Author: Oguz Ozdemir

A well-known finance coach in the XRP community has urged patience, calling the cryptocurrency’s price sliding under $2 a rare long-term chance to buy. According to his public posts, he described XRP trading below $2 as “one of the greatest blessings of our lifetime” and said he remains actively accumulating at current levels. Related Reading XRP Below $2 Seen As Entry Point Coach JV’s portfolio centers on a mix of major coins and infrastructure tokens. His top crypto holdings include XRP, Bitcoin, WLFI, Solana, XLM, HBAR, and VET. On the equities side, he highlighted American Bitcoin Corp (ABTC) and Twenty…

In a move that could shape corporate Bitcoin adoption, index provider MSCI is set to decide whether to exclude companies holding significant Bitcoin reserves from its global benchmarks. The outcome, due January 15, may influence billions in forced selling and set precedents for how Wall Street views Bitcoin as a treasury asset. MSCI Inc., a New York-based publicly traded company listed on the NYSE with a market capitalization of $43.76 billion and a stock price of $565.68 as of January 2, is a key player in the investment world. It curates over 246,000 equity indexes daily, with more than $18.3…

Fedi will release its full software stack as open source on Jan. 3, completing a pledge made at launch in 2024. The company said all Fedi software has now transitioned to the Affero General Public License (AGPL), following an interim period under a business source license.  The change makes Fedi’s codebase publicly available under a copyleft license that requires derivative works to remain open, according to a spokesperson from Fedi.  The date carries weight in Bitcoin history. Jan. 3 marks the anniversary of the Bitcoin genesis block, mined in 2009. Fedi said the timing reflects its focus on community ownership…

In brief Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has said that the exchange is aiming to scale up its offerings in stablecoins and payments in 2026. Armstrong also declared that Coinbase is aiming to become the biggest financial app in the world, and that it wants to expand blockchain adoption globally. Industry commentators suggest that such aims may be unrealistic within a single year, but that Coinbase has a key role to play in onboarding newcomers to crypto. Crypto exchange Coinbase is aiming to scale up its stablecoin offerings and increase onchain adoption worldwide in 2026, according to CEO and founder Brian…

Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin has called on the network to accelerate its push toward becoming a true “world computer.” He warned that recent progress is not enough to meet Ethereum’s long-stated mission. In a post shared on X on January 1, 2026, Buterin reflected on Ethereum’s technical wins in 2025. However, he stressed that the ecosystem must now focus less on short-term trends and more on long-term infrastructure. According to Buterin, Ethereum made major advances last year. Gas limits were increased, blob capacity expanded, node software became more reliable, and zero-knowledge EVMs crossed key performance milestones. He said upgrades such…

Bitcoin traded in the $80,000s on Dec. 31 just as U.S. inflation cooled and investors priced Federal Reserve rate cuts.The lack of follow-through has left traders leaning less on macro headlines and more on a mix of real yields, money-market plumbing, and spot ETF flows. That shift is keeping price action pinned to defined levels even when “cuts are coming” dominates the narrative.Macro without the Boom: Why “Good News” isn’t moving BitcoinThe latest inflation data reinforced that narrative on paper.Headline CPI rose 2.7% from a year earlier in November, and core CPI rose 2.6%.But the print also arrived with a…

In brief Ethereum insiders say 2026 could finally spark major ETH value growth as institutions pile in. Tokenization is expected to shift toward yield-bearing, DeFi-integrated assets, bringing substantial new capital on-chain. ETH may begin its path toward store-of-value status, though the token would still be well behind Bitcoin’s trajectory. It’s never easy being an Ethereum maxi. True, ETH did hit a new all-time high this year; but relative to the Ethereum network’s numerous recent technical and economic triumphs, such price action still seems rather insufficient to many.Ethereum has always been an anomaly, sitting somewhere between Bitcoin’s golden store-of-value legitimacy and…

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Vitalik Buterin stressed that Ethereum’s next phase depends as much on decentralization as on technical upgrades. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has urged the Ethereum community to remain vigilant against centralization. This comes as the network celebrates major technical achievements made in 2025. Decentralization and Usability In a new year’s message shared via X, Buterin outlined that Ethereum’s future depends not only on technical progress but also on protecting its core values of decentralization and usability. “Welcome to 2026! Milady is back,” he wrote before turning to what he described as a central challenge for the network. Buterin said Ethereum…

Bitwise Asset Management just filed registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for 11 new cryptocurrency strategy exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The filings would trade on NYSE Arca if approved, expanding regulated access to major altcoins. The proposed funds include individual strategy ETFs tracking Aave (AAVE), Zcash (ZEC), Sui (SUI), Uniswap (UNI), Starknet (STRK), Near (NEAR), Bitensor (TAO), Hyperliquid (HYPE), Ethena (ENA), Canton (CC) and Tron (TRX). Each fund is designed to invest a significant portion of assets in the underlying token, while using related exchange-traded products and derivatives to provide regulated exposure. Bitwise positions the filings as part of…