Alex Thorn, the research director at Galaxy Digital, predicts that Bitcoin may be widely accepted as a hedging asset over the next two years, expecting it to reach $250,000 by the end of 2027. Although the market dynamics in 2026 are complex with high uncertainty, the long-term outlook for Bitcoin remains optimistic, with increasing maturity of the asset class and a higher level of institutional adoption.

Driven by expectations that the Federal Reserve may cut rates by 25 basis points this week, cryptocurrencies rose in tandem with Asian stock markets on Monday. Bitcoin prices edged up to around $91,300, gaining 2% over the past 24 hours and up more than 6% over the past week, continuing last week’s rebound. However, BTC still faces significant resistance near $94,000. FxPro analyst Alex Kuptsikevich pointed out that this rally is still part of a corrective structure, but if momentum continues, Bitcoin has a chance to further test the $98,000 to $100,000 range.

Sushi CEO Jared Grey announced that he will step down from his leadership position to become an advisor. The new Managing Director Alex McCurry will lead Sushi, receiving substantial capital investment to support development. Grey will continue to provide strategic guidance to the new team.

Odaily News Citibank analyst Alex Saunders pointed out that $80,000 is a key level for Bitcoin ETF holders, and stated that regulatory breakthroughs next year may restore demand. Therefore, the bank maintains its target price for Bitcoin over the next 12 months at $181,000. Alex Saunders mentioned that interest has not disappeared, but long-term holders are taking a cautious approach, while newcomers believe there is not much reason to get involved when Bitcoin is trading below key technical levels. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News Economist Alex Krüger posted on the X platform, pointing out that since 2018, Bitcoin has experienced 11 big dumps. Although short-term weakness after each big dump is a common phenomenon, a rebound has occurred almost every time after a big dump. This pattern is one of Bitcoin's most reliable behavioral advantages: when panic reaches its peak, expected returns tend to rise significantly. In past cycles, whenever the Crypto Assets Fear and Greed Index dropped to 10 or below, Bitcoin consistently delivered strong expected returns.

Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski stated that privacy tools are key to driving institutional adoption of blockchain. Institutions need to understand the transaction process while ensuring transaction privacy, a requirement referred to as "system-level privacy."

Gate News Bot message, November 10th, according to CoinMarketCap data, at the time of publication, ZK (ZKsync) is priced at $0.06, up 8.43% in the past 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.08 and a low of $0.05. The 24-hour trading volume is $253 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $545 million, an increase of about $42.3 million compared to yesterday. Recent important news about ZK: 1️⃣ **Major Update Proposal for ZK Token Economic Model** ZKsync founder Alex has proposed a significant update to the ZK token economic model. The core mechanism is to use all network-generated revenue for buybacks and token burns. This move means that ZK tokens will not only serve governance purposes in the future but will also have actual value capture functionality, potentially significantly boosting the value of ZK tokens.

Galaxy Digital Research Director Alex Thorn stated that although the bullish sentiment for Bitcoin has waned, it may regain popularity in the future. He believes that investors shifting to other sectors have affected Bitcoin allocations and has lowered the year-end target price from $185,000 to $120,000.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp responded to shorting advocate Michael Burry, opposing his shorting of Palantir and Nvidia, calling the strategy "crazy," and stating that shorting is market manipulation. Affected by the bearish sentiment, Palantir and Nvidia's stock prices fell nearly 8% and 4%, respectively.

Foresight News reports that ZKsync founder Alex has announced a significant update to the ZK Token economic model, with the core mechanism being that all income generated by the network will be used to repurchase and burn ZK Tokens. Alex stated that in the future, ZK Tokens will no longer be limited to governance purposes but will have actual value capture functionality.

Alex Thorn, Head of Research at Galaxy Digital, stated that the Bitcoin bull run remains solid, but market sentiment could shift quickly. He warned that if Bitcoin falls below $100,000, it could raise concerns and shake the foundations of the bull run. Although the recent adjustments are influenced by macro sentiment, in the long term, institutional demand will support the market, indicating that Bitcoin is entering the "post $100,000 era."

Golden Finance reports that Alex Thorn, research director at Galaxy Digital, believes that the current structural bull run remains intact for both crypto assets and the stock market. He pointed out that the three forces driving the next phase of the rise are artificial intelligence capital expenditure, stablecoins, and tokenization.

BlockBeats news, on September 24, according to CoinDesk, FxPro senior analyst Alex Kuptsikevich stated, "Whether Bitcoin can break through the key resistance levels of 113,500 and 115,000 will determine the direction of the market. If long positions successfully break through, there will be an opportunity to restore an upward trend; if the breakthrough fails, the risk of Bitcoin pullback will increase."

PANews September 16 news, according to YZi Labs, Alex Odagiu has been promoted from Investment Director to Investment Partner, and will further lead the company's layout in the fields of Token, equity, and strategic investment. Since joining in 2021, Alex has been involved in promoting Web3 investments in Decentralized Finance, stablecoin, RWA, and has led several key projects.

Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik stated that Sun Yuchen did not participate in the WLFI dumping, and the relevant transfer occurred after WLFI had already fallen, not being the main reason for the price drop, and having limited impact on the market.

Golden Finance reports that the forex strategist at TD Securities noted that the possibility of the U.S. falling into stagflation has become the latest risk facing the strength of the dollar, and against the backdrop of political interference in federal agencies, the dollar is gradually finding itself in the "emerging market currency situation." "Although the market seems to have overlooked inflation and shifted its focus to the slowdown in economic growth, this could be a mistake," wrote Jayati Bharadwaj, Linda Cheng, and Alex Loo from TD Securities in a report on Monday. "The last U.S. CPI report showed the first signs of tariffs being passed on to consumers, and despite some downside surprises, the market still interpreted it in a hawkish manner."

Jin10 data, August 12 - After falling more than 4% last week, crude oil closed flat on Monday as investors awaited talks between the U.S. and Russia on the Ukraine issue this week. "As the market waits for Friday's key meeting, recent dumping of crude oil has temporarily stopped," said StoneX analyst Alex Hodes in a report on Monday.

Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik and ZenAcademy founder Zeneca shared their achievements in angel investing. Svanevik invested in 58 projects, achieving 8 major victories; Zeneca invested in 68 projects, with only 3 major victories. Both encountered multiple investments that dropped to zero.

According to CryptoSlate, a group of U.S. Democratic senators has proposed a new bill to impose sanctions on Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and his government members. The bill is called the "Salvador Accountability Act" (S.2058) and is introduced by Senators Chris Van Hollen, Tim Kaine, and Alex Padilla. If passed, the bill would require President Donald Trump to impose sanctions on the Salvadoran government for alleged human rights violations and abuses of Bitcoin.

Odaily News OpenRouter, co-founded by former OpenSea CTO Alex Atallah, announced the completion of a $40 million financing round, led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital and angel investors. (The

According to Gate news, PayPal CEO Alex Chriss admitted that there are still significant barriers to widespread adoption of stablecoins in the United States, and it will take time for them to become mainstream. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, he pointed out the core issue: "There is a lack of sufficient adoption incentive on the consumer side," and revealed that PayPal is working to break this deadlock through a rewards mechanism.

Golden Finance reported that PayPal CEO Alex Chriss stated during an interview with Bloomberg Television on Thursday that the adoption of stablecoins in the U.S. market still faces significant barriers and will take a long time to achieve. Chriss explained, "From the consumer's perspective, there is currently no real incentive to drive the adoption of stablecoins, which is why we are starting to launch products like rewards mechanisms and begin to incentivize users in these ways."

According to Gate News bot, as reported by TapChiBitcoin, Alex Gluchowski, founder and CEO of Matter Labs, responded to Toly's statement on the X platform. Gluchowski stated that Solana cannot compare to Ethereum (ETH) in terms of decentralization and censorship resistance, and it also lags behind the second layer (Layer 2) using a single sequencer in terms of latency and performance.

According to a report by Jinse Finance, Alex Gluchowski, the founder of ZKsync and CEO of Matter Labs, responded on the X platform to Solana co-founder Toly, stating that Solana cannot compete with Ethereum in terms of Decentralization and censorship resistance, and also cannot compete with the latency and performance of single sequencer Layer 2 networks. Previously, Solana co-founder Toly stated that Solana is not looking to "wage war" with Ethereum, but rather to combat centralized sequencer Layer 2 based on Ethereum.

Aurora co-founder Alex Shevchenko proposed an intention-driven architecture that simplifies Crypto Assets operations, achieving user goals through automation, separating interaction logic from the execution layer, supporting various application scenarios, and promoting Blockchain towards mainstream applications.

PANews June 19 news, according to Cointelegraph, encryption venture capital Hypersphere investment partner Mehdi Farooq revealed on the X platform that he fell victim to a phishing attack via a fake Zoom meeting, resulting in six Wallets being emptied and losing years of savings. The attack began when an acquaintance "Alex Lin" contacted him via Telegram, requesting to switch to Zoom under the pretext of Compliance.

BlockBeats reported on June 19 that Mehdi Farooq, an investment partner at the crypto venture firm Hypersphere, revealed on Thursday that he lost most of his life savings in a targeted Phishing attack initiated through a fake Zoom call. Farooq explained in a post that the attack began with a message he received on Telegram from someone he knew, Alex.

Odaily News On-chain analysis platform Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik stated on the X platform that there are currently some issues with claiming Nansen Points, which may involve HYPE, STRK, and Ledger connections. The Nansen team is working on fixes and will provide updates on the progress.

According to the latest ruling from the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, the former CEO of Celsius, Alex Mashinsky, and his associated entities AM Ventures Holdings Inc., Koala1 LLC, and Koala3 LLC have waived their claims to Celsius's bankruptcy assets. The court has determined that it will prioritize the return of funds to creditors, and the total claims of Celsius creditors have now exceeded $1 billion. According to a report from Cointelegraph, Alex Mashinsky has previously been sentenced to 12 years in prison for cryptocurrency fraud.

According to ChainCatcher news and a report by CoinTelegraph, the Southern District Bankruptcy Court in New York has stated that Celsius's debtors have reached an agreement with former CEO Alex Mashinsky and related entities, prohibiting the distribution of Celsius's bankruptcy proceeds to the latter. The agreement allows Celsius's debtors to distribute the funds that were frozen due to claims made by Mashinsky. In May of this year, Mashinski was sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud. So far this year, Celsius creditors have claimed over $1 billion in assets.

Gate News bot message, former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky has agreed not to claim any assets from the Celsius bankruptcy proceeds. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York stated in a motion submitted on Monday that the Celsius debtors have reached an agreement with Alex Mashinsky, AM Ventures Holdings Inc., Koala1 LLC, and Koala3 LLC, prohibiting the distribution of Celsius bankruptcy proceeds to the latter. The agreement stipulates that the Celsius debtors can allocate funds frozen due to claims filed by Mashinsky and the three related entities.

According to Gate News bot, as reported by Jin10, in response to recent claims that "the United States is attacking Iran", Alex Pfeiffer, Deputy Assistant to the President and Chief Deputy Director of the Office of Communications, denied this. Pfeiffer stated clearly: "This is false information. The U.S. military remains in a defensive posture, and that has not changed. We will continue to protect America's interests."

Odaily News Galaxy Digital research director Alex Thorn posted on X, stating: "I suspect this is JPM Digital, covering JPM's upcoming digital asset business (rather than what many believe is JPM Dollar)." However, stablecoins are likely to be part of it.

Jin10 reported on June 17 that there are reports of the United States attacking Iran. In response, Alex Pfeiffer, Deputy Assistant to the President and Chief Deputy Communications Director, stated that this is fake news. He said, "This is not true. The U.S. military maintains a defensive posture, and that has not changed. We will defend America's interests."

BlockBeats news, on June 13, economist Alex Krüger published an analysis stating that "the latest confrontation between Israel and Iran should only have a short-term impact and does not open a new trend, it is merely short-term noise. It is more similar to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran in 2024, rather than a large-scale war. The question is when to 'Buy the Dips'. Looking back at the timeline of 2024: · April 12: Rumors spread, the market falls for the first time. · April 13: Iran fires missiles directly at Israel for the first time, the market falls again. · April 14 to 18: The market remains tense while waiting for Israel's retaliation. · April 18: Israel retaliates, taking restrained actions to avoid hitting major targets. The market soars. Both sides then announced a pause, returning to covert operations.

Gate News bot reported that recently, cryptocurrency researcher Christine Kim raised several questions about the latest organizational structure released by the Ethereum Foundation. The structure shows that Tim Beiko, Barnabé Monnot, and Alex Stokes will take on multiple roles, including leading all R&D teams and managing their respective teams. They will be responsible for L1 and L2 scaling and user experience (UX) improvements over the next 12 months. Christine Kim pointed out that there are several matters to be clarified in the architecture diagram, involving the identification of team leaders with bold names, the specific purposes of the highlighted sections, as well as Tim's protocol coordination and project supervision scope. She also raised questions about the color grouping system, including the grouping methods for consensus mechanisms and account abstraction, as well as issues related to the combination logic of Testing and pandaops. Source: Wu Says

Gate News bot message, recently, the Bitcoin DeFi protocol Alex Lab based on Stacks suffered a second major vulnerability attack, resulting in the theft of $8.3 million worth of crypto assets. The protocol stated last Friday that it will fully compensate affected users using funds from its treasury. Users will receive separate notifications but must fill out a claim form before June 10 to receive the funds.

ALEX Lab Foundation will fully compensate users affected by the hacker attack on the X platform, and reminds users to carefully check domain names to prevent information leakage or fraud.

Gate News bot news, the DeFi protocol ALEX has encountered an attack event due to a vulnerability in the coin listing verification logic. In this attack, the ALEX protocol lost approximately $8.37 million in assets, including 8.4 million STX, 21.85 sBTC, 2.8 WBTC, and about $150,000 in stablecoin. The ALEX Lab Foundation has responded to this incident, announcing that it will fully compensate affected users in USDC. The compensation amount will be calculated based on the average on-chain price on the evening of June 6, and payment will be completed within 7 working days after confirming the relevant information. Source: Wu Says

PANews June 6 news, the DeFi protocol ALEX based on Stacks stated on the X platform that it is aware of malicious activities on the ALEX platform. Our team is working hard to control the situation and mitigate further impact. We are closely cooperating with Centralized Exchanges (CEX), and part of the stolen funds has been traced to these platforms. To ensure the safety of all users, all platform activities have been suspended. A complete post-incident analysis will be released as soon as possible.

According to a post by Alex Zuo, Vice President of Cobo Custody, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has released regulatory guidelines for Digital Token Service Providers (DTSP) under the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA) framework. This legislation will officially take effect on June 30, 2025, at which point DTSP entities that do not meet compliance requirements must cease operations. DTSP mainly involves institutions in Singapore that provide token trading, transfer, custody, and other services to overseas clients. Institutions that have obtained PSA/SFA/FAA licenses or are exempted do not need to reapply for the DTSP license, but must comply with new regulatory requirements, including strengthening technical risk management, conducting annual audits, and reporting significant security incidents within one hour. MAS focuses on compliance enforcement in this regulatory framework and adopts a tiered regulatory approach for stablecoins.

Gate News bot reports that FxPro's chief market analyst Alex Kuptsikevich stated that Bitcoin's rebound from nearly $103,000 on May 31 indicates the potential beginning of an upward trend. "This momentum could push its price to new highs above $130,000." However, Ethereum is still facing resistance near its 200-day MA. Kuptsikevich added that a breakout above $2,700 could be an important indicator of renewed market optimism.

The Ethereum Foundation announced that the "Protocol R&D" team has been renamed to "Protocol" and is restructuring the team to focus on L1 scaling, blob scaling, and user experience improvements. Tim Beiko, Alex Stokes, and others will be responsible for execution, with some members leaving the foundation. The goal is to promote the development of Ethereum by improving R&D efficiency, accelerating zkEVM and L2 integration, and advancing global expansion.

According to a report by Jinsuo Finance, Alex Svanevik, the CEO of the on-chain analysis platform Nansen, posted on the X platform that a certain investor bought loud at a high point, but due to a price fall of about 69%, he has currently lost $116,000.

Gate News bot message, the SEC ( filed a lawsuit against New York's Unicoin Company and its three executives on May 20. The defendants include CEO Alex Konanykhin, former president Silvina Moschini, and former chief investment officer Alex Dominguez. The SEC lawsuit document points out that Unicoin issued token-related rights certificates and stocks without registering as securities. The company claimed that the tokens were backed by billions of dollars in real estate assets and stated that sales exceeded $3 billion. However, the SEC investigation revealed that the company's actual asset value was far below the claimed amount, with actual fundraising reaching only $110 million, involving over 5,000 investors. The SEC is now seeking a permanent injunction from the court and requesting the recovery of illegal gains and civil penalties, while three executives are facing director bans. Source: Wu Says

According to a report by Jinse Finance, CitizenX CEO Alex Recouso revealed on X platform that Europe is implementing capital controls, with Spain imposing a fine of 3,000 euros for failing to report cash withdrawals exceeding 150 euros within 24 hours. In response, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated, "The atmosphere for the digital euro is intensifying."

Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky was sentenced to 12 years in prison for Crypto Assets fraud and must report to prison by September 12. Prosecutors stated that he orchestrated the largest fraud in the encryption industry and faced a potential 20-year sentence.

According to Gate.io News bot and Bloomberg, Alex Mashinsky, the founder of the Crypto Assets lending platform Celsius Network, has recently been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Mashinsky engaged in cryptocurrency fraud during his tenure at Celsius Network. Previously, Celsius Network filed for bankruptcy protection in July 2022, with the platform having over 1.8 million users and managing assets totaling $12 billion. Bloomberg reported that, in addition to serving his sentence, Mashinsky must also pay fines and forfeit illegal gains.