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- Analyst who predicted 2021 crypto crash sends chilling warning The 2021–2022 crypto crash is something that still gives investors nightmares. And one of the few analysts who consistently warned ahead of that collapse was Into The Cryptoverse founder Benjamin Cowen. In the final months of 2021, as Bitcoin (BTC) traded near its then-record high around $69,000, Cowen flagged mounting risk. Tightening Federal Reserve policy, excessive leverage, and overheated altcoin valuations, he argued, were creating a fragile setup. What followed was one of crypto’s sharpest drawdowns on record. Bitcoin slid nearly 78% to around $15,000. Ethereum (ETH) fell roughly 80%, while many altcoins lost 90% or more. Now Cowen is back again with another...

- MicroStrategy disclosed its latest Bitcoin purchase on January 26. In its 4th purchase of the month, the company acquired $264.1 million in Bitcoin at an average price of $90,061 per BTC. The acquisition brings the company’s average cost of Bitcoin purchase to $76,037. The purchase came as Bitcoin traded in a volatile January range, slipping from early-month highs above $95,000 to the high-$80,000 range. Latest Buy Details and Funding Structure While the headline buy reinforces MicroStrategy’s long-term Bitcoin conviction, underlying data suggests the company’s funding model is facing mounting structural pressure. MicroStrategy funded the January 20–25 purchase window primarily through equity issuance. The company sold...

- BlackRock’s new ETF could pay investors even if Bitcoin crashes I remember the excitement in the market when BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) launched its U.S. spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) linked to Bitcoin (BTC) in January 2024. After all, the world's largest asset manager had decided to launch a Bitcoin product after much hesitation and the move had indicated Wall Street finally embracing cryptocurrency. More than two years have passed since then, and BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (Nasdaq: IBIT) has accumulated $62.9 billion in net inflow as of Jan. 23, as per the onchain analytics platform SoSoValue. Its iShares Ethereum Trust (Nasdaq: ETHA), launched in July 2024, is also the largest spot Ether ETF in the U.S. The fund has...

- Altcoins are once again stepping into the spotlight as renewed momentum flows through the crypto market. While Bitcoin has not completely stabilized, altcoins are finding their way to their ATHs. These setups signal growing investor confidence and the possibility of explosive breakout moves ahead. BeInCrypto has analyzed three such altcoins that are nearing their all-time highs and could potentially reach them. Rain (RAIN) RAIN is trading within a broadening rising wedge, signaling a bullish structure. Price continues forming higher highs and higher lows while respecting trendline support and resistance. Currently, RAIN consolidates below the upper channel resistance near the all-time high at $0.01009. Momentum remains...

- Kraken to Offer Easy DeFi Experience Powered by Ink, Up to 8% APY Kraken rolled out DeFi Earn on Jan. 26, offering users a straightforward way to access decentralized finance yields directly in the Kraken app. According to official communication from a thread on X and Kraken’s DeFi Earn landing page, users deposit cash or stablecoins, which convert to USDC if needed, then select one of three vault strategies: Balanced, High, or Advanced, offering up to 8% APY. The system automatically allocates funds to lending protocols and rewards accrue without further input. Notably, the feature relies on embedded wallet infrastructure from Privy, eliminating the need for seed phrases or manual transaction signatures. Vaults are built by Veda...

- Bitcoin’s network hit an unusual speed bump over the weekend, not because of code, markets or a Fed policy change, but because the physical world intervened. A sprawling winter storm strained regional power grids and knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands of households. The disruption briefly spilled into crypto infrastructure, as some US-based Bitcoin miners cut power use and the network’s block production slowed, without sparking market panic. US winter storm Fern hits power grids Winter Storm Fern swept across a wide stretch of the U.S., bringing snow, ice and severe Arctic cold that knocked out power and disrupted travel. Utilities reported widespread outages across the Southeast and Lower Midwest, with more than 1...

- MEXC and Ether.fi’s Crypto Card ‘Puts Power in the Hands of Users’ MEXC and ether.fi have teamed up to launch a new crypto-powered credit card that aims to give users a seamless way of spending their digital assets worldwide. The MEXC x ether.fi card is fully compatible with Apple Pay and Google Pay and can be used at more than 150 million Visa merchants globally. Customers can earn up to 4% cashback on their purchases, plus exclusive perks including discounted travel, conference passes, and savings of up to 65% on luxury hotels. “We have the ability to provide more rewards for users,” ether.fi CEO Mike Silagadze said, adding that the card gives users the ability to either spend or borrow against their crypto. "It could be a...

- Bitcoin in Focus as Yen Surges on NY Fed Rate Check: What's Next? The stability of a major global currency is hanging in the balance, and the ripple effects are zeroing in on Bitcoin, at least in the short-term. This shift revolves around the potential for a coordinated currency intervention by the Federal Reserve. After the New York Fed conducted a rate check—a procedural move often preceding market action—the Japanese yen surged 3.39% from last Friday’s low. It now trades at 153.95 yen to the dollar, a level not seen since early November 2025. This matters because a stronger yen threatens to unwind one of the world’s most pervasive investment strategies, directly impacting the liquidity that has buoyed risk assets like Bitcoin for...

- Gold is winning the fear trade as crypto bleeds Something unusual is happening across global markets. It’s showing up most clearly in what investors are leaving and where they’re going instead. Only last week, there were celebrations for the largest crypto inflows in months. Today, crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) marked one of their largest outflow weeks on record, just as gold pushed past a historic milestone. The contrast is stark and increasingly hard to ignore. Crypto funds flipped to heavy outflows, with crypto ETFs seeing $1.73 billion in outflows last week. This marked their worst week since mid-November 2025, according to CoinShares. The reversal followed the prior week’s $2.2 billion of inflows, highlighting the...

- I have been closely observing the crypto industry for the past few years, and it appears that the current market downturn is beginning to rival the slump in 2022. During the 2022 fiasco, major crypto companies such as FTX, BlockFi, Voyager Digital, and Three Arrows Capital went bankrupt. Several other companies were forced to wind down certain operations or cut their workforce. The market slump following the crash on Oct. 10, 2025, has also left a trail of shutdowns and layoffs across the crypto industry, with little evidence of improvement. Last year we saw DappRadar, a popular decentralized application (dApp) analytics platform, and Cryptomixer shutting down. In January 2026 crypto companies, OKX, MANTRA, and Polygon Labs...

- Crypto traders are abandoning token speculation in favour of prediction markets following a brutal $150 billion altcoin crash, with platforms like Polymarket seeing app installs surge from 30,000 to over 400,000 between January and December 2025, according to Bloomberg. Weekly trading volume across prediction platforms, including Polymarket and Kalshi, exploded from $500 million in June to nearly $6 billion in January, data from Dune shows, while crypto exchange downloads collapsed by more than half during the same period. The shift reflects deep fatigue across the token economy after Bitcoin plunged nearly 30% from its October peak and more than 11 million coins effectively died last year, marking the largest extinction event in...

- Digital asset investment products recorded $1.73 billion in outflows last week, marking the largest weekly withdrawal since mid-November 2025, according to data published Monday by CoinShares. Bitcoin investment products led the declines, with $1.09 billion exiting during the week, while Ethereum funds saw $630 million in outflows. In contrast, Solana-linked products recorded inflows of $17.1 million. Total assets under management across digital asset investment products stood at $178 billion. The scale of the outflows reflects a combination of macroeconomic pressures and market-specific weakness. In its report, CoinShares cited dwindling expectations for interest rate cuts, negative price momentum and disappointment that digital...

- BlackRock Files With SEC to Launch iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF BlackRock could soon debut its iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF, according to a registration statement filed with the SEC on Friday. The new ETF will track the "performance of the price of Bitcoin while providing premium income through an actively managed strategy of writing (selling) call options on IBIT shares and, from time to time, on indices that track spot bitcoin exchange-traded products ('ETPs'), including iShares Bitcoin Trust (such indices, 'ETP Indices')," the issuer said in its SEC filing. In practice, this means the fund sells options that give other investors the right to buy its IBIT shares at a set price and collects the option premiums as...

- Strategy Spends $267 Million on Bitcoin, Issues STRC for Third Straight Week Strategy continued buying Bitcoin as the digital asset’s price fell to its lowest level in five weeks, but the company’s latest acquisition marked a deceleration from the previous two additions. The Tysons Corner, Virginia-based firm spent $267 million on Bitcoin last week, while adding roughly 2,900 Bitcoin to its stockpile, according to a press release. In the two weeks prior, the firm spent around $1.2 billion and $2.1 billion on the digital asset, respectively. The largest corporate holder of Bitcoin now owns 712,600 BTC, a sum worth $62.7 billion, with the asset recently changing hands around $87,600. Bitcoin slipped below $90,000 on Friday, as signs...

- Bitcoin’s Net Realized P/L Hits Zero Again — Is a June 2022-Style Capitulation Next? Bitcoin is again near another critical on-chain inflection point as a key profitability indicator goes back to the levels that last occurred during one of the most painful downtrends in the history of the market. CryptoQuant analyst Adler AM data shows that the Net Realized Profit and Loss of Bitcoin has dropped by approximately 97% after it achieved its recent high and is now approaching the levels of near-zero territory. The situation is similar to those observed in June 2022 before BTC plummeted from about 30,000 to almost 16,000. Net Realized P/L tracks the balance between realized profits and losses on the Bitcoin network based on on-chain...

- US Bitcoin Miners Slow as Winter Storm Hits Power Grids Bitcoin mining activity in the United States slowed during a winter storm this week as operators curtailed power use or faced grid disruptions, pushing network block times higher and briefly reducing overall hashrate. The slowdown appeared most visible among U.S.-based mining pools, as extreme weather strained electricity systems across several regions, according to public network data on Mining Pool Stats. Impact on Major Mining Pools The most pronounced storm-related impact appeared at Foundry USA and Luxor, both of which have significant exposure to U.S.-based mining operations and grid conditions. Foundry’s hashrate fell sharply from about 260 EH/s on January 24 to...

- This week, investors in Bitcoin, gold, and silver are closely monitoring key US economic signals that could sway market sentiment and asset prices. With Bitcoin hovering around $88,000, gold nearing $5,000 per ounce, and silver surpassing $100 per ounce amid ongoing safe-haven demand, these events carry significant implications. 4 US Economic Data Posts to Influence Investor Sentiment This Week The Federal Reserve's stance on interest rates remains pivotal. Lower rates typically boost risk assets like Bitcoin while reducing the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets like gold and silver. Conversely, signs of economic strength or persistent inflation could pressure these assets by supporting higher rates. Earnings from...

Financial Neutrality in 2026: Why Crypto Is No Longer Optional In early 2026, the global financial landscape is defined less by cooperation and more by leverage. As the second Trump administration advances its “America First” policy, both the U.S. dollar and the SWIFT network have become instruments of geopolitical control. The message is clear for nations, businesses, and families alike: your wealth is only yours as long as it doesn’t conflict with Washington’s foreign policy. But how do different actors build a strategy for survival in these circumstances? The answer lies in shifting from a mindset of "permissioned trust" to "mathematical sovereignty." In 2026, building financial resilience means diversifying not just what assets...

- Crypto Sees Sharp Reversal as $1.73B Leaves Funds Despite Recent Inflows The crypto market saw a sharp change in tone last week as investors pulled significant capital from digital asset investment products. New data from CoinShares shows that $1.73 billion flowed out of crypto funds in just one week, the largest weekly outflow since mid-November 2025. The sudden reversal comes after a brief stretch of inflows, highlighting how quickly sentiment has turned amid renewed market uncertainty. Major Outflows Hit Bitcoin and Ethereum Most of last week’s withdrawals came from the market’s largest cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin (BTC) investment products led the sell-off, shedding $1.09 billion—the biggest weekly outflow since mid-November. The...

- Billionaire Michael Saylor’s Strategy Buys 2,932 Bitcoin for $264M Michael Saylor’s Strategy has expanded its Bitcoin treasury again, acquiring an additional 2,932 BTC for approximately $264.1 million during the period from Jan. 20 to Jan. 25. The company disclosed that the purchases were made at an average price of $90,061 per bitcoin, inclusive of fees and expenses. The update reinforces Strategy’s position as the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin globally, continuing its multi-year accumulation strategy that has become central to its balance sheet approach. Total Bitcoin Holdings Reach 712,647 BTC Following the latest acquisition, Strategy reported that it now holds a total of 712,647 BTC as of Jan. 25. The company said...