Author: 行政

Bitcoin derivative traders are increasingly positioning for further downside rather than a clean bounce as the leading cryptocurrency continues to trade in a tight range below $70,000.According to CryptoSlate’s data, BTC price bottomed at $65,092 during the last 24 hours but has since recovered to $66,947 as of press time. This continues a weeklong tight trading that has failed to yield any momentum for the bellwether crypto.That fragility is showing up most clearly in derivatives, where traders are increasingly leaning into short positions designed to profit from further weakness rather than a clean rebound.This setup creates a familiar tension in…

On Feb. 12, RippleX, Ripple’s development arm, announced that Token Escrow is now live on the XRP Ledger’s (XRPL) mainnet.The change, labeled Token Escrow (XLS-85), extends conditional locking and release to trustline-based tokens (IOUs) and Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs).This expands the network’s escrow function beyond XRP to cover issued assets used for stablecoins and tokenized instruments.The upgrade lands as stablecoins continue to expand as crypto’s most established product line. CryptoSlate’s data show that the total circulating supply of these assets is hovering around $308 billion and continues to rise week over week.At the same time, tokenized real-world assets are also scaling…

Gold back over $5,000 is a market tell: fear is back. Tether just paid $150 million for the last mile. By taking ~12% of Gold.com and integrating XAU₮, Tether is buying distribution, so a USDT holder can reach for gold without leaving the crypto payment loopGold is trading above $5,000 an ounce again, and the mood that comes with that price level is back with it. When people start getting gold fever, they are paying for a certain feeling: safety, portability, and a hedge against the kind of macro mess that makes every other asset feel risky, according to Reuters.Crypto,…

Bitcoin’s slide toward $60,000 came with the usual noise from exchanges, but the sheer size of the panic was evident somewhere else. Options tied to BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) traded about 2.33 million contracts in a single trading day, a record that arrived right as price was at its most unstable.At the same time, the underlying asset saw a record day as well. On the same day, IBIT itself printed more than 284 million shares of turnover, worth over $10 billion in notional.While the crash took a toll on exchanges, they weren’t the only ones affected by the volatility.…

Within a span of weeks in early 2026, a cluster of senior crypto operators announced they were stepping back or switching domains.Akshay BD, who spent five years building Solana’s ecosystem, posted a “life update” saying he was “grateful to pass the torch.”Anthony Rose, a zkSync executive, announced he was “moving on” after four years at Matter Labs.Nader Dabit left Eigen Labs to join Cognition, working on “end-to-end software agents that ship production code.”Kyle Samani stepped down as Multicoin’s managing partner to explore AI and robotics, while maintaining he’s still bullish on crypto.The timing felt coordinated, even if it wasn’t.The pattern…

Bitcoin is holding its ground this weekend. After Friday’s soft CPI rally, price keeps leaning into the same overhead zone around $70,300, and bids keep showing up above $65,000.That detail matters more than the stall.Last Sunday I framed $71,500 as the market’s checkpoint, the line that decides whether this bounce becomes a recovery or fades into another leg down. The logic stays the same, the level stays the same, and the market’s behavior underneath it looks different this time. Related ReadingBitcoin must recover $71,500 soon or the drift back to $60,000 beginsBTC has failed this critical test three times already…

One input mistake at South Korea’s Bithumb turned a routine promo payout into a $44 billion disaster for a simple reason: crypto moves at internet speed, but many exchanges still run on back-office habits built for slower systems.On Feb. 6, Bithumb meant to hand out tiny cash rewards as part of a promotion, about 2,000 won per recipient. Instead, its internal system credited affected users with Bitcoin, at least 2,000 BTC each, and the totals added up to roughly 620,000 BTC on the exchange’s ledger.About 695 customers were affected, and Bithumb restricted trading and withdrawals for those accounts within 35…

Bitcoin bottom signals: ETF outflows, miner stress, and why a 2026 recession looks like the outlierBitcoin could be approaching a cycle low as spot Bitcoin ETF flows keep leaking and miner economics stay tight, even while recession talk dominates the timeline.The key point: a 2026 recession or stock-market crash still looks like the outlier scenario, which means Bitcoin can bottom on Bitcoin-native mechanics: forced selling, leverage unwinds, miner stress, and a clearing level where the buyer base changes personality.TL;DR: ETF flows are still draining, which usually forces price to find a new clearing level.Miner economics look wintry (fees are tiny…

At 8:30 a.m. in New York, the world paused for the January U.S. inflation data, and it landed with a soft thud.Headline CPI printed +2.4% year over year, a shade under the +2.5% estimate that had been floating around ahead of the release. Core inflation, the version that strips out food and energy, rose 2.5% year over year, right on the expected line.On the month, prices kept moving at a pace that felt familiar. Headline inflation rose 0.2% in January, and core rose 0.3%, seasonally adjusted. It reads like calm, and it still carries a lot of texture when you…

CFTC Chair forms a new Innovation Advisory Committee packed with crypto, exchange, and prediction-market CEOsMost crypto traders barely think about the Commodity Futures Trading Commission until something breaks, a lawsuit hits, or a Bitcoin futures headline crosses their feed.In the popular mental map of US regulation, the SEC is the one staring at tokens, and the CFTC is the one that shows up around Bitcoin, usually around futures.Then the CFTC went and did something that does not fit that simple story.On Feb. 12, the agency announced a fresh slate of members for its Innovation Advisory Committee, a 35-person group that…