Retail traders rarely see an IPO at its official offering price. By the time most people can buy, the stock has already opened on an exchange—often well above where Wall Street institutions got in. A new initiative from crypto platform… Read More »New Crypto Platform Targets Level Playing Field for Retail in IPO Allocations
Bitcoin’s price surged to just below $72,000 during the Asia trading session, even as South Korea’s equity market logged one of its sharpest two-day selloffs since the global financial crisis. The juxtaposition underscored how crypto can move to a different… Read More »Bitcoin Climbs Above $71,000 as South Korean Stocks Suffer an 18% Two‑Day Crash
U.S. broad money supply is back at all-time highs, yet Bitcoin is not. For crypto investors used to “liquidity up, BTC up” as a working rule of thumb, the current divergence between M2 and Bitcoin is forcing a rethink of… Read More »Why Surging U.S. M2 Money Supply Isn’t Lifting Bitcoin This Time
Bitcoin once again absorbed a major geopolitical shock over the weekend, whipsawing lower on news of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran before quickly recovering to the mid-$64,000 region. The initial selloff unfolded in thin weekend liquidity, but attention is… Read More »Bitcoin Shakes Off Iran Strike Shock, But ETF Flows May Decide Monday’s Direction
A proposed upgrade to the XRP Ledger (XRPL) came close to introducing a critical vulnerability that, if activated, could have allowed attackers to spend funds from other people’s accounts without access to their private keys. The issue was caught before… Read More »XRPL’s Near-Miss: How a Batch Upgrade Bug Could Have Let Attackers Drain XRP Accounts
Bitcoin’s latest rally has been running with a powerful tailwind behind it: a record build-up of margin debt in U.S. securities accounts, emerging recession signals, and a growing U.S. Treasury buyback program that is reshaping some of the macro plumbing… Read More »Bitcoin’s $1.2 Trillion Margin Tailwind: How Leverage, Recession Fears, and Treasury Buybacks Shape the Next Move
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) is quietly reshaping how institutions can take Bitcoin exposure, and the shift is starting to matter for the market’s largest listed Bitcoin proxy trade. While over $5 billion remains short MSTR, demand is building for the company’s… Read More »Strategy’s 11% Yield Lures Institutions as $5B MSTR Short Faces New Pressure
Circle’s latest quarterly numbers show a booming USDC business — but also make clear that most of the yield generated by the stablecoin doesn’t stay with the issuer. Instead, it’s being negotiated away to the exchanges, wallets, and payment platforms… Read More »Circle’s USDC Windfall: Who Really Captures the Stablecoin Yield?
Publicly listed Bitcoin miners are starting to tap their once sacrosanct BTC treasuries, as winter power costs, weaker margins, and a pessimistic forward hashprice market put balance sheets under pressure. As of Feb. 20, public miners collectively held 115,335 BTC,… Read More »Bitcoin Miners Draw Down $7.4B Treasuries as Winter Power Costs Force 5,359 BTC Sell-Off
Perpetual futures sit at the center of crypto’s derivatives engine, and in early 2026 regulators on both sides of the Atlantic moved decisively to define how, where, and at what leverage those products can be traded. The result is a… Read More »Crypto Leverage Diverges: U.S. Traders Chase 10x While Europe Reclassifies Perpetuals
Within 72 hours in February, Brazil quietly removed one of the biggest cost barriers to importing top-tier Bitcoin mining hardware—and a major European utility publicly floated the idea of plugging miners into a massive Brazilian solar plant to monetize wasted… Read More »Brazil Axes Import Duties on High-End Bitcoin Miners as Energy Giants Eye Stranded Solar
World Liberty Financial’s dollar-backed stablecoin briefly slipped off its $1 peg on Feb. 23, trading as low as $0.994 before snapping back within minutes. The issuer framed the move as the result of a “coordinated attack,” but on-chain and market-structure… Read More »World Liberty Financial’s Stablecoin Peg Attack Exposes Concentration Risk at Single Exchange