Category: Crypto Insights

Bitcoin “layer 2s” keep failing for a simple reason: most of them are not actually built on Bitcoin in any meaningful architectural sense. They orbit Bitcoin, market themselves as its scaling solution, and extract value from its brand and liquidity – but they do not inherit its security, its guarantees, or its trust model. They…

RIVER price forecast: why the battle around $25 could set the next big move RIVER’s volatility briefly cooled off last weekend, but it has come roaring back. The token’s latest swing toward a key supply area has put traders on alert, as liquidity stacked around the 25-dollar mark could dictate whether the next move is…

US Prosecutors Sound Alarm Over Crypto-Fueled Romance Scams Ahead of Valentine’s Day U.S. prosecutors are cautioning that Valentine’s Day is no longer just a boom time for florists and dating apps—it has also become a prime hunting season for fraudsters running romance scams tied to cryptocurrency and organized crime. In a recent advisory, the U.S.…

Elon Musk has escalated the increasingly personal rivalry among top AI founders, branding Anthropic’s AI as “misanthropic and evil” just hours after the company unveiled a massive new funding round. On Thursday, Anthropic announced it had secured $30 billion in fresh capital in a Series G round, giving the Claude developer a staggering post-money valuation…

Prediction market operator Kalshi is pushing deeper into the sports risk business, striking a new partnership with specialist broker Game Point Capital to insure performance bonuses for professional teams—just as regulators across the U.S. step up scrutiny of sports-related prediction markets. Kalshi co-founder and CEO Tarek Mansour revealed that Game Point Capital has already used…

Will $2.3B options expiry shake Ethereum out of its price rut? Ethereum is trading well below its 2021 record, and despite a noticeable rotation from major institutions into ETH-related products, the market remains stuck in a heavy, risk-sensitive range. With around $2.3 billion in Ethereum options set to expire, traders are asking whether this event…

Pi coin jumps 12% as Feb. 15 mainnet node deadline forces the issue Pi coin is staging a sharp intraday rebound as the project’s long‑promised transition from a “mobile‑first” experiment to a fully fledged mainnet grinds up against a hard technical deadline. By midday in Europe, Pi (PI) was trading near $0.152 on the PI3USD…

Kalshi moves into $9B sports insurance arena with new brokerage partnership Kalshi is expanding its footprint in institutional sports risk management through a new partnership with specialist sports insurance broker Game Point Capital, positioning prediction markets as a cheaper and more transparent alternative to traditional reinsurance. The collaboration targets the rapidly growing sports insurance and…

CFTC Taps Leading Crypto Firms for Innovation Committee as Battle Over Market Rules Intensifies The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has moved to pull some of the largest players in digital assets closer into its orbit, appointing a slate of top crypto executives to its Innovation Advisory Committee at a time when Washington is still…

Bitcoin’s risk-reward profile has meaningfully improved after its latest drawdown, according to one prominent on-chain analyst, even as he assigns relatively low odds to a fresh all-time high within the next year. James “Checkmate” Check, former lead researcher at Glassnode and author of Check On Chain, argues that the recent selloff has pushed Bitcoin into…