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XRP continues to fight for $2.00 but can it soar to $2.50 soon?

A massive backlog of inflation data is due this week, and Japan’s central bank is about to cut rates, so expect crypto market volatility. 

Ethereum remains locked in a corrective phase, with the price struggling to reclaim key resistance levels despite recent rebound attempts. While downside momentum has slowed, the market has yet to show the demand strength required to transition into a sustained bullish continuation. Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, ETH continues […]

[PRESS RELEASE – Willemstad, Curaçao, December 14th, 2025] Whale.io has officially launched the $WHALE NFT collection on Solana, introducing the next phase of the platform’s native token rollout and bringing the community one step closer to the upcoming Token Generation Event (TGE). The $WHALE NFTs – presented as fully tradable digital cards – represent a […]

Hex Trust launched wrapped XRP across Ethereum, Solana, Optimism, and HyperEVM on Dec. 12 with $100 million in initial liquidity, positioning the token as a trading pair for Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin. This latest move to make XRP available across multiple ecosystems adds to Coinbase's cbXRP on Base and Axelar's eXRP on the XRPL EVM sidechain. […] The post XRP is flooding Ethereum and Solana, but this invisible layer exposes your wallet to a $1.5 billion risk appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Stablecoins emerge as the most widely used crypto product, driving adoption across both advanced and emerging markets.

Do Kwon was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty, Bitcoin traders end to ‘manipulative’ BTC price dip: Hodler’s Digest Video-sharing giant YouTube has reportedly enabled US-based creators to accept payouts in PayPals stablecoin, PYUSD.  Fortune reported on Thursday that PayPals head of crypto, May Zabaneh, said the feature is live, but only for users in the US. The firm integrated the ability for recipients to accept payments in PYUSD earlier this year, with YouTube ultimately opting to open that choice up to its creators.  The beauty of what weve built is that YouTube doesnt have to touch crypto and so we can help take away that complexity, she said.  Read more

A16z has predicted a major 2026 pivot as stablecoins surge, AI agents multiply, and on-chain finance challenges outdated banking infrastructure.

After three years of development, Firedancer went live on Solana mainnet in December 2024, having already produced 50,000 blocks across 100 days of testing on a handful of validators. The milestone, announced Dec. 12 by Solana's official account, marks more than a performance upgrade. It represents the network's first real attempt to eliminate the architectural […] The post Firedancer is live, but Solana is violating the one safety rule Ethereum treats as non-negotiable appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Memecoins were never about memes, jokes, or financial nihilism; it is the underlying technology and its implications that are promising. Memecoins are not dead because the market is down and the narrative has faded, according to president of payment infrastructure company MoonPay, Keith A. Grossman, who said that memecoins will be back but in a different form. The real innovation of memecoins is that attention can be tokenized easily and at low costs through blockchain technology, democratizing access to the attention economy, Grossman said. He continued: However, that value did not flow back to participants and mostly remained trapped by large, centralized platforms, he added. Read more

The Binance executive believes the market could be moving toward less pronounced cycles as crypto becomes a more stable and mature asset class.

XRP's slump has failed to deter whales, who are actively buying as taker CVD turns positive.

Members of the Aave DAO clashed with Aave Labs, with some arguing that the company was not acting in the best interests of token holders. A dispute between the Aave decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), which governs the Aave decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, and Aave Labs, the main development company for Aave products, over fees from the recently announced integration with decentralized exchange aggregator CoW Swap, continues to flare up. The issue was raised by pseudonymous Aave DAO member EzR3aL, who said that the fees generated by crypto asset swaps using CoW Swap were going to a different onchain address, not the treasury of the Aave decentralized autonomous organization. Instead, the fees are going to a private address controlled by Aave Labs. EzR3aL raised several questions, including why the DAO was not consulted before the fees were routed, and argued that the fees belong to the DAO. Read more

Cardano has made a significant integration this week that fundamentally alters its approach to market infrastructure. Under the network’s newly operational Pentad and Intersect governance structure, the steering committee authorized the implementation of Pyth Network’s low-latency oracle stack. While the decision may appear to be a routine technical upgrade on the surface, it represents a […] The post Cardano now has institutional-grade infrastructure, but a glaring $40 million liquidity gap threatens to stall growth appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A public debate exposed deep divides over whether using technology to defeat aging and death would save humanity or erase it.

Bitcoin Depot’s Scott Buchanan argues that crypto ATM operators must continually strengthen their safeguards and make things safer and more transparent for users — protective actions that not only benefit individual crypto users but also bolster the market’s integrity and support its long-term growth.

From petrodollars to ETFs, oil-rich investors are entering Bitcoin via regulated rails, deepening liquidity while reshaping market structure. In 2025, oil-linked capital from the Gulf, including sovereign wealth funds, family offices and private banking networks, has emerged as a significant influence on Bitcoin’s liquidity dynamics. These investors are entering Bitcoin primarily through regulated channels, including spot ETFs. Abu Dhabi has become a focal point for this shift, supported by large pools of sovereign-linked capital and the Abu Dhabi Global Market, which serves as a regulated hub for global asset managers and crypto market intermediaries. Read more

The decline in exchange deposits and downward price pressure also comes as large investors and short-term holders realize their losses.

Spot trading volumes are cooling, and investor enthusiasm is fading amid a lack of structural growth drivers, analysts wrote in a new report.

The protocol automates yield generation by rebalancing capital across DeFi protocols, factoring in risk, and offers access to various assets.