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The fight over CLARITY has always been sold as a battle for rules, a way to finally give the U.S. crypto market a clean lane to run in.
That story still matters. The past week made something else clearer: the legislation is becoming a proxy war over who gets to pay Americans for holding digital dollars.
On Feb. 9, CryptoSlate wrote that a Feb. 10 White House meeting could be the moment CLARITY...
Tokenized US Treasuries are close to $11 billion, but the chain war is shifting from issuance to distribution and utility. Where yield tokens actually sit, how often they move, and whether they plug into stablecoin settlement and collateral workflows are what matters.
Last week, XRP Ledger (XRPL) got two signals that it's trying to matter in that “venue” fight.
First, Aviva Investors said it's...
Cboe wants to bring back all-or-nothing options, a contract that pays a fixed amount if a condition is met and pays zero if it isn't.
While that might sound like a small product refresh, the timing makes it hard to ignore. Prediction markets have trained a new retail reflex: turn a belief into a number that reads like odds, then buy or sell that number.
Cboe’s proposal to the SEC is an attempt to...
Bitcoin’s February drop to about $60,000 was the kind of single-day panic people will remember as a bottom.
But the more accurate reading of this washout is harder and more useful: this cycle quit in stages, and the sellers rotated.
A Feb. 10 report from Checkonchain framed the move as a capitulation event that arrived fast, on heavy volume, with losses large enough to reset psychology.
It also...
Crypto winter has a branding problem.
The phrase makes it sound like the chain goes quiet, wallets stop moving, and the whole machine turns cold. However, the cleanest proof of retail pulling back rarely lives on-chain.
The people who vanish first aren’t the power users bridging stables into DeFi or the long-term holders shuffling coins between cold storage addresses. They’re the casual...
Bitcoin derivative traders are increasingly positioning for further downside rather than a clean bounce as the leading cryptocurrency continues to trade in a tight range below $70,000.
According to CryptoSlate's data, BTC price bottomed at $65,092 during the last 24 hours but has since recovered to $66,947 as of press time. This continues a weeklong tight trading that has failed to yield any...
On Feb. 12, RippleX, Ripple's development arm, announced that Token Escrow is now live on the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) mainnet.
The change, labeled Token Escrow (XLS-85), extends conditional locking and release to trustline-based tokens (IOUs) and Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs).
This expands the network’s escrow function beyond XRP to cover issued assets used for stablecoins and tokenized instruments....
Gold back over $5,000 is a market tell: fear is back. Tether just paid $150 million for the last mile. By taking ~12% of Gold.com and integrating XAU₮, Tether is buying distribution, so a USDT holder can reach for gold without leaving the crypto payment loop
Gold is trading above $5,000 an ounce again, and the mood that comes with that price level is back with it. When people start getting gold...
Bitcoin’s slide toward $60,000 came with the usual noise from exchanges, but the sheer size of the panic was evident somewhere else. Options tied to BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) traded about 2.33 million contracts in a single trading day, a record that arrived right as price was at its most unstable.
At the same time, the underlying asset saw a record day as well. On the same day,...
Within a span of weeks in early 2026, a cluster of senior crypto operators announced they were stepping back or switching domains.
Akshay BD, who spent five years building Solana's ecosystem, posted a “life update” saying he was “grateful to pass the torch.”
Anthony Rose, a zkSync executive, announced he was “moving on” after four years at Matter Labs.
Nader Dabit left Eigen Labs to join...