Today's Crypto Pulse
Updated 1h agoBitmine Immersion Technologies snaps up $98M of ETH, boosting holdings to 4.47M tokens
Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Technologies announced a $98 million purchase that raised its ether holdings to 4.474 million tokens, about 3.71% of Ethereum’s total supply. The firm now has 3.04 million ETH staked, valued at roughly $6 billion, generating $172 million in annualized staking revenue, potentially rising to $253 million at full capacity.
Also developing:
By the numbers: FundBank acquires Irish blockchain startup Trrue Chain for €10M
News•Dec 17, 2025
Binance Alleges Fake Listing Agents, Offers up to $5M Whistleblower Reward
Binance warned users that third‑party "listing agents" are fraudulent and outlined a direct token‑listing process. The exchange publicly identified seven fake agents and urged projects to apply through official forms. To combat the scheme, Binance announced a whistleblower bounty of up to $5 million for credible information. The move underscores Binance’s effort to protect investors and preserve its market reputation.
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 17, 2025
Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Lands $7B Google-Backed AI Data Center Lease
Hut 8, a Bitcoin mining firm, signed a 15‑year lease valued at $7 billion to deliver 245 MW of AI data‑center capacity at its River Bend campus in Louisiana. The agreement pairs infrastructure provider Fluidstack with Google, which will act as a financial backstop...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Privacy's Biggest Hurdles: UX First, Composability Next
Privacy Matters: The biggest challenge for building gud privacy is UX. The 2nd biggest challenge is Composability. Why composability? Imagine apps are like these lego parts, and you want them to be connected. You want to be able to go from...
By Eli Ben-Sasson
News•Dec 17, 2025
Wall Street Giant DTCC Picks Privacy Focused Blockchain Canton Network for Tokenization
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has selected Digital Asset’s privacy‑focused Canton Network to tokenize a subset of U.S. Treasury securities held at its DTC clearinghouse. The initiative follows a recent SEC No‑Action Letter that clears the path for...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 17, 2025
Moon Pursuit Capital Launches $100 Million Market-Neutral Crypto Fund
Moon Pursuit Capital announced a $100 million market‑neutral crypto fund that uses algorithmic trading to generate risk‑adjusted returns across digital‑asset cycles. The strategy stays neutral on market direction, supplementing its core engine with bitcoin accumulation at perceived cycle lows and short‑term...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 17, 2025
Securitize to Offer First Fully Onchain Trading for Real Public Stocks in Early 2026
Securitize announced it will launch the first fully compliant on‑chain trading platform for actual public stocks in early 2026. The system issues tokenized shares directly on the issuer’s cap table, granting holders legal ownership, dividends, and voting rights. Trades will...
By CoinDesk
Social•Dec 17, 2025
All Binance Listing Offers Are Scams; Report Them
Anyone claiming to be able to help you with a Binance listing is a scammer. If you see anyone (including middleman, consultants, ex- or current employees) claiming it, please report it. They will be added to a blacklist, and sometime even...
By Changpeng Zhao
News•Dec 17, 2025
Solana Tests Quantum-Resistant Transactions in New Project Eleven Pilot
Solana announced a partnership with post‑quantum security firm Project Eleven to pilot quantum‑resistant transactions on a dedicated testnet. The collaboration delivered a functional testnet employing post‑quantum digital signatures, demonstrating that end‑to‑end quantum‑resistant transactions can be both practical and scalable. The...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 17, 2025
CAR’s Crypto Push Fueled ‘State Capture’ by Elites, Criminal Networks: Report
An investigative report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime says the Central African Republic’s cryptocurrency push deepened elite control and opened channels for foreign criminal networks. The country’s brief experiment with Bitcoin as legal tender was reversed after...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 17, 2025
Ripple’s Asia Venture Looks to Make XRP a Yield-Bearing Asset
SBI Ripple Asia has signed a memorandum of understanding with Doppler Finance to develop XRP‑based yield products and tokenized real‑world assets on the XRP Ledger. The deal appoints Singapore‑regulated SBI Digital Markets as the institutional custodian, ensuring segregated custody for...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 17, 2025
How China’s Strengthening Yuan Could Support Bitcoin Prices
The Chinese yuan rose to 7.043 per dollar, its strongest level since early October, marking a 1% gain this quarter and a 4% rise from its April low. Analysts argue that a firmer yuan could give Beijing room to roll...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 17, 2025
Polymarket Shows Stronger Retention than Most DeFi, Wallets and Exchanges
Polymarket’s user‑retention metrics, analyzed by Dune and Keyrock, beat more than 85% of the 275 crypto projects surveyed, highlighting its outperformance in a sector where sustained engagement is rare. The study tracked monthly cohorts and found that Polymarket’s cohort retention...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Nasdaq Rally Lifts Bitcoin, 40‑50K Crash Unlikely
It would be great if there's a run on Nasdaq in the coming weeks. End-of-year rally into an all-time high, putting risk-on assets back on the radar and, therefore, the focus back on assets like $BTC. There's a chance Bitcoin...
By Michaël van de Poppe
News•Dec 17, 2025
Bitcoin Institutional Buys Flip New Supply for the First Time in 6 Weeks
Institutions are now buying more Bitcoin than miners are creating, flipping the daily supply balance for the first time since early November. Capriole Investments reports institutional demand is 13% higher than the newly mined BTC on a rolling daily basis....
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 17, 2025
KuCoin Taps Tomorrowland Festivals as MiCA-Era On-Ramp for European Fans
KuCoin has signed an exclusive multi‑year deal with Tomorrowland Winter and Tomorrowland Belgium to become the festivals’ sole crypto and payments partner from 2026 through 2028. The agreement follows KuCoin’s recent acquisition of a Markets in Crypto‑Assets (MiCA) service‑provider license...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 17, 2025
NEAR Intents: Three‑Layer, 600ms Settlement, Gasless Swaps
NEAR Intents product is actually consists of three core layers powered by NEAR tech: - asset layer - holding and moving assets across different chains - settlement layer - intents smart contract and soon escrow with ton more features to...
By Illia Polosukhin
News•Dec 17, 2025
Hyperliquid Governance Vote Aims to Permanently Sideline $1B Assistance Fund
The Hyper Foundation has put forward a validator vote to officially deem the HYPE tokens held in the Assistance Fund as permanently inaccessible, effectively treating them as burned. The fund, which automatically converts trading fees into HYPE, contains roughly $1 billion,...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 17, 2025
SEC Lawsuit Puts Shima Capital’s Future in Question as Wind-Down Message Surfaces
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Shima Capital and its founder Yida Gao, accusing them of misleading investors while raising nearly $170 million. The complaint alleges Gao exaggerated fund performance, inflating a 2.8× return to a claimed 90×, and concealed...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 17, 2025
Bitcoin Trades Near Key Price Safety Net that Strategy Already Breached
Bitcoin is trading just above its 100‑week simple moving average, a long‑term safety net that has held for three weeks and halted the slide from the $126,000 peak. The cryptocurrency sits near $86,800, a level that could trigger a bullish...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 17, 2025
Bhutan Pledges 10K Bitcoin to Develop Its ‘Mindfulness City’
Bhutan announced it will allocate 10,000 Bitcoin, worth roughly $875 million, to finance the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), a new special administrative region. The city, covering about 10% of the country, is designed to curb youth out‑migration by creating high‑value jobs...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 17, 2025
Saylor’s Bitcoin Stash Will Be Very Hard for Anyone to Match: Pomp
Anthony Pompliano warned that no public company is likely to match Michael Saylor’s Strategy’s Bitcoin accumulation. Strategy now holds 671,268 BTC—about 3.2% of the total supply—valued at roughly $58.6 billion. The firm recently bought 10,645 BTC for $980.3 million, paying $92,098 per...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 17, 2025
SAFE Crypto Act Will Have Scammers Shaking in Their Boots: Crypto Lawyer
U.S. Senators Elissa Slotkin and Jerry Moran introduced the Strengthening Agency Frameworks for Enforcement of Cryptocurrency (SAFE) Act, a bipartisan bill designed to unite the Treasury, FinCEN, the Secret Service and other law‑enforcement bodies with private‑sector forensic firms to combat...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 17, 2025
DOGE Exits Range as Selling Pressure Builds at Key Levels
Dogecoin fell 5% after the Federal Reserve cut rates by 25 basis points, breaking the $0.1310 technical support zone. Heavy trading volume of 769.4 million tokens confirmed a bearish distribution rather than a fleeting dip. The breach turns the recent range...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 17, 2025
Aave Founder Outlines 2026 ‘Master Plan’ After End to SEC Probe
Aave founder Stani Kulechov unveiled a 2026 master plan centered on the V4 upgrade, the Horizon real‑world asset market, and a new mobile app after the SEC ended its four‑year probe. V4 will employ a hub‑and‑spoke architecture to unify cross‑chain...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 17, 2025
BitcoinFi Accelerator Returns with $150K Funding
We’re excited to partner with @DraperDragon, @Thesis_co & @SupernormalFDN on the return of the BitcoinFi Accelerator for the Winter batch, investing $150K in startups building the future of Bitcoin DeFi, Consumer projects, and Infrastructure. Our first two cohorts exceeded expectations. Looking...
By Tim Draper
Social•Dec 17, 2025
SOL Eyes $125 Bounce, Volume Hints at Breakout
SOL Back at $125 for a small bounce. If price continues to grind towards this level with increasing volume, a potential range breakdown is in play. Shared 2 of my trade triggers in my latest video: https://t.co/AUFc7oQDFR
By Koroush Khaneghah
News•Dec 17, 2025
Crypto ETPs to Enter ‘Cheesecake Factory’ Era in 2026: Bitwise
Bitwise researcher Ryan Rasmussen predicts more than 100 crypto exchange‑traded products will debut in 2026, following the SEC’s October release of generic listing standards that eliminate the lengthy 19(b) approval process. The new framework allows issuers to list spot, index,...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 17, 2025
High APYs Mean Higher Risk: Know Your Yield Source
if you don’t know where the yield is coming from, you are the yield was true when DeFi was throwing around 1000%+ APYs, and it’s true now above-market returns = more risk. there's no such thing as a free lunch
By Santiago Santos
Social•Dec 17, 2025
SEC Embraces Privacy; Advocates Celebrate Strong Voice
The SEC discussing privacy and acknowledging its importance -- I’m still very excited about that. Really glad that @zooko, @kkirkbos, and others were there to be a strong voice for Privacy.
By Eli Ben-Sasson
News•Dec 17, 2025
Bank of Canada Lays Out Criteria for ‘Good Money’ Stablecoins
The Bank of Canada announced that only fiat‑backed, high‑quality stablecoins will receive regulatory approval, targeting a 2026 rollout. Governor Tiff Macklem emphasized a 1:1 peg to central‑bank currencies and backing by liquid assets such as Treasury bills. The framework builds...
By Cointelegraph
Social•Dec 17, 2025
NEAR Elevates Programmable Money with Intelligent, Unstoppable Value
NEAR is an upgrade on the programmable money thesis. It’s money that has intelligence, outcome driven and unstoppable.
By Illia Polosukhin
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Join WEEX AI Wars: $880K Prizes & Bentley
AI TRADERS, THIS ONE’S BIG ⚔️ WEEX AI Wars: Alpha Awakens is LIVE. A global trading competition built around real performance. $880K prizes, Dubai finals, a Bentley up for grabs. Details & entry here 👇 https://t.co/YSpDrijDsv Trading involves risk. Do your own research.
By That Martini Guy
News•Dec 17, 2025
Crypto Coin Minute for December 17th, 2025 at 08:34 AM Pacific Time.
Bitcoin fell 1.84% to $86,222, while major altcoins also slipped. PayPal filed a request with regulators to obtain a banking charter, aiming to expand its financial services amid tighter lending rules. The FTC ordered the operator of the 2022 Nomad...
By Crypto Coin Minute
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Base Links Global Pop‑ups Into a Unified Experience
Base is hosting physical popups around the world. And connecting them together.
By Balaji Srinivasan
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Ask Direct Questions, No Coin Shilling Allowed
What questions do you have? Will start with a few questions from the comments 👇, then take some live questions. Please ask direct questions. No shilling of coins or projects. 🙏
By Changpeng Zhao
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Crypto: Both Investing and Ignoring Carry Risks
"Investing in crypto is risky, but not investing in crypto is also risky.” - CZ Binance https://t.co/dVlFOol9Yp
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 17, 2025
STARKs Magnify Tiny Errors Into Undeniable Proof
What’s the magic of ZK-STARKs? A STARK proof takes a tiny speck of dirt and makes it too big to ignore. Something doesn't add up? You'll see it from the moon. That’s how STARKs guarantee validity.
By Eli Ben-Sasson
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Polygon P2P Payments Hit $7.12B, Four-Month Surge
Polygon’s P2P payments growth is accelerating 4 straight months of growth with another ATH of $7.12 Billion in November.
By Sandeep Nailwal
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Coinbase Urges Congress to Eliminate Taxes on Small Crypto Trades
BULLISH 🚨 Coinbase wants Congress to remove taxes on small Bitcoin and crypto transactions https://t.co/fFQrD2nzQi
By That Martini Guy
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Join Tomorrow's Insightful Chat on PBD's Podcast
I will be on @PBDsPodcast tomorrow morning at 9am EST. Should be another great conversation.
By Anthony Pompliano
Social•Dec 17, 2025
HashKey IPO Solidifies Hong Kong as Digital Asset Hub
Congratulations to @HashKeyGroup @HashKeyExchange for their successful IPO further cementing Hong Kong as a digital asset hub https://t.co/C8PraH3uYc
By Yat Siu
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Join Our End‑of‑Year AMA Thursday, Dec 18, BNBChain‑Moderated
Will host an End-of-year AMA this Thursday, Dec 18, 4:30pm UTC+4. @BNBChain will moderate. See you there.
By Changpeng Zhao
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Buying Bitcoin Cheap as Cycle‑Believers Hold
We’re basically vacuuming up Bitcoin at a deep discount from those that believe in 4 year cycles.
By Samson Mow
Social•Dec 17, 2025
Crypto Market Caps Revealed When Adjusted for Revenue
Split the crypto mcap by revenue
By Anatoly Yakovenko
Social•Dec 16, 2025
Building Bitcoin's Future to Fix Money, Fix World
Twenty One is a Bitcoin company. Bitcoin is the best money in human history. We're building for that future. If we can fix the money, we can fix the world. A mission large enough to last many lifetimes. Who we are, our...
By Jack Mallers
Social•Dec 16, 2025
JPMorgan’s Ethereum Token Fund Pushes TradFi Onto Blockchain
How Crypto Networks Are Racing to Be the TradFi Chain JPMorgan is going deeper onchain as Wall Street beings to tokenize everything 🏦⛓️ On @bitsandbips, joined by @Tradeweb's Elisabeth Kirby, @CampbellJAustin, @ramahluwalia & @perkinscr97 dig into: ⚖️ Market structure chaos 🏗️ Ethereum vs Canton...
By Laura Shin
Social•Dec 16, 2025
Grab Deposit Bonuses on A
That's all the time I have for chart requests today. Hopefully we'll get some bounces at some point in the near future and charts can be more fun again :) If you're looking for a sweet exchange to trade crypto make...
By Nebraskan Gooner
Social•Dec 16, 2025
USDC, AI, and Machines Power the New Internet
USDC, AI and Machines. A match made for the new internet.
By Jeremy Allaire
Social•Dec 16, 2025
Fed Advances Crypto Master Accounts, Waller Leads
I'M EXCITED TO SEE THIS, as there's *finally* some movement on Fed master accounts for #crypto-native companies & Waller is one of the key architects of this at the Fed. The timing couldn't be better--tomorrow is his interview for Fed...
By Caitlin Long
Social•Dec 16, 2025
APT Request Highlights Continuing Altcoin Market Decline
$APT (per request) Dead altcoin chart still dying https://t.co/GPhaUJNP4F
By Nebraskan Gooner