Polymarket war bets collide with the maps civilians use to survive
The first thing many Ukrainians check in the morning is not Instagram or email, it is a war map. DeepStateMap.Live, a volunteer-built OSINT project, shows which villages are under occupation, where Ukrainian advances hold, and where the front looks fragile.
RLUSD supply hit $1.26B, and 82% of it now sits on Ethereum, not XRPL
Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin is rapidly expanding on Ethereum rather than the company’s native XRP Ledger (XRPL). According to CryptoSlate data, RLUSD’s total circulating supply has surged to $1.26 billion within 12 months of its launch. Of this, roughly $1.03 billion, or 82%
Bitcoin’s bull market: A slowdown, not a breakdown
Bitcoin’s big buyers seem to have stepped off the gas. For the better part of the last year or so, it felt like there was a constant tailwind behind Bitcoin’s price. ETFs vacuumed up coins, stablecoin balances kept climbing, and traders
Why Pro Traders Choose Crypto Prop Firms
The digital asset landscape has matured significantly over the past several years. Simple spot holding is no longer the only viable strategy for generating substantial returns. Today’s market rewards precision, algorithmic discipline, and above all else, liquidity. For skilled traders, the
How Trump’s crypto empire became the center of a new influence economy
A new staff report released by House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin alleges that President Donald Trump has significantly utilized the presidency to expand his personal wealth through cryptocurrency ventures. The report, titled Trump, Crypto, and a New Age of
Bitcoin on Wall Street will never be the same after a quiet Nasdaq move
On Nov. 26, Nasdaq’s International Securities Exchange quietly triggered one of the most important developments in Bitcoin’s financial integration. The trading platform asked the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to raise the position limit on BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT)
Bitcoin is redrawing where cities and data centers rise as it competes for wasted energy, not cheap labor
For two centuries, factories chased cheap hands and dense ports. Today, miners roll into windy plateaus and hydro spillways, asking a simpler question: where are the cheapest wasted watts? When computing can move to energy rather than energy to people, the
Comparing Crypto Exchanges vs. Brokers: Which Is Better for Active Traders?
The crypto landscape in 2025 looks nothing like the manic ICO days of 2017 or the “DeFi summer” of 2020. Volumes are deeper, spreads are tighter, and regulatory lines, while still blurry, are finally being drawn. Research indicates that execution
‘We wear your loathing with pride:’ Why S&P downgraded Tether after it bought more gold than any country
Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, has spent the past year accumulating Bitcoin and gold at a pace that puts it on par with several sovereign treasuries. For context, the firm purchased more gold than every central bank combined over
How long can miners hold out as revenue hits record lows while Bitcoin’s security is at record highs?
Bitcoin’s hashrate is near record levels, yet miner revenue per unit of compute has fallen to record lows, pushing the network into a ‘high-security, low-profitability’ phase. While the network’s hashrate has pinned itself above the one-zettahash watermark, which is a record
Why Bitcoin pumped today: How US liquidity lifted BTC above $90,000 and ETH over $3,000
The crypto markets staged a convincing comeback on Nov. 27, snapping a prolonged period of stagnation as a critical shift in the United States’ liquidity forced capital back into risk assets. While the headline price action saw Bitcoin surge 5% to
Why Texas is buying Bitcoin from BlackRock before building a real reserve
Texas has taken the first formal step toward becoming the first US state to hold Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset. On Nov. 25, Lee Bratcher, president of the Texas Blockchain Council, reported that the world’s eighth-largest economy, valued at $2.7
Struggling to sleep? You’re not alone – How Bitcoin’s recent price crash is affecting other traders IRL
Bitcoin’s recent slide below $80,000 has triggered a wave of sleep disruption across the retail trading community, according to a new report from CEX.io. The flagship digital asset has since rebounded to about $88,000, but the roughly 31% drawdown from its
FBI called as Cardano split in two by a single transaction: Lessons for ETH and SOL client diversity
On Nov. 21, Cardano’s mainnet bifurcated into two competing histories after a single malformed staking-delegation transaction exploited a dormant bug in newer node software. For roughly 14 and a half hours, stake pool operators and infrastructure providers watched as blocks piled
Inside the JPMorgan boycott drama defending Bitcoin treasuries being kicked off major indexes
American financial services company MSCI’s October consultation on “digital asset treasury companies” arrived at a time when the mechanics of Bitcoin (BTC) exposure had already begun to fracture. By mid-2025, three roughly equal-sized channels funneled institutional capital into BTC: regulated spot
Custody shuffle continues as 87,464 more Bitcoin leaves institution-tagged wallets in 24 hours
Timechain Index founder Sani reported 87,464 BTC flowing out of institution-tagged wallets between Nov. 21 and Nov. 22, adding that he hadn’t seen such movement in months. The raw data showed over 15,000 BTC leaving tracked cohorts on Nov. 21 alone,
Crypto treasuries facing $130 billion value reckoning as ETFs reshape market
Investors long paid premiums for Digital Asset Treasury firms, seeing them as practical substitutes for holding Bitcoin when direct access was limited. That approach worked when regulated channels were scarce and corporate balance sheets offered the closest approximation to holding the
Crossroads for Bitcoin: What’s next – $92k or $79k? Let’s break it down
Bitcoin bounced off $85,000 over the weekend and stayed within the $87k to $89.6k decision zone. The move keeps price pinned between nearby liquidity shelves on the attached 30-minute map, with the first overhead cap clustered at $92.8k to $93.4k and