Crypto funding falls 15% in Q1 2026, while investors shift toward tokenization, AI agents, and advanced DeFi innovation across global markets. The crypto investment market is slowing down, yet new trends are strongly shaping its future direction. In early 2026, Coinbase Ventures announced a drop in startup funding. However, investors are now focusing more on

Joe McCann, founder of crypto hedge fund Asymmetric Financial, is being held for questioning by the Tanzania Police Force following the death of his fiancée, lifestyle influencer Ashlee Jenae, at a luxury resort in Zanzibar on April 9, 2026. Tanzanian authorities have withheld his travel document and confirmed the investigation is ongoing. The official cause

XRP is starting to outperform in a way that gets attention. The token is up about 8% on the week and around 3% on the day, pushing ahead of bitcoin and ether, but the move still looks controlled rather than explosive. That keeps the focus on whether this is early accumulation or just another range-bound

There are 21 million bitcoin. That number is fixed, coded into the protocol, finite. It is one of the most consequential design decisions in the history of money, and yet for most people it remains an abstraction. Green digits cascading down a black screen like something out of The Matrix, or a talking point tossed

XRP launches on Solana as wXRP, rises 5% to $1.50, unlocking DeFi access with over $100M liquidity and strong market demand. XRP has officially launched on the Solana network as wrapped XRP, known as wXRP. As a result, the token price increased by 5.15% and reached $1.50. Additionally, this introduction creates new opportunities to XRP

Welcome to our final edition of Bitfinex Alpha 2025. In this edition we look back at what influenced the market in 2025, and what we believe will determine performance in 2026. In what was an end of an era, we saw a clear structural break from Bitcoin’s traditional four-year, halving-driven framework. With annual BTC issuance

Bitwise has launched BAVA, an exchange-traded fund holding Avalanche (AVAX crypto) tokens directly and staking a portion of those holdings to generate yield for investors. It is the first Avalanche ETF to market with a staking component built in from day one, beating competing filings from VanEck and Grayscale to the launch. The detail most

Leading bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR) has filed a proxy that, if approved, would allow for semi-monthly dividends on its STRC “Stretch” series of preferred stock. The move would have no effect on STRC’s annual dividend obligations or dividend rate (currently 11.5%), noted Executive Chairman Michael Saylor. Instead, he said, “[the] proposed changes are intended

Bitcoin’s quantum debate keeps slipping sideways because people keep arguing about two different things at once. One question is technical: if quantum computing gets good enough to break Bitcoin’s signature scheme, the protocol can respond. New address types, migration rules, soft forks, deprecations, key rotation. That is a real engineering problem, but it is still

Bitnomial’s full CFTC stack gives Kraken instant entry into U.S. derivatives without years of regulatory buildup. Kraken’s parent company, Payward, is moving deeper into regulated U.S. derivatives with a major acquisition. The firm has agreed to buy Bitnomial in a deal valued at up to $550 million. Approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission remains