Crypto News
Daily crypto news rewritten with sharp analysis and actionable insights from Alpha Factory.
The Schwab Effect: How a $11T Giant Is Reshaping Crypto Market Access
Charles Schwab is making a decisive move into digital assets, launching spot bitcoin and ethereum trading for its massive client base. This isn't jus...
Bitcoin's Funding Rates Plunge to Yearly Lows: What Shorts Are Missing
Bitcoin is flashing a critical signal that traders need to pay attention to. Funding rates—the fees paid between long and short positions on perpetua...
Flow Capital's $150M Tokenization Play: Blockchain Distribution for Private Credit Comes With Liquidity Caveats
Flow Capital Partners is making a calculated move into the tokenized asset space, planning to tokenize its $150 million private credit fund through Si...
Tempo's Enterprise Privacy Play Reignites Centralization vs. Cryptography Debate in Crypto
Tempo just launched "Zones"—permissioned stablecoin environments designed to give enterprises the privacy banks expect on a public blockchain. But th...
Circle Faces Legal Action Over $285M Drift Protocol Breach and Frozen Asset Response
Circle, the issuer of USDC stablecoin, is now defending itself against a class action lawsuit that alleges the company failed to exercise its freeze c...
Foundation's Shutdown Signals Deeper NFT Market Consolidation Wave
Foundation, one of the more prominent Ethereum-based NFT marketplaces from the 2021 bull run, is calling it quits after an acquisition deal with digit...
Tokenization Isn't a Liquidity Silver Bullet: Why RWA Market Growth Masks Real Trading Gaps
Tokenization won't magically turn illiquid assets into tradeable instruments—and the crypto and blockchain industry needs to stop pretending it will. ...
Inside the $20M Meta-1 Coin Takedown: How a Fake Gold-Backed Token Landed a Trustee 23 Years in Prison
A Texas man orchestrating one of crypto's most brazen scams just got hammered with a 23-year federal sentence. Robert Dunlap, who served as trustee f...
Crypto Trading Grinds to Halt: CEX Volumes Crater 39% as Market Enters Sustained Winter
The crypto market is officially in sustained winter mode. CoinGecko's latest data paints a bleak picture for trading activity across the sector, with...
Brazilian Researcher Exposes Sophisticated Counterfeit Ledger Scam Operating on Chinese Marketplaces
A Brazilian cybersecurity researcher has blown the whistle on a highly organized counterfeit hardware wallet operation targeting crypto users seeking ...
Ethereum Foundation Backs Major DPRK Infiltration Expose: 100 North Korean Operatives Unmasked in Web3
The Ethereum Foundation just backed a project that exposed what the crypto industry has quietly feared—over 100 North Korean IT workers operating unde...
Crypto Under Siege: A Dozen Protocols Targeted in Two-Week Hack Spree Following Drift's $280M Exploit
The crypto ecosystem is experiencing a coordinated assault. At least 12 DeFi protocols and crypto businesses have been compromised in just over two w...
Crypto Fund Founder Joe McCann Under Police Investigation Following Fiancée's Death in Zanzibar
Zanzibar authorities are questioning Joe McCann, founder of the crypto hedge fund Asymmetric, following the death of his fiancée, Ashly Robinson, 31, ...
Sanctioned Grinex Exchange Shuts Down After $14M Heist Linked to State-Level Actors
Grinex, a Russia-linked crypto exchange operating from Kyrgyzstan, has suspended all trading following a sophisticated attack that drained over 1 bill...
Treasury Market Meltdown Warning: What a US Bond Collapse Could Mean for Crypto
Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson just sounded the alarm on a scenario that keeps macro strategists up at night: a potential collapse in US Trea...
Bitcoin's $76K Test: Three Critical Conditions Traders Must Watch
Bitcoin's struggle to hold above $76,000 reveals what we've long observed in crypto analysis: price levels are just the starting point. What matters ...
Circle Under Fire: $280M Drift Protocol Lawsuit Exposes Stablecoin Freeze Dilemma
Stablecoin issuer Circle is now defending itself in a class action lawsuit that challenges its inaction during one of crypto's biggest heists. Drift ...
Bitcoin Consolidation Phase Sets Stage for $90K Breakout as Whale Accumulation Intensifies
Bitcoin is flashing all the technical hallmarks of a major bullish reversal, with price action now positioned to challenge the $90,000 level. The set...
Short Squeeze Unwinds $283M in Bitcoin Liquidations as Price Battles $75K Resistance
Bitcoin just gave us a textbook lesson in leverage unwinding. During Thursday's New York market open, BTC traded in a tight $73,000–$75,000 corridor ...
Negative Bitcoin Funding Rates Mask Strong Spot Demand—Here's Why Bears Aren't Winning Yet
Bitcoin's futures funding rate has stayed stubbornly negative even as BTC bounced back above $75,000. On the surface, this looks bearish.