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Solstice Labs announced that Fasanara Digital, the digital-assets division of Fasanara Capital, has deployed capital to YieldVault, the protocol’s flagship delta-neutral yield strategy on Solana. The move adds a second institutional allocator to the platform alongside Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp (DFDV). The decision reflects alignment betwe…
Bitcoin fell below $67,000 in Asian trading Wednesday as investors awaited a delayed U.S. employment report that could influence Federal Reserve policy expectations. The world's largest cryptocurrency traded 2.6% lower at $67,126.7 by 02:46 ET (07:46 GMT). Broader crypto market weakness accompanied disappointing revenue for Robinhood Markets, where…
Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has filed a pro se motion seeking a new trial. The filing, dated February 5 and docketed this week in Manhattan federal court, contends that newly available witness testimony could undermine the prosecution's case. Bankman-Fried is currently serving a 25-year prison sentenc…
GoMining introduced Simple Earn, a wallet-level feature that automatically directs eligible assets into earning mechanisms and delivers converted Bitcoin payouts to users every four hours. The program requires a single toggle to activate, preserves liquidity with no lockups, supports ongoing deposits and withdrawals, and scales yield by user VIP ti…
<p>NOWPayments has launched a time-limited promotion that removes network fees for USDT (TRC20) deposits for newly registered partners. Merchants must register and enable the platform's Custody feature to qualify, which also unlocks mass payout and off-chain conversion tools. The offer lasts for two months and is intended to lower the cost barrier …
Strategy Inc. sold 616,715 shares of its Class A common stock through its at-the-market program between February 2 and February 8, 2026, raising $89.5 million in net proceeds. The company applied those proceeds to purchase 1,142 bitcoin for approximately $90 million, including fees and expenses, at an average price of $78,815 per bitcoin. As of Feb…
A Bernstein analyst argues that the most recent decline in Bitcoin prices represents a confidence-driven sell-off rather than a fundamental failure of the network or market structure. The note outlines liquidity dynamics, the limited scale of ETF outflows, the potential role of blockchains in an AI-driven economy, quantum risk perspectives, and min…
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.
