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In brief Pudgy Penguins is hosting a pop-up Valentine’s Day event in New York City this week. The crypto-native brand is selling a plush bouquet at the event, with an online offering already sold out. The Pudgy Penguins team plans to expand the V-Day event internationally next year. The Pudgy Penguins team is helping fans celebrate Valentine’s Day in the real world with Pudgy Petals, a three-day immersive pop-up event in New York City that highlights gifting and connection via its colorful characters.Running February 12-14, the activation invites guests into the love story of Polly and Pengu (aka Pax), core…

Bitcoin trades every minute of every day, but CME Bitcoin futures stop for the weekend. That mismatch is how a CME gap is born, and why it keeps turning up in the middle of the most stressful weeks.A CME gap is the blank space on a CME futures chart between Friday’s final traded level and the first traded level when the market reopens Sunday evening (US time). CME futures trade on a weekly schedule with a weekend break, while spot Bitcoin keeps moving. When the first CME print lands far from Friday’s close, the chart draws a jump and leaves…

In brief A crypto conference in Miami was subdued amid Bitcoin’s latest slide. Some speakers acknowledged a shift away from meme-based assets. Others expressed frustration with Reddit after a cease and desist demand. If there’s one thing that WallStreetBets loves to do, it’s marvel at losses that other community members sustain when making outsized bets on stocks and crypto. But at a recent conference in Miami, not many degen traders were left standing by the conference’s last day.At [REDACTED] Live, a conference devoted to the most reckless traders in finance, dealers stood ready at blackjack and roulette tables, waiting for…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure After a chaotic week for the cryptocurrency market, the US-based Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds) saw significant capital inflows on Friday, February 6. As the flagship cryptocurrency and the rest of the market suffered huge declines, the BTC-linked exchange-traded products also posted substantial withdrawals during the week. With the bear market confirmed by the latest steep price decline, it would be interesting to see how the US Bitcoin ETFs would perform during their first extended period of downward price action. To give perspective, the BTC exchange-traded funds have…

Bitcoin keeps knocking on $71,500, sooner or later the door opensBitcoin made a familiar but stressful move this week; it bounced hard enough to make the skeptics quiet and the dip buyers loud again.After the crash down to around $60,000, the price clawed its way back to the a spot that has become the center of gravity, the $71,500 zone.It has already been there three times.Each time, the market hesitated, traders leaned in, and the rally ran out of oxygen. Now Bitcoin is back around $70,900, it looks like it wants to test $71,500 again, and this is the moment…

Bitcoin’s slide through $65,000 and toward $60,000 felt like a stress test the market had been postponing. The move was sharp enough to force a reset in positioning, and broad enough to pull the conversation away from single-catalyst explanations.Even mainstream media described the week as Bitcoin’s worst weekly performance since late 2022, with price briefly testing the $60,000 area before rebounding back above $65,000.The most important question we can ask here isn’t whether this was capitulation, but which of the signals that usually accompany seller exhaustion showed up in this selloff, and which confirmations are still missing if you’re looking for…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The Bitcoin price has been on one of its worst runs in recent years, falling by double digits over the past week. While the premier cryptocurrency seems to be recovering well over the past day, the single-day 14% correction — on Thursday, February 5 — is an occurrence that has instilled fear in the market, and rightly so. In their latest report, a renowned pundit has tried to come up with answers to the questions currently swirling around the Bitcoin price. Crypto Bear Markets End In Exhaustion,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Tether found itself at the center of two big stories this week, one legal and one market-driven, each showing a different side of how stablecoins shape crypto activity. One story involves a law enforcement request that led to a large freeze of assets. The other shows fresh USDT supply hitting markets during a sharp Bitcoin selloff. Gambling Ops Busted According to reports, Turkish prosecutors asked for help after tracing crypto funds tied to what they say was an illegal online betting operation. Tether responded by freezing wallets…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Crypto expert Cypress has highlighted developments that XRP holders should be paying attention to. The expert alluded to Ripple’s roadmap for institutional DeFi on the XRP Ledger (XRPL), with the firm noting that XRP is at the core of all these plans.  Developments XRP Holders Should Focus On In an X post, Cypress stated that every holder should pay attention to the developments Ripple outlined in its institutional DeFi roadmap. The expert highlighted features such as native on-chain privacy, permissioned markets, and institutional lending, which are set…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure In line with its bearish market structure, the Ethereum price struggled significantly in the first week of February. The cryptocurrency’s value fell by more than 30% over the week, crashing to as low as $1,850 on Friday, February 6. Amid the Ethereum market downturn, a significant development has emerged — one which could make or mar the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency. Ethereum Breaches Realized Price Across All Investor Cohorts In a recent post on Quicktake, on-chain analyst MorenoDV shared a shocking development within the Ethereum network. The analyst…

The following is a guest post and analysis from Vincent Maliepaard, Marketing Director at Sentora.A year ago, tokenized equities barely registered as an asset class. Today, the market is approaching $1 billion—a nearly 30x increase—and December 2025 may have delivered the regulatory clarity needed for institutional adoption to accelerate.What changed? Three things: a small group of platforms moved fast to capture market share, regulators started building actual frameworks instead of issuing warnings, and traditional finance players began treating blockchain settlement as infrastructure rather than an experiment.The Race to ScaleWhen Ondo Global Markets launched in September 2025, it became the largest…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure For decades, SWIFT has served as the backbone of global payments, enabling banks to message one another across borders but not to settle value in real time. As global commerce becomes faster, more digital, and more interconnected, the limitations of legacy messaging-based systems are becoming increasingly visible. This has brought renewed attention to XRP and Ripple’s payment infrastructure that aims to enable near-instant, low-cost settlement of value. From Bank Messaging To Real-Time Settlement Rails A massive 1.5 quadrillion financial shift is quietly unfolding, and it’s already shaking…

The crypto market that surged on Donald Trump’s campaign promise of a friendlier US posture is now back near where it started, after an 18-month round trip that added close to $2 trillion in value and then erased roughly the same amount.Data compiled by CryptoSlate put the total crypto market value at about $2.4 trillion in October 2024, weeks before the US election.By November 2024, the market had pushed toward $3.2 trillion as traders priced in a “policy premium,” the expectation that a pro-crypto White House would mean lighter enforcement pressure, clearer rules, and broader access for both retail and…