Author: Oguz Ozdemir

The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, which is set to provide the US crypto industry with more regulatory clarity, will head to the Senate for deliberation next week, according to US Senator Tim Scott.“Next Thursday, we’ll have a vote on market structure,” Scott told Breitbart News on Tuesday. “It’s important for us to get on the record and vote.”“We have worked tirelessly for the last six plus months making sure that we had multiple drafts available to every member of the committee,” Scott said.It confirms recent comments in December from White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks that the…

Ethereum was not created to make finance efficient or apps convenient. It was designed to set people free.That line from the Trustless Manifesto drew criticism when it was published, and Vitalik Buterin repeated it on Jan. 5.The argument: Ethereum’s mission differs fundamentally from the efficiency game DeFi protocols compete in. The goal is not 4.5% yield versus 5.3%, not reducing latency from 473 milliseconds to 368, not trimming signup from three clicks to one.Ethereum’s game is resilience: avoiding total losses when infrastructure collapses, governments turn hostile, or developers disappear. Resilience means keeping 2,000-millisecond latency at 2,000 milliseconds even when Cloudflare…

Bitcoin’s (BTC) sharp 7.4% rebound kick-started the first week of January and has shifted markets’ focus back to futures positioning, where liquidation data suggests the price action may be asymmetric.Key takeaways:Over $10.6 billion in long liquidations sit below $84,000, versus just $2 billion in shorts above $104,000.Retail positioning on Hyperliquid shows shorts are more vulnerable to upside squeezes than longs to downside moves.Bitcoin must reclaim the $100,000 cost basis to confirm a structural trend reversal.Liquidation imbalance raises volatility risk for BTCAccording to data from CoinGlass, approximately $10.65 billion in leveraged long positions would be liquidated if Bitcoin revisits $84,000. In…

In brief MSCI said it will not change the index treatment for digital-asset treasury companies in its February 2026 review. Initial consultation flagged investor concerns that some DATs appear to be investment vehicles rather than operating firms. Shares of Strategy rose after the decision eased the near-term risk of forced index-driven selling. Global index provider MSCI has deferred a decision on whether to change how it treats companies with significant digital asset exposure, maintaining the status quo after a consultation that raised questions around classification, balance sheet volatility, and index construction.Results of the review published Tuesday covered so-called digital asset…

Shiba Inu [SHIB] has started the year with a big 30%+ move! At first glance, it looks like just another memecoin surge, but there’s more to it that’s worth taking a good look at. What’s holding up this big rally? Pace, but not enough faith? The recent surge is backed by clear pace. Price has pushed above key short-term MAs, with clear indication of buying interest. RSI showed strong but stretched momentum. The move happened quickly after while of sideways action, which often attracts short-term traders rather than long-term holders. Source: TradingView While the breakout is technically valid, it doesn’t…

Bitcoin hovered near $92,000 on Tuesday as analysts and traders pointed to improving technical and macro signals suggesting the cryptocurrency may have put its brutal fourth-quarter sell-off behind it. The price action comes after months of volatility that saw bitcoin fall as much as 35% from its October peak above $126,000, amid forced liquidations and selling pressure from long-term holders. While the asset ended December down for a third consecutive month — a historically rare pattern — several analysts argue the setup now favors a rebound. “We believe with reasonable confidence that Bitcoin and broader digital asset markets have bottomed,”…

In a major development for Bitcoin-focused corporations and the broader digital asset ecosystem, global index provider MSCI has concluded its review of digital asset treasury companies (DATCOs) and decided against excluding them from its flagship indexes. MSCI said the current treatment of affected companies will remain unchanged for now, meaning DATCOs already included in MSCI indexes will stay included as long as they continue to meet existing eligibility requirements.  The index provider acknowledged feedback from institutional investors expressing concern that some digital asset treasury companies resemble investment funds, which are typically excluded from its indexes.  At the same time, MSCI…

On paper, the U.S. national debt is a number so big it stops feeling real. Trillions do that to your brain.So let’s bring it back down to human size for a second.If you spread today’s federal debt across U.S. households, you land at roughly $285,000 per household, depending on the day you do the math.The number moves around with Treasury cash management. The estimate uses the government’s own daily debt tally from Treasury and the St. Louis Fed’s household count from FRED.It’s an unusual way to view the world, but it makes the whole thing feel suddenly personal.The viral version…

*Tink Tink Tink* Hello and good evening everyone, I have a very special announcement for all of you. Can everyone come join me in a toast? Jeeves park the carriage. I shant want to dally and miss even a second. SEI Crypto news is quietly seeing this L1 pump. Sei Network broke out and quietly took the top spot for daily activity among EVM chains. When usage spikes and resistance gives way at the same time, it signals something more structural than a routine bounce. If you think about it, we were in a textbook accumulation phase this past year.…

Senate Republicans are reportedly escalating efforts to advance the long-stalled crypto market structure legislation, delivering what they described as a “closing offer” to Democratic negotiators as Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) moves toward a committee markup as soon as next week. Senate Banking Committee Republicans sent a document Monday night outlining a series of proposed changes to the bill ahead of a bipartisan member meeting Tuesday.  The document, described as a “closing offer and state of play,” includes more than 30 revisions to Title I, which governs the legal classification of digital assets, as well as two new titles…