CZ says Bitcoin is not dead as retail BTC wallets add 0.36%, while whale wallets cut holdings by 0.20% in two weeks. Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, said Bitcoin would not stay “dead” for too long. His comment came as Bitcoin traded near the $60,000 support level. However, on-chain data shows a mixed
Following the arrest of former President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026, Venezuela has entered a phase of profound transformation, and tokenisation is emerging as a tool to boost economic growth The Bitfinex Securities’ Latin America Market Inclusion Report is the industry’s first analysis of the barriers facing all classes of fund-raisers and investors across Latin
On June 10, 2026, a hacker exploited five deprecated liquidity pools on Raydium, Solana largest decentralized exchange, draining approximately $1.34 million in crypto assets through a forged LP token attack on the protocol’s legacy AMM V3 program. The stolen funds included ~$900,000 in USDC, ~$357,000 in SOL, and ~$86,000 in RAY tokens. The RAY token
Bitcoin BTC$63,112.99 rose Thursday, and its share of the total crypto market, its dominance rate, gained alongside a meteoric rise in a lesser-known cryptocurrency. The BTC price advanced 2.4% in 24 hours to trade recently around $62,800. The CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) added 2.3% to 1,690 and the CoinDesk Memecoin Index (CDMEME) led gains with
When Morgan Stanley created a firmwide Head of Digital Asset Strategy role in January 2026, it handed the job to Amy Oldenburg — a 26-year veteran of the bank who spent much of her career in emerging markets, trading foreign exchange and equities in places where formal banking infrastructure was either unreliable or absent. That
Ethereum trades near $1,649 as Binance and Coinbase whales place sell walls at $1,750 and $1,655, keeping ETH under pressure. Ethereum is facing fresh selling pressure as large holders continue to block its recovery. ETH was trading near $1,649 after falling about 2.40% on the daily chart. Binance whales are forming a sell wall near
What the data confirmed In last week’s Bitfinex Alpha Intelligence Update, The Floor That Broke, we highlighted the ‘air gap’ present below $72,000, a thin band of realised-price distribution that offered no historical support, and which has become the key market feature behind BTC’s current velocity. That gap has now closed in full. As BTC
In Hyperliquid news today, the Hyperliquid Policy Center and venture capital firm Paradigm filed a joint letter to the US Treasury on Tuesday urging a revision of the proposed anti-money-laundering rule tied to the GENIUS Act, warning that the current draft could force US-regulated stablecoins entirely out of DeFi by January 2027. Hyperliquid’s HYPE token
For years, privacy in transacting was one of crypto’s most ambitious promises. Then it took a back seat as other trends took off. As developers focused on scaling blockchains and regulators scrutinized privacy tools such as Tornado Cash, much of the industry’s attention shifted elsewhere. But a new Ethereum proposal and a growing number of
Strategy Inc. CEO Phong Le somewhat pushed back Tuesday against the wave of criticism that followed the company’s first Bitcoin sale since 2022, telling CNBC’s Power Lunch that the move was a deliberate, limited exercise designed to signal operational flexibility — not a philosophical reversal. “We wanted to inoculate the market and we wanted to
