Crypto

Bitcoin opened the week in the red as fears of a Bank of Japan rate hike triggered a yen carry trade unwind, potentially risking a drop in BTC price to $67,000. Bitcoin (BTC) experienced a sharp pullback in early Asian trading on Monday, dropping to $85,500 amid increasing expectations of a December rate hike by the Bank of Japan (BOJ). Key takeaways: Bitcoin dropped 5% to almost $85,000 in a marketwide correction, liquidating $656 million in longs. Read more

As AI demand accelerates, the world’s compute supply chain is straining under old assumptions. Andrew Sobko argues that the next era won’t be built in data centers alone—but in globally distributed, human-aligned networks.

Is it another 'sell-the-news' type of day?

The backlog of United States economic data is still rolling out this week as crypto markets start the month in the red following another big Bitcoin crash. 

Bitcoin's price lost almost $6K in a couple of hours as broader crypto markets sell off.

Japan’s 10-year bond yields surged to 1.86%, the highest since 2008, threatening to unwind the yen carry trade that funneled trillions into risk assets. Japanese government bond yields have jumped to their highest level in decades, prompting some analysts to speculate that it could be behind the recent crypto market sell-off on Sunday.  Japan’s 10-year government bond yield hit 1.86% on Monday, its highest level since April 2008, according to MarketWatch.  Yields in the 10-year bonds have almost doubled in Japan over the past 12 months. Japan’s two-year bond yields also hit 1% for the first time since 2008.  Read more

Major cryptocurrencies traded lower in early Asia as DeFi platform Yearn noted at "incident" in its yETH pool.

Binance, HashKey, KuCoin, Bitget, and TRON together committed millions to assist victims and rebuild communities

NYDIG’s research head questions how mNAV is used to assess bitcoin treasuries, arguing it masks key risks tied to capital structure and equity dilution.

The privacy-preserving decentralized AI platform is built on top of The Open Network, and users earn TON for renting out computing power. The Cocoon decentralized AI network, a privacy-preserving distributed computing platform built on The Open Network (TON) — an independent layer-1 blockchain associated with the Telegram messaging application — went live on Sunday. Cocoon allows owners of graphics processing units (GPUs) to rent their computing power to the network, processing user queries and requests in return for Toncoin (TON), the native token of the TON blockchain.  The decentralized AI network has processed its first requests from users, and GPU owners are already profiting from renting out their hardware, according to Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov. He said: Read more

The comments followed S&P's downgrade of USDt's ability to maintain its peg, which cited Tether's Bitcoin and gold reserves as a concern. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino and market analysts pushed back against S&P Global’s downgraded rating of USDt’s (USDT) ability to maintain its US dollar peg, saying that the ratings agency did not account for all of Tether’s assets and revenues. The Tether Group’s total assets at the end of Q3 2025 totaled about $215 billion, while its total stablecoin liabilities were about $184.5 billion, according to Ardoino, who referenced Tether’s Q3 attestation report. He added: S&P made the same mistake of not considering the additional Group Equity, nor the roughly $500 million in monthly base profits generated by US Treasury yields alone,” Ardoino continued. Read more

DEXs now account for one-fifth of all spot trading, according to CoinGecko.

The company adopted a bitcoin treasury plan by deploying a strategy inspired by Metaplanet, with 66% shareholder approval, to mitigate negative returns from government bonds.

Bitcoin continues to trade within a decisive corrective structure, pressing against a key resistance block at $91K–$93K after a sharp bounce. Despite the recent recovery, the broader trend remains tilted to the downside, and the daily chart suggests BTC is approaching a confluence area where the next major directional move will likely be determined. Bitcoin […]

There are a few more big games releasing before the year's up, including Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Marvel Cosmic Invasion.

Although most models projected ETH prices above $4,000, one critical valuation model bucked the trend, signaling that ETH may be overvalued. The native token of the Ethereum network, Ether (ETH), is undervalued in nine out of 12 commonly used valuation models, according to Ki Young Ju, a market analyst and CEO of crypto market analysis platform CryptoQuant. A composite “fair value” using all 12 valuation models prices ETH at about $4,836, an over 58% gain compared to its price at the time of this writing. Each valuation model was rated on a three-tiered scale for reliability, with three being the most reliable. Eight out of the 12 models feature a reliability rating of at least two. “These models were built by trusted experts across academia and traditional finance,” Ju said.  Read more

The recovery in crypto assets comes alongside improved global risk appetite, investor sentiment, and positive macroeconomic signals.

The executive chairman of bitcoin treasury firm Strategy teased a switch from orange dots to green dots in what's become his routine cheeky Sunday X post.

Spot liquidity remains 30-40% below October levels, as markets remain fragile and volatility amplified across majors and altcoins.

I pushed a chatbot through several millennia of linguistic evolution. An AI from the year 5000 lectured me about pronouns.