The Stellar Development Foundation announced at Consensus Hong Kong that TopNod, a non-custodial wallet, will integrate with the Stellar network. TopNod uses key sharding and Trusted Execution Environment technology to remove the need for seed phrases and is focused on tokenized real-world assets and stablecoins, though it remains a relatively

Movements in USDT, the market’s largest stablecoin by capitalization, are showing rare signals after many years: market cap growth has shifted from slowing to negative. CryptoQuant’s 60-day average USDT Market Cap Change data turned negative in February, the first time since Q3 2023. This change raises concerns that

Lookonchain shows Erik Voorhees created nine new wallets and spent $6.81 million in USDC to acquire 1,382 ounces of PAXG, buying at an average price of $4,926 per ounce. Voorhees, an early Bitcoin advocate and ShapeShift founder, has long promoted Bitcoin as “digital gold,” but these purchases

Coinbase has launched crypto wallet infrastructure that allows AI agents — programs that can think and transact without human input — to spend, earn and trade crypto. In a post on Wednesday, Coinbase programmers Erik Reppel and Josh Nickerson said the new Agentic Wallets feature aims to build on today’s agents,

Ethereum has slipped below a short-term structure after a more than 5% drop in recent days, falling under $1,980 on February 10 when a narrow rebound channel failed. The Chaikin Money Flow stayed below zero during the bounce, signaling weak large‑scale buying and leaving the recovery without strong

Institutional investors can now trade crypto on Binance without depositing assets directly on the exchange thanks to an off-exchange collateral program from Binance and Franklin Templeton. The initiative uses tokenized money market fund shares issued through Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform as yield-bearing collateral that remain in third-party custody,

Hackers now move stolen crypto in as little as two seconds after an attack begins, often before victims disclose breaches. Global Ledger’s 2025 analysis of 255 hacks worth $4.04 billion found that 76% of incidents saw funds moved before public disclosure, rising to 84.6% in the second

XRP recently slipped below $1.50 and fell under its realized price, reviving a bottom signal last seen nearly two years ago. The move triggered panic selling, though some investors view the weakness as a buying opportunity; historical patterns suggest a deeper consolidation or an emerging value zone. On-chain data

US lawmakers questioned Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins at a House hearing about the agency's enforcement actions against the crypto industry and why several cases were dismissed after the leadership change. Representative Stephen Lynch said enforcement actions since President Donald Trump assumed office and Atkins took

Berachain’s native token, BERA, surged more than 150% on February 11, its sharpest single-day gain in months. The move followed weeks of renewed activity after the project spent much of 2025 under pressure from falling prices, token unlock concerns and investor uncertainty; earlier, BERA had risen nearly 40% when

BitMine Immersion Technologies is entering a high-risk phase as paper losses on its Ethereum holdings deepen. The company’s total invested capital stood at nearly $15 billion while the current portfolio value dropped to about $7.7 billion, leaving nearly 49% of its investment value wiped out on paper. Ethereum

Ondo Finance said its Ondo Global Markets platform has integrated Chainlink as its official data oracle, bringing price feeds for tokenized US stocks — SPYon, QQQon and TSLAon — live on Ethereum. The feeds are already used on Euler, where users can post the tokenized equities as collateral to borrow stablecoins. They

MYX Finance has dropped sharply, down 23% in the last 24 hours and trading at $4.87 after sliding below the critical $5.00 level. Selling pressure accelerated after the token failed to hold key intraday support, and market structure now reflects a bearish shift following several sessions of declining

The US added 130,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%, reducing the chances of near-term Federal Reserve rate cuts. The 10-year Treasury yield jumped toward 4.2%, tightening financial conditions and putting pressure on risk assets. Higher yields increase borrowing costs across the economy

Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. said it spent $129.5 million to acquire about 5 million HYPE tokens at an average price of $25.9, bringing its total holdings to roughly 17.6 million tokens. The firm said it still retains about $125 million in deployable capital, excluding reserves, and maintains access

Solana has entered a corrective phase after failing to hold its recent rebound. The token peaked near $88 on February 8 before slipping into a steady pullback, and the price has dropped nearly 10% since then, with selling pressure increasing over the past 24 hours. The 12-hour chart showed a

When a 5 p.m. PT ransom deadline passed in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, investigators were left with a key question: was the Bitcoin demand genuine, and who sent it? Two unverified notes sent to media claimed the 84-year-old, mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, had been abducted

Hong Kong, long committed to cryptocurrency and blockchain, is facing a competitive challenge from the crypto-friendly UAE, panelists said at Consensus Hong Kong. "The UAE is really aggressive," said Johnny Ng, founder of web3 investment firm Goldford Group and a member of the CPPCC, noting that Dubai and

The territory is on track to grant its first batch of stablecoin issuer licences in March 2026 under a regulatory framework set out by the Stablecoins Ordinance. Prospective issuers must meet strict standards for use cases, risk controls, anti-money-laundering measures and reserve backing before they are authorised, and only a

A recent Bernstein outlook lays out conditions under which Bitcoin could recover from its slump and reach $150,000 by year-end: the 200-week simple moving average must hold, new-investor flows need to turn positive, capital parked in stablecoins must rotate back into crypto, quantum-security concerns must ease, and the US

Strategy stock rebounded about 20% after a Chaikin Money Flow divergence signaled improving capital inflows despite lower prices. The short-term bounce unfolded across Friday and Monday trading, but the broader technical structure remains fragile as macro indicators still lean bearish and sustained upside depends on stronger conviction returning to Bitcoin

PIPPIN price has surged 159% over the past five days, trading at $0.419 and moving closer to its all-time high. Momentum remains strong, but continued investor selling could test whether the token can sustain demand and convert resistance into lasting support. The Network Value to Transactions (NVT) ratio remains

A Bitcoin wallet referenced in the ransom note sent after Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance showed activity for the first time, and surveillance footage was released as the search entered its second week. At the same time, traders on the prediction market Polymarket are assigning roughly a 78% probability that the

Pepe (PEPE), a large-cap meme coin on Ethereum, has entered its sixth consecutive week of decline, yet on-chain data shows smart money is still accumulating. Santiment’s data indicates the top 100 largest wallets gathered roughly 23.02 trillion PEPE over the past four months following the broader market sell-off

US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds extended an inflow streak to three sessions, recording $166.6 million on Tuesday and $311.6 million so far this week. That gain nearly offset last week’s $318 million of net outflows, after three consecutive weeks of losses totaling more than $3 billion. ETF