Saylor hints at Morgan Stanley ties amid Strategy delisting concerns
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Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, hinted at a possible link with Morgan Stanley as his Bitcoin-heavy company faces scrutiny over potential index exclusions. On December 17, Saylor posted an image on X alongside Strategy CEO Phong Le, standing in front of what appeared to be a Morgan Stanley office. The post surfaced as concerns […]

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Analyst: Bitcoin $70K Dip Could Reset Cycle, Not Signal Bear Market
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  TLDR Analysts place the current downside risk within a solid range between $65,000 and $75,000. A bullish divergence on the three-day chart suggests a local bottom is forming imminently. Fidelity’s model projects that this growth cycle could extend strongly into 2026. The weakness in the price of the pioneer cryptocurrency this week revived fears […]

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State of Memecoins 2025: From $150B Mania to a Sharper, Shifting Market
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The memecoin market has been through a full cycle in less than two years. From explosive growth and cultural dominance to sharp contraction and changing investor behavior, 2025 is shaping up as a year of reflection for one of crypto’s most volatile sectors. New data from CoinGecko’s State of Memecoins Report 2025 shows just how […]

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Solana (SOL) Fights to Hold $120—Is the Next Move Lower?
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Solana failed to settle above $132 and nosedived. SOL price is now consolidating losses below $130 and might decline further below $120. SOL price started a fresh decline below $130 and $128 against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $128 and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There is a key bearish trend […]

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China’s Mining Crackdown Drives Bitcoin Hashrate to Three-Month Low
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Bitcoin miners in China’s Xinjiang province are unplugging following another crackdown by Beijing this week. As many as 400,000 mining machines have already gone offline, causing a slump in hashrates. Bitcoin is going down because selling pressure is stronger and coming from deeper sources, said analyst Bull Theory on Wednesday. “One major reason is China’s […]

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Kraken Taps Alpaca for xStocks After Backed Finance Acquisition
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Kraken’s xStocks, which tokenizes real-world equities, is expanding its partnership with Alpaca. The acquisition follows recent announcement by the crypto exchange that it had agreed to acquire Backed Finance, the firm behind the issuance of xStocks. Expanding Tokenized Equities Kraken named Alpaca as its preferred partner for sourcing and custodying the equities backing xStocks on […]

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CFTC Chair Caroline Pham to Step Down and Join <b>Cryptocurrency</b> Company
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Caroline Pham, the interim chair of the US Commodity Futures Commission (CFTC), will be moving to a cryptocurrency company.

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$1.9T Norway Wealth Fund Backs Metaplanet’s Bitcoin Expansion
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Key Takeaways: Norway’s $1.9 trillion sovereign wealth fund has backed all of Metaplanet’s proposals tied to Bitcoin-related capital expansion. The vote supports share issuance and capital changes that strengthen Metaplanet’s balance sheet and Bitcoin strategy. The move highlights how large institutions are gaining Bitcoin exposure indirectly through listed companies. Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has quietly […]

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Crypto ETPs could see a flood of liquidations by 2027: Analyst
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Many of the crypto ETP applications awaiting SEC approval will launch in 2026, but a lot of those won’t survive beyond 2027, says Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart.

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Ripple Celebrates RLUSD Ascent: ‘We’ve Gone From 0 to Top 5 USD Stablecoin in Record Time’
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Ripple’s RLUSD stormed into the top tier of U.S. dollar stablecoins in just one year, posting explosive market cap growth, deep regulatory alignment and fast-expanding institutional adoption that is reshaping enterprise crypto liquidity worldwide. Ripple Marks One-Year RLUSD Ascent From Zero to Top 5 USD Stablecoin Bullish sentiment around Ripple USD (RLUSD) accelerated as Ripple […]

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Is Bitcoin Carnage Tomorrow? 'Quad Witch' Phenomenon
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Bitcoin might face another volatility spike, which is going to create serious issues for some traders.

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Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Backs Metaplanet’s Bitcoin Strategy
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Bitcoin Magazine Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Backs Metaplanet’s Bitcoin Strategy Norway’s Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the manager of the country’s $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund, has voted in favor of all five management proposals at Metaplanet’s upcoming Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on Dec. 22, endorsing the firm’s bitcoin treasury strategy. NBIM, which held roughly […]

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Optimism Grows In Crypto Market Structure Bill After Wednesday’s Senate Banking Meeting
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On Wednesday, a bipartisan meeting of the Senate Banking Committee, led by Senator Tim Scott, offered a cautiously optimistic outlook for discussions surrounding the anticipated crypto market structure bill.  Despite the absence of any markup hearings scheduled for this week, industry representatives and senators engaged in what many considered a productive dialogue regarding the evolving […]

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MSCI’s crypto treasury rules could spur $15B of forced selling
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Analysts estimated that crypto treasury firms face up to $11.6 billion in outflows if MSCI excluded them from its indexes.

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Chainlink and Solana Dominate Developer Activity in Solana Ecosystem
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TLDR Chainlink leads the ranking for building on Solana based on GitHub events. Solana maintains second place, prioritizing the maintenance of its base layer. The ecosystem is currently focused on robust infrastructure and oracles over commercial applications. A recent report by Santiment reveals that development activity in the Solana ecosystem is reaching unprecedented levels of […]

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Coin Market Cap Highlights the Upcoming Crypto Coins: Will Apeing, Brett, and Dogecoin Lead the List Before 2026 Arrives?
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Crypto has a habit of rewarding the bold while humbling the cautious. Just when charts look boring, and timelines feel quiet, early capital begins shifting beneath the surface. That is usually when the next rotation starts forming. Dogecoin has recently stabilized after a liquidity reset, while Brett continues to swing on sentiment alone, and attention […]

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Solana Absorbs One of the Largest DDoS Attacks Ever Recorded
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Solana confirmed on X that its network has been under a sustained Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack for over a week, with traffic peaking near 6 terabits per second. By scale, Solana says the incident ranks as the fourth-largest attack ever recorded across any distributed system. That number alone is extreme. But the more […]

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Ethereum Network Slumps to 12-Month Low: What the Retail Exodus Means
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Bears have pushed Ethereum’s (ETH) price below $2,850 on Thursday, amid a broader market downturn. Retail absence has also pushed Ethereum into a low-activity regime. But similar conditions in the past have often appeared near structural bottoms. Ethereum’s Retail Users Have Gone Quiet According to CryptoQuant’s latest analysis, Ethereum’s network activity has fallen to a […]

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EVAA is available for trading!
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We’re thrilled to announce that EVAA is available for trading on Kraken! Funding and trading EVAA trading is live as of December 17, 2025. To add an asset to your Kraken account, navigate to Funding, select the asset you’re after, and hit ‘Deposit’.  Make sure to deposit your tokens into networks supported by Kraken. Deposits […]

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Coinbase Enters Prediction Markets as the Amazonification of Financial Platforms Gathers Pace
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Coinbase is entering the prediction markets business through a partnership with specialist exchange Kalshi. The move marks another step away from a crypto-only model toward a broader, multi-asset ecosystem, reflecting a wider industry shift toward all-in-one financial platforms. Platforms built around a single asset class are evolving into multi-asset environments designed to increase engagement and […]

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SDA church entangled in collapsed crypto trading platform – Business Daily
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A cryptocurrency is a digital form of money that is not issued or controlled by any monetary authority and is traded online via digital exchanges …

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Tether Leads $8M Deal as Lightning Payments Hit $1.5B Volume, Pushing USDT Deeper into Bitcoin Rails
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Key Takeaways: Tether led an $8 million strategic investment in Speed to scale Lightning-native, stablecoin-powered payments. Speed already processes over $1.5 billion annually and serves 1.2 million users and merchants worldwide. The deal strengthens USDT’s role in real-world Bitcoin payments, targeting merchants, creators, and enterprises. Tether is doubling down on Bitcoin-aligned infrastructure. The stablecoin giant […]

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UK Crypto Ownership Falls, but Wealth Concentration Rises, FCA Poll Finds
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UK cryptocurrency ownership dropped to 8% in 2025 compared to 12% in the previous year. Wealth is becoming more concentrated as small-scale holdings decline while higher-value portfolios increase. The FCA is currently consulting on new industry regulations following the formal legal recognition of crypto as property. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published new consumer […]

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DTCC Pushes U.S. Treasurys On-Chain as Tokenization Becomes Core Market Infrastructure
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DTCC is moving U.S. Treasury securities on-chain, signaling a pivotal shift as regulated tokenization advances from concept to core market infrastructure, unlocking faster settlement, new liquidity pathways, and scalable blockchain adoption across global capital markets. DTCC and Canton Network Advance Tokenized US Treasurys With SEC Clearance in Place Blockchain-based market infrastructure is gaining momentum as […]

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Ethereum (ETH) Price Analysis for December 17
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Can buyers hold the rate of Ethereum (ETH) above $3,000 this week?

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Jeff Booth, Oliver Velez, and Bitcoin Beach Founder Mike Peterson to Speak at Bitcoin Medellín 2026
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Bitcoin Magazine Jeff Booth, Oliver Velez, and Bitcoin Beach Founder Mike Peterson to Speak at Bitcoin Medellín 2026 The second Edition of the Bitcoin Medellin Conference is coming. The small but high signal conference is set in the City of Eternal Spring, Medellin, a tourism hot spot for the Latin American countries, featuring rich food, […]

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Ethereum needs simple explanation to see true trustlessness: Buterin
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Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum needs to boost the number of people who can understand the entire blockchain, and it can “get better at this by making the protocol simpler.”

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Ethereum Risks Slide To $2,000 If December Closes Below This Level: Analyst
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A cryptocurrency analyst has explained where Ethereum could go next based on a long-term Parallel Channel forming in its monthly price chart. Ethereum Has Been Trading Inside A Parallel Channel For The Last Few Years In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has talked about a long-term pattern that Ethereum has appeared to […]

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ASTER Tanks 22% as Key Support Breaks: What’s Next?
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ASTER is trading at around $0.74 after falling over 22% over the last seven days. The drop continued with an 8% decline in the past 24 hours. Consequently, the recent swap occurred after a noticeable technical failure as the price dumped below its important support area of $0.85 to $0.9. The selling pressure was high […]

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Preventing mobile performance regressions with Maestro
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Previously we have written about how we adopted the React Native New Architecture as one way to boost our performance. Before we dive into how we detect regressions, let’s first explain how we define performance. Mobile performance vitals In browsers there is already an industry standard set of metrics to measure performance in the Core […]

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<b>Cryptocurrency</b> Stocks To Watch Now – December 16th – MarketBeat
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Galaxy Digital, Bitfarms, HIVE Digital Technologies, Digi Power X, Soluna, ZenaTech, and Bitcoin Depot are the seven Cryptocurrency stocks to …

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XRP vs. Digitap ($TAP): Comparing Market Conditions and Token Models Heading Into 2025
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XRP enters December under renewed macro pressure, with Japan’s central bank expected to lift rates to a 30-year high. Historically, tightening from the Bank of Japan drains global risk liquidity, and during previous hikes, XRP suffered drawdowns of more than 20%. With the Fear & Greed Index sitting at 24 and holiday volatility building, investors […]

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