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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 has denied reports that it froze only about 17% of the funds linked to the Upbit hack, raising questions over exchanges’ cross-border law enforcement policies.

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.