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Ethereum price outlook as it charts a bearish crossover while exchange reserves fall to 2016 lows

EthereumFeb 24

Ethereum price fell 13% over the past week, charting a bearish crossover that hints at more downside ahead. At the same time, exchange reserves have fallen to 10-year lows. Summary Ethereum price has fallen nearly 46% from its yearly high. Bearish chart structures, including a descending channel and a multi-year head and shoulders pattern, continue to cap upside. According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum ($ETH) price fell nearly 46% to around $1,800 on Feb. 6 from its highest point this year. This came as the broader crypto market lost over a trillion in value, with multiple macroeconomic and geopolitical concerns…

SBF claims he never filed for bankruptcy in latest message from jail

LegalFeb 24

Sam Bankman-Fried posted again after reviving his X account to complain about the perceived flaws in his conviction process. Bankman-Fried stated that FTX was never officially bankrupt and that he did not declare insolvency. Sam Bankman-Fried posted another explanation of the FTX crash, arguing the exchange never went bankrupt, and he did not personally file for insolvency. Instead, he insists that the procedure was filed by the lawyers who seized the company. https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/2021165548306907339 As Cryptopolitan reported earlier, Bankman-Fried came out against “Biden’s lawfare machine,” claiming the process against FTX was outside his control and there was no chance to present…

Enjoyment in activities shouldn’t be sacrificed for efficiency, the distinction...

GameFiFeb 24

Key takeaways Enjoyment in activities should not be sacrificed for efficiency or higher scores. Games are defined by voluntarily taking on obstacles to create struggle. Not all life activities can be framed as games. Practical activities differ from game activities in their goals and motivations. Intrinsic motivation is key in activities like mountain climbing, rejecting shortcuts. Motivation distinguishes games from non-games, focusing on process over outcome. Social media’s gamification influences behavior without being true games. Scoring systems in games provide objective performance measures. Scoring systems can misrepresent the complexity of communication and art. Metrics often replace nuanced understanding with simplified…

AMD jumps as Meta signs multiyear AI infrastructure partnership

MetaverseFeb 24

Shares of AMD climbed more than 10% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company announced a multiyear deal with Meta to advance its AI development, according to Yahoo Finance data. Under the agreement valued by analysts at approximately $100 billion, AMD will deploy up to 6GW of Instinct GPUs for AI workloads and modern AI model training and inference, as noted by the companies. In addition, AMD’s technology will be deployed in the Helios rack-scale architecture, supporting large-scale, energy-efficient AI computing. The two companies will collaborate on vertical integration across silicon, systems, and software, ensuring hardware and software roadmaps…

Ethereum Price Continues to Bleed – What to Expect Next? Here Are the Comments

EthereumFeb 12

After a relatively calm start to the week in the cryptocurrency market, Ethereum and Bitcoin, the two major crypto assets, have resumed their decline as of today. Increased risk aversion in global markets and weakening investor appetite have increased pressure on digital assets. Ethereum ($ETH) fell by as much as 6.2% during the day, dropping to $1,989. $ETH, the second-largest market capitalization after Bitcoin, has experienced sharper losses compared to Bitcoin since the sharp sell-off in October. Ethereum has lost more than 40% of its value since the peak of the cryptocurrency market. Assets with lower liquidity and those described…

Crypto funds bleed $454M in outflows as Fed rate-cut hopes fade

RegulationFeb 12

Crypto investment products posted significant outflows last week, with a four-day run of withdrawals erasing part of the $1.5 billion in inflows seen during the first two trading days of 2026. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) saw $454 million in outflows last week, European crypto asset manager CoinShares reported on Monday. “This turnaround in sentiment appears to stem mainly from investor worries over the diminishing prospects of a Federal Reserve interest rate cut in March following recent macro data releases,” CoinShares’ head of research, James Butterfill, said in the update. Despite last week’s outflows, month-to-date flows remained positive at $229 million,…

White House Hosts Second Stablecoin Summit With Banks and Crypto Giants

LegalFeb 12

It is the second stablecoin roundtable of the White House today, where traditional finance and big crypto players gather together. There are banking giants such as JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. Meanwhile, the major crypto companies including Coinbase, Circle, and Tether exist. This convergence is a rarity because stablecoins have shifted to the periphery to the mainstream of U.S. financial policy debate. Stablecoins Enter the Regulatory Limelight This conference is an indication that stablecoins are not being taken as experimental assets anymore. The policymakers have now considered them as important financial tools. With the invitation of the issuers…

Ethereum Super Bull? New Whale Opens 16,270 ETH Long

EthereumFeb 12

After a relatively quiet start to the week, Ethereum slid in the early Tuesday session, falling to a low of $1,994. At the time of writing, Ethereum remains in red, down 1.28% in the last 24 hours to $2,010 and down 12.26% weekly. Amid the Ethereum price drop, a brand new whale's contrarian strategy is catching attention on the market. In a recent tweet, Lookonchain reported that a newly created wallet deposited 12.88 million $USDC into Hyperliquid to go long on $ETH with 20x leverage. So far, he has opened a long of 16,270 $ETH worth $33.38 million. This singular…

A Groundbreaking Leap for Institutional Digital Asset Adoption

RegulationFeb 12

In a landmark move for traditional finance, Standard Chartered announced plans on March 15, 2025, to launch a cryptocurrency prime brokerage service through its innovation subsidiary SC Ventures, fundamentally reshaping institutional access to digital assets and marking one of the most significant banking entries into crypto infrastructure to date. Standard Chartered Crypto Prime Brokerage: Institutional Gateway Standard Chartered’s strategic initiative represents a calculated expansion into digital asset services. According to Bloomberg’s exclusive report, the banking giant will develop this service through SC Ventures, its dedicated innovation and ventures arm. The planned crypto prime brokerage will specifically target institutional clients, offering…

Kazakhstan to set up state-controlled custodial platform for crypto assets in coming weeks

LegalFeb 12

Financial authorities in Kazakhstan intend to set up a state-controlled custodial platform for crypto assets in the coming weeks, the head of the monetary authority in Astana unveiled. The announcement comes amid efforts to legalize and liberalize the circulation of cryptocurrencies in the Central Asian nation, which has already established itself as a mining hotspot. Kazakh government to offer storage services for digital assets The country will soon have its own crypto custodial solution, the Chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK), Timur Suleimenov, made that clear on Tuesday. Speaking during a government meeting, the governor highlighted that work…