Last week Wells Fargo begun to amass Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) in substantial amounts. This development has elicited reactions from the cryptocurrency community, including a response from Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance. Wells Fargo’s decision to purchase large quantities of Bitcoin comes at a time of increasing uncertainty in...

Bitcoin’s mining difficulty slipped to a little over 146 trillion in the network’s first difficulty recalibration of 2026, offering a small but measurable easing for miners. According to multiple reports, the adjustment completed in early January reduced the metric from levels seen at the end of 2025. First Adjustment...

The price of Bitcoin is infamous for its inactivity during the weekends, and it has not disappointed in the past day. The premier cryptocurrency continues to hover around the psychological $90,000 mark, with no significant movement observed over the past 24 hours. While the Bitcoin price action — or...

Samson Mow, the founder of Bitcoin infrastructure firm JAN3, said on social media that he expects Elon Musk to “go hard into BTC” in 2026. Reports have disclosed the comment came as part of a set of bold forecasts from Mow on January 11, 2026, and it quickly spread...

Bitcoin’s price performance over the past three months or so has been quite painful, as the asset ended 2025 in the red despite its massive surge on a couple of occasions throughout the year. This was rather surprising to some, especially given the fact that most other financial assets...

The Ethereum co-founder argues that price benchmarks, oracle security and staking incentives remain unresolved challenges for decentralized stablecoins....

Crypto’s poor performance in 2025 and the prospect of a bear market in 2026 has everyone wondering whether it makes sense to hold crypto at all in the coming months, and if so, which ones. Although the answer ultimately depends on each person’s risk tolerance and time horizon, there...

In a recent interview with CoinDesk, Ethereum Foundation co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang described zero-knowledge as part of Ethereum’s midterm roadmap, pointing to “many amazing breakthroughs” in the past one to two years....

Tennessee’s sports betting regulator has ordered Polymarket, Kalshi, and Crypto.com to cease offering sports betting contracts, bringing focus to the regulatory landscape of event contract exchanges. The agency accused the three major prediction market platforms of violating state gambling laws by operating in Tennessee without the required licenses. Polymarket,...

The beginning of the new year brought some enhanced volatility for certain altcoins, including Ripple’s XRP. It quickly reclaimed the fourth spot in terms of market cap, as its price surged past two crucial resistance levels – $1.90 and $2.00, both of which have turned into support now. However,...