Cryptocurrencies

Too Big to Fail: Strategy's $13 Billion Bitcoin Paper Loss Alone Dwarfs Hundreds of Prominent Tokens "Too big to fail" usually belongs to banks, the kind regulators panic over because the plumbing underneath everyone else starts shaking. In crypto, the phrase gets weirder. MicroStrategy ...

AscendEX Liquidity Issues: Delayed Withdrawals Point to Real Exchange Trouble Centralized exchange AscendEX, formerly Bitmax, is reportedly making customers wait days or even weeks for withdrawals. Some withdrawals seem to be failing completely. Not great. This is not a small support que ...

Starknet Tops L2 Dev Activity, and Traders Should Notice Santiment's latest data, released June 26, 2026, puts Starknet first for Layer 2 developer activity over the past 30 days. My take: traders should not treat that as trivia. Dev activity is not a price chart, and it will not tell a ...

Grayscale Spotlights Undervalued On-Chain Protocols as CLARITY Bill Nears Grayscale recently published a list of the top 15 on-chain protocols by revenue and argued that many of their tokens look cheap at current prices. My take: that is the useful part, not the headline. Parts of DeFi ...

House Democrats Seek SEC Answers on AI Investment Advisers: What Crypto Investors Need to Know What the House Democrats' SEC inquiry on AI investment advisers is about House Democrats have asked the SEC to explain how current securities law applies to AI investment advisers. T ...

X Crypto Traders Eye ETH Altcoin Pump, Echoing 2020 Crypto traders on X, formerly Twitter, are talking like Ethereum is warming up for the first real move. The wager is simple: ETH goes first, then altcoins chase. That is why 2020 keeps coming back into the conversation. Back then, ETH ...

Ethereum Foundation Staff Cuts Point to Crypto Market Strain The Ethereum Foundation is reportedly cutting 20% of its staff. That is not a small number. It stings. The cuts, announced in a blog post, follow earlier warnings about a possible crisis and could change how investors price ETH ...

Taiko Tells Users to Withdraw After Bridge Exploit Drains $1.7M: What Crypto Investors Should Take From It Taiko told users to pull their funds after an attacker drained about $1.7 million from its bridge. Another bridge hack. I'll be honest: that phrase has started to feel almost norma ...

Twitter Crypto Bulls Still Eyeing ETH Price Prediction $20,000 Crypto Twitter is talking about $20,000 ETH again. Not quietly, either. A noisy part of the crowd still thinks Ethereum can get there, even after the kind of market chop that usually kills big round-number c ...

Tether shuts down Alloy, aUSDT gold-backed token Tether is closing Alloy by Tether and its aUSDT token, which was backed by Tether Gold (XAUT). Users have until September 17, 2026, to redeem aUSDT and withdraw their XAUT. That is enough runway to avoid panic, but not en ...