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From marginal experiment to global market infrastructure: Tokenization is rewriting finance

The following is a guest post and opinion from Laura Estefania, Founder and CEO of Conquista PR. The past decade of digital assets has been shaped as much by debacle as by innovation. High-profile collapses,...

Panic selling Bitcoin on Coinbase triggers a Binance price gap that reveals a “messy” institutional market failure

Coinbase’s Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped below competing exchanges this week, and the gap continues to widen. CoinGlass reported on Jan. 26 that its Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index, which tracks the price difference between Coinbase’s BTC/USD...

Ethereum’s massive fee shock: New post-quantum signatures are 40x larger, threatening to crush network throughput and user costs

Ethereum elevated post-quantum cryptography to a top strategic priority this month, forming a dedicated PQ team led by Thomas Coratger and announcing $1 million in prizes to harden hash-based primitives. The announcement came one day...

Bitcoin faces slide to $60,000 if impending US shutdown triggers a statistical blackout

Bitcoin traders are aggressively positioning for a US government shutdown that could begin Jan. 31 if Congress fails to extend funding that expires Jan. 30. The urgency of the setup is visible in prediction markets,...

Bitcoin breaking above $100k silently broke its positive adoption curve as usage craters

Bitcoin Is Being Bought, Not Used For most of Bitcoin’s history, price and usage told broadly the same story. When price moved higher, more people showed up. More wallets became active. More transactions hit the...

Government plan to stop failing crypto exchanges delaying withdrawals and weaponize complaints

Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman on Jan. 21 released updated text for a crypto market structure bill and set a committee markup for Jan. 27. The draft bill, titled the “Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act,”...

Crypto bots front-running thieves to “save” funds, but also decide who gets paid back

Makina Finance lost 1,299 ETH, roughly $4.13 million, in a flash-loan and oracle manipulation exploit. The attacker drained the protocol’s funds and broadcast the transaction to Ethereum’s public mempool, where it should have been picked...

Will crypto rewards survive upcoming CLARITY law? A plain-English guide to Section 404

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, better known as the CLARITY Act, was supposed to draw clean lines around crypto assets and which regulator gets the first call. CryptoSlate has already walked readers through the...

How BlackRock lost control of the $10B tokenized Treasury market to Circle for one simple, mechanical reason

Tokenized US Treasuries crossed $10 billion in total value this week, a milestone that confirms the category has moved from proof-of-concept to operational infrastructure. Yet, something happening underneath this achievement is just as important: Circle’s...

Deloitte warns of dangerous “blind spot” in tokenized settlement that will make market manipulation nearly impossible to stop

Wall Street’s next leap may look boring from the outside, but it’s a huge development that’s shrouded in corporate speak: T+0 settlement, shorthand for settling a trade the same day it happens. Deloitte’s 2026 outlook...

Gold’s vertical surge toward $7,150 exposes Bitcoin but there’s 4 ways the narrative could flip fast

Gold just did what safe havens are supposed to do: it went vertical. On Jan. 26, bullion surged past the psychological $5,000 barrier and briefly topped $5,100 an ounce as investors stampeded toward insurance. This...

Traders panic sell XRP even though a rare “buy signal” reveals Wall Street is buying up the distressed supply

The crypto market is flashing a rare signal for XRP, suggesting the asset may be undervalued and presenting a potential buying opportunity for investors. Data from blockchain analytical firm Santiment shows that XRP’s 30-day Market...

Bitcoin hashrate collapses weakening security as major mining pool drops 30% of its power

One thing we rarely think about is how bad weather can affect Bitcoin’s security, but it happens fairly regularly. Snow can legitimately pose a risk to Bitcoin miners who secure the blockchain. The snow shows...

Bitcoin trapped on a “liquidation treadmill” where risky positions are being systematically hunted

Bitcoin’s recent price action had a familiar signature: leverage built on the bounce, funding turned supportive for longs, then the market ran the nearest pockets of fragility until forced selling took over. BTC bouncing up...

Patched inflation data exposes a risk that leaves Bitcoin stuck in a high-stakes waiting game

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released its delayed Personal Income and Outlays report on Jan. 22, publishing October and November PCE inflation together. The print put headline PCE at 0.2% month over month in...

CFTC war chest to stop failing crypto exchanges delaying withdrawals and weaponize complaints

Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman on Jan. 21 released updated text for a crypto market structure bill and set a committee markup for Jan. 27. The draft bill, titled the “Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act,”...

Explosive truth behind crypto bots that front-run thieves to “save” funds — but they decide who gets paid back

Makina Finance lost 1,299 ETH, roughly $4.13 million, in a flash-loan and oracle manipulation exploit. The attacker drained the protocol’s funds and broadcast the transaction to Ethereum’s public mempool, where it should have been picked...

Bitcoin trades bleed cash during these “toxic” hours because market depth is a total illusion right now

Institutions have learned to live with Bitcoin’s volatility because volatility is measurable and, for many strategies, manageable. What still holds back large allocations is the risk of moving the market while getting in or out....