Prediction markets are crackling with activity after the United States, in 
coordination with Israel, carried out major airstrikes against Iran. At 
present, traders are pricing in a 46% probability that the Iranian regime will 
fall by June 30, and following the latest strike, it emerged that several 
market participants pocketed gains by calling the timing […]

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The number sounds almost too big to take seriously. Ethereum co-founder 
Vitalik Buterin posted a detailed technical roadmap on February 27 outlining 
how the network could handle up to 1,000 times its current transaction 
capacity — without pricing out the smaller node operators who keep the system 
decentralized. Related Reading: Bitcoin Sell-Off Slows Down, But The Road To 
Recovery Is Long — Analyst The document, which Buterin informally calls the 
&#8220;Strawmap,&#8221; breaks the work into three problem areas: execution, data, and 
state. Near-Term Upgrades Come First The closest item on the list is an 
upcoming protocol upgrade called &#8220;Glamsterdam.&#8221; According to reports, one of 
its key changes introduces block-level access lists — a technical adjustment 
that allows different parts of a block to be processed simultaneously rather 
than one after another. Reports also say the upgrade improves how efficiently 
each 12-second block slot is used, making it safer to pack more transactions 
into every block without destabilizing the network. Now, scaling. There are 
two buckets here: short-term and long-term. Short term scaling I&#8217;ve written 
about elsewhere. Basically: * Block level access lists (coming in Glamsterdam) 
allow blocks to be verified in parallel. * ePBS (coming in Glamsterdam) has 
many features, of… — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) February 27, 2026 Buterin 
acknowledged that these changes, combined with better client software, might 
be enough to reach a stable state on their own. If real usage stays low, he 
suggested the full 1,000x push could be shelved in favor of other priorities 
entirely. Zero-Knowledge Proofs Take Center Stage In Longer Plans The more 
ambitious part of the roadmap involves zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual 
Machines, or ZK-EVMs. Rather than requiring every validator to re-run every 
transaction to confirm it is legitimate, ZK-EVMs allow validators to check 
cryptographic proofs instead — a far lighter task. According to reports, 
Buterin&#8217;s timeline calls for a small group of validators to begin using this 
method as early as 2026, with broader adoption potentially following in 2027. 
If that plays out, the network&#8217;s capacity ceiling could be raised 
significantly without forcing node operators to invest in more powerful 
hardware. Related Reading: Aave Crosses $1 Trillion In Loans — No Bank 
Required State Growth Gets Its Own Fix Reports say Buterin flagged state 
growth as a separate and underappreciated problem. Deploying a large smart 
contract adds data that every Ethereum node must store permanently — and that 
accumulated storage gradually raises the cost of running a node at all. His 
proposed fix tracks state creation gas independently, so it does not count 
against the regular transaction gas cap. Large contracts could still be 
deployed, but their pricing would reflect the real long-term storage cost. The 
1,000x figure is a long-term ceiling, not a promise for next year. Each phase 
of the plan depends on the one before it working as intended. Featured image 
from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

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XRP rebounds from a sharp drop to $1.27 but remains under pressure as broader 
crypto markets slide amid rising geopolitical tensions, leaving the token 
vulnerable to renewed downside despite signs of short-term stabilization. XRP 
Climbs From $1.27 Panic Low but Downtrend Still Threatens At 10:32 on Feb. 28, 
XRP is trading at $1.32635 after rebounding […]

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Bitcoin price struggles persist as the premier cryptocurrency is yet to break 
above the key $70,000 resistance zone, suggesting the market remains at risk 
of a deeper correction. Notably, popular market analyst Yonsei_dent has shared 
an observation that backs these bearish investors&#8217; expectations. Related 
Reading: Bitcoin ETF Investors Show Diamond Hands: Only $6.5B In Outflows 
Since October 10 Bitcoin Supply In Profit Metric Shows Potential 75% Drawdown 
In a Quicktake post on CryptoQuant, Yonsei_dent has identified a potential 
price bottom of the present market cycle, considering the meltdown in recent 
months. Since October, the leading cryptocurrency has lost over 45% of its 
market value, with prices dropping as low as $60,000 from an all-time high of 
$126,000. Using the Supply In Profit on-chain indicator, Yonsei_dent maps out 
the possible extent of Bitcoin’s price decline when in the bottom zone, based 
on historical cycle drawdown periods. For context, the Supply in Profit 
measures the portion of the total circulating Bitcoin whose current market 
price is higher than the price at which those coins last moved. It&#8217;s an 
important cycle indicator, as the Supply in Profit approaches extreme highs 
when near cycle tops, and compresses sharply when near cycle lows. Yonsei_dent 
explains that the duration of Bitcoin Supply in Profit in the bottom zone in 
2022 was six months. During this market cycle, Bitcoin had initially hit an 
all-time high of $69,000 before crashing by 77% to around $15,500. According 
to the market analyst, if the same length of the bottom phase was placed on 
the current price chart, it represents a 70%-75% drawdown price projection for 
the present market cycle. In this case, Bitcoin is expected to find a price 
low within a range of $31,500 &#8211; $38,000, suggesting a further potential 
41%-51% decline from the current market prices. Related Reading: Ethereum’s 
Market Order Imbalance Hits Record Negatives: $1,850 Is Now The Line In The 
Sand Bitcoin Price Overview At the time of writing, Bitcoin trades at $63,553 
following a 5.84% loss in the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, its daily trading 
volume is up by a minor 0.54% and valued at $40.04 billion. The premier 
cryptocurrency also reports a negative performance on its weekly and monthly 
charts, with respective losses of 6.21% and 27.11%. Unless the market bulls 
convincingly reclaim the long standing $70k resistance, market sentiment is 
likely to remain fragile and prices vulnerable to additional downside or 
prolonged consolidation in the near term. Featured image from Unsplash, chart 
from Tradingview

Bitcoin Historical Cycle Pattern Points To $31,500 Bottom Target – Details

While bitcoin has been idling well beneath the $70,000 threshold, onchain 
metrics reveal that long-dormant wallets established between 2010 and 2017 
have stirred to life in February, shifting 1,908.21 BTC value at just over 
$125 million through 69 separate transactions. Early Bitcoin Spending Activity 
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