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The following is a guest post and opinion from Volodymyr Nosov, Founder and President at W Group, CEO at WhiteBIT.
For the second consecutive month, the cryptocurrency market has been in decline. A nearly 30% correction since early October — roughly $1.2 trillion in market capitalization — raises questions about the depth of this downturn and what is driving it.
To emphasize from the outset: the...
The Bank of Japan tightened policy on Dec. 18, lifting its benchmark rate to 0.75%, the highest since 1995.
Governor Kazuo Ueda framed the move as a formal break with the “ultra-accommodative” regime that has helped fuel global risk-taking for decades.
Following the news, Bitcoin was little changed near $87,800, but the calm surface belies a more profound shift.
Market observers noted that the...
Fidelity’s Jurrien Timmer said Bitcoin may have completed another halving cycle in both price and time, and he placed support in the $65,000–$75,000 zone.
Sharing a “Bitcoin analogs” chart, the Fidelity director of global macro wrote,
“While I remain a secular bull on Bitcoin, my concern is that Bitcoin may well have ended another 4-year cycle halving phase, both in price and time.”
He added that...
A fresh $4 billion lawsuit tied to Terraform Labs’ collapse is becoming a test of what a stablecoin’s $1 promise means amid the adoption of dollar tokens as payment rails.
The case is about more than who pays for a 2022-era failure. It also decides whether a “stable” price can be maintained by arrangements that everyday users never see.
That debate is unfolding as regulators rewrite rules to...
US spot crypto ETFs have attracted more than $70 billion in net inflows since January 2024, making traditional financial investment vehicles the primary entry point for new money into the emerging industry.
That surge, driven by products linked to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more recently Solana and XRP, has validated the industry’s view that many investors will buy crypto only through regulated...
A toxic trend that suggests the IPO window is slamming shut for most crypto companies ignored Circle
When Circle's shares opened at $69 on the New York Stock Exchange in June, more than double the $31 pricing, it looked like validation. Investors paid up for a regulated stablecoin issuer with real revenues, treating USDC rails as financial infrastructure rather than speculative crypto exposure.
Six months later, Circle trades at $82.58, up nearly 20% from that opening print. The thesis held....
Contrary to popular belief, quantum computers will not “crack” Bitcoin encryption; instead, any realistic threat would focus on exploiting digital signatures tied to exposed public keys.
Quantum computers cannot decrypt Bitcoin because it stores no encrypted secrets on-chain.
Ownership is enforced by digital signatures and hash-based commitments, not ciphertext.
The quantum risk that matters is...
Search engine giant Google has emerged as a silent architect behind Bitcoin miners' rapid pivot towards artificial intelligence (AI).
Instead of acquiring mining firms, the Alphabet-owned company has provided at least $5 billion of disclosed credit support behind a handful of BTC miners' AI projects.
While markets often frame these announcements as technology partnerships, the underlying...
The SEC's approval of generic listing standards for crypto ETPs on Sept. 17 cut the launch timeline to 75 days and opened the door to plain-vanilla products.
Bitwise predicts more than 100 crypto-linked ETFs will launch in 2026. James Seyffart, senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg, backed the call but added a caveat:
“We're going to see a lot of liquidations.”
That pairing of explosive growth and...
Cardano is signaling a fundamental shift from the network's roots in academic research toward a commercially driven “operating system” model.
On Dec. 17, the Intersect Product Committee released a report titled “Vision 2030,” outlining a strict set of performance benchmarks intended to redefine how the market values the network.
Intersect, the member-based organization tasked with maintaining the...