Strategy is no longer “just borrowing to buy Bitcoin.” By issuing perpetual preferred shares across multiple series, it is building a capital-markets machine that manufactures yield products on top of a Bitcoin balance sheet—without the classic maturity wall of corporate debt.
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On-chain ‘apparent demand’ has slipped to roughly -106,000 BTC on a 30-day sum, suggesting weakening net absorption. But in a market shaped by ETFs, derivatives, and fragmented liquidity, negative demand is less a prediction than a map of where risk—and opportunity—are likely to concentrate next.
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Bybit’s Bitcoin taker buy/sell ratio reportedly hit ~30.33—an extreme reading that signals aggressive market buys dominating execution. But a spike like this can mean three very different things: new longs entering, shorts being forced out, or hedged flow moving through perps. The difference matters more than the number.
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In 2025, the market stopped treating token launches as celebrations and started treating them as risk events. With major airdrop tokens down heavily since TGE, 2026 is shaping up to be an extinction era—where only protocols with real revenue, real users, and credible value capture can survive.
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Stablecoin payments reportedly reached $2.9T in 2025, and forecasts cited by Bloomberg suggest a path toward $56.6T by 2030. The real question isn’t whether stablecoins grow—it’s which “jobs” they replace, and what must be true for the internet’s dollar layer to scale safely.
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After December showed roughly $1.8B in stablecoin net outflows from Binance, early January flipped positive with more than $670M net inflow in a single week. That looks like returning buying power—but the deeper story is how stablecoins move through exchanges as collateral, settlement, and optionality rather than an automatic spot bid.
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The $95K strike has become a psychological and mechanical battleground. Rising call premiums from the early-2026 rebound point to stronger upside conviction—but the real story is the stabilization: call buying leveled off while put selling pressure eased, hinting at patience rather than panic.
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Bitcoin futures open interest is ticking up again, hinting at improving risk appetite and a steadier derivatives market. But OI is a double-edged metric: it can confirm healthier participation—or quietly reload the leverage that makes the next volatility spike inevitable.
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Perp DEXs didn’t just “grow” in 2025—they changed where trading lives. In 2026, the winning battlefield won’t be UI. It will be distribution, risk, and liquidity.
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Coinbase is pausing peso-based rails in Argentina while keeping crypto-to-crypto services live. The headline sounds operational—but the deeper story is about where exchanges actually take risk: not on-chain, but in the messy middle layer between banks, rules, and settlement.
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By acquiring The Clearing Company, Coinbase is not just adding another product line. It is positioning itself at the center of a new market where opinions about future events trade as liquid contracts, and where compliance and infrastructure matter as much as user interface. The move shows how prediction markets are maturing from a niche experiment into a strategic pillar of the 'Everything Exchange' vision.
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After leaving the UK in 2023 when new financial promotion rules landed, Bybit has quietly returned with a spot-only offering approved through licensed exchange Archax. This article explains how the structure works, why the UK’s approach to crypto marketing matters so much, and what Bybit’s comeback reveals about the future of regulated digital-asset platforms in London.
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Perpetual futures exchanges built on public blockchains are starting to resemble a fully fledged Wall Street stack: exchange, clearing house, prime broker and lending desk compressed into smart contracts. By comparing their cost structure with traditional finance and looking at how liquidity, leverage and stablecoins interact, we can see why Perp DEXs are turning into the core infrastructure layer for on-chain markets — and why risk management and regulation still matter just as much as innovation.
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PancakeSwap and YZI Labs are incubating Probable, a new prediction-market protocol on BNB Chain that lets users express views on sports, politics, digital assets and major events by trading outcome tokens collateralised in USDT. We examine how the design works, why stablecoins and oracles such as UMA sit at the core of the system, and what this says about the next phase of on-chain market infrastructure.
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dYdX has launched its first spot trading product on Solana and, for the first time, opened access to U.S. users. Behind what looks like a simple product release is a much bigger story: a derivatives-native DeFi venue repositioning itself as a multi-product, multi-chain platform that tries to align performance, transparency and regulatory realities.
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Gemini’s Gemini Titan platform has secured a U.S. CFTC Designated Contract Market license to list yes/no event contracts, opening a new chapter where prediction markets, crypto infrastructure and regulated derivatives begin to intersect.
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If X brings real-time price tracking for crypto tokens and stocks directly into the timeline, it could turn social attention into a new onboarding funnel—boosting market literacy while also raising fresh questions about hype, manipulation, and regulation.
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Ledger says its core systems and seed phrases remain safe after a customer-data exposure tied to third-party payments partner Global-e. The bigger takeaway isn’t about hardware wallets being compromised—it’s about how modern crypto security is increasingly shaped by “boring” external vendors: checkout, shipping, cloud, and customer-support stacks. The breach changes the threat model from key theft to identity-driven phishing, and that shift deserves a different kind of vigilance.
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The UNIfication proposal marks a historic shift for Uniswap: protocol fees are finally activated, 100 million UNI have been burned, front-end fees are set to zero, and future revenue streams are explicitly routed through governance. Instead of capturing value primarily at the company layer, Uniswap is now directing more of the economic upside back to the protocol and its token holders.
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Solana Foundation’s new Kora infrastructure is designed to make on-chain activity feel less like using a blockchain and more like interacting with a familiar Web2 app. By letting applications cover fees, accept almost any token for payments, and isolate transaction signing in secure environments, Kora aims to remove three of the biggest frictions that keep mainstream users away from on-chain experiences.
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The x402 standard turns the old HTTP 402 error into a native checkout flow for AI agents, allowing them to pay in stablecoins directly over the internet without accounts or API keys. Backed by players like Coinbase, Cloudflare and Solana, it points to a future where economic activity increasingly flows between machines rather than only between human wallets.
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The Museum of Modern Art in New York has added eight CryptoPunks to its permanent collection, signaling that NFTs are no longer just a speculative experiment but a chapter in the story of contemporary art. This piece unpacks why that matters, how it changes the conversation around digital ownership, and what it might mean for the next generation of artists and collectors.
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A new bipartisan proposal in Washington, the Digital Asset PARITY Act, aims to bring order to one of the most confusing parts of crypto: taxation. From small stablecoin payments to staking rewards, wash-sale rules and institutional lending, the draft sketches a future where digital assets are treated more like traditional financial instruments and less like a legal grey zone.
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The recent tension between Aave Labs and the Aave DAO over interface fees is not only a story about a few hundred thousand dollars. It is a case study that exposes the unfinished legal and economic framework of DeFi: who owns the contracts, who earns the revenue, and how should regulators treat a protocol that is supposedly owned by everyone and no one at the same time?
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HMRC has proposed a new DeFi tax framework that would delay capital-gains tax until users actually dispose of their tokens, instead of triggering tax events every time they lend, borrow or provide liquidity. The key idea is a ‘no gain, no loss’ rule for many on-chain transfers, a change that could make life much simpler for UK crypto users while still keeping the tax net in place when real economic gains are realised.
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Rumors are swirling that the U.S. Treasury and IRS have rolled out special tax preferences for crypto companies without Congress. Our fact-check finds no official record of broad, affirmative tax breaks; the public record in 2024–2025 centers on broker reporting rules and a congressional rollback of an IRS effort to classify certain DeFi actors as brokers. Still, even the *idea* of executive-branch tax tweaks is enough to move boardroom plans. We map what’s real, what’s plausible under existing authority, and how crypto businesses should prepare for either outcome.
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A practical, example-driven guide to custodial insurance: what it covers, how claims work, common exclusions and how to choose a policy.
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A practical guide to smart-contract insurance: mechanics, underwriting, claim workflows, a worked example of an security vulnerability and how a claim is evaluated and paid, plus limitations and best practices.
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South Korea’s corporate crypto thaw is less about a bullish headline and more about market plumbing: guardrails, custody, compliance, and how a retail-driven venue learns to absorb process-driven capital. The most durable impact will show up in liquidity and infrastructure—after the initial excitement fades.
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A proposed 10% cap on credit card interest rates frames a classic policy tradeoff: reduce household burden today, or risk shrinking access to unsecured credit—especially for high-risk and low-income borrowers. The real question isn’t whether 20%–30% APR feels unfair; it’s who pays for risk when the price of risk is capped.
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As crypto integrates into mainstream finance, the biggest risk shifts from private keys to identity databases. France’s recent incidents expose a new kind of vulnerability: compliance itself.
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The last 24 hours didn’t just move prices—it exposed where crypto’s center of gravity is shifting: from hype cycles to infrastructure, legality, and the plumbing that routes real money.
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Andreessen Horowitz’s reported $15B raise isn’t just a big number—it’s a clue about what kind of risk capital wants in 2026: infrastructure, AI capability, and security-adjacent cash flows shaped by policy.
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Wealthy buyers are increasingly using crypto to purchase property across Europe via intermediaries like Brighty. The story isn’t “crypto replaces banks”—it’s that crypto offers faster settlement and a new way to prove source-of-funds when traditional rails become slow, opaque, or risk-averse.
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Trying to guess the exact bottom in a downtrend is a game of ego. Splitting your capital into several tranches, and accumulating step by step, is a game of probabilities and discipline. This article explains why the investors who survive and thrive in the next cycle are usually not the ones who bought the lowest tick, but the ones who still have capital, psychology and positioning when the trend finally turns.
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Uptrends and downtrends shape every chart, from digital assets to traditional markets. This guide explains how to recognise them using price structure, trendlines and moving averages—and how traders use that information to manage risk and plan entries and exits more calmly.
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Support and resistance levels are the backbone of chart-based analysis. This guide explains what they are, how to draw them realistically, and how traders use them to plan entries, exits and risk—not as magic lines, but as practical reference areas in a volatile market.
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Long before modern indicators like RSI, MACD or Bollinger Bands, Dow Theory laid the groundwork for how technicians think about trends, phases and market psychology. This guide explains the core principles of Dow Theory and shows how they still help traders and investors read long-term structure in today’s markets.
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Moving averages are one of the first tools most traders encounter in technical analysis. This guide explains what moving averages are, the difference between simple and exponential versions, how to choose timeframes, and how to use them to read trend and structure—while being realistic about their limitations.
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MACD is one of the most popular momentum indicators in technical analysis. This guide explains how the Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator is built, what its standard settings mean, how to read crossovers, zero-line shifts and divergences, and how to integrate MACD into a structured, brand-safe trading framework.
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