Category: Other Crypto News

Bitcoin Miner Outflows Surge in January BTC, But Filings Show Steady Market

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Bitcoin miner outflows jumped to 28,605 BTC, worth about $1.8 billion, on Feb. 5, one of the largest single-day transfers since November 2024, as prices swung sharply during a volatile trading session. Another 20,169 Bitcoin (BTC), worth about $1.4 billion, left miner-linked wallets on Feb. 6, according to data from CryptoQuant. The last comparable spike occurred on Nov. 12, 2024, when outflows reached 30,187 BTC. The spike coincided with sharp price swings, with BTC trading at about $62,809 on Feb. 5 before rebounding to $70,544 a day later. Large miner…

IronClaw rivals OpenClaw, Olas launches bots for Polymarket — AI Eye

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Near.AI co-founder Illia Polosukhin loves OpenClaw, the AI agent that has gone viral for its abilities as an autonomous assistant, but thinks it’s a total security black hole. So he’s working on recreating OpenClaw in Rust, with all the different tools sandboxed in isolated WebAssembly environments so that if one goes rogue, it doesn’t affect anything else. The system also treats prompt injections as security risks and protects against credential theft.  Polymarket traders have been experimenting with OpenClaw to find profitable bets, but a viral post this week reported that…

Bitcoin Trapped In Bear Market Woes As Liquidity Runs Dry, Is Another Crash Coming?

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Bitcoin’s price structure is showing signs of strain, and new data from CryptoQuant shows that fresh capital is no longer entering the market. Instead of the recent drawdown acting as an attraction for buyers, it appears to be triggering withdrawals. This change in liquidity behavior is important, as it indicates that Bitcoin may be transitioning into deeper bear market conditions. Notably, on-chain metrics tracking new liquidity flows are revealing negative cumulative inflows over the past month. Selling Pressure Builds, New Investor Inflows Flip Negative According to a recent analysis that…

NCUA Suggests GENIUS Act Rules for Credit Union Stablecoin Issuers

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The United States National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) has proposed its first rules under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, sketching out how subsidiaries of federally insured credit unions could apply to become federally supervised payment stablecoin issuers.  The NCUA, which oversees more than 4,000 federally insured credit unions serving roughly 144 million members and about $2.38 trillion in assets as of mid-2025, is using this proposal to set out the process and standards for licensing such issuers.  Under the proposal, any payment stablecoin issuer…

The 7 Most Bullish Takeaways

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Ripple used XRP Community Day to tighten its message: XRP is not an accessory to the business, it’s the organizing principle and the company is positioning its product stack, regulatory posture, and institutional roadmap around that premise. XRP Community Day Highlights CEO Brad Garlinghouse went straight for the ceiling. “There will be a trillion dollar crypto company, I don’t doubt that for a second,” he said. “I think Ripple has the opportunity to be that company, and maybe there’ll be more than one.” The framing matters because it’s not a…

Securitize Plans RWA Stablecoin with OKX, STBL, Hamilton Lane

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Securitize is launching a stablecoin backed by tokenized private credit assets in partnership with Hamilton Lane, OKX Ventures and stablecoin infrastructure firm STBL, expanding efforts to bring institutional real-world asset yield onto blockchain rails. Securitize has partnered with stablecoin infrastructure provider STBL, Nasdaq-listed private markets investment management firm Hamilton Lane and crypto exchange OKX’s investment wing, OKX Ventures, to support the launch of a new real-world asset (RWA)-backed stablecoin on X Layer. The new stablecoin will bring together institutional private credit, regulated tokenization and programmable settlement to support the “next…

Is Bitcoin Already Pricing A US Recession? Analyst Sees Major Risk‑Reward Setup

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Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent pullback may be less about crypto‑specific weakness and more about macroeconomic fears, according to André Dragosch, Bitwise’s Head of Research for Europe.  In a social media post published Wednesday, Dragosch argued that the world’s largest cryptocurrency appears to be pricing in a potential deep US recession. If that downturn ultimately fails to materialize, he suggested, Bitcoin could be positioned for a significant rebound. Is Bitcoin Facing A Quantum Risk Premium? Dragosch described Bitcoin as fundamentally a macro‑driven asset. Historically, he estimates that roughly 90% of its performance…

Gen Z Open to Crypto for Valentine’s Day Dates: Survey

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Gen Z Americans may be open to paying for dates with cryptocurrency, but most still aren’t putting digital coins where their hearts are, according to a January Pollfish survey commissioned by crypto exchange OKX.  The poll of 1,000 US adults found that 13% of Gen Z respondents said they have paid for a date using crypto, while many who haven’t said the main issue is practical: they don’t have a direct way to pay with crypto.  Interest extended beyond payments. 31% of Gen Z respondents said receiving crypto as a…

LayerZero Soars 40% Amid Zero L1 Debut, Institutional Backing

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ZRO, the native token of the omnichain interpretability protocol LayerZero, has skyrocketed more than 40% on the past day following the announcement of its new Layer-1 (L1) blockchain backed by major institutional players. Related Reading LayerZero Unveils Zero Blockchain On Tuesday, LayerZero Labs announced a new L1 blockchain, Zero, aimed at institutional financial markets. According to the announcement, it is set to launch in fall 2026, with three initial “zones,” described as permissionless environments fully owned and governed by the underlying network. Moreover, ZRO will serve as the network’s native…

Binance Completes $1B Bitcoin Conversion for SAFU Fund

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Binance completed the $1 billion Bitcoin conversion for its emergency fund, committing to holding Bitcoin as its core reserve asset. Binance purchased another $304 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC) on Thursday, completing the conversion of $1 billion in Bitcoin for its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) wallet, according to Arkham data. The fund now holds 15,000 Bitcoin, worth over $1 billion, acquired at an average aggregate cost basis of $67,000 per coin, Binance said in a Thursday X post.  “With SAFU Fund now fully in Bitcoin, we reinforce our…