Bitcoin has a date with $35,000 or lower at the hands of fresh global macro turmoil, Arthur Hayes says. In his latest blog post, “Yellen or Talkin’?” on Jan. 24, the former CEO of crypto exchange BitMEX makes a grim short-term BTC price forecast. Hayes: Bitcoin appreciates 2024 inflation risk Bitcoin may still be 75% up versus…

A new protocol from Ethereum-scaling solutions developer Polygon Labs promises to unite what it calls the “divided blockchain landscape” into a web of networks that “feels like a single chain.” In a Jan. 24 blog post, Polygon said its AggLayer solution, set to launch next month, aims to aggregate zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs from multiple blockchains and…