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The confidential filing with the SEC for a US initial public offering came less than a week after Grayscale Investments announced a similar move. Kraken, the US cryptocurrency exchange headquartered in Wyoming, announced the confidential filing of a draft registration statement for a proposed initial public offering, following months of speculation among many in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. In a Wednesday notice, Kraken said it had confidentially submitted a Form S-1 with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed IPO of its common stock, setting the groundwork for the company to go public. The potential IPO is subject to review by the SEC, which recently returned to full operations and staffing after a 43-day government shutdown.  The filing came less than a week after Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi gave an interview in which he said the exchange wasn’t “rac[ing] to the door as quickly as possible” to go public. Reports had been circulating since 2024 suggesting that Kraken was planni...

Freshly valued at $20 billion, American cryptocurrency exchange Kraken said Wednesday that it has filed to go public.

The Bitcoin market is undergoing a significant transition, with traders aggressively positioning for a year-end close beneath the $90,000 threshold. This comes as the flagship digital asset briefly slid to a seven-month low of $89,970 on Nov. 18 before recovering to $91,526 as of press time. As a result, crypto traders’ sentiment has significantly shifted […] The post Traders put 50/50 odds on Bitcoin ending 2025 below $90k amid $3B ETF outflows appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The digital-asset treasury firm is sitting on a over 100% paper gains following Zcash's recent rally.

Taxes are going to be more of a headache for those using offshore exchanges if this proposal passes. But does the move make sense?

Bitcoin ATMs have gone live in major Nairobi shopping centers just days after Kenya's Virtual Assets Service Providers Act took effect, though regulators confirmed no operators have received formal licensing approval. The post Kenya Says No Crypto Firms Licensed Yet — But Bitcoin ATMs Are Already Live appeared first on Cryptonews.

The Basel Committee confronts mounting resistance from U.S. banks and major regulators over punishing capital requirements that treat stablecoins like Bitcoin, prompting reconsideration of the 2022 framework. The post Stablecoin Boom Forces Basel Committee to Rethink Punishing Bank Rules appeared first on Cryptonews.

Staking guidance, broader listing standards and new index tools show how crypto ETFs are becoming core holdings.

Binance data shows a crowded derivatives market, with investors using record leverage as ETH trades in a tight range.

Kohaku brings practical privacy to Ethereum wallets with safer recovery, private modes and shared standards designed for real-world use. When Vitalik Buterin walked on stage at Devcon 2025 to demo Kohaku, he summed up Ethereum’s situation bluntly. The network has strong security and privacy research and solid layer-1 security. But it still hasn’t “leveled up the last mile,” the wallets and apps people actually use. On paper, Ethereum has spent a decade leading the way. Elliptic-curve precompiles in 2018 opened the door to zero-knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge (zk-SNARKs) and privacy tools like Tornado Cash and Railgun. The DAO hack in 2016 pushed the ecosystem toward serious audits, helped drive demand for robust wallets such as Gnosis Safe and turned multisigs from a niche idea into standard practice. Yet everyday private use in 2025 still feels clumsy. People juggle extra seed phrases, install special wallets, hope public broadcasters don’t fail and often fall back to centralized ex...

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fell 7% and Ripple (XRP) dropped 4.7%, leading the index lower.

Meanwhile, the PI token is still slightly in the green daily and weekly despite the market's sell-off.

The G-Knot relies on finger vein-scanning technology. Its creators say it's safer, and easier to use, than established hardware wallets.

HSBC is the latest megabank to double down on tokenized deposits versus stablecoins by preparing for new launches in the US and the UAE next year. Global megabank HSBC is doubling down on tokenization over stablecoins as global banks rush to keep pace in the stablecoin race. HSBC Holdings will start offering tokenized deposits to its corporate clients in the US and the United Arab Emirates in the first half of 2026, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday. The Tokenized Deposit Service (TDS) by HSBC enables clients to send money domestically and abroad in seconds around the clock, said Manish Kohli, HSBC’s global head of payments solutions. Read more

XRP continues to consolidate under key resistance levels after a volatile few months. Price action on both USDT and BTC pairs suggests that Ripple’s token is at a critical decision point. While sellers remain active, the downside appears limited unless broader market weakness resumes. Technical Analysis By Shayan The USDT Pair XRPUSDT is still trading […]

Bitcoin continues to slide deeper into the correction phase, with the price now entering the lower boundary of the broader demand region. The market is approaching an area where long-term buyers historically begin accumulating, yet momentum remains decisively bearish in the short term. Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart BTC has extended its decline […]

How Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade scales the L1 and the L2s — explained for ordinary crypto fans without the usual baffling technical jargon. After three successful trials on the Holesky, Sepolia and Hoodi testnet, Ethereums Fusaka hardfork will go live on mainnet on December 3. Its the most eagerly anticipated upgrade to Ethereum since the last one, Pectra although Fusaka will have a much more significant impact, enabling rollups to scale in the space of a month up to 1,000 transactions per second (TPS) and to 100,000 TPS over time. Its actually two separate hard forks: the Fulu upgrade to the consensus layer (the part of a blockchain where validators in the network agree on what happened) and the Osaka upgrade to the execution layer (the part that actually processes transactions). In the future, the consensus layer will be rebuilt as Lean Consensus (formerly known as Beam Chain but renamed after a trademark dispute) and hardened for security and decentralization with finality in seconds. As part of the Lean Eth...

How Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade scales the L1 and the L2s — explained for ordinary crypto fans without the usual baffling technical jargon. After three successful trials on the Holesky, Sepolia and Hoodi testnet, Ethereums Fusaka hardfork will go live on mainnet on December 3. Its the most eagerly anticipated upgrade to Ethereum since the last one, Pectra although Fusaka will have a much more significant impact, enabling rollups to scale in the space of a month up to 1,000 transactions per second (TPS) and to 100,000 TPS over time. Its actually two separate hard forks: the Fulu upgrade to the consensus layer (the part of a blockchain where validators in the network agree on what happened) and the Osaka upgrade to the execution layer (the part that actually processes transactions). In the future, the consensus layer will be rebuilt as Lean Consensus (formerly known as Beam Chain but renamed after a trademark dispute) and hardened for security and decentralization with finality in seconds. As part of the Lean Eth...

US-traded spot Bitcoin ETFs hemorrhaged $2.57 billion in net outflows through Nov. 17, the funds’ worst monthly drawdown since their January 2024 launch. In the same month, Bitcoin dropped 14.7% and briefly touched $89,253.78 on Nov. 17, its lowest level since April, before recovering to $93,426.16, up 1.3% in 24 hours. The outflow wave crested […] The post Record $2.5 billion flees Bitcoin ETFs as BlackRock’s IBIT sheds $1.6 billion appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Shares of the company rose 2% in pre-market trading.