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Bitcoin saw its price crash toward $60,000 last week, and naturally, investor sentiment took a plunge with it. Now, while the sentiment has been in a decline for the better part of five months, what stands out this time is how low the score on the Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index has gotten. In fact, the sentiment surrounding the crypto market has dropped so low that it has gotten to a point that has only been hit twice in the history of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Fear & Greed Index Crashes To 9 Since hitting its all-time high of $126,000 back in August…

In brief HYPE rose about 6% even as Iran headlines drove weekend volatility. Hyperliquid absorbed early volume as price moves formed before traditional futures reopened. Weekend shocks may turn always-on perps into a repeat venue for early risk pricing and fee growth, Decrypt was told. As tensions escalated over Iran-related headlines this weekend, Hyperliquid’s HYPE token rose about 6% as traders turned to the always-on decentralized perpetuals platform to express risk while many traditional markets were closed.Bitcoin and other risk assets fell as Iran-related tensions escalated, while oil and gold moved higher amid a broader risk-off shift. Volatility rose, and…

📊No votes yet – Be the first to vote Dollar weakness hit Friday morning. The US Dollar Index slumped to 97.70 during Asian trading, pulling back from Thursday’s gains as traders brace for key inflation data that could shake up currency markets. PPI numbers drop later today. That’s the Producer Price Index, and it’s a big deal for dollar watchers. The data shows wholesale inflation pressures, which basically tells us where consumer prices might head next. And that matters because the Federal Reserve uses this stuff to decide interest rates. Higher rates mean stronger dollar. Lower rates? Not so much.…

During Q4 earnings call, Flutter executives said event contracts could accelerate legalization of online sportsbooks and casinos as prediction market investment trends toward the upper end of guidanceFlutter Entertainment, the parent company of FanDuel, said it plans to ramp up investment in prediction markets following what executives described as encouraging early traction for FanDuel Predicts, revealing in its Q4 earnings report and Thursday earnings call that spending will trend toward the upper end of its prior guidance.“We now expect that our prediction markets investment will be towards the upper end of the previously guided range,” CFO Rob Coldrake said on…

XRP Ledger Foundation has confirmed it has patched a critical vulnerability found in an yet-to-be-enabled amendment of Ripple’s XRP Ledger, averting a potentially major exploit. On February 19, a security engineer at cybersecurity firm Cantina, Pranamya Keshkamat, and the Cantina AI security bot identified a “critical logic flaw” in the signature-validation logic of Ripple’s blockchain, XRP Ledger, reported the XRP Ledger Foundation on Thursday. The vulnerability in the signature validation code batch amendment would have allowed an attacker to execute transactions from victim accounts, including draining funds, without ever having the victim’s private keys. “The amendment was in its voting phase and had…

Alvin Lang Feb 27, 2026 06:34 AVAX trades at $9.38 with neutral RSI at 48.16. Technical analysis suggests 30-60% upside potential to $12-$15 range within 4-6 weeks if key resistance breaks. AVAX Price Prediction Summary • Short-term target (1 week): $9.70-$10.20 • Medium-term forecast (1 month): $12.00-$15.00 range• Bullish breakout level: $9.71 • Critical support: $8.93 What Crypto Analysts Are Saying About Avalanche Recent analyst predictions from blockchain industry experts paint a cautiously optimistic picture for Avalanche’s near-term prospects. Felix Pinkston noted on February 21, 2026: “Avalanche (AVAX) shows neutral RSI at 40.45 with analysts targeting $12–$15 range within 4–6…

Can you insider-trade on an investigation into your own insider trading? Polymarket just turned that question from philosophical to practical.Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT published findings Thursday morning naming Axiom, a crypto trading platform, as the company whose employees he believed had used non-public information to place profitable trades.The investigation had been teased for days, and Polymarket had created a contract allowing users to bet on which company would be named, pulling in roughly $40 million in volume since Monday.The problem is that someone clearly knew the answer before it dropped.Lookonchain identified 12 wallets that bet heavily on Axiom before the reveal,…

Bitcoin and the broader crypto market headed into Friday on the back foot, with most major tokens posting losses over the last 24 hours as traders continued to de-risk alongside equities following Nvidia’s earnings-driven pullback.Bitcoin was trading around $67,766 at the time of writing, down 1.5% on the day but still clinging to a 0.6% gain on the week. Ethereum mirrored the move, off 1.5% in 24 hours to trade just above $2,047. Both remain stuck in a narrow range that has defined price action since the Feb. 5 crash, with Wednesday’s push toward $70,000 marking the upper boundary and…

Ethereum prices have tanked to bear market lows and are currently at a long-term demand zone, say analysts.  “Ethereum is sitting at a 5-year demand zone,” said analyst Merlijn The Trader on Monday. “Historically, this range has been accumulation, not distribution,” he added. Ether prices are currently back at April 2025 levels, where it crashed briefly below $1,500. They are also back to long-term lows between July 2022 and November 2023, which was a deep bear market and accumulation zone. However, they could wallow around this level for months yet. Nevertheless, the analyst remains confident that “momentum is building for a potential…

The GuidanceThe SEC clarified the liquidity buffer brokers need when handling stablecoins.It’s a key change that will attract institutions to the sector.US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent predicts the niche to hit $3 trillion by 2030.A version of this story appeared in The Guidance newsletter on February 23. Sign up here.Stablecoins are getting another facelift — or, rather, haircut.Late last week, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that broker-dealers needn’t treat dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies with the same risk profile as before. Instead, Commissioner Hester Peirce clarified that the SEC would not object if a broker-dealer applied a 2% haircut to stablecoins.It’s…