Bitcoin price held a razor-thin range between $76,000 and $77,000 on Monday, recording just a -0.05% change at $76,797.74 while the broader crypto market buckled under iran geopolitical pressure. Over $300 million in crypto positions were liquidated in 24 hours, according to data from Coinglass, with long traders absorbing the bulk of those losses. The…
Ethereum dropped another 10.2% this week, with the ETH/BTC ratio sinking toward 0.0275, and market maker Wintermute is now flatly calling ETH “not the right asset for this macro” as yields and inflation grind higher. Summary Wintermute says ETH is “not the right asset for this macro” as real yields rise and inflation re-accelerates. ETH…
Google is opening the doors to CodeMender, its AI-powered code security agent, giving external developers API access for the first time. The move transforms what was an internal research project into a product aimed squarely at the growing market for autonomous vulnerability detection and patching. The timing is not subtle. Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview rattled…
On February 3, 2026, MetaMask announced an integration with Ondo Finance that lets eligible users buy, hold, and trade tokenized US stocks, ETFs, and commodities, including Tesla, NVIDIA, Apple, and gold, directly in their self-custodial wallets. The real question isn’t whether this is interesting. The question is who has access, who is blocked, why, and…
Wintermute launched its first DeFi vault product, Armitage, supporting collateral types unavailable on competing curator platforms. Summary Wintermute launched Armitage, its first DeFi vault curation product, designed to support collateral types that other vault curators on platforms like Morpho do not accept. The move expands Wintermute beyond its core role as a market maker and…
Stablecoin infrastructure startup Checker has closed an $8M seed round with a roster of investors that reads like a who’s-who of crypto venture capital. Galaxy Ventures, Framework Ventures, and Al Mada Ventures all participated in the raise. What we know about the round Checker is positioning itself as a stablecoin infrastructure company, though the precise…
55 million people are sitting on Pi Coin right now, unable to fully spend it, waiting for a mainnet that keeps getting closer but never quite arriving. Meta AI looked at that locked-up demand and predicts a 13 to 33x waiting to happen. $2 to $5 by December 2026. From $0.15. The math Meta AI…
“If Bitcoin keeps dropping we may see ADA do the same as well,” one analyst forecasted. Cardano’s native cryptocurrency is among the many altcoins posting serious price declines over the past week. Some market observers believe the asset could still see another pullback in the near term, arguing that a final dip may be…
Crypto exchange Ouinex has raised $3.5m from its own traders, lifting total funding to $9m to build a “Non‑Centralized Order Book” designed to shield retail from market makers. Summary Ouinex secures $3.5m, bringing total funding to $9m Round funded solely by retail and professional traders on the platform New capital will build a “No‑CLOB” model…
The SEC is finalizing this week an “innovation exemption” framework that would allow regulated crypto platforms to list tokenized versions of stocks like Apple and Tesla, trading 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without ever touching the New York Stock Exchange. On the surface, that sounds like the biggest bridge ever built between…
