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Insiders sell government crypto database to violent home invaders as transparency laws backfire

A tax employee in Bobigny used internal software to compile dossiers on cryptocurrency specialists, billionaire Vincent Bolloré, prison guards, and a judge. She passed the information to criminals who paid €800 to attack a prison...

One number now decides if crypto companies spending $880M+ buying back their own tokens will work

Optimism announced a 12-month token buyback program on Jan. 8, allocating 50% of Superchain revenue to monthly OP token purchases starting in February. The buyback pressure is estimated at roughly $9.1 million annually, based on...

Bitcoin critical demand metric turns negative and ETFs wiped out $1.1 billion in 72 hours

US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs have suffered three consecutive sessions of heavy redemptions of more than $1 billion. The velocity of this U-turn is surprising, considering this year began with a bang. On the first two...

Ripple is winning on Wall Street and in the UK, but the XRP Ledger is losing users fast and the split will define 2026

The XRP market has opened 2026 by splitting into two distinct realities. On one side, the institutional “wrapper” trade is thriving, supported by shrinking exchange supply and deepening corporate infrastructure. On the other hand, the...

Shortest bear market ever? Key metrics imply Bitcoin price could surge past $125,000 before April

The crypto market is flashing early signals of a first-quarter recovery as the dust finally settles on December’s sharp sell-off. According to a new analysis from Coinbase, four structural indicators suggest the correction was a...

Last time these whales did this Bitcoin surged to new highs but key data suggests messy weeks ahead

The first thing you learn when you spend too long around Bitcoin is that everyone has a chart that “always works”, and everyone has a scar from the last time it didn’t. This week’s chart...

Ethereum just solved a critical problem Bitcoin doesn’t want to fix on its own network – but why?

A few years ago, the easiest way to explain Bitcoin to a newcomer was to keep it simple, slow, and sturdy. Ten-minute blocks. Limited space. Everyone checks everything. Nobody gets special treatment. That design is...

New BlackRock report exposes a historic shift in crypto that leaves only one blockchain controlling the settlement layer

Stablecoins used to be a crypto convenience, a way to park dollars between trades without touching fiat. However, the industry has matured enough that BlackRock now treats them as foundational rails for the market. In...

Tokenized Treasuries skyrocketed 125%, creating this “programmable cash” loop that banks are scrambling to copy

Tokenized real-world assets reached $19.72 billion on Jan. 9, the closest the market has come to the $20 billion threshold. That figure measures distributed assets, which are tokens that circulate on-chain and can be transferred...

Polymarket seems riddled with insider trading yet a massive Dow Jones partnership just validated prediction markets

Dow Jones announced an exclusive partnership to distribute Polymarket prediction data across The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and MarketWatch on the same day Kalshi claimed it had hit $100 billion in annualized trading volume. The...

Zcash crashes 20% as entire team walks out, exposing a boardroom battle over the project’s assets

Zcash (ZEC) suffered the steepest decline among top-tier digital assets on Jan. 8, plunging approximately 20% amid a collision of governance turmoil and a leverage-driven market flush. According to CryptoSlate data, Zcash fell to a...

How United States could use Greenland for 10,000 EH/s Bitcoin mining hub from stranded energy

Talk of the United States buying Greenland has returned to Washington, and miners are tracking the power projects on the island. The White House said a U.S. purchase of Greenland is an “active discussion,” according...

Bitcoin is not the king of the dark web – and the reason why is a $154 billion crypto nightmare

The era of the hooded hacker hoarding Bitcoin in a dark web wallet is over. In 2025, the center of gravity in the illicit cryptocurrency economy shifted decisively away from the volatility of the original...

Bitcoin is stalling, but this low-key “absorption signal” shows a violent supply shock could be inevitable

Bitcoin (BTC) opened 2026 with the kind of price action that tests conviction, with the first five days taking BTC close to $95,000, only for it to test the $90,000 footing again. The movement follows...

Token buybacks spent $880M+ last year, but prices stalled anyway – one number now decides if they work

Optimism announced a 12-month token buyback program on Jan. 8, allocating 50% of Superchain revenue to monthly OP token purchases starting in February. The buyback pressure is estimated at roughly $9.1 million annually, based on...

Today’s “perfect storm” for Bitcoin brings several critical macro tests that signal a volatility surge – what to watch

By the time most people finish their first coffee, the market will already have picked a direction for the day, and Bitcoin will have reacted, overreacted, and possibly reversed. Friday, January 9 has that familiar...

Bitcoin ETFs wiped out $1.1 billion in 72 hours as a critical demand metric turned negative

US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs have suffered three consecutive sessions of heavy redemptions of more than $1 billion. The velocity of this U-turn is surprising, considering this year began with a bang. On the first two...

Bitcoin profit-taking has suddenly collapsed, exposing a massive supply shift that goes deeper than simple ETF demand

Bitcoin ETFs grabbed $1.2 billion in the first two trading sessions of 2026, coinciding with BTC’s climb to $94,000, a 7% gain in just days. The narrative wrote itself: institutional money flooded in, prices followed....