By the time most individuals end their first espresso, the market will have already got picked a path for the day, and Bitcoin may have reacted, overreacted, and presumably reversed. Friday, January 9 has that acquainted feeling merchants dread and secretly crave, the form of calendar the place the headlines are shut sufficient collectively that…
Optimism introduced a 12-month token buyback program on Jan. 8, allocating 50% of Superchain income to month-to-month OP token purchases beginning in February. The buyback strain is estimated at roughly $9.1 million yearly, primarily based on the previous yr’s 5,868 ETH in collected charges. The proposal frames the shift as a transition from pure governance…
Bitcoin (BTC) opened 2026 with the type of worth motion that checks conviction, with the primary 5 days taking BTC near $95,000, just for it to check the $90,000 footing once more. The motion follows weeks of uneven buying and selling, failed breakout makes an attempt, and a Fear & Greed Index studying of 28,…
The period of the hooded hacker hoarding Bitcoin in a dark web pockets is over. In 2025, the heart of gravity in the illicit cryptocurrency financial system shifted decisively away from the volatility of the authentic cryptocurrency and towards a dense, dollar-linked shadow system. According to new Chainalysis knowledge shared with CryptoSlate, stablecoins accounted for…
Talk of the United States shopping for Greenland has returned to Washington, and miners are monitoring the energy tasks on the island. The White House mentioned a U.S. buy of Greenland is an “energetic dialogue,” in accordance with Reuters. For Bitcoin miners, the extra actionable clock is Greenland’s industrial energy planning. How Greenland’s hydropower interprets…
Wyoming launched a state-backed stablecoin on Solana, and Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana belief product this week. Last month, Visa expanded USDC settlement to run on Solana rails, and JPMorgan tokenized business paper utilizing Solana for a part of the settlement stack. These aren’t rumors or roadmap guarantees. They occurred over 60 days, and…
Beijing’s reported request for Chinese tech corporations to halt orders of Nvidia’s H200 chips arrives at a second when Bitcoin has change into uncomfortably tethered to AI fairness sentiment. As The Information and Reuters reported on Jan. 7, the transfer impacts “some” Chinese firms and should presage a mandate requiring home purchases of AI chips….
Solana’s ecosystem recorded its strongest monetary yr to this point in 2025, posting all-time highs in income, lively customers, and buying and selling quantity at the same time as the network’s native token completed the yr practically 50% beneath its early peak. According to CryptoSlate knowledge, SOL rallied to greater than $250 in the first…
Bitcoin ETFs grabbed $1.2 billion within the first two buying and selling classes of 2026, coinciding with BTC’s climb to $94,000, a 7% acquire in simply days. The narrative wrote itself: institutional cash flooded in, costs adopted. Yet, that correlation masks a extra advanced structural shift unfolding throughout choices markets, on-chain flows, and derivatives positioning,…
Crypto corporations serving EU residents started accumulating tax data on Jan. 1, 2026, under the European Union’s DAC8 guidelines. That begin date has fed viral claims on X that the bloc has “ended crypto privateness.” The European Commission’s steerage for DAC8 set Jan. 1, 2026, because the operational begin date for information assortment. However, many…