Mercado Bitcoin announced it has deployed over $20 million of tokenized private debt on Rootstock, marking a significant expansion of its real-world asset (RWA) strategy in Latin America. The move provides Bitcoin-anchored exposure to private debt and positions the firm to scale to $100 million in issuances by April 2026.
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Olivia reports on regulation, compliance, and policy developments shaping the crypto industry. Her coverage examines how legal and regulatory decisions influence market structure, project development, and industry behavior.She also follows Web3 initiatives and altcoin markets when regulatory changes are a key factor.
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Bitcoin ETF assets slipped below the 100 billion dollar mark this Tuesday, following net outflows of 272 million dollars. According to SoSoValue data, this decline marks the first time that the total management of these financial vehicles has fallen below this level since April 2025, reflecting persistent volatility within today’s institutional digital market.
The financial firm Galaxy Digital losses amounted to 482 million dollars during the fourth quarter of the year 2025, according to official statements. Michael Novogratz, the organization’s CEO, attributed this outcome to the sharp depreciation of digital assets and exceptional costs totaling approximately 160 million dollars, marking a challenging period for the overall balance sheet.
Following the implementation of technical improvements to the network, the Ethereum Fusaka upgrade has caused an unexpected spike in “dust” transaction traffic. According to a recent report from Coin Metrics, the volume of these minuscule cryptocurrency operations has tripled, currently accounting for eleven percent of all daily activity on the leading smart contract platform.
Payward Inc., the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, reported revenues of $2.2 billion for fiscal year 2025. This represents a 33% year-over-year increase, according to a company statement. The results reflect balanced expansion between trading and asset-based services and establish a stronger foundation for the business ahead of its initial public offering (IPO).
The crypto asset market experienced a significant breather this February 2, 2026, as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF inflows recorded a net daily total of $562 million. This movement, spearheaded by funds from Fidelity and BlackRock, emerges as a strategic attempt to reverse the negative streak seen in late January, where outflows surpassed a staggering $1.7 billion in cumulative redemptions across all major providers.
January 2026 marked a historical milestone for the stablecoin sector, with an on-chain operational flow exceeding $10 trillion recorded in a single month. In this context, the USDC transaction volume led the expansion with more than $8.4 trillion processed, surpassing the combined monthly activity of traditional payment giants like Visa and Mastercard.
Despite a drop of nearly 60% from last year’s peaks, Litecoin (LTC) has returned to historical support levels, matching lows from previous market cycles. However, signs of growing Litecoin adoption in the payments and financial services sectors suggest that the asset maintains a solid and active demand base. One of the most relevant news for the ecosystem is the expansion of SBI VC Trade, a subsidiary of the Japanese giant SBI Holdings, which has integrated LTC into its lending platform. Through this program, Japanese users can now lend their assets to earn interest, diversifying profitability options for long-term holders in…
Cross-chain liquidity protocol CrossCurve has confirmed a major smart contract exploit that drained approximately $3 million worth of tokens across multiple blockchain networks, prompting the team to pause operations and urge users to halt interactions while the situation is investigated.
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has announced a significant expansion in digital asset monitoring with AI, integrating advanced algorithms to detect irregularities in the crypto market. According to Monday’s official statement, the regulator has upgraded its Virtual Assets Intelligence System for Trading Analysis (VISTA) to automate the identification of fraud. The implementation of the “sliding-window grid search” algorithm allows the system to exhaustively examine every trading sub-period, eliminating reliance on manual investigations that traditionally delayed processes. Thanks to this Blockchain technology, the FSS can identify price manipulation windows that previously might have gone unnoticed by human analysts due to…
