Bitcoin is struggling to avoid a fourth consecutive monthly decline as the cryptocurrency market grapples with a fundamental shift in momentum that has left most investors underwater.
Data from CryptoSlate indicate that the largest digital asset declined by nearly 7% over the last 24 hours to $82,513.
According to CoinGlass data, long traders speculating on the BTC price were liquidated for more...
Bitcoin traders are treating fund flows like macro bets, and one Fed data change is the hidden risk
Key takeaways
Bitcoin’s institutional demand can be monitored in issuer AUM snapshots such as BlackRock’s IBIT, which listed net assets of $69,427,196,929 as of Jan. 28, 2026 on its product pages.
Weekly crypto fund flows have begun to trade like macro positioning, with CoinShares documenting a...
XRP has opened 2026 trading in a tight range under $2 as it failed to establish a clear trend in the year’s opening month.
However, underlying data suggests high-net-worth investors are accumulating the token despite the lack of price momentum.
Data from on-chain analytics firm Santiment revealed that the XRP network has added a net 42 “millionaire” wallets since the start of 2026. These are...
The following is a guest post and opinion from Jenny Drinkwater, Marketing Manager at System73.
For years, crypto payments have lived in an awkward middle ground. They were never quite mainstream, but they also never disappeared. Merchants experimented, users showed curiosity, and yet, for most businesses, accepting crypto still felt like something peripheral rather than essential.
As the...
Ethereum (ETH) announced ERC-8004 is heading to mainnet, positioning the network as a neutral infrastructure for a problem the AI industry can't yet solve: how agents prove they're trustworthy when no single platform controls the reputation layer.
The timing reveals the underlying tension, as AI agents are moving from demos into production systems that trigger real transactions.
Mastercard is...
Markets dumped into the US open, Bitcoin fell through $85k, gold slipped too
At 09:30 EST the tape changed in a way traders can feel in their stomach, the kind of flip where you stop looking for clever explanations and start checking how much margin you actually have.
Bitcoin rolled over, then it dropped, then it started moving in chunks. On one screen, the S...
Fairshake and its affiliate super PACs announced they have more than $193 million in cash on hand heading into the 2026 midterms.
The amount includes $74 million raised since July from three contributors: $25 million from Coinbase, $25 million from Ripple, and $24 million from a16z. The network, consisting of Fairshake plus Protect Progress (Democratic-oriented) and Defend American Jobs (...
Fidelity announced the launch of a stablecoin on the Ethereum mainnet, positioning the token as a compliance-wrapped settlement dollar distributed through the firm's brokerage, custody, and wealth management channels.
The move lands amid what looks like a stablecoin sprawl, as estimates suggest 59 new major stablecoins launched in 2025 alone, per third-party tracker Stablewatch.
This looks like...
Ripple has pushed deeper into corporate finance with a new treasury platform that aims to let finance teams manage cash and digital assets in one system.
The product, called Ripple Treasury, is built on treasury management software Ripple acquired in October 2025 when it bought GTreasury in a $1 billion deal.
The new move represents a strategic bet that could boost the day-to-day relevance of its...
Amid a general sense of unease around the spike in precious metals, the decline in the dollar, Bitcoin's weak-to-flat price action, geopolitical uncertainty, and persistent trade wars, several economic stressors actually appear relatively relaxed.
The canaries in the coal mine for Bitcoin are still singing, and while a few have started to flutter, none have fallen from their perch yet.
The mine...