Category: Peer to Peer

BingX has announced a significant overhaul of its copy trading suite, introducing a new Copy Trading Plaza and a redesigned Lead Trader Homepage as it intensifies competition in the fast-growing social trading segment of the cryptocurrency market.The Panama City-based exchange said the upgrade is designed to streamline discovery, enhance transparency and provide more granular performance insights for users who follow so-called lead traders. The changes form part of a broader strategy to position the platform at the intersection of crypto

Ripple chief executive Brad Garlinghouse has declared that XRP will “always be the top priority” for the company, seeking to calm markets as heavy selling pressure grips the token and unsettles retail investors.The remarks came as XRP experienced heightened volatility, with sharp price swings reflecting a broader retreat across digital assets and renewed anxiety among traders over liquidity conditions and regulatory overhangs. Market data showed a spike in trading volumes across major exchanges, alongside an increase in long liquidations, signalling

Bitcoin has extended its downturn this week, showing little sign of sustainable recovery as selling pressure dominates trading activity and key technical support levels come under threat. The world’s largest cryptocurrency slid below the pivotal $70,000–$72,000 range and is testing lower thresholds that many traders identify as critical, with some models indicating potential further declines before major support is confirmed. Indicators across daily and weekly charts point to a market where bearish sentiment remains firmly in control and buying demand

BlackRock has unveiled plans to deploy its tokenised money market fund, BUIDL, through UniswapX, marking a further step by the world’s largest asset manager into decentralised finance infrastructure and signalling a deeper engagement with public blockchain liquidity.The move, disclosed on 11 February, will allow eligible participants to access the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund via Uniswap’s off-chain order routing protocol, UniswapX, which is designed to source competitive pricing across multiple liquidity pools. BlackRock also confirmed that it has acquired

Bitcoin crossed the symbolic threshold of one US dollar 15 years ago, a modest valuation milestone that has since acquired outsized significance as the digital asset evolved from an obscure experiment into a global financial phenomenon influencing markets, regulation, and technology debates. The moment, marked in early February 2011 on a handful of online trading forums and exchanges, is now widely cited as the point at which Bitcoin began to be perceived as something with tangible monetary value rather than

Bitcoin users have steadily shifted to a quieter but consequential upgrade that cuts fees and improves network efficiency without altering the asset’s core monetary rules. Segregated Witness, commonly known as SegWit, combined with the Bech32 address format, has changed how transaction data is structured and transmitted, allowing more payments to fit into each block and lowering the cost paid by users sending funds across the network.SegWit was introduced to tackle a long-standing bottleneck in Bitcoin’s design. Each block on the

Bitcoin has surrendered all the gains it notched after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, sliding amid thin liquidity and shifting expectations over US monetary policy, a move that has unsettled broader digital asset markets and revived questions about the sector’s resilience in a tightening financial environment.The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell below $61,000 during the week, a level last seen before Trump’s election victory, before staging a partial rebound. The sell-off has unfolded alongside declines across other major tokens,

Bitcoin is being watched closely by traders after comments from market strategist Tom Lee pointed to continuing strain across digital assets, even as the world’s largest cryptocurrency shows signs of stabilising above key technical levels. The benchmark token has hovered well below earlier peaks, reflecting a broader unease among investors grappling with tighter financial conditions, regulatory scrutiny and uneven demand for risk assets.Lee, a co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors known for his long-term bullish stance on digital currencies, has cautioned

Bitcoin’s latest bout of weakness against gold has sharpened debate across global markets, yet market participants argue the comparison misses a deeper structural shift under way in digital assets. Rather than signalling a loss of confidence in bitcoin as a store of value, the price action is being framed by traders as a consequence of tightening liquidity conditions that affect crypto markets in ways bullion markets have never faced.Price movements through October underscored the point. A broad deleveraging episode swept

JPMorgan has argued that bitcoin’s declining volatility relative to gold is reshaping long-term investment calculations, even as near-term pressures from exchange-traded fund outflows and futures market liquidations weigh on crypto prices. The bank’s analysts said the contrast between short-term stress and longer-horizon metrics highlights a shift under way in how institutional investors assess risk in digital assets.Bitcoin has traded within a tighter range over the past several months compared with its own historical swings, while gold has shown sharper price

Marathon Digital Holdings, the leading publicly traded Bitcoin miner, moved a substantial amount of its digital currency holdings this week, transferring around $87 million worth of Bitcoin across multiple trading desks and exchange addresses, according to on-chain tracking data. The largest portion of the movement was directed to the credit and trading firm Two Prime, which received more than 660 BTC, while other transfers were recorded to a BitGo custody address and a newly created wallet.Blockchain analytics show that the

Bitcoin could move towards the $50,000 mark even as confidence in the crypto market remains fragile, according to comments by Tom Lee, who has described price action across digital assets as a major disappointment against a backdrop of conditions that have historically favoured rallies.Trading has been subdued across large cryptocurrencies, with bitcoin struggling to convert long-standing bullish narratives into sustained momentum. Lee, a prominent market strategist who has followed digital assets for over a decade, said the asset class has

Bitcoin slid to its weakest level since Donald Trump’s election victory, underscoring how fragile sentiment has become across digital-asset markets as tighter financial conditions, regulatory uncertainty and profit-taking converge.The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell sharply in volatile trading, extending a multi-week decline that has erased a large portion of gains built up earlier in the cycle. Prices moved to levels last seen shortly after Trump secured the White House in November 2016, a reference point frequently used by traders to frame

Bitcoin sank to around $81,000, erasing a significant portion of its gains and triggering fresh volatility across digital asset markets, as forced liquidations, global risk aversion and growing scrutiny of major exchanges combined to deepen losses. The decline unfolded amid heightened uncertainty in broader financial markets, with crypto assets once again moving in tandem with risk-sensitive equities and high-yield instruments.The sell-off accelerated as leveraged positions were unwound across derivatives platforms, pushing liquidation volumes sharply higher within hours. Market data showed

Market attention has turned sharply to Washington as legislation reshaping digital-asset oversight advances while uncertainty over the next Federal Reserve chair weighs on risk appetite across crypto markets. The convergence of these two developments has sharpened debate over how the United States intends to regulate trading venues, stablecoins and derivatives at a time when capital flows remain sensitive to policy signals.Lawmakers have pushed forward the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, widely known as the Clarity Act,

Binance has disclosed a $100 million allocation to Bitcoin for its Secure Asset Fund for Users, a move that reinforces the exchange’s capital buffer designed to protect customers during periods of market stress or operational shocks. The purchase adds to a reserve structure that the company says is ringfenced from its operating funds and intended solely for user protection, underscoring an effort to demonstrate balance-sheet resilience at a time when the digital-asset industry remains under close regulatory and investor scrutiny.The

A UAE-based investment firm has acquired a 49% holding in World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency platform linked to Donald Trump, in a transaction that values the venture at about $500 million and places foreign capital at the heart of a politically sensitive digital-asset business.The investment, disclosed through corporate filings and confirmed by people familiar with the transaction, gives the Gulf investor a near-equal stake in a company that has traded heavily on the former US president’s brand while struggling to

Bitcoin fell towards the $75,000 mark during Asian trading hours, extending a pullback that coincided with weaker equity markets across the region and heightened volatility in key industrial and precious metals, underscoring a broader phase of risk recalibration among global investors.The world’s largest cryptocurrency slipped after failing to hold higher technical levels, with trading volumes rising as short-term holders moved to lock in gains accumulated during the earlier rally. Market participants pointed to a mix of profit-taking, tighter global financial

Crypto markets closed January in the red despite a policy backdrop that, on paper, appeared more accommodating than at any point in the past two years. Prices slid across major tokens, trading volumes thinned, and investor sentiment softened even as regulatory signals from Washington and other financial centres suggested a shift away from outright hostility towards digital assets.Bitcoin, the bellwether for the sector, ended the month lower after failing to hold levels above key technical thresholds that traders had hoped

A single highly leveraged ether position worth about $220 million was wiped out as prices slid roughly 10 per cent, amplifying a wave of forced liquidations that pushed total crypto losses above $2.5 billion within 24 hours and reignited concerns about leverage-driven fragility across digital asset markets.The loss stemmed from a large long position on the derivatives platform Hyperliquid, where rapid price moves triggered automatic margin calls and liquidations. As ether fell sharply alongside a broader risk-off move in crypto,

BitMine Immersion Technologies, the crypto treasury vehicle closely associated with veteran market strategist Tom Lee, is bearing the brunt of a sharp downturn in ether prices as its vast token stash registers more than $6 billion in unrealised losses, underscoring the hazards of concentrated digital-asset holdings on corporate balance sheets. This loss equates to a significant drawdown on the company’s roughly 4.2 million ETH position as the second-largest blockchain asset shed value in the face of thinning liquidity and

Worldcoin’s native token WLD has entered 2026 carrying a mix of ambition and unease, shaped by sharp price swings, regulatory scrutiny around biometric data, and the project’s long-term bet on global digital identity. Trading far below its earlier peak, the token’s trajectory over the next four years has become a focal point for investors weighing whether the network can convert technological promise into sustained demand.WLD touched levels close to $12 during its strongest phase before a steep sell-off pushed prices

Washington has imposed sanctions on a network of cryptocurrency exchanges and facilitators tied to Iran, marking the first time the United States has directly targeted crypto trading platforms over allegations of supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The measures signal a widening of financial enforcement into the digital asset space as Washington seeks to curb Iran’s access to global capital flows.The sanctions, announced by the Treasury Department, focus on several exchanges accused of processing transactions that benefited entities connected to

A wave of forced liquidations that ripped through digital-asset markets on October 10, erasing positions at a pace unseen in the sector’s history, was driven primarily by a sudden global risk-off shock rather than a failure of trading infrastructure, according to Binance.The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange said the flash crash unfolded as macroeconomic pressures triggered rapid price declines across major tokens, setting off automated margin calls and cascading sell orders in conditions of thin liquidity. The firm acknowledged two platform-specific