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Bitcoin-backed loan platform Ledn has sold about $188 million of bonds tied to Bitcoin‑collateralized consumer loans into the mainstream asset‑backed securities (ABS) market, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. 

In a first-of-its-kind deal, one of the two tranches — the investment‑grade portion —reportedly priced at a spread of roughly 335 basis points over a benchmark rate, implying that investors are demanding 3.35 percentage points in extra yield to hold crypto‑linked credit risk rather than conventional consumer ABS.

The deal is structured through Ledn Issuer Trust 2026‑1, which securitizes a pool of 5,441 short‑term, fixed‑rate balloon loans extended to 2,914 US borrowers, backed by 4,078.87 Bitcoin (BTC) held as collateral, according to S&P Global Ratings’ preliminary documentation on Feb. 9.

How the structure and ratings stack up

Balloon loans are structured with relatively small periodic payments and a large lump‑sum “balloon” payment at maturity, which keeps near‑term payments low but leaves a sizeable principal balance due at the end.

S&P assigned preliminary BBB‑ (sf) and B‑ (sf) ratings to the $160 million senior Class A notes and $28 million subordinated Class B notes, respectively.

A BBB- rating is the lowest tier of investment-grade debt, reflecting an adequate capacity to meet financial commitments but higher vulnerability to adverse conditions than higher‑rated bonds, while B‑ sits in deep non‑investment‑grade “junk” territory, where default risk is materially higher.

Jefferies Financial Group acted as the sole structuring agent and bookrunner, as a major Wall Street dealer intermediated between institutional fixed‑income investors and this new form of crypto‑linked exposure. 

BTC increasingly seen as legitimate collateral

Bitwise head of research Europe, Andre Dragosch, told Cointelegraph that the fact that Ledn was able to package these loans into a traditional ABS implied that BTC is “increasingly seen as safe and legit collateral by traditional financial institutions.”

He highlighted major banks like JPMorgan offering BTC-backed loans to customers as a further indication of this. “Bitcoin is increasingly being integrated into traditional finance as the new pristine collateral,” he said.

Jinsol Bok, research lead at Four Pillars global crypto research firm, told Cointelegraph that this means liquidity no longer needs to remain locked up and “can instead be expanded into new lending,” meaning that the size of the BTC collateralized lending market could “grow far beyond its current level in the future.”

He added that, unlike real estate mortgages, BTC collateralized loans could be transparently tracked onchain and liquidated in a programmable manner.

“For this reason, I believe that the risks associated with ABS in this context do not need to be excessively overstated."

What investors are buying

Asset‑backed securities are bonds funded by pools of loans, so investors in Ledn’s notes do not own Bitcoin (BTC) directly.

Instead, they take on credit and structural risk to a pool of BTC‑secured loans whose performance depends on borrower repayments and the lender’s ability to liquidate collateral during market stress.

“These loans generally have a low default rate because they tend to have low LTV [loan-to-value] ratios and are well capitalized with BTC,” Dragosch said.

Founded in 2018, Ledn says it has funded over $9.5 billion in loans so far in over 100 countries. The company received a strategic investment from Tether, the issuer of the USDt (USDT) stablecoin, in November 2025.

Strategic investment from Tether. Source: Ledn.

Cointelegraph reached out to Ledn for comment but had not received a response by publication time.

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US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continued to bleed on Wednesday as market sentiment remained negative and BTC briefly dipped below $66,000.

Spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $133.3 million in net outflows on Wednesday, bringing weekly losses to $238 million, according to SoSoValue data. BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) led outflows, with over $84 million exiting the fund.

Trading volumes remained subdued, falling below $3 billion, highlighting the persistent lack of activity even as analysts previously noted potential inflection points amid the slowdown in outflows.

Weekly flows in US spot Bitcoin ETFs in 2026. Source: SoSoValue

If the ETFs fail to recover in Thursday and Friday sessions, this week could mark the first five-week outflow streak for Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs since March of last year.

Year-to-date, Bitcoin ETFs have seen about $2.5 billion in outflows, leaving assets under management at $83.6 billion.

Solana ETFs keep bucking the trend after launch in late 2025

While Ether (ETH) and XRP (XRP) ETFs posted modest daily outflows of $41.8 million and $2.2 million, respectively, Solana (SOL) funds continued to buck the trend.

Solana ETFs have recorded a six-day streak of inflows, with year-to-date gains totaling around $113 million. Trading activity, however, remains subdued compared with past months, as February inflows of $9 million so far are well below $105 million in January and December 2025’s $148 million.

Weekly flows in US spot Solana ETFs in 2026. Source: SoSoValue

Since their October 2025 launch, US spot Solana ETFs have accumulated nearly $700 million in assets under management, trailing XRP funds, which have amassed $1 billion since their November debut.

Crypto market remains in extreme fear, BTC down 24% year-to-date

The ongoing sell-off in Bitcoin ETFs comes as the Crypto Fear & Greed Index continues to signal persistent negative sentiment.

Even though Bitcoin has slightly recovered from multi-month lows near $60,000 logged in early February, the index has largely remained in “Extreme Fear” territory.

The Crypto Fear & Greed Index. Source: Alternative.me

At the time of writing, Bitcoin traded at $67,058 on Coinbase, down about 24% year-to-date. Analysts at major financial institutions, including Standard Chartered, have predicted that BTC could fall as low as $50,000 before potentially recovering to $100,000 later in 2026.

According to the crypto analytics platform CryptoQuant, Bitcoin’s short-term Sharpe ratio has reached levels historically associated with “generational buying zones.”

“The arrows in the chart illustrate this clearly: each prior extreme negative reading was followed by violent recoveries to new highs,” CryptoQuant analyst Ignacio Moreno De Vicente said.

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Key takeaways

Address poisoning exploits behavior, not private keys. Attackers manipulate transaction history and rely on users mistakenly copying a malicious lookalike address.

Cases such as the 50-million-USDT loss in 2025 and the 3.5 wBTC drain in February 2026 demonstrate how simple interface deception can lead to massive financial damage.

Copy buttons, visible transaction history and unfiltered dust transfers make poisoned addresses appear trustworthy within wallet interfaces.

Because blockchains are permissionless, anyone can send tokens to any address. Wallets typically display all transactions, including spam, which attackers use to plant malicious entries.

Most crypto users believe that their funds stay secure as long as their private keys are protected. However, as a rising number of scams show, this is not always the case. Scammers have been using an insidious tactic, address poisoning, to steal assets without ever accessing the victim’s private key.

In February 2026, a phishing scheme targeted a Phantom Chat feature. Using an address poisoning tactic, attackers successfully drained roughly 3.5 Wrapped Bitcoin (wBTC), worth more than $264,000.

In 2025, a victim lost $50 million in Tether’s USDt (USDT) after copying a poisoned address. Such incidents have highlighted how poor interface design and everyday user habits can result in massive losses.

Prominent crypto figures like Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao have publicly urged wallets to add stronger safeguards following address poisoning incidents.

This article explains how address poisoning scams exploit user behavior rather than private key theft. It details how attackers manipulate transaction history, why the tactic succeeds on transparent blockchains and what practical steps users and wallet developers can take to reduce the risk.

What address poisoning really involves

Unlike traditional hacks that target private keys or exploit code flaws, address poisoning manipulates a user’s transaction history to deceive them into sending funds to the wrong address.

Usually, the attack proceeds in the following way:

Scammers identify high-value wallets via public blockchain data.

They create a wallet address that closely resembles one the victim often uses. For example, the attacker may match the first and last few characters.

They send a small or zero-value transaction to the victim’s wallet from this fake address.

They rely on the victim copying the attacker’s address from their recent transaction list later.

They collect the funds when the victim accidentally pastes and sends them to the malicious address.

The victim’s wallet and private keys remain untouched, and blockchain cryptography stays unbroken. The scam thrives purely on human error and trust in familiar patterns.

Did you know? Address poisoning scams surged alongside the rise of Ethereum layer-2 networks, where lower fees make it cheaper for attackers to mass-send dust transactions to thousands of wallets at once.

How attackers craft deceptive addresses

Crypto addresses are lengthy hexadecimal strings, often 42 characters on Ethereum-compatible chains. Wallets usually show only a truncated version, such as “0x85c...4b7,” which scammers take advantage of. Fake addresses have identical beginnings and endings, while the middle portion differs.

Legitimate address (example format):

0x742d35Cc6634C0532925a3b844Bc454e4438f44e

Poisoned lookalike address:

0x742d35Cc6634C0532925a3b844Bc454e4438f4Ae

Scammers use vanity address generators to craft these near-identical strings. The fake one appears in the victim’s transaction history thanks to the dusting transfer. To users, it looks trustworthy at a glance, especially since they rarely verify the full address string.

Did you know? Some blockchain explorers now automatically label suspicious dusting transactions, helping users spot potential poisoning attempts before interacting with their transaction history.

Why this scam succeeds so well

There are several intertwined factors that make address poisoning devastatingly effective:

Human limitations in handling long strings: Because addresses are not human-friendly, users rely on quick visual checks at the beginning and end. Scammers exploit this tendency.

Convenient but risky wallet features: Many wallets offer easy copy buttons next to recent transactions. While this feature is helpful for legitimate use, it becomes risky when spam entries sneak in. Investigators such as ZachXBT have pointed to cases where victims copied poisoned addresses directly from their wallet UI.

3. No need for technical exploits: Because blockchains are public and permissionless, anyone can send tokens to any address. Wallets usually display all incoming transactions, including spam, and users tend to trust their own history.

The vulnerability lies in behavior and UX, not in encryption or key security.

Why keys aren’t enough protection

Private keys control authorization, meaning they ensure only you can sign transactions. However, they cannot verify whether the destination address is correct. Blockchain’s core traits — permissionless access, irreversibility of transactions and trust minimization — mean malicious transactions get permanently recorded.

In these scams, the user willingly signs the transfer. The system functions exactly as designed, and the flaw lies in human judgment.

Underlying psychological and design issues involve:

Routine habits: People tend to repeatedly send funds to the same addresses, so they copy from their transaction history instead of reentering addresses.

Cognitive strain: Transactions involve multiple steps, such as addresses, fees, networks and approvals. Many users find scrutinizing every character tedious.

Truncated displays: Wallet UIs hide most of the address, leading to partial checks.

Did you know? In certain cases, attackers automate address lookalike generation using GPU-powered vanity tools, allowing them to produce thousands of near-identical wallet addresses within minutes.

Practical ways to stay safer

While address poisoning exploits user behavior rather than technical vulnerabilities, small changes in transaction habits can significantly reduce the risk. Understanding a few practical safety measures can help crypto users avoid costly mistakes without requiring advanced technical knowledge.

For users

Simple verification habits and transaction discipline can significantly reduce your chances of falling victim to address poisoning scams.

Build and use a verified address book or whitelist for frequent recipients.

Verify the full address. Use a checker or compare it character by character before making payments.

Never copy addresses from recent transaction history. Instead, reenter addresses or use bookmarks.

Ignore or report unsolicited small transfers as potential poisoning attempts.

For wallet developers

Thoughtful interface design and built-in safeguards can minimize user error and make address poisoning attacks far less effective.

Filtering or hiding low-value spam transactions

Similarity detection for recipient addresses

Pre-signing simulations and risk warnings

Built-in poisoned address checks via onchain queries or shared blacklists.

The Ethereum Foundation has announced it is targeting faster transactions, smarter wallets, better cross-chain transactions and quantum security measures as its “protocol priorities” in 2026.

In a statement published on Wednesday, the Ethereum Foundation outlined several goals, including continuing to scale the gas limit — the maximum amount of computational work a block can handle — “toward and beyond” 100 million, which has been a major topic of discussion among the Ethereum community in 2025. 

Source: Ethereum Foundation

Some Ethereum community members anticipate that the gas limit will increase significantly this year. In November 2025, Ethereum educator Anthony Sassano said that the goal of significantly increasing Ethereum’s gas limit to 180 million in 2026 is a baseline rather than a best-case scenario. 

“Post-quantum readiness” is a focus for Ethereum

The foundation pointed to the Glamsterdam network upgrade, set for the first half of 2026, as a major priority. It also emphasized “post-quantum readiness” in its trillion-dollar security initiative as a priority.

On Jan. 24, Ethereum researcher Justin Drake said in an X post that the foundation had “formed a new Post-Quantum (PQ) team.” 

“Today marks an inflection in the Ethereum Foundation's long-term quantum strategy,” Drake said.

The Ethereum Foundation said it will also focus on improving user experience in 2026, with an emphasis on enhancing smart wallets through native account abstraction and enabling smoother interactions between blockchains via interoperability.

“The goal remains seamless, trust-minimized cross-L2 interactions, and we're getting closer day by day. Continued progress on faster L1 confirmations and shorter L2 settlement times directly supports this.”

The foundation said that 2025 was one of the “most productive years,” citing two major network upgrades, Pectra and Fusaka, and the community raising the gas limit from 30 million to 60 million between the upgrades, for the first time since 2021.

Buterin’s big plans for Ethereum and AI

Ethereum Foundation’s Mario Havel said in an X post on Wednesday that, “It took us a while to push out the announcement because we were preparing the biggest curriculum so far.” 

It comes just days after Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin shared his latest vision for Ethereum’s intersection with artificial intelligence on Feb. 10. Buterin explained that he sees the two working together to improve markets, financial safety, and human agency.  

Buterin said his broader vision for the future of AI is to empower humans rather than replace them, though he said the short term involves much more “ordinary” ideas.

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Trump family-owned Mar-a-Lago was home to traditional finance giants, US government officials and crypto executives in a crypto forum on Wednesday, hosted by the family’s sprawling crypto company.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong and Binance co-founder Changpeng Zhao, who Donald Trump pardoned last year, were at the exclusive World Liberty Forum event alongside Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and the heads of the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange.

The event saw traditional finance executives and US regulators embrace crypto, with Solomon, a long-time crypto skeptic, saying on stage that he now owns “a little Bitcoin, very little,” according to one of the attendees.

Donald Trump Jr. (left) and Eric Trump (middle) appeared on stage at World Liberty Financial’s event in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. Source: Richard Sieler

“The great irony is this whole world has gone full circle,” Bloomberg reported Eric Trump as saying at the event.

“There’s people in this room that were probably on the opposite side of us, that were canceling bank accounts for us, that were kicking us out of their big banks for no reason other than the fact that my father was wearing a hat that said, ‘Make America Great Again.’”

Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair Mike Selig, the head of an agency that is pushing to regulate the crypto industry, was also in attendance, along with Republican senators Ashley Moody and Bernie Moreno.

World Liberty announces tokenization tie-up for Trump hotel

World Liberty announced at the event that it has partnered with tokenization firm Securitize, with plans to tokenize loan revenue interests in an upcoming Trump-branded resort in the Maldives.

The company said it was part of a “broader strategy to design, structure, and distribute [World Liberty]-branded tokenized real-world asset offerings.”

The Trump Organization said in November that it would tokenize the development of the project, which is being built by real estate developer DarGlobal. The resort is set to be completed in 2030 and feature 100 luxury villas.

World Liberty said that the offering will give investors “both a fixed yield and loan revenue streams” from the resort, giving exposure to “both potential income distributions and the potential for certain profits upon any future sale.”

It added that the offering is only available to eligible accredited investors in the US and would be accessed via “select third-party partners and wallets.”

Big Questions: Is China hoarding gold so yuan becomes global reserve instead of USD?

United States Federal Reserve policymakers discussed the possibility of interest rate increases last month, according to newly released comments from a January meeting.

The minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting from late January were released on Wednesday, revealing that some policymakers were mulling a rate hike due to stubbornly high inflation. 

Several participants indicated that they would support “the possibility that upward adjustments to the target range for the federal funds rate could be appropriate if inflation remains at above-target levels,” the minutes stated. 

Central bank policymakers voted to keep interest rates unchanged at 3.5% to 3.75% at their January meeting after cutting rates three times at the end of 2025, from 4.5% to current levels.

If enacted, it would be the first rate hike since July 2023. However, CME futures markets indicate a 94% probability that rates will remain unchanged at the Fed’s next meeting on March 18. 

The Federal Reserve has two primary mandates for its policy on rates: inflation and the labor market. 

The Fed has been cutting rates since September 2024. Source: Trading Economics 

High inflation concerns persist 

The minutes also revealed that there is a significant “hawkish” contingent that is not yet ready to commit to further cuts. 

Some participants commented that it would likely be appropriate to “hold the policy rate steady for some time” to give them more time to assess economic data. 

However, a number of these participants judged that “additional policy easing may not be warranted until there was a clear indication that the progress of disinflation was firmly back on track.”

Related: Why Bitcoin has recently reacted more to liquidity conditions than to rate cuts

Most participants cautioned that progress toward the 2% inflation objective “might be slower and more uneven than generally expected,” judging that there was a meaningful risk of it remaining above the target. 

If inflation were to decline in line with expectations, rate reductions “would likely be appropriate,” the minutes stated.  

US inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is currently 2.4%, having increased 0.2% in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  

Current inflation remains above the Fed’s target. Source: BLS

Rate hikes are typically bad for crypto prices

Higher rates are generally bearish for high-risk assets such as crypto, as safer assets like Treasury bonds or cash offer better returns with no risk. 

Higher rates also make borrowing more expensive, which reduces speculative activity, leverage, and venture capital investments. 

Crypto market sentiment, which is already at rock bottom, could also be further hit by a hawkish Federal Reserve. 

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Legea CLARITY din SUA, un proiect de lege foarte așteptat destinat să ofere o mai mare claritate pentru industria cripto din SUA, ar putea trece prin Congres în puțin peste o lună, conform senatorului american prieten cu cripto Bernie Moreno.

„Sperăm că până în aprilie”, a spus Moreno pentru CNBC în timpul unui interviu la proprietatea Mar-a-Lago a președintelui american Donald Trump din Florida, miercuri.

CEO-ul Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, s-a alăturat lui Moreno pentru interviu, explicând că erau cu reprezentanți din domeniul cripto, bancar și Congresul SUA la forumul cripto World Liberty Financial (WLF) pentru a ajunge la o soluție privind structura pieței.

Trei cercetători de la Rezerva Federală a SUA susțin că piața de predicție Kalshi poate măsura mai bine așteptările macroeconomice în timp real decât soluțiile existente și, prin urmare, ar trebui să fie încorporată în procesul decizional al Fed.

Lucrarea „Kalshi și Creșterea Piețelor Macro” a fost publicată pe 12 februarie de economistul principal al Consiliului Rezervelor Federale, Anthony Diercks, asistentul de cercetare al Rezervelor Federale, Jared Dean Katz și asociatul de cercetare de la Johns Hopkins, Jonathan Wright.

Datele Kalshi au fost comparate cu sondaje tradiționale și prognoze implicate de piață pentru a examina cum credințele despre rezultatele economice viitoare se schimbă ca răspuns la știri macroeconomice și declarații din partea politicienilor.

Membru de rang al Comisiei de Bancă a Senatului, Elizabeth Warren, a trimis, se pare, o scrisoare secretarului Trezoreriei Scott Bessent și președintelui Rezervei Federale Jerome Powell, îndemnându-i să nu salveze „miliardarii criptomonedelor” cu banii contribuabililor.

Warren a avertizat că orice potențial bailout „ar fi profund nepopular să transfere avere de la contribuabilii americani la miliardarii criptomonedelor,” adăugând că ar putea de asemenea „îmbogăți direct compania de criptomonede a președintelui Trump și a familiei sale, World Liberty Financial, conform CNBC.

Fundația Aptos caută să propună o schimbare semnificativă a dinamicii tokenului Aptos, anunțând o serie de potențiale modificări de politică menite să stimuleze o deflație mai mare a APT.

Într-un post X de miercuri, fundația Aptos a spus că va prezenta mai multe propuneri de guvernare pentru a ajuta la tranziția ecosistemului de la formatul actual de emisii bazat pe subvenții la ceva mai concentrat pe „mecanisme bazate pe performanță” și reducerea aprovizionării APT.

„Rețeaua Aptos trece la tokenomica bazată pe performanță, concepută pentru a alinia mecanismele de aprovizionare cu utilizarea rețelei,” a spus fundația Aptos, adăugând:

Executivii din industria criptomonedelor la conferința LONGITUDE de la Cointelegraph din Hong Kong au subliniat importanța abordării riscurilor tehnologice ale Bitcoin și au spus că reglementările clare din SUA nu pot veni prea repede.

Co-organizat de schimbul de criptomonede OneBullEx, evenimentul din 12 februarie a început cu o discuție la gura șemineului cu fondatorul Tron, Justin Sun, care a discutat despre ceea ce industria trebuie să prioritizeze — inclusiv pregătirea pentru inteligența artificială generală (AGI) — despre care mulți se așteaptă să apară în următorii câțiva ani.

Platforma crypto Hyperliquid a lansat o nouă organizație de advocacy destinată să promoveze schimbări de politici implicând finanțarea descentralizată în Congres.

Centrul de Politici Hyperliquid a declarat miercuri că a fost lansat în Washington, DC, și l-a numit pe Jake Chervinsky ca fondator și CEO, un avocat veteran în crypto care a fost șeful legal la fondul de investiții crypto Variant și fost șef de politici la asociația de lobby pentru crypto Blockchain Association.

Organizația a declarat că va căuta să avanseze „o cale clară, reglementată pentru ca finanțarea descentralizată să prospere în Statele Unite” și va promova politici „cu o specializare în derivate perpetue și infrastructură financiară bazată pe blockchain.”

Bitcoin (BTC) tranzacționează într-un interval strâns de $65,000–$70,000 miercuri, o structură care s-a menținut în ultimele două săptămâni.

Graficele pe intervale de timp mai scurte arată o divergență bullish, semnalând o presiune de vânzare pe termen scurt care se estompează, în timp ce datele futures indică poziții lungi proaspete deschise de la $66,000.

Analistii spun că comprimarea ar putea precede o tentativă de spargere, cu clustere de lichiditate sub $66,000 și deasupra $71,000 fiind zonele care ar putea defini următoarea mișcare direcțională.

Divergența bullish a Bitcoin-ului se află aproape de un nivel de suport

OpenAI a lansat un nou benchmark care evaluează cât de bine diferite modele AI detectează, repară și chiar exploatează vulnerabilitățile de securitate găsite în contractele inteligente crypto.

OpenAI a publicat lucrarea „EVMbench: Evaluarea agenților AI în domeniul securității contractelor inteligente” miercuri, în colaborare cu firma de investiții crypto Paradigm și firma de securitate crypto OtterSec, pentru a evalua cât de mult ar putea teoretic agenții AI să exploateze din cele 120 de vulnerabilități ale contractelor inteligente.

Claude Opus 4.6 de la Anthropic a venit pe primul loc cu un premiu mediu de „detectare” de 37,824 USD, urmat de OC-GPT-5.2 de la OpenAI și Gemini 3 Pro de la Google cu 31,623 USD și 25,112 USD, respectiv.

Puncte cheie:

SOL se chinuie să mențină $80, deoarece o scădere de 75% a interesului deschis în futures arată că traderii se îndreaptă spre ieșiri în loc să deschidă noi pariuri.

Solana rămâne puternic dependentă de activitatea de retail și memecoin, în timp ce Ethereum își menține avansul în finanțele descentralizate de mare valoare.

Tokenul nativ al Solanei, SOL (SOL), a lovit un zid, nereușind în mod repetat să revină deasupra valorii de $89 în ultimele două săptămâni. Această acțiune lentă a prețului vine după o respingere la nivelul de $145 la mijlocul lunii ianuarie și o cădere bruscă la $67.60 în timpul prăbușirii din 6 februarie. Cererea pentru levierul bullish a evaporat practic, pe măsură ce traderii se pregătesc pentru mai multă durere.

Un indicator cheie on-chain pentru Bitcoin (BTC) își arată cel mai extrem semnal de capitulare din 2018, sugerând o posibilă configurație de minim de ciclu.

Bitcoin reflectă configurația de creștere de 1.900% din 2018

Stresul deținătorilor pe termen scurt de Bitcoin a scăzut la cel mai scăzut nivel de la minimul pieței bear din 2018, conform unor noi date on-chain de la Checkonchain.

Indicatorul Bollinger Band pentru Deținătorii pe Termen Scurt (STH) arată oscilatorul căzând în teritoriul său cel mai profund de supravânzare în aproape opt ani.

Benzile Bollinger MVRV pentru deținătorii pe termen scurt de Bitcoin. Sursa: Checkonchain.COM

Base, o rețea descentralizată de scalare layer-2 pe Ethereum, a declarat miercuri că se transformă din utilizarea protocolului blockchain L2 al tehnologiei Optimism în utilizarea propriului său arhitectură software unificată.

Lansată în 2023 ca un lanț Optimism, Base se mută pe propria sa tehnologie pentru a reduce dependențele de furnizorii externi de servicii și a scurta timpul necesar pentru a livra noi upgrade-uri, conform unui anunț de la Base. Echipa a declarat:

„Consolidarea în Base schimbă modul în care Base pachetează și lansează software pentru rețea. Vom livra o distribuție oficială pentru fiecare upgrade: un singur binar Base pentru nodurile de operare din rețea.”

Payward, compania mamă a bursei de criptomonede Kraken, a achiziționat platforma de tokenizare Magna, extinzând infrastructura companiei.

Kraken a declarat miercuri că achiziția va permite Magna să opereze „ca o platformă independentă, alimentată de” bursa de criptomonede. Anunțul companiei a spus că Kraken va folosi platforma pentru „vestirea onchain și offchain, revendicări de token-uri cu etichetă albă, fluxuri de custodie și escrow, funcționalitate specializată de staking” și alte funcții.

„Alăturându-ne Kraken, ne oferă resursele pentru a sprijini clienții existenți și noi cu infrastructură de tip institutional, lichiditate mai profundă și distribuție globală”, a declarat CEO-ul Magna, Bruno Faviero.

SOL (SOL) de la Solana continuă să fie afectat de vânturi descrescătoare de la prăbușirea la 67$ pe 6 februarie. SOL este cu mai mult de 72% sub maximul său istoric de 295$, iar mai multe metrici sugerează că scăderea ar putea fi departe de a se termina.

Puncte cheie:

Modelele tehnice descrescătoare ale Solana se îndreaptă către un obiectiv de preț de 50$.

Benzile MVRV sugerează că SOL ar putea fi la minim, dar punctul de date este un outlier.

ETF-urile Solana spot continuă să atragă interesul investitorilor, oferind speranțe pentru o recuperare a prețului pe termen scurt.

SOL: Scăderea prețului de la maximele istorice. Sursă: Glassnode

Altcoinurile, excluzând Ether (ETH), au înregistrat 209 miliarde de dolari în volum net de vânzări din ianuarie 2025, marcând una dintre cele mai abrupte declinuri în cererea speculativă pentru activele cripto în acest ciclu.

Pe Binance, volumele de tranzacționare pentru altcoinuri au scăzut cu aproximativ 50% din noiembrie 2025, reflectând o scădere constantă a activității. Scăderea coincide, de asemenea, cu o creștere a cotei de volum a Bitcoin pe schimb.

Analiștii au spus că contracția în cererea de altcoinuri, alături de dominanța ridicată a stablecoin-urilor, semnalează că piața mai largă își îndreaptă capitalul către BTC în timpul actualei tendințe de scădere.