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The storage token hit an intraday high of $1.26 before selling off sharply to trade down on the day.

Ethereum trades near $2,800 after a 12% weekly drop, with analysts warning of further downside as key support levels continue to break.

In a recent Cointelegraph interview, James Check uses onchain data to challenge popular Bitcoin narratives and outline his thinking for 2026. Bitcoin’s price may look deceptively familiar, but according to onchain analyst James Check, the market beneath the surface has changed far more than most investors realize. In a new interview with Cointelegraph, Check revisits a question he was asked earlier this year: Are we in a bull market or a bear market? While Bitcoin (BTC) is trading near similar price levels, Check says that leverage, investor cost base, and sell-side behavior are now very different, and all those shifts matter. In fact, a majority of the capital currently invested in Bitcoin was acquired at higher prices, leaving many holders underwater and shaping a cautious sentiment. Read more

With technical and preparatory work complete, the ECB pressed lawmakers to move quickly on Europe’s public digital currency amid global stablecoin concerns.

The company’s stablecoin infrastructure and USDC coin will be part of the deal, potentially to be embedded in Intuit’s financial platforms. Intuit, the company behind TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp, announced a “multi-year, strategic partnership” with stablecoin issuer Circle involving its stablecoin infrastructure and USDC (USDC). In a Thursday notice, Intuit said the agreement with Circle would allow “faster, lower-cost” payments through their platforms, which focus on business transactions, tax refunds and marketing. According to Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire, the deal will “extend the speed, power and efficiency of USDC for everyday financial transactions.” USDC is the second-largest stablecoin by market capitalization, trailing Tether’s USDt (USDT) by more than $186 billion. According to data from Nansen, USDC’s market cap was more than $77 billion at the time of publication. Read more

The SEC charged a Philadelphia-based Bitcoin mining entrepreneur with running an illegal securities scheme and misappropriating over $48 million of customer funds.

Smart money appears to be betting on a deceptively bullish setup – Dogecoin price predictions may be about to realise their bullishness. The post Dogecoin Price Prediction: Is a DOGE Price Explosion Coming as Whales Accumulate 138M Coins Overnight appeared first on Cryptonews.

Issued by SoFi Bank, the dollar-backed token is designed for payments and settlement across banks, fintechs and enterprise platforms. SoFi Technologies has launched SoFiUSD, a fully reserved US dollar stablecoin issued by its banking subsidiary, SoFi Bank. According to Thursday’s announcement, SoFiUSD is backed one-to-one by cash held by SoFi Bank, a nationally chartered and insured depository institution, and is redeemable on demand. It is designed to support low-cost settlement for banks, fintechs and enterprise platforms. A SoFi spokesperson told Cointelegraph that SoFiUSD will initially be issued on the Ethereum network, with plans to add support to other blockchains over time. Read more

A crypto whale lost nearly $38M after an attacker drained a multisig wallet following a private key compromise.

A very supportive macro backdrop is being ignored for now, said Bitwise's Andre Dragosch.

Far softer than expected inflation numbers Thursday morning had markets racing early, but some are questioning the data.

Cardano is signaling a fundamental shift from the network's roots in academic research toward a commercially driven “operating system” model. On Dec. 17, the Intersect Product Committee released a report titled “Vision 2030,” outlining a strict set of performance benchmarks intended to redefine how the market values the network. Intersect, the member-based organization tasked with […] The post Cardano’s new roadmap assumes a 500% price explosion to mask an alarming gap in real protocol revenue appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The lawsuit against the memecoin launch platform Pump.fun, Solana Labs, the Solana Foundation and Jito was amended to include new evidence over MEV trading practices. A US court is once again being asked to weigh in on maximal extractable value practices after a judge allowed new evidence to be added to a class-action lawsuit tied to a memecoin platform. The judge granted a motion to amend and refile to include new evidence a class-action lawsuit against memecoin launch platform Pump.fun, the maximal extractable value (MEV) infrastructure company Jito Labs, the Solana Foundation, which is the nonprofit organization behind the Solana ecosystem, and others. The motion said over 5,000 pieces of evidence in the form of internal chat logs were submitted by a “confidential informant” in September that were previously unavailable. The filing said: Read more

ETH rebounded toward $3,000 as stocks reacted positively to a cooler-than-anticipated CPI print, but this week’s $553 million spot ETHER ETF outflow could keep a cap on prices. Key takeaways: US-listed Ether ETFs saw heavy outflows, signaling fading institutional interest as network fees, staking and leverage demand declined. ETH futures premiums and open interest declined, indicating cautious positioning and limited confidence, without a clear shift to outright bearishness. Read more

Internet Computer pushed through the $3 level as steady buying demand lifted the token, with traders watching whether momentum can hold above former resistance.

"Every little bounce we get is an easy short until conditions change," one X user stated.

SoFi Bank has issued SoFiUSD, a fully reserved U.S. dollar stablecoin on a public blockchain, the first by a U.S. national bank, positioning the bank to offer 24/7 settlement and stablecoin infrastructure. The post SoFi Makes History: First U.S. National Bank to Issue Stablecoin on Public Blockchain appeared first on Cryptonews.

Streamlined SEC approval is a key factor behind that prediction, but Bloomberg’s James Seyffart warned many of the products will struggle to survive.

Aptos has proposed an optional post-quantum signature scheme, citing long-term risks that advances in quantum computing could pose to existing cryptography. Blockchain network Aptos is moving toward a post-quantum signature option, reflecting growing concern that advances in quantum computing are no longer purely theoretical and could eventually affect how blockchain networks secure accounts and transactions. On Thursday, Aptos outlined a proposal to introduce post-quantum signatures, addressing the network’s reliance on digital signatures for ownership, transaction authorization and overall security.  While existing cryptographic schemes remain secure against classical computers, researchers warn that sufficiently powerful quantum machines could one day forge them, potentially compromising account security retroactively. Read more

Speculative token selling accelerated as heavy volume formed near resistance before a sustained pullback.