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The hedge fund manager said central banks were not handling fiat in the same way, warning of a breakdown in the global monetary order.Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio issued a stark warning for the global economy amid US President Donald Trump’s threats of tariffs and seemingly unpredictable economic policies for the country.Speaking to CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, Dalio said the monetary order was “breaking down,” warning of a change in behavior of how central banks handled fiat. According to the hedge fund manager, both fiat holders and “those…

Solana (SOL) price dropped below $130 for the first time since Jan. 2 as onchain data suggested that a strong recovery could be in the cards for the top-10 altcoin.Key takeaways:SOL dips below $130 amid marketwide pullback, but whales remain confident as they load up more tokens. SOL exchange supply falls to two-year lows, signaling a reduction in sell pressure.Recovery in network activity boosting onchain demand for SOL.SOL’s accumulation trend strengthensSOL whales remain confident about the prospects of a further rally, using the pullback to $120 seen at the end of 2025 to accumulate more tokens. Data from Glassnode reveals that whale…

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesUNIONERS PAY PRICE. In 2023, employees at Snøhetta, the prominent New York–based architecture firm, mounted an unsuccessful effort to unionize. Now the National Labor Relations Board has accused the firm of unlawfully retaliating against workers who supported the campaign, the New York Times reports. In a complaint issued on Friday, a regional NLRB director alleged that Snøhetta illegally dismissed eight employees for backing the union and engaging in protected collective activity, and that managers improperly questioned staff about their union sympathies. Snøhetta has denied the allegations. In a statement, partner Elaine…

Disclosure: This article does not represent investment advice. The content and materials featured on this page are for educational purposes only. Mantle partners with Everclear to enable instant, frictionless wETH-to-mETH swaps across major Ethereum chains, eliminating traditional bridging. Mantle, the Ethereum Layer-2 solution, today announced a new collaboration with Everclear, introducing cross-chain asset settlement to the Mantle ecosystem that allows users to swap wETH from Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, or Polygon directly into mETH on Mantle, without traditional bridging friction. This integration addresses one of the most pressing challenges in multi-chain DeFi: liquidity fragmentation across multiple representations of the same asset.…

Ethereum’s All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this “Checkpoint” series aims for high-level updates roughly every 4-8 weeks, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the previous update here. If you enjoy reading core development updates, you may also be keen to learn that Forkcast now publishes call summaries, chats and transcripts for each All Core Dev (ACD) call and some breakout calls, usually available within a couple hours of the call. tl;dr: The Fusaka upgrade shipped alongside the ability to adjust blob parameters independently from fork cycles. The next upgrade, Glamsterdam, is…

With the rise of Layer 2 networks like Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova, the Arbitrum gaming NFT ecosystem makes transactions faster, cheaper, and more reliable, allowing NFTs to function as true gameplay assets rather than mere collectibles.If you’re exploring the NFT gaming ecosystem, this article highlights key gaming projects, marketplaces, and infrastructure powering Arbitrum GameFi. We also show how it shapes player engagement, token utility, and future growth potential, and how it compares with other blockchain gaming networks.Best Arbitrum Gaming NFT Projects to Watch in 2026The Arbitrum gaming and NFT ecosystem has shown rapid growth, driven by its high-performance Layer…

Crypto-linked securities holdings in the Netherlands have risen sharply over the past five years, driven largely by price gains in underlying digital assets, according to new data from De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). Key Takeaways: Dutch indirect crypto holdings rose to €1.2B by 2025, driven mainly by price gains. Crypto securities still make up just 0.03% of the Dutch investment market. Exposure is concentrated in a few foreign-issued crypto-linked securities. In a recent report, the central bank said Dutch companies, institutions and households held around €1.2 billion in indirect crypto investments as of October 2025, up from roughly €81 million at…

A new Coinbase Institute report argues that the most important divide in global finance is no longer rich versus poor, but between those who have direct access to capital markets and those who do not, which it describes as the “brokered” versus the “unbrokered.”The report estimates that traditional intermediated rails exclude roughly four billion unbrokered individuals from owning productive assets or raising capital at scale. Closing this gap, it argues, will require rebuilding core market infrastructure so smaller investors and issuers can participate directly rather than through layers of intermediaries.According to the report, over the last 40 years in the…

On Jan. 16, Pennsylvania-based lender Newrez announced plans to accept certain cryptocurrency holdings when considering mortgage applications. The change, which the company said will take effect in February, will apply to loans for homes, refinancing and other investment properties.For Newrez, the plan comes on the tailwinds of directions from the US Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) last year. In June 2025, the FHFA ordered Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) to develop plans for recognizing crypto in loan applications.In doing so, crypto gained at least partial recognition from two major government enterprises…

Strategy acquired 22,305 BTC last week at about $95,284 per coin, lifting its holdings to 709,715 BTC.Michael Saylor’s Strategy, the world’s largest public Bitcoin holder, blasted past 700,000 BTC in holdings with its latest large-scale purchase.Strategy bought 22,305 Bitcoin (BTC) for $2.13 billion last week, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday.The purchases were made at an average price of $95,284 per BTC, with Bitcoin briefly rising past $97,000 on Wednesday, according to CoinGecko data.The acquisition brought Strategy’s total Bitcoin holdings to 709,715 BTC, purchased for about $53.92 billion at an average price of $75,979 per…