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Ethereum staking just hit a $118B record at 30% of all coins, but one whale might be skewing the signal
More than 36 million ETH is now staked in Ethereum's proof-of-stake system, close to 30% of the circulating supply and w...

How crypto is being devoured by TradFi, killing Satoshi’s dream by rewarding centralization
Bitcoin’s price, and thus the entire crypto market, is increasingly being anchored by flows through regulated wrappers...

Bitcoin options just overtook futures for the first time, and the new way institutions hedge is trapping retail leverage
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 outstanding contracts t...

Bitcoin’s next major move hinges on a $63 billion “fallen angel” signal that most investors are completely ignoring
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 in 20...

Why writing open-source code is suddenly an existential risk, and the five-page bill designed to fix it
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 were running a shadow payments compan...

Bitcoin difficulty just retreated, but a more critical “survival metric” signals the mining sector is bleeding out
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 higher. Graph show...

XRP volume is exploding in Korea because it exploits a specific gap in the country’s spot-only exchange laws
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 gravitat...

Kalshi and Polymarket face a “sports gambling” probe that could void your trades and shut down the market
On Jan. 9, Tennessee’s sports betting regulator sent a set of letters that, at first glance, looked like the kind of p...

Bitcoin’s hashrate continues to fall as the price spike doesn’t convince miners to turn machines back on
Bitcoin miners entered early 2026 in a familiar but increasingly unforgiving setup: network hashrate is slipping from late-2025 highs, difficulty is adjusting on a delay, and power costs remain the ha...

Crypto futures legitimized by CME with Cardano, Chainlink, and Stellar addition, but retail traders face a massive catch
The era of the crypto industry being seen as a two-asset town is officially over at the world’s largest derivatives marketplace. On Jan. 15, CME Group announced plans to launch futures contracts for...