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In brief The move allows customers to allocate funds via PayID and bank transfer for the first time since mid-2023. Binance did not identify the banks or payment providers supporting the renewed fiat channels. The rollout follows regulatory scrutiny and the wind-down of the company’s Australian derivatives business. Binance Australia has restored direct dollar deposits and withdrawals for local users, reopening PayID and bank-transfer access after more than two years of disruption to its banking services in the country.The exchange said the functionality is now available to all Australian customers following a phased rollout to a smaller user group in…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Spot Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds) in the United States have had a relatively positive start to the new year after a wobbly ending to 2025. In this spirit of market positivity, the crypto-linked investment products have just recorded their best weekly performance since early October. This latest weekly inflow of capital signals the return of demand among the US institutional investors, with the price of Bitcoin also reacting positively in the same period. Over the past week, the premier cryptocurrency saw the return of bullish momentum, surging…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum’s validator exit queue has dropped to zero, a shift that on-chain watchers say could change how the market views sell pressure. According to on-chain metrics and recent reports, validators who once waited weeks to withdraw are no longer lining up. That alone removes a large, visible source of potential ETH flowing back into markets. Ethereum Exit Queue Clears The queue once held millions of ETH. Now it is empty, data from Ethereum Validator Queue shows. This means validators who choose to exit can be processed almost…
Vitalik Buterin framed 2026 as the year Ethereum reverses a decade of convenience-first compromises. His thesis: the protocol stayed trustless, but the defaults drifted. Wallets outsourced verification to centralized RPCs.Decentralized applications became server-dependent behemoths that leak user data to dozens of endpoints. Block building is concentrated in the hands of a few sophisticated actors. The base layer held, but the experience became something else entirely.The response is a concrete menu of infrastructure fixes designed to make the trust-minimized path the easy path.Verified RPC clients that turn untrusted providers into locally verifiable endpoints. Private information retrieval to hide what users query…
A new lawsuit accuses Bank of America of mining data from its customers and unlawfully sharing the results with law enforcement agencies. According to a lawsuit filed by Florida resident Neil Castellon, Bank of America runs one of the “most sophisticated data surveillance systems in the American financial sector and possesses technological capabilities that would be the envy of any 21st-century intelligence agency.” [adinserter block=”1″] The lawsuit alleges that between January 5th and January 7th of 2021, when a mob stormed the United States Capitol, Bank of America used its extensive library of data to identify those who were in…
Gold and copper have moved higher even as the Federal Reserve continues to signal patience on rate cuts, a divergence that shows how markets tend to price liquidity conditions ahead of formal policy shifts rather than wait for confirmation from central banks.These metals are responding to changes in real yields, funding conditions, and forward expectations, and that behavior has often appeared in earlier stages of easing cycles. In previous cycles, Bitcoin reacted later to the same forces, with its strongest advances arriving only after metals had already repositioned for looser financial conditions.The current setup looks familiar. Gold is attracting defensive…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Starting January 28, 2026, Google Play will stop allowing downloads and updates of overseas crypto exchange and wallet apps in South Korea unless those platforms prove they are registered with the country’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Registration Proof Must Be Uploaded According to Google’s new rule, developers listing crypto exchange or custodial wallet apps must upload evidence that their VASP registration has been accepted by the FIU through the developer console. This is not a technical tweak — it ties app distribution directly to local regulatory approval.…
A fraudster has now taken more than $2 million from crypto traders by posing as a Coinbase support agent, according to on-chain analysis. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT says the con artist impersonates Coinbase staff to trick users into approving wallet transfers. [adinserter block=”1″] The stolen funds are then routed through multiple wallets and converted across chains to obscure the trail. ZachXBT links the activity to a Canadian individual known online as “Haby” or “Havard.” ZachXBT says the scammer spent proceeds on luxury bottle service, gambling and rare social media usernames. Public social posts and operational mistakes reportedly helped link real-world behavior…
European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane delivered a warning that most markets treated as European housekeeping: the ECB can stay on its easing path for now, but a Federal Reserve “tussle” over mandate independence could destabilize global markets through higher US term premiums and a reassessment of the dollar’s role.Lane’s framing matters because it names the exact transmission channels that matter most to Bitcoin: real yields, dollar liquidity, and the credibility scaffolding that holds the current macro regime together.The immediate catalyst for cooling was geopolitical. Oil’s risk premium faded as fears of a US strike on Iran receded, pulling…
More than 36 million ETH is now staked in Ethereum’s proof-of-stake system, close to 30% of the circulating supply and worth over $118 billion at recent prices.Graph showing the amount of ETH staked in the Ethereum network from Oct. 16, 2025, to Jan. 16, 2026 (Source: ValidatorQueue)That headline number sounds like a clean vote of confidence: holders are locking up their ETH to secure the network, collect yield, and signal they’re in no rush to sell. The trouble with using “confidence” as a metric is that it counts coins, not motivations, and it treats one whale the same as a…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Steak ’n Shake has moved $10 million of Bitcoin onto its corporate balance sheet, a fresh step in the fast-food chain’s crypto push. According to reports, the purchase equals about 105 BTC at current prices, and the company says all customer Bitcoin receipts feed into a so-called Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Tied To Sales Based on reports, Steak ’n Shake calls its new approach a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and says it links reserve growth directly to rising same-store sales. The company has framed the move…
Bitcoin’s price, and thus the entire crypto market, is increasingly being anchored by flows through regulated wrappers. Crypto is increasingly being subsumed by TradFi rather than offering an alternative to the broken system Satoshi criticized.U.S. spot ETF subscriptions and redemptions are now posting day-to-day swings that increasingly dominate the daily narrative tape.In practice, “priced by ETF flows” means the ETF print has become the cleanest, most legible proxy for marginal U.S.-dollar demand during U.S. hours, often the first number desks check before debating what happened on crypto-native venues.According to Farside Investors’ Bitcoin ETF flow dashboard, the U.S. complex logged a…
By mid-January, open interest in Bitcoin options rose to about $74.1 billion, edging past Bitcoin futures open interest of roughly $65.22 billion.Open interest is the stock of outstanding contracts that have not been closed or expired, so it measures position inventory, not trading activity. So, when options inventory exceeds futures, it often shows a market that’s leaning less on raw directional leverage and more on structured exposure: hedges, yield overlays, and volatility positioning.Futures remain the simplest way to take leveraged exposure to Bitcoin’s direction. However, options let traders and institutions shape risk with much more precision through payoff profiles that…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Anchorage Digital, a New York–based crypto bank, is moving to raise fresh capital as it prepares to enter public markets. According to Bloomberg, people familiar with the matter say the firm is looking to secure between $200 million and $400 million in new funding. Anchorage Seeks Major Funding Reports say the Firm is exploring a $200M–$400 million round to strengthen its business before a possible public listing. The plan would put Anchorage among a small group of crypto-native companies that have tried to list on stock markets…