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Bitcoin’s violent drawdown into the low-$60,000s has traders hunting for a floor. One of the market’s best-known on-chain analysts is arguing the risk-reward has shifted meaningfully, even if the “bottom” is still a process rather than a single print. James “Checkmate” Check, a former lead Glassnode researcher and now the author of Check On Chain, told What Bitcoin Did host Danny Knowles that once Bitcoin pushed into the $60,000 zone, it entered what he described as “deep value” territory across multiple mean-reversion frameworks, at the same time capitulation-style losses spiked to levels last seen at the 2022 cycle lows. Check’s core framing is blunt: if Bitcoin is headed to zero, none of the models matter. If it’s not, then the statistical setup looks increasingly...

Optimism partners with Succinct to make ZK validity proofs canonical on the OP Stack, enabling faster withdrawals and capital efficiency.
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AI's rapid evolution is reshaping tech markets, pressuring software pricing and sparking volatility in traditional assets.
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Warren's critique highlights potential erosion of regulatory integrity, raising concerns about political influence undermining crypto market trust.
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Bitcoin hits $66K as Standard Chartered slashes price targets for BTC and ETH, warning of weaker institutional demand and macro pressure.
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Bitcoin’s recent slide has left traders squinting at charts and asking the same blunt question: correction or crash? Prices have tumbled sharply, but some market watchers still see this as a deep pullback inside a longer uptrend. Others warn the data points to something colder. Related Reading: Jim Cramer Suggests US Government Could Buy Bitcoin Near $60K Price Decline And Hard Numbers According to XWIN Research’s CryptoQuant analysis, Bitcoin has fallen about 46% from a peak near $126,000 and now trades around $67,900 after five straight months of losses. The Fear & Greed Index sits at 14 — a reading labeled Extreme Fear. Reports note that net realized losses recently hit over $13 billion, a level that matched the worst stretches of the 2022 slump. In 2024, roughly ...

Bubblemaps finds Trove Markets refunded influencers in stablecoins after $TROVE collapsed 99%, raising concerns over selective compensation.
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Dogecoin is flashing what crypto analyst Cryptollica (@Cryptollica) calls on X a rare “maximum opportunity / minimum risk” setup, as long-horizon indicators on a DOGE-versus-dollar proxy chart push into levels that previously coincided with cycle lows. Why This Could Be The ‘Maximum Opportunity’ For Dogecoin In a Feb. 11 post on X, Cryptollica shared a 10-day DOGE chart denominated against the US Dollar Index (DXY), arguing the slower timeframe “filters out the intraday noise and reveals the true cyclical nature of the asset.” The analyst framed the move as a reset back to a historically important base level and pointed to momentum readings that, in past cycles, marked capitulation. Related Reading: Why Dogecoin (DOGE) Can’t Break $0.10 Despite Short-Term Bounce and ...

Binance's integration of RLUSD on the XRP Ledger could enhance stablecoin competition, potentially reshaping institutional payment dynamics.
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Q4 2025 showed growing resilience at The Graph despite weak token performance. Active Subgraphs reached a new high, Layer 2 networks led query growth, and Indexer participation stabilized. While Subgraph query fees softened, Substreams delivered a breakout quarter with record revenue. The launch of Graph Horizon marked a major structural upgrade, positioning The Graph as a modular, multi-service data protocol with a more diversified long-term revenue base.