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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Traders watching Bitcoin climb alongside US software stocks last week may have drawn the wrong conclusion. According to NYDIG, a financial services company focused on Bitcoin, the visual parallel is misleading. Only about 25% of BTC price movement can be traced back to its relationship with equity markets. The remaining 75% is driven by forces that have nothing to do with the S&P 500 or the Nasdaq. Greg Cipolaro, head of research at NYDIG, made the case in a Friday note. His argument: when Bitcoin and software…
In the latest SlateCast episode, Fantium CEO and co-founder Jonathan Ludwig joined CryptoSlate Editor-in-Chief Liam “Akiba” Wright and CEO Nate Whitehill to discuss why he returned to building, how Fantium structures athlete financing, and why its broader sports-token vision is focused on utility rather than pure speculation. Across the conversation, Ludwig framed tokenization as a tool for expanding access to capital and participation, provided it is tied to real financial activity and designed with aligned incentives.Returning to company buildingLudwig said his decision to move from investing back into operating came from a sense that he was not fully applying his…
In brief Aave’s monthly active users hit an all-time high of ~155,000 in February, up roughly 100% in six months. The surge was driven by rising ETH supply rates and the collapse of the basis trade, analysts say. The Aave Chan Initiative, one of Aave’s most influential governance groups, announced its shutdown last week after a transparency dispute with Aave Labs. Monthly active users on DeFi lending protocol Aave reached roughly 155,000 in February, marking an all-time high and nearly doubling over the past six months.The rise in users comes as investors increasingly seek yield through decentralized lending protocols, according…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin, being referred to as digital gold, is nothing new, as proponents have, for the longest time, expected the digital asset to replicate gold’s growth. Currently, the market cap of gold is more than 20 times that of BTC, but that has not changed the expectations that BTC will eventually be the bigger asset. This time around, it is Bitcoin proponent Samson Mow who is once again making the comparison and predicting what could happen between the two assets. Betting On Bitcoin To Overtake Gold In an…
A widely used method that crypto exchanges rely on to generate deposit addresses while keeping private keys offline could break if blockchains migrate to post-quantum cryptography, according to new research.Exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance currently rely on hierarchical deterministic wallets, a system standardized under Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 32, or BIP32. The design allows operators to generate fresh deposit addresses from a public key stored on a server while the private signing key remains offline in cold storage.That separation is foundational to how custodial crypto infrastructure works, enabling exchanges to create addresses on demand without exposing the keys that control customer…
In brief The Treasury has recommended a “hold law” allowing platforms to pause suspicious crypto transfers during investigations. The proposal appears in a GENIUS Act report on tools to counter illicit finance involving digital assets. The idea could help law enforcement react faster, though legal and transparency questions remain, Decrypt was told. The U.S. Treasury is urging Congress to consider creating a digital asset-specific “hold law” that would allow crypto platforms to temporarily freeze funds linked to suspected illegal activity.The recommendation has appeared in a Treasury report to Congress on technologies used to counter illicit finance involving digital assets, produced…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The price of Bitcoin has struggled to muster a sustained upward climb over the last few weeks, with the latest one failing around the $74,000 mark in the past week. However, the premier cryptocurrency seems to have deeper problems than failed price recovery attempts. According to a crypto market expert, the Bitcoin price is at a stage reminiscent of the bearish period of 2022. Is BTC About To Witness A Repeat Of 2022? In a March 8 post on the X platform, Chartered Market Technician Tony Severino…
In brief Bitcoin is hovering around $66,150, down about 1.7% over the past 24 hours, as volatility spreads across global markets. U.S. stock-index futures tumbled, with Dow futures down more than 800 points while S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures each fell about 1.5%. Oil prices surged above $100 a barrel after strikes on energy infrastructure and disruptions around the Strait of Hormuz raised fears of supply shocks. Bitcoin remained under pressure on Sunday, extending last week’s losses as global markets brace for another bout of volatility triggered by surging oil prices and ongoing tensions in the Middle East.The world’s largest…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure A popular crypto analyst on the social media platform X has shared a buy-and-hold strategy for Bitcoin, which could potentially yield over 250% gain in the near future. BTC Price To Bottom Out Around $49,000? In a recent post on the X platform, market pundit Ali Martinez put forward an exciting trade plan for Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. This strategy revolves around the CVDD (Cumulative Value Days Destroyed) Channel. CVDD is an on-chain technical indicator based on the volume of aged capital being…
Riot case study shows US Bitcoin miners can clear power costs long before they clear full profitBitcoin mining costs are often reduced to a single number: the “cost to mine one BTC.” In reality, that figure depends on what layer of the business you measure.Electricity determines whether machines should run today, operating expenses determine whether a mining fleet supports the broader company, and accounting costs determine whether the business ultimately reports profit.To examine those layers more clearly, CryptoSlate built a Bitcoin Mining Cost Model that calculates mining economics from first principles using network difficulty, block reward, transaction fees, ASIC efficiency,…
In brief AlphaTON Capital and the Midnight Foundation introduced Vera Report, an anonymous reporting app integrated with Telegram’s ecosystem. The app leverages technology like zero-knowledge proofs to preserve information provided by would-be whistleblowers, among features like scrubbing metadata. Vera Report draws on CEO Brittany Kaiser’s experiences as a whistleblower, including outreach from “hundreds of people” wanting to make an impact against fraud. AlphaTON CEO Brittany Kaiser views the Telegram-focused tech firm’s latest contribution to the messaging platform’s ecosystem as deeply personal.Since she blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica’s internal practices in 2018, which involved the misuse of personal data and…
When seabed disturbances off Côte d’Ivoire severed seven submarine cables in March 2024, the regional internet impact earned an IODA severity score above 11,000.For Bitcoin, the global effect was negligible. The affected region hosted roughly five nodes, about 0.03% of the network, and the impact fell within normal fluctuations at -2.5%.No price movement followed. No consensus disruption materialized.A new Cambridge study, covering 11 years of Bitcoin network data and 68 verified cable fault events, finds that submarine cable failures have historically caused minimal network disruption.Coordinated pressure on a handful of hosting networks, by contrast, could disrupt visible nodes an order…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Bitcoin’s holder metric is quietly telling two very different stories right now, and both give different interpretations of what to expect for the leading cryptocurrency’s price outlook. On one side, a wave of short-term holders is rushing to lock in profits at the first sign of a price bounce, flooding exchanges with Bitcoin. On the other hand, long-term holders, the market’s most battle-hardened participants, are sitting on their coins in near-total silence, unbothered by the noise. Short-Term Holders Cashing Out Into Strength Bitcoin barely twitched above $70,000…
In brief OpenAI and xAI released their best models to date in recent weeks. They have different users in mind, but both overall feel more natural than their predecessors. GPT-5.4 wins on reliability and reasoning; Grok 4.20 wins on personality and speed. OpenAI launched GPT-5.3 Instant on March 3. Two days later, it shipped GPT-5.4. That turnaround was either a sign of momentum or mild chaos, depending on your read.xAI quietly dropped Grok 4.20 a few weeks ago—technically still in beta, only accessible to SuperGrok subscribers—with a version number that doubles as a weed joke and a wink to the…