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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 peaks, surpassed $100 billion.
Ripple’s...
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 to US treasuries, citing concentration...
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 down too, but the feeling isn't quite the same. That quiet little subtraction before you...
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 of the best clues about where we are in the cycle are sitting in plain sight on-chain.
The...
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 into procedural hurdles in the Senate.
In a post on X, Milk Road...
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 and flags $90,000 as max pain, a rough reference point for where, in aggregate, option holders would...
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 Feb. 3 flipped to -$272.0 million, and Feb. 4 sank to -$544.9 million....
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 and the first traded level when the market reopens Sunday evening (US time). CME futures trade on a weekly...
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 center of gravity, the $71,500 zone.
It has already been there three times.
Each time, the...
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 testing the $60,000 area before...