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Late on Friday, Illinois regulators shut down Metropolitan Capital Bank and Trust, a little-known institution with just $261 million in assets, handing control to the FDIC in what was officially a routine resolution.
But it landed in the middle of a much louder market shock.
On the same day the bank failed, gold and silver saw one of their sharpest one-day plunges in decades, and Bitcoin sold off...
Trump’s Fed pick Kevin Warsh is “not nervous” about Bitcoin while plotting a digital dollar takeover
President Donald Trump announced he will nominate former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh to lead the US central bank.
In a Jan. 30 post on Truth Social, the president confirmed the selection, writing:
I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best. On top of everything else, he is ‘central...
Earlier this week, a sweeping US winter storm pushed Bitcoin miners to curtail, pulling a noticeable chunk of computing power off the network in a short window.
Data shows a 40% dip in hashrate between Jan. 23 and Jan. 25, with around 455 EH/s going offline, and block production slowing to around 12 minutes for a stretch.
Graph showing Bitcoin's hashrate from Jan. 20 to Jan. 30, 2026 (Source:...
Ethereum and XRP just fell off a cliff in weekend trading, Bitcoin barely flinched, and the timing might matter
Crypto has a habit of saving its worst moves for the hours when people are least prepared to deal with them.
That was the vibe on Saturday, when Ethereum and XRP dropped hard in a short burst, right as weekend liquidity was already thin.
Around 3 PM GMT on Saturday, XRP was down about 7...
The December Producer Price Index didn't just beat expectations, but it also revealed a persistent problem that forces markets to rethink the entire 2026 rate path.
Final demand PPI rose 0.5% month-over-month, the sharpest jump since July, driven almost entirely by a 0.7% surge in services while goods prices sat flat. The headline came in at 3.0% year over year, beating expectations of 2.7%, but...
The next inflection point in AI agents isn't coming from frontier labs. It's coming from infrastructure, specifically, the primitives that let agents find each other, verify identity, and communicate directly.
Moltbook, a social network billing itself as “built exclusively for AI agents… Humans welcome to observe,” now hosts discussions about agent relay protocols that enable discovery and direct...
DeFi exclusions sound protective, yet the CLARITY Act’s Bank Secrecy expansion may target your access points
While supporters say the CLARITY Act could bring long-awaited regulatory certainty to crypto markets, not everyone is on board.
Critics argue the bill doesn’t need to “ban DeFi” to reshape it. Their claim is that CLARITY can leave base-layer software intact while shifting the real...
My $49k Bitcoin bear thesis, a January check-in, the plumbing is flashing while price bleeds
I wrote my medium-term $49,000 bear thesis in late November with one simple idea, Bitcoin still moves in cycles, and the next real “this is the low” moment tends to arrive when miner economics and flows line up at the same time.
It is now Jan. 30, 2026, and the honest update is this, the variables I care...
On Jan. 30, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson announced that he has signed an integration agreement to bring USDCx, a Circle-linked stablecoin product, to the Cardano ecosystem.
The infrastructure move represents a strategic effort to lower the network’s DeFi growth ceiling by establishing a sustained, reliable flow of on-chain dollar liquidity.
In a social media post from Japan, Hoskinson...
Gold’s record-breaking rally finally blinked this week, and Bitcoin’s traders are watching what comes next.
After sprinting to an all-time high of $5,594.82 per ounce, spot gold slid to around $5,330 as investors took profits, a pullback of roughly 4.7% from the peak.
The Kobeissi Letter noted that the precious metal's volatile price performance led to a $5.5 trillion swing in its market...