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EXCLUSIVE: The quiet shift Bitfinex is driving that could finally give crypto markets real stability
When crypto sells off, the market doesn’t so much walk down the stairs as it slips on the first step and discovers there never were any handrails. Everyone knows why: perps are a stadium, options are a side alley, and insurance in a storm is hard to buy.
Paolo Ardoino, the CTO of Bitfinex, knows what the missing handrails are: credit, clearing, margin, and products professional traders actually...
The US government has opened a security review into Bitmain, the Beijing-based manufacturer that sells most of the world’s Bitcoin mining rigs. A months-long federal investigation, known internally as Operation Red Sunset, has been probing whether Bitmain’s machines can be remotely steered for spying or used to interfere with the American power grid. The question sounds abstract, the kind of...
When Upbit detected unauthorized withdrawals of roughly $36 million in Solana tokens from a hot wallet on Nov. 27, CEO Oh Kyung-seok went on record within hours. He stated:
“The entire amount will be covered by Upbit’s holdings, with no impact on customer assets.”
Six years earlier, Upbit said the same thing after losing 342,000 ETH, worth around $50 million at the time, to North Korea-linked...
US-listed Bitcoin ETFs capped their second-heaviest month of redemptions with a rare late-month shift back into positive flows.
According to SoSo Value data, the 12 US-listed spot Bitcoin funds recorded net creation of roughly $70 million in the final days of November, after four weeks of relentless selling pressure that totalled more than $4.3 billion in net outflows.
Chart showing the net...
Bitcoin price erased recent gains, shedding nearly 5% to below $87,000 in early Asian trading hours on Dec. 1.
This came as a surge in Japanese government bond yields triggered a broad risk-off sentiment, shattering a fragile, low-volume market structure.
According to CryptoSlate data, BTC fell from a consolidation range near $91,000, wiping out approximately $150 billion in total crypto market...
The digital asset landscape has matured significantly over the past several years. Simple spot holding is no longer the only viable strategy for generating substantial returns. Today’s market rewards precision, algorithmic discipline, and above all else, liquidity.
For skilled traders, the barrier to entry is rarely knowledge. Instead, it is capitalization. A trader may possess a strategy with a...
Bitcoin’s big buyers seem to have stepped off the gas.
For the better part of the last year or so, it felt like there was a constant tailwind behind Bitcoin’s price. ETFs vacuumed up coins, stablecoin balances kept climbing, and traders were willing to go to insane levels of leverage to bet on more upside. NYDIG called these the “demand engines” of the cycle in its latest report. The company...
A privacy coin is headed for Wall Street, and the wrapper says everything about what happens when a technology built for discretion tries to move through the most surveilled pipes in global finance.
Grayscale’s bid to list a Zcash ETF on NYSE Arca (ticker ZCSH) marks the first serious attempt to wrap a privacy coin in the fully documented world of ETF filings, approved custodians, sanctions...
A new staff report released by House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin alleges that President Donald Trump has significantly utilized the presidency to expand his personal wealth through cryptocurrency ventures.
The report, titled Trump, Crypto, and a New Age of Corruption, outlines a series of findings suggesting that the Administration’s policy decisions, including the dismantling...
From net flows to perp funding, the metrics that explain this bull cycle better than “number go up.” Bitcoin (BTC) price movements are now being pulled by off-chain flows and leverage, not just by classic on-chain signals.
Since January 2024, when US spot Bitcoin ETFs launched, the variables that explain why BTC rips or dumps have quietly reshuffled. On-chain metrics now describe how tight the...