Bitcoin (BTC) is attempting to transition into a phase of “strength” after weeks of range-trading between $90,000 and $86,000. While the technical structure has improved, BTC traders debate whether the move has momentum or risks of becoming a bull trap.Key…

Bitcoin (BTC) hit new 2026 highs on Monday’s Wall Street open amid concerns over thin market liquidity.Key points:Bitcoin joins stocks and gold with early-year gains as geopolitics rewards asset holders.BTC price analysis sees a “clear-cut breakout” over the next week.Concerns…

Strategy, the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin, began the new year with its first purchase of 2026 while reporting a steep fourth-quarter paper loss as Bitcoin prices slid late last year.Strategy acquired 1,283 Bitcoin (BTC) for $116 million, boosting…

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Ledger has clarified a recent data incident involving its e-commerce partner Global-e.Global-e, a cross-border e-commerce platform integrated by Ledger in October 2023, experienced unauthorized access to order data in its information systems, which affected some Ledger…

Starknet, an Ethereum layer‑2 network that uses zero‑knowledge (ZK) rollups, is experiencing fresh mainnet disruption as the project enters 2026.In an X post, the Starknet team said the network was facing downtime and that engineers were “actively investigating the issue…

Crypto investors are being targeted by a new phishing campaign that impersonates MetaMask and tricks users into handing over their wallet recovery phrases, according to the blockchain security firm SlowMist.The attackers are impersonating a two-factor authentication (2FA) security verification flow,…

Cryptocurrency investment products pulled in about $47 billion of inflows in 2025, just shy of 2024’s total amid new crypto exchange-traded fund (ETF) launches in the US.Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) logged $47.2 billion in inflows last year, 3% below 2024’s…

Bitcoin (BTC) launches its first comeback move in months as geopolitics excites world assets.Bitcoin price gains see a return to $93,000 after a nearly month-long absence, but traders are skeptical.A key golden cross is almost here on the four-hour chart,…

Large crypto holders have been moving tokens onto Binance, a pattern analysts associate with potential selling, but buying demand remains muted.So-called crypto whales deposited $2.4 billion near-evenly split between Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) to Binance in the past week,…

Visa-issued crypto cards saw a massive spike in usage in 2025, with the total net spend increasing by 525% last year.According to Dune Analytics data, the total net spend for six crypto cards issued by blockchain projects in partnership with…

Nigerian stocks reported a 1.9 per cent gain last week, supported by strong demand for insurance and consumer goods stocks. Investor sentiment continued to improve with all the sector indexes recording gains as investors realigned their portfolios to take advantage…

Despite Bitcoin’s rising institutional adoption in 2025, its environmental impact is still being misunderstood and misinterpreted by many, according to ESG expert Daniel Batten. In an X thread on Saturday, Batten said there are nine common criticisms of Bitcoin mining’s energy…

Tanimu Yakubu, the Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation, says President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms, otherwise known as ‘Tinubunomics’, were never intended to deliver “instant abundance.” Mr Yakubu stated this in a statement titled ‘Tinubunomics and the Arithmetic…

The Nigerian Insurers Association has said that it would be setting up a recapitalisation help desk for its members as the deadline for the process enters the last seven-month stretch. This was disclosed in the New Year message from the…

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) reportedly decided to embrace crypto after years of caution after seeing a friendlier regulatory environment for crypto in the US under Trump, according to CEO and senior partner Paul Griggs.New leadership within US regulators, such as the US…