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Hyperliquid has launched the Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC), a nonprofit research and advocacy group based in Washington D.C. The Hyper Foundation is backing the initiative with 1 million HYPE tokens, currently worth around $29 million.

Crypto lawyer Jake Chervinsky has been named the founding CEO. Chervinsky previously served as Chief Legal Officer at both the Blockchain Association and venture firm Variant.

He announced on X, “HPC is an independent research and advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that DeFi can flourish in the United States. The future of finance will be decentralized.”

Why Does Hyperliquid Need a Policy Center?

Hyperliquid processed over $250 billion in perpetual futures volume last month alone, making it one of the largest decentralized exchanges in crypto. But perpetual derivatives, while hugely popular in offshore markets, are still largely absent from regulated U.S. finance.

Chervinsky pointed out that current U.S. financial regulations were not written for decentralized technology like Hyperliquid. HPC will focus on working with lawmakers and regulators to build clear rules for DeFi and on-chain market infrastructure.

The Hyper Foundation said it is “confident that under Chervinsky’s leadership, the Hyperliquid Policy Center will have a meaningful impact in favor of clear regulations for decentralized finance.”

HPC Founding Team and Open Roles

Chervinsky is joined by Policy Counsel Brad Bourque, formerly of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and Policy Director Salah Ghazzal, who previously served as Policy Lead at Variant.

HPC is currently hiring for Chief of Staff, Head of Communications, and Head of Government Relations.

HYPE Token Price and Recent Moves

HYPE is trading at around $29.20 with a market cap of approximately $7.5 billion. The token is down roughly 51% from its all-time high of $59.39, which it hit in September 2025.

The policy center launch comes just a week after Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. spent $129.5 million to buy 5 million more HYPE tokens at an average price of $25.9 per token.

With Congress currently working through the CLARITY Act and DeFi regulation still a major sticking point in the Senate, the timing of HPC’s launch lines up directly with one of the most active periods for crypto policy in Washington.

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Arkham Intelligence released new on-chain data showing that six entities control a combined 4.25 million Bitcoin. That’s roughly 21% of all BTC that will ever exist, and most of it isn’t going anywhere.

Satoshi Nakamoto still tops the list with 1,096,358 BTC, worth around $75 billion. Arkham traced these coins using a known mining pattern called the Patoshi Pattern, linking them to 22,000 mined blocks. None of it has moved since 2010.

Coinbase comes in second with 993,069 BTC ($68 billion) on-chain, held on behalf of itself and its custody clients. BlackRock follows at 761,801 BTC ($52 billion), most of it tied to its spot Bitcoin ETF.

Strategy’s Real Bitcoin Holdings Are Bigger Than They Look

Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, reports total holdings of 714,644 BTC ($54 billion). But only 415,230 BTC shows up under its name on-chain. The rest gets attributed to Fidelity Custody because of how its custodial system groups wallets together.

The U.S. Government holds 328,372 BTC ($22 billion). Almost all of it came from law enforcement seizures, including the Bitfinex hack recovery, the Silk Road marketplace shutdown, and the LuBian Hacker address.

Tether holds 96,369 BTC ($6.5 billion) as part of its reserve management, making it the top private company holder.

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The Biggest Bitcoin Wallets All Belong to Exchanges

The top four individual Bitcoin wallets are all exchange cold wallets. Binance owns the two largest, holding 249K and 157K BTC. Robinhood holds 141K BTC and Bitfinex holds 130K BTC.

These wallets store client funds, not the exchanges’ own Bitcoin.

How Much Bitcoin Is Actually Left to Buy?

An estimated 3.7 million BTC is permanently lost in wallets that can never be accessed. That brings the real supply well below the 21 million cap. Factor in Satoshi’s dormant coins, government holdings, ETF reserves, and corporate treasuries, and the amount of BTC that is actually available to trade keeps getting smaller.

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Bitcoin is currently trading near $67,249, down 1% over the last 24 hours.

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The altcoin market just set a new record that no one wanted. Crypto assets outside Bitcoin and Ethereum have now closed five consecutive months in the red, a streak that has no precedent in crypto history.

Michaël van de Poppe, CIO and Founder of MN Fund, highlighted this on X, calling it a first for the market.

“For the 5th month in a row, a red candle on #Altcoins. Interestingly enough; this has never happened before. Not once,” he wrote.

He also pointed out that social media interest in crypto has dropped to extremely low levels, reflecting just how far retail enthusiasm has fallen.

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$209 Billion in Altcoin Selling

The selling pressure behind this streak is even more alarming. Crypto analyst Ash Crypto shared CryptoQuant data revealing that altcoins have faced nonstop dumping for over a year.

“For 13 consecutive months, alts have been sold non-stop, with net sell volume hitting $209 billion,” Ash Crypto said.

That figure is worse than anything recorded during the 2022 bear market or the FTX collapse. The buy/sell difference for altcoins sat near zero in January 2025. Since then, selling has moved in one direction only.

So Is the Bottom Close?

Despite the brutal data, van de Poppe is not writing altcoins off. His chart marks the current altcoin market cap zone around $714 billion as a “Dip buying” area.

He said that a slight recovery in the current monthly candle over the next few weeks could signal the correction is nearing its end.

“If this monthly candle can climb up slightly more over the course of the next few weeks, the chances of this correction to be over have significantly increased,” van de Poppe added.

The next two weeks will be telling. February’s candle close will either break the five-month losing streak or push the altcoin market deeper into bearish territory.

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CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju warned on X that roughly 6.89 million BTC are currently vulnerable to quantum attacks. That figure includes an estimated 1 million BTC linked to Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

According to Ki Young Ju, 1.91 million BTC sit in old P2PK addresses where public keys are permanently visible on the blockchain. Another 4.98 million BTC may have had their public keys exposed through past transactions. Once a public key is visible on-chain, the risk does not go away.

“Coins that appear perfectly safe today could become spendable by an attacker tomorrow,” he said.

3.4 Million BTC Dormant for Over a Decade

Ki Young Ju noted that about 3.4 million BTC has not moved in over 10 years. Around 1 million of that is tied to Satoshi. At current prices, that is hundreds of billions of dollars sitting in addresses that quantum computers could eventually crack.

He framed the situation as binary. Either Bitcoin upgrades its protocol and freezes these coins, or quantum attackers eventually drain them. Anyone using old address types faces the same outcome: coins frozen by design or stolen by force.

Will the Crypto Community Agree?

This is where Ki Young Ju’s argument gets interesting. He said developers can build quantum-resistant solutions.

The problem is getting the Bitcoin community to actually agree on freezing coins, something that goes against Bitcoin’s core principle of immutability.

He pointed to past disputes as evidence. The block size debate lasted over three years and caused hard forks. SegWit2x failed to get enough community support. Freezing dormant coins would face similar, if not stronger, pushback.

“Technical fixes move fast. Social consensus does not,” he said. “Developers are not the bottleneck. Social consensus is.”

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Should Satoshi’s Coins Be Frozen?

Ki Young Ju ended with a direct question to the community: Would you support freezing dormant coins, including Satoshi’s, to protect Bitcoin from quantum attacks? Or does that go against everything Bitcoin stands for?

If that question alone already divides the community, he said, the quantum debate needs to start now.

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Crypto analyst Lark Davis broke down in a recent video why the current Bitcoin selloff may be setting up for a sharp reversal rather than a deeper crash.

The Bitcoin fear and greed index hit a score of 5, its lowest reading ever. That is worse than both the FTX collapse and the Terra crash. Meanwhile, BlackRock’s IBIT ETF saw record volume during the selloff, suggesting large players were buying while retail was panic selling.

Billions in Short Bets Could Fuel a Squeeze

The S&P 500 put/call ratio spiked to its highest since the Liberation Day crash. Davis pointed out that when retail traders pile this heavily into shorts, market makers rarely let those bets pay off. A short squeeze is the more likely outcome.

Funding rates across major crypto exchanges have dropped into deep negative territory, last seen in August 2024. That period marked a major bottom. Bitcoin rallied roughly 83% over the next four months.

One analyst cited by Davis summed it up: “Lows are in. We are buyers. Let’s effing go.”

BTC Weekly Chart Looks Like the June 2022 Bottom

Bitcoin’s weekly MACD has dropped to its lowest level ever. The weekly RSI is nearing oversold, and the last time it hit this zone was June 2022, what Davis called the “real” bear market bottom before FTX pushed prices roughly 30% lower.

BTC is holding above the 200-week EMA around $68,000. Davis entered long at $69K, targeting $74K at the 20-day EMA.

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Altcoin Dominance Just Broke Out

Altcoin dominance (excluding BTC) confirmed a monthly MACD bullish crossover with a major trend breakout. Davis compared the current setup to 2019-2020, not 2022.

He was upfront about the risk. Similar bullish alt signals have shown up over the past year without leading anywhere.

“Either alts are just generationally cooked and literally never coming back… or there is a massive opportunity here,” he said.

AI Coins: Everyone’s Searching, Nobody’s Buying

One-third of the most-searched altcoins on CoinGecko are AI-related, including Tensor, Venice, Virtuals, and Near. But token prices keep falling even as revenue grows. Virtuals is down 46% in 30 days while its OpenClaw ecosystem fees continue scaling.

Davis called this a clear gap between what these projects are building and how the market is pricing them right now.

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Bitcoin’s recent price drop rattled investors across the market. But Arca CIO Jeff Dorman says crypto wasn’t the cause.

In a Milk Road Show interview, Dorman explained that the crash came from big Wall Street funds pulling money out across all markets, not from crypto traders selling. He pointed out that institutional trading platforms saw heavy selling, while crypto-native exchanges like Deribit and Binance stayed relatively calm.

In other words, it was traditional finance dragging Bitcoin down with everything else. Meanwhile, Coinbase data showed that everyday crypto holders were actually buying the dip.

Dorman Says the Four-Year Cycle Is a Myth

Dorman also went after one of crypto’s most popular beliefs. He said the four-year cycle theory is built on just two examples, 2018 and 2022, and both of those crashes were triggered by the Fed hiking interest rates, not by anything happening inside crypto.

Now that Bitcoin is deeply connected to ETFs and institutional money, those old patterns matter even less. Dorman argued the cycle can only work now if enough people believe in it and panic sell at the first sign of a dip.

3 Crypto Sectors Growing

Dorman identified three areas where growth is real and measurable, regardless of what Bitcoin is doing.

DeFi is seeing more users, more money locked in protocols, and more trading volume shifting away from centralized exchanges. Protocols like Hyperliquid and Pump.Fun are generating actual revenue and using it to buy back their own tokens.

Stablecoins hit $10 trillion in transaction volume in January 2026 alone. JP Morgan, Citi, and PayPal have all entered the space with their own stablecoin products.

RWA tokenization carries the biggest long-term potential. Roughly $600 trillion worth of real-world assets like stocks, bonds, and real estate sit off-chain today. Only about $1 trillion has moved on-chain so far. BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and Apollo are already building here.

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Why Token Buybacks Matter

Dorman was blunt about what separates real value from hype. He said buybacks are the only way a protocol’s success actually flows back to token holders.

He used Pump.Fun as an example. The protocol sits at a $2 billion valuation, pulls in roughly $500 million in daily revenue, and puts 99% of it toward buying back tokens. At that rate, the entire supply gets bought back in under 3.5 years.

“I’ve been investing in crypto professionally for eight years,” Dorman said. “I’ve never heard anybody come up with even a reasonable argument for why Bitcoin should be worth anything other than just it’s gold is worth X and therefore Bitcoin should be worth some percentage of X.”

For anyone spending all their time watching Bitcoin’s price, Dorman’s message is interesting. The parts of crypto that may be growing in 2026 aren’t waiting for BTC to make a move.

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Paxos, the regulated blockchain and tokenization platform, posted a direct message to banks today. The old stablecoin playbook no longer applies.

In a post shared on X, Paxos called out four common banking industry beliefs about stablecoins and explained why each one is now outdated. The trigger is the GENIUS Act, signed into law by President Trump in July 2025, which set clear federal rules for stablecoin issuance in the U.S.

“Stablecoins are already a multi-trillion-dollar market and banks that can accept them into their business stand to benefit greatly,” Paxos stated.

Stablecoins Are No Longer Unregulated

The first myth Paxos goes after is that stablecoins sit outside regulation. That is no longer true. The GENIUS Act requires 1:1 reserve backing with liquid assets like U.S. Treasuries and monthly public disclosures. Only approved issuers can operate in the U.S.

Outside the U.S., Singapore’s MAS framework and the EU’s MiCA rules have set similar standards. Paxos says it already meets these requirements and that the compliance setup banks once found missing is now in place.

Do Stablecoins Actually Threaten Bank Deposits?

Banks have long worried that stablecoins would pull deposits away and hurt lending. Paxos disagrees.

“Stablecoins serve as rails for payments, settlement and capital efficiency in ways that deposit accounts cannot,” the company stated.

Paxos added that banks can issue or custody stablecoins themselves, turning what they see as a threat into a new product line. The company compared the moment to when electronic payments first scared banks.

Stablecoins, they argue, will follow the same path.

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From Crypto Tool to Global Payments

Stablecoins started as a liquidity tool for crypto exchanges. That chapter is over. Paxos pointed out that global companies now use stablecoins to move millions of dollars in minutes for cross-border payments, on-chain capital markets, and tokenized asset settlement.

The company also noted that on-chain stablecoin transactions can be publicly audited in real time.

“Reserves held in short-term Treasuries are safer than many bank assets,” Paxos added.

What Happens to Banks That Wait?

Paxos closed with a warning.

“Banks that embrace them can unlock faster settlement, improved liquidity management and entirely new products for clients. Those that reject them will cede market share to fintechs, blockchain-native players and forward-thinking peers.”