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An independent legal analysis from Gunnercooke GmbH concludes that the SAL token qualifies as an "Other Crypto-Asset" under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and that its privacy features do not create a legal bar under Article 76(3) to listing on MiCAR-authorised exchanges. The opinion says exchanges can identify holders and revie…
Bitcoin traded essentially flat on Sunday, holding close to the $68,000 level after earlier volatility tied to a tariff announcement faded. The largest cryptocurrency was last reported up about 0.18% at $68,212.2, trading inside a narrow band as investors awaited clearer macro guidance and fresh catalysts. Markets continue to weigh uncertainty arou…
Cryptocurrency prices traded in a narrow band late in the week as participants awaited key U.S. inflation and GDP releases. Nexo analyst Iliya Kalchev said macro uncertainty, hawkish Federal Reserve signals and rising geopolitical tensions have kept investors cautious, prompting ETF outflows and limiting upside for liquidity-sensitive digital asset…
Bitcoin dropped momentarily after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would raise a temporary worldwide tariff from 10% to 15%, then recovered later in the trading session and remained up 0.7%. Traders monitored the 24/7 bitcoin market for signs of how broader markets would respond when most exchanges reopen over the weekend and into Monday.
Bitcoin posted a modest gain on Friday, recovering to $67,843.1 by 01:21 ET (06:21 GMT) amid dip-buying after recent declines. The advance was small compared with broader losses: the largest cryptocurrency is set for a weekly drop of about 2.8%, has lost roughly 25% so far in 2026 and has declined in five of the past seven weeks. Market participant…
Sai introduced Sai Perps, a perpetuals trading venue that seeks to combine the execution speed and user experience of centralized exchanges with the transparency and settlement guarantees provided by onchain infrastructure. The launch includes gasless transactions and a one-month trading competition running February 18 through March 19, 2026, with …
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Investment Co. and its unit, the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC), raised their holdings in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF in the fourth quarter of 2025, increasing collective exposure to Bitcoin-linked assets even as Bitcoin and related ETFs suffered significant price declines.
MYX has closed a strategic financing round led by Consensys, with Systemic Ventures and Consensys’s VC arm participating. The capital will support research and development of MYX’s execution and risk systems, its chain abstraction framework, and the deployment of MYX V2, which promises one-click, gasless trades, more predictable pricing, and an inf…
Bitcoin extended its recent pullback on Wednesday, trading below $68,000 as investors awaited key U.S. economic releases and Federal Reserve commentary. Corporate buyer Strategy Inc (NASDAQ:MSTR) disclosed another sizable purchase of bitcoin, but broader market appetite for risk assets remained subdued, leaving most altcoins nursing losses.
Public Masterpiece, a Cyprus real-world asset tokenization firm, has announced PMT Chain, a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain focused on authenticating and tokenizing physical assets. The company has also repositioned the PMT brand to mean Public Masterpiece Technology. The network centers on a UAE-based Certification Hub staffed by art experts and …
Nexo has announced a formal relaunch of its Yield, Exchange, Loyalty and Crypto-backed Credit Lines in the United States, working with regulated partners and using Bakkt for digital asset trading infrastructure. The move re-establishes Nexo’s U.S. operations with a compliance-focused structure and offers a suite of regulated services designed for p…
Bitcoin declined to $68,409.70 early Monday, extending a run of losses that has now lasted four consecutive weeks. The pullback followed a brief weekend move toward $70,000 and came amid broader weakness across major cryptocurrencies as investor appetite for speculative assets wanes in the face of interest-rate uncertainty. Corporate holder Strateg…
Bitcoin traded around $66,000 on Friday and was positioned to register a fourth consecutive weekly loss amid broad risk-off sentiment. The cryptocurrency last changed hands 1.1% lower at $66,464.6 by 02:24 ET (07:24 GMT) after dipping toward $65,000 in the prior session. Markets are focused on the U.S. Consumer Price Index report and have been infl…
<p>Standard Chartered's digital assets research head, Geoff Kendrick, has trimmed near-term price forecasts for cryptocurrencies, warning of additional downside in the coming months. Kendrick flagged the potential for Bitcoin to fall to about $50,000 and Ethereum to drop toward $1,400, citing orderly but significant ETF outflows, an average ETF pur…
BYDFi participated as a sponsor of Solana Accelerate APAC during Consensus Hong Kong 2026 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The exchange used the forum to engage with Solana-native teams and users, present its CEX + DEX dual-engine model and MoonX onchain trading engine, and highlight its operational protections including over 1:1 …
Flipster FZE has obtained in-principle approval from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), allowing the company to advance toward offering regulated virtual asset services with spot trading as its initial product. The milestone dovetails with Flipster's emphasis on compliance, including a partnership with Chainalysis, and follows the …
Ault Capital Group has launched the public testnet for Ault Blockchain, a Cosmos SDK Layer 1 with full Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility built for trading, settlement, and institutional onchain workloads. The testnet provides a live environment for developers, validators, and infrastructure operators to assess core functionality. Governance wi…
Val Vavilov, the 46-year-old Latvian founder of Bitfury, has been buying Bitcoin during the recent price decline, describing the pullback as a chance to rebalance his company's portfolio. Bitcoin dipped below $67,000 in Asian trading and has lost more than half its value since October, prompting concern among retail investors and a range of reactio…
Solstice Labs announced that Fasanara Digital, the digital-assets division of Fasanara Capital, has deployed capital to YieldVault, the protocol’s flagship delta-neutral yield strategy on Solana. The move adds a second institutional allocator to the platform alongside Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp (DFDV). The decision reflects alignment betwe…
Bitcoin fell below $67,000 in Asian trading Wednesday as investors awaited a delayed U.S. employment report that could influence Federal Reserve policy expectations. The world's largest cryptocurrency traded 2.6% lower at $67,126.7 by 02:46 ET (07:46 GMT). Broader crypto market weakness accompanied disappointing revenue for Robinhood Markets, where…
Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has filed a pro se motion seeking a new trial. The filing, dated February 5 and docketed this week in Manhattan federal court, contends that newly available witness testimony could undermine the prosecution's case. Bankman-Fried is currently serving a 25-year prison sentenc…
GoMining introduced Simple Earn, a wallet-level feature that automatically directs eligible assets into earning mechanisms and delivers converted Bitcoin payouts to users every four hours. The program requires a single toggle to activate, preserves liquidity with no lockups, supports ongoing deposits and withdrawals, and scales yield by user VIP ti…
<p>NOWPayments has launched a time-limited promotion that removes network fees for USDT (TRC20) deposits for newly registered partners. Merchants must register and enable the platform's Custody feature to qualify, which also unlocks mass payout and off-chain conversion tools. The offer lasts for two months and is intended to lower the cost barrier …
Strategy Inc. sold 616,715 shares of its Class A common stock through its at-the-market program between February 2 and February 8, 2026, raising $89.5 million in net proceeds. The company applied those proceeds to purchase 1,142 bitcoin for approximately $90 million, including fees and expenses, at an average price of $78,815 per bitcoin. As of Feb…
A Bernstein analyst argues that the most recent decline in Bitcoin prices represents a confidence-driven sell-off rather than a fundamental failure of the network or market structure. The note outlines liquidity dynamics, the limited scale of ETF outflows, the potential role of blockchains in an AI-driven economy, quantum risk perspectives, and min…
