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  • Ripple says compliance controls will unlock DeFi, but XRPL liquidity is still too thin to prove it
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on February 9, 2026 at 7:45 pm

    Ripple is working to make decentralized finance more familiar to regulated institutions and is placing XRP at the center of that effort. DeFi’s earlier growth cycles were built around open, retail-facing liquidity pools and the associated risk tolerance. Total value locked across major protocols climbed into the tens of billions of dollars and, at previous The post Ripple says compliance controls will unlock DeFi, but XRPL liquidity is still […]

  • Why Bitcoin faces a brutal liquidity trap because China’s $298B of US Treasuries are up for sale
    by Oluwapelumi Adejumo on February 9, 2026 at 5:05 pm

    China’s gradual retreat from US government debt is evolving from a quiet background trend into an explicit risk-management signal, and Bitcoin traders are watching the market for the next domino. The immediate trigger for this renewed anxiety came on Feb. 9 when Bloomberg reported that Chinese regulators were urging commercial banks to limit their exposure The post Why Bitcoin faces a brutal liquidity trap because China’s $298B of US […]

  • Your US dollar is worth 89 cents today for the same reason Bitcoin traders are actually still winning
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on February 9, 2026 at 2:35 pm

    If you hold either US dollars or Bitcoin, then you’re a little poorer this morning than when you went to bed last night. It doesn’t matter whether there’s cash in your pocket or sats in your wallet; both have less purchasing power today than they did yesterday. That’s because Bitcoin is down, the dollar is The post Your US dollar is worth 89 cents today for the same reason Bitcoin traders are actually still winning appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Crypto market bottom is closer than you think as Bitcoin miner reserves crash to historic lows
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on February 9, 2026 at 12:25 pm

    Bitcoin’s price story lately has been told like it only has one main character, the ETFs. Money goes in, price goes up, money goes out, price goes down. It’s a clean narrative, and it’s not wrong, but it’s incomplete, because Bitcoin is not just a ticker. The network has its own internal plumbing, and some The post Crypto market bottom is closer than you think as Bitcoin miner reserves crash to historic lows appeared first on […]

  • White House meeting could unfreeze the crypto CLARITY Act this week, but crypto rewards likely to be the price
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on February 9, 2026 at 10:48 am

    White House stablecoin meeting could unfreeze the CLARITY Act, but your USDC rewards may be the price The newly confirmed Feb. 10 White House meeting on stablecoin policy is being framed by some market observers as a step toward breaking the logjam around the CLARITY Act, a broad crypto market-structure bill that has already run The post White House meeting could unfreeze the crypto CLARITY Act this week, but crypto rewards likely to be the […]

  • Bitcoin bears could sleepwalk into a $8.65 billion trap as options max pain expiry nears $90,000
    by Andjela Radmilac on February 8, 2026 at 9:15 pm

    Bitcoin’s next big options gravity well sits on Mar. 27 (260327), and the reason is simple: this is where the market has parked a thick stack of conditional bets that will need to be unwound, rolled forward, or paid out as the clock runs down. The Mar. 27 expiry carries about $8.65B in notional OI The post Bitcoin bears could sleepwalk into a $8.65 billion trap as options max pain expiry nears $90,000 appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Bitcoin ETF flow numbers are fundamentally broken and most traders are missing the specific sign of a crash
    by Andjela Radmilac on February 8, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    On Jan.30, 2026, US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $509.7 million in net outflows, which looks like pretty straightforward negative sentiment until you look at the individual tickers and realize a few of them stayed green. That contradiction aged fast over the next few days. Feb. 2 snapped back with $561.8 million in net inflows, then The post Bitcoin ETF flow numbers are fundamentally broken and most traders are missing the specific sign of a crash […]

  • Do CME gaps always have to fill? Bitcoin’s $60k flush says no
    by Andjela Radmilac on February 8, 2026 at 5:00 pm

    Bitcoin trades every minute of every day, but CME Bitcoin futures stop for the weekend. That mismatch is how a CME gap is born, and why it keeps turning up in the middle of the most stressful weeks. A CME gap is the blank space on a CME futures chart between Friday’s final traded level The post Do CME gaps always have to fill? Bitcoin’s $60k flush says no appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Bitcoin must recover $71,500 soon or the drift back to $60,000 begins
    by Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright on February 8, 2026 at 2:15 pm

    Bitcoin keeps knocking on $71,500, sooner or later the door opens Bitcoin made a familiar but stressful move this week; it bounced hard enough to make the skeptics quiet and the dip buyers loud again. After the crash down to around $60,000, the price clawed its way back to the a spot that has become The post Bitcoin must recover $71,500 soon or the drift back to $60,000 begins appeared first on CryptoSlate.

  • Bitcoin short term holders are panic selling at a loss but was this capitulation or just a leverage reset?
    by Andjela Radmilac on February 8, 2026 at 12:35 pm

    Bitcoin’s slide through $65,000 and toward $60,000 felt like a stress test the market had been postponing. The move was sharp enough to force a reset in positioning, and broad enough to pull the conversation away from single-catalyst explanations. Even mainstream media described the week as Bitcoin’s worst weekly performance since late 2022, with price briefly The post Bitcoin short term holders are panic selling at a loss but was this […]

  • Israel Imposes ‘De Facto Annexation’ With Sweeping West Bank Policy Change
    by Tyler Durden on February 10, 2026 at 4:25 am

    Israel Imposes ‘De Facto Annexation’ With Sweeping West Bank Policy Change Via Middle East Eye The Israeli government on Sunday approved sweeping changes to land registration and civil control in the occupied West Bank, a move Palestinians say breaches the Oslo Accords and advances de facto annexation. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Defense Minister Israel Katz said the changes would “dramatically” alter West Bank […]

  • Record 9.5 Billion Passenger-Trips Expected During China’s Spring Festival
    by Tyler Durden on February 10, 2026 at 4:00 am

    Record 9.5 Billion Passenger-Trips Expected During China’s Spring Festival A record 9.5 billion passenger trips are expected during this year’s Chinese New Year or Spring Festival travel surge, according to the National Development and Reform Commission. The 40 day period between February 2 and March 13 is expected to see record highs in terms of passenger volumes for both rail trips (exceeding 540 million passengers) and civil […]

  • The Man Who Always Has Proof Tomorrow: Adam Schiff Cries Election Fraud Again
    by Tyler Durden on February 10, 2026 at 3:35 am

    The Man Who Always Has Proof Tomorrow: Adam Schiff Cries Election Fraud Again Authored by David Manney via PJ Media, The Warning That Never Changes Remember Adam Schiff? The California Democratic senator returned to familiar ground, while sounding another dire warning about President Donald Trump and the upcoming midterm elections. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Schiff insists Trump plans on subverting the midterms by suppressing […]

  • Israel Spends By Far The Most Per Capita On Defense
    by Tyler Durden on February 10, 2026 at 3:10 am

    Israel Spends By Far The Most Per Capita On Defense Global military spending is often measured in massive national budgets, where the United States and China dominate the conversation. But looking at defense spending on a per-person basis tells a very different story, one where smaller countries rise to the top. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, ranks major countries by how much they spent on defense […]

  • Algerian Boxer Admits To Having XY Chromosomes And Commits To Hormonal Treatments
    by Tyler Durden on February 10, 2026 at 2:45 am

    Algerian Boxer Admits To Having XY Chromosomes And Commits To Hormonal Treatments Authored by Jonathan Turley, With the start of the Winter Games, a story this week resurrected a controversy from the last Summer Olympics. Previously, Olympic officials and pundits denounced those who objected to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif competing as a woman, saying that she was born a female. Female boxers withdrew from the competition rather […]

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  • Rubio Slams ‘Unjust’ Jimmy Lai Sentence After Hong Kong Court Issues 20 Years
    by Tyler Durden on February 10, 2026 at 2:20 am

    Rubio Slams ‘Unjust’ Jimmy Lai Sentence After Hong Kong Court Issues 20 Years The high profile trial of Hong Kong’s foremost pro-democracy media tycoon wrapped up in December, whereupon Jimmy Lai was found guilty of sedition. He had long spearheaded huge protests and local Hong Kong media criticism of Beijing, but came under legal hot water and scrutiny with the passage of the notorious China-imposed national security law. […]

  • Breaking Down California’s Insane “Super Bowl Tax”
    by Tyler Durden on February 10, 2026 at 1:55 am

    Breaking Down California’s Insane “Super Bowl Tax” Sam Darnold just WON the Super Bowl…and LOST $71k because it was in California   Watch as Boomer Esiason explains why the players should block any future Super Bowls in California… 🚨 ABSOLUTELY INSANE: Sam Darnold just WON the Super Bowl.. and LOST $71k because it was in California California’s jock tax bills him $249K Boomer Esiason: The NFLPA should shut down ANY […]

  • Downward Bitch: Irate Yoga Wokes Demand ‘Complicit’ Instructors Condemn ICE
    by Tyler Durden on February 10, 2026 at 1:30 am

    Downward Bitch: Irate Yoga Wokes Demand ‘Complicit’ Instructors Condemn ICE A Sunday yoga class at Minneapolis CorePower Yoga studio turned into an unscripted protest earlier this month, as a group of enraged customers berated front-desk staff for not condemning federal immigration enforcement, prompting the Denver-based chain to ban one regular and agree to post anti-ICE signage in its studios. Caught on camera and subsequently […]

  • Gun Owner Denied Firearm By ATF For Claiming “God Given Rights”
    by Tyler Durden on February 10, 2026 at 1:05 am

    Gun Owner Denied Firearm By ATF For Claiming “God Given Rights” Via Gun Owners of America, A member of Gun Owners of America was recently denied a firearm by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for writing “exercise my God given right” as their reason for manufacturing the firearm. Our member wasn’t doing anything illegal; they were not attempting to manufacture something that was banned in their state […]

  • Toyota Taps Kenta Kon As New CEO In Leadership Shake-Up
    by Tyler Durden on February 10, 2026 at 12:40 am

    Toyota Taps Kenta Kon As New CEO In Leadership Shake-Up Toyota is reshaping its leadership once again, naming Kenta Kon as its next chief executive, with the transition set for April 1. Kon, currently the company’s chief financial officer, will step into the top role as part of a broader management realignment, according to Car & Driver. The move shifts current CEO Koji Sato into a dual position as vice chairman and chief […]

  • Google Versus China’s Cyber Weapon
    by Tyler Durden on February 10, 2026 at 12:15 am

    Google Versus China’s Cyber Weapon Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Commentary Google has sacked a Chinese company’s global proxy network, which constitutes part of a Chinese cyber weapon aimed at U.S. and allied critical infrastructure and telecommunications. In this photo illustration, the Google logo is projected onto a man in London, England, on Aug. 9, 2017. Leon Neal/Getty Images The company, […]

  • Iran Offers To Dilute Enriched Uranium If US Lifts All The Sanctions
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 11:50 pm

    Iran Offers To Dilute Enriched Uranium If US Lifts All The Sanctions Iran has just made a significant overture amid the US pressure campaign, and as the two sides are set for a next round of indirect negotiations in the coming days. “Iran could agree to dilute its most highly enriched uranium in exchange for all financial sanctions being lifted, its atomic chief said on Monday, one of the most direct indications so far of its […]

  • Leftists Lose It As Pro-ICE Ad Plays During Super Bowl
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 11:25 pm

    Leftists Lose It As Pro-ICE Ad Plays During Super Bowl Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, A powerful pro-ICE advertisement aired during Super Bowl 60, spotlighting the everyday heroes in Immigration and Customs Enforcement who risk their lives to protect communities from violent criminals. The spot, which ran right after Bad Bunny’s trash halftime performance, portrayed ICE agents as friends, neighbors, fathers, […]

  • LA Taxpayers Spent $418 Million On Homeless Programs In 2025
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 11:00 pm

    LA Taxpayers Spent $418 Million On Homeless Programs In 2025 Los Angeles spent about $418 million on homelessness programs in 2025, yet only a small share went toward helping people leave the streets for good, according to the New York Post. A recent City Hall report suggests most of the money supports short-term services that manage homelessness rather than resolve it. The review, released as the city prepares major budget cuts, […]

  • Jump Trading Eyes Kalshi, Polymarket Stakes As Institutional Interest Grows: Report
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 10:40 pm

    Jump Trading Eyes Kalshi, Polymarket Stakes As Institutional Interest Grows: Report Authored by Sam Bourgi via CoinTelegraph.com, Jump Trading, a Chicago-based quantitative trading company, is reportedly set to acquire minority stakes in prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi, underscoring growing institutional interest in the rapidly expanding sector. The equity stakes would be obtained in exchange for providing […]

  • “Italian Job” Style Armored Truck Heist Caught On Video In Italy
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 10:20 pm

    “Italian Job” Style Armored Truck Heist Caught On Video In Italy In a scene straight out of The Italian Job movie, local Italian broadcaster Sky TG24 posted a dramatic video on X on Monday that appears to show at least one “armed commando” carrying out a brazen armored truck heist in broad daylight on an Italian highway. “Moments of fear this morning on the 613 Brindisi-Lecce superstrada, at the Tuturano exit, where an armed […]

  • Feds Have Charged 158 Anti-ICE Agitators With Federal Crimes In Minnesota
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 10:00 pm

    Feds Have Charged 158 Anti-ICE Agitators With Federal Crimes In Minnesota Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Since the start of the Trump administration’s “Operation Metro Surge” in Minnesota, federal prosecutors have reportedly charged 158 anti-ICE agitators with federal crimes, including “FACE Act violations, conspiracy charges, and obstruction of federal agents.” Some of the offenses carry penalties of up […]

  • Will Bombshells Drop At Tuesday’s DC Hearing On Foreign Influence In America’s NGOs
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 9:40 pm

    Will Bombshells Drop At Tuesday’s DC Hearing On Foreign Influence In America’s NGOs Asra Nomani at Fox News has reshaped how the corporate media outlet covers dark money-funded NGOs, the protest industrial complex, and the ongoing color revolution-style operation backed by left-wing billionaires and their Democratic allies against President Donald Trump and the “America First” agenda. Nomani was the first to report that the House […]

  • Who’s Next… What’s Next…?
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 9:20 pm

    Who’s Next… What’s Next…? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, It’s all backstage now. This fraught moment, the power-centers locked in the coldest cold of the year, the Spanish language lessons of Bad Bunny behind us, all the real action in the battle to save the country is out of sight, moiling and churning in the deep background. Everybody’s on edge waiting for shoes to drop, praying they don’t drop on their heads. […]

  • Russia Vows ‘All Possible Assistance’ To Cuba As US ‘Strangles’ The Population
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 8:40 pm

    Russia Vows ‘All Possible Assistance’ To Cuba As US ‘Strangles’ The Population Russia warned Monday that the United States is “strangling” Cuba through long-running sanctions, as well as the current de facto oil blockade on the Latin American island-nation in full force. As a result the Kremlin is exploring ways to get urgent assistance to the Cuban people, as the economic situation and national infrastructure worsens after […]

  • Not Clear Whether Vaccines Cause Autism, Needs More Research; NIH Director Says
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 8:20 pm

    Not Clear Whether Vaccines Cause Autism, Needs More Research; NIH Director Says Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The director of the National Institutes of Health said in a new interview that there’s a dearth of high-quality research into vaccines and autism and that the health agency is funding research that will determine the causes of autism. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the NIH’s director, told EpochTV’s […]

  • Democrat Lawmakers Seek Pentagon Probe Of SpaceX Over Potential China-Linked Investment
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 7:40 pm

    Democrat Lawmakers Seek Pentagon Probe Of SpaceX Over Potential China-Linked Investment Authored by Sean Tsang via The Epoch Times, Two senators are urging the Pentagon to find out whether investors tied to China hold stakes in SpaceX, one of America’s most important defense contractors and a key provider of military launch services. In a Feb. 5 letter to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Andy […]

  • Lavrov’s Rare Rebuke Of Trump: In Reality, Relations No Better Than Under Biden
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 7:20 pm

    Lavrov’s Rare Rebuke Of Trump: In Reality, Relations No Better Than Under Biden The Kremlin has lashed out at the Trump administration in a rare moment, revealing its impatience and dissatisfaction with the way trilateral talks focused on ending the Ukraine war are going.  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a fresh interview also accused Washington of sabotaging efforts to improve bilateral relations while undermining […]

  • The Inevitable Reversal: When Speculative Narratives Don’t Hold
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 7:00 pm

    The Inevitable Reversal: When Speculative Narratives Don’t Hold Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, For nearly two years, markets were driven by the same speculative narrative that “this time is different.” Bitcoin, precious metals, and AI-linked equities rose not only because of robust fundamentals, but also because investors clung to powerful narratives about inflation, disruption, and monetary collapse. […]

  • Gun Rights Group Slams California Ghost Gun Lawsuit For “Criminalizing Law-Abiding Citizens”
    by Tyler Durden on February 9, 2026 at 6:40 pm

    Gun Rights Group Slams California Ghost Gun Lawsuit For “Criminalizing Law-Abiding Citizens” California Attorney General Rob Bonta has filed a lawsuit against two out-of-state companies and more than 100 individuals, accusing them of distributing computer code that lets people 3D-print their own firearms – a case critics say pits the right to bear arms and free speech against Sacramento’s latest gun-control crusade. In a San […]

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