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Valkyrie amends Bitcoin Fund S-1 filing with enhanced custody and valuation rules

Valkyrie Investments refiled an amended Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday for its Valkyrie Bitcoin Fund, adding more precise rules around custody, valuation, seed investments, and risks as the cryptocurrency investment vehicle awaits regulatory approval to trade on Nasdaq. The new filing updates the index used to value the fund’s Bitcoin from Lukka Prime to the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate – New York Variant, which calculates the reference rate as of 4 PM Eastern

5 Warning Signs Emerging Across Bitcoin, Gold, and Global Markets

At press time at 4:45 p.m. EST on Sunday, Feb. 1, bitcoin is trading at $76,601 as cross-asset markets wobble under liquidation pressure, geopolitical tension, and a sudden loss of risk appetite. Markets Lose Their Balance as Risk Appetite Fades Across Assets The crypto economy now stands at roughly $2.6 trillion, but the headline number […]

Ripple Legal Chief Identifies 3 Bullish Forces Pushing Crypto Into Mainstream Finance

Crypto is shedding speculation and embedding itself into everyday finance, with quiet adoption, tokenization, and institutional integration pushing digital assets toward a normalized role by 2026, according to Ripple’s legal chief. Crypto’s Quiet March Toward the Financial Mainstream Crypto is pushing past skepticism and cementing its place in mainstream finance and daily life. Ripple chief […]

As global “Bye America” investors ditch US risk, Bitcoin is finally ready to be the macro alternative

The “Bye America” trade has a habit of returning when markets stop debating whether the US is still the safest house on the block and start debating the price of living in it.Over the past week, that debate has shown up in the dollar. A weaker dollar is rarely a story by itself, but it often arrives with a familiar set of consequences: global portfolios reassess how much US exposure they want, hedges get recalculated, and risk budgets get rewritten.Bitcoin has been catching some of that wind, bu

Sleeping Stashes Blink: Early Bitcoin Wallets Shift Nearly 5,000 BTC in January

By the numbers, January 2026 saw long-sleeping wallets from the 2010–2017 era finally stretch their legs, moving about 4,905.98 BTC—worth roughly $383 million at today’s exchange rates—after years of radio silence. Digging deeper, the data shows that 40.77% of those spends came from truly ancient bitcoin—coins traced back to 2010 block rewards that have been […]

White House Plans Talks to Resolve Stablecoin Dispute Stalling Senate Crypto Bill: Report

Washington is reportedly scrambling to break a high-stakes deadlock over crypto rules as banks and digital asset firms clash over stablecoin rewards, pushing the White House to broker talks that could shape U.S. market structure policy. White House Steps in as Banks and Crypto Clash Over Stablecoin Rules Regulatory negotiations over digital assets continue to […]

Hashprice Near Yearly Lows Puts Bitcoin Miners Under Heavy Pressure

Bitcoin miners are kicking off February on shaky ground, with revenue slipping hard since mid-January and sitting well below July’s 12-month peak. On top of that, the U.S. winter storm has kept the hashrate stuck far beneath the lofty levels seen back in October. Bitcoin Miners Start February With Revenue Metrics Flashing Red Most people […]

A sudden shift in Ethereum staking is draining billions from exchanges toward a new corporate elite

By the end of 2025, a corner of the market most Ethereum traders rarely watch had built a position large enough to matter for everyone else.Everstake’s annual Ethereum staking report estimates that public companies’ “digital asset treasuries” collectively held roughly 6.5–7.0 million ETH by December, which is more than 5.5% of the circulating supply.Graph showing the cumulative ETH digital asset treasury holdings by public companies from March 2025 to December 2025 (Source: Everstake)The number

Stablecoin Market Cools After $311B Peak as $6.2B Slips Away in 2 Weeks

Over the past two weeks, the stablecoin economy trimmed $6.22 billion after topping out at an all-time high of $311.333 billion. Just this past week, the sector edged lower by 1.21%, shaving off another $3.748 billion. Stablecoin Sector Trims Billions The stablecoin, or fiat-pegged token economy, according to defillama.com stats, is in the red this […]

Tether Posts $10B+ Profit as USDT Supply Hits $186B and U.S. Treasury Exposure Tops $141B

Key Takeaways:Tether made more than $10 billion net profits in 2025, and the excess reserves were up to $6.3 billion.The USDT stock reached a new high of over $186 billion following an almost $50-billion-new issue within the yearU.S. Treasury exposure climbed to a record $141 billion, placing Tether among top global holders.Tether has also relinquished its Q4 2025 attestation indicating a year of record issuance, balance-sheet expansions, and profitability. The report, compiled by BDO, provides

‘More Orange’: Saylor Sends Buy Signal as Bitcoin Nosedives and Leverage Flushes

Strategy signaled renewed bitcoin buying conviction as Michael Saylor posted “more orange” during a brutal crypto selloff, reinforcing expectations the firm will accumulate again even as prices slipped below key psychological levels. Bitcoin Shakeout Clears Weak Hands as Saylor Hints at More Accumulation Strategy is signaling renewed conviction in bitcoin as market volatility intensifies, with […]

Bitcoin treasury companies are millions in the red but the strategy doesn’t change even at $78k

Bitcoin treasuries are designed to look uncomfortable in drawdowns, because the trade they're running is simple: take a volatile asset, put it on a corporate balance sheet, and finance more of it through capital markets. When Bitcoin drops, the mark-to-market hit is the point, not the punchline.The real question is whether the company can keep its funding machine running long enough for volatility to swing back the other way.Bitcoin's price of about $78,500 on Feb. 1 turns the conversation about

European Commission Targets Crypto Tax Gaps, Pressures 13 States Over MiCA Compliance

Key Takeaways:The European Commission is preparing legal action aiming to 12 EU members for not complying with tax reporting regulations for crypto assets.Hungary will face separate legal action due to conflicting domestic crypto regulations with the EU’s MiCA framework.The 12 member states can respond within two months to EC before new enforcement measures are applied.The Commission increased the intensity of crypto, and it is reflective of the Commission not letting any gaps slip through its t

Crypto Traders Dial Back Leverage as Bitcoin Derivatives Markets Reset

Bitcoin is changing hands at $78,199 per coin as of 9:55 a.m. Eastern time on Feb. 1, 2026, while derivatives traders quietly take their foot off the leverage pedal. Futures open interest and options positioning point to a market more interested in risk control than moonshot bets. Bitcoin Futures and Options Show Defensive Shift Across […]

Resistance Everywhere, Relief Nowhere: Bitcoin’s Rollercoaster Ride Continues

Bitcoin is priced at $78,634 as of Feb. 1, 2026, with a total market capitalization of $1.57 trillion. Over the past 24 hours, trading volume runs high at $83.65 billion, with intraday price swings ranging from $77,082 to $82,733. The market attempts to stitch together a recovery narrative—but for now, it’s more bandage than breakthrough. […]

Ripple’s RLUSD Surges Past $215M Volume, Eyes Top 50 Crypto Spot in Market Shakeout

Key Takeaways:RLUSD has increased its presence in the 50 most active cryptocurrencies in terms of 24h trading volume and passed $215 million.The CoinMarketCap data is placing RLUSD very close to the number 50 mark on the market cap list, narrowly missing vaulting above a host of crazy tokens.Although the general crypto market is facing storms, the consistent nature of RLUSD and the increased usage of the digital currency is keeping it in the limelight.Ripple USD (RLUSD) also received a new push

Bitcoin institutions finally admit this is a bear market – so why do 70% say the price is still undervalued?

In a global investor survey from Coinbase Institutional and Glassnode, 1 in 4 institutions agreed that crypto has now entered a bear market. Yet the majority of institutions still said Bitcoin was undervalued, and most said they had held or increased exposure since October.That discrepancy matters because it captures how institutions are positioning right now: caution about the regime, a willingness to stay allocated, and a preference for concentrating risk in Bitcoin rather than in smaller, mor

Latam Insights: Venezuelan Oil Flows to the US Again, El Salvador Buys the Gold Dip

Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Citgo buys Venezuelan heavy crude once again, El Salvador buys the gold dip, and Nubank receives approval to launch as a digital bank in the U.S. Citgo’s Venezuelan Crude Purchase Signals a Turn […]

"The Global CFD Broker Market Will Be Disrupted by DeFi" in 5 Years, Says Ostium CEO

KaledoraFontana Kiernan-Lin is putting a timeline on her bold prediction: the globalcontract-for-difference (CFD) broker market faces major disruption fromdecentralized finance within five years.Theco-founder and CEO of Ostium, a blockchain-based perpetual swaps platform,recently secured $20 million in Series A funding from GeneralCatalyst and Jump Crypto to back that thesis. In an interviewwith FinanceMagnates.com, Kiernan-Lin laid out why she believes retail foreignexchange and commodities tra

Japan bond market chaos threatens unprecedented Bitcoin liquidations as the era of free money ends

Japan spent decades as the world’s best destination for the world's easiest funding trade. You could borrow yen at very low rates, buy almost anything with a higher yield, hedge just enough to feel responsible, and assume the Bank of Japan would keep volatility contained.Late January 2026 is what it looks like when that assumption starts to break.The BOJ’s Jan. 23 decision kept its policy rate guidance around 0.75%. However, the BOJ also made it clear it still sees a path where further hikes rem