Bitcoin (BTC) struggled to continue its rebound at Tuesday’s Wall Street open as attention focused on $95,000 sellers. Key points: Bitcoin faces resistance as it approaches a large area of seller interest at $95,000. BTC price action begins to weaken versus risk assets and precious metals. Support on weekly time frames remains intact, with $93,500 … Read more
Hardware manufacturer and Bitcoin miner Canaan has continued its initiative of reusing energy for commercial and consumer applications by making compute heat available for greenhouses in Canada. In a Tuesday notice, Canaan said it would participate in a 3 megawatt (MW) proof-of-concept with Bitforest Investment in the province of Manitoba to “recover heat from an … Read more
MSCI announced it will keep digital asset treasury companies in its global indexes, citing investor feedback and the need for further study on non-operating firms. Shares in Michael Saylor’s Strategy rose 5% after Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) decided not to exclude digital asset treasury companies from its market index, for now. In a note … Read more
The Flow Foundation on Tuesday published a technical post-mortem detailing a protocol-level exploit that occurred on Dec. 27, when an attacker was able to counterfeit tokens on the network, resulting in about $3.9 million in confirmed losses before the exploit was contained. According to the report, the attacker exploited a flaw in Flow’s Cadence runtime … Read more
Jupiter, a Solana-based DeFi protocol and trading platform, has launched JupUSD, a dollar-pegged stablecoin issued natively on Solana and developed in partnership with Ethena Labs. In an X post on Monday, Jupiter said 90% of the stablecoin’s reserves will initially be held in USDtb, a licensed stablecoin collateralized by shares of BUIDL, BlackRock’s tokenized money-market fund. The … Read more
Bitcoin’s (BTC) sharp 7.4% rebound kick-started the first week of January and has shifted markets’ focus back to futures positioning, where liquidation data suggests the price action may be asymmetric. Key takeaways: Over $10.6 billion in long liquidations sit below $84,000, versus just $2 billion in shorts above $104,000. Retail positioning on Hyperliquid shows shorts … Read more
The former CFTC commissioner and Donald Trump’s first pick to chair the agency will join investment company SUI Group’s board and support the company’s treasury strategy. US President Donald Trump’s former pick to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has joined the SUI Group’s board of directors. In a Tuesday notice, the SUI Group … Read more
Investment bank TD Cowen reportedly warned that the 2026 midterm elections in the United States could pull support needed to pass a digital asset market structure bill under consideration in the Senate. According to reports, TD Cowen’s Washington Research Group said on Monday that the market structure bill, named the CLARITY Act when passed by … Read more
Ether’s (ETH) 10% rise in January has refocused analysts’ attention on the daily chart, where the price structure points to higher prices but only if a key daily trend is reclaimed. Key takeaways: Ether is close to completing a daily double bottom targeting the $3,900 level. The 200-period EMA remains the decisive trend that ETH … Read more
Tether has introduced a new unit of account tied to its digital gold token, XAUT, in a move aimed at lowering barriers to fractional gold ownership at a time when institutional investors and central banks are accumulating the precious metal at record levels. On Tuesday, the stablecoin issuer unveiled Scudo, a unit of account representing … Read more