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Former SEC Chairman Gary Gensler cautioned that cryptocurrencies beyond Bitcoin lack fundamental backing, while Vanguard's dramatic policy reversal granted 50 million clients access to spot crypto ETFs, triggering $1 billion in immediate trading volume. The post Former SEC Chair Gensler Warns All Cryptos Are Risky — Except Bitcoin appeared first on Cryptonews.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission halted several ETF filings that proposed 3-5 times leverage on the underlying asset. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sent warning letters to several exchange-traded fund (ETF) providers, halting applications for leveraged ETFs that offer more than 200% exposure to the underlying asset. ETF issuers Direxion, ProShares, and Tidal received letters from the SEC citing legal provisions under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The law caps exposure of investment funds at 200% of their value-at-risk, defined by a “reference portfolio” of unleveraged, underlying assets or benchmark indexes. The SEC said: Read more

Crypto majors are sharply higher, climbing 6–10% following Vanguard’s crypto debut and supportive commentary from Bank of America, with BTC up 6% to $92,900, ETH up 9% to $3,070, BNB up 7% to $899, and SOL up 10% to $142. Among top movers, SUI gained 24%, PENGU 19%, and LINK 18%. Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade is scheduled to launch today, aiming to improve mainnet ingestion of L2 data and reduce rollup costs to enhance scalability. Bank of America is now recommending a 1–4% crypto allocation for clients across Merrill Lynch and the Private Bank. On the corporate front, Kraken has agreed to acquire tokenization platform Backed Finance to accelerate the adoption of tokenized stocks, while Chainlink introduced its “LINK Everything” initiative, a comprehensive tokenization stack featuring CCIP, compliance tools, and expanded data and compute services. In the regulatory and leadership landscape, crypto-friendly Kevin Hassett is now an 85% favorite to become the next Federal Reserve Chair after Jerome Powell, Binance h...

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team spent the past year teaching AI agents to behave like professional DeFi attackers. The agents learned to fork blockchains, write exploit scripts, drain liquidity pools, and pocket the proceeds, all in Docker containers where no real funds were at risk. On Dec. 1, the team published results that should recalibrate how […] The post Anthropic AI agents can now shatter smart contract security for just $1.22, exposing a terrifying economic reality appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The deal grants ETHZilla access to Karus’s AI underwriting engine and loan origination network, positioning the crypto treasury company to offer auto credit onchain in 2026. Crypto treasury company ETHZilla (ETHZ) has taken a strategic step into onchain credit with the acquisition of a 20% fully diluted stake in automotive-finance AI startup Karus. The $10 million deal includes $3 million in cash and $7 million in ETHZilla stock, and will allow the company to integrate Karus’s underwriting AI models into its blockchain stack to issue tokenized auto-loan portfolios. According to Wednesday’s announcement, Karus’s decisioning engine is trained on more than 20 million historical auto-loan outcomes and has evaluated over $5 billion in loans at origination, giving ETHZilla a pre-modeled data set to structure AI-segmented pools with onchain settlement. The first tokenized portfolios are slated for early 2026. Read more

HYPE rebounds from $30–$33 support as double-bottom forms; price nears $36 resistance with rising open interest and Nasdaq listing news.

Strategy outlined two critical conditions that could trigger its first major Bitcoin sale since 2020, including mNAV falling below 1.0 and complete loss of capital market access. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: If Strategy Sells, Everything Changes – Here’s What Could Force Their Hand appeared first on Cryptonews.

Experts say the shrinking Binance BTC reserves reflect rising self-custody and ETF demand, not market weakness.

The token tracked broader crypto sentiment on below-average volume, establishing an ascending trend.

The upgrade will boost throughput, keep validators efficient and, most importantly, strengthen Ethereum's value capture by putting a floor under blob fees.

A Taiwan-issued stablecoin pegged to either the country’s dollar or the US dollar could enter the market in the second half of 2026 based on related legislation. Taiwan could see its first stablecoin launched as early as the second half of 2026 as lawmakers advance new rules for digital assets, according to one of the country’s financial regulators. According to a Focus Taiwan report on Wednesday, Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Chair Peng Jin-lon said that, based on the timeline for passing related legislation, a Taiwan-issued stablecoin could enter the market in the second half of 2026. Should the Virtual Assets Service Act pass in the country’s next legislative session, and accounting for a six-month buffer period for the law to take effect, it would lay the groundwork for the launch of a Taiwanese stablecoin. Read more

Miner margins are collapsing as hash price hits record lows. This guide explains 2025 economics, break-even tests and what struggling operators can do. Miners are working through one of the toughest margin environments the industry has faced in years. According to a recent breakdown, hash revenue for large public miners has fallen from about $55 per petahashes (PH) per day in Q3 to roughly $35 per PH/day today. Their median all-in cost sits near $44 per PH/day. In other words, a significant part of the sector is now mining at a loss. Read more

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The Senate's process is inching forward on a mass-confirmation that would include two nominations with major crypto implications.

So-called "backwardation" — a futures price curve moving lower in value as time gets further out — can be read as a measure of stress in the market.

The new protocol, developed by Sentora and Flare Network, aims to combine XRP yield opportunity with offering protection against DeFi hacks.

The companies plan to tokenize auto loans, with the first portfolios expected to be available by early 2026.

Is LINK headed towards a new ATH or the recent pump is just a temporary resurgence?

Trading activity jumps 37% above weekly average despite modest price gains.

Tether’s rapid gold accumulation in Q3 2025 surpassed many national banks. This move reflects Tether’s strategy to build gold reserves. Tether purchased 26 tons of gold in Q3 2025, a larger quarterly acquisition than any reporting central bank. Its total holdings reached 116 tons, placing it among the world’s top 30 gold holders. Stablecoin issuers, sovereign wealth funds, corporations and tech firms are increasingly active in gold markets. This trend marks a structural shift in global demand once dominated by central banks. Central banks added 220 tons of gold in Q3 2025, up 28% from Q2. Countries such as Kazakhstan, Brazil, Turkey and Guatemala made notable additions despite record prices. Read more