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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,…

The Ethereum Foundation has begun staking a portion of its treasury, in line with its Treasury Policy announced last year. Approximately 70,000 ETH is being staked with rewards directed back to the EF treasury. Architecture & configuration After assessing many good staking software options, the Ethereum Foundation chose to use the open source software options Dirk and Vouch: Dirk serves as a distributed signer, spreading signers across multiple geographic regions. This design eliminates a single point of failure and enhances resilience.Vouch supports the use of multiple Beacon Client and Execution Client pairings with a variety of configurable strategies which can be…

Traditional investors don’t yet realize the impact crypto may have on financial markets, meaning there could be an opportunity to invest in what the technology could eventually become, says Bitwise investment chief Matt Hougan.“Everywhere I look, Wall Street is screaming that finance is moving on-chain. Not a little of it; all of it,” Hougan said in a note on Tuesday. “Yet traditional investors can’t hear it.”He argued investors are suffering from “anchoring bias” and are still fixated on how crypto was perceived in its early days — when it was still an unknown technology mostly used by cypherpunks and dark…

Bitcoin came within touching distance of $70,000 on Wednesday before pulling back to around $68,300 in Thursday morning trading, a nearly 5% swing from the session high to the overnight low of $67,700. The move marks the strongest attempt to reclaim the $70,000 level since the Feb. 5 crash but stopped short of a clean breakout.The more interesting story was underneath. Altcoins outperformed across the board, with ether up 8.5%, solana gaining 6.9%, cardano surging 10.8%, and dogecoin adding 8.3%. Bitcoin’s 4.3% gain was among the smallest in the top 10.That kind of divergence typically signals risk appetite returning to…

Dogecoin started a major increase above $0.10 against the US Dollar. DOGE is now consolidating and might decline again if it fails to clear $0.1060. DOGE price started a fresh increase above $0.0950 and $0.10. The price is trading above the $0.10 level and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There was a break above a bearish trend line with resistance at $0.0942 on the hourly chart of the DOGE/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price could aim for a fresh increase if it remains stable above $0.0988. Dogecoin Price Consolidates Gains Dogecoin price started a fresh increase after it…

In brief The OCC opened a 60-day comment period on draft rules implementing the GENIUS Act. The proposal prohibits anyone other than a “permitted payment stablecoin issuer” from issuing a payment stablecoin in the U.S. AML and sanctions rules will follow separately, with the Act taking effect the earlier of 18 months after enactment or 120 days after final regulations. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Wednesday proposed rules to implement the GENIUS Act, laying out how payment stablecoins would be issued and supervised under the agency’s jurisdiction.In a notice of proposed rulemaking issued Wednesday, the OCC…

On-chain analytics firm Glassnode has highlighted how accumulation from the large Bitcoin entities has remained relatively weak recently. Bitcoin Accumulation Trend Score Has Been Struggling To Break 0.5 In a new post on X, Glassnode has talked about the latest trend in the Accumulation Trend Score for Bitcoin. This on-chain indicator tracks whether BTCinvestors are accumulating or distributing right now. The metric calculates its value by looking at the balance changes happening in the wallets of the investors. Additionally, it also accounts for the size of the wallets themselves. This second weighting factor means that larger entities have a stronger…

Trump family-backed crypto venture World Liberty Financial (WLFI) has proposed new measures to boost participation in governance through a staking system and incentivize the use of its stablecoin USD1.In its latest proposal on Wednesday, the team suggested governance votes should require holders to stake their tokens for at least 180 days to ensure “voting power is held by participants with long-term alignment to the protocol,” instead of “short-term holders or speculators.”Stakers would earn an annual percentage rate of 2% provided they participate in at least two governance votes during the lock-up period. Governance power would be based on the amount…

Anchorage Digital, the first crypto firm to secure a U.S. banking charter, said Wednesday that its holding perpetual preferred stock in bitcoin treasury firm Strategy on its balance sheet. Anchorage’s CEO Nathan McCauley called it “conviction compounding.””Institutions don’t just talk about Bitcoin, they structure around it. When the company that operationalizes Bitcoin infrastructure puts capital alongside the company that operationalized the Bitcoin treasury strategy…that’s a signal,” McCauley said on X. Saylor responded by saying that “conviction is contagious,” hinting at a possibility of other firms soon following Anchorage’s lead in buying Strategy’s yield-generating preferred stock. Anchorage’s investment is a capital…

Are you looking for the best crypto YouTube channels for your inspiration and investment journey? With so many crypto channels posting daily market updates, price predictions, and next big coin alerts, it’s tough to know who’s worth your time. Some focus on real education and long-term strategy, while others rely on hype. If you want clear insights instead of noise, you’re in the right place.In this best crypto YouTube channels 2026 Guide, we break down the best crypto YouTube channels based on credibility, content quality, and real value. Whether you’re a beginner learning the basics or an experienced trader tracking…