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Since Bitcoin’s all-time high of $127,000 in October 2025, the first quarter of 2026 has gotten off to a shaky start, with Bitcoin crashing to a $60,000 floor in under five months. While this whiplash may be painful, it looks worse than it really is: the market is actually doing exactly what it needs to do to build a stronger cycle ahead.Crypto tends to bear the brunt of the selloff when macro conditions, geopolitical tensions and traditional markets turn south. Several converging factors are currently driving immense pressure on crypto markets: elevated counterparty risk, global liquidity tightening, weak technical trends,…

Bitcoin’s recent price action confirms a clear structural breakdown, ending weeks of compression and shifting momentum to the downside. While a short-term bounce remains possible as price fills nearby imbalances, the broader outlook stays bearish. Unless key resistance levels are quickly reclaimed, any upside move is likely to be temporary, with further downside pressure expected. Rising Channel Breakdown Signals Shift In Structure According to a BTC update by crypto analyst Columbus, the market structure has finally broken down after weeks of compression. Price had been coiling within a rising channel, forming higher lows that pressed into overhead resistance. Instead of…

Measured in ETH rather than dollars, Lido’s total value locked fell from 9.63 million ETH to 8.81 million ETH. Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, closed 2025 with total revenue of $40.5 million, down 23% from $52.4 million the year before, according to an execution report published by the Lido Foundation. The DAO is now reviewing an automated LDO token buyback mechanism, with the deployment targeted for Q2 2026, as part of a broader effort to align the governance token’s value with the protocol’s financial performance. A Difficult Year for Staking Revenue In the report, Lido noted that…

Goods offered on Xinbi included stolen personal data, money laundering tools, and satellite equipment to contact fraud victims. Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has sanctioned the Chinese-language crypto marketplace Xinbi, which blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says processed nearly $20 billion in volume between 2021 and 2025. The designation means that the UK government isn’t just targeting individual scammers but has taken aim at the financial infrastructure that keeps Southeast Asia’s industrial-scale fraud operations running. The Platform’s Role in the Scam Supply Chain According to Chainalysis, Xinbi is a peer-to-peer marketplace, mostly on Telegram, where criminals can buy and…

A new working paper from the European Central Bank examined four major protocols and found that a small number of actors control the bulk of governance token holdings.A European Central Bank working paper challenges the notion that decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) deliver on their promise of distributed governance, finding that token holdings and voting power across four major DeFi protocols are heavily concentrated among a handful of actors.The study examined governance structures at Aave, MakerDAO, Ampleforth, and Uniswap using data from late 2022 and mid-2023. The researchers analyzed the top 100 token holders and top 20 voters for each protocol,…

In brief Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton has banned all congressional office staff from trading on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. The move comes as bipartisan lawmakers introduce the PREDICT Act, which would extend similar restrictions to senior government officials Prediction market analyst Dustin Gouker says many other congressional offices are likely to follow suit. A prediction market analyst says more congressional offices will likely follow Massachusetts Democrat Seth Moulton’s (D-MA) lead after he became one of the first members of Congress to ban his staff from trading on platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.Effective Wednesday, Rep. Moulton’s office-wide policy prohibits…

US lawmakers have introduced a bill aiming to ban members of the US Congress, the president and other high-ranking government officials from wagering on prediction markets.The proposed bill, a bipartisan effort from US Representative Adrian Smith and Representative Nikki Budzinski, was introduced on Tuesday and is called the Preventing Real-time Exploitation and Deceptive Insider Congressional Trading Act (PREDICT Act).”In recent months, we’ve seen instances of little-known traders making massive profits on events ranging from war with Iran to how long a government shutdown will last, raising necessary questions about the use of inside information,” Budzinski said.The move comes amid growing…

What do you call a market that consistently shrugs off headlines that usually send it tumbling? You call it resilient with a strong underlying demand support.That’s the bitcoin story in recent weeks, as it the cryptocurrency held firm around $70,000 even as the Iran war rages, oil prices surge, and Fed rate-cut bets evaporate. This kind of defiance screams bullishness.But hang on, some key indicators are still heading the wrong way, throwing a wrench into that bullish interpretation.The first indicator is the Coinbase Premium, which measures the price difference between bitcoin on Coinbase, a Nasdaq-listed Exchange, and on the offshore…

A closer look at some of the most important developments around Ripple and XRP’s price action. Over the past few days, Ripple (XRP) has been at the forefront of a few important developments. These range from news about its institutional adoption, exchange updates, ETF flows, and ongoing price uncertainty. The following is a concise breakdown of the latest news shaping XRP’s broader outlook. Expansion in Asia: RLUSD and Faster Settlements Ripple is expanding its presence in Asia by testing its RLUSD stablecoin to improve cross-border settlement efficiency. The company is joining BLOOM – the sandbox environment of the Monetary Authority…

The market’s second-largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum (ETH), surged nearly 3% on Wednesday, extending a short-term recovery that has brought the altcoin to the key $2,160 level.  Market analyst Ali Martinez flagged the move as part of a potentially significant shift in Ethereum’s technical outlook, writing on social media platform X (previously Twitter) that price action is showing “signs of a major trend shift from bearish to bullish.” On‑Chain Signals Strengthen Breakout Case Martinez pointed to the altcoin’s weekly chart, where Ethereum appears to be tracing an ascending triangle formation. He noted that ETH’s bounce to $1,800 on February 26 lined up…