As senators gear up for their big pow-wow over the latest market musings, folks in the loop say Coinbase has given a healthily stern warning: if the draft claws too tightly into stablecoin bonuses, it may very well pull the plug on its support. The exchange passionately desires a light touch rather than a heavy-handed snub that might lock the doors on crypto platforms doling out bits of incentive.
“Midnight connects us to all the other blockchains, and we add privacy to all those connection points,” Hoskinson chirped, sounding suspiciously like someone trying to describe how a cocktail makes your bad days disappear. “So we have a lot to add and offer!” he added, in a way that made you hope Midnight included a free brunch.
After a brief flirtation with the $132 zone, Solana declared “Darling, I’ve had enough of mediocrity,” and vaulted into the $138 stratosphere. Bitcoin? Pfft. Ethereum? How quaint. SOL’s the new It-Girl of crypto, and Wall Street’s mascara is running from jealousy. 💻
Among the seven Solana apps that raked in over $100 million-a sum that would make even a Moscow merchant blush-Pump.fun shone brightest. Meme coins, those ephemeral phantoms of the digital age, continued to drive the network’s activity, as if the world had nothing better to do than trade in jest. 🌚
The crowd murmurs: Is this transparency, or but another sleight of hand? The skeptics sharpen their quills, while the hopeful scribble manifestos in the margins.
Woo’s data-driven models indicate that investor flows into Bitcoin bottomed on December 24, 2025, and have been steadily strengthening since then. While his broader outlook for 2026 remains cautious due to waning liquidity, the near-term setup suggests a cautiously bullish window over the coming weeks. 🧠
After weeks of snoozeville trading in December, crypto prices finally woke up and said, “Let’s party!” during early Asian hours. Bitcoin moonwalked past $92,000, while ether did the cha-cha above $3,100, thanks to equities going wild and oil prices taking a nap. 💤
Now, according to the eggheads, the average block times were clocking in at a sprightly 9.88 minutes-a hair faster than Bitcoin’s target of 10 minutes. This, my dear reader, is what prompted the protocol to give the miners a bit of a break. Blocks were being churned out quicker than a Jeeves-prepared breakfast, and so the difficulty took a downward turn. A temporary hurdle reduction, if you will. 🏃♂️💨
The NCI, calculated by the ever-so-capable CF Benchmarks and overseen by committees of grandees from both exchanges, is intended to mimic the staid practices of equities and derivatives. How quaint! Regular reconstitutions and transparent methodologies-because nothing says “innovation” like adhering to traditions older than the Rothschilds. The December 1, 2025, reconstitution was but a prelude to this grand rebranding, a mere curtain-raiser for the main event. 🎭📈
Behold, Brian Quinlivan, the sage of Santiment, declares that Ethereum’s chatter has slipped to levels akin to a drunken sailor’s monologue-low, erratic, and full of promises of treasure. Yet, he claims this decline “argues against us falling too much further,” as if the market’s a child who cries to sleep. 🤯
