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Bitcoin’s price movement diverged from the Nasdaq futures, which fell nearly 0.8%.

For years, stablecoins have been crypto’s most useful invention and its most awkward dinner guest. Useful because they turn blockchains into 24/7 dollar rails, and awkward because while the promise is simple, securing trust rarely is.A digital token worth exactly a dollar sounds reassuring to non-crypto folk right up until someone asks where the dollars are.Now Wyoming wants to answer that question with the oldest credibility hack in America: a state seal.The Frontier Stable Token, $FRNT, is Wyoming’s new, dollar-redeemable stable token, issued under a statutory framework and overseen by the Wyoming Stable Token Commission. It’s also an overt political…

Crypto market turbulence decimated memecoins in particular last year, driving the number of crypto project failures to over 11.6 million in 2025, the highest level recorded for a single year. The fourth quarter of 2025 was among the worst, with 7.7 million tokens listed on GeckoTerminal ceasing active trading during the period, according to a report by CoinGecko research analyst Shaun Paul Lee released on Friday. Lee said the Oct. 10 market crash, which saw over $19 billion of crypto leverage liquidated in a day, was a key catalyst.“This sharp decline in token survivability may be linked to the broader market…

One of the inventors of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, argues that Ethereum needs better decentralized stablecoins to truly give people independence from the traditional financial system. “We need better decentralized stablecoins,” Buterin said in a post to X on Sunday, in response to Gabriel Shapiro, a lawyer at crypto investment firm Delphi Labs, who said Ethereum is “tripling down on disrupting power to enable sovereign individuals.”However, Buterin said for this to happen, decentralized stablecoins need to address three problems.Three problems plaguing decentralized stablecoinsOne of the problems is that most stablecoins are pegged to the US dollar. CoinGecko data shows 95% of stablecoins…

Viewership of crypto content on YouTube has declined to its lowest level since January 2021 following a sharp retreat over the past three months.On Sunday, ITC Crypto founder Benjamin Cowen shared a 30-day moving average of views across various crypto YouTube channels, highlighting the drop. “So it’s not just X and an algorithm change,” he said regarding a similar fall in engagement across crypto channels on microblogging platform X.It has “collapsed across all platforms, and has had a noticeable local decline since just October,” commented crypto YouTuber Tom Crown. “In reality, it’s been in a ‘bear market’ since 2021, having never reached…

The firms, federally regulated by the CFTC, were told to shut down Tennessee-based activity, refund deposits, and void open contracts by Jan. 31.

Lawmakers will (finally) vote on a market structure bill next week.

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum is once again attempting to reclaim the $3,100 level after several days of speculation, hesitation, and mixed signals across the broader crypto market. While price action has shown signs of stabilization, conviction remains limited, keeping traders cautious as Ethereum hovers near a key inflection zone. Bulls are trying to regain control, but the market is still searching for confirmation that the recent pullback has fully played out. According to an analysis published on CryptoQuant, derivatives data offers important context for this phase of consolidation. Open Interest…

Stablecoin firm Rain has just raised another $250 million.The firm now has a $1.95 billion valuation.Fintech companies focusing on stablecoins are having more success.Fintech company Rain announced Friday that it had raised $250 million in a funding round, bringing the stablecoin-focused firm’s valuation to $1.95 billion. New York-based Rain, a company backed by Visa that issues spending cards, said that it had brought its total funding to over $338 million, just four months after its Series B and 10 months after its Series A.The latest round was led by ICONIQ with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Bessemer, Lightspeed and Galaxy…

Banks are fighting stablecoin rewards to protect a secret $360 billion revenue machine.When Coinbase chief policy officer Faryar Shirzad posted a thread on Jan. 8 warning that stablecoin rewards “remain under debate” as Congress marks up market structure legislation, he attached numbers that banking groups would rather keep quiet.US banks earn $176 billion annually on roughly $3 trillion they park at the Federal Reserve, and they collect another $187 billion from card swipe fees, nearly $1,400 per household.That’s over $360 billion in revenue from payments and deposits alone, and stablecoins with competitive yields threaten both streams at once.The GENIUS Act,…