFTC Chair forms a new Innovation Advisory Committee packed with crypto, exchange, and prediction-market CEOs
Most crypto traders barely think about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission until something breaks, a lawsuit hits, or a Bitcoin futures headline crosses their feed.
In the popular mental map of US regulation, the SEC is the one staring at tokens, and the CFTC is the one that shows up...
Bitcoin developer contributors just cleared a documentation hurdle that crypto Twitter treated like an emergency quantum patch. It wasn't.
On Feb. 11, a proposal for a new output type, Pay-to-Merkle-Root (BIP-0360), was merged into the official Bitcoin Improvement Proposals repository. No nodes upgraded. No activation timeline exists.
The BIPs repository itself warns that publication doesn't...
Coinbase just posted a bruising earnings miss, and it’s triggering a question that hits far beyond COIN shareholders: what happens to Wall Street’s Bitcoin ETF boom if the custodian behind most of it has a bad year?
The company did about $1.78B in revenue but swung to a $667M net loss (-$2.49 EPS) as trading cooled, right as spot Bitcoin ETFs, including BlackRock’s IBIT, rely heavily on Coinbase...
The US economy is starting 2026 with an uncomfortable split-screen scenario that is complicating the outlook for Bitcoin's recovery towards $100,000.
While Wall Street credit pricing still looks calm, the “real economy” stress gauges are flashing late-cycle warning lights.
This disconnect matters for Bitcoin because its path to $100,000 is no longer just about crypto-native catalysts. It is...
Bitcoin's mining difficulty decreased by 11.16% to approximately 125.86 trillion at the most recent retarget boundary around block 935,424.
That marks the largest negative adjustment since the 2021 China mining ban, the sixth consecutive downward retarget, and the tenth largest negative adjustment in Bitcoin's history.
However, difficulty adjustments are lagging indicators, as they reflect what...
Binance is at the center of renewed speculation as the specter of insolvency has once again cast a long shadow over the crypto sector.
Over the past weeks, rumors have emerged that the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is facing a liquidity crunch, and these rumors have spread across social media platforms, underscoring the fragility of investor sentiment in a post-2022 market landscape....
Cardano is aggressively expanding the types of tokens that can operate on its network and raise the ceiling for its decentralized finance ecosystem over the next 12 to 18 months.
On Feb. 12, the Charles Hoskinson-led blockchain announced it would integrate with LayerZero, a widely used cross-chain messaging system.
This move represents the single largest interoperability unlock in Cardano’s...
Bitcoin can bottom soon because a 2026 recession, or a stock market crash, keeps looking like the outlier scenario
My core idea around the Bitcoin market has remained the same since last September, before we hit the all-time high in October.
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Ethereum's slide toward $2,000 has left its exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors holding more than $5 billion in paper losses, extending a marketwide crypto drawdown that has also hit Bitcoin.
According to CryptoSlate's data, the move has tracked a broader risk-off wave that has pushed the global crypto market value down by $2 trillion since October’s peak, with BTC and ETH both under pressure as...
Vitalik Buterin just published a research proposal that sidesteps the question everyone keeps asking: can blockchains run AI models?
Instead, the research claims Ethereum as the privacy-preserving settlement layer for metered AI and API usage. The post, co-authored with Davide Crapis on Ethereum Research, argues that the real opportunity isn't putting LLMs on-chain.
The real opportunity lies in...