Bitcoin BTC$88,015.81 remained stuck in limbo at around $88,000 on Monday as gold and silver extended their blistering rallies before paring gains. BTC is up a bit from what’s now becoming a renewed pattern of panicky weekend selling, but down from around the $90,000 late Friday. Rising odds of a government shutdown on Jan. 31
Kevin O’Leary says U.S. crypto market structure legislation is finally on the brink, predicting it will pass before the midterm elections despite months of delays. Summary The Shark Tank star gave CoinDesk his estimate of when the crypto bill will clear Congress. O’Leary, chairman of O’Leary Ventures, often praises the Trump administration’s embrace of digital
One of the more interesting long-term practical benefits of the technology and concept behind decentralized autonomous organizations is that DAOs allow us to very quickly prototype and experiment with an aspect of our social interactions that is so far arguably falling behind our rapid advancements in information and social technology elsewhere: organizational governance. Although our
The crypto market stabilized on Monday, January 26, as gold and the stock market rose, and the US Dollar Index plunged ahead of the upcoming Federal Reserve interest rate decision. Summary The crypto market pared back some of its earlier losses. The Bitcoin price rose to over $88,400 from the intraday low of $87,000. The
Amid ongoing crypto market uncertainty, one on-chain metric indicates Chainlink (LINK), Cardano (ADA) and Ethereum (ETH) could all be significantly undervalued. The digital asset analytics firm Santiment says all three assets are flashing negative percentages for their 30-day Market Value to Realized Value (MVRV) ratios. The MVRV is the ratio of a crypto asset’s market
Rhode Island lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to establish a special legislative commission to study blockchain technology and crypto, showing some continuous pro-bitcoin momentum for the state to explore its role in the digital asset economy. Senate Bill S 2198, introduced by Senators Lou DiPalma, Gu, Burke, Urso, Paolino, and Zurier, would create a five-member
Development of Ethereum has been progressing increasingly quickly this past month. The release of PoC5 (“proof of concept five”) last month the day before the sale marked an important event for the project, as for the first time we had two clients, one written in C++ and one in Go, perfectly interoperating with each other
A documentary focused on First Lady Melania Trump sparked a meme coin rally, while Official Trump, remains in free fall. Summary The Melania coin is up 17% over the past week. The White House hosted a black-tie event to screen a Brett Ratner-directed documentary focused on the First Lady. That day, VA ICU nurse Alex
One of the key properties that is usually sought for in a cryptoeconomic algorithm, whether a blockchain consensus algorithm such a proof of work or proof of stake, a reputation system or a trading process for something like data transmission or file storage, is the ideal of incentive-compatibility – the idea that it should be
Institutional investors just sold an overall total of $1.73 billion in Bitcoin and crypto assets in only one week, according to a new update from Coinshares. The outflows are the largest since mid-November of 2025. Bitcoin led the exodus with $1.09 billion in outflows. Ethereum followed, shedding $630 million, while XRP saw $18.2 million exit.
