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Lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday protecting crypto software developers from criminal prosecution. Does that mean the crypto market structure bill is falling by the wayside?

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The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency proposed rules that would govern stablecoins, including apparent limits on rewards that may affect Coinbase.

The bitcoin miner inked a deal with investment firm Starwood to convert and expand select facilities to serve data center needs for AI.

The slowdown in on-chain activity echoes a similar lull last summer that came right before a huge rebound in Bitcoin.

Republican and Democrat senators alike pushed back on imprisoned FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's support of the Clarity Act crypto bill.

The industry-supported Promoting Innovation in Blockchain Development Act could be a solution by Congress to push back against criminalizing writing code. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the US House of Representatives has introduced legislation aimed at halting prosecution of software developers who do not have custody or control of others’ crypto assets. In a Thursday notice, Representatives Scott Fitzgerald, Ben Cline and Zoe Lofgren said that they would be sponsoring the Promoting Innovation in Blockchain Development Act in an effort to change how to handle criminal cases potentially involving blockchain developers. The bill would clarify that Section 1960 under US federal law, on the “prohibition of illegal money transmitting businesses,” would apply only to actors with control of others’ digital assets. Read more

Ethereum’s latest long-term planning document has given investors a new way to assess whether the digital asset can eventually reach $10,000 by the end of this decade. The newly published “Strawmap,” introduced by Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, reads less like a conventional roadmap than a preemptive response plan. It sketches a path for Ethereum […] The post Ethereum price path to $10,000 now hinges on seven upgrades and a fragile ecosystem vote appeared first on CryptoSlate.

ETH bulls briefly pressed the price above the $2,000 to support, but will a positive funding rate and increase in holder profitability generate sufficient momentum to hold the level? Ether (ETH) price reached a weekly high of $2,150 on Thursday, which is a key level for large ETH holders, but volatility in the crypto and stock markets continues to catalyze corrections below $2,000. A daily close above $2,100 remains important because that level aligns with the cost basis and realized price of wallets holding 100,000 or more ETH. Realized price tracks the last moved price of coins, offering a profitability gauge rather than a spot reference. Since 2020, Ether has traded below this whale cohort’s realized price only a handful of times, most notably during the 2022 bear market. The chart shows that the price has regularly recovered after the realized price level was tested as support. Read more

Morgan Stanley wants to let clients custody and trade Bitcoin—and it's building the tech itself.

The proposal would allow a US exchange to trade shares of a fund holding JitoSOL, representing the first SEC exchange filing for a liquid staking token ETP. Nasdaq has filed a proposed rule change to list the VanEck JitoSOL ETF, a fund designed to hold the Solana-based liquid staking token JitoSOL. Liquid staking allows users to stake tokens to help secure a proof-of-stake network while receiving a transferable token in return that represents the staked assets and accrued rewards. Jito Foundation president Brian Smith told Cointelegraph that if the fund is approved, staking rewards would not be distributed separately but instead reflected in the fund’s net asset value. Read more

The real estate investment mogul said his firm, Cardone Capital, is exploring blockchain-based tokens for property holdings as tokenization gains traction.

Beneath the technical language of the 'Strawmap' is a far simpler story: Ethereum is trying to decide what kind of infrastructure it wants to be by the end of the decade.

Bitcoin trades below most holders’ cost basis, but a rally above $74,500 could change everything. Can the bulls pull it off? Bitcoin (BTC) has rebounded 7.45% over the past two days after dropping to $62,400 on Tuesday, below a key onchain price support. Despite the bounce, holders who bought six months to two years ago remain at an average cost of $74,500, a level that now stands as a potential inflection point. As BTC moves higher, the concentration of supply around $74,500 stands as a key test for the current trend; a decisive reclaim of that level may signal demand and a shift in short-term market structure. Bitcoin’s realized price tracks the average onchain acquisition cost for a given UTXO age band. For coins aged 18 to 24 months, that level stands near $64,200. Read more

The Promoting Innovation in Blockchain Development Act is a high-stakes play to win the global code war.

The 2026 US midterm elections are increasingly viewed as a potential catalyst tied to liquidity cycles and broader crypto market recovery.

Bloomberg and Kaiko aim to embed licensed financial data directly on blockchain networks, targeting institutional tokenized Treasurys and repo markets. Bloomberg is collaborating with Kaiko, a Paris-based digital asset market data provider, to make Bloomberg’s licensed financial data accessible directly within blockchain environments rather than through traditional offchain databases. The companies said Thursday that the initiative is designed to address the challenge of inconsistent data across tokenized markets.  In many tokenized asset ecosystems, companies may rely on different versions of pricing data, security identifiers or reference information, increasing the risk of discrepancies and operational inefficiencies. Read more

Bitcoin institutional flows are cooling while its long-term holders and network participants absorb the supply. In a range-bound regime, these are the key signals to watch. Since dropping by 35% from Jan. 14 to Feb. 5, Bitcoin (BTC) has consolidated in a range from $60,000 to $70,000 over the past 22 days. At the same time, several BTC adoption-linked metrics are moving in different directions across exchange-traded funds (ETFs), whales, miners and corporate Bitcoin treasuries. These divergences highlight steady capital commitment beneath muted price action and how each signal fits into the bigger picture. The 90-day rolling average of US spot Bitcoin ETF net flows has dropped to -$2.18 billion. Over the past two years, the metric has turned negative only twice: from March to May 2025, and in the current stretch that began on December 11, 2025. In both instances, Bitcoin followed with a corrective phase. Read more

Nano Banana 2 brings Pro-level world knowledge at Flash speed, with impressive text handling and subject consistency. But ByteDance's Seedream 5 just showed up to the same fight.

On Feb. 25, t54 Labs announced that Ripple was a strategic investor in its $5 million seed round investment. t54 describes itself as the trust layer for the fast-rising agentic economy. The latest artificial intelligence move is small in dollar terms, but larger in what it signals about where Ripple sees the next fight in […] The post XRPL could capture billions in machine payments but only if AI agents choose RLUSD appeared first on CryptoSlate.