All-Republican SEC ‘Unusual’ With Pro-Crypto Agenda Likely

Caroline Crenshaw has left the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), leaving the agency solely comprising Republicans. As a result, nothing stands in the way of pro-crypto rulemaking. Republicans in Washington have generally been friendlier toward the crypto industry than their Democratic counterparts. The SEC made a 180-degree turn last year, after President Donald Trump…

Bitcoin Price Falls Despite ‘Really Bullish’ MSCI Update: What Went Wrong?

Bitcoin (BTC) fell 2.30% on Wednesday, hitting an intraday low near $91,550. BTC/USDT daily price chart. Source: TradingView The decline came despite bullish signals, including a whale-linked $280 million BTC accumulation move and MSCI’s decision to keep crypto treasury companies in its benchmark indexes. Source: X MSCI limits passive demand for Strategy’s shares In the…

Filecoin (FIL) declines as crypto markets retreat

Storage token Filecoin FIL$1.5314 fell 3.6% over the last 24 hours, tracking weakness in the wider cryptocurrency market. The broader market gauge, the CoinDesk 20 index, was also 3.6% lower at publication time. Filecoin’s volume ran 30% above the 30-day moving average, though participation failed to breach elevated thresholds that typically confirm directional conviction, according…

2025 Crypto Bear Market “Repricing” Institutional Capital: Analyst

The steep decline in altcoins over the past year may reflect a broader reassessment of which blockchain networks are likely to attract long-term capital, as institutional investors begin a gradual, multiyear entry into the market, analysts say. Excluding Bitcoin (BTC), 2025 turned out to be a bear market for the wider cryptocurrency market. Decentralized finance…

JPM Coin to launch natively on Canton Network in 2026

Digital Asset, the creator of the Canton Network, and Kinexys by JPMorgan plan to bring USD JPM Coin (JPMD) natively to the Canton Network, extending the bank’s deposit token from its existing infrastructure onto a public, institutional-grade blockchain.  The bank has already begun deploying JPM Coin on Coinbase’s Base network for institutional clients as part…

Morgan Stanley Files Staking ETH ETF in 3rd Crypto Offering

Morgan Stanley has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to launch a spot Ether exchange-traded fund (ETF), adding to a growing list of crypto products from the investment banking giant. The US investment bank filed an S-1 form to establish the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust, an ETF that seeks to buy, hold…

Quantum Threat to Bitcoin Goes Beyond Just Threat to Cold Wallets

Advances in quantum computing don’t just threaten Bitcoin wallet security, it could also undermine its economic and security model as it could be used to mine Bitcoin blocks far more efficiently, according to Coinbase’s head of investment research, David Duong. Quantum computing continues to be debated as a potential threat to the crypto industry, as…

RAKBank Wins In-Principle Approval for AED-Backed Stablecoin

RAKBank is preparing to join the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) fast-evolving stablecoin ecosystem after receiving in-principle approval on Wednesday from the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) to issue a UAE dirham-backed payment token.  In-principle approval means the CBUAE has agreed to RAKBank’s stablecoin plans subject to final regulatory and operational conditions, and…

XRP Outperforms Bitcoin as CNBC Names It Crypto’s New Darling

Ripple’s payment token, XRP, has just been labelled by CNBC as the “new cryptocurrency darling” after gaining 25% in the first week of the new year. “The hottest crypto trade of the year is not Bitcoin, it is not Ether, it is XRP,” said CNBC’s Power Lunch host Brian Sullivan on Tuesday. XRP price surges…

Ethereum Devs Raise Blob Limit From 15 to 21

Ethereum scalability was boosted on Wednesday with the second Blob Parameter-Only hard fork, raising the blob limit from 15 to 21, the first of many improvements aimed at scaling the Ethereum ecosystem in 2026. The second BPO hard fork, which took effect on Wednesday at 1:01:11 UTC, further increases Ethereum’s data throughput by allowing more transactions…