The first digital asset: its price, its miners and the companies building on it.
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This week, Tether announced the release of Mining OS (MOS), an open-source Bitcoin mining management platform designed to replace the proprietary, vendor-locked systems that dominate the industry today. The software is fully open-source and built to scale from home miners to industrial operations.
February opens with Bitcoin hovering near $78,000 and Ethereum around $2,300 — after a brutal selloff that ripped through the crypto market, wiping out leverage and forcing liquidations across majors and altcoins alike.
Crypto markets slid again, with Bitcoin falling toward ~$83,000 and Ethereum dropping near ~$2,700, extending a pullback that has frustrated traders and long-term holders alike.
This week, Visa, KuCoin, Apple, and onchain markets all pointed to the same shift: crypto is moving from a trade to embedded infrastructure.
Peer-to-peer crypto trading has quietly become one of the most important access layers in the global crypto economy — and Bybit is marking a major milestone in that journey.
Bitcoin is getting something it has long lacked: a native, compliant dollar layer built specifically for Bitcoin applications.
Love it or criticize it, Binance’s impact on the crypto industry is impossible to ignore.
2025 was not a year traders will look back on too fondly. For much of the prior cycle, perpetual swaps were a dependable engine of yield. Funding rate arbitrage, basis trades, and delta-neutral strategies offered what felt like structurally sound alpha.
Nexo is rolling out a new borrowing product aimed at one of crypto’s longest-standing pain points: accessing liquidity without interest costs, forced liquidations, or constant risk management.
Rumble is taking a direct step into the crypto-native creator economy. The video platform has officially launched Rumble Wallet, a non-custodial crypto wallet built directly into the Rumble experience, enabling creators to receive payments and tips in BTC, USDT, and Tether Gold (XAUt) without relying on banks, ad networks, or traditional payment processors.
Buck is launching what it calls the world’s first Bitcoin Dollar — a savings-focused crypto asset designed to deliver predictable rewards in a market that has historically favored speculation over stability.
The new year is barely underway, yet Monday morning already feels like a turning point. Crypto moving back to the center of global finance — and this time, it’s being led by the very institutions that once dismissed it. Cover photo: Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase)
