Ki Young Ju cited CryptoQuant’s PnL Index Signal, which shows investor profitability typically falls for 18 months after profit-taking cascades begin.The trend began in October 2025, placing a potential bear market bottom in early 2027 based on historical patterns.A true reversal requires unrealized profits to rise while realized profits fall simultaneously, a signal that has not yet appeared.

Analysts compared Ethereum's current position to Amazon following the dot-com bubble burst.

Wintermute said it is providing two-sided liquidity across event contracts on “leading” prediction market trading venues.The move follows similar liquidity-provider expansions by institutional trading firms, including Jump Trading and Galaxy Digital.

A federal judge ordered Circle to blacklist Zama’s confidential USDC (cUSDC) contract on Friday night, freezing about $12.6 million.A new class action suit says Overnight Finance creator Maxim Ermilov used the contract to move treasury funds beyond OVN token holders’ reach.The suit is brought by activist investors with a record of forcing DAO payouts, including Patagon Management, which secured a $35 million asset freeze in a similar 2023 case.Zama CEO Rand Hindi said the protocol’s confidential USDC contract was “caught in a crossfire” and that his team is investigating, though he noted that the vast majority of funds in the contract came from the deposit in question.Ermilov disputed the plaintiffs’ allegations in comments to The Block, arguing they “had no right to vote the way they did” to liquidate the Overnight Finance treasury.

Theta and XYO are collaborating to develop a blockchain-based verification layer for enterprise AI deployments.XYO’s performance attestations will be integrated with Theta’s live AI agent deployments with organizations including Olympique de Marseille and the Houston Rockets, the projects said.

YZi Labs unveils Creator Program focused on Web3, AI, and frontier techInitiative connects vetted creators with over 300 portfolio projects and foundersMove extends YZi Labs’ wider push into Web3 infrastructure, talent, and content

The Obsidion team, including co-founders Michael Elliot and Theo Madzou, will join Aztec Labs to continue developing ZKPassport and other apps.Aztec Labs raised $60 million worth of ETH through an AZTEC token sale last year, following the rollout of the Ignition Chain in mid-November.

David Sutter and Samantha Lewis discuss stablecoin infrastructure, tokenized finance, venture investing and why blockchain-powered financial services are becoming one of crypto’s most important real-world use cases.

Gravity Bridge lost about $5.4 million after security researchers flagged unusual withdrawals tied to a possible signing-key compromise.PeckShield said the stolen assets included USDC, wrapped ether, USDT, and PAXG, with some funds moved through ChangeNow and Binance.The Gravity team halted the bridge and asked validators and orchestrators to stop while it investigates the incident.

OKX Ventures will invest $53 million in South Korean crypto exchange Coinone to acquire a 19.6% stake.This marks the latest move by a global crypto giant to secure a foothold in South Korea, following Binance’s acquisition of Gopax.

Bubblemaps says an address cluster tied to CWU sold around $600,000 of tokens but related wallets still hold about 85% of supply.The CWU memecoin, promoted with the endorsement of former Ghanaian president John Agyekum Kufuor, previously hit a market cap near $120 million.On-chain data suggests over 200 freshly funded wallets grabbed almost all the supply at launch, contradicting claims of broad circulation and raising classic rug-pull red flags.

Luca Netz explains how Pudgy Penguins is evolving from an NFT project into a global consumer brand by focusing on culture, IP, and mass adoption over speculation.

The wild world of space simulation game Eve Online will soon become an AI research destination for Google DeepMind thanks to a new deal.

Blockchain network Sui is suffering another period of significant downtime barely five months after the last "network stall."