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Bitcoin traded above $70,000 on Monday after a pronounced rebound from lows near $60,000, with the token last quoted 1.5% higher at $70,402.5. The recovery followed heavy liquidations and a risk-off episode that hit technology stocks and crypto futures, while a decisive election outcome in Japan supported regional equities and helped shift sentimen…
Investing Yachts announced a blockchain-based real-world asset (RWA) model designed to tokenize exposure to revenue generated by luxury yacht charter operations through its $YATE token. The project outlines profit distribution to locked tokenholders, a buyback-and-burn allocation, and NAV-tied minting of new tokens as the fleet expands. The $YATE p…
Bitcoin climbed sharply on Friday, briefly reclaiming the $70,000 threshold and trading at about $70,826.9 as of 14:53 ET (19:53 GMT). The rally followed a period of steep declines triggered by an October 2025 flash crash and intensified after the nomination of Kevin Warsh, which pushed bitcoin to a 16-month low of $60,187.0. Despite the bounce, th…
ZenO has begun a public beta to collect, anonymize, and structure first-person audio, video, and image data from smart glasses and smartphones to support the training of physical AI systems. The platform leverages Story's Layer-1 blockchain technology for onchain consent and provenance tracking, and the company is participating in the NVIDIA Incept…
KuCoin has introduced KuCoin Wealth, a wealth management arm aimed at high-net-worth individuals and institutions seeking structured, defined-term exposure to digital assets. The product suite emphasizes fixed-term deposits, professional portfolio governance, and security certifications intended to support institutional adoption, with an early offe…
The World Laureates Association has launched OPENSCI, a forward-looking open scientific infrastructure designed to explore how decentralized and intelligent digital technologies can support the durable preservation, credible verification, and collaborative use of research outputs. Announced at the World Laureates Summit 2026 in Dubai, the project i…
DipCoin has launched Season 1: Horizon, a points- and referral-based incentive framework that formalizes how the protocol rewards sustained platform engagement. The program quantifies participation across deposits, trading volume, position size and liquidation-triggered losses; introduces team multipliers, referral rebates and an early-bird multipl…
Ethereum fell sharply on Thursday, trading at $1,935.42 by 10:30 (15:30 GMT) and recording a one-day decline of 10.06%. The move reduced Ether’s market capitalization to $242.09 billion and coincided with losses across major tokens, including Bitcoin. Weekly drops left Ethereum down nearly 29% over seven days and roughly 61% below its August 24, 20…
JPMorgan’s quantitative team says bitcoin appears more attractive than gold over the long term after a period in which gold outperformed. The bank points to higher gold volatility, relatively contained deleveraging in crypto futures, spot ETF outflows, stablecoin contraction tied to market-cap shrinkage, and a high estimated bitcoin production cost…
Bitcoin erased the gains it had accrued since the U.S. election in early November 2024 and continued to weaken into Wednesday, briefly dipping below $72,000. The cryptocurrency is down roughly 42% from its October record above $126,000 and is now firmly in a bear market. Analysts cite reduced inflows to U.S. spot ETFs, sensitivity to equity and geo…
Bitcoin fell to about $72,000, its weakest level in 15 months, as a market-wide decline pushed investors to liquidate positions. The cryptocurrency dropped as much as 5.4%, extending losses from earlier, crypto-focused liquidations and coinciding with a broader pullback in global equities, including a more than 2% slide in the Nasdaq 100 that hit s…
A Chainstory analysis of roughly 2,900 cryptocurrency press releases published over a four-month span found that about 62% originated from projects labeled high risk or fraudulent. The study highlights a pay-to-play distribution model, heavy use of promotional language, and a concentration of dubious issuers in sectors such as cloud mining and frin…
DitGold announced the DITAU token will begin spot trading on Biconomy with the DITAU/USDT trading pair going live on Feb. 4, 2026, at 12:00 UTC. The move is presented as part of DitGold's effort to build a decentralized ecosystem that treats data as a store of value and to shift economic power from centralized data holders to a community-owned mode…
Tramplin, a premium staking service backed by iTreasury Ventures, today began public operations on Solana. The platform applies a premium bonds-inspired redistribution of staking rewards - using provably fair randomness and Merkle-based transparency - so smaller SOL holders may access intermittent elevated effective APY without relinquishing contro…
Zeta Network Group (ZNB) is assessing the tokenization of real-world assets as an addition to its institutional digital asset treasury approach. The company frames tokenization as an extension of existing digital asset activities - including Bitcoin mining and a digital asset treasury position - and says any move toward tokenized assets will be jud…
KuCoin has launched Hold to Earn, an exchange-integrated rewards feature that allows eligible balances across Funding, Spot, Margin, and Futures accounts to earn daily rewards while remaining available for trading, transfers, or withdrawals. Rewards are calculated on the daily average balance and distributed daily; assets tied up in pending orders …
Superform announced the U.S. launch of its mobile application, extending its SuperVaults - non-custodial, multi-protocol onchain vaults - to smartphone users. The app enables account creation, fiat onramps, and automatic deployment of deposits into curated DeFi strategies designed to deliver yields that the company says outperform traditional bench…
xMoney has appointed Raoul Pal as Strategic Advisor to help shape long-term strategy and market structure as the company develops compliant payment infrastructure bridging traditional currencies, cryptocurrencies, and stablecoins. The move aligns with xMoney's Europe-first regulatory approach as it prepares for broader global expansion.
BLUFF, a social-centric betting and entertainment startup, closed a $21 million strategic financing round led by blockchain fund 1kx with participation from Makers Fund, Maximum Frequency Ventures, Delphi Ventures Founders and other backers including Tristan Thompson. The founding team, which includes former senior executives from established betti…
Bitcoin recovered modestly on Tuesday from a near 10-month low reached over the weekend, trading around $78,558 by 01:42 ET (06:42 GMT). Forced liquidations of leveraged positions drove the prior decline to $74,635.5, while market participants are assessing the implications of Kevin Warsh’s nomination to lead the U.S. Federal Reserve and the delaye…
Story - the AI-native blockchain powered by the $IP token - has moved the initial unlock date for previously locked tokens from February 13, 2026 to August 13, 2026. The decision, announced by PIP Labs (Pen Technology Inc.) to the Story Foundation, accompanies recent protocol changes that reduce locked-token staking rewards, lower staking threshold…
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (DJT) confirmed a February 2, 2026 record date for distribution of a proposed digital token program. Eligible recipients will be ultimate beneficial owners of at least one whole share as of that date, including shareholders registered with the company transfer agent. The company said tokens will be non-transfe…
Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani argues that the recent Bitcoin sell-off may represent a rare long-term buying opportunity and possibly the final entry before Bitcoin's emergence as a sovereign asset. He points to a rapid institutional adoption via ETFs and corporate treasury purchases, notes Bitcoin's underperformance versus gold amid central ban…
Orokai published a research summary examining current uses of non-custodial decentralized finance (DeFi), the protocol mechanisms that underpin participation, and the structural frictions that impede wider adoption. The report finds users increasingly treating non-custodial protocols as practical alternatives for staking, lending, trading, and mana…
Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, Binance co-founder and former CEO, dismissed accusations that Binance caused the October 2025 digital asset market crash during a live ask-me-anything session. Zhao described those claims as "far-fetched," noted regulatory oversight in Abu Dubai and a U.S. monitorship, and said customers affected by the exchange's technical pro…
