The crypto market isn’t alone in climbing this new year — the US national debt is soaring too. The national debt has risen to $38.5 trillion, the highest amount the country has ever owed to domestic and foreign lenders, according to debt dashboards. Over 70% of the national debt is owed to domestic lenders, while…
Bitcoin BTC$93,742.73 and the broader crypto market have begun 2026 strongly, with analysts linking the buoyant mood to fresh new-year allocations, safe-haven bids, and other factors. Bitcoin traded near $93,700 on Tuesday, up about 1% over 24 hours and more than 7% since Jan. 1. Ether ETH$3,239.67 rose nearly 2% to $3,224 and is up…
XRP jumped to nearly $2.40 on Tuesday, extending its early-2026 rally as traders pointed to heavy institutional volumes and a tightening pool of tokens available on exchanges. The token rose as much as 11% over 24 hours to around $2.38, breaking through a resistance band that had capped gains for weeks. The move came on…
Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said she fully supports the integration of crypto trading services by the country’s stock exchanges, as she touted 2026 as the “digital year,” according to a report by Japanese crypto news site Coinpost. Katayama emphasized that regulated venues will play a central role in expanding crypto adoption at a ceremony…
Digital asset treasury companies — 2025’s worst performers — were leading crypto-related stock gains. Source link
Bitcoin and the wider crypto market has started to wake up recently, but underlying liquidity conditions appear strikingly weak, according to onchain analytics firm Glassnode — a dynamic that echoes concerns raised in a CoinDesk analysis in November on hollow crypto market liquidity following the October crash. Glassnode’s latest data shows that both bitcoin spot…
Robinhood (HOOD) is sharpening its focus on advanced crypto traders, a pivot that reflects evolving customer behavior during a volatile year for digital assets. “What we’ve seen really depends on the customer segment,” Johann Kerbrat, head of crypto at Robinhood, said in an interview. “We have a lot of customers that are a bit younger….
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs (GS) said improving regulation and the emergence of crypto use cases beyond trading are underpinning a constructive outlook for the industry, particularly for infrastructure companies that support the ecosystem without being as exposed to market cycles. Regulatory uncertainty remains the main barrier for institutions, and that backdrop is shifting rapidly,…
Fundstrat Global Advisors co-founder Tom Lee said Monday Bitcoin BTC$94,203.08 has not yet peaked and could reach a new all-time high as soon as this month, doubling down on a bullish crypto and equity outlook during a CNBC Squawk Box appearance. “I don’t think bitcoin has peaked yet,” Lee said. “We were overly optimistic about…
President Donald Trump’s campaign to cut Democrats out of U.S. regulatory work has set up an unusual situation at the two agencies that will have the most say over how the federal government handles crypto: A handful of Republican crypto advocates are entirely in charge of both. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission just said…
