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Crypto Twitter is filled with claims that “everyone is buying Bitcoin”, from Michael Saylor and BlackRock to entire countries and even banks. Yet despite the accumulation narratives, Bitcoin’s price has slipped sharply, breaking below key levels as ETF flows turned negative. The

For years, Ripple was best known for its legal battles and its token, XRP, which was a symbol of crypto’s friction with the traditional financial world. Now, after years of courtroom and regulatory turbulence, Ripple has quietly built something far more

Bitcoin has treated $106,400 as a pivot across the current cycle, acting as both resistance and support. Price has repeatedly clustered near the level, cleared it on retests, and expanded toward the next channel bands, while breaks below the level often

XRP can serve as short-term working capital for currency exchanges, as transactions typically take only a few minutes to complete. Orders move through central exchanges, and if any money needs to be held briefly, companies can hedge that risk using XRP

For most of 2025, Bitcoin’s floor looked unshakable, supported by an unlikely alliance of corporate treasuries and exchange-traded funds. Companies issued stock and convertible debt to buy the token, while ETF inflows quietly soaked up new supply. Together, they created a

For years, Balancer stood as one of DeFi’s most reliable institutions, a protocol that had survived several bear markets, audits, and integrations without scandal. However, that credibility collapsed on Nov. 3, when the blockchain security firm PeckShield reported that Balancer and

Bitcoin is having a strangely quiet year on-chain. After a wave of speculative flows in 2024, the network now moves with near-clockwork efficiency. The average block size has contracted, daily fees are less than half what they were in January, and

Welcome to Slate Sunday, CryptoSlate’s weekly feature showcasing in-depth interviews, expert analysis, and thought-provoking op-eds that go beyond the headlines to explore the ideas and voices shaping the future of crypto. Self‑custody was once the ultimate badge of credibility in crypto. A

The following is a guest post and opinion from Shane Neagle, Editor In Chief from The Tokenist. It is no secret that large language models (LLMs) crossed the capability threshold by harvesting vast amounts of public and private data. Combined with

Bitcoin has treated $106,400 as a pivot across the current cycle, acting as both resistance and support. Price has repeatedly clustered near the level, cleared it on retests, and expanded toward the next channel bands, while breaks below the level often

Bitcoin’s (BTC) April 2024 halving cut block rewards from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC, compressing the hash price and forcing Bitcoin miners to reconsider their business model. Instead of waiting for fee markets to rescue margins, the largest operators started signing contracts

Set against recurring billion-dollar ETF inflows, Asia’s mid-caps are starting to look like the next structural bid for bitcoin’s free float. Japan’s Metaplanet has surpassed 30,00 BTC on its balance sheet, and Korea’s Bitplanet initiated a supervised, rules-based accumulation program. What began

Sam Bankman-Fried is again challenging the core narrative of his downfall: that FTX was insolvent when it collapsed in November 2022. In a 15-page report written from prison and dated Sept. 30, the convicted founder claimed the exchange “was never insolvent”

The Bitcoin Lightning Network was once the crown jewel of Bitcoin’s scaling story, a living map of open channels and growing liquidity that reflected adoption in real-time. However, as the network matures, the picture has blurred. Behind the steady decline in

I. The Consensus Has Arrived: Crypto Belongs to AI Agents Google recently launched the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), bringing together crypto heavyweights including Ethereum Foundation, Mysten Labs, and MetaMask. A clear consensus is crystallizing: cryptocurrency will become the native economic language of

With S2F in the rearview, the live power-law channel indicates that BTC is roughly 20% below fair value, but ETF flows could push it to either extreme. Bitbo’s implementation of Giovanni Santostasi’s model places the price near $109,700, the fair value near $136,100,

China has again made its position on stablecoins unmistakably clear. At a recent financial policy forum, Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), described stablecoins as a “new source of vulnerabilities” within the global financial system. He warned

The Federal Reserve just cut the policy rate by 25 basis points, moving the target range to 3.75% to 4.00%. However, futures markets have now removed the prospect of a further cut in December. Before yesterday’s FOMC meeting, many traders expected