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January silver bullion coin sales surged at The Perth Mint January brought sharply higher silver demand at the Perth Mint, producing its strongest monthly silver total in more than two and a half years, while gold sales declined from December but remained well ahead of year-earlier levels. The Mint’s performance unfolded against soaring precious metal prices. Based on LBMA data in U.S. dollars, gold rose 15.6%, or $673.90, to $4,981.85 per ounce in January, while silver climbed 43.3%, or $31.20, to $103.19. Perth Mint Bullion Sales in January 2026 Silver coin and bar sales for the month totaled 1,722,639 ounces…

U.S. Mint coin production reached an eight-month high in January as the first 1776-2026 Semiquincentennial coins entered circulation. Despite the rebound, overall output remained well below year-earlier levels when cents were still being produced for commerce. CoinNews photo showing examples of the 2026 Semiquincentennial circulating coins with one-year-only anniversary designs The U.S. Mint produced 448.5 million coins for circulation during the month, reflecting a 60.6% increase from December but a 29.2% decline from year-earlier levels, when cent production alone accounted for 242.4 million coins. Here’s how the month’s output compared with other months over the past year: January 2025 to…

Bitcoin Cash price held near $500 as bulls battled intraday sell-off pressure. The altcoin could retest key resistance levels amid Bitcoin’s gains. However, Standard Chartered forecasts BTC could drop to $50k, and BCH will likely mirror this. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) price is demonstrating notable resilience, with bulls holding near the $500 mark as the broader cryptocurrency market downturn hits sentiment. On February 12, 2026, the BCH price hovered between $496 and $523, down nearly 3% in the past 24 hours but still within range of this crucial level. Bitcoin Cash price holds $500 amid BTC struggle The resilience comes as…

Cardano is aggressively expanding the types of tokens that can operate on its network and raise the ceiling for its decentralized finance ecosystem over the next 12 to 18 months.On Feb. 12, the Charles Hoskinson-led blockchain announced it would integrate with LayerZero, a widely used cross-chain messaging system.This move represents the single largest interoperability unlock in Cardano’s history as LayerZero connects over 160 blockchains and has facilitated more than $200 billion in cross-chain volume.A pipeline into 400 tokens and $80 billion in omnichain assetsLayerZero’s core value proposition is its chain-agnostic messaging layer. This means that applications can send and receive messages…

Bitcoin can bottom soon because a 2026 recession, or a stock market crash, keeps looking like the outlier scenarioMy core idea around the Bitcoin market has remained the same since last September, before we hit the all-time high in October. Related ReadingBitcoin’s cycle clock points to a final high by late October, will ETFs rewrite history?Investors face a rare window where policy and ETF flows decide the Bitcoin cycle fate. Sep 18, 2025 · Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright I laid it out clearly in my medium-term $49,000 Bitcoin bear thesis published on Nov. 24, 2025, and revisited it again on Jan.…

Stacks price surged by 5% to test resistance near $0.28. Gains follow Bitcoin’s uptick to $67,500. STX could still dip to recent lows if the Bitcoin price falls to new lows. Stacks’ STX token edged higher on the day as Bitcoin held above the $67,500 level following a roughly 2% intraday move. Despite the modest gain, the Bitcoin layer-2 network’s native token continues to trade in volatile conditions, reflecting uncertainty across the broader cryptocurrency market. A sustained pickup in momentum could lift STX toward levels last seen in May 2025. However, ongoing market turbulence and expectations of further downside risk…

Ethereum’s slide toward $2,000 has left its exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors holding more than $5 billion in paper losses, extending a marketwide crypto drawdown that has also hit Bitcoin.According to CryptoSlate’s data, the move has tracked a broader risk-off wave that has pushed the global crypto market value down by $2 trillion since October’s peak, with BTC and ETH both under pressure as volatility spread through other risk assets, including tech shares.The difference for Ethereum is that a growing share of the exposure now sits inside products built for traditional portfolios, where performance is marked daily, and selling can be…

Vitalik Buterin just published a research proposal that sidesteps the question everyone keeps asking: can blockchains run AI models?Instead, the research claims Ethereum as the privacy-preserving settlement layer for metered AI and API usage. The post, co-authored with Davide Crapis on Ethereum Research, argues that the real opportunity isn’t putting LLMs on-chain.The real opportunity lies in building the infrastructure that enables agents and users to pay for thousands of API calls without compromising identity or creating surveillance trails through billing data.The timing is critical because agentic AI is moving from demonstrations to enterprise roadmaps. Gartner forecasts that 40% of enterprise…

Uniswap (UNI) price surged on BUIDL news but quickly pulled back as momentum faded. Institutional access boosts Uniswap’s profile but remains tightly restricted. Whale activity before the news raised insider trading concerns. Uniswap’s UNI token experienced a sharp price surge after the announcement of the listing of BlackRock’s BUIDL token on the protocol. UNI briefly rallied toward the $4.50 region before losing momentum and pulling back, reflecting a mix of excitement and caution among traders. Alongside the optimism, concerns have emerged that could limit sustained upside for the UNI price. BlackRock’s BUIDL listing on Uniswap brings institutional credibility BlackRock’s BUIDL…

The World Uncertainty Index, a GDP-weighted measure constructed from the frequency with which “uncertainty” appears in Economist Intelligence Unit country reports, reached 106,862.2 in the third quarter of 2025 and remained elevated at 94,947.1 in the fourth quarter.WUI all-time record (Source: FRED)The index isn’t a volatility gauge. It’s a text-based barometer of policy, geopolitical, and economic ambiguity that can remain elevated even when equity markets price in calm.The methodology rescales word frequency and aggregates it across countries, meaning the current reading translates roughly to 10 or 11 mentions of “uncertain” or “uncertainty” in a typical 10,000-word quarterly report per country,…