BlackRock backs Ethereum gatekeeping tokenization even though its market share is under threat
BlackRock’s 2026 Thematic Outlook put Ethereum at the center of its tokenization thesis, asking whether the network could serve as a “toll road.” BlackRock stated that “of tokenized assets 65%+ are on Ethereum.” The framing pushes Ethereum into an infrastructure role rather
How an industrial-scale scam is driving Ethereum transactions to record highs because of cheap gas fees
Ethereum is currently reporting the highest daily network growth in its history, a statistical surge that ostensibly signals a massive return of user activity. Over the past week, the Ethereum mainnet processed 2.9 million transactions, a new all-time high according to
Bitcoin is now your only lifeboat as Canada says the current world order is merely a “pleasant fiction”
Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, walked onto the World Economic Forum's Davos stage yesterday and said the quiet part out loud. The rules-based order, the thing leaders love to invoke when they want the world to behave, is fading. Carney called it
Bitcoin is in the blast radius after Japan’s bond market hit a terrifying 30-year breaking point
At first glance, this looks like a story that lives on the back pages of a newspaper, Japanese government bonds with maturities that run so long they sound like a joke, 20 years, 30 years, 40 years. If you own Bitcoin,
Ripple’s RLUSD just got Binance’s strongest growth lever, can that catapult it into a top 3 asset?
Binance, the largest crypto exchange by trading volume, has listed Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin on its platform. On Jan. 21, the exchange announced that it would open spot trading pairs, including RLUSD/USDT, RLUSD/U, and XRP/RLUSD, on Jan. 22 by 8 AM UTC. Critically,
US Treasurys face a $1.7 trillion EU “dump” over Greenland, forcing shift to Bitcoin if dollar safety vanishes
European leaders facing a Greenland-linked dispute with Washington could treat U.S. Treasurys as a leverage point. That would test not just the headline size of foreign holdings, but the market’s capacity to absorb speed, and how quickly higher yields would filter
Bitcoin traders are dumping billions into insurance in case the price drops to $75k as June options expiry creates a high-stakes price trap
Bitcoin’s June 26 options expiry provides a clean snapshot of how risk is being framed several months out, and the picture that emerges is one of deliberate insurance. Total open interest for the expiry sits near $3.92 billion in notional terms
Analog January has people worldwide quietly moving offline, and the biggest Bitcoin risk isn’t price volatility
Analog January is meeting Bitcoin at the custody layer as some investors seek exposure without screen time. The digital-minimalism push, framed as “tech-low and slow living,” is landing as crypto returns to a volatility regime that makes constant checking expensive. Analog January
Strategy just crossed 700k BTC but its “circular” Bitcoin funding loop risks a massive high-yield credit disaster
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) acquired an additional 22,305 Bitcoin for approximately $2.13 billion between Jan. 12 and Jan. 19, continuing an aggressive accumulation campaign that has absorbed 3.38% of the top crypto's total supply. That works out to 3.55% of the circulating
Wall Street’s secret blockchain platform is coming for your dividends and it’s using stablecoins to do it
NYSE said it is developing a platform for trading and on-chain settlement of tokenized securities, and will seek regulatory approvals for a proposed new NYSE venue powered by that infrastructure. According to the owners, ICE, the system is designed to support
Bitcoin just failed its biggest ‘digital gold’ test, and the reason why should have every investor deeply worried
Bitcoin price succumbed to a violent selloff on Monday while gold and silver surged to all-time highs following President Donald Trump‘s threat of sweeping new tariffs on European allies. According to CryptoSlate's data, BTC slipped below $93,000 within minutes during early
Why Bitcoin investors should worry about a 17% fertilizer surge that threatens to blow up the cooling inflation narrative
Bitcoin investors may be watching CPI prints, but the real inflation stress is showing up in stranger places. Inflation looks like it’s easing, until you zoom in. Beef prices are up sharply, fertilizer costs are reaccelerating, and several niche input series
Trump just broke from his tariff threat playbook for the first time causing Bitcoin to miss Sunday night relief rally
On Monday morning, the market did that thing it always does when politics stops being background noise and starts grabbing the steering wheel. Screens went red, chats filled with the same half-jokes about “macro,” and Bitcoin slipped back under the psychological
Bitcoin faces a massive liquidity shift as these five crypto gatekeepers prepare to tighten the remaining market chokepoints
Bitcoin pricing in 2026 may hinge on officials and executives who set dollar liquidity, US market access, ETF distribution, stablecoin settlement capacity, and exchange venue rules, based on a market-structure framework that prioritizes chokepoints over social reach. The scale of each
Bitcoin could be your only liferaft as Bank of England experts brace for alien disclosure chaos
Bitcoin could emerge as a long-term winner if global authorities confirm the existence of non-human intelligence, even if the immediate fallout triggers a severe financial shock. Over the weekend, reports emerged that Helen McCaw, a former senior analyst at the Bank
How crypto is being devoured by TradFi, killing Satoshi’s dream by rewarding centralization
Bitcoin’s price, and thus the entire crypto market, is increasingly being anchored by flows through regulated wrappers. Crypto is increasingly being subsumed by TradFi rather than offering an alternative to the broken system Satoshi criticized. U.S. spot ETF subscriptions and redemptions
Ethereum staking just hit a $118B record at 30% of all coins, but one whale might be skewing the signal
More than 36 million ETH is now staked in Ethereum's proof-of-stake system, close to 30% of the circulating supply and worth over $118 billion at recent prices. Graph showing the amount of ETH staked in the Ethereum network from Oct. 16,
Bitcoin is the only “escape valve” left as the ECB warns a political tussle will soon destabilize the dollar
European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane delivered a warning that most markets treated as European housekeeping: the ECB can stay on its easing path for now, but a Federal Reserve “tussle” over mandate independence could destabilize global markets through