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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan on bitcoin, ethereum, solana, central banks and more

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Where bitcoin trades from here: Expect patience before the next stage higher. Hougan expects bitcoin to trade sideways between about $75,000 and $100,000 in the first half of the year. “There’s still a lot of Bitcoin for sale around $100,000,” he said, pointing to options market positioning. A breakout is more likely later this year […]

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Coinbase’s (COIN) Brian Armstrong was snubbed by top executives from major US banks in Davos: WSJ

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Coinbase (COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong is running into a wall – and it looks a lot like the heads of America’s biggest banks. During meetings at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Armstrong reportedly approached several Wall Street leaders to discuss the crypto market structure moving through Congress, according to a report in the Wall

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Visa and Mastercard aren’t buying the stablecoin hype for everyday payments

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Wall Street’s payments giants aren’t sold on crypto’s utility in day-to-day transactions — at least not yet. In earnings calls this week, both Visa and Mastercard executives offered cautious assessments of digital assets, particularly stablecoins, signaling that consumer demand hasn’t necessarily materialized in meaningful ways. “As I’ve said before, in the United States, if a

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Trump’s Fed Chair Nominee’s Return Sparks Bitcoin Jitters Over Rates, Balance Sheet Cuts

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The market was dazzled by sudden news that President Donald Trump named Kevin Warsh as his pick for the next Federal Reserve chair, ending a months-long saga of guessing games. The US dollar rose, bitcoin fell and the stock market became volatile when the news broke; while the market may have stabilized somewhat for now,

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Citi (C) Says CLARITY Act Boosts But DeFi Fight May Stop Crypto Bill

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Citi ( C ) said the CLARITY Act remains the main catalyst for digital asset authentication in the United States, but progress is being slowed by negotiations over the most contentious provisions. While the Senate Agriculture Committee has advanced its version of the bill, Bank noted that the Banking Committee is still vetting the toughest

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Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh is not necessarily a hawk, says close colleague Stanley Druckenmiller

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The knee-jerk reaction to Donald Trump’s pick of Kevin Warsh to replace Jerome Powell as chairman of the Federal Reserve is that the president made the most hawkish selection among the four reported finalists for the job. In the wake of last night’s leak that Warsh would be the pick, risk markets – including crypto

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Lido’s new stVaults will let L2s create their own rules for Ethereum staking

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Lido Labs Foundation unveiled stVaults on Ethereum’s mainnet on Friday. stVaults marks a shift from a single product model to shared effort on the protocol by opening its infrastructure to external builders. Simply put, stVault lets other teams plug into Lido’s staking system instead of building their own from scratch. Until now, developing an Ethereum

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