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Optimism announced a 12-month token buyback program on Jan. 8, allocating 50% of Superchain revenue to monthly OP token purchases starting in February. The buyback pressure is estimated at roughly $9.1 million annually, based on the past year's 5,868 ETH in collected fees.
The proposal frames the shift as a transition from pure governance token to value-accrual mechanism tied to ecosystem growth...
Bitcoin (BTC) opened 2026 with the kind of price action that tests conviction, with the first five days taking BTC close to $95,000, only for it to test the $90,000 footing again.
The movement follows weeks of choppy trading, failed breakout attempts, and a Fear...
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 original cryptocurrency and toward a dense, dollar-linked shadow system.
According to new Chainalysis data shared with CryptoSlate, stablecoins accounted for 84% of the $154 billion illicit transaction...
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 discussion,” according to Reuters.
For Bitcoin miners, the more actionable clock is Greenland’s industrial power planning.
How Greenland’s hydropower translates into real Bitcoin mining capacity
Greenland’s...
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 CryptoSlate data, Zcash fell to a month-low of $382, making it the day’s biggest loser on the Top 100 leaderboard.
This price performance decoupled violently from the broader crypto markets, where...
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 specifically designed to handle USD1 stablecoin issuance, custody, redemption, and reserve management. USD1 is WLFI's flagship product, with more than $3.3 billion in supply across 10 blockchain networks.
On...
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 in annualized trading volume.
The juxtaposition captures where prediction markets sit at the start of 2026: simultaneously legitimized as a financial data product and mired in methodological disputes...
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 tokenized commercial paper using Solana for part of the settlement stack.
These are not rumors or roadmap promises. They happened over 60 days, and they force a cleaner question than the old binary:...
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 and Reuters reported on Jan. 7, the move affects “some” Chinese companies and may presage a mandate requiring domestic purchases of AI chips.
For Bitcoin holders, the question is not about chip...
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 is viewed by industry proponents as the necessary “missing layer” of federal law to allow the industry to thrive.
While the “GENIUS Act” established baseline rules for payment stablecoins last year, the...