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Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs has revealed an expansion of its crypto holdings, reporting roughly $2.36 billion in total crypto exposure — including $1.1 billion in Bitcoin ETFs, according to financial holding disclosures. Bitcoin’s portion of the haul — the largest of any digital asset listed — highlights just how far the venerable investment bank has shifted from earlier skepticism toward meaningful exposure in the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap.  The $1.1 billion position was in IBIT, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF. The SEC filings also revealed holdings of approximately $35.8 million in Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund, roughly $92,000…

Ripple has enabled staking for Ethereum and Solana within its institutional custody business, expanding beyond safekeeping to include asset servicing features that large investors increasingly consider standard.The new capability, delivered through a partnership with staking infrastructure provider Figment, enables Ripple Custody clients to offer staking on major proof-of-stake networks without setting up validator infrastructure.This service provides operational simplicity with institutional controls, a combination aimed at banks, custodians, and regulated asset managers that want staking yield but do not want staking operations to sit outside their governance perimeter.The move also highlights a structural difference between XRP and the proof-of-stake assets institutions…

Ether (ETH) struggled to hold prices above $2,000 on Tuesday, and against this backdrop, analysts noted that Ether’s 31% decline in 2026 fits a familiar price fractal from previous bull markets.Key takeaways:ETH’s recent dip to $1,736 may mark only the first of many lows in a larger consolidation phase.Onchain cost-basis data clusters between $1,300 to $2,000, reinforcing this range as a potential demand zone.ETH fractal hints at a longer base-building phaseA long-term fractal comparison between the 2021-2022 and 2024-2025 cycles suggests that Ether’s sharp sell-off mirrors a pattern in which an initial bottom is formed before the price revisits lower…

The Bank of England has launched a new industry experimentation initiative to explore how tokenized assets could be settled using synchronized, atomic settlement in British pounds sterling as part of efforts to modernize the UK’s real-time gross settlement (RTGS) infrastructure.The Synchronisation Lab initiative will allow 18 selected companies to test delivery-versus-payment and payment-versus-payment settlement between the BoE’s next-generation RTGS core ledger, known as RT2, and external distributed-ledger platforms, in a non-live environment without using real money, according to a bank statement.The six-month pilot, scheduled to start in spring 2026, is intended to validate the central bank’s design choices for synchronized settlement, assess…

Robinhood (HOOD) said revenue from crypto-related transactions fell 38% year over year in the fourth quarter, highlighting how lower digital asset prices continue to curb trading activity even as platforms push deeper into the sector.The trading app reported $221 million in revenue from crypto trades, down from $358 million a year earlier, according to its latest earnings report. The decline came despite Robinhood’s efforts to make crypto a bigger part of its business.Over the past year, the company has rolled out new crypto features and expanded its offerings. Robinhood launched crypto transfers across more regions, allowing users to move assets…

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has launched a fresh public campaign on X that appears aimed at reinforcing his request for a new trial. However, several of the claims he is using to argue his innocence conflict with court records and established facts. The posts, published days after filings seeking a retrial, frame Bankman-Fried as a victim of politically motivated “lawfare,” alleging misconduct by prosecutors, judicial bias, and retaliation against former FTX executives. Yet, a review of the claims shows repeated factual errors and logical gaps. Claims of Gag Orders and Judicial Bias Bankman-Fried claims both he and Donald Trump were…

Ethereum’s outlook for 2026 has become increasingly contested after the most recent downturn in the entire crypto market. Earlier this year, research from Standard Chartered suggested that Ethereum could end 2026 near $7,500, a target that implies significant upside from current levels. However, recent price action, with ETH languishing around $2,000 and lacking clear bullish momentum, puts such projections against a very different realistic outlook. Standard Chartered’s Ethereum Long-Term View In a January research note, Standard Chartered’s digital assets team trimmed its medium-term outlook for Ethereum while keeping a highly optimistic vision for the years ahead. The bank now sees…

Ethereum’s prolonged weakness has pushed key on-chain valuation metrics into territory historically associated with major market bottoms. This has prompted analysts to debate whether ETH is approaching a long-term inflection point or if further downside still lies ahead. Summary Ethereum price prediction debates are intensifying as MVRV metrics show ETH trading at levels historically associated with major market bottoms. Analyst Michaël van de Poppe says Ethereum appears deeply undervalued, citing similarities to past crash periods that later delivered strong recoveries. On-chain analyst Jao Wedson cautions that while capitulation is underway, historical data suggests further downside is still possible before a…

Sam Bankman-Fried, the imprisoned former CEO of FTX, reportedly filed a motion for a new trial in the Southern District of New York today, citing Rule 33 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure and the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The filing, reported by the Inner City Press, was supported by a declaration from attorney Daniel Chapsky and comes as SBF continues to dispute the circumstances surrounding FTX’s bankruptcy and his conviction.  In a series of recent posts on X, SBF claimed he never approved the bankruptcy filing and that lawyers effectively forced the company into Chapter…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Vitalik Buterin is pushing back against the dominant narrative shaping today’s artificial intelligence industry. As major AI labs frame progress as a competitive sprint toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), the Ethereum co-founder argues that the premise itself is flawed. In a series of recent posts and comments, Buterin outlined a different approach, one that prioritizes decentralization, privacy, and verification over scale and speed, with Ethereum positioned as a key piece of enabling infrastructure rather than a vehicle for AGI acceleration. Buterin likens the phrase “working on AGI”…