HashKey’s IPO bid puts Hong Kong’s virtual asset regime on display, testing whether compliance-first crypto platforms can win investors.

10x Research’s Markus Thielen says Bitcoin’s four-year cycle still exists but is now driven by politics, liquidity and elections rather than the halving.

The Bank of Japan is expected to increase its benchmark interest rates on Friday, a historically bearish signal for riskier assets like Bitcoin.

Twenty One Capital’s NYSE listing showed how tightly markets now price Bitcoin-heavy firms, with investors refusing to pay much beyond the underlying BTC value.

Michael Saylor explains why governments should consider Bitcoin-backed digital banks. It is time to examine the potential benefits and risks of Bitcoin banks.

Standard Chartered and Coinbase are expanding their partnership to develop trading, custody and financing services aimed at institutional crypto clients.

Spot XRP exchange-traded funds continued a streak of positive flows, with over $20.1 million recorded on Friday, marking 19 consecutive days of net inflows.

The crypto ecosystem in Venezuela is a product of ongoing economic collapse and international sanctions pressure, according to the TRM Labs team.

Despite traditional ETF investors willing to pay premiums to go long, Bitcoin natives selling covered calls have put a damper on a price rally.

The guide was a good-faith primer on crypto custody basics and best practices, including different forms of wallet storage and common risks.

The first SOL ETF was launched in July, followed by Bitwise’s SOL ETF in October, which recorded $57 million in first-day trading volume.

Strategy remains in the Nasdaq 100 as MSCI considers excluding firms whose crypto holdings exceed 50% of total assets.

Bitfinex said the recent 66% slide in spot trading volumes echoes lulls seen before next leg in the cycle.

Brazil’s largest private bank says Bitcoin can improve portfolio diversification and hedge currency risk despite a volatile year for the asset.

The DeFi Education Fund has led a rebuttal to Citadel Securities’ call for the SEC to bring DeFi platforms under securities laws if dealing in tokenized stocks.

Tether says it will buy the controlling stake Exor has in Juventus, along with all remaining shares, an offer Exor has reportedly rebuffed.

Regulations must evolve for tokenized real-world assets to be better integrated with DeFi, so their immediate benefit won’t be significant, says NYDIG’s Greg Cipolaro.

SOL demand cools as its total value locked drops by $10 billion and memecoin trading slumps. Traders’ lack of appetite for long leverage could further complicate the situation.

The comments followed the asset management company’s policy change allowing its clients to trade crypto exchange-traded funds.

The US regulator's green light lets Bitnomial’s clearinghouse support prediction markets linked to crypto and economic events, expanding its regulated product and clearing offerings.

Bitcoin mining hash price, a critical metric for determining profit margins in the industry, is hovering near record lows.

Ripple’s post-SEC rebound is drawing Wall Street backing, including a $40 billion valuation deal with downside protection— and some investors betting on XRP.

TIX is developing a DeFi-based settlement layer for live events, using onchain tickets to unlock venue financing and simplify payouts.

Short-term Bitcoin traders were profitable for 229 days this year despite the recent 30% correction in BTC price. Will this trend carry over into 2026?

The release introduces World Chat with end-to-end encryption, DeFi-powered yield via Morpho and QR-code payments at more than one million merchants in Argentina.

Bitcoin and several major altcoins have turned down from their respective overhead resistance levels, indicating that the bears are still very active at the range highs.

Bitcoin briefly topped $94,000 following Strategy’s largest investment since July, but investor risk appetite remained muted even after the widely expected US interest rate cut.

The network’s reserve will consist of purchases of the network’s native PYTH token, utilizing approximately 33% of the protocol’s revenue through the DAO.

The company is considering multiple paths to ensure liquidity for new investors eyeing a stake in the private stablecoin business.

Figure is planning a second IPO to issue blockchain-native equity on Solana, enabling onchain trading and DeFi use cases beyond traditional stock markets.

Relaxing the current rules for traditional retirement funds and pension plans could attract trillions of dollars of capital flows into crypto.

The conditional approvals clear a path for major crypto companies to operate as national trust banks under the supervision of the US OCC.

As MiCA enters its implementation phase, uneven enforcement across the EU is reigniting debate over whether crypto supervision should move from national regulators to ESMA.

Bitcoin faced troublesome resistance levels to end the Wall Street trading week as new bullish BTC price forecasts reappeared.

Ripple Payments partnered with Swiss crypto bank Amina to plug its fiat-to-stablecoin payment infrastructure into the FINMA-regulated institution.

Crypto investor demand for memecoins remains at lows not seen since 2024, despite a growing speculative appetite that has boosted TradFi leveraged ETFs to a record $239 billion.

Pakistan gives a nod for crypto exchanges Binance and HTX to register local subsidiaries as regulators advance a phased crypto framework.

A buying opportunity from Ether’s realized price projected a major rally, as analysts said a return to $5,000 in 2026 is plausible.

The cryptocurrency industry is riding on the tailwinds of regulatory clarity and newfound interest from institutional investors into the new year.

Cross‑party MPs and members of the House of Lords have urged UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves to rein in the Bank of England’s proposed regime for systemic stablecoins.

The gap between equities and Bitcoin got wider after Bitcoin’s post-all-time-peak correction in October.

The wallet-native feature lets users trade tokenized event contracts across politics, economics and culture without leaving Phantom.

In comments Thursday, SEC Chair Paul Atkins doubled down on his vision for tokenized US financial markets and onchain settlement.

Binance quietly rolled out API endpoints pointing to stock perpetual futures, potentially signaling a renewed push into stock trading after a failed 2021 launch.

Abu Dhabi is anchoring Bitcoin for institutions, while Dubai builds payments, stablecoins and Web3 use cases into daily commerce.

Binance reportedly froze only about 17% of the funds it received that were linked to the Upbit hack, raising questions over how major exchanges act on cross-border law enforcement.

Coinbase will showcase its new products on a livestream next week after joining a prediction market coalition with Kalshi and other US operators, Bloomberg reported.

Standard Chartered Malaysia and AirAsia parent Capital A plan to issue and test a ringgit-pegged stablecoin for wholesale applications.

Bitcoin price targets included $76,000 and $50,000, thanks to growing bearish BTC price divergences and a lack of upward price momentum.

The CFTC gave “no-action” letters to a group of prediction markets, including Polymarket US, exempting them from swap data reporting and record-keeping regulations.

The Blockchain Game Alliance reports industry confidence rose to 66% as developers pivoted from speculation to sustainable models following a funding collapse since 2021.

The CFTC has scrapped its guidance on how crypto is delivered in a transaction, giving “way more flexibility for exchanges,” says StarkWare's Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos.

Fortune reported that YouTube is allowing creators to be paid in PayPal's stablecoin, a potential boon for adoption due to the platform's size.

Crypto markets rebounded after the Fed’s third rate cut this year, with analysts predicting a larger bounce following the typical post-cut pattern.

Binance added a host of zero-fee trading pairs for the Trump family’s stablecoin and used it to back its own stablecoin collateral.

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation plans to tokenize stocks, ETFs and US Treasurys next year after receiving an SEC no-action letter.

Bitcoin miners Marathon Digital Holdings, Riot Platforms and Hut 8 are already in the top ten largest public companies holding Bitcoin.

A federal judge heard statements from some of Terraform Labs’ and Do Kwon’s victims for hours before deciding on the co-founder’s sentence.

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