Opinion
Strategy executives sought to reassure investors this week that the company’s financial position remains stable despite Bitcoin’s recent price decline and broader volatility across crypto markets. Speaking during Strategy’s fourth-quarter earnings webinar on Thursday, CEO Phong Le said Bitcoin would need to experience an extreme and prolonged
Markets
Bitcoin suffered a sharp sell-off late Thursday, briefly sliding to $60,000 and rattling market confidence after failing to hold key support levels. The move marked Bitcoin’s lowest price since September 2024 and capped a volatile 24-hour period that saw the world’s largest cryptocurrency drop about 17% before
AI
As OpenAI accelerates toward an ambitious goal of reaching US$100 billion in revenue by 2027, a quieter but telling shift is unfolding inside the company. Beyond improving its models, the ChatGPT maker is reportedly building a large team of AI consultants aimed squarely at enterprise customers. The move highlights
Markets
Bitcoin could face further downside in the months ahead, with prices potentially sliding toward the $60,000 range, according to new analysis from onchain data firm CryptoQuant. The company says current market conditions appear more fragile than the early stages of the 2022 bear market, pointing to weakening demand, tightening
Finance
Polymarket, the world’s largest fully onchain prediction market, is preparing a key infrastructure upgrade by moving from a bridged version of USDC to Circle’s native USDC on Polygon. The transition, announced Thursday alongside Circle, is expected to roll out in the coming months. The platform currently relies on
AI
Microsoft researchers have introduced a new technique designed to uncover hidden backdoors, known as “sleeper agents,” inside large language models. The method aims to help organisations verify the safety of open-weight AI models before they are deployed, addressing a growing supply chain risk in the AI ecosystem. As more companies
Public blockchains are built on transparency. Every transaction, balance, and smart contract interaction is visible by default. That openness has helped crypto earn trust, but it also comes with a cost. For many real-world uses, especially in finance, healthcare, and enterprise, full transparency simply doesn’t work. Zama is trying
Markets
Bitcoin has fallen back toward the $69,000 level, erasing all gains made since its previous all-time high in late 2021, as mounting selling pressure grips both spot and derivatives markets. The world’s largest cryptocurrency dropped as low as $69,040 on Thursday, its weakest price since October 2024,
Politics
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has pulled back from a controversial proposal that would have banned political prediction market contracts, marking a clear shift from a late Biden-era regulatory push that drew sharp criticism from industry players. In a statement released Wednesday, the CFTC confirmed it will not
Markets
U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds recorded a second consecutive day of net outflows on Wednesday, with investors withdrawing nearly $545 million as market sentiment turned cautious, according to data from SoSoValue. The largest share of the selling came from BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), which saw $373.44
Finance
A senior Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives has launched a formal probe into World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a cryptocurrency project linked to former President Donald Trump, following reports of a $500 million investment connected to the United Arab Emirates royal family. Rep. Ro Khanna of California, a
Finance
Tether’s USDT, the world’s largest stablecoin, continued to expand at a steady pace in the final quarter of 2025, even as the broader cryptocurrency market faced one of its sharpest downturns in recent years. According to Tether’s latest quarterly market report released Wednesday, USDT’s market capitalization