BitMine, the most important company holder of Ethereum, has efficiently staked 1.53 million ETH, a place valued at greater than $5 billion. This huge allocation captures roughly 4% of all staked ETH and has successfully compelled the community into a new phase of institutional stress testing. Consequently, the full quantity of Ethereum locked within the…
On Jan. 13, the US Senate Banking Committee launched the full textual content of the extremely anticipated Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY) forward of its anticipated markup this week. The 278-page draft abandons the technique of selecting winners on a token-by-token foundation. Instead, it constructs a complete “lane system” that assigns jurisdiction based mostly…
An Ethereum value collapse could break the blockchain’s capacity to settle transactions and freeze over $800 billion in assets, a Bank of Italy analysis paper warns. The paper, authored by Claudia Biancotti of the central financial institution’s Directorate General for Information Technology, outlined a contagion situation the place ETH’s value collapse degrades the blockchain’s safety…
The XRP market has opened 2026 by splitting into two distinct realities. On one facet, the institutional “wrapper” commerce is thriving, supported by shrinking alternate provide and deepening company infrastructure. On the different hand, the underlying on-chain economic system is flashing warning indicators, with exercise metrics fading at the same time as Wall Street deepens…
Dow Jones introduced an unique partnership to distribute Polymarket prediction information throughout The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and MarketWatch on the identical day Kalshi claimed it had hit $100 billion in annualized buying and selling quantity. The juxtaposition captures the place prediction markets sit at the begin of 2026: concurrently legitimized as a monetary information…
XRP has emerged because the best-performing asset among the many high 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization to start out 2026, outpacing market leaders Bitcoin and Ethereum. According to information from CryptoSlate, XRP has jumped by 28% because the begin of the 12 months to $2.37, its highest worth stage since November 2025. In comparability, Bitcoin…
After a yr of regular decline, the “memecoin dominance” ratio, a key metric monitoring the sector’s share of the complete altcoin market, has abruptly reversed course from historic lows. This got here as the complete capitalization of meme belongings reclaimed the $50 billion mark and tokens equivalent to PEPE, BONK, and FLOKI posted outsized double-digit…
A crypto trader, Vida, realized greater than $1.5 million in beneficial properties after recognizing an anomalous wall of purchase orders on Binance for the little-known token BROCCOLI714 on New Year’s Day. Vida, who shared detailed logs of the commerce on social media platform X, stated they initially handled the transfer as a probably hacked account or…
More than 80% of the tokens launched this yr are buying and selling underwater, marking a definitive shift available in the market’s urge for food for venture-backed cryptocurrency initiatives. Data from Memento Research confirmed that it tracked 118 main token technology occasions in 2025 and located that 100 of them, or 84.7%, are buying and…
Over the previous years, the institutional knock in opposition to Solana was easy: the community broke underneath strain. This week, the community quietly absorbed a distributed denial-of-service assault peaking at about 6 terabits per second, in accordance to data from supply community Pipe. This was corroborated by Solana co-founders, together with Anatoly Yakovenko and Raj…