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Tether, the company behind the world’s most widely used stablecoin, USDT, has revealed that it has frozen approximately $4.2 billion worth of its tokens tied to suspected illicit activity, with the majority of those actions taking place over the past three years. Tether Expands Crackdown On Criminal...

Ethereum network dominance is turning out to be constructive rather than speculative as the blockchain expands beyond its Decentralized Finance (DeFi) stance. After dominating as a leader in on-chain finance, the network is now leading AI innovation. AI Innovation Accelerates On The Ethereum Network...

Numbers don’t always tell the whole story. But sometimes they hint at something worth watching. According to crypto analytics platform Santiment, the total count of Bitcoin wallets holding at least 100 BTC is closing in on 20,000 — a threshold that some analysts are reading as an early sign th...

Crypto analyst CasiTrades has declared that XRP’s macro plan hasn’t changed, with the targets still the same. Her comment follows the recent relief rally, which saw the altcoin record double-digit gains. XRP Still At Risk Of A Further Decline As Macro Plan Remains Intact In an X post, CasiTrades sta...

The cybercrime business is booming, at least on paper. According to a new report from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, the number of ransomware attacks jumped 50% in 2025, with nearly 8,000 separate incidents recorded throughout the year. Yet for all that hustle, hackers walked away with less ...

Ripple has published a new whitepaper arguing that institutional crypto market structure still lacks the settlement, credit and risk infrastructure needed to support large-scale participation. In the paper, Ripple says digital assets need a Digital Prime Brokerage model built around centralized cred...

The Bitcoin price crash from $126,000 to $60,000 has naturally sent most of the market into a panic, and with sentiment still in the red, the probability of the price falling lower remains high. At this time, the focus has now turned to predictions of when Bitcoin will hit a bottom. Over the years, ...

A new report from Glassnode says Bitcoin could potentially be closer to a bottoming range than the early phase of the bear market. Bitcoin Supply In Loss Trend Doesn’t Look Similar To An Early Bear Market In its latest weekly report, on-chain analytics firm Glassnode has discussed how the curr...

With a White House deadline on the anticipated CLARITY Act set for March 1, crypto policy discussions are intensifying in Washington. On Thursday afternoon, Senate Democrats are scheduled to meet to continue deliberations on the crypto market structure bill. Ahead of those talks, the Blockchain Asso...

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has asked the public for feedback on its proposed framework to regulate stablecoins under the landmark crypto regulation, including proposals to address potential workaround on the interest payments ban. Related Reading: Netherlands To Amend Contro...

Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has in recent months repeatedly called for a retrial in New York, where he was sentenced to 25 years in prison following the company’s 2022 downfall. His renewed public statements have coincided with growing online sp...

Bitcoin has regained short-term momentum after a roughly 7% surge on Wednesday, providing some relief to a market that had remained under persistent selling pressure. The rebound followed renewed discussion around Jane Street — the global quantitative trading firm that was widely accused in parts of...

The price of Bitcoin has been cut in half since hitting its all-time high. That much is hard to ignore. But according to a new report from financial services firm River, the price chart is telling only part of the story. Related Reading: Bitcoin Is Flat Out Better Than Gold, Cathie Wood Says Underne...

Bitcoin is currently testing the $69,000 level as resistance after rebounding from the $64,000 zone, attempting to recover from its recent corrective phase. While the short-term momentum appears constructive, broader market conditions suggest that conviction remains limited. The move higher is unfol...

On-chain data shows spot demand for Bitcoin is returning as the Apparent Demand metric has started to grow for the first time since late November. Bitcoin Apparent Demand Has Seen Its 30-Day Sum Turn Green In a new post on X, CryptoQuant head of research Julio Moreno has discussed the latest trend i...

Michael Saylor used his Strategy World 2026 keynote on Feb. 25 to argue that Bitcoin-backed “digital credit” is moving beyond Wall Street wrappers and toward programmable distribution on crypto rails, naming Solana and Ethereum as part of that future. The pitch matters because it pushes Strategy’s B...

A finance veteran is pushing back against critics who have dismissed a $100 XRP price prediction, suggesting that those on the opposing side may simply be missing the bigger picture. He boldly argues that double- and triple-digit prices are inevitable, pointing to its underlying technology as the dr...

Following a brief and sudden market-wide uptick, the Ethereum price is drawing closer to the pivotal $2,100 mark again, recording a 12% rise in the past day. Despite the bounce on Wednesday, the broader market of ETH is still quite bearish, but bullish sentiment appears to be gaining momentum in the...

A senior UK security official is pushing for a temporary freeze on cryptocurrency donations to political parties, warning that foreign governments could exploit the hard-to-trace nature of digital currencies to quietly shape British politics. Related Reading: Bitcoin Vs. Quantum: Saylor Says The Thr...

PayPal, the digital payments company, has seen its stock price slump by almost half its value in recent months, which has led to conversations about who could realistically step in if a deal were ever pursued. Among the names circulating in online discussions is Ripple, the blockchain payments firm,...