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Strategy unveiled its largest Bitcoin purchase in over 100 days, but the company's stock price was little changed on Monday.

"PI looks less like an opportunity and more like a slow bleed waiting for a catalyst that never shows up," one analyst stated.

'Hybrid finance' is taking hold as traditional institutions tokenize funds and deposits on public blockchains.

CoinDesk presents our annual list of the most influential individuals in crypto this year.

Argentina’s central bank is reportedly drafting new rules to allow banks to offer customers digital asset-related services as early as April 2026.

The Tennessee Republican sponsored the first piece of stablecoin legislation to become a U.S. law.

The White House AI and Crypto Czar was one of the first, and most prominent, Silicon Valley representatives to be named to a major role in Trump’s new administration.

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was pardoned by U.S. President Donald Trump — kicking off a wave of pardons among some of the crypto industry’s biggest names.

Rep. French Hill's name may or may not end up on any of the final legislation that becomes crypto law in the U.S., but he was the one driving it forward.

Without the turnaround of Donald Trump on crypto, the road toward a U.S. governmental embrace of the new technology would likely have been a steeper climb.

The platform aims to make locked Solana staking positions tradable via an onchain marketplace.

Brevis has launched ProverNet, a ZK-proof marketplace where provers can earn by computing proofs and apps can buy proving capacity. Zero-knowledge proof (ZK-proof) coprocessor Brevis launched its marketplace, allowing users to earn by computing ZK-proofs. According to a Monday Brevis announcement, the “ProverNet” decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) network allows applications to access ZK-proof proving capacity and computing providers to earn money by computing proofs. Currently, the network uses Circle’s USDC (USDC) stablecoin as the native settlement currency. Still, Brevis plans to move to the yet-to-be-launched BREV token when ProverNet comes out of beta and launches mainnet. On mainnet, the system will also introduce prover staking and slashing for “misbehavior or missed deadlines.” Read more

XRP analysts highlighted the potential to rebound to $2.65 as institutional demand increased and derivatives traders flipped bullish. XRP (XRP) price is up 3% in the past 24 hours and 15.5% from its Nov. 21 low to $2.10 on Monday. This sets it up for further gains backed by several fundamental, onchain and technical factors. Key takeaways: XRP’s new all-time highs are in play, backed by increasing institutional demand and bullish trader sentiment. Read more

The US equity market is valued at roughly $68 trillion, yet only about $670 million of that value currently exists on-chain in tokenized form. The scale of that gap has become a focal point for policymakers and market participants as regulators signal a shift toward integrating blockchain-based settlement into the core of American financial infrastructure. […] The post SEC Chair Atkins just confirmed shock $68T timeline for tokenized markets that leaves legacy infrastructure dangerously exposed appeared first on CryptoSlate.

This was the firm's largest weekly haul in more than a month; the company also increased its cash holdings to $1 billion.

The company framed the move, happening in early 2026, as a planned sunset.

Michael Saylor said that he pitched Bitcoin as “digital capital” to wealth funds and banks, calling it the foundation for a new yield-bearing credit asset class. Michael Saylor’s Strategy has expanded its Bitcoin treasury again, buying nearly $1 billion in BTC even as digital asset treasury inflows cool and its own stock trades sharply lower on the year. Strategy chairman Michael Saylor announced on X that the company bought 10,624 Bitcoin (BTC) for roughly $962.7 million at an average price of $90,615 per coin last week. The move brings Strategy’s total holdings to 660,624 BTC, acquired for approximately $49.35 billion at an average price of $74,696. The move comes during a rough stretch for Strategy’s equity. According to Google Finance, Strategy shares recently traded around $178.99, down 51% over the past 12 months. Read more

Analysts warn past two Fed cuts led to brief bounces followed by weeks of BTC weakness, driven by leverage and stablecoin flows.

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) rose 6.5% and Aave (AAVE) jumped 6.4%, leading the index higher over the weekend.

Launched in 2023, the SEC probe into Ondo’s tokenized RWAs and ONDO token ended without charges, signaling a regulatory reset for onchain assets. The US Securities and Exchange Commission has officially dropped its investigation into the New York-based tokenization platform Ondo Finance, which it initiated in 2023. Ondo Finance has received formal notice that a confidential, multi-year SEC investigation into the platform has been closed without any charges, the company announced on Monday. “The probe examined whether Ondo’s tokenization of certain real-world assets complied with federal securities laws as well as whether the ONDO token was a security,” the statement said. Read more