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Bitcoin’s (BTC) drop below $77,000 over the weekend did more than extend a sell-off, it stripped away lingering assumptions about stability in a market still driven by sentiment, leverage, and macro forces. Related Reading: With Bitcoin Below $80K, ARK Reframes The Narrative Around Gold After briefl...

White House officials met on Monday with leaders from the crypto industry and major banking trade groups in an effort to ease a key regulatory dispute that has slowed progress on the long‑anticipated crypto market structure legislation, known as the CLARITY Act. The meeting focused on one of the mos...

The debate regarding XRP and Bitcoin across the space has intensified after recent findings that disclose that the altcoin could rival BTC and its impact on the crypto and financial sector. Bitcoin may be the leading digital asset, but with the findings and analysts choosing XRP over BTC, the token ...

According to a crypto analyst, the XRP price is currently trading at a critical support level that could determine its next move if it fails to hold it. The analyst has forecasted that XRP could extend its decline to new lows after its recent crash below $1.60. This prediction comes amid a widesprea...

XRP’s price action in recent days has been characterized by sustained downside pressure. At the time of writing, XRP is dangerously close to losing $1.5, after falling from higher levels in early January and failing to hold $1.6 as support. This poor price action coincides with discussions inside th...

With Bitcoin losing the $80,000 price mark, the broader cryptocurrency market has shifted heavily into a bearish phase, raising speculation about the beginning of a bear market. While BTC’s price was showing weak signals, selling pressure heightened, which seems to have led to the sudden pullback du...

Shadows of the past impact today. The surfacing of emails linking Jeffrey Epstein to early crypto academia and Bitcoin development circles has done more than just reignite old gossip. It’s weaponized the ‘civil war’ between Bitcoin maximalists and the Ripple ($XRP) army. For years, the d...

Billionaire crypto founder Justin Sun has come under fire following accusations of insider trading. The TRON founder is said to have devised means to manipulate TRX’s price during the 2017 bull run. TRON Founder Justin Sun Accused Of Insider Trading In an X post, finance expert Tenten alleged that J...

Bitcoin veteran Adam Back moved to shut down a fresh round of allegations after newly circulated “Epstein files” excerpts and screenshots reignited claims that Jeffrey Epstein intersected with Blockstream during the company’s earliest fundraising. Back’s response on X framed the episode as a brief, ...

A sharp hit to risk markets left crypto with heavy losses over the weekend. Reports say roughly $250 billion was wiped from combined market value as investors pulled back. Some of the selling hit Bitcoin hard. Others said it spread to tech stocks at the same time. Related Reading: Who Struck Step Fi...

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson said he plans to sell a Blackhawk helicopter and multiple Lamborghinis and “mothball” his jet, framing the decision as a personal reset and a critique of how crypto’s culture changed after the 2021 boom. Speaking in a Jan. 31 video recorded from Fukuoka, Hoskinson o...

Bitcoin slid again, and big-name bulls are talking. According to ARK Invest’s team, the pullback after a rapid run is part of a wider picture that mixes gold, money supply measures, and investor flow. Markets are messy now. That does not mean long-term stories are dead. Related Reading: Trump-Linked...

Bitcoin’s sudden break below $80,000 in the past 24 hours has led to one of the most violent liquidation events in crypto history. Traders digest the fallout from this crash, but there is much attention on large institutional holders, particularly Michael Saylor’s Strategy, whose massive Bitcoin pos...

Step Finance, a well-known Solana analytics hub, said its treasury was hit in a major breach that emptied 261,854 SOL from wallets tied to the platform. Related Reading: Insider Trading Case Against Coinbase Leadership Surges Ahead The loss forced a sharp market reaction, and users and investors wat...

In an interesting turn of events over the weekend, Bitcoin saw an abrupt liquidity cascade, with its price tumbling to as low as $76,000. Barely recovered from their weekday losses, BTC investors must be feeling hard done by, as rare weekend volatility sent them further down. One of these investors ...

A US-linked crypto startup received a major foreign cash injection this week, stirring questions in Washington about money, access, and transparency. Reports say a UAE-backed investor paid roughly $500 million for nearly half of the company, a deal that was not widely known when it closed. Related R...

Bitcoin and the general cryptocurrency market have continued their struggles, as prices took a nosedive this weekend. On Friday, January 31, it seemed like the crypto market was gearing for another slow-action weekend as prices somewhat steadied after Thursday’s bloodbath. However, the market has co...

The Bitcoin market has seen a horrific tale over the week, with the price recording a downturn of more than 12%. As the flagship cryptocurrency tests its $77,000 price support, data from recent on-chain analysis has been put out, which suggests that investors might have more concerns in the near-ter...

OKX CEO Star Xu has publicly accused Binance of being central to the October 10 crypto market crash that wiped out tens of billions of dollars, causing damage that many described exceeded the fallout from the FTX collapse in 2022. Related Reading: XRP About To Make A New Wave Of Multi-Millionaires A...

Coinbase’s legal battle over alleged insider trading hit a new milestone this week when a Delaware judge refused to toss a shareholder suit, keeping alive claims that top executives and directors sold stock while sitting on inside information. Reports say the ruling does not resolve guilt or innocen...