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Late on Friday, Illinois regulators shut down Metropolitan Capital Bank and Trust, a little-known institution with just $261 million in assets, handing control to the FDIC in what was officially a routine resolution.But it landed in the middle of a much louder market shock.On the same day the bank failed, gold and silver saw one of their sharpest one-day plunges in decades, and Bitcoin sold off sharply amid the broader rush out of risk. 24 hours later, and the markets that are open over the weekend are almost in free fall. Related ReadingCrypto market crashes erasing $220B as Israel strikes…

President Donald Trump announced he will nominate former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh to lead the US central bank.In a Jan. 30 post on Truth Social, the president confirmed the selection, writing:“I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best. On top of everything else, he is ‘central casting,’ and he will never let you down.”Trump’s move follows months of internal jockeying over who would replace Chair Jerome Powell when his term ends in May. Warsh, 55, served on the…

Earlier this week, a sweeping US winter storm pushed Bitcoin miners to curtail, pulling a noticeable chunk of computing power off the network in a short window.Data shows a 40% dip in hashrate between Jan. 23 and Jan. 25, with around 455 EH/s going offline, and block production slowing to around 12 minutes for a stretch.Graph showing Bitcoin’s hashrate from Jan. 20 to Jan. 30, 2026 (Source: CoinWarz)The fact that the sharpest drop came from Foundry USA, the largest mining pool with the largest presence in the US, tells you that the drop was caused by curtailments.Graph showing the 30-day…

The December Producer Price Index didn’t just beat expectations, but it also revealed a persistent problem that forces markets to rethink the entire 2026 rate path.Final demand PPI rose 0.5% month-over-month, the sharpest jump since July, driven almost entirely by a 0.7% surge in services while goods prices sat flat. The headline came in at 3.0% year over year, beating expectations of 2.7%, but core PPI rose to 3.3% from 2.9%, the highest level since July 2025.Markets sold the news immediately. Bitcoin dipped below the $82,400 zone as it was trying to recover from an intraday low of $81,100. Meanwhile,…

Ethereum and XRP just fell off a cliff in weekend trading, Bitcoin barely flinched, and the timing might matterCrypto has a habit of saving its worst moves for the hours when people are least prepared to deal with them.That was the vibe on Saturday, when Ethereum and XRP dropped hard in a short burst, right as weekend liquidity was already thin.Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP price action (Source: TradingView)On my 30-minute charts, XRP was down about 7.98%, ETH was down about 5.66%, and Bitcoin was comparatively steady with a smaller drawdown of around 3%.The broader market took the hit to the…

The next inflection point in AI agents isn’t coming from frontier labs. It’s coming from infrastructure, specifically, the primitives that let agents find each other, verify identity, and communicate directly.Moltbook, a social network billing itself as “built exclusively for AI agents… Humans welcome to observe,” now hosts discussions about agent relay protocols that enable discovery and direct messaging between autonomous systems.The shift from agents as isolated tools to agents as networked participants creates a new category of risk that existing security models weren’t designed to handle.This isn’t theoretical. Exposed control panels, leaked credentials, and misconfigured deployments are already documented across…

DeFi exclusions sound protective, yet the CLARITY Act’s Bank Secrecy expansion may target your access pointsWhile supporters say the CLARITY Act could bring long-awaited regulatory certainty to crypto markets, not everyone is on board.Critics argue the bill doesn’t need to “ban DeFi” to reshape it. Their claim is that CLARITY can leave base-layer software intact while shifting the real battleground to regulated access points: the brokers, dealers, custodians, exchanges, and interfaces most users rely on to reach on-chain markets.In that reading, the “hidden compliance choke point” is not protocol code. The perimeter is expanding as access providers are drawn deeper…

My $49k Bitcoin bear thesis, a January check-in, the plumbing is flashing while price bleedsI wrote my medium-term $49,000 bear thesis in late November with one simple idea, Bitcoin still moves in cycles, and the next real “this is the low” moment tends to arrive when miner economics and flows line up at the same time.It is now Jan. 30, 2026, and the honest update is this, the variables I care about look more stressed than they did when I published, and the tape has not delivered the kind of panic price print that makes those variables matter to everyone…

The United States Mint raised prices on its clad products — proof sets, mint sets, and rolls and bags of circulating-quality quarters and dollars — at roughly the same time it repriced its silver offerings earlier this month. Price increases for silver products were widely expected, with silver setting repeated price records, yet more than a year and a half had passed since the Mint last adjusted those products. CoinNews photo shows 2026 Mayflower Compact quarters, one of five unique quarter designs celebrating the nation’s Semiquincentennial. U.S. Mint rolls and bags of quarters are among products seeing higher prices this…

On Jan. 30, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson announced that he has signed an integration agreement to bring USDCx, a Circle-linked stablecoin product, to the Cardano ecosystem.The infrastructure move represents a strategic effort to lower the network’s DeFi growth ceiling by establishing a sustained, reliable flow of on-chain dollar liquidity.In a social media post from Japan, Hoskinson characterized the deal as a milestone for the network, which has historically trailed behind rival smart-contract platforms in accessing high-liquidity stablecoins.He said:“We 1769807073 have access to Circle’s network, Circle’s protocol, Circle’s technology, and the great liquidity of the Circle network as a whole, and…