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Bitcoin prices edged lower on Tuesday, slipping beneath the $90,000 mark as thin holiday trading, shifting investor sentiment, and a record-breaking options expiry combined to weigh on crypto markets. After briefly touching $90,000 on Monday, bitcoin retreated to around $87,400, extending a familiar pattern seen in recent
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It is December 23, 2025. While the broader market is preparing for the holidays, holders of Cardano’s partner chain, Midnight (NIGHT), are waking up to a sea of red. After a staggering 300% rally post-launch, gravity has finally kicked in. The NIGHT price has dropped nearly 10% in the
Regulation
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has entered a new chapter, with Michael Selig officially taking over as chair and acting chair Caroline Pham stepping down after nearly a year leading the agency. Selig was sworn in on Monday as the CFTC’s 16th chairman, following his nomination by President
Making Your Crypto Work While You Wait Most people enter crypto through simple buy-and-hold or spot trading. Over time, though, many investors start asking a practical question: What can I do with my assets when I’m not trading them? That’s where passive crypto strategies come in. Instead of
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BitMine, the Ethereum-focused treasury firm chaired by Fundstrat co-founder Tom Lee, has continued to expand its digital asset holdings with a reported $88 million addition of ether, reinforcing its position as the world’s largest corporate holder of Ethereum. On Monday, onchain analyst Lookonchain, citing data from blockchain analytics platform
Finance
A slowdown in bitcoin mining activity could be an early sign of a positive shift for the cryptocurrency’s price, according to a new report from asset manager VanEck. While falling hashrate often reflects short-term stress in the network, VanEck’s analysts say history suggests it can also point to
Finance
ETHZilla, a digital asset firm backed by tech investor Peter Thiel, has sold $74.5 million worth of ether to pay down debt, signaling a strategic shift away from its Ethereum-based digital asset treasury model. The move comes less than six months after the company adopted the strategy, which centered
Finance
Erebor, a newly formed banking startup co-founded by Anduril CEO Palmer Luckey, has secured $350 million in fresh funding at a valuation of $4.35 billion, according to a report published Monday by Axios. The funding milestone follows a major regulatory step for the company: approval from the Federal Deposit
Finance
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is weighing whether to offer cryptocurrency trading to its institutional clients, signaling a potential shift in how one of the world’s largest banks engages with digital assets as demand for regulated access continues to grow. According to a Bloomberg report citing a person familiar with
DeFi
A new yield product called earnXRP has launched on the Flare Network, marking another step in the growing effort to bring XRP into decentralized finance and unlock onchain returns for long-held tokens. The product is a joint initiative between Upshift Finance, a DeFi platform focused on yield vault infrastructure; Clearstar,
If you have ever bet on a football game without actually playing in it, you already understand the basics of a derivative. In the financial world, assets like stocks (Apple shares), commodities (barrels of oil), or cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin) are the "players" on the field. They have real value
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It is December 22, 2025. The markets are winding down for the holidays, and the broader crypto index has slipped over 2% this week. Most traders are closing their laptops, but if you look closely, a specific sector is heating up. While the rest of the market sleeps, three major