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Tech stocks slide as broader market selloff deepens, crypto drops below key levels, and gold rises amid US Iran tensions and rising yields.
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Citigroup's potential acquisition could reshape its competitive landscape, leveraging freed capital for strategic growth and digital innovation.
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An interesting statement from Grant Cardone has led to a different kind of conversation. According to the popular American businessman, the Bitcoin price should be $280,000. His claim that Bitcoin should already be trading at $280,000 raises a deeper question: if that valuation were accurate today, what would it imply for the rest of the market? That question becomes even more interesting when applied to cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin and XRP, which tend to move in tandem to Bitcoin. Grant Cardone’s $280,000 Bitcoin Call And What It Implies The real estate mogul, who oversees about $5.3 billion in assets through his firm CardoneCapital, recently took to X to deliver a blunt verdict on the state of Bitcoin: “Bitcoin should be $280,000.” No chart attached, no lengthy t...

Crusoe plans a new 900 MW Abilene AI campus for Microsoft, lifting total projected Texas site capacity to 2.1 GW.
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New leases on Akash increased 28% QoQ to 34,300 in Q4 2025, extending the recovery in deployment activity after earlier contractions. However, infrastructure utilization declined across compute resources, with GPU usage falling 46% QoQ and CPU usage dropping 37% QoQ, while capacity contracted more modestly. USD-denominated revenue fell 46% QoQ due to the 65% decline in AKT's price, though AKT-denominated revenue grew 16% QoQ, indicating continued network activity. On the development side, Mainnet 14 migrated Akash to Cosmos SDK v0.53, and AkashML launched as a managed inference layer to simplify AI deployment on decentralized GPUs.

Crypto pundit X Finance Bull has explained how XRP is positioned to absorb a share of the $100 trillion in assets that the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has in custody. He notably mentioned Ripple and the role the crypto firm is playing in making this possible for XRP.  How XRP Is Positioned To Take A Share of DTCC’s $100 Trillion Assets In an X post, X Finance Bull noted that in 2025, DTCC filed patents that named Ripple and the XRP Ledger as compatible infrastructure for tokenized finance. Following that, Ripple acquired Hidden Road, a prime brokerage that clears $3 trillion annually for over 300 institutional clients, for $1.25 billion.  Related Reading: Why SWIFT’s Latest Global Payments Infrastructure Is Bullish For XRP Holders The pundit then...

The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz exacerbates global energy instability, prompting economic strain and geopolitical tensions worldwide.
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Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis puts the number at close to $20 billion — the estimated volume of dirty money that flowed through Xinbi, a Chinese-language crypto marketplace, between 2021 and 2025. Now the UK government wants to shut it down. Related Reading: Ethereum Supply Tightens As Staking And Outflows Hit Record Highs Scam Hubs At The Center Of It All Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office announced Thursday that it has imposed sweeping sanctions on Xinbi, a platform accused of providing crypto-based services, scam tools, and other criminal resources to bad actors across Southeast Asia. The move freezes any UK-linked assets tied to the platform and bans British banks, crypto firms, and citizens from doing any business with it — financial or...

BlackRock's crypto move amid market volatility highlights institutional interest and potential stabilization effects on digital asset markets.
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Bitcoin fell to its lowest level in over two weeks as traders adopted a more cautious stance after the year’s biggest options expiration, Bloomberg reported. At the moment of writing, BTC trades for the highs $66k. Related Reading: GameStop Didn’t Sell Bitcoin — What It Did Instead Will Anger BTC Maxis Bitcoin Options Market Turns Defensive The drop followed the largest Bitcoin options expiry of 2026 so far, with roughly $14 billion in notional contracts rolling off on Friday. Around 30–40% of open interest in front‑month Bitcoin options was wiped out in a single session, leaving a “cleaner” positioning landscape. Spot volumes picked up versus the previous session (e.g. +10–20%), suggesting the move was driven by more than just options mechanics. Positioning shows tr...