For years, Bitcoin bulls have pitched the asset as a superior store of value - harder, faster, and more portable than gold. Through 2020 to 2024, the data backed that up. Not anymore.
Coinbase is reportedly in advanced talks to take a strategic equity stake in Bybit, the Dubai-headquartered exchange that currently ranks as the world's second-largest crypto trading platform by volume.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs snapped a prolonged stretch of outflows and stagnation last week, recording their first five-day inflow streak of 2026.
The organizers of TOKEN2049 Dubai announced on March 13 that the conference will not go ahead as planned on April 29–30, 2026.
Renowned investor and billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller has spent years dismissing crypto. He makes one exception: stablecoins.
Johann Kerbrat doesn't mince words. Robinhood's Head of Crypto has a simple explanation for why the company chose to build an Ethereum Layer 2 rather than launch its own standalone blockchain: everyone else doing the latter is, in his view, building a glorified database.
The 2025 Bitcoin cycle closed without breaking one of the market's more closely watched records. Long-Term Holders - wallets that have held Bitcoin for at least 155 days - spent approximately 15.1 million BTC over the course of this cycle.
Solana processed $650 billion in adjusted stablecoin transaction volume in February 2026 — more than double its previous record of roughly $300 billion set in October 2025.
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for running a scheme that sent roughly $800 million to North Korea's weapons programs in 2024.
Crypto markets absorbed a punishing mix of geopolitical shock and on-chain chaos this week, yet institutional money kept flowing in. The result was a market that looked, at times, more like a war room than a trading floor.
The XRP Ledger quietly shipped one of its most consequential updates in months. Version 3.1.2, released in March 2026, carries no new features - but that's precisely the point.
The global stablecoin market is entering a new phase as Circle’s USDC has surpassed Tether’s USDT in transaction volume for the first time since 2019, signaling a shift in how digital dollars are used across the crypto economy.



