Cryptonews

While the market sulks in the wings, a certain development involving Ripple’s own Brad Garlinghouse could swing the mood from tepid to theatrical.

The cryptocurrency market, that tempestuous tart, has been in a flutter of volatility these past months. The broader crypto scene has shed over $1.2 trillion in market capitalization, with short-dated implied volatility soaring and a mad dash for downside protection across major tokens. How utterly exhausting.

Not that it vanquishes the risk today, darling, but it formalizes a specific opt-in path that preserves Taproot’s script-tree couture while politely dropping the spending route most problematic under a quantum-fire model.

The stern bearish chorus from the upper echelons suggests that supply still hovers at the lofty shelves. With price slipping back toward the lower boundary of its recent architecture, traders lean in with the curiosity of provincial reporters. Will buyers don their capes and defend this zone once again, or is the market preparing for a deeper, noirish breakdown?

Binance never hedged client flow on BitMEX for over 60,000 BTC; the tale is fake news and, he jokes, technically impossible-like a crypto unicorn in a tuxedo.

It seems that even the towering titans of finance are adopting a posture of prudence when it comes to their Bitcoin forecasts. New on-chain signals and the stoic long-term holders whisper ominously that the specter of downside risk has yet to take its final bow.

Over yonder at Consensus Hong Kong, one of the co-founders, Zak Folkman, decided to drop a juicy tidbit about their latest endeavor: a foreign exchange platform they’ve dubbed World Swap. Sounds fancy, doesn’t it? It’s set to operate within the warm embrace of WLFI’s USDI stablecoin project. Now, if you’re wondering what all this means for liquidity, well, let’s just say it’s about to rain some financial sunshine on World Liberty Finance.

This noble decision, made last week, was intended as a protective embrace for clients and the firm alike-a classic case of “better safe than sorry,” or perhaps more accurately, “better safe than broke!”

Hardik Katariya, the crypto cowboy of The Crypto Times, sat down with Marcin Kaźmierczak, the Co-Founder and CEO of RedStone Oracles. Together, they unraveled the tale of how RedStone became the trusted sentinel for institutional heavyweights like BlackRock and Apollo, securing over $8 billion in assets with the diligence of a farmer tending his crops.

While there are signs of shifting sentiment and a broad market resurgence, data from SosoValue shows XRP ETFs recorded zero daily net inflows during their last trading session on Feb. 11. It’s the kind of statistic that reads like a shrug from the economy.