Latest from Stephen Alpher
SEC's Paul Atkins grilled on crypto enforcement pull-back, including with Justin Sun, Tron
The U.S. agency's chairman said in a House hearing that he's open to a confidential briefing for lawmakers on the topic.

JPMorgan bullish on crypto for rest of year as institutional flows set to drive recovery
After bitcoin fell below its estimated production cost, the bank said stronger fundamentals and rising institutional inflows could lift crypto in 2026.

Institutional crypto platform BlockFills said to halt withdrawals, restrict trading
It's shades of 2022, when any number of crypto platforms were forced to suspend withdrawals as prices crumbled.

Cryptos crumble, bitcoin falls through $66,000, as Friday's bounce fades
With so many other asset markets in rally mode, investors for the moment appear to have moved on from crypto.

BlackRock takes first DeFi step, lists BUIDL on Uniswap as UNI jumps 25%
BlackRock will make shares of its $2.2 billion tokenized U.S. Treasury fund tradable on the decentralized exchange Uniswap.

Analysts react as Robinhood slumps 10%, with slowdown in crypto trading weighing on results
JPMorgan and Compass Point were among the sell-side teams trimming price targets on HOOD.

Bithumb admits to ‘serious flaws’ that left internal systems vulnerable to potential sabotage
The South Korean crypto exchange’s CEO Le Jae-won said the lack of proper controls led to the erroneous transfer of bitcoin worth more than $40 billion to customers. Most has been recovered.

U.S. added stronger than expected 130,000 jobs in January, with unemployment rate falling to 4.3%
Down sizably ahead of the jobs data, bitcoin rose modestly to $67,500 following the news.

Binance teams up with Franklin Templeton to use tokenized money market funds as off-exchange collateral
Institutions can now use Benji-issued tokenized money market funds as off-exchange collateral to trade on Binance using Ceffu’s custody layer.

Spark looks to build a safe bridge between onchain capital and TradFi
Spark is opening access to its $9 billion stablecoin liquidity pool for hedge funds and other institutions to bridge onchain capital with off-chain credit markets.

