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10x Research and its CEO and Head of Research, Markus Thielen, have recently taken a more cautious stance on bitcoin (BTC), prompting a re-evaluation of market conditions. Has Bitcoin Peaked? Analysts Spot Ominous Signals In a market update published on Dec. 29, 2024, the firm acknowledges the cryptocurrency’s resilience, however, emerging technical patterns suggest the market may be entering a new phase. 10x Research is a digital asset research service catering to asset managers, wealth managers, and cryptocurrency service providers. Over the past two weeks, 10x Research has raised questions about whether the bitcoin bull market has reached its peak.…

Token launchpad Pump.fun has been responsible for approximately 70% of all transactions on the Solana network over the past two days. Its Saturday dominance is the highest since the platform disabled its controversial streaming feature in November. Over the past week, Solana (SOL) has climbed 12%. The upward trajectory has, in part, been motivated by its meme coin trenches. Pump.fun is the go-to spot for most meme coin creating, buying, and selling with over 5.5 million tokens being created on the platform in its year lifetime. On Saturday, Pump.fun accounted for 71.1% of all tokens created on the Solana network…

Crypto.news spoke with Pantera Capital’s general partner, Cosmo Jiang, about artificial intelligence, the rise of deepfakes, and how AI can work alongside blockchain. As the global AI market is expected to grow to about $3.6 trillion by 2034, crypto.news sat down with Pantera Capital, a California-based crypto venture pioneer, to dive into the topic. In this interview, we chat with Cosmo Jiang, Pantera’s general partner, who joined from Nova River, a web3 venture firm, where he ran a long-biased digital asset fund. CN: Do you think AI will lead to more sophisticated scams in crypto? We’re already seeing deepfakes of…

Traders are no longer chasing upside in Nasdaq-listed MicroStrategy (MSTR), a leveraged play on bitcoin (BTC), signaling a cautious shift in market sentiment. MSTR’s 250-day put-call skew, which shows the difference in implied volatility between puts (options to sell) and calls (options to buy), has bounced to zero from -20% in three weeks, according to a data tracking website Market Chameleon. It means that call options, which traders use to achieve asymmetric upside gains from a potential rally in the underlying asset, are now trading at parity with puts that offer downside protection rather than the unusually high premium observed…

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold the altcoins sent to his wallet and donated them to a foundation. According to crypto analyst Ember CN’s post, the vitalik.eth address belonging to Vitalik Buterin sold a total of 28 memecoins for 984,000 USDC in recent hours. Buterin sent these USDCs to an address known to be affiliated with Kanro, a biotech charity founded by Buterin. While some memecoins experienced a sharp decline due to their small market capitalization and weak pool depth, Buterin’s altcoin sales were as follows: “50T DINU → 13.208 USDC; 50.48 billion ESTEE → 116.306 USDC; 300 million FREE…

Somnia Ecosystem, Layer 1 blockchain for high-demand on-chain consumer apps, is going to benefit with funds up to $270 million through investments from Improbable and MSquared. The financial investment targets the ongoing expansion of Somnia’s Layer 1 blockchain which powers advanced consumer applications with a focus on gaming scenarios and digital economic systems. The transaction abilities emerged after Somnia conducted Devnet testing, establishing 1.05 million ERC-20 token transfers per second and 300,000 NFT mints per second. The acquired funds from the investment will help launch the testnet while advancing the development of network infrastructure components. Venture capital support from Improbable…

Chief commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence Mike McGlone has published an X post about Bitcoin, Dogecoin and “2.4 million of so-called cryptocurrencies.” McGlone made a stunning prediction about Dogecoin and other small-cap altcoins. “2.4 million Bitcoin wannabes” and Dogecoin vs BTC Mike McGlone’s message to the crypto community on X is about altcoins and meme coins in particular. He has referred to both as “Bitcoin wannabes” of which, as he pointed out, there are 2.4 million in the market now. He has called all them “so-called cryptocurrencies”, stating that Dogecoin is one of them and that “future generations may look…

MetaArena and Agentora have recently teamed up. This is an exciting development witnessed by the Web3 gaming world. Both platforms seek to merge their systems through a combination of Agentora’s AI-native autonomous metaverse and MetaArena’s blockchain MMORPG, thus creating an AI-driven digital civilization. 🚀Thrilled to announce the new partnership between MetaArena and @agentora_ai!🔥Agentora’s AI-native autonomous metaverse meets MetaArena’s blockchain MMORPG, creating a next-gen digital civilization powered by AI Agents.⚡️The future of gaming is here! pic.twitter.com/aDvzW0EXmA — Meta Arena (@MetaArenaGaming) February 18, 2025 Merging AI Agents with Blockchain Gaming Agentora established an advanced platform that enables players to operate as neural…

In a recent interview with Citizen JMP Bank, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse shared his thoughts on the company and his perspective on the contrasting approaches that are being followed in the cryptocurrency space. Garlinghouse also highlighted Ripple’s approach and how different it is from approach of the other cryptocurrencies. Brad Garlinghouse talks about Ripple bridging DeFi and traditional finance According to the interview tape, the CEO addresses Bitcoin’s approach as an anti-government and anti-bank system. He commented ” I always worry that the Achilles’ heel of Bitcoin might be this kind of anti-bank and anti-government attitude and to me it…

Hive powers Web 3.0 with decentralized social media, gaming, and identity solutions, rewarding users with HIVE and HBD tokens. Aragon revolutionizes governance by enabling DAOs on Ethereum and Polygon, letting users govern with the ANT token. Civic enhances identity security with blockchain-based verification, giving users control over their data via CVC tokens. These top picks Hive, Aragon, and Civic are transforming social media, governance, and identity security Hive(HIVE): Decentralized Social Media and Web 3.0 Current price: $0.3286 Market cap: $164.55M The Hive blockchain uses delegated proof-of-stake (DPoS) as its consensus mechanism to operate. The forked blockchain administration born from Steem…