Bitcoin price is stabilizing near channel support, and a developing three-drive pattern hints at a potential relief bounce if a market structure break confirms the setup. Summary Bitcoin remains within a large channel, trading near channel low support. A developing three-drive pattern suggests seller exhaustion and rising demand. A market structure break is required to…
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Japan’s FSA plans strict bond rules for yen stablecoins, reshaping reserves, JGB demand, and megabank-led digital yen settlement projects. Summary FSA draft rules demand top-rated foreign bonds from 100T-yen issuers as stablecoin collateral, with consultation open until Feb. 27, 2026. New guidelines tighten oversight of banks, intermediaries and foreign stablecoin issuers, while allowing JPYC-style yen…
A US winter storm knocked Bitcoin hashrate to a 7‑month low as miners powered down to ease grid stress, even as BTC, ETH and SOL prices stayed relatively calm. Summary A powerful US winter storm drove Bitcoin hashrate down about 40% in two days to roughly 663 EH/s, before a rebound toward 854 EH/s. Miner…
Large Cardano holders added 454.7m ADA over two months, lifting their share of supply as small retail wallets sold into market weakness and cut exposure. Summary Wallets with 100k–100m ADA boosted holdings by 454.7m tokens, growing supply share from 66.3% to 67.53%. Sub-100 ADA wallets sold about 22k tokens, trimming their slice of circulating supply…
ERC-20 stablecoin market cap on Ethereum just fell $7b in a week, signaling investors may be exiting crypto entirely instead of rotating risk. Summary ERC-20 stablecoin market cap on Ethereum dropped about $7b in a week, ending months of steady expansion. Darkfrost’s CryptoQuant data shows growth stalled, then flipped into the first sharp decline of…
SHIB price is still capped by resistance, but a 29m token outflow, rising active addresses and “fear” sentiment hint at a quieter accumulation phase. Summary About 29,169,846 SHIB left exchanges in 24 hours, with withdrawals outpacing deposits by roughly 72.5b tokens over the period. Active SHIB addresses and transactions ticked higher, suggesting modest on-chain revival…
Tom Lee says Bitcoin and Ethereum will recover once the gold and silver FOMO cools, with weaker dollar and Fed easing set to boost crypto. Summary om Lee says FOMO in record-breaking gold and silver is draining liquidity from Bitcoin, Ethereum and wider crypto. He argues past pullbacks in precious metals often coincided with upside…
Vitalik Buterin reverses his 2017 stance, arguing zk-proofs now make “mountain man” full verification a real fallback as Ethereum stress-tests decentralization. Summary Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin revisits a 2017 clash with Ian Grigg, now favoring designs where users can fully verify state instead of outsourcing trust to nodes and devs. He calls ZK-SNARKs a “magic…
PUMP jumps 25% even as Pump.fun and the Solana Foundation face a class action lawsuit, Solidus Labs’ rug-pull report, and questions over buybacks and platform reforms. Summary PUMP gained about 25% overnight while Pump.fun and the Solana Foundation were hit with a class action alleging insider trading and abusive launch practices. Solidus Labs’ 2025 report…
