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.
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.
Nothing is impossible for Chris and Frieda. It is almost magical how they nail it every single time. I love this event. It's like an amusement park for Bitcoiners. Everybody is focused on having maximalist fun. Chris and Frieda are the wizards behind the scenes making it all come together.
The Crypto Partner Program, announced Wednesday, gathers more than 85 companies across the blockchain, fintech, and traditional banking sectors, including Binance, Circle, Gemini, PayPal, Paxos, Ripple, BitGo, and Crypto.com. The program is designed to explore practical applications for on-chain technology within existing payment infrastructure, focusing on areas such as cross-border transfers, business-to-business payments, and global payouts.
Binance's lawsuit protests a subheading on the article that said, 'Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance's founder, the company dismantled [the] probe and suspended the investigators.' A current reading of that article, however, shows the subheading now includes a note that 'Binance denied inquiry ended or staff fired for the concerns.'
USO does hold front-month WTI futures contracts and rolls them forward each month, selling the expiring contract and buying the next. When the futures curve is in contango, later-dated contracts cost more than near-term ones, so that the monthly roll is a guaranteed loss. You sell low, buy high, repeat. Over time, those small losses compound into a meaningful gap between what oil prices do and what USO shareholders actually earn.
On most modern blockchains, transaction data is publicly viewable in the mempool before it is sequenced, executed and confirmed in a block. This transparency creates avenues for sophisticated parties to engage in extractive practices known as Maximal Extractable Value (MEV). MEV exploits the block proposer's ability to reorder, include or omit transactions for financial gain.
MEV is especially notorious on Ethereum, where it continues to be extracted at a rate equivalent to 11% of block rewards. Data shows that nearly $300,000 was lost in sandwich attacks in September. This reveals that MEV is a recurring hidden fee, not a minor inefficiency, hitting large trades hardest in volatile markets.
ETHZilla is an Ether-focused digital asset treasury company. The sale underscores broader market pressures on Ether treasury models, as ETHZilla's stock has fallen sharply from its summer 2025 highs amid falling Ether (ETH) prices. This comes at a time when investor enthusiasm for leveraged or equity-wrapped crypto exposure appears to be waning.
In January 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused Nexo of offering and selling unregistered securities through this product. The SEC contended that the EIP met the legal definition of a security, raising broader questions about how retail-focused yield products should be regulated, what disclosure obligations apply, and what custody and counterparty risk protections are required.
Many collectors are looking to diversify their collections or discover emerging categories before they reach the level of demand we're seeing with Pokémon. While rare Pokémon cards are selling for millions in some instances, its competitors are catching on as collectors look for their next up-and-coming investment.
