🎯Today's Crypto Pulse
Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: Bitcoin ETF Custody Concentrates Power, Raising Systemic Risk
Spot Bitcoin exchange‑traded funds now hold over $54 billion, roughly 1.5 million BTC. The ETF structure places the underlying coins in a trust controlled by a handful of custodians, with Coinbase identified as the dominant custodian, creating a single point of operational failure.
Also developing:
By the numbers: Pepeto raises $7M in token presale
News•Dec 1, 2025
SushiSwap’s Jared Grey Steps Down as Head Chef
The SUSHI token is down 12% on the day.
By The Defiant
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Token Holders Lack Real Control Over Protocols
The problem is that tokens can’t be shareholders. The computers are the property of the individuals running the protocols, not the token holders. So token holders can’t enforce anything. Even if 100% of the token holders vote...
By Anatoly Yakovenko
News•Dec 1, 2025
Prediction Markets Are Coming to Your Brokerage
Prediction markets are set to appear within mainstream brokerage platforms after Polymarket secured a regulatory pathway by acquiring a licensed exchange. The move enables brokerages to offer binary yes/no contracts on events such as Federal Reserve rate decisions or ETF...
By CryptoSlate
News•Dec 1, 2025
CME Rekindles ETH ‘Super-Cycle’ Debate as Ether Futures Volume Tops Bitcoin
Ether futures on CME have overtaken Bitcoin futures in volume, marking the first time the derivative market’s open interest flipped in favor of Ethereum. CME director Priyanka Jain highlighted that heightened ETH volatility is attracting traders rather than deterring them,...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Bitcoin and Ethereum Capture 97.5% Crypto Alpha
Usually when there was a correction in the market all of the alt coins and there are thousands of them, would have a large correction but they would bounce back. This time, they're not bouncing back and the reason that...
By Kevin O'Leary
News•Dec 1, 2025
Price Predictions 12/1: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, DOGE, ADA, BCH
Bitcoin opened December with a negative gap, indicating bearish momentum. Analysts see the $80,000 mark as a pivotal support, with the potential to test $70,000 if sellers dominate. The broader crypto market, including major altcoins, is likely to follow this...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 1, 2025
Polymarket War Bets Collide with the Maps Civilians Use to Survive
Polymarket, a crypto‑based prediction‑market platform, introduced contracts allowing users to bet on the outcome of the Russia‑Ukraine war. The bets reference data from DeepStateMap.Live, a volunteer‑run OSINT map that Ukrainians rely on for daily safety decisions. Critics argue that commercializing...
By CryptoSlate
News•Dec 1, 2025
Bitnomial Prepares to Debut First CFTC-Regulated Spot Crypto Market
Bitnomial, a Chicago‑based derivatives exchange, has become the first platform cleared to offer CFTC‑regulated spot cryptocurrency trading, including leveraged products. The exchange’s self‑certified rules were activated on Friday, allowing customers to buy, sell, and finance digital assets on a federally...
By CoinDesk
Podcast•Dec 1, 2025•33 min
Stepan Simkin (Squads) on Stablecoin-Powered Financial Services (EP.688)
In this episode, Stepan Simkin, founder of Squads, explains how his platform has shifted from a DeFi‑focused tool to a broader treasury solution for companies, addressing the cash‑flow challenges of small‑medium businesses. He discusses the growing migration of local currencies...
By On The Brink with Castle Island
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Weekly Crypto Roundup: Tether FUD, Bank Rule, Musk Bitcoin
Lots of big headlines and updates on this week's 10 min News Block: Tether FUD explained, a quiet bank rule change, Musk comments on Bitcoin and much more! https://lnkd.in/g3xRwRei
By Natalie Brunell
News•Dec 1, 2025
JPMorgan and Strike CEO Jack Mallers Go Silent, Leave 'Debanking' Questions Unanswered
JPMorgan has terminated its banking relationship with Strike, the payments firm led by Jack Mallers, effectively "debanking" its CEO. Both parties have remained silent, offering no public explanation for the abrupt move. The decision comes as Strike’s technology mirrors aspects...
By CoinDesk
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Coinbase Introduces Instant Unstaking for Flexible ETH Staking
Staking is one of the most popular ways people passively earn on their crypto. But you have to wait to unstake your assets which can take weeks for some protocols. So our team built the solution: instant unstaking. It’s an optional...
By Brian Armstrong
Blog•Dec 1, 2025
Yearn Finance Suffers $9 Million Exploit
The yETH exploit is the third hack of a Yearn Finance product since 2021.
By Camila Russo
News•Dec 1, 2025
U.S. House Lawmakers Detail Grievances Over Government's 'Choke Point 2.0'
Chairman French Hill of the House Financial Services Committee released a report labeling the Biden administration’s regulatory actions as “Operation Choke Point 2.0,” accusing agencies such as the SEC and Federal Reserve of systematically hindering crypto development. The document details what Hill describes...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 1, 2025
Bitfinex’s Options Playbook: Ardoino on Building Rails that Won’t Snap
Bitfinex’s CTO Paolo Ardoino unveiled a new options framework that adds dedicated trading rails to the exchange’s infrastructure. The design separates options risk from spot and perpetual markets, using dynamic margining and low‑latency execution. Bitfinex also announced strategic insurance partnerships...
By CryptoSlate
News•Dec 1, 2025
Chainlink's LINK Slides 11% as Technical Breakdown Overshadows ETF Launch News
Chainlink’s native token LINK dropped 11% on Tuesday, slipping below the $12 mark and breaching a critical support zone. The decline was accompanied by unusually heavy trading volume, confirming a technical breakdown that suggests a sustained downtrend. Although the market...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 1, 2025
Bitcoin Mining Profitability Fell for Fourth Consecutive Month in November: JPMorgan
JPMorgan reported that Bitcoin mining profitability declined for the fourth straight month in November, with daily block‑reward gross profit falling 26% from October. The network hashrate slipped 1% to an average of 1,074 exahashes per second after reaching a record high...
By CoinDesk
Social•Dec 1, 2025
ZEC’s Recent Gains Stem From Binance‑free Holders
The reason ZEC outperformed since 10/10 is that it wasn’t held by the market participants who suffered in the the Binance incident. For the last month, the holder base has become more like a “normal” token with outsized Binance spot volume...
By Zaki Manian
Social•Dec 1, 2025
SEC Chair Paul Atkins Announces Major Speech Tomorrow
LATEST 🚨 SEC CHAIR PAUL ATKINS TO GIVE A "MAJOR SPEECH" TOMORROW BUCKLE UP https://t.co/lGIrLmP064
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Ethereum Fusaka Upgrade Unveiled: What’s Next?
🔷Ethereum Fusaka UPGRADE & BEYOND!!🔥🔥 w/@drakefjustin 👀 WATCH NOW👉https://t.co/mzLRRSKNcJ $BTC $ETH https://t.co/wKnWXAL7Tg
By Paul Barron
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Catch Binance Blockchain Week Live: Who’s Attending?
Who's at #BinanceBlockchainWeek this week?! If you can’t make it, make sure to tune in live. https://t.co/OdhIyOvPsW
By Wendy O
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Analyzing Market Cap Relative to Company Revenues
Let’s split the mcap by revenues
By Anatoly Yakovenko
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Bear Market Bottom Hinges on MicroStrategy’s Collapse
Bear market will bottom when MicroStrategy blows up 👀👀👀 https://t.co/6H6VkZfTqJ
By Ivan on Tech
Social•Dec 1, 2025
One Revenue App Requires Twenty Supporting Apps
This is awesome and is happening way faster than I thought. You need 20 apps for 1 to be good. And 20 good apps for 1 to get revenues. 1:400 basically. 20 apps with revenues for 1...
By Anatoly Yakovenko
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Bitcoin Poised to Breach $83.4K, Eyeing $81K Support
Let's see how prices are going to react when #Bitcoin tests beneath that low at $83.4K. If that doesn't provide enough buying pressure, then we're going to test the low beneath $81K for support. Probably in the next few days. https://t.co/NW9NcHYDb6
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Aggressive FUD Targets Tether and Bitcoin—Stay Vigilant
Tether FUD and Bitcoin FUD is being pushed aggressively these days. Stay frosty.
By Samson Mow
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Bitcoin Trades Just 12‑20% Above Breakeven Cost
The average cost for global miners to extract 1 $BTC from the network is $70,000-$75,000 Bitcoin is just 12%-20% above miners being breakeven on their operations ⛏️ https://t.co/NHwGZMUm1L
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Celestia Enables Seamless, High‑Throughput Exchange via Unified Glass
Celestia exists to allow anyone to build an exchange with novel market microstructure and HFT throughput. The missing piece is a single plane of glass to move into and out of markets.
By Zaki Manian
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Crypto Solves Slow, Costly Cross‑border Payments
I got to see the issues of money first-hand from being an early employee at Airbnb. Trying to move money around 100+ countries wouldn’t work properly. It was (and still is) very slow, with constant delays, high fees, and it only...
By Brian Armstrong
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Bank‑issued Stablecoins Preserve Brand, Loyalty, and Control
A bank-issued stablecoin isn’t just infrastructure. It’s branding, loyalty, and control over the customer experience. Outsourcing to USDC or USDT means losing all of that, says Nakul Chandraraju from @MNEE_cash. https://t.co/JPeGXIbxo5
By Laura Shin
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Bitcoin Indifferent to Saylor, Strategy, and Hype
Raise your hand if you also do not care what Saylor and Strategy do, because Bitcoin does not either. HIGHER
By Wendy O
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Crypto Prices Ignore Net Negative Long‑term Value
much ado about crypto pricing but reality is we have more data on long term economic value in these networks and most are zero to net negative value creation so instead of pricing infinity upside people are pricing reality based on...
By Meltem Demirors
Social•Dec 1, 2025
MicroStrategy Shares Hit Lowest Since September 2024
BREAKING 🚨 $MSTR DROPS TO ITS LOWEST LEVEL SINCE MID-SEPTEMBER 2024 https://t.co/ytCZpfMvPR
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 1, 2025
NEAR Intents Power a Private, User‑Owned AI Economy
ICYMI: my chat with @MustStopMurad on how NEAR Intents can drive value creation for all of crypto, unpacking the need for private, user-owned AI, and why the future AI economy will be intents-based 🎧
By Illia Polosukhin
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Zero‑Complexity Trading Delivers BTC, ETH, ZEC Reversions
$93K BTC Reversion ✅ $3,050 ETH Reversion ✅ $450 ZEC Breakdown ✅ Zero Complexity Trading. https://t.co/pMNH5E4j3X
By Koroush Khaneghah
Social•Dec 1, 2025
First Trading Day Triggers Short‑Term Sell‑off, Expect Rebound
Quite obvious price pattern. Last month: first trading day, massive bloodbath on #Altcoins. This month: first trading day, massive bloodbath on the markets. Probably rebalancing or whatever there is, this takes 1-2 days and then it should stabilize and go back up...
By Michaël van de Poppe
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Cardano Poised for Significant Expansion by 2026
Thoughts on Growth for Cardano in 2026 (Pentad Series) https://t.co/3aaqQiLTg6
By Charles Hoskinson
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Ethereum Should Drop Breaks, Accelerate Progress
It would be beneficial to the Ethereum community to culturally take off the breaks on making progress
By David Hoffman
Social•Dec 1, 2025
BlackRock Admits Shock over Bitcoin Crash
DISGUSTING BITCOIN CRASH BLACKROCK'S SHOCKING CONFESSION https://t.co/kbBdJIEgjw
By Wendy O
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Vitalik Pushes Solidity Toward Haskell-Like Functional Design
So Vitalik now wants solidity to be more like Haskell... https://t.co/Wk5mPW5uSP
By Charles Hoskinson
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Build Your Own Ethereum Mainnet Proprietary AMM
Sooo you should be able to build an ETH main net prop AMM from this....
By Zaki Manian
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Tom Lee Predicts Bitcoin Hitting New High by January
JUST IN 🚨 TOM LEE CALLS FOR A NEW BITCOIN HIGH BY THE END OF JANUARY https://t.co/Arj5vpchcv
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 1, 2025
STRC Climbs to 10.75% After Latest Rate Hike
Another rate hike last night — $STRC is now 10.75%. https://t.co/0tTkUAAHb5
By Michael Saylor
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Personal Debanking Highlights Systemic Operation Chokepoint Issues
My personal debanking was used as an example in house financial services report on operation chokepoint Btw wasn’t just me, but most of the early team, and the company (3-4 times) https://t.co/p9tVdB9Wav
By Hayden Adams
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Crypto Blamed on Japan, Stocks Stay Unfazed
Also, the hilarious part is that apparently "crypto is dumping due to Japan" but stocks seem to not care about that narrative at all. Good tech
By Lark Davis
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Happy in Stables, Ready to DCA on Market Dip
The market is cooked and the trend is down, I'm so happy I'm in stables right now. I'm not buying yet, but I have my buy limits ready to begin my DCA. Thank you @krakenpro
By Layah Heilpern
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Fed Drops Crypto, Fintech Focus From Supervision Priorities
GOOD NEWS: the Fed's updated supervisory priorities omit any mention of Fed regulators targeting banks for #crypto, #fintech & banking-as-a-service (#BaaS), which the "degrowth" crew previously in charge of Fed supervision had explicitly targeted. Bowman already tore that down.👏
By Caitlin Long
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Peter Schiff Floods Twitter with Bitcoin Criticism Amid Drop
UPDATE 🚨 PETER SCHIFF POSTS ABOUT BITCOIN AND $MSTR EIGHT TIMES WITHIN THE PAST DAY AS BEARS CELEBRATE THE DROP https://t.co/k6d7y8DBhv
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 1, 2025
First Integration Inked, Pentad Live, Announcement Soon
Looks like we have ink on paper for the first integration. The pentad is already working. Announcement this month. https://t.co/yvgfOoOjnx
By Charles Hoskinson
Social•Dec 1, 2025
Tommy Lee Predicts Bitcoin ATH 2026, Eyes $10K Ethereum
Tommy Lee calls for a new Bitcoin all time high in January 2026. What about $10,000 Ethereum? https://t.co/YSod751HxC
By Wendy O