• Bitcoin price ignores $168M Strategy buy, and falls as Iran tensions escalate BTC price fell below the key $70,000 level as tensions between the US and Iran ramped up and a broad
• Starknet adds EY Nightfall to enable private payments on Ethereum rails StarkWare is integrating EY’s Nightfall privacy protocol into Starknet to give institutions private paymen
• Starknet taps EY Nightfall to bring institutional privacy to Ethereum rails StarkWare is integrating EY’s Nightfall privacy protocol into Starknet to give institutions private pa
• Monad hires former FalconX, BVNK and Optimism executives The appointments add traditional finance and institutional crypto experience as the layer-1 blockchain scales its post-la
• Binance holds 65% of CEX stablecoin reserves as outflows cool: CryptoQuant Stablecoin outflows slow to $2 billion as Binance consolidates 65% of CEX liquidity, signaling capital
• Africrypt founders back in South Africa years after platform collapse: Report Investigators say Raees and Ameer Cajee are back in South Africa years after Africrypt’s collapse, w
• Poland president vetoes MiCA bill again as crypto companies look to license abroad President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a second MiCA crypto bill, saying it was ‘practically identical
• Monero transaction volume stays above 2022 levels, even after major exchanges delist the privacy coin. • 48% of newly launched darknet markets in 2025 support only XMR, signaling
• SBI Holdings targets majority stake in Singapore crypto exchange Coinhako Japan’s SBI Holdings has signed a letter of intent to buy a controlling stake in Singapore-licensed cryp
• Stablecoins gain ground for paychecks and daily spending: BVNK report A global survey of 4,658 crypto users found 39% receive income in stablecoins and 27% use them for payments,
• Polygon surpassed Ethereum in daily transaction fees for first time, driven by Polymarket activity. • Friday fees: Polygon $407k vs Ethereum $211k, a significant gap. • Saturday
• DeFi lender ZeroLend shuts down, blames illiquid chains ZeroLend founder ‘Ryker’ says several blockchains the lending protocol operates on are now ‘inactive,’ leading to periods
• Crypto sentiment hits extreme fear as Matrixport flags possible bottom With Bitcoin sentiment at four-year lows, analysts have flagged historic oversold signals and potential sel
• Kraken sponsors Trump Accounts in Wyoming, citing crypto alignment The Wyoming-based crypto exchange said it wanted to give back to the state it calls home, which it chose for it
• Crypto.com receives ISO/IEC 42001 AI certification as it expands its AI business Crypto.com is expanding AI services as one of its three core business lines, amid broader industr
• Crypto phishers are sending letters to Trezor, Ledger users again It’s not the first time scammers have used snail mail to target victims of hardware wallet company data breaches
• Logan Paul sells Pokémon card for $16.5M, years after fractional NFT row Paul once fractionalized ownership of the rare Pokémon card on Liquid Marketplace in 2022 before the webs
• Germany’s central bank president touts stablecoin and CBDC benefits for EU Joachim Nagel said euro-pegged stablecoins would offer the bloc more independence from US dollar-pegged
• ETH chart pattern projects rally to $2.5K if key conditions are met: Data Ether is down 20% in February, but a developing bullish setup below $2,000 and growing upside liquidatio
• Paradigm reframes Bitcoin mining as grid asset, not energy drain The cryptocurrency investment firm says Bitcoin mining is being unfairly lumped with AI data centers, arguing min
• Price predictions 2/16: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOGE, ADA, BCH The relief rallies in Bitcoin and several major altcoins are stalling near their respective overhead res
• Hong Kong regulator adds Victory Fintech to list of approved trading platforms The addition is the first crypto company to be licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission si
• Bitcoin accumulation wave puts $80K back in play: Analyst Demand from Bitcoin accumulation addresses reached a new high, with analysts citing a futures market CME gap as a predic
• Bitcoin weekly RSI echoes mid-2022 bear market as BTC plays liquidity games Bitcoin round-tripped gains after a spike to $70,000 as liquidity traps began to characterize BTC pric
• Harvard endowment reduces stake in Bitcoin ETF, adds Ether exposure The management company behind the university’s $56.9 billion endowment opened a new position in BlackRock’s sp
• Tokenized RWAs climb 13.5% despite $1T crypto market drawdown Tokenized real-world assets added 13.5% in 30 days, led by increasing activity on Ethereum, Arbitrum and Solana, eve
• How South Korea is using AI to detect crypto market manipulation South Korea’s regulators are deploying AI systems to monitor crypto trading, flag manipulation and strengthen dig