The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recognized the need to consider Bitcoin and cryptocurrency when measuring economic growth. In its latest publication, the organization identified the significance of crypto and emerging technologies on global finance. Measure Crypto From a Public Policy Perspective According to the IMF, it has become imperative to measure crypto from a
South Korea’s financial markets faced extreme pressure after a sharp selloff triggered emergency controls. The KOSPI index plunged more than five percent in a single session. Authorities responded by halting all sell orders across the exchange. This dramatic move stunned investors and traders worldwide. Market participants watched liquidity vanish as futures and equities froze. Traders
David Schwartz, known as one of the original $XRP Ledger architects and the cryptographic brain behind Ripple, has finally set the record straight on the two trades that the crypto $XRP community will not stop mocking him for — dumping 40,000 $ETH at $1.05 and exiting nearly all of his Bitcoin before it crossed $7,500.
President Donald Trump picked Kevin Warsh to run the world’s most powerful central bank on earth in 2026, and the biggest problem on his desk is the Fed’s $6.6 trillion balance sheet. Everyone keeps talking about interest rates, but the real weight is this pile of assets the Fed’s been sitting on for years. This
Crypto investment products continued their sell-off last week as investor sentiment weakened, marking two consecutive weeks of outflows. Crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) saw $1.7 billion in outflows during the week, the European crypto investment company CoinShares reported on Monday. The outflows were slightly below $1.73 billion in the week prior, totaling $3.43 billion in the
Michael Saylor’s Strategy is starting to fall apart, and there’s no more pretending otherwise. Over the weekend, Cryptopolitan reported that Bitcoin had dropped under $76,000, breaking the line that had been holding up Saylor’s plan for years, which is exactly $76,037, the average level where Strategy Inc. bought its Bitcoin. And now, Saylor is officially
People of Western nations will inevitably face massive asset seizure campaigns from their own governments as a new sovereign debt crisis emerges, according to Balaji Srinivasan. In a post on X, the former Coinbase CTO says that the global fiat system, especially dollar-based economies, is entering a sovereign debt crisis that will eventually force governments
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum and a prominent figure in the blockchain space, recently shared his approach to navigating the prediction market Polymarket in an interview with Foresight News. At this time, he outlined that he begins by identifying markets during a phase he refers to as “crazy mode,” where he bets that extreme
Japan’s largest brokerage, Nomura, disclosed on January 30 that its crypto subsidiary, Laser Digital, posted losses in the October–December quarter. The firm has reduced cryptocurrency positions and tightened risk controls. But just two days earlier, that same subsidiary had applied for a US bank charter. This is not a contradiction—it is a pattern. 48 Hours
A Shenzhen-based gold trading platform has collapsed after running what amounted to a leveraged betting operation with no physical backing, leaving over 150,000 investors scrambling to recover their funds. The Jereh collapse — the largest in a recent wave of unlicensed gold platform failures across China — is now escalating into a standoff as victims