Volatility is the name of the game with regard to cryptographic markets, and this week offered participants more than the same thing: a rout of $ 800 billion since January.
The price of Bitcoin has gone from its $ 108,000 peak in the Circa Trump election to around $ 86,000 to the declaration, because the fervor on the potential of a softer American regulatory climate is shaking up and the sector is shaken, once again, by a series of scandals.
The recalibration of expectations has led to a recalibration of the markets. Rather than kicking a regulatory change and investing in the creation of a Bitcoin national reserve during its first 100 days in power, the most important Crypto decision of Trump was the launch of his own piece. The pieces even $ Trump and Melania were also shaken by the turbulence of the market, both falling on stockings of all time.
But with regard to corporate blockchain and the use of stablescoin, the story is slightly different and a little more pink. The interest of the institution in the sector, in the end, could be the energy that the ecosystem needs.
After all, the crypto and today’s chain landscape is hardly recognizable compared to that only a year ago, the main players in 2025 making progress in progress and increasingly common in the payments and finances of cryptography.
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The industry hosts a Softer position of the dry
For years, cryptocurrency companies have sailed on a difficult regulatory landscape, the American Securities and Exchange commission (SEC) often conducting the accusation on application actions. However, 2025 reports a change as evidenced by the fall in regulatory news this week.
Monday, February 24, Robinhood Markets announced the closure of a dry investigation into its cryptocurrency operations without any action in operation.
Robinhood’s announcement occurred a few days after another crypto firm, Coinbase, announced on Friday, February 21, that the SEC was to reject a major trial that cryptographic society had fought.
The evolutionary approach to the SEC is underlined by its decision last Thursday (February 20) to replace its cryptocurrency unit dedicated by a wider team focused on the study of L’amour linked to the cyber.
However, this does not mean that misconduct does not yet occur through the cryptographic landscape. Monday, February 24), a judge ordered a fine to the OKX Cryptocurrency Exchange operator of more than $ 504 million in fines and costs for breaking the anti-flowancage laws (AML).
As the blockchain ecosystem increases, the security challenges become more complex, as evidenced by the news on Friday that the use of the exchange of cryptocurrency was affected by a pirate who stole $ 1.5 billion from his assets. The attack was described as probably the “biggest incident of all time, not just the crypto”.
But the market responds, with Blockaid, raising $ 50 million in a series B financing round last week to help meet the demand for its blockchain safety platform. The company plans to use funds to extend its product development, improve engineering teams and strengthen its research capacities.
The new era of the crypto could include reliable payments
With regulatory relief and financial support, cryptocurrency companies focus on the growing adoption of the dominant current.
In Payments News, the company of artificial intelligence trade solutions (AI), UNDOLVE, said on Monday that it deploys a Bitcoin treasure of $ 1 billion, a move which, according to the company, will support the launch of its cryptocurrency payment platform. The platform will allow consumers to pay with Bitcoin, USDT and other digital assets at the point of sale, while retailers obtain the elimination of merchant fees, instant Crypto-to-Fiar conversions and transaction intelligence focused on AI.
Elsewhere, the senior management of Paypal Holding implemented a strategy during its annual investor day on Tuesday, February 25 and included crypto in its vision “Paypal 2.0”. With a nod to Crypto, Diego Scotti, managing director of the company’s consumer group, said: “Paypal was the company that put the world offline and now we are those who take it online.”
Also on Tuesday, the asset manager focused on the cryptocurrency completed Bitwise completed an increase in shares of $ 70 million. The financing round will help strengthen its balance sheet and develop new investment capacities and investor solutions.
The representative French Hill of Arkansas, President of the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC), and the representative Bryan Steil of Wisconsin, chief of digital assets, financial technology and the sub-comity of artificial intelligence of HFSC, wrote in a joint opinion article last week that the Congress neglected the sector too long.
“There is no doubt that these innovations will make financial products more affordable and accessible,” they wrote. “Stablecoins to the tokenization of assets to decentralized financial applications, these progress has the potential to reduce costs and expand opportunities for investors and consumers.”
