Feed Items
Bitcoin's recent price crash towards $60,000 did more than just shave billions off market capitalizations or liquidate leveraged positions.
It served as a massive, chaotic stress test that exposed a widening behavioral fracture between the two most dominant venues in the digital asset economy.
On one side stands Coinbase, the largest US exchange, where Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong has...
Aave Labs posted a governance proposal on Feb. 12 asking tokenholders to endorse a strategic package that would direct 100% of Aave-branded product revenue to the DAO treasury, formalize brand protection, and center the roadmap on Aave V4.
The initiative was named the “Aave Will Win Framework.”
The proposal hasn't been implemented yet, as an early governance temperature check. Yet, the public...
In 2025 and early 2026, Bitcoin's behavior has been less “digital gold” and more regime-dependent. Sometimes it trades like a tech beta, then like a rates-and-liquidity-duration trade, and only intermittently like a hedge.
The real story is which macro regime makes which identity dominate next.
The setup matters. The Federal Reserve held the Fed funds target range at 3.5% to 3.75% on Jan. 28,...
The scoop: Bitcoin is on pace for a fifth straight monthly drop if February closes red, its longest losing streak since 2018, while spot ETF flows flip persistently negative, reinforcing a new reality: post-ETF BTC is trading like a rates-and-risk instrument. If it doesn't reverse in March and reclaim $80k, it will equal its worst period ever.
Bitcoin has closed lower in each of the past four...
The scoop: The Netherlands has just moved to tax Bitcoin like a stock, marked to market. Lawmakers in the Dutch House backed a Box 3 overhaul that would tax “actual returns,” including annual price changes in liquid assets like BTC, at a flat 36%, even if you never sell. The plan targets Jan. 1, 2028 (pending Senate approval), turning Bitcoin’s volatility into a yearly cash-flow problem.
The...
I came across some analysis this morning that cut through the usual stream of charts and market takes with a stark claim: there is “almost no cash on the sidelines.”
If true, it challenges one of the most persistent assumptions in both crypto and traditional markets, that a wall of idle capital is waiting to rotate into risk assets like Bitcoin and equities.
Cash is supposed to be the safety...
The fight over CLARITY has always been sold as a battle for rules, a way to finally give the U.S. crypto market a clean lane to run in.
That story still matters. The past week made something else clearer: the legislation is becoming a proxy war over who gets to pay Americans for holding digital dollars.
On Feb. 9, CryptoSlate wrote that a Feb. 10 White House meeting could be the moment CLARITY...
Tokenized US Treasuries are close to $11 billion, but the chain war is shifting from issuance to distribution and utility. Where yield tokens actually sit, how often they move, and whether they plug into stablecoin settlement and collateral workflows are what matters.
Last week, XRP Ledger (XRPL) got two signals that it's trying to matter in that “venue” fight.
First, Aviva Investors said it's...
Cboe wants to bring back all-or-nothing options, a contract that pays a fixed amount if a condition is met and pays zero if it isn't.
While that might sound like a small product refresh, the timing makes it hard to ignore. Prediction markets have trained a new retail reflex: turn a belief into a number that reads like odds, then buy or sell that number.
Cboe’s proposal to the SEC is an attempt to...
Bitcoin’s February drop to about $60,000 was the kind of single-day panic people will remember as a bottom.
But the more accurate reading of this washout is harder and more useful: this cycle quit in stages, and the sellers rotated.
A Feb. 10 report from Checkonchain framed the move as a capitulation event that arrived fast, on heavy volume, with losses large enough to reset psychology.
It also...