by Benzinga | February 3, 2026 8:35 am | Crypto News
Leading cryptocurrencies recovered, alongside stocks and gold, on Monday, as investors showed a higher risk appetite. Cryptocurrency 24-Hour Gains +/- Price (Recorded at 8:19 p.m. ET) Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) +1.93% $78,710.27 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) +2.72%...
by Benzinga | February 3, 2026 3:46 am | Crypto News
Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) is bouncing on Monday afternoon after a rough trailing week. For many retail traders, this kind of snapback often follows a flush move when panic selling and leveraged positions are cleared out. Here’s what traders and investors need to know. •...
by Benzinga | February 3, 2026 2:16 am | Crypto News
On January 29, 2026, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) crashed 15% from $96,000 to $80,000 in one day. The remarkable part was not the crash itself. It was that Bitcoin fell when two opposite things happened at the same time. Equity markets crashed. That should have helped...
by Benzinga | February 3, 2026 2:15 am | Crypto News
Bitcoin is trading sideways after the U.S. ISM PMI climbed to its highest level since 2022, easing recession fears. Cryptocurrency Ticker Price Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) $78,262 Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) $2,328 Solana (CRYPTO: SOL) $104.36 XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) $1.63 Dogecoin...
by Benzinga | February 3, 2026 1:15 am | Crypto News
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH), and XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) continue bleeding lower, but Hyperliquid (CRYPTO: HYPE) surged 10% after the decentralized exchange unveiled plans to add prediction markets through its HIP-4 proposal. The Prediction Markets Play...
by Benzinga | February 3, 2026 12:31 am | Crypto News
Wall Street rebounded at the start of the new month after Friday’s broad sell-off, but pressure on precious metals intensified as investors reassessed the Fed outlook. • Walt Disney stock is showing notable weakness. Why are DIS shares down? By midday trading in...
by Benzinga | February 3, 2026 12:31 am | Crypto News
Bitcoin’s (CRYPTO: BTC) slide below $80,000 has raised fears of a deeper collapse, but market structure suggests the next leg down may be more compressed than in past cycles. Why Bitcoin’s Market Structure Is Turning Bearish Bitcoin has fallen roughly 11%...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 11:25 pm | Crypto News
Ripple on Monday secured full Electronic Money Institution approval from Luxembourg’s financial regulator, pushing its global license count past 75, but XRP (CRYPTO: XRP) plunged to $1.64 despite the regulatory milestone. The Luxembourg EMI License Luxembourg’s...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 11:24 pm | Crypto News
Tom Lee and several crypto focused firms are starting to frame Ethereum not as a speculative token but as something closer to strategic financial infrastructure. The idea is straightforward. Bitcoin is digital gold. Ethereum is a programmable settlement layer. If...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 11:24 pm | Crypto News
Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has struggled to sustain upside momentum, with the post-election “Trump rally” almost entirely retraced. Sell-The-News Takes Hold Prominent analysts Crypto Cred and DonAlt argued in a podcast update that the much-anticipated...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 10:21 pm | Crypto News
BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE:BMNR) is sitting on over $6 billion in paper losses after Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) crashed from $3,000 to $2,300, yet chairman Tom Lee added 41,788 ETH last week at an average price of $2,317. The Underwater Position BitMine now...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 9:46 pm | Crypto News
Strategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) bought 855 Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) at an average price of $87,974 last week as CNBC’s Jim Cramer questions whether executive chairman Michael Saylor has enough capital left to defend the sell-off. The Ill-Timed Purchase Strategy acquired 855 BTC...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 9:45 pm | Crypto News
Stockholm, 2nd of February 2026 – Virtune AB (Publ) (“Virtune”) today announces that it has completed the monthly rebalancing of the Virtune Crypto Altcoin Index ETP, listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, Nasdaq Helsinki and Xetra (ISIN code SE0023260716). In...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 8:17 pm | Crypto News
Macro investor Raoul Pal sees the recent selloff in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and crypto as a temporary U.S. liquidity squeeze, not a broken market cycle. Why Bitcoin Is Not Broken In his latest Global Macro Investor essay, Pal pushed back against claims that Bitcoin and...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 8:16 pm | Crypto News
President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as Chair of the Federal Reserve is already rippling through markets. On Friday, U.S. stocks—tracked by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY)—closed lower, the dollar strengthened, precious...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 7:40 pm | Crypto News
Approximately 10% of all Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC)—roughly 2 million coins— held by traditional financial institutions are now at unrealized losses approaching $7 billion, according to Bianco Research’s Jim Bianco. The Institutional Underwater Problem The 11 spot Bitcoin...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 6:20 pm | Crypto News
The Trump family reportedly received $187 million from an Abu Dhabi royal-backed investment firm four days before Trump’s inauguration and months before the UAE secured access to 500,000 advanced AI chips annually. Sheikh Tahnoon Invests $500M In WLFI According to the...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 6:20 pm | Crypto News
“Anytime crypto markets go bearish, someone frames it as a morality tale about excess crashing into regulation. That’s a tidy argument, but incomplete.” If you want a permissive channel for betting on uncertainty, crypto hits the spot: All digital,...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 6:02 pm | Crypto News
Bitcoin fell below $80,000 over the weekend as a sharp selloff in gold and silver weighed on risk assets; liquidations stand at $821.97 million over the past 24 hours. Bitcoin ETFs saw $509.7 million in net outflows on Friday, while Ethereum ETFs reported $252.9...
by Benzinga | February 2, 2026 4:41 pm | Crypto News
Barry Silbert, CEO of cryptocurrency conglomerate Digital Currency Group, described the latest cryptocurrency crash as a god-sent opportunity poised to trigger significant capital inflows back into the sector. Why Silbert Sees Opportunity Amid Chaos In an X post,...
