Category: Other Crypto News

Crypto Networks Are ‘Borderless, Adoption Is Not’: PwC

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Crypto adoption is growing at different rates around the world, with some regions advancing much faster than others, says accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). “While crypto networks are borderless, adoption is not,” PwC said in its Global Crypto Regulation Report 2026. “Payments, remittances, savings, capital markets, and tokenization use cases are emerging unevenly across regions.” PwC said that crypto adoption still depends on economic conditions, financial inclusion, and existing financial infrastructure, leading to a “fragmented global ecosystem” where the technology solves “very different problems” across different markets. The report comes as…

Bitwise Says Crypto Has Likely Bottomed, Echoing Q1 2023 Setup

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Bitwise Asset Management is arguing that crypto’s current drawdown has the fingerprints of a cyclical low: weak prices alongside strengthening on-chain and business fundamentals, a pattern the firm says last appeared in Q1 2023 before a multi-year rally. In its Q4 2025 “Crypto Market Review,” Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan frames the quarter as an unusually important inflection point precisely because the signals are not all moving in the same direction. “But sometimes—every once in a while—the charts are mixed,” Hougan wrote. “The last one I remember was Q1…

US Bank Lobby Says Fighting Stablecoin Yields A Top Priority

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The American Bankers Association (ABA) has made cracking down on stablecoin yield a top priority for 2026, amid its ongoing debate with US lawmakers that it will hurt the banking industry’s competitiveness. The ABA said on Tuesday that one of several priorities it has this year is to “stop payment stablecoins from becoming deposit substitutes that slash community bank lending by prohibiting paying interest, yield or rewards regardless of the platform.” Stablecoin oversight topped a list of five priorities, which also included fighting financial fraud, stopping arbitrary interest rate caps,…

Capital One Acquires Brex In $5.15B Deal

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Capital One’s acquisition of Brex comes just months after the payment company launched support for stablecoins. Major US bank Capital One has struck a $5.15 billion deal to buy the fintech Brex and is set to acquire the company’s stablecoin payments solution. Capital One said on Thursday that the deal is a combination of stock and cash transaction and is expected to close in mid-2026. “Since our founding, we set out to build a payments company at the frontier of the technology revolution,” said Capital One’s founder and CEO, Richard…

Bitcoin And Crypto Influencers Get Spotlight In X’s New ‘Starterpacks’

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They say journalists never truly clock out. But for Christian, that’s not just a metaphor, it’s a lifestyle. By day, he navigates the ever-shifting tides of the cryptocurrency market, wielding words like a seasoned editor and crafting articles that decipher the jargon for the masses. When the PC goes on hibernate mode, however, his pursuits take a more mechanical (and sometimes philosophical) turn. Christian’s journey with the written word began long before the age of Bitcoin. In the hallowed halls of academia, he honed his craft as a feature writer…

Still Not Enough For A Sustainable Recovery

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Bitcoin is facing a critical test as volatility returns and price action remains unstable around the $90,000 level. Bulls are attempting to defend this psychological zone after recent turbulence, but confidence across the market is still fragile. With uncertainty dominating short-term sentiment, many traders are treating every bounce as a potential trap rather than the start of a confirmed recovery. Related Reading According to top analyst Darkfost, the market is still missing a key ingredient for a sustainable bullish continuation: a broad base of investors sitting in profit. He argues…

Ethereum Mainnet Activity Surpasses All Layer-2 Networks

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Network activity on the Ethereum mainnet has now surpassed that on layer-2 scaling blockchains as gas fees remain low, though it may not all be organic users. Token Terminal said on Thursday that there has been a “return to mainnet,” with daily active addresses on Ethereum outranking all leading layer-2s. A recent spike in active addresses closed in on 1 million per day, with Etherscan showing that active addresses surged to around 1.3 million on Jan. 16 but have since settled to around 945,000 daily active addresses. The figure is…

Bitcoin Price Stability Sparks Recovery Hopes, But Hurdles Loom

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Bitcoin price started a consolidation phase below $90,500. BTC is consolidating losses and might attempt a recovery wave if it clears $91,500. Bitcoin started a minor recovery wave from the $87,200 level. The price is trading below $90,500 and the 100 hourly Simple moving average. There was a break above a short-term bearish trend line with resistance at $89,700 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair might recover if it manages to settle above $90,500 and $91,500. Bitcoin Price Eyes Recovery Bitcoin price…

Bitcoiners Reject Quantum Computing Fears Weighing On Price

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Bitcoin backers have minimized claims that fears around quantum computing being a threat to the cryptocurrency sooner than expected are dragging on its price. Glassnode lead analyst James Check said in an X post on Thursday that linking Bitcoin’s price to quantum computing fears “is akin to blaming market manipulation for red candles, and declining exchange balances for green ones.”  Check argued that while quantum computing may be “keeping some capital away” from Bitcoin (BTC), the weakness in Bitcoin’s price performance has been driven far more by heavy selling from…

Validator Says Current Level is a Strategic Buying Opportunity

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XRP is trading above $1.90 after several weeks of pressure that pushed the token below the $2 psychological level. The pullback comes amid a broader crypto market downturn that has erased roughly $200 billion in total market capitalization since early January. Related Reading: Dogecoin (DOGE) Rebound Looks Fragile With Multiple Hurdles Ahead For XRP, the decline has been accompanied by a sharp deterioration in retail sentiment, even as some on-chain analysts and ecosystem participants argue that the current range carries longer-term significance. While price action remains fragile, the debate around…