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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is calling on the Senate Banking Committee to proceed with confirmation hearings for Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh, despite a standoff over an ongoing probe into current Fed chair Jerome Powell. Speaking with Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, Bessent referenced recent pushback from Republican Senator Thom Tillis, who said he plans to stall on the confirmation of the next Fed chair until the Department of Justice probe into Powell is resolved. “Senator Tillis has come out and said he thinks that Kevin Warsh is an extreme candidate,” Bessent said, adding: “So I would say,…

Arkham Exchange is not shutting down, despite reports to the contrary, and is instead redesigning itself as a decentralized trading platform, the company confirmed to Cointelegraph. The crypto trading platform launched by data analytics firm Arkham Intelligence is shifting from a centralized model to a fully decentralized exchange (DEX), Arkham CEO Miguel Morel told Cointelegraph on Wednesday. “The future of crypto trading is decentralized, and that’s what we’re building towards,” Morel said. Launched in 2024, Arkham Exchange allows users to trade both spot crypto and perpetual contracts. The platform launched a mobile app in late 2025. At the time of…

SPACE ID announces the integration with $RIVER, the decentralized communication protocol for communities to engage with each other, which is an important step forward for social interactions within the Web 3.0 space. This integration is very important because it makes it possible for users to easily switch between different blockchains’ communities and have a unified experience when using them. By integrating SPACE ID’s name infrastructure into $RIVER’s environment will allow users to identify and communicate with each other in decentralized chat rooms and social networks much more easily. Enhancing User Experience with Human-Readable Identities Technical complexity is an issue preventing…

The expansion of cbBTC – Coinbase’s wrapped Bitcoin – into the Monad ecosystem marks a pivotal milestone for decentralized finance. Thanks to the integration with Chainlink and its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), cbBTC can now be transferred directly from Base to Monad, paving the way for new opportunities for developers, investors, and users of the DeFi. Chainlink CCIP: the Key to Interoperability Monad: a high-performance blockchain for DeFi New Opportunities for DeFi: Lending, Borrowing, and Beyond Security and Scalability: The Strength of Chainlink A rapidly evolving ecosystem Conclusions: The Future of Bitcoin Liquidity in DeFi Chainlink CCIP: the Key to…

After recovering the $2,000 mark, Ethereum is displaying signs of strength, and data from the derivatives market now indicates a significant change in sentiment. The recent market-wide sell-off appears to have caused traders to quickly rotate back into risk, as evidenced by the spike in leveraged long positioning seen in funding rates across major exchanges. Funding is everything The BitMEX signal, where $ETH funding has flipped into extremely positive territory, is the most noticeable. Positive funding rates — which usually indicate strong bullish conviction and aggressive leverage expansion — indicate that long traders are paying shorts to maintain positions open.…

AI-assisted bot scans Polymarket wallets and bet sizes to flag possible insider-style trades on political markets, helping its creator net $75k on a Maduro arrest bet. Summary Custom alert bot monitors Polymarket’s API for new wallets, oversized wagers and repeated Venezuela-focused positions that hint at informational edge.​ System relies on AI coding tools Claude and Cursor for build-out but leaves final trading decisions and risk management to the human operator.​ Maduro-related contracts delivered $75k in profits in a single day, highlighting both alpha potential and ongoing concerns over prediction markets and insider signals A programmer reported generating $75,000 in profits…

Core Scientific (CORZ), a bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure company, sold just over 1,900 bitcoin in January for approximately $175 million, according to CORZ Q4 earnings call. The sale implies an average price of about $92,100 per $BTC, about 35% higher than today’s $67,000 current price, as it accelerates its shift toward AI focused data center operations. Chief Financial Officer Jim Nygaard said on the Q4 call the company “we also opportunistically sold just over 1,900 bitcoin for approximately $175 million,” adding, “at this time, we hold under 1,000 bitcoin and expect to remain opportunistic going forward.” On Dec. 31,…

Table of Contents What Is Robinhood Chain?Infrastructure Partners And Technical FoundationWhat’s Available On The Public Testnet?Tokenized Assets And Real-World ApplicationsTimeline And Mainnet Launch PlansConclusionResources Frequently Asked Questions Robinhood launched a developers’ version of its custom blockchain, called Robinhood Chain, on Feb. 10 with Chainlink serving as the oracle infrastructure provider. The testnet went live at the Consensus event in Hong Kong, marking the company’s latest push into crypto-based financial services and tokenized versions of traditional stocks. JUST IN: @RobinhoodApp launches public testnet and partners with Chainlink as the oracle platform for Robinhood Chain. Builders can leverage Chainlink’s data, interoperability, and…

Railgun activity remained elevated in February, despite the overall market downturn. The mixer remains one of the key products in the Ethereum ecosystem that may see growth in the coming years, as privacy remains a concern. Railgun holds peak value locked, showing robust activity as one of the most widely used mixers. The rise of Railgun offers an alternative to Tornado Cash for regular activity and has been adopted by DeFi users to disguise positions. Total value locked on Railgun expanded to over $113M, with most of the value on the Ethereum network. Polygon, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain make up…

While the steadily declining prices have stolen virtually all headlines over the past month, Ethereum ($ETH) on-exchange supply has also fallen back to levels not seen since mid-2016. Specifically, the total Ethereum supply on cryptocurrency exchanges sat at 16 million $ETH on February 9, according to data available on CryptoQuant, while the asset itself was trading at around $2,000, down 34% on the monthly chart. The drawdown has unfolded gradually rather than through a sharp drop, pointing to a sustained change in how holders are positioning their assets. Notably, the datashows that reserves continued to fall even as $ETH prices…