News•Dec 15, 2025
Nasdaq, Home of Coinbase, Strategy Stocks, Seeks 23-Hour Trading Amid Investor Demand
Nasdaq announced plans to file with the SEC for a 23‑hour trading schedule, extending stock and exchange‑traded product sessions to five days a week. The new timetable would run a day session from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET, a one‑hour pause, then a night session from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. ET, effectively mirroring the 24/7 rhythm of cryptocurrency markets. The proposal follows similar extended‑hour experiments by the NYSE and reflects growing investor demand for continuous market access. Nasdaq highlighted that many of its listed crypto‑related firms, such as Coinbase and Robinhood, already see active overnight trading.
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Crypto Investors Gain Critical Protection in Bankruptcy, Even as a “Conservative” Rule Threatens Liquidity
The UK Treasury has set October 2027 as the launch date for a comprehensive crypto‑asset regime that will require exchanges, custodians and other intermediaries to obtain FCA authorisation under FSMA‑style rules. The FCA’s consultation expands the regulatory perimeter to include stablecoin...
By CryptoSlate
News•Dec 15, 2025
Bitget Tests TradFi Trading with Forex, Gold and Stock Derivatives Using USDt
Bitget has opened a private beta for a TradFi trading feature that lets crypto users trade major fiat pairs, gold and stock derivatives using Tether’s USDt as collateral. The service merges traditional markets with Bitget’s existing crypto spot and derivatives...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 15, 2025
U.S. SEC Chief Warns Watchdogs Need to Be Limited in Tapping Crypto's Power to Snoop
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins warned that unchecked government access to blockchain data could turn crypto platforms into a mass‑surveillance tool, likening it to a financial panopticon. He emphasized that while crypto can enable privacy‑preserving compliance solutions, current policy gaps risk...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
UK Supreme Court Refuses BSV Appeal, Narrowing $13 Billion Lawsuit Against Crypto Exchanges
The UK Supreme Court refused to hear Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) investors' appeal, leaving in place lower‑court rulings that sharply narrowed a $13 billion lawsuit against major crypto exchanges. The decision underscores that UK courts will not enforce claims based on...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Bitcoin Parabola Breakdown Raises Chance for 80% Correction: Veteran Trader
Veteran trader Peter Brandt warned that Bitcoin has broken its long‑standing parabolic advance, a pattern that historically precedes steep corrections. The cryptocurrency is already about 20% below its all‑time high, and Brandt suggests an 80% drawdown could be possible if...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 15, 2025
BlackRock Expands Crypto Bet with 7 Senior Hires Across U.S. and Asia
BlackRock announced seven senior digital‑asset hires—six in the United States and one in Singapore—to accelerate its crypto and tokenization initiatives. The U.S. roles will expand the iShares digital‑asset ETF suite, including the $70 billion‑AUM iShares Bitcoin Trust, while the Singapore position...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Digital Asset ETPs Post Third Straight Week of Net Inflows, Led by US Demand
Crypto exchange‑traded products (ETPs) recorded $864 million in net inflows last week, with the United States contributing roughly $796 million. Bitcoin and Ether products dominated the inflows, pulling in $522 million and $338 million respectively, while Solana and XRP added modest amounts. Multi‑asset crypto...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 15, 2025
Hedera Slides to Lowest Point in a Year as Crypto Market Plunges
Hedera Hashgraph (HBAR) fell 5.8% to $0.1127, its lowest level since November 2024, after failing to breach the $0.1194 resistance. An 86% volume surge validated the ceiling but triggered a cascade of selling that pushed the price through key support zones....
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Bitcoin Hashrate Sees Sharpest Post Halving Drop Since 2024 Amid China Machine Shutdowns
Bitcoin’s 30‑day simple moving average hashrate posted its steepest post‑halving decline since April 2024, dropping about 8% after roughly 400,000 machines were shut down in China. Former Canaan chairman Jack Kong reported the offline equipment removed roughly 100 exahashes per second, pulling...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
SushiSwap Approves SUSHI Emissions Boost in Vote Controlled by Single Wallet
SushiSwap’s governance voted to raise the SUSHI token’s annual emission rate from 1.5% to as much as 5%, effectively tripling the yearly supply. The decision was dominated by a single wallet that supplied roughly 99.9% of the 5.2 million voting power,...
By The Defiant
News•Dec 15, 2025
How Bitcoin Whales Move Markets, and the Signals to Ignore
Cointelegraph’s new video examines how Bitcoin whales shaped the market in 2025, highlighting a pivotal Oct. 10 crash that erased billions in retail positions while a single whale pocketed roughly $200 million. The episode also notes a wave of dormant wallets reactivating,...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 15, 2025
Bank of America Says U.S. Banks Are Heading for Multi-Year Onchain Future
Bank of America’s latest report says U.S. banks are entering a multi‑year transition toward on‑chain finance as regulators outline a clear perimeter for stablecoins and tokenized deposits. The OCC’s conditional approval of national trust charters for five digital‑asset firms and...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Crypto ATM Operator to Expand to Texas, Citing Friendly Regulation
Bitcoin Bancorp, formerly Bullet Blockchain, announced plans to install up to 200 crypto ATMs across Texas, targeting a Q1 2026 rollout. The company highlighted Texas’ crypto‑forward stance, citing modernized money‑transmitter laws and a pro‑innovation policy environment. Texas has already become...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 15, 2025
CME Group Expands Crypto Derivatives With Spot-Quoted XRP and Solana Futures
CME Group has introduced Spot‑Quoted futures for XRP and Solana, extending its crypto derivatives suite beyond Bitcoin and Ether. The new contracts mirror existing Spot‑Quoted structures, tracking the underlying spot price directly and eliminating typical futures premiums or discounts. CME...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Ondo Finance to Offer Tokenized U.S. Stocks, ETFs on Solana Early Next Year
Ondo Finance will launch tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs on the Solana blockchain early next year, enabling 24/7 trading with near‑instant settlement. The platform already manages roughly $365 million in tokenized assets, making it the industry’s largest RWA issuer. This Solana...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Bitcoin Miner IREN’s 47% Slide Flagged as a Buying Opportunity by B. Riley
Bitcoin miner IREN has plunged 47% from its 52‑week high, yet B. Riley retains a buy rating and a $74 price target. The decline is attributed to weak AI sentiment rather than a break in fundamentals, as the company pushes a...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Prediction Markets Are Quietly Turning Into a New Asset Class, Citizens Says
Citizens Bank reports prediction markets have reached roughly $10 billion in monthly volume, positioning them as a nascent asset class despite being tiny versus $10 trillion U.S. equities. Platforms such as Robinhood, Kalshi and Polymarket are expanding beyond sports into macro‑economic and...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Most Influential: Sergey Nazarov
Sergey Nazarov, co‑founder of Chainlink, spent 2025 expanding the oracle network into a full‑stack infrastructure for tokenized funds, cross‑chain messaging, and real‑world data integration. Chainlink now underpins more than $27 trillion in on‑chain transaction value and powers over 70% of DeFi...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Most Influential: Todd Blanche
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a four‑page memo directing the Department of Justice to pause "regulation by prosecution" of digital assets until regulators provide clear frameworks. The crypto industry praised the guidance as a move toward certainty, though attorneys...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Most Influential: ZachXBT
ZachXBT remains the crypto world’s unofficial detective, using on‑chain forensics to expose fraud and recover victim funds. In 2025 he uncovered a high‑profile whale who was a convicted fraudster, linked a Monero price surge to a massive hack, and estimated...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Most Influential: Pavel Durov
Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov is positioning the messaging platform as a mainstream crypto on‑ramp by embedding a native TON blockchain wallet directly into the app. In 2025 the company raised $1.7 billion through convertible bonds, drawing interest from BlackRock, Mubadala and...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Most Influential: Roman Storm
The Manhattan trial of Tornado Cash co‑founder Roman Storm concluded with a guilty verdict on the unlicensed money‑transmitting conspiracy charge, while the other two counts hung. Prosecutors portrayed Storm as profiting from illicit use of his privacy‑preserving mixer, whereas the...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Kula Brings $50M of Impact Investing Onchain With Community-Governed RWA Model
Kula, a decentralized investment firm, has placed $50 million of impact‑investing capital on‑chain using a community‑governed real‑world asset (RWA) model. The firm issues governance tokens tied to projects such as a Zambian limestone concession, a Nepali hydropower plant, and East African...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Bitcoin Doesn’t Need Another Bull Run. It Needs An Economy
Bitcoin’s network is increasingly idle, with over 60% of coins unmoved for more than a year, causing on‑chain activity and fee income to drop. Miner rewards now rely heavily on block subsidies, while transaction fees contribute less than 1% of...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Ripple Expands $1.3B RLUSD Stablecoin to Ethereum L2s via Wormhole in Multichain Push
Ripple announced that its $1.3 billion RLUSD stablecoin will be deployed on several Ethereum layer‑2 networks—including Optimism, Base, Ink, and Unichain—using Wormhole’s Native Token Transfers protocol. The pilot phase will begin now, with a broader rollout slated for next year pending...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Real-World Asset DeFi Moves Into Sports Finance With Tokenized Football Club Revenues
The Decentral protocol on the Chiliz blockchain is launching a DeFi model that tokenizes football clubs' future media and broadcasting revenues. By converting these receivables into on‑chain assets, clubs can tap a $1 million USDC liquidity pool with a 90‑day lock‑up...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Over $17 Trillion Missing when On-Chain “Proof of Reserve” Standards Are Applied to Trump’s Tariff Data
President Donald Trump asserted the United States has collected roughly $18 trillion in tariff revenue, a figure far beyond recorded customs duties. Treasury data shows FY2025 customs duties at about $195 billion, indicating a massive discrepancy. The claim blends actual revenue with...
By CryptoSlate
News•Dec 15, 2025
Michael Saylor's Strategy Made Second Consecutive $1B Bitcoin Purchase Last Week
MicroStrategy (MSTR) completed its second back‑to‑back roughly $1 billion Bitcoin purchase, acquiring 10,645 BTC for $980.3 million at an average $92,098 per coin. The buy raised the firm’s total holdings to 671,268 BTC, representing a cumulative $50.33 billion investment at an average cost...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Bitcoin's Parabolic Arc Snaps: Trader Peter Brandt Eyes $25K Crash Floor
Veteran trader Peter Brandt warns that Bitcoin’s signature parabolic rally has broken, opening the possibility of a sharp correction toward a $25,000 floor. The cryptocurrency peaked at $126,000 in October 2025 before retreating to just under $90,000, slicing through the...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Weekend Sell-Off Hits EdgeX’s Nasdaq-Linked Perp as $13M in Longs Liquidated
A weekend sell‑off in EdgeX’s Nasdaq‑100‑linked perpetual futures market triggered roughly $13 million in liquidations. A newly created wallet executed a six‑hour TWAP short of about $10 million, pushing the XYZ100 price down more than 3.5 % in minutes. The cascade caused a...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
Fear and Greed Index in Fear 30% of the Past Year, Bitcoin Back in Extreme Fear
Bitcoin’s Crypto Fear and Greed Index has slipped to 17, placing the market in extreme‑fear territory. Over the past twelve months, fear or extreme fear accounted for more than 30% of all readings, underscoring heightened investor anxiety. A November death‑cross...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 15, 2025
XRP Is Flooding Ethereum and Solana, but This Invisible Layer Exposes Your Wallet to a $1.5 Billion Risk
Hex Trust launched a $100 million wrapped XRP (wXRP) on Ethereum, Solana, Optimism and HyperEVM, adding to Coinbase’s cbXRP on Base and Axelar’s eXRP on the XRPL EVM sidechain. The move gives XRP access to deep DeFi liquidity, especially through RLUSD...
By CryptoSlate
News•Dec 15, 2025
Crypto Coin Minute for December 15th, 2025 at 05:15 AM Pacific Time.
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By Crypto Coin Minute
News•Dec 14, 2025
Firedancer Is Live, but Solana Is Violating the One Safety Rule Ethereum Treats as Non-Negotiable
Firedancer, a ground‑up C++ validator client built by Jump Crypto, went live on Solana mainnet in December 2024 after a 100‑day, 50,000‑block test phase. The client is completely independent from the Rust‑based Agave implementation, creating a separate failure domain for the...
By CryptoSlate
News•Dec 14, 2025
Firestorm Erupts in Aave Governance Forum over CoW Swap Fees
A dispute erupted in the Aave DAO after a member revealed that fees generated by the new CoW Swap integration—estimated at $200,000 per week, or roughly $10 million annually—were being sent to a private address controlled by Aave Labs instead of the...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 14, 2025
Cardano Now Has Institutional-Grade Infrastructure, but a Glaring $40 Million Liquidity Gap Threatens to Stall Growth
Cardano has deployed the Pyth Network oracle under its new Pentad governance, shifting from push‑based to pull‑based price feeds that update every 400 milliseconds. The low‑latency oracle unlocks institutional‑grade DeFi primitives such as order‑book perpetuals and real‑time RWA products. Despite the...
By CryptoSlate
News•Dec 14, 2025
Compliance, Credibility, and Consumer Trust in the New Age of Crypto ATMs
Crypto ATMs have surged to nearly 40,000 worldwide, turning cash‑based kiosks into a primary on‑ramp for digital assets. As the network expands, regulators and industry players are tightening AML/KYC, transaction limits, and real‑time scam warnings to protect consumers, especially seniors....
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 14, 2025
Why Oil-Rich Investors Are Fueling Bitcoin’s Next Liquidity Wave
Oil‑linked investors from the Gulf are increasingly allocating capital to Bitcoin through regulated spot ETFs, notably via sovereign wealth funds and family offices. In Q3 2025 Abu Dhabi’s investment council raised its IBIT holdings to roughly $518 million, illustrating the scale...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 14, 2025
From Wall Street to the World Cup: How Football Became Crypto’s Biggest Gateway Drug
Bitcoin dropped over 25% in a month, yet institutions doubled down, treating the cryptocurrency as a long‑term reserve asset. Simultaneously, football’s fan‑token ecosystem—dubbed SportFi—has expanded to nearly 100 clubs, generating daily trading volumes near $1 billion. Token prices now move minute‑by‑minute...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 14, 2025
Spanish Authorities Bust Crypto Kidnapping Ring After Deadly Attack
Spanish police dismantled a transnational kidnapping ring that targeted a couple for access to their cryptocurrency wallets, resulting in the murder of the male victim. Five suspects were arrested in Spain and four accomplices were charged in Denmark, with two...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 14, 2025
Small-Cap Crypto Tokens Just Hit a Humiliating Four-Year Low, Proving the “Alt Season” Thesis Is Officially Dead
Small‑cap crypto indices have slumped to four‑year lows, with the MarketVector Digital Assets 100 Small‑Cap Index and CoinDesk 80 losing roughly 40% YTD in 2025. By contrast, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq‑100 delivered double‑digit gains of about 17‑18% each year, compounding...
By CryptoSlate
News•Dec 14, 2025
Bitcoin’s Four-Year Cycle Is Intact, but Driven by Politics and Liquidity: Analyst
Bitcoin’s traditional four‑year cycle remains intact, but its drivers have shifted from the protocol‑based halving to political events and liquidity conditions, according to 10x Research analyst Markus Thielen. He points to the 2013, 2017 and 2021 peaks, all occurring in...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 14, 2025
Standard Chartered, Coinbase Deepen Alliance to Build Institutional Crypto Infrastructure
Standard Chartered and Coinbase have broadened their alliance to create a full‑stack crypto infrastructure for institutional clients. The expanded scope covers trading, prime brokerage, custody, staking and lending services, leveraging the bank’s cross‑border banking expertise and Coinbase’s institutional platform. The...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 14, 2025
Stablecoin Usage in Venezuela Likely to Keep Expanding Amid Economic Instability
TRM Labs reports that Venezuela’s stablecoin usage is set to expand as economic instability persists. The bolívar’s ongoing devaluation and sanctions have pushed citizens to rely on peer‑to‑peer platforms and USDT for payments and remittances. Venezuela ranks 18th globally and...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 14, 2025
Crypto Coin Minute for December 14th, 2025 at 08:17 AM Pacific Time.
The SEC released new educational material aimed at retail investors, emphasizing the growing importance of custody decisions in the crypto market. Michael Saylor reiterated that Bitcoin hoarding will persist, arguing it secures the asset’s position within the Nasdaq‑100 index. At...
By Crypto Coin Minute
News•Dec 13, 2025
BTC OGs Selling Covered Calls Is the Main Culprit Suppressing Price: Analyst
Analyst Jeff Park warns that long‑term Bitcoin whales are suppressing spot BTC prices by selling covered call options. Market makers buying these calls must hedge by offloading Bitcoin, creating sell‑side pressure despite strong ETF demand. The strategy has helped Bitcoin...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 13, 2025
The Securities and Exchange Commission Publishes Crypto Custody Guide
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued its first investor bulletin on crypto custody, outlining best practices for wallet storage and risk management. The guide contrasts self‑custody with third‑party custodians, highlighting issues such as rehypothecation and asset commingling. It...
By Cointelegraph
News•Dec 13, 2025
These Three Metrics Show Bitcoin Found Strong Support Near $80,000
Bitcoin has rebounded above $90,000, a 15% gain from its November low near $80,000, while three on‑chain cost‑basis metrics converged around the $80k‑$84k range. The True Market Mean sits near $81,000, the U.S. spot ETF cost basis is about $83,844,...
By CoinDesk
News•Dec 13, 2025
Bitcoin’s $55 Billion Options Market Is Now Obsessing over One Specific Date that Forces a $100k Showdown
Bitcoin’s options market now holds roughly $55.8 billion in open interest, with Deribit accounting for about 84% of that exposure. The vast majority of contracts converge on a single expiry—December 26, 2025—centered around the $100,000 strike. Gamma is tightly packed between $86,000 and...
By CryptoSlate