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According to Polymarket, a cryptocurrency-based prediction market, the probability of the Fed keeping policy interest rates unchanged at its January meeting has risen above 96%. Contracts traded on the platform indicate that the vast majority of participants are leaning towards a “interest rates remain stable” scenario. At Polymarket, the total transaction volume for a “no change” outcome reached approximately $19.5 million, with the probability of this scenario being priced at 97%. In contrast, a 25 basis point interest rate cut was priced in with only a 2% probability, while trading volume for this scenario remained around $17.2 million. Scenarios involving…

The White House has held another meeting between representatives from the cryptocurrency and banking industries on a market structure bill under consideration in the US Senate, seeking to iron-out differences on stablecoin yield provisions, among other issues. In a Thursday Fox News interview, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said that the company’s chief legal officer, Stuart Alderoty, attended the meeting with White House officials earlier in the day. The CEO’s comments came after unconfirmed reports that the Trump administration would follow its Feb. 10 meeting on the CLARITY Act, a bill to establish digital asset market structure. That meeting did not…

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JPMorgan estimates the cost to produce a Bitcoin has dropped to $77,000 from $90,000 since the start of the year, driven by a decline in network hashrate. In the past, this cost has acted as a “soft price floor” for Bitcoin, meaning BTC prices often find support near that level because miners do not want to sell at a loss below their production cost. The recent drop in production costs occurred because Bitcoin’s hashrate and mining difficulty decreased in recent months. Hashrate measures the total computing power used to mine Bitcoin, while the network automatically adjusts mining difficulty to ensure…

Haseeb Qureshi, general partner at Dragonfly Capital, says that crypto infrastructure will ultimately be mass adopted by machines, not humans. Qureshi Says Crypto Technology Works, But Not for “Our Society’ In an article posted to X, Qureshi addresses the “fantastical story” that everyone would begin using smart contracts, rather than traditional legal contracts, for everything. That never came true, he says, “not because the technology doesn’t work, but because the technology doesn’t work for our society.” Qureshi says crypto tech is too risky, clunky, and difficult for humans to use. Blind signing transactions, stale approvals, worrying about opening up a…

Tokenized real-world assets are showing steady growth despite a bearish market—a divergence that experts say reflects capital maturing within crypto rather than fleeing it entirely. The RWA sector posted 8.68% growth in distributed asset value over the past month, reaching $24.84 billion, according to RWA.xyz. Represented asset value, which tracks tokenized assets that cannot move between wallets or leave the issuing platform, remained largely flat, growing just 0.51% to $372.97 billion.  DeFi’s total value locked, on the other hand, has plunged 25% over the past month to $94.84 billion, according to DeFiLlama data. The drop is a result of…

Ethereum trades near $2,000 after a sharp pullback, while longer-term chart work points to a final leg higher within a multi-year structure. Short-term price action now tightens into a triangle, setting up the next decisive move as momentum cools. Ethereum Tracks “Expanding Diagonal” Count as $9K–$18K Zone Marks Next Target Ethereum has continued to trace what analyst Gert van Lagen described as a “textbook Expanding Diagonal” on a biweekly chart. In a post on X, he said wave ⑤ that began in 2018 is now in its late phase, with the subwave labeled ⑤-5-a already printing an all time high.…

The new international electronic payment standard, ISO 20022, was implemented in November last year. With the G20’s push for peer-to-peer transactions and the integration of AI in settlement structures, financial intelligence business RedCompass Labs believes the new payment trends might just be what the crypto market needs to reach new highs. The crypto market began the year below $3 trillion, but with a few positives in a geopolitically jittery environment, it has helped it climb back above that level. Bitcoin and Ethereum are still consolidating near their end-of-2025 prices, although RedCompass Labs predicts that the upcoming changes in global payment…

The implementation of the MiCA regulation has undeniably brought a high degree of certainty to the European market. However, for many Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASPs), the trade-off such as high capital requirements, strict physical substance rules, and intensive reporting can be a barrier to entry. In 2026, the global landscape offers several “mid-shore” and offshore alternatives that provide agility, tax efficiency, and robust legal frameworks without the specific constraints of an EU crypto license. Whether you are looking for a rapid market entry, specialized activity-based rules, or a tax-neutral home for your treasury, these jurisdictions represent the strongest alternatives…

Stablecoin reserves on the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, have fallen back to levels not seen since October amid a crypto liquidity drought, according to CryptoQuant. The stablecoin reserves are down 18.6% since November, dropping around $10 billion from $50.9 billion to current levels of $41.4 billion, said CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost on Monday. Stablecoin reserves on exchanges “typically adjust based on investor demand,” and crypto “liquidity dynamics can be proxied through stablecoin flows,” the analyst noted. Despite the decline, Binance still accounts for roughly 64% of total stablecoin reserves across all exchanges. However, when a platform of this scale begins…