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From macro tailwinds to trillion-dollar rails, the 50T Funds founder sees real-world adoption reshaping the crypto landscape.

Bitcoin’s price, and thus the entire crypto market, is increasingly being anchored by flows through regulated wrappers. Crypto is increasingly being subsumed by TradFi rather than offering an alternative to the broken system Satoshi criticized. U.S. spot ETF subscriptions and redemptions are now posting day-to-day swings that increasingly dominate the daily narrative tape. In practice, […] The post How crypto is being devoured by TradFi, killing Satoshi’s dream by rewarding centralization appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Vitalik Buterin warns that Ethereum’s push to add new features while preserving backward compatibility is inflating protocol complexity, calling for a “garbage collection” process. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is urging developers to confront the protocol bloat driven by an endless push to add new features while rarely removing old ones. In a Sunday post on X, Buterin argued that true trustlessness and self-sovereignty depend less on raw decentralization metrics and more on simplicity. “Even if a protocol is super decentralized with hundreds of thousands of nodes, and it has 49% byzantine fault tolerance, and nodes fully verify everything with quantum-safe peerdas and starks, if the protocol is an unwieldy mess of hundreds of thousands of lines of code and five forms of PhD-level cryptography, ultimately that protocol fails,” he claimed Read more

Scam losses jumped 64% year over year, driven by tailored phishing and impersonation campaigns targeting high-value victims.

ICP stands in one corner, POL is in the other.

Crypto’s interoperability layer reveals a gap between the industry’s decentralization narrative and how value actually moves across blockchains. Moving value across blockchains is now largely mediated by a small group of centralized intermediaries despite crypto’s long-standing claims of decentralization. Michael Steuer, president and chief technology officer of Casper Network, framed this dynamic as a structural outcome of the industry’s approach to interoperability and user experience. With a background spanning mobile gaming, enterprise software and early blockchain development, Steuer approaches the industry’s interoperability problem as a question of how real users interact with technology. Read more

By mid-January, open interest in Bitcoin options rose to about $74.1 billion, edging past Bitcoin futures open interest of roughly $65.22 billion. Open interest is the stock of outstanding contracts that have not been closed or expired, so it measures position inventory, not trading activity. So, when options inventory exceeds futures, it often shows a […] The post Bitcoin options just overtook futures for the first time, and the new way institutions hedge is trapping retail leverage appeared first on CryptoSlate.

President Trump announced escalating tariffs on eight European nations starting February 1 until Denmark sells Greenland, triggering emergency EU meetings and unified condemnation from European leaders as Bitcoin faces renewed volatility mirroring October's tariff-driven liquidation crisis. The post Bitcoin Braces as Trump Slaps 25% Tariffs on Europe Over Greenland appeared first on Cryptonews.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko argued the network's survival depends on perpetual evolution, directly challenging Ethereum's push toward protocol ossification by framing continuous adaptation as the only path to maintaining developer and user utility. The post Solana’s Future Hinges on Constant Innovation, Says Co-Founder appeared first on Cryptonews.

Solana trades at $142.51 with $2.25B volume. Coinbase and STSS launch validator as charts eye $151 breakout above $145 support. The post Solana Price Prediction: $2.25B Volume, Coinbase Validator Boosts $140 Support Toward $151 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Ethereum’s staking landscape has flipped decisively bullish, with the validator exit queue dropping to zero for the first time since mid-2025. The post Ethereum Validator Exit Queue Hits Zero as Staking Demand Surges appeared first on Cryptonews.

XRP trades near $2.06 as ETF inflows hit $1.28B. Descending triangle signals risk below $2.05, with targets at $1.91 or $2.19. The post XRP Price Prediction: $1.28B ETF Inflows Offset Bearish Triangle Near $2.05 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Security failures don’t just drain funds, they often destroy trust, leaving most hacked crypto projects unable to recover despite fixing the technical flaws. Nearly four out of five crypto projects that suffer a major hack never fully regain their footing, according to Mitchell Amador, CEO of Web3 security platform Immunefi. Amador told Cointelegraph that most protocols enter a state of paralysis the moment an exploit is discovered. “Most protocols are fundamentally unaware of the extent to which they are exposed to hacks, and are not operationally prepared for a major security incident,” he said. According to Amador, the first hours after a breach are often the most damaging. Without a predefined incident plan, teams hesitate, debate next steps and underestimate how deep the compromise may go. “Decision-making slows as teams scramble to understand what happened, leading to improvisation and delayed action,” he said, adding that this is frequently when additional losses occur. Read more

Bitcoin ETFs see $1.42B inflows as BTC forms a bullish flag near $95K, targeting $100.5K. Corporate adoption and U.S. reserves boost confidence. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: $1.42B ETF Surge Fuels Path Toward $100.5K appeared first on Cryptonews.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong denied reports of a White House rift and said support for the CLARITY Act remains intact. The post Coinbase CEO Denies White House Rift, Says Support for CLARITY Act Remains Intact appeared first on Cryptonews.

What lies ahead for XRP next week?

Steak ’n Shake has taken its first public step into corporate Bitcoin ownership, announcing a $10 million purchase of the cryptocurrency for its treasury. The post Steak ’n Shake Makes First Bitcoin Treasury Bet With $10M BTC Purchase appeared first on Cryptonews.

In 2024, the Bank for International Settlements stepped back from mBridge, seeking to distance itself from sanctions-related speculation surrounding the platform. China-led cross-border digital currency platform mBridge has processed more than $55 billion in transactions as efforts to build payment rails that operate outside traditional dollar-based systems find momentum. Project mBridge, a multi-central bank digital currency (CBDC) platform, has now settled over 4,000 cross-border transactions with a cumulative value of roughly $55.5 billion, according to data compiled by the Washington-based Atlantic Council. That figure marks a nearly 2,500-fold increase since the project’s early pilot phase in 2022. The platform is currently being tested by central banks in mainland China, Hong Kong, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. China’s digital yuan, or e-CNY, accounts for an estimated 95% of total settlement volume on mBridge. Read more

According to analysts, the tariff war between the US and the EU is on step 4 out of 10 now.

Michael Saylor shares his thoughts on criticism around Bitcoin treasuries, an exec says CLARITY Act ‘has a long way to go‘: Hodler’s Digest