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Circle submitted its formal response to Switzerland’s Federal Council consultation on stablecoin regulation on February 6, warning that the proposed framework could effectively shut out foreign-issued stablecoins from the Swiss market—including Circle’s own USDC.The USDC issuer’s central objection: Switzerland’s draft rules would treat all non-Swiss stablecoins the same as unbacked crypto assets, regardless of whether they’re fully reserved and regulated elsewhere. With the global stablecoin market now exceeding $300 billion, Circle argues this approach risks cutting Switzerland off from a major chunk of cross-border payment activity.What Switzerland Is ProposingThe consultation, which closed February 6, 2026, covers proposed amendments to Switzerland’s…

CoinDesk Indices presents its daily market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the CoinDesk 20 Index.The CoinDesk 20 is currently trading at 1944.26, up 6.7% (+121.31) since 4 p.m. ET on Thursday.All 20 assets are trading higher.Leaders: XRP (+20.1%) and HBAR (+13.1%).Laggards: AAVE (+1.9%) and BNB (+3.0%). The CoinDesk 20 is a broad-based index traded on multiple platforms in several regions globally.

Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.6 on February 5, positioning its latest AI model as a direct play for financial services workflows. The headline number: a 23 percentage point improvement over Claude Sonnet 4.5 on the company’s internal Real-World Finance benchmark, which tests roughly 50 investment and financial analysis use cases.The model now scores 60.7% on Vals AI’s Finance Agent benchmark—a 5.47% jump from Opus 4.5—which evaluates performance on SEC filing research. It also hits 76% on TaxEval, another external benchmark testing tax-related reasoning.Where Analysts Actually WorkThe real story here isn’t just benchmark scores. Anthropic is pushing Claude directly into the…

The Aster decentralized crypto exchange (DEX) and perpetual futures platform announced on Thursday that its layer-1 blockchain testnet is now live for all users, with a potential rollout of the Aster layer-1 mainnet in Q1 2026.Several new features are slated for a Q1 launch, including fiat currency on-ramps, the release of the Aster code for builders and the upcoming L1 mainnet, according to the Aster roadmap.Aster will focus on infrastructure, token utility and building its ecosystem and community in 2026, according to the roadmap.  Source: AsterAster rebranded as a perpetual futures DEX in March 2025 and is a direct competitor…

Perma-bears, much like their hyper bullish counterparts, love shoehorning patterns into the chaos to prop up their gloom. Take Michael Burry, the “Big Short” oracle famed for doomsday calls, who’s now comparing bitcoin’s ongoing bear market with the 2022 brutal plunge , ominously hinting this crash has legs to run much deeper.In a post on X in early Asian hours Thursday, Burry highlighted similarities between BTC’s drop from the October high of $126,000 to $70,000 and Bitcoin’s late 2021 and 2022 plunge, claiming in a chart that patterns match perfectly so far.The previous bear market saw bitcoin fall from around…

Google dropped its biggest AI product overhaul in months during January, rolling out what the company calls “Personal Intelligence” across its core apps while positioning Chrome as an autonomous task-completion tool through its new auto browse feature.The updates, built on Gemini 3, transform how Google’s ecosystem handles user data and executes complex tasks. Personal Intelligence—now in beta for U.S. users—lets Gemini securely connect to Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and Search to deliver context-aware responses. It’s opt-in, with granular controls over which apps participate.Chrome Becomes Your Digital AssistantThe headline feature is Chrome’s auto browse capability. Rather than just displaying information, Chrome…

A survey of senior crypto investors and executives suggests capital priorities are shifting away from decentralized finance (DeFi) and toward core infrastructure, as decision-makers focus on liquidity constraints and market plumbing. The findings come from a new report published by the digital asset conference CfC St. Moritz, based on responses from 242 attendees of its invitation-only event in January. Respondents included institutional investors, founders, C-suite executives, regulators and family office representatives. According to the survey, 85% of respondents selected infrastructure as their top funding priority, ahead of DeFi, compliance, cybersecurity and user experience. While expectations for revenue growth and innovation remain broadly positive,…

Savvy traders use a bunch of tools to analyze markets. The relative strength index (RSI) is one of the most popular ones, sniffing out trend strength and momentum extremes.Right now, the RSI is signaling that bitcoin is oversold, suggesting the recent sell-off has been too intense, and prices could see a relief bounce. But don’t bet the farm: the oversold reading doesn’t promise a full-blown bull run.Mechanical engineer and renowned technical analyst J. Welles Wilder Jr invented the RSI in 1978, revealing the formula and interpretation in his book “New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems.”The indicator measures price gains and losses over…

Celestia’s modular blockchain thesis is getting its first real stress test. OnchainDB, an independent project building on the network, has unveiled a pay-per-query database designed for a future where AI agents make millions of micropayments per second for data access.The timing isn’t coincidental. Celestia announced its Fibre Blockspace protocol on January 13, 2026, achieving 1 terabit per second throughput in testing across 498 nodes—a 1,500x improvement over original roadmap targets. OnchainDB is essentially betting that bandwidth will finally be cheap enough to make per-query payments economically viable.The Economics of Every API CallHere’s the pitch: instead of paying monthly cloud bills,…

Artificial intelligence has emerged as the dominant investment theme for the world’s largest family offices, while cryptocurrencies continue to attract limited interest, according to a new report from JPMorgan Private Bank.The bank’s 2026 Global Family Office Report polled 333 single-family offices across 30 countries between May and July 2025. It shows that 65% of respondents, or 216 offices, are prioritizing artificial intelligence-related investments either now or in the future. By contrast, just 17% (56 offices) view crypto and digital assets as a key investment theme.Crypto remained largely absent from family office portfolios. According to the report, 89% of family offices…