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BlackRock is cannibalizing Bitcoin gains for “income” in a move that could leave retail investors behind during rallies
BlackRock is moving deeper into the “Bitcoin as a portfolio sleeve” trade, this time by packaging the flagship digital asset's inherent volatility into distributable income. On Jan. 23, the $14 tr...

Bitcoin will either join the Gold rush or succumb to a risk-off reality after the dollar plunge
The US dollar slid to a four-year low, while gold and silver pushed deeper into record territory as Bitcoin attempted to recliam the $90,000 level. During the past day, the dollar index, a gauge of th...

The big lie about 24-hour trading ignores the $4.5 billion crypto market that never actually closes its doors
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation spent 2025 building infrastructure for extended trading hours, targeting a 24×5 schedule that would keep US markets open from Sunday night through Friday e...

How Aave’s DeFi monopoly created a risky feedback loop with only a $460M backstop
Aave now controls 51.5% of the DeFi lending market share, the first time any protocol has crossed the 50% threshold since 2020. The milestone arrives not through competitor collapse but through steady...

Crypto whales go after gold as it hits a rare extreme last seen over a decade ago
Crypto whales are reaching for gold as Bitcoin stalls, but the trade may be less of a verdict on crypto than a hedge for a specific macro window. On Jan. 27, blockchain sleuth Lookonchain flagged thre...

Save the Bitcoin bull run by dropping these 8 days which changes the dollar weakness story
Bitcoin’s 2026 problem is the weekend I keep coming back to this line because it feels brutally true in the way only markets can be true. The only thing worse than buying Bitcoin this year was not b...

Is your Ethereum at risk? Vitalik Buterin admits his biggest design mistake since 2017
Vitalik Buterin said he no longer agrees with his 2017 tweet that downplayed the need for users to personally verify Ethereum end-to-end. This week, he argued the network should treat self-hosted veri...

Bitcoin’s $100k breakout silently crippled its adoption curve as on-chain metrics crater
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 transac...

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 pred...

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 primitiv...