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Such large transfers to exchanges can signal potential market volatility, impacting Bitcoin's price and investor sentiment significantly.
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Bitcoin’s mining difficulty climbed to 144.4 trillion after January storms briefly slashed hash rate, while some US miners offset downtime by selling electricity back to the grid.

Falcon Finance is transitioning from a purely crypto-native funding rate model to a multi-collateral framework that integrates Real-World Assets, including tokenized gold, Mexican CETES, and AAA-rated corporate credit. Rather than treating these assets as passive reserves, Falcon's vault architecture transforms them into yield-bearing instruments, allowing users to maintain price exposure while earning returns through offchain institutional execution. To cement long-term protocol alignment, the community-approved FIP-1 introduces a tiered staking model that rewards 180-day lockup participants with a 10x governance multiplier and materially higher yields compared to flexible holders. Backed by a $50 million ecosystem fund targeting tokenized Treasury and gold infrastr...

States are scoring victories against prediction markets when they invoke congressional intent, said a legal expert—and losing when they focus on narrower legal definitions.

Bitwise Asset Management has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to approve six exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that would let investors wager on the outcomes of the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential election—straight from their brokerage accounts. Wall Street’s Election Bet: Bitwise Seeks Approval for Prediction Shares ETFs Filed on Feb. 17, the Bitwise […]

Base's split from the OP Stack signals a pivotal shift in Ethereum's layer two landscape
The post Bryan Pellegrino: Base’s shift signals independence from OP Stack, why fragmentation is the future of blockchain, and the rising importance of interoperability for institutions | Unchained appeared first on Crypto Briefing.