Markets
World Liberty Financial’s WLFI token climbed roughly 18% on Wednesday as the firm opened its World Liberty Forum at Mar-a-Lago. The rally coincided with new partnership announcements aimed at expanding its USD1 stablecoin into traditional financial workflows. Speaking to CNBC’s Sara Eisen, co-founder Eric Trump said the digital
Politics
Hyperliquid Foundation committed roughly $29 million in HYPE tokens to launch a Washington advocacy group for decentralized finance. The donation signals that DeFi-native platforms are preparing for a more direct role in shaping U.S. crypto legislation. The foundation said it will contribute 1 million HYPE tokens to establish the
Politics
Two spot SUI exchange-traded funds began trading Wednesday, giving investors direct token exposure plus staking yield. The dual structure expands institutional access to proof-of-stake income within a regulated ETF wrapper. Canary Capital listed the Canary Stake SUI ETF under ticker SUIS on Nasdaq. The fund tracks the spot price of
Markets
Bitcoin has fallen nearly 28% since January as derivatives data mirrors late-2022 conditions. The setup suggests downside may be limited, but historical precedent points to extended consolidation rather than a swift recovery. According to a Tuesday report from K33, the firm’s proprietary regime indicator shows “strikingly strong similarities” to
AI
Alibaba’s Qwen 3.5 model matches leading proprietary systems while running on comparatively modest hardware. The release challenges the pricing power of US-hosted frontier models by pairing benchmark-level performance with open-weight economics. The flagship model contains 397 billion parameters but activates only 17 billion per token through a Mixture-of-Experts
DeFi
Moonwell recorded $1.78 million in bad debt after an oracle misconfiguration mispriced Coinbase Wrapped ETH (cbETH). The incident exposes persistent fragility in decentralized finance (DeFi) price feeds, where minor configuration errors can cascade into automated liquidations within minutes. The Feb. 15 event followed execution of governance proposal MIP-X43, which
Finance
Ark Invest purchased 41,453 shares of Coinbase Global Inc., valued at approximately $6.9 million, reversing recent sales as the stock rebounded. The move signals renewed conviction from one of crypto equity’s most visible institutional backers amid volatile earnings. The Cathie Wood-led firm allocated 29,689 shares to
Markets
Uniswap’s decentralized exchange volume now regularly exceeds that of Coinbase, while Aave generates more than $100 million in annual revenue. Those metrics are central to a growing view that decentralized finance may anchor the next crypto recovery. In a memo to clients Tuesday, Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan
Finance
Peter Thiel and affiliated Founders Fund entities have exited their entire stake in Ethereum treasury firm ETHZilla (ETHZ), according to a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC (US). The disclosure removes a high-profile backer at a time when publicly listed crypto treasury strategies face tightening capital conditions. Shares fell nearly
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Security
Russian investigators have opened a criminal case against a man in the Republic of Dagestan over allegations of financing terrorism, as scrutiny intensifies globally around the use of cryptocurrencies in illicit activity. According to state news agency TASS, authorities in Makhachkala, Dagestan’s capital, detained a local resident suspected of
Politics
The United States is moving closer to a sweeping overhaul of cryptocurrency regulation, with President Donald Trump signaling that comprehensive market structure legislation could soon reach his desk. The proposed bill, introduced as S. 3755 and H.R. 3633, would establish clear lines of authority between the two primary financial