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Digital Assets February 18, 2026
By Gaurav Roy

The Nation-State Hash Race: 13 Governments Mining Bitcoin

It’s been seventeen years since Bitcoin was created in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis as a digital currency that operates without a central authority. During...

Digital Assets February 16, 2026
By David Hamilton

What Is STRC? Strategy’s Bitcoin Yield Explained

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) continues to pioneer sophisticated BTC-centric investment tools designed to drive institutional adoption. In particular, STRC, its variable rate series A perpetual stretch preferred...

RWA Revolution - Investing in Tokenized Athlete Equity

Digital Assets February 12, 2026
By David Hamilton

RWA Revolution: Investing in Tokenized Athlete Equity

The RWA revolution has hit a new pace as the introduction of tokenized athlete equity has the potential to upend the entire sport collectibles industry. This...

Digital Assets February 12, 2026
By Jonathan Schramm

Crypto Bear Market 2026: Pullback or Winter?

Summary: Bitcoin has fallen ~50% from its 2025 peak, raising the question of whether crypto has entered a new bear market. While macro volatility and ETF-driven...

Digital Assets February 6, 2026
By David Hamilton

How Crypto Press Releases Became a Scam Amplifier

Researchers continue to point out reasons to be wary of crypto press releases. These stories have become increasingly difficult to differentiate from news stories. As such,...

Gold Bitcoin coin and silver Ethereum coin displayed together with out-of-focus price charts in the background.

Digital Assets February 3, 2026
By Daniel Martin

Bitcoin vs Ethereum: Survival, Regulation, and the Next Cycle

Summary: and face high survival odds; the dominant variable is now policy timing and political friction, not technology. The next cycle is more likely to be...

Why Smart Contract Networks Earn Monetary Premiums

Digital Assets February 2, 2026
By David Hamilton

Why Smart Contract Networks Earn Monetary Premiums

Understanding why smart contract networks earn monetary premiums can help you to become a more effective trader while providing valuable insight into the technology’s trajectory. Cryptocurrencies...

Bitcoin’s Evolution into a Strategic Reserve Asset

Digital Assets January 30, 2026
By David Hamilton

Why Bitcoin Is Emerging as a Global Reserve Asset

Summary: Bitcoin’s path from speculative experiment to strategic reserve asset is being driven by institutional infrastructure—spot ETFs, corporate treasury adoption, and emerging sovereign reserve frameworks—while volatility...

Digital Assets January 29, 2026
By Gaurav Roy

Inside the Alleged $40M Breach of U.S. Government Crypto Wallets

Usually, we hear of government agencies like the Department of Justice (DOJ) seizing Bitcoin from criminals, but this time, the exact opposite has occurred. Someone has...

The $11 Trillion Future of Tokenized RWA

Digital Assets January 29, 2026
By David Hamilton

The $11 Trillion Future of Tokenized RWA

Summary: ARK Invest’s Big Ideas 2026 report argues tokenization is shifting from pilots into institutional-grade infrastructure. In 2025, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) grew 208% to ~$18.9B,...

Digital Assets January 28, 2026
By Jonathan Schramm

Why T+1 Settlement Is a Goldmine for Post-Trade Tech

Summary: T+1 settlement compresses securities trade processing into a same-day operational cycle, forcing firms to automate allocations, confirmations, FX, and funding to avoid fails and penalties....

Photorealistic illustration of a futuristic quantum processor chip focusing a beam of light onto a holographic Bitcoin padlock, symbolizing the 'transistor moment' in technology and the potential cryptographic risks to blockchain security.

Computing January 27, 2026
By Daniel Martin

Quantum “Transistor Moment”: Coinbase Preps for Q-Day

Summary What changed: Researchers are increasingly framing quantum as moving from “science” to “engineering and scale”—a “transistor-era” shift. Bitcoin risk (realistic model): The main exposure is...

Digital Assets January 26, 2026
By David Hamilton

RWA Perpetuals: Coinbase’s Plan to Tokenize Everything

Summary: Coinbase’s 2026 Investment Outlook positions real-world assets (RWAs) as the next structural phase of crypto adoption. The exchange plans to expand beyond spot crypto trading...

Illustration of interconnected blockchain nodes linking industrial IoT devices across a low-latency digital network.

Digital Assets January 23, 2026
By Daniel Martin

Dual Perigee Cuts IoT Blockchain Latency Nearly in Half

Summary: A new IEEE study finds that IoT-blockchain latency is often driven less by consensus and more by messy peer-to-peer overlays. The proposed “Dual Perigee” peer-selection...

Digital Assets January 21, 2026
By Jonathan Schramm

Davos 2026 Marks the Institutional Embrace of Digital Assets

The World’s Decision Makers MeetingThe meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, Switzerland, is currently ongoing, running from January 19th to January 23rd, 2026....