Hedera Rises 1.8% to $0.1372 as Government Adoption Momentum Builds
Hedera (HBAR) rose 1.8% to $0.1372, trading within a tight $0.0067 range that reflects low volatility and institutional accumulation. The price action coincides with heightened discussion of Hedera’s government partnerships, notably Georgia’s Ministry of Justice plan to move its national real‑estate registry onto the network. Technical indicators show higher lows and a narrow consolidation band, suggesting the market is poised for either a continuation higher or a brief pause. Volume spikes of 196 million tokens underline growing institutional interest.
The Whale Awakening: Why Dormant Crypto Giants Are Suddenly Back in Motion
In July 2025, eight historic Satoshi-era wallets, each holding 10,000 BTC, moved coins for the first time in 14 years, shifting a total of 80,000 BTC—about $8.6 billion. On‑chain data from Lookonchain and Whale Alert show that over 62,800 BTC from wallets older than seven...
Surf Raises $15M to Build AI Model Tailored to Crypto Research
Surf, a San Francisco‑based AI platform for digital‑asset research, secured $15 million in a round led by Pantera Capital with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Digital Currency Group. The capital will fund Surf 2.0, a crypto‑specific large language model, and expand its...
ICP Extends Decline as Range Support Breaks, Testing New Lows Near $3.48
Internet Computer (ICP) token slid 5% in the past 24 hours, closing at $3.4945 after briefly touching $3.7605. The move broke key short‑term support levels around $3.45‑$3.50, pushing the price toward new lows near $3.48. Trading volume spiked to 2.6 million...
GameStop Posted $9.4M Loss on Bitcoin Holdings in Q3
GameStop disclosed a $9.2 million loss on its Bitcoin portfolio, leaving the digital‑asset stash valued at $519.4 million at the close of Q3. The retailer still holds 4,710 BTC purchased in May‑June using proceeds from a $1.3 billion debt offering, and has made no...
Strategy Pushes Back on MSCI’s Digital Asset Exclusion Proposal
Strategy, led by Michael Saylor, sent a formal letter to MSCI protesting its proposal to exclude companies whose digital‑asset holdings exceed 50% of total assets from global indexes. The firm argues that its Bitcoin‑backed credit instruments and software operations make...
Most Influential: Pump.fun
Pump.fun, launched in early 2024, lets users mint Solana tokens for under two cents with no code. By mid‑2025 it powered more than 80% of new Solana tokens, driving over $150 billion in DEX volume and $138 million in monthly revenue at...
Most Influential: Rushi Manche
Movement Labs co‑founder Rushi Manche was ousted after a token‑dump scandal that shook the DeFi sector. Internal documents showed a contract with the obscure firm Rentech, granting it control of roughly 66 million MOVE tokens—about 5 % of the total supply. The...
Most Influential: The Lazarus Group
The Lazarus Group, a North Korean state‑sanctioned hacking collective, has stolen over $2 billion in cryptocurrency by mid‑2025, surpassing previous records. In 2025 alone it executed the $1.5 billion Bybit breach and a $36 million Upbit hack, exploiting developer machines and multisignature interfaces....
Most Influential: Hayden Davis
Hayden Davis, a self‑styled crypto provocateur, became the face of the 2025 memecoin collapse by openly flaunting manipulation tactics and spearheading the ill‑fated Libra token. His public interviews and on‑chain activity revealed how insiders extract liquidity from naïve retail traders...
Ether Digital Asset Treasury Companies Outpace Peers as Crypto Tailwinds Build: B. Riley
B. Riley reports that ether‑focused digital‑asset treasury companies (DATCOs) have outperformed peers since November 20, as crypto markets rose roughly 10% and risk appetite improved. Median mNAV for the 25 tracked DATCOs climbed to about 1.0× from 0.9×, reflecting higher enterprise values...
BONK Slips as Governance Vote Nears, Testing Key Technical Support
BONK fell 3.94% to $0.000009492, slipping below the $0.00001 psychological level as trading surged ahead of a Dec 11 dYdX governance vote. Volume jumped 137% to 1.61 trillion tokens, testing resistance at $0.000010273 before failing. The token found temporary support near $0.00000938,...
Teacher’s Union Says U.S. Senate Crypto Bill Puts Pensions and Economy at Risk: CNBC
America’s second‑largest teachers’ union, the AFT, has urged the Senate Banking Committee to reconsider the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, arguing it endangers the pensions of its 1.8 million members. The union’s letter contends the draft offers scant protection against fraud and...
BNB Lags Wider Market Despite Volume Surge Resistance Levels Hold
BNB rose over 1% in the past 24 hours, reaching just above $890, but it lagged behind the broader crypto market, which gained 2.5% in the same period. Trading volume spiked 51% above the weekly average, indicating heightened activity that...
Eric Trump's American Bitcoin and Anthony Pompliano's ProCap Add to BTC Holdings
American Bitcoin Corp (ABTC), co‑founded by Eric Trump, added 416 bitcoin to its reserve, bringing total holdings to 4,783 BTC and lifting its Satoshis‑Per‑Share metric to 507, a 17% increase. The stock edged higher but remains below pre‑crash levels after...
Telegram Ring Ran Pump-and-Dump Network That Netted $800K in a Month: Solidus Labs
Solidus Labs uncovered a Telegram‑based ring called PumpCell that executed coordinated, multi‑chain pump‑and‑dump schemes on Solana, BNB Chain and other layer‑2 networks, netting about $800,000 in profit during October 2025. The group used freshly deployed tokens, liquidity seeding and sniper...
Stablecoins Break Into Top 3 Growth Drivers for Web3 Gaming: BGA 2025 Report
The Blockchain Gaming Alliance’s 2025 State of the Industry Report places stablecoin adoption among the top three growth drivers for Web3 gaming, accounting for 27.3% of developer sentiment. High‑quality game launches (29.5%) and revenue‑driven business models (27.5%) round out the...
Helium Expands to Brazil With Mambo WiFi in DePIN Breakthrough
Helium announced a joint venture with Brazil’s Mambo WiFi, tapping the provider’s roughly 40,000 Wi‑Fi hotspots to launch its decentralized wireless network in the country. The DePIN model, built on Solana, lets individuals and businesses run hotspots that earn crypto...
Japan Plans Major Shift as Crypto Moves From Payments to Securities Law
Japan’s Financial Services Agency announced a plan to shift crypto‑asset oversight from the Payment Services Act to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, effectively treating digital tokens as securities. The proposal tightens disclosure requirements for initial exchange offerings, mandating pre‑sale...
Bitcoin Volatility Is Still Compressing, Dimming Year-End Rally Outlook
Bitcoin’s 30‑day implied volatility index (BVIV) fell to 49%, echoing a similar decline in the S&P 500 VIX, which slipped to 17% since late November. The compression of volatility reduces the likelihood of a meaningful upside breakout before year‑end, according to...
Superstate Opens Onchain Capital Raises for SEC-Registered Public Companies
Superstate has launched Direct Issuance Programs (DIPs) that let SEC‑registered public companies raise capital on Ethereum and Solana using stablecoins, delivering tokenized shares instantly. The platform leverages Superstate’s SEC‑registered transfer‑agent infrastructure to update shareholder registries in real time, ensuring compliance...
Superstate Rolls Out Direct Stock Issuance for Public Companies on Ethereum, Solana
Superstate has launched a Direct Issuance Program that lets SEC‑registered public companies issue tokenized shares on Ethereum and Solana, accepting stablecoins as payment. The platform updates shareholder records in real time through Superstate’s SEC‑registered transfer‑agent infrastructure. First issuers are slated...
Blockstream Connects Lightning and Liquid for Faster, Private Bitcoin Payments
Blockstream has updated its Green mobile app to enable trustless atomic swaps between Bitcoin’s Lightning and Liquid networks. The feature lets users settle Lightning invoices directly from Liquid (LBTC) balances, eliminating the need to open or fund Lightning channels. Swaps...
Polymarket Faces Major Credibility Crisis After Whales Forced a “YES” UFO Vote without Evidence
Polymarket resolved a $16 million market on a "YES" outcome that Trump would declassify UFO files in 2025, despite no public evidence of such declassification. The settlement was driven by late‑session near‑par purchases and an UMA Optimistic Oracle vote, where token‑holders,...
Ether, Silver in the Spotlight: Crypto Daybook Americas
Ether’s cross‑pair with Bitcoin hit 0.036, its strongest level since Oct. 27, while ETH, ADA, XMR and ZEC rallied over 7% in the past 24 hours. The gains are underpinned by expectations of a 25‑basis‑point Fed rate cut and a dovish tone...
Pineapple Financial Starts Migrating Its $10B Mortgage Portfolio Onchain via Injective
Pineapple Financial, a Toronto‑based fintech listed on NYSE American, has begun tokenizing its mortgage portfolio on the Injective blockchain. It has already placed data for about $412 million in funded mortgages on‑chain and plans to migrate its full $10 billion portfolio of...
Vitalik Buterin Says Ethereum Can Handle Temporary Loss of Finality
Ethereum co‑founder Vitalik Buterin downplayed a recent finality loss caused by a Prysm client bug, stating that occasional delays are acceptable as long as the wrong block isn’t finalized. He emphasized that the network continues to process transactions even when...
Metaplanet Stock Jumps 12% as mNAV Climbs to 1.17, Highest Level Since Crypto Crisis
Metaplanet’s multiple‑to‑net‑asset‑value (mNAV) climbed to 1.17, the highest level since the crypto‑liquidity crisis of October 2023. The rise reflects its 30,823 BTC holdings, now worth roughly $2.86 billion against an enterprise value of $3.33 billion. Over the same period the stock jumped 12%...
Solana Hits Liquidity Reset That Preceded Every Major Rally This Year
Solana’s on‑chain liquidity index has collapsed to its cyclical floor, mirroring the near‑zero readings that preceded the market’s biggest rallies in March, June and August. This marks the fourth liquidity reset of 2025, a pattern that analysts associate with a...
Silk Road-Linked Bitcoin Wallets Move $3M to New Address
Silk Road‑linked Bitcoin wallets transferred roughly $3.14 million to a new, unidentified address, marking the most substantial on‑chain activity in five years. The primary wallets still hold about $38.4 million, while analysts estimate another $55 million may sit in unseized wallets tied to...
Animoca, Solv to Help Japanese Bitcoin Companies Generate Yield
Web3 gaming leader Animoca Brands has teamed up with DeFi platform Solv Protocol to enable Japanese corporations to earn yield on their Bitcoin holdings. The collaboration leverages Solv’s Bitcoin‑backed wrapper and lending infrastructure to offer annual returns between 4% and...
Binance Co-CEO Yi He’s WeChat Account Hacked to Push Meme Coin MUBARA
Binance co‑CEO Yi He’s WeChat account was compromised and used to falsely endorse the obscure memecoin MUBARA, triggering a rapid price surge on decentralized exchanges. Attackers accumulated roughly 21.16 million tokens, spent about 19,479 USDT to buy them, and then sold nearly...
Make Crypto Games Great Again? ‘Trump Billionaires Club’ Launches This Month
Bill Zanker’s Freedom 45 Games is set to release the Trump‑themed mobile title “Trump Billionaires Club” on the Apple App Store on Dec 30, leveraging a licensing deal for the former president’s name. The game blends a Monopoly‑style board with cryptocurrency features,...
Allora Integrates the TRON Network, Bringing Decentralized AI-Powered Forecasts to Developers
Allora announced that its Predictive Intelligence layer is now live on the TRON network, delivering decentralized, AI‑powered forecasts directly on‑chain. The integration offers programmable inference feeds that update every five minutes to 24 hours ahead, covering volatility, liquidity and risk signals....
Zcash Is Discreetly Sitting in US Government Wallets, Creating a Bizarre Conflict for the Regulators Attacking Privacy
The U.S. Department of Justice holds roughly $1.5 million in Zcash, seized from the 2017 AlphaBay takedown, according to Arkham Intelligence. This modest holding sits alongside a $30 billion Bitcoin cache, highlighting a paradox where regulators possess a privacy‑centric asset they are...
Blockchain Trial on Canton Network Tests Collateral Reuse with Tokenized US Treasurys
Digital Asset and a consortium of banks and trading firms completed a second on‑chain US Treasury financing round on the Canton Network, showcasing real‑time collateral reuse and the inclusion of multiple stablecoins. Five transactions demonstrated that tokenized Treasurys can be...
Ethereum Network Sees 62% Drop in Fees: Is ETH Price at Risk?
Ethereum’s base‑layer activity cooled in November, with 30‑day network fees plunging 62% and total value locked falling to $76 billion. Despite the slowdown, layer‑2 solutions surged—Base transactions jumped 108% and Polygon rose 81%—helping sustain overall network momentum. The recent Fusaka upgrade,...
New ETF Proposal Bets Bitcoin Returns Are Made After Hours
Tidal Trust filed a Form N‑1A registration to launch two ETFs that will hold Bitcoin only during U.S. overnight hours, buying at market close and selling at the next open. The Nicholas Bitcoin and Treasuries AfterDark ETF will allocate cash,...
US Bank Regulator Clears National Banks to Facilitate Crypto Transactions
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued new guidance that classifies facilitating customer cryptocurrency trades as a legitimate banking activity. This interpretation expands the range of services national banks may offer under the existing National Bank Act,...
XRP Underperforms Market as Sudden Bitcoin Surge Forces $387M of Liquidations
Bitcoin surged past $94,000, sparking a market‑wide rally that forced $387 million in liquidations across major crypto derivatives. XRP rose from $2.08 to $2.15, posting a 4.71% gain, but underperformed the broader digital‑asset index by 1.55%. The token’s technical picture remains...
Aptos Rises 8% After Breaking Through $1.80 Resistance
Aptos (APT) surged 7.8% to $1.91, breaking the $1.80 resistance level on Dec 9, 2025. Trading volume spiked to 4.83 million tokens, 30% above the 30‑day average and 142% above the 24‑hour norm, indicating strong institutional participation. Technical analysis shows solid support...
Ether Surges 8%, Outpacing Bitcoin Gains Amid Staking ETF, Tokenization Optimism
Ethereum’s native token ether jumped 8.4% to near $3,400, outpacing Bitcoin’s 4.5% rise and pushing the ETH/BTC ratio to its highest level since October. The rally was spurred by BlackRock’s recent filing for an iShares Ethereum Staking Trust ETF, which...
China’s $71 Billion Treasury Dump Exposes a Critical Gap Between Bitcoin’s Narrative and Central Bank Reality
China’s official‑sector balance sheet trimmed $71.5 billion of U.S. Treasuries between September 2024 and September 2025, the biggest cut among BRICS members, while India, Brazil and Saudi Arabia also reduced holdings. Total foreign Treasury holdings nonetheless rose to about $9.25 trillion as private investors...
SEC Approves U.S.’ Second Crypto Index ETP with Bitwise’s BITW
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved Bitwise’s BITW as the second crypto index exchange‑traded product (ETP) to list on NYSE Arca. BITW tracks the ten largest digital assets and manages roughly $1.25 billion, offering investors a single vehicle for...
Cascade Unveils 24/7 Neo-Brokerage Offering Perpetuals on Cryptos, U.S. Stocks
Cascade, a New York‑based fintech startup, announced the launch of the first 24/7 neo‑brokerage that lets retail traders use a single margin account to trade perpetual markets tied to cryptocurrencies, major U.S. stocks and private companies such as OpenAI and...
Swapper Finance Launches Card Deposits to DeFi via Mastercard
Swapper Finance has introduced “Direct Deposits,” a feature that lets users fund DeFi applications directly with Mastercard‑linked cards. The service is powered by Chainlink’s Runtime Environment, which handles identity verification, compliance, token swaps and on‑chain settlement. Initial launch partners include...
Circle Moves Toward Privacy-Focused Stablecoin with USDCx Project
Circle is developing a privacy‑enhanced version of its USDC stablecoin, called USDCx, in partnership with privacy‑focused blockchain firm Aleo. The token aims to deliver "banking‑level" confidentiality while still allowing Circle to furnish compliance records to regulators. Targeting banks and enterprise...
Bitcoin’s New “Self-Bribe” Code Lets You Build Sobriety Wallets that Pay Your Enemies if You Break a Promise
Bitcoin’s new self‑bribe code leverages Taproot, Miniscript and Discrete Log Contracts to let users escrow funds that are automatically released or slashed based on oracle‑verified behavior. A sobriety wallet example funds a user after six months unless an oracle records...
Senator Lummis Anticipates Crypto Market Structure Markup Next Week
Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis, a leading Senate Banking Committee member, said the Responsible Financial Innovation Act will be marked up next week, before the congressional holiday break. The markup will be the first formal vote on the crypto market‑structure bill...
Will the ETF Era Usher in the End of Crypto Tribalism?
The article argues that the rise of crypto exchange‑traded products (ETPs) is eroding traditional crypto tribalism. By standardizing custody, clearing and distribution, ETFs bundle Bitcoin, Ethereum and emerging tokens into a single regulated exposure channel. This infrastructure convergence has driven...