Author: Kryptonews

Key takeaways:SOL is struggling to hold $80 as a 75% drop in futures’ open interest shows that traders are heading for the exits rather than opening new bets.Solana remains heavily dependent on retail and memecoin activity, while Ethereum maintains its lead in high-value decentralized finance.Solana’s native token, SOL (SOL), has hit a wall, repeatedly failing to break back above $89 over the last two weeks. This sluggish price action follows a rejection at $145 in mid-January and a sharp drop to $67.60 during the Feb. 6 crash. Demand for bullish leverage has essentially evaporated as traders brace for more pain.…

Espresso (ESP) is designed to solve one of the biggest challenges in blockchain today: fragmented liquidity and isolated chains. The network provides shared sequencing, fast finality, and secure consensus through HotShot BFT, enabling rollups to interact seamlessly while maintaining decentralization.This article breaks down how the network works, its native token and tokenomics, staking, and what makes ESP a unique player in the modular blockchain ecosystem.What Is Espresso (ESP)?Espresso is a shared sequencing, coordination, and finality layer built for rollups. The Espresso Network acts as an infrastructure that sits alongside multiple chains, ordering transactions before they settle on their respective base…

Update (Feb. 19 at 7:21 pm UTC): This article has been updated to include a statement from the Crypto Council for Innovation.The White House has held another meeting between representatives from the cryptocurrency and banking industries on a market structure bill under consideration in the US Senate, seeking to iron-out differences on stablecoin yield provisions, among other issues.In a Thursday Fox News interview, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said that the company’s chief legal officer, Stuart Alderoty, attended the meeting with White House officials earlier in the day. The CEO’s comments came after unconfirmed reports that the Trump administration would follow…

Sui crypto just stepped into the big boys area.the first SUI ETFs are now live in the US, Canary Capital and Grayscale both launched products today. And they come with staking yield baked in. Key Takeaways Canary Capital’s SUIS is actively trading on the Nasdaq, while Grayscale’s GSUI launched on the NYSE after converting from a trust. Both funds offer staking rewards, a first-of-its-kind feature for US spot crypto ETFs that allows investors to capture network yield. The listings arrive as SUI trades near $0.95, down roughly 40% over the last 30 days amidst broader altcoin market capitulation. Why Sui…

Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s popular marble sculpture of an elephant in Rome’s Piazza della Minerva was damaged over the weekend, with a four-inch fragment of the tip of one of its tusks broken off and found on the ground.  Local authorities discovered the damage over the weekend and revealed it on Monday night. It’s at least the second time the statue has sustained damage. The tip of the same tusk was broken off in 2016 by a vandal and later restored. The Italian capital has seen has seen uncommonly heavy rains in recent weeks, and police are uncertain whether…

Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, offered a blunt take on digital assets, arguing that cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin BTC$67,003.21 and stablecoins, have yet to prove real utility.Speaking at the 2026 Midwest Economic Outlook Summit in Fargo, North Dakota on Thursday, he contrasted the everyday utility of artificial intelligence (AI) tools with cryptocurrencies.”Crypto has been around for more than a decade, and it’s utterly useless,” he said, while AI “has real long term potential for the U.S. economy.”After asking the audience who had used AI tools like ChatGPT or Gemini in the past week, Kashkari posed a…

A research paper at the U.S. Federal Reserve praised the usefulness of prediction markets — specifically looking at Kalshi — in getting a real-time handle on economic policy.”Kalshi’s forecasts for the federal funds rate and [the U.S. Consumer Price Index] provide statistically significant improvements over fed funds futures and professional forecasters, all while providing continuously updated full distributions rather than infrequent point estimates,” according to the paper published on Thursday.And the markets, in which retail investors can buy contracts in virtually any yes-no question in such diverse fields as economics, politics and sports, are looking at topics on a live…

Dash, a layer-1 blockchain protocol with privacy-preserving features, announced on Thursday the integration of Zcash’s “Orchard” shielded pool into the Dash Evolution chain, a secondary layer on the L1 network that supports smart contract functionality.The integration will go live following the completion of cybersecurity audits and is expected to launch in March, according to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph.Initially, the integration will support basic transfers of Zcash (ZEC) from one party to another on the Evolution chain, with subsequent upgrades adding Orchard’s privacy features for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), the announcement said.The price of the DASH (DASH), the native token…

The Victoria & Albert Museum in London has acquired the first video ever uploaded to YouTube, as well as an early watch page of the video-sharing platform, for its collection. The video, “Me at the zoo,” was first uploaded to the site on April 23, 2005. YouTube was officially founded in February 2005 by former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. The 19-second video features Karim at the San Diego Zoo standing in front of several elephants. The site launched in a public beta the following month and was sold to Google in November 2006 for $1.65…

The current crypto market is marked by an intense level of caution, with investors shifting their focus from high-risk speculative assets to tokens that hold genuine value. However, while the overall market has remained ‘stagnant’ in this timeframe; today’s activity led by UNUS SED LEO (LEO) shows a definitive shift to projects with strong operating internal economies and safe-haven assets. UNUS SED LEO (LEO) – The Deflationary Powerhouse Currently leading the pack is UNUS SED LEO (LEO) trading at about $8.66. The token’s steadfastness is rarely happenstance. Unlike many utility tokens based on future “roadmaps,” LEO runs on a relentless…