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The slowdown in on-chain activity echoes a similar lull last summer that came right before a huge rebound in Bitcoin. The total fees paid on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) recently fell to approximately $593,000, marking the network’s lowest usage cost since at least August 2025. This collapse in transaction activity on one of crypto’s busiest highways is reviving memories of a similar demand drought last summer that immediately preceded a 95% rally in Bitcoin (BTC). A Silent Market Flashes a Historic Signal Blockchain fees are the clearest measure of user demand, representing what people pay to move tokens or…

Bitcoin and the broader crypto market headed into Friday on the back foot, with most major tokens posting losses over the last 24 hours as traders continued to de-risk alongside equities following Nvidia’s earnings-driven pullback.Bitcoin was trading around $67,766 at the time of writing, down 1.5% on the day but still clinging to a 0.6% gain on the week. Ethereum mirrored the move, off 1.5% in 24 hours to trade just above $2,047. Both remain stuck in a narrow range that has defined price action since the Feb. 5 crash, with Wednesday’s push toward $70,000 marking the upper boundary and…

Bitcoin investors could finally be taking a break from selling, relieving some downward pressure on Bitcoin — though months of consolidation will likely lie ahead, says analyst Willy Woo.“This bearish sell-down by investors seems to have exhausted,” said Woo on X on Friday. This gives the price “a reprieve to consolidate sideways for maybe a month,” or even a rebound to the mid $70,000 level, “which would likely be rejected,” he said. Bitcoin (BTC) prices have been range-bound between $60,000 and $70,000 for the past three weeks, and fell below $67,000 briefly in late trading on Thursday.Woo said his “educated guess”…

Crypto.com has secured conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter a national trust bank.With this move, the cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform joins a growing list of digital asset firms that received similar approvals last year.As previously reported by BeInCrypto, Crypto.com applied for a national trust bank charter in October 2025. The OCC granted conditional approval in February 2026, marking a significant milestone for the company.It’s worth noting that conditional approval represents a preliminary stage in the chartering process. The applicant must satisfy the OCC’s regulatory and operational requirements before obtaining full…

XRP is on track to close its fifth consecutive month in negative territory, a rare stretch of sustained losses that has not been seen since late 2016. Despite holding at around $1.30, the token has declined nearly 30% in February alone, according to CoinGecko data, extending a broader five-month decline of roughly 50%. XRP Flashes Pre-Bull Run Pattern The last time XRP recorded five straight red monthly candles was between October 2016 and February 2017. During that period, the price slipped from $0.00885 to $0.00557, a decline of 37%, before finding a bottom near $0.0055 in March 2017. By May 2017,…

📊No votes yet – Be the first to vote America pushed talks with Japan about jumping into currency markets together back in January 2026. The discussions came after the yen took a pretty brutal beating against the dollar, and both countries got nervous about what that meant for global financial stability. The yen’s slide hit levels that made policymakers sweat. US Treasury folks reached out to their Japanese counterparts fast. They wanted to hash out coordinated moves to prop up the yen if things got worse. Currency intervention means governments buy or sell foreign exchange reserves to push their currency’s…

A new report by Citrini Research has been partially blamed for a software and payments stock sell-off on Monday, where it outlined extreme scenarios in which AI could severely disrupt the economy, from wiping out a sizable share of the workforce and slashing consumer spending to threatening the $13 trillion US mortgage market.Citrini was little-known up until Monday, when its “Global Intelligence Crisis” report amassed over 22 million views on X alone, discussing how AI agents could drive corporate profits so high that human labor could become increasingly redundant and trigger a recession. The report lays out a chilling June…

Dogecoin started a fresh decline below the $0.10 zone against the US Dollar. DOGE is now consolidating losses and might face hurdles near $0.0950 and $0.10. DOGE price started a fresh decline below the $0.10 level. The price is trading below the $0.0950 level and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance at $0.0958 on the hourly chart of the DOGE/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price could extend losses if it stays below $0.10 and $0.1020. Dogecoin Price At Risk of Downside Break Dogecoin price started a fresh decline after…

The court-appointed administrator leading crypto company Terraform Labs through its bankruptcy has sued trading firm Jane Street, accusing it of insider trading that worsened the collapse of the multibillion-dollar Terra ecosystem.On Monday, Todd Snyder, Terraform’s court-appointed administrator, sued Jane Street, its co-founder Robert Granieri, and employees Bryce Pratt and Michael Huang in a Manhattan federal court, accusing them of “misappropriating confidential information and manipulating market prices.”The heavily redacted complaint claimed Jane Street used connections with “Terraform insiders to learn material non-public information” about the company and used the information to sell off tokens tied to the Terra blockchain that worsened…

The GuidanceThe SEC clarified the liquidity buffer brokers need when handling stablecoins.It’s a key change that will attract institutions to the sector.US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicts the niche to hit $3 trillion by 2030.A version of this story appeared in The Guidance newsletter on February 23. Sign up here.Stablecoins are getting another facelift — or, rather, haircut.Late last week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that broker-dealers needn’t treat dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies with the same risk profile as before. Instead, Commissioner Hester Peirce clarified that the SEC would not object if a broker-dealer applied a 2% haircut to stablecoins.It’s…