Bitcoin-Gold Ratio at 12-Week Low as U.S. Physical Gold Deliveries Soar Traders have been loading the yellow metal on U.S.-bound planes. Investment banking giant JPMorgan plans to deliver $4 billion of gold to New York this month.

Ransomware Payments Fell 35% in 2024 as More Victims Refuse to Pay: Chainalysis According to the blockchain analytics firm, less than half of recorded ransomware attacks resulted in victim payments.

Bitcoin Drops Below Key 2025 Realized Price Level, Raising Risk of Further Downside: Van Straten Over 2.6 million bitcoin in supply are currently at a loss, one of the highest levels this year.

CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: AAVE Gains 6.9% as Index Trades Higher From Tuesday Litecoin (LTC) joined Aave (AAVE) as a top performer, rising 3.7%.

It’s Time to End the Bureaucrat’s Secret Weapon: Debanking Nathan McCauley is CEO Anchorage Digital, an institutional crypto platform. He testifies as a witness before the Senate Banking Committee in today’s hearing: “Investigating the Real Impacts of Debanking in America.”

Why DeFi Will Benefit From Trade Wars In the short-term, the crypto market will be negatively impacted by increased volatility in global trade, says ML Tech’s Leo Mindyuk. But over time, crypto will be less impacted than traditional finance.

Bitcoin Risks Losing the $90K- $110K Range as These 3 Developments Could Put the Brakes on the Next Bull Breakout BTC looks heavy as critical sources of fiat liquidity begin to tighten, Trump administration goes slow on creation on strategic BTC reserve and charts point to weakening upward momentum.

Bitcoin Network Hashrate Growth Was Muted in January: JPMorgan Mining difficulty fell 2% from the previous month, which is relatively uncommon, the report said.

Ondo Finance Unveils Tokenization Platform to Bring Stocks, Bonds, and ETFs Onchain Ondo takes steps to accelerate the onboarding of traditional assets to the blockchain rails.

Equities-Crypto Relationship Is Likely to Weaken in the Long Term, Citi Says The correlation between bitcoin and the stock market is expected to weaken as the adoption of digital assets grows, the report said.

Blockstream Opens New Office in Tokyo as It Expands in Asia The company plans to drive Japanese adoption of Bitcoin Layer-2 and self-custody technologies.

XRP Ledger ‘Self-Healed’ After Brief Downtime “One possible failure mode for XRPL is if all the validators think something’s wrong with the network, all refuse to send any validations,” the Ripple CTO explained.

Bullish Global Weighs IPO as Early as This Year Amid Crypto Market Optimism: Bloomberg The crypto exchange whose parent company is backed by Peter Thiel revived its public listing plans shelved in 2022.

Bitdeer Buys 101 MW Gas Power Plant in Alberta, Canada for BTC Mining The $21.7 million cash deal would give BitDeer the ability to mine BTC at some of the lowest costs in the industry.

Acting SEC Chair Uyeda Names 3 Appointees to Agency’s New Crypto Task Force Landon Zinda, former policy director for crypto think tank Coin Center, is the task force’s new senior advisor.

Bitcoin OP_CAT Proposal Gets Boost From Taproot Wizards’ $30M Fundraise Taproot Wizards will use the funding to build an ecosystem of applications using the OP_CAT Bitcoin improvement proposal

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Lays Out 10 Priorities for New Crypto Task Force Peirce also urged crypto companies to be patient as the agency decides how to “disentangle” itself from litigation initiated under former Chair Gary Gensler.

Bitcoin Extends Losses to Below $97K Following David Sacks Press Conference It was mostly a wonky discussion from Sacks and four Senate/House committee chairs.

Regulation By Enforcement Is Out at CFTC, Acting Chair Pham Says The CFTC’s Division of Enforcement is being reorganized to “refocus” on fraud prevention.

Trump’s Crypto Czar Sacks Says ‘Golden Age’ Coming David Sacks and the leaders of the congressional committees that will handle crypto legislation outlined their plans at a press conference.