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• Top Bitcoin traders refuse to turn bullish despite BTC’s 14% rebound: Here’s why

  10-02-2026 22:48 via cointelegraph.com
  Bitcoin’s double-digit rebound and brief trading above $72,000 may confirm $60,000 was the bottom, but data shows top traders are refusing to open longs.
  
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• Solana Tests Key Support After Sharp Bounce, Analysts Weigh $98–$108 Upside for SOL

  10-02-2026 22:30 via newsbtc.com
  Solana’s (SOL) recent price action has put traders on alert once again. After sliding to multi-month lows near the lower-$80 range, SOL staged a sharp rebound of more than 6% in a short period, briefly easing fears of an immediate breakdown.
  Related Reading: Bitcoin Could See New Drop To $60,000 Despite Bounce – Here’s The Level To Defend
  However, the recovery has done little to settle the broader debate. Analysts now see Solana caught between fragile support and overhead resis
  
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• SBF seeks new FTX fraud trial, citing new witness testimony

  10-02-2026 22:21 via cointelegraph.com
  Sam Bankman-Fried asked a federal appeals panel for a new trial in the FTX fraud case, arguing that new witness testimony could weaken the case that led to his 25-year sentence.
  
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• Ripple Wins Key UAE Bank Partnership To Support Digital Asset Infrastructure

  10-02-2026 21:52 via newsbtc.com
  Ripple has secured a new strategic partnership in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the country continues to position itself as a regional hub for digital assets and blockchain innovation. 
  The company announced on Tuesday that it is expanding its relationship with Zand, a UAE‑based digital bank built around artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology, to support the development of the digital economy through stablecoins and distributed ledger solutions.
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• State Street warns dollar could fall 10% if Fed cuts more than expected

  10-02-2026 21:21 via cointelegraph.com
  State Street argues the US dollar could fall to multi-year lows if the Fed cuts rates more aggressively, a scenario that could shift capital toward Bitcoin and risk assets.
  
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• Can Ethereum Price Still Hit $7,600 In 2026? Here Are The Odds

  10-02-2026 21:00 via newsbtc.com
  Ethereum’s outlook for 2026 has become increasingly contested after the most recent downturn in the entire crypto market. Earlier this year, research from Standard Chartered suggested that Ethereum could end 2026 near $7,500, a target that implies significant upside from current levels. However, recent price action, with ETH languishing around $2,000 and lacking clear bullish momentum, puts such projections against a very different realistic outlook.
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• Ledger adds OKX DEX integration for on-device token swaps

  10-02-2026 20:48 via cointelegraph.com
  The integration allows Ledger users to execute multichain token swaps directly from the Wallet app while retaining hardware-based custody.
  
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• Rare Bitcoin signal flashes: Will a 220% BTC price rally follow?

  10-02-2026 20:16 via cointelegraph.com
  Multiple long-term Bitcoin valuation models suggest that BTC’s drop to $60,000 opened up a rare discounted buying opportunity. Do traders and institutional investors agree?
  
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• UK Central Bank taps firms to test elements of distributed-ledger settlement infrastructure

  10-02-2026 19:44 via cointelegraph.com
  The six-month central bank pilot brings together market infrastructure providers, banks and Web3 companies to assess how core UK markets could move onchain.
  
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• Wintermute Warns AI Could ‘Suffocate’ Bitcoin Liquidity: $SUBBD Charts a Different Course

  10-02-2026 19:34 via newsbtc.com
  What to Know:Wintermute warns the AI sector’s massive capital needs could drain liquidity from assets like Bitcoin.
  This capital rotation threatens crypto market health, risking higher volatility and wider spreads.
  SUBBD Token presents a different model, using AI as a value-creation tool for the $85B creator economy.
  Crypto’s future may belong to projects that create their own internal economies instead of competing with Big Tech for capital.
  A stark warning from market maker Winterm
  
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• Why Dogecoin (DOGE) Can’t Break $0.10 Despite Short-Term Bounce and Neutral RSI

  10-02-2026 19:30 via newsbtc.com
  Dogecoin (DOGE) has shown signs of life recently, rebounding from lows near $0.08 to trade near the $0.093–$0.097 range. That short-term bounce has attracted attention, but the cryptocurrency still struggles to push past the $0.10 threshold.Despite renewed buying interest and neutral momentum readings, multiple technical and market factors continue to hold DOGE below this psychologically important level.
  Dogecoin (DOGE) Price Action and Technical Roadblocks
  Over the past week, DOGE has cle
  
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• Scammer Sentenced to 20 years for $73M Scheme as Investors look to BMIC’s Verifiable Protection

  10-02-2026 19:22 via newsbtc.com
  What to Know:The 20-year sentence in a $73M pig butchering case highlights how sophisticated social engineering now underpins major crypto theft operations.
  DOJ- and FBI-linked reporting shows crypto investment fraud losses reached billions, reinforcing that scam pressure is structural—not a one-off cycle event.
  BMIC’s quantum-security narrative targets long-horizon risk: reducing key exposure while adding AI threat detection to limit behavioral attack success.
  The crypto world was r
  
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• Blockchain.com Secures UK Registration: $LIQUID Brings Harmony

  10-02-2026 19:05 via newsbtc.com
  What to Know:Blockchain.com has successfully registered with the UK’s FCA after a four-year effort, signaling growing regulatory clarity in the region.
  Increased regulatory approval builds institutional confidence and shifts focus toward solving core crypto challenges like fragmented liquidity.
  LiquidChain is a Layer 3 protocol designed to unify liquidity from Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana into a single execution layer.
  After a protracted four-year process, crypto exchange and wallet provi
  
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• Meme Coins Post Double-Digit Gains as Major Tokens Languish: Is Maxi Doge the Value Play?

  10-02-2026 18:50 via newsbtc.com
  What to Know:Meme coins often outperform when majors chop sideways, because traders rotate liquidity toward higher‑beta narratives and thinner order books.
  The biggest risk is liquidity cliff events: meme rallies can reverse abruptly if $BTC breaks down or risk sentiment flips.
  Maxi Doge leans into a ‘trading community’ identity—competitions, leaderboard rewards, and staking, designed to keep attention sticky.
  The current crypto landscape is a study in dispersion. While B
  
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• Bitcoin is trading like a growth asset, not digital gold: Grayscale

  10-02-2026 18:13 via cointelegraph.com
  New Grayscale research shows Bitcoin’s price behavior is increasingly tied to equities, particularly software stocks, challenging its long-held safe-haven narrative in the short term.
  
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• CZ Fires Back at Market FUD, Demands Traders Take Responsibility: Is New Infrastructure the Real Answer?

  10-02-2026 18:12 via newsbtc.com
  What to Know:Changpeng Zhao urges crypto users to embrace personal responsibility for their funds and trading decisions, pushing back against market FUD.
  Market fragmentation across major chains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana creates systemic risks that individual caution alone cannot solve.
  LiquidChain aims to solve this by creating a unified Layer 3 that merges liquidity from these ecosystems for seamless cross-chain execution.
  In a market riddled with volatility and FUD, former Binance CE
  
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• Institutional Investors Are Moving Out Of Bitcoin And Into XRP, But Why Is Price Tanking?

  10-02-2026 18:00 via newsbtc.com
  Bitcoin is seeing large institutional withdrawals while XRP is drawing the strongest share of fresh allocations, according to the latest digital asset fund-flow data. On paper, that rotation should support XRP’s valuation. Instead, prices across the market remain under pressure. The disconnect between capital movement and market performance is now forcing a deeper examination of liquidity conditions, regional positioning, and broader cycle dynamics driving the divergence.
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• Harvard’s Shock Bitcoin ETF Move Signals a Seismic Shift: Is AI Social-Fi Next?

  10-02-2026 17:55 via newsbtc.com
  What to Know:Harvard University’s holdings in spot Bitcoin ETFs marks a significant milestone for institutional crypto adoption.
  The move signals a broader de-risking of digital assets, potentially paving the way for further institutional portfolio diversification into the sector.
  SUBBD Token is pioneering the AI-driven Social-Fi space to address key pain points like high fees and censorship for content creators.
  As institutional money settles into Bitcoin, the search for alpha is likely t
  
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• Phantom Chat Feature Targeted in Fresh Bitcoin Phishing Wave: $BMIC Offers Security

  10-02-2026 17:26 via newsbtc.com
  What to Know:Phantom’s in-app Chats expand social attack surface; scammers exploit hype and speed to route users into phishing links and fake prompts.
  Bitcoin and Ethereum remain choppy, with mixed spot ETF flow signals, conditions that tend to increase user error and rushed approvals.
  Strong wallet hygiene still matters most: never share seed phrases, avoid chat links, and isolate funds using separate accounts or hardware wallets.
  BMIC leans into a post-quantum + AI security narrative, ai
  
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• Bybit’s Stockholm Open Partnership Signals Mainstream Push: Is $HYPER the Real Winner?

  10-02-2026 17:03 via newsbtc.com
  What to Know:Bybit’s Stockholm Open partnership underscores a broader push for mainstream adoption and brand legitimacy across crypto.
  That push spotlights the need for scalable infrastructure that can handle mass-market volumes, an area where Bitcoin’s base layer still struggles.
  Bitcoin Hyper proposes an SVM-powered Layer 2 for Bitcoin, bringing high-speed smart contracts to BTC while settling to Layer 1.
  Crypto exchange Bybit has secured the title partnership for the Stockholm Ope
  
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• UK Financial Watchdog Takes High Court Action Against HTX: Traders Pivot Toward $MAXI

  10-02-2026 16:43 via newsbtc.com
  What to Know:The FCA’s High Court move against HTX highlights how regulators can target offshore entities and ‘persons unknown,’ increasing platform and promotion risk.
  Enforcement headlines often trigger a counterparty-risk repricing, pushing traders toward simpler, more transparent on-chain setups.
  Maxi Doge’s strategy centers on community retention mechanics, like competitions and staking, designed to keep engagement alive during choppy markets.
  UK crypto enforcement j
  
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• What it actually takes to prove someone is Satoshi Nakamoto

  10-02-2026 16:38 via cointelegraph.com
  Discover the real evidence required to prove someone is Satoshi Nakamoto and why past claims failed to meet Bitcoin’s cryptographic standard.
  
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• Do Super Bowl ads predict a bubble? Dot-coms, crypto and now AI

  10-02-2026 16:30 via cointelegraph.com
  Super Bowl LX featured 10 ads for different AI products, and some observers believe it could be a sign that the AI financial bubble will soon burst.
  
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• Analyst Shares XRP Roadmap To $10,000: What Happens With Each Milestone?

  10-02-2026 16:30 via newsbtc.com
  A crypto analyst has shared a comprehensive roadmap for XRP, outlining key milestones and projected prices at each stage. The report examines potential catalysts, institutional demand, liquidity, global settlements, and market conditions that could drive the XRP price towards $10,000. 
  XRP Short-Term Price At New Market Milestones
  Market analyst Crypto_Luke has outlined a detailed roadmap for XRP, showing potential milestones that could push the cryptocurrency to new highs. He identifies $3
  
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• Flash Freezing Flash Boys: Per-transaction encryption to fight malicious MEV

  10-02-2026 16:00 via cointelegraph.com
  Flash Freezing Flash Boys is a novel proposal for per-transaction encryption to prevent frontrunning.
  
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• SEAL and Ethereum Foundation Partner to Combat Wallet Drainers: Security-First Investors Switch to $BMIC

  10-02-2026 15:44 via newsbtc.com
  What to Know:The Ethereum Foundation and Security Alliance are effectively standardizing threat intelligence to combat wallet drainers and front-end exploits in real time.
  ‘Harvest Now, Decrypt Later’ strategies pose a silent but existential risk to current ECDSA-based encryption methods used by most major blockchains.
  BMIC provides a solution via a quantum-secure wallet and finance stack, using ERC-4337 and zero public-key exposure to future-proof assets.
  Market focus is pivoting fr
  
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• Chainlink Co-Founder Sergey Nazarov Identifies Fundamental Market Shift as Bitcoin Hyper Ecosystem Expands

  10-02-2026 15:20 via newsbtc.com
  What to Know:Sergey Nazarov argues the current market cycle is driven by fundamental utility and banking integration rather than retail speculation.
  The demand for high-performance rails is directing capital toward projects that solve latency and interoperability issues.
  Bitcoin Hyper uses the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) to bring high-speed smart contracts to the Bitcoin network.
  Whale wallets have begun accumulating infrastructure tokens, signaling a strategic bet on Bitcoin Layer 2s.
  Accordin
  
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• XRP Just Hit A Level That Previously Sparked 15%–40% Surges: Analyst

  10-02-2026 15:00 via newsbtc.com
  XRP’s recent slide has left traders asking whether the worst is over. Prices have been weak since Q4 2025, and reports say the token has lost roughly half its value from an October opening near $2.80 to about $1.42 as we speak. That drop came with a sharp move in momentum indicators, which traders rarely ignore.Extreme RSI Readings Near A 12-Year Low
  According to market reports, the daily relative strength index fell to about 17 on Feb. 5, pushing readings to levels not seen in over a deca
  
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• Bitcoin’s $60K crash may mark halfway point of bear market: Kaiko

  10-02-2026 14:45 via cointelegraph.com
  Analysts are split on whether the drop represents a cycle low or a pause before further downside.
  
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