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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A sharp hit to risk markets left crypto with heavy losses over the weekend. Reports say roughly $250 billion was wiped from combined market value as investors pulled back. Some of the selling hit Bitcoin hard. Others said it spread to tech stocks at the same time. Bitcoin Faces A Confidence Test Bitcoin has been searching for a base. As of today, it slipped below $80,000 and is down about 40% from the 2025 high above $126,000. Traders and on-chain trackers show weaker buying pressure. Retail interest…

Bitcoin just erased over $9,000 in a weekend liquidity trap and the Monday recovery is missing one thingBy the time London desks started lighting up this morning, Bitcoin had already moved sharply in off-hours trading.Over the weekend, while most of the world was off-grid or only half-paying attention between errands and late-night scrolling, BTC slid hard in thin liquidity.The chart tells the story in a single line: a steady Friday fade that turned into a sharper weekend flush, then a small rebound as global markets came back online.On Friday, Bitcoin was around $84,274.By Sunday evening, it had printed its lowest…

In brief India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman left crypto taxation untouched in her ninth consecutive budget presentation on Sunday. The country’s crypto tax regime remains unchanged in Budget 2026, maintaining the punitive 30% flat tax and 1% TDS. The budget reduced the maximum imprisonment for TDS defaults from seven years to two years, with courts allowed to convert sentences into monetary penalties. India’s crypto investors will get no respite from one of the world’s harshest digital asset tax regimes, as Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday left the punitive 30% tax rate and 1% Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) unchanged…

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 billion stablecoin reserves into Bitcoin within 30 days, with an explicit promise: if BTC price movements push the fund below $800 million, Binance will replenish it to $1 billion.The move comes wrapped in the language of trust-building: “we hold ourselves to elevated standards,” “we continually improve based on feedback,” and “we’re taking another step forward.”The framing isn’t accidental. Binance’s “open letter to the crypto community” follows…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin and the general cryptocurrency market have continued their struggles, as prices took a nosedive this weekend. On Friday, January 31, it seemed like the crypto market was gearing for another slow-action weekend as prices somewhat steadied after Thursday’s bloodbath. However, the market has completely gone against the trend this weekend, with Bitcoin and the other large-cap digital assets falling by almost double digits on Saturday. Here is a look at the factors behind this steep decline and the immediate outlook for crypto prices. Why Bitcoin And…

In brief A Nevada state court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Polymarket from offering event contracts. Judge Woodbury ruled the harm from evading Nevada’s “comprehensive regulatory structure” is “immediate, irreparable and not sufficiently remediable by compensatory damages.” The decision adds to mounting regulatory pressure on prediction markets, following enforcement actions in Tennessee and bans in Portugal and Hungary. A Nevada state court has issued a temporary restraining order blocking Blockratize, the entity behind Polymarket, from offering event-based contracts in the state for two weeks, finding that the platform’s activities likely violate Nevada gaming law and are not shielded…

In brief CrossCurve said Sunday an attacker exploited a flaw in its bridge contracts and identified 10 Ethereum addresses that received the funds. Its CEO, Boris Povar, said their team would pursue legal and enforcement action if the funds are not returned within 72 hours. Security firms estimate losses at roughly $3 million across multiple blockchains, though CrossCurve has yet to confirm that figure. Decentralized finance protocol CrossCurve, formerly known as EYWA, says it has publicly identified ten Ethereum addresses linked to a hack of its token transfer system on Sunday.CrossCurve disclosed Sunday afternoon that an attacker exploited a flaw…

In brief Bitcoin’s weekend drop triggered more than $5 billion in liquidations since Thursday, driving futures open interest to its lowest level in nine months. Derivatives and options markets have turned defensive, with traders paying elevated premiums for downside protection and reducing leveraged exposure. Analysts remain split on the outlook, with some viewing the move as a healthy deleveraging phase, while others warn that macro conditions could pressure prices toward lower support levels. A sharp selloff has pushed Bitcoin into one of its largest CME futures gaps on record and driven momentum indicators to levels previously seen only during major…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure In an interesting turn of events over the weekend, Bitcoin saw an abrupt liquidity cascade, with its price tumbling to as low as $76,000. Barely recovered from their weekday losses, BTC investors must be feeling hard done by, as rare weekend volatility sent them further down. One of these investors would be Michael Saylor, whose firm, Strategy, was briefly underwater following Bitcoin’s latest price decline. The company’s Bitcoin holdings average cost basis of around $76,000 was tested as record-level liquidations rocked the crypto market. Strategy’s BTC Holdings…

In brief A UAE-linked entity agreed to buy a 49% stake in Trump-associated crypto firm World Liberty Financial just before Trump’s inauguration. A large share of the proceeds allegedly flowed to Trump and Witkoff family entities, according to the Wall Street Journal. The deal came ahead of a U.S. policy shift granting the UAE expanded access to advanced AI chips. A UAE-backed entity tied to Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed agreed to buy a 49% stake in Trump-linked crypto firm World Liberty Financial for $500 million four days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to a report from the Wall Street…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin’s sudden break below $80,000 in the past 24 hours has led to one of the most violent liquidation events in crypto history. Traders digest the fallout from this crash, but there is much attention on large institutional holders, particularly Michael Saylor’s Strategy, whose massive Bitcoin position is now trading uncomfortably close to its average acquisition cost. Why This Bitcoin Crash Turned Brutal So Quickly The entire crypto industry is currently witnessing one of its most brutal crashes in history, led by Bitcoin and Ethereum. Notably, about…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin slid again, and big-name bulls are talking. According to ARK Invest’s team, the pullback after a rapid run is part of a wider picture that mixes gold, money supply measures, and investor flow. Markets are messy now. That does not mean long-term stories are dead. Cathie Wood’s Long View Based on reports, Cathie Wood has kept a public, steady bet on crypto for years, buying assets and shares in firms tied to digital tokens when prices were far lower. Her company took early positions in exchange…

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 past week, that debate has shown up in the dollar. A weaker dollar is rarely a story by itself, but it often arrives with a familiar set of consequences: global portfolios reassess how much US exposure they want, hedges get recalculated, and risk budgets get rewritten.Bitcoin has been catching some of that wind, but the move only makes sense once you look past the simple chart…

In brief An online panel showcased a deep divide between transhumanists and technologists over AGI. Author Eliezer Yudkowsky warned that current “black box” AI systems make extinction an unavoidable outcome. Max More argued that delaying AGI could cost humanity its best chance to defeat aging and prevent long-term catastrophe. A sharp divide over the future of artificial intelligence played out this week as four prominent technologists and transhumanists debated whether building artificial general intelligence, or AGI, would save humanity or destroy it.The panel hosted by the nonprofit Humanity+ brought together one of the most vocal AI “Doomers,” Eliezer Yudkowsky, who…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Step Finance, a well-known Solana analytics hub, said its treasury was hit in a major breach that emptied 261,854 SOL from wallets tied to the platform. The loss forced a sharp market reaction, and users and investors watched prices tumble as the team moved quickly to contain the damage. Based on reports, roughly 261,854 SOL were unstaked and shifted off the platform on January 31, 2026, an amount worth around $27 million to $30 million at the time. Breach Hits Step Finance Treasury Investigators were called in…

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’ “digital asset treasuries” collectively held roughly 6.5–7.0 million ETH by December, which is more than 5.5% of the circulating supply.Graph showing the cumulative ETH digital asset treasury holdings by public companies from March 2025 to December 2025 (Source: Everstake)The number is huge, but the more important part is why these companies chose ETH in the first place.Bitcoin’s corporate-treasury playbook is built around scarcity and reflexivity: buy…

In brief Vitalik Buterin explained that he likes to bet against prevailing extreme market sentiment on Polymarket. The Ethereum co-founder claimed he made $70,000 doing this during 2025, on a stake of $440,000. He also highlighted other issues impacting betting markets, such as the accuracy of the “oracles” they rely on. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has disclosed the strategy he uses on the prediction marketplace Polymarket in a recent interview.Buterin told Foresight News that he looks for markets in what he calls “crazy mode” and bets that “crazy things won’t happen.”“For example, there’s a market betting on whether Trump will…