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Trump sold 49% of WLFI to UAE royal through reported $500M investment in USD1 digital dollar

New reports says Abu Dhabi royal Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed al-Nahyan, or investors tied to him, agreed in January 2025 to invest $500 million into Trump-linked World Liberty Financial for about a 49% stake. WLFI,...

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China targets global reserve currency status but capital controls push traders toward USDT and Bitcoin

China seeks to make the renminbi a true reserve currency, but the numbers reveal a story in which Beijing’s capital controls create conditions for Bitcoin and dollar stablecoins to thrive as workarounds rather than competitors....

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Major German bank opens free crypto access as MiCA ends the legality debate and sparks a bank rush

Germany’s ING Deutschland just made crypto exposure feel like buying an index fund, indicating the path Europe is taking in crypto adoption. Starting Feb. 2, the bank’s 3.2 million brokerage customers can purchase crypto exchange-traded...

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The scorecard for an XRP investment thesis that separates Ripple licensing from XRPL utility signals

Ripple enters 2026 with new permissions in the UK and the EU. In January, Ripple said it received UK Financial Conduct Authority permissions covering an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license and cryptoasset registration. On Feb....

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Bitcoin trapped below $80,000 as the strongest US factory signal since 2022 threatens further liquidations

The United States factory engine just delivered its loudest “risk on” signal in years, and it is landing at a brutally awkward time for Bitcoin. On Feb. 2, Howard Lutnick, the United States Secretary of...

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Federal Reserve to abandon ‘boring’ FOMC language, ending dovish vs hawkish analysis?

Trump picked Kevin Warsh for Fed chair, the first big market change may be the way the Fed talks When Donald Trump says Jerome Powell “got it wrong,” he usually means one thing: rates should...

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A sudden shift in Ethereum staking is draining billions from exchanges toward a new corporate elite

By the end of 2025, a corner of the market most Ethereum traders rarely watch had built a position large enough to matter for everyone else. Everstake’s annual Ethereum staking report estimates that public companies’...

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As global “Bye America” investors ditch US risk, Bitcoin is finally ready to be the macro alternative

The “Bye America” trade has a habit of returning when markets stop debating whether the US is still the safest house on the block and start debating the price of living in it. Over the...

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Binance commits to $1B Bitcoin purchase as an implicit apology for October liquidation meltdown

Binance just turned its emergency insurance fund into a public, auditable pledge. And it reads like a crisis-repair letter in balance sheet form. The exchange announced Jan. 30 that it will convert SAFU’s roughly $1...

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Bitcoin price today jumps after 11% weekend dump as global markets open with bullish intent

Bitcoin just erased over $9,000 in a weekend liquidity trap and the Monday recovery is missing one thing By the time London desks started lighting up this morning, Bitcoin had already moved sharply in off-hours...

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Bitcoin triggers $7B loss for ETF holders as price could drop to $65,000 while Strategy (MSTR) sits on billion dollar cushion

Bitcoin’s slide below $80,000 has pushed a significant portion of US spot BTC exchange-traded fund (ETF) buyers into $7 billion in paper losses. According to CryptoSlate’s data, the world’s largest digital asset fell to as...

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Groundhog Day for Bitcoin means six more weeks of macro winter if core flows stay deep red

Groundhog Day for Bitcoin: six more weeks of macro winter? Bitcoin got its own Groundhog Day moment today as Punxsutawney Phil “saw his shadow” on the 140th Anniversary of the celebration and signaled six more...

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Crypto market crashes erasing $220B as Israel strikes Gaza with ETH and XRP leading weekend losses

Ethereum and XRP just fell off a cliff in weekend trading, Bitcoin barely flinched, and the timing might matter Crypto has a habit of saving its worst moves for the hours when people are least...

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Bitcoin miners are making millions by shutting down because of a massive US winter storm

Earlier this week, a sweeping US winter storm pushed Bitcoin miners to curtail, pulling a noticeable chunk of computing power off the network in a short window. Data shows a 40% dip in hashrate between...

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Trump’s Fed pick Kevin Warsh is “not nervous” about Bitcoin while plotting a digital dollar takeover

President Donald Trump announced he will nominate former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh to lead the US central bank. In a Jan. 30 post on Truth Social, the president confirmed the selection, writing: I have...

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First US bank collapse of 2026 adds to gold, silver, and Bitcoin chaos while $337B in unrealized contagion looms

Late on Friday, Illinois regulators shut down Metropolitan Capital Bank and Trust, a little-known institution with just $261 million in assets, handing control to the FDIC in what was officially a routine resolution. But it...

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Bitcoin traders aren’t ready for the communication shock of a MAGA Fed Chair in Kevin Warsh

Trump picked Kevin Warsh for Fed chair, the first big market change may be the way the Fed talks When Donald Trump says Jerome Powell “got it wrong,” he usually means one thing: rates should...

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Japan bond market chaos threatens unprecedented Bitcoin liquidations as the era of free money ends

Japan spent decades as the world’s best destination for the world’s easiest funding trade. You could borrow yen at very low rates, buy almost anything with a higher yield, hedge just enough to feel responsible,...

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