Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency

Inflation is the reason the Fed can't step in to help. The Fed's preferred gauge hit 3.1% year-over-year in January 2026 and is expected to hover near 2.9% through December—well above the 2% target.

Ripple's launch in Brazil includes five products: payments, custody, stablecoins, prime brokerage, and treasury management, marking the first comprehensive offering in one market.

Bitcoin has likely run out of steam in the short term after dropping nearly 5% over the past 24 hours, with a pullback toward $65,000, a possible outcome in the coming days. Price action is likely to remain between $65,000 and $75,000 in the coming weeks.

While Kalshi's internal enforcement program handled these matters, under the Act, the Commission has full authority to police illegal trading practices. Sure, yeah, the CFTC can police this. But it didn't. And there's not a lot of reasons to believe it will.

Ping Fai Yuen, a UK resident, held 2,323 Bitcoin in a Trezor hardware wallet in 2023. On Aug. 2 of that year, the full balance was transferred without his knowledge. The funds were later split across 71 separate addresses through a series of transactions. No movement has been recorded since Dec. 21, 2023.

Latin America has always been a priority market for Ripple - not just because of the scale of the opportunity, but because Brazil has built one of the most advanced and forward-thinking financial ecosystems in the world. We've spent more than a decade building the trust, licensing, and technology required to operate in regulated markets.

Now you're really opening up not only access-especially in places where they need it most- but also cross-border transfers and volume, where the pain is felt so high. Proponents of stablecoins have long touted the tokens' capacity to reduce fees for sending money cross-border, and PayPal's expansion aims to realize that potential by enabling users to keep funds in dollar equivalents.

The Fear & Greed Index compresses volatility, trading volume, social media sentiment, Bitcoin dominance, and Google Trends into a single number between 0 and 100. Below 25 means extreme fear, 26 to 49 is fear, 50 to 74 is greed, and above 75 is extreme greed. Crypto markets typically spend only 15% to 20% of their time below 25, so 34 days there means the market sentiment has been in extreme fear for a long period.

Bitcoin price rising about 8% since the first strikes against Iran, reaching a one-month high above $73,000. The move placed the digital asset ahead of several traditional safe-haven and risk assets during a period of geopolitical stress.

In a motion urging the court to deny Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial, an attorney for the government, Sean Buckley, slammed the FTX founder for his 'incoherent' attempt to claim 'political victimhood.' Pointing out that Bankman-Fried was 'one of the largest donors to President Biden's 2020 presidential campaign,' Buckley alleged that Bankman-Fried's abrupt party-swapping was 'a political strategy the defendant pre-planned and committed to in writing before he was convicted.'

What makes him complicated for crypto is that he's not entirely against it. Warsh invested in [firms] behind a spot Bitcoin ETF, and in Electric Capital, a crypto-focused venture firm. He has called Bitcoin a "policeman" that keeps central banks honest. But his policy preferences—tighter money, higher real interest rates, and a smaller Fed balance sheet—are exactly the conditions that pull capital out of risk assets and back into bonds.

Under current law, bitcoin is treated as property, which means every purchase with the asset triggers a capital gains calculation, regardless of transaction size. BPI argues that this framework discourages routine payments, such as buying coffee or sending small remittances, because users must track cost basis and report minor gains and losses.