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The US Supreme Court returns from a four-week break on Jan. 9 with a potentially consequential economic ruling: whether the President Donald Trump administration lawfully imposed sweeping tariffs under emergency powers, or whether those duties on hundreds of billions in imports violated Congressional limits.
Prediction markets give the government only a 23% to 30% chance of winning. Treasury...
Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama stood at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 5 and declared 2026 a “digital year,” framing traditional exchanges as the primary gateway for investors to access cryptoassets and ETF-like products.
As Elliptic noted, she pointed to US spot Bitcoin ETFs as a model, explicitly stating what Japan's Financial Services Agency had been building toward: crypto was...
XRP has emerged as the best-performing asset among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization to start 2026, outpacing market leaders Bitcoin and Ethereum.
According to data from CryptoSlate, XRP has jumped by 28% since the start of the year to $2.37, its highest price level since November 2025.
In comparison, Bitcoin and Ethereum have registered gains of less than 10% over the same...
On paper, the U.S. national debt is a number so big it stops feeling real. Trillions do that to your brain.
So let’s bring it back down to human size for a second.
If you spread today’s federal debt across U.S. households, you land at roughly $285,000 per household, depending on the day you do the math.
The number moves around with Treasury cash management. The estimate uses the government’s own...
Bitcoin has stormed into 2026 by rising to its highest level in over a month after climbing above $94,000 on Jan. 5, signaling a potential end to the stagnation that plagued the crypto market in late 2025.
This rally marks a decisive shift in sentiment, given that the flagship digital asset closed the previous year with a whimper while equities reached record highs.
However, that trend appears...
On Monday, January 5, something small on paper becomes huge in practice, the moment a mainstream American wealth adviser can finally say the quiet part out loud.
Bank of America’s wealth platforms, Merrill, Bank of America Private Bank, and Merrill Edge, are set to let advisers recommend crypto exchange-traded products, with an internal view that a “modest” 1% to 4% allocation can make sense for...
Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was designed to set people free.
That line from the Trustless Manifesto drew criticism when it was published, and Vitalik Buterin repeated it on Jan. 5.
The argument: Ethereum's mission differs fundamentally from the efficiency game DeFi protocols compete in. The goal is not 4.5% yield versus 5.3%, not reducing latency from...
Tokyo bond traders have a new number burned into their screens this week, 3.5%.
For most of the past two decades, Japan’s long end was the place the world went to forget about interest rates. If you were a pension fund trying to match liabilities, a bank trying to park liquidity, or a global macro desk hunting cheap funding, Japanese government bonds were the quiet corner of the room.
That corner...
Bitcoin feels like a room full of people holding their breath.
On paper, the ingredients are there. Spot ETFs are pulling attention back to Bitcoin, big daily flow numbers are again hitting the tape, and macro risk appetite is alive.
Yet the chart looks like it is waiting for permission.
Bitcoin was around $93,822 on Jan. 6, and the candles have had that “quiet but tense” look that drives...
Ledger customers woke up on Jan. 5 to an email no one wants to see: their names and contact information had been exposed through a breach at Global-e, a third-party payment processor.
The company clarified what hadn't been compromised: no payment cards, no passwords, and critically, no 24-word recovery phrases. The hardware remained untouched, the firmware secure, the seed storage intact.
For a...