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Robinhood chief executive Vlad Tenev said the 2021 GameStop trading halt was a wake-up call that exposed flaws in US market infrastructure and strengthened his belief that tokenisation could prevent similar disruptions.

Bitcoin slid to a two-month low near $81,900 on Jan. 30, triggering one of the largest deleveraging events of the year as geopolitical tensions and macro uncertainty rattled crypto markets.

The United States Department of Justice has finalised the forfeiture of more than $400 million in cryptocurrency and other assets linked to Helix, an early bitcoin mixing service tied to darknet markets.

Circle Internet Group said it will prioritise building more durable infrastructure through 2026 to accelerate stablecoin adoption among institutions and large enterprises.

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission has proposed capping individual shareholdings in domestic crypto exchanges at between 15% and 20%, arguing the platforms now function as public financial infrastructure.

The UK plans to bring a comprehensive crypto regulatory regime into force by October 25, 2027, as the government faces mounting pressure to give the digital asset industry legal certainty.

Bitcoin slid sharply on Thursday as a so-called death cross formed on its charts, reinforcing fears that the recent sell-off could extend much further.

The Senate Agriculture Committee advanced its portion of the CLARITY Act on a narrow 12–11 party-line vote, underscoring the fragile political path facing the crypto market structure bill.

Institutional adoption on the Avalanche blockchain surged in the fourth quarter as tokenised real-world assets hit a record value, even as the AVAX token sharply underperformed the broader crypto market.

Optimism governance has approved a proposal to allocate 50% of Superchain revenue to buy back the OP token over the next 12 months, starting in February, as part of efforts to strengthen the token’s role in the ecosystem.

Securitise said revenue surged more than 840% year on year in a new filing to go public via a merger with a Cantor Fitzgerald–backed SPAC, highlighting accelerating institutional demand for tokenisation.

A Miami conference for high-risk finance and crypto traders was forced to change its name at the last minute after Reddit moved to enforce its WallStreetBets trademark.