MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor frames Bitcoin’s sharp drawdowns as “Satoshi’s gift,” arguing volatility rewards long-term holders, not short-term traders. MicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor addressed Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent volatility with remarks positioning price instability as an inherent characteristic of the digital asset…

Franklin Templeton maps a wallet-native future where tokenized stocks, bonds, and funds sit in digital wallets, cutting costs and speeding collateral and settlement. Franklin Templeton executives outlined a vision for digital wallet-based finance at the Ondo Summit in New York…

Aave will shut down its Family wallet, retire the Avara brand, and consolidate under Aave Labs after governance strife, SEC closure, and MiCA authorization. Aave (AAVE) founder Stani Kulechov announced the decentralized finance protocol will wind down its Family iOS…

Changpeng Zhao warns of an AI-powered impersonation scam on X using fake photos from a BNB Chain Korea event, urging users to verify accounts and watch for deepfake tells. Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has alerted users to a scam operation…

Crypto winter since Jan 2025, masked by ETF demand, now nearing late-stage exhaustion. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan has characterized the current cryptocurrency market conditions as a full-scale bear market that began in January 2025, according to a recent…

Boomer investors quietly added about $500m to spot Bitcoin ETFs even as a $1.7b outflow streak, negative 2025 flows, and macro jitters keep Bitcoin pinned near $78k. Baby boomers quietly tried to catch the knife in Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs this…

Vitalik Buterin urges a hard reset of Ethereum governance, pushing a two-layer model that fuses prediction markets with anonymous, non-token voting. Vitalik Buterin thinks Ethereum (ETH) governance needs a hard reset, and he is done pretending it is complicated. In…

Hyperliquid price prediction HIP-4 expands outcome trading as HYPE trades far below its high, with rich valuations, heavy turnover, and skewed upside-downside risk. Hyperliquid (HYPE) is trying to turn “the perpification of everything” into a full‑stack derivatives and prediction‑market machine,…

Cboe is in talks to relaunch binary options contracts for retail investors, positioning regulated alternatives to compete with crypto prediction markets like Polymarket. Cboe circles binary options reboot Cboe Global Markets is edging back into the binary‑wager business, in what…

Elon Musk’s xAI is hiring a crypto finance expert to train frontier AI trading models across DeFi, derivatives and MEV — but offers just $45–$100 per hour. xAI is quietly assembling a new kind of crypto desk — one where…

Crypto VC deals fell in January, but funding exploded as big checks flowed into BitGo, Fireblocks, Ripple’s RLUSD push, DeFi bets, and SOL‑backed credit. Headline shift: fewer deals, much bigger checks According to RootData, just 52 crypto VC investments were…

ING Germany now lets retail clients trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and XRP crypto ETPs via securities accounts, partnering with 21Shares, VanEck and others. ING Deutschland, one of Germany’s largest retail brokerage firms, has launched cryptocurrency exchange-traded product (ETP) trading services…

Trump says he knew nothing of a $500M Abu Dhabi-linked deal for World Liberty Financial, as critics probe conflicts of interest and ethics risks. Former President Donald Trump denied knowledge of a reported $500 million investment from an Abu Dhabi-linked…

Musk’s SpaceX and xAI are exploring a $1.25T merger to fuse Starlink’s satellite network with advanced AI, creating space-based data and compute infrastructure. SpaceX and artificial intelligence startup xAI are engaged in early merger discussions that could result in a…

PEPE trades at $0.0000043, down 29% monthly. Whales fade rallies but price holds 21-day EMA. Upside targets $0.000007–$0.000012 if liquidity returns. Pepe (PEPE) is trading in a fatigued downtrend but still primed for sharp mean‑reversion spikes if liquidity rotates back…

XRP’s derivatives market just snapped back to life — and that usually means the next leg is coming, one way or another. XRP (XRP) futures netflows jump 749% after a $69M long wipeout, lifting price off $1.52 but leaving leveraged…

Hyperliquid has launched Outcome Trading testnet, introducing fully funded contracts for prediction markets and event-based trading. Hyperliquid announced on Feb. 2 that it has launched “Outcome Trading” on its testnet under Hyperliquid Improvement Proposal 4. The new feature allows users…

TRON touts H2 2025 stablecoin settlement growth and ecosystem expansion as new fraud allegations emerge against founder Justin Sun. TRON (TRON) published its second-half 2025 report detailing developments in stablecoin settlement and ecosystem expansion. The report follows a previous analysis…

Leaked Epstein court files show a 2014 Austin Hill email pressuring investors tied to Ripple and Stellar, reviving scrutiny of Epstein’s Bitcoin funding, MIT links and XRP’s long SEC fight. Leaked court documents have revealed email communications between convicted financier…

Neo founder Erik Zhang has launched Neo Global Resources to align Neo 4 research, engineering and enterprise partnerships around real-world use cases and long-term ecosystem growth. Neo founder Erik Zhang has announced the formation of Neo Global Resources (NGR), a…

UAE security chief Sheikh Tahnoon quietly bought 49% of Trump-linked World Liberty Financial, tying its USD1 stablecoin to a $2B Binance deal and sensitive US AI chip policy. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a senior United Arab Emirates official,…

SoftBank is reportedly weighing up to $30B more for OpenAI in a $100B round valuing the AI firm near $830B, deepening their Stargate data center and SB Energy push. SoftBank Group is in discussions to invest up to $30 billion…

Crypto funds saw $1.7B in weekly outflows, flipping 2025 flows negative as Bitcoin ETFs trade below cost basis and short BTC, tokenized metals attract fresh demand. Digital asset investment products recorded a second consecutive week of substantial outflows, erasing year-to-date…

Jim Cramer says Saylor could jam Bitcoin from sub-$80k toward $82k, warning that any rebound, short-seller games and fresh volatility show BTC is still unreliable as money. CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer stated that Bitcoin (BTC) could rally to…

Saylor’s surprise Epstein files cameo rattles sentiment, but MSTR still trades mainly as a high‑beta Bitcoin proxy, not a reputational meltdown play. Michael Saylor’s brief cameo in the newly unsealed Epstein documents hit MicroStrategy’s stock like a flash crash in…

Vitalik Buterin pockets $70k fading “crazy” Polymarket bets, arguing rational pricing of extreme scenarios can still beat crypto’s most heated narratives. Vitalik Buterin has quietly turned prediction markets into a lab for rationality under stress, cashing roughly $70,000 in profit…

Justin Sun’s alleged ex accuses CZ’s Binance and Tron of using paid KOL networks and insider trading tactics to rig TRX markets, raising new questions for regulators. Justin Sun’s alleged former girlfriend has ignited a storm around Binance founder Changpeng…

Alleged Justin Sun insider claims TRX was manipulated on Binance as SEC wash‑trade charges and WLFI’s TRON‑linked footprint raise fresh regulatory questions. Allegations around TRON’s (TRX) early trading are resurfacing—this time from inside Justin Sun’s personal orbit. Core allegations and…

Bitcoin slid below $80k after Warsh’s Fed nod, triggering $2.5B liquidations before stabilizing near a key mid-cycle support zone analysts see as potential cycle floor. Bitcoin fell below $80,000 over the weekend following confirmation that Kevin Warsh will become the…