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a blazing golden Bitcoin rising over a distant city at sunrise as a cracked stone dollar monolith erodes on a windswept ridge, an old steel yield gauge sinks into the dirt, and carts brimming with coins follow a luminous path through teal–amber–magenta skies toward the radiant coin.

Macro

Does a weaker dollar drive Bitcoin price now?

We run 30/90-day BTC×DXY/real-yield correlations and map a potential Fed shift into Q1 2026.

3 months ago

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Crypto

Why is Bitcoin price pumping? Catch up on what’s moving crypto

Mt. Gox postponing its payments to creditors and confidence over a dovish stance by the Fed provide tailwinds for Bitcoin.

3 months ago

ETF

US Solana staking ETFs begin trading today: What it changes for altcoins

Canary Capital CEO Steven McClurg confirmed that the company's spot HBAR and LTC ETFs are effective and will also begin trading on Nasdaq.

3 months ago

Legal

Landmark ruling in India treats XRP as property, not speculation

A judge barred WazirX from reallocating customer XRP tied to a hack and affirmed crypto as property. Why that matters for custody everywhere.

3 months ago

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Crypto

Nevada shuts down Fortress Trust: Who holds your keys during custody consolidation?

State crackdowns are forcing exchanges to rethink custody stacks: here's the regulatory model most likely to survive.

3 months ago

A hyperrealistic dusk city harbor with a towering ocean wave made of glowing green and red candlesticks surges toward shore, holographic Uniswap, dYdX, and SushiSwap logos hovering above the reflective water to evoke $1T DEX volume amid volatility.

DEX

Decentralized exchanges surpass $1 trillion monthly volume as volatility spikes

Hyperliquid, Aster and Lighter drove a ~50% MoM surge. Here’s who’s winning and why it matters for CEXs.

3 months ago

Banking

Fed opens a narrow payments door to stablecoin issuers, Arthur Hayes warns of bank fallout

Waller's "skinny" master account proposal could let compliant crypto firms access Fed rails directly, eliminating bank-partner friction while raising concerns about commercial-bank disintermediation.

3 months ago

product shot of Trezor Safe 7 on a glossy surface with a luminous teal–violet lab backdrop, its screen showing a glowing lock motif as a transparent PCB reveals dual secure chips beside a USB-C cable and subtle Bluetooth icon.

Wallets

What Trezor’s new “quantum-ready” hardware wallet really means for Bitcoin

Does ‘quantum-ready’ change BTC/ETH today? No. here’s what Safe 7 actually does

3 months ago

Changpeng Zhao and Peter Schiff across a vault of gleaming gold bars and a glowing Bitcoin network backdrop, with electric-blue “on-chain” lines contrasting warm gold to dramatize the debate over tokenized gold versus native BTC settlement.

Analysis

If tokenized gold is just a “trust-me-bro” IOU, what’s really on-chain?

We run 5 trust tests, settlement, redemption, admin-keys, proofs, custody, to stack gold tokens vs in-kind BTC ETFs and native BTC.

3 months ago

TradFi

Is Solana ready for institutions? $700M real world assets and no downtime

Real-world assets, validator shifts, and resilience point to a new phase.

3 months ago

Crypto

Who sets the price now? The $11B ETF design that could change BTC trading

Does FalconX's acquisition of 21Shares change the flows?

3 months ago

MetaMask, WalletConnect, Backpack, and Phantom shields locking into a glowing ring that repels chrome phishing hooks around a golden coin in a glass-walled security lab.

Crypto

$538M stolen by drainers: ETH & SOL wallets unite with real-time phishing blocks

Inside MetaMask/Phantom’s new intel network and how we’ll measure success.

3 months ago

Gino Matos

Does a weaker dollar drive Bitcoin price now?

Why is Bitcoin price pumping? Catch up on what’s moving crypto

US Solana staking ETFs begin trading today: What it changes for altcoins

Landmark ruling in India treats XRP as property, not speculation

Nevada shuts down Fortress Trust: Who holds your keys during custody consolidation?

Decentralized exchanges surpass $1 trillion monthly volume as volatility spikes

Fed opens a narrow payments door to stablecoin issuers, Arthur Hayes warns of bank fallout

What Trezor’s new “quantum-ready” hardware wallet really means for Bitcoin

If tokenized gold is just a “trust-me-bro” IOU, what’s really on-chain?

Is Solana ready for institutions? $700M real world assets and no downtime

Who sets the price now? The $11B ETF design that could change BTC trading

$538M stolen by drainers: ETH & SOL wallets unite with real-time phishing blocks

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