Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly sparred with crypto reporter Eleanor Terrett this week after she questioned the exchange’s stance on crypto regulation, prompting an exchange that quickly spilled…
Vitalik Buterin framed 2026 as the year Ethereum reverses a decade of convenience-first compromises. His thesis: the protocol stayed trustless, but the defaults drifted. Wallets outsourced verification to…
Bitcoin’s first difficulty adjustment of 2026 was anything but dramatic. The network nudged the dial down to about 146.4 trillion, a pretty small retreat after the late-2025 grind…
XRP has become the default trading chip of South Korea, bypassing Bitcoin and Ethereum to dominate the country’s high-velocity retail market. While institutional capital worldwide typically gravitates toward…
By mid-January, open interest in Bitcoin options rose to about $74.1 billion, edging past Bitcoin futures open interest of roughly $65.22 billion. Open interest is the stock of…
Corporate credit quality is deteriorating beneath a surface that looks deceptively calm. JPMorgan tallied roughly $55 billion in US corporate bonds that slid from investment-grade to junk status…
Two senators have introduced a short bill with an unusually big ambition: to stop US law from treating people who write and publish blockchain software as if they…
Bitcoin’s price, and thus the entire crypto market, is increasingly being anchored by flows through regulated wrappers. Crypto is increasingly being subsumed by TradFi rather than offering an…
Copper hit a new record high this week as crypto traders focused on the surge in silver and gold. However, copper’s rise could actually shift the rate path…