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Taiwan’s central bank studying Bitcoin’s inclusion in national reserve, Sony launches DeFi super app for its Ethereum layer 2. Asia Express. Taiwans government will complete an inventory by year-end detailing how much Bitcoin it currently holds through confiscations, Premier Cho Jung-tai said Tuesday during a finance committee.  The central bank will also deliver a formal assessment on whether Bitcoin should be considered as part of Taiwans national reserves. The move comes as lawmakers press the government to clarify how seized crypto is handled and whether Taiwan should follow a growing global trend of treating Bitcoin as a strategic reserve. Read more

Ether’s struggle to reclaim $4,000 is the result of weakening onchain activity, a decline in fees and competition from Solana, BNB Chain and upcoming altcoin ETFs. Key takeaways: Lower network fees and slowing blockchain usage continue to weigh on ETH’s performance despite Ethereum’s institutional dominance. Ether’s recovery depends on stronger onchain activity, clearer upgrade benefits and renewed inflows from strategic reserve companies. Read more

Wrapped Bitcoin's move to Hedera brings tokenized BTC and increased liquidation to the network's growing decentralized finance ecosystem. Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), the largest tokenized version of Bitcoin, has expanded to the Hedera network — a move that could open the door to more decentralized finance (DeFi) options for BTC holders. The integration, announced Thursday, brings additional liquidity to Hedera, which already supports smart contracts and native tokenization and markets itself as a low-fee network with no frontrunning or miner-extractable value (MEV).  Frontrunning and MEV are tactics where validators reorder transactions to profit at users’ expense — a problem Hedera’s consensus mechanism is designed to avoid. Read more

The payments entrepreneur's app will allow customers to send digital dollars by using "multiple stablecoins and networks."

Bitcoin (BTC) dropped 3% to $98,550.33 as of press time, falling below the psychological $100,000 threshold for the third time this month amid cascading leverage liquidations, persistent ETF outflows, and a broader risk-off posture across digital assets. The slide accelerated after Bitcoin broke support at $100,000, triggering over $190 million in long liquidations in the […] The post Bitcoin loses its last line of defense: $98k breakdown sparks cascade not seen since May appeared first on CryptoSlate.

According to the agencies’ operations plans, staff are expected to return to work the day after the “enactment of appropriations legislation,” which occurred late on Wednesday. Employees who were furloughed during the US government shutdown are expected to return to work at the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission after 43 days away. According to the operations plans with the SEC and CFTC, staff are expected to return on Thursday, following US President Donald Trump’s signing of a funding bill late on Wednesday to resume federal operations. The two agencies’ respective plans require employees to come in on the “next regularly scheduled workday [...] following enactment of appropriations legislation,” which acting CFTC chair Caroline Pham appeared to confirm in a Thursday X post. Read more

Bitcoin eyes its next rally as stablecoin reserves on exchanges hit yearly highs and the U.S. dollar weakens.

Polymarket’s onchain prediction data and fan-sentiment feeds will be integrated across UFC events, creating a new interactive layer for viewers. Polymarket has signed a multi-year deal with TKO Group Holdings to become the official prediction market partner for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Zuffa Boxing, bringing real-time forecasting into live fight broadcasts. A UFC blog post on Thursday said Polymarket will add a data-driven storytelling layer that tracks fan sentiment in real-time, including a “Fan Prediction Scoreboard” that converts crowd expectations into a live readout of the audience’s shifting pulse during each event.  Polymarket is a blockchain-based prediction platform where people trade on the outcome of real-world events. The company's founder and CEO, Shayne Coplan, said the partnership will give fans a “new way to be part of the action — not just watching outcomes but watching the world’s expectations evolve with every round.” Read more

The token fell through key support despite elevated trading volume and continued institutional inflows into spot ETFs.

Bitcoin miners and other crypto-focused stocks plummeted on Thursday amid a wider downturn in crypto markets and other risk-on assets.

Bitcoin is turning into a savings-focused asset while Ethereum is becoming a high-velocity utility engine, a split that some analysts say is an emerging structural risk. Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) continue to diverge, and they currently operate in different monetary universes, according to a new joint report from Glassnode and Keyrock. The study noted that Bitcoin is drifting deeper into a savings-driven, low-velocity profile, while Ether is rapidly evolving into a productive onchain asset powering staking, collateral, and institutional wrappers. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s dormancy and turnover now resemble gold far more than fiat. Read more

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The British pound needs digital rails to remain competitive with the dollar and euro as the world shifts to onchain and internet-native finance. The United Kingdom needs to regulate and encourage the development of British pound stablecoins to keep the country’s financial services sector globally competitive, according to Mark Fairless, the group CEO of bank infrastructure and fintech company ClearBank. “Stablecoins are a logical extension to reduce friction in international global payments,” Fairless told Cointelegraph in an interview at Web Summit 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal.   He said that pound stablecoins will never equal the market capitalization of dollar or euro-denominated tokens because it isn’t a global reserve currency.  Read more

The nation’s central bank has unveiled a pilot investment in Bitcoin, stablecoins, and tokenized deposits to better understand how to adopt digital assets.

New research shows that AI's extended reasoning creates a security vulnerability, with extremely high attack success rates across major models including GPT, Claude, and Gemini.

Alongside bitcoin's tumble back to $98,000, MSTR is lower by another 6.6% on Thursday, bringing its year-to-date decline to 30%.

Bitcoin's price dropped below $100K for the second time in the past week, as crypto markets tumble.

When Chainlink briefly appeared on a DTCC reference list, the crypto industry jumped to claim a “LINK ETF confirmed.” In reality, just like with XRP and Bitcoin, this was just a routine DTCC plumbing update, preparing for potential ETFs long before the SEC signs off. LINK had made it into the settlement system, not past […] The post LINK ETF confirmed for 2025? XRP and SOL launches move up Chainlink timeline appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Built to align with the GENIUS Act, the new fund provides a regulated vehicle for holding stablecoin reserves in cash and US Treasurys. Global bank giant BNY Mellon has launched a money market fund designed to hold reserves for US stablecoin issuers. According to a Thursday announcement, the fund is open to US stablecoin issuers and other qualified institutional investors operating in fiduciary, agency, advisory, brokerage or custodial roles.  The fund is designed to hold the cash reserves mandated by the GENIUS Act, the July 2025 law establishing the first federal framework for US stablecoins and defining the standards for their backing assets. It will not invest directly in stablecoins. Read more