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Cointelegraph.com - 16:12 Nov 13, 2025
The last US penny, which is valued at $0.01, costs about 3.7 times its face value to mint, as inflation erodes the value of fiat currency. The last penny, nominally valued at $0.01, was minted by the United States Mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, marking the end of 232 years of new pennies being coined and circulated. US President Donald Trump directed the US Treasury to stop producing pennies in February, and the Treasury initially set a 2026 target for the last mint. However, the Treasury exhausted the templates used to manufacture the coins between June and September, according to Axios. A penny costs about 3.7 times its face value to manufacture, meaning that each $0.01 coin actually costs over $0.03. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:25 Nov 13, 2025
A pre-Christmas Fed rate cut could boost spending, shift bond yields, lift risk assets and increase demand for crypto. The Fed’s Dec. 9-10 meeting carries unusual weight as markets wait to see whether another rate cut will arrive before Christmas, shaping bonds, equities and crypto. After two cuts in 2025, rates now sit at 3.75%-4.00%. Labor weakness and softer inflation support further easing, but officials remain divided because inflation risks have not fully cleared. A cooling job market, easing inflation and the end of quantitative tightening could justify another reduction and align with year-end liquidity needs. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:22 Nov 13, 2025
The Czech National Bank invested $1 million to test a crypto reserve that includes Bitcoin, a stablecoin and tokenized bank deposits. The Czech National Bank (CNB), the central bank of the Czech Republic, announced on Thursday the purchase of cryptocurrencies worth $1 million for the first time to test a digital asset reserve and gain “practical experience” in handling digital assets. CNB’s reserves will include Bitcoin (BTC), one US dollar-pegged stablecoin and one tokenized bank deposit, according to the announcement. The bank said that while the test is intended to study crypto and prepare the bank for international adoption to remain globally competitive, it is not planning to adopt a digital asset reserve in the “near future.” CNB governor Aleš Michl said: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:03 Nov 13, 2025
Bitcoin and crypto market sentiment hit seven-month lows, with the BTC price still above $100,000, while gold and silver received a post-shutdown boost. Bitcoin (BTC) and crypto traders are their most afraid in over six months as BTC price action clings to $100,000. Key points: Bitcoin and altcoins plunge to their deepest “extreme fear” levels since March this year. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:00 Nov 13, 2025
Acurast raised $11 million to launch a smartphone-based confidential compute network that claims tamper-resistant execution on consumer phones. Smartphone-based decentralized confidential compute project Acurast has raised $11 million, claiming tamper-resistant execution on consumer phones and secure hardware verification. According to a Thursday announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Acurast raised $11 million from Ethereum co-founder and Polkadot founder Gavin Wood, MN Capital founder Michael van de Poppe and GlueNet founder Ogle, among others. The project aims to launch its mainnet on Nov. 17, and plans to release its native token ACU alongside it. Acurast founder Alessandro De Carli said “billions of smartphones are the most battle-tested hardware on earth” and that the company hopes to reduce costs by leveraging them for “verifiable, confidential compute.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:40 Nov 13, 2025
Unknown whales continue to increase their Ether exposure as technical indicators suggest a short-term ETH price rally to $4,000. Despite the Ether (ETH) price drawdowns, whales continue to buy hundreds of thousands of ETH, sparking hopes for a short-term recovery. Key takeaways: An Ether whale increases stash to $1.3 billion in ETH, signaling accumulation. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:16 Nov 13, 2025
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is now free to travel after French authorities fully lifted the ban on his travel, although the investigation into the platform remains open. French authorities have reportedly lifted Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s travel ban amid an ongoing investigation into the messaging platform. Durov had been ordered to remain in France following his arrest in Paris in August last year, facing multiple charges related to his operation of Telegram. Durov was previously granted temporary exemptions, and French authorities have now fully lifted restrictions on his travel, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:08 Nov 13, 2025
Distributed cloud projects aim to reduce blockchain’s heavy dependence on centralized providers like AWS. Periodic service disruptions and capacity strain on centralized cloud infrastructure have created an opening for companies building distributed networks. Supporters of the distributed approach argue that spreading workloads across several smaller nodes reduces concentration risk. They say the model could be especially valuable in sectors with high computing demand and low tolerance for downtime, such as AI, gaming and finance. “Over time, as decentralized infrastructure matches or exceeds the performance of centralized clouds, reliance on single providers will naturally decline,” Carlos Lei, CEO and co-founder of DePIN-based connectivity marketplace Uplink, told Cointelegraph. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:00 Nov 13, 2025
The crypto exchange enabled decentralized trading for US users, integrating DEX access and self-custody wallets as onchain volumes reach record highs. Cryptocurrency exchange OKX, traditionally known for its centralized trading services, is expanding into decentralized finance with a new feature that lets US users trade tokens directly on decentralized markets. The DEX trading option, available through the OKX app, allows users to buy and sell tokens while retaining control of their digital assets. Trades are executed via self-custody wallets, meaning users hold their own private keys rather than storing funds on the exchange. According to OKX, the feature provides access to millions of tokens across Solana, Base and X Layer, which is OKX’s own Ethereum layer-2 network built using Polygon’s Chain Development Kit (CDK). Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:00 Nov 13, 2025
Circle is seeking to improve FX market infrastructure by offering institutions deeper global liquidity access with fewer intermediaries and reduced counterparty risk. Circle is expanding into the foreign-exchange market, positioning stablecoins as a tool to modernize one of traditional finance’s most entrenched systems. The issuer of USDC (USDC) on Thursday unveiled Circle StableFX, an institutional onchain FX platform built on Arc1, the company’s forthcoming layer-1 blockchain, according to a news release shared with Cointelegraph. Circle also introduced Circle Partner Stablecoins, a program designed to support regulated regional stablecoins. Trading in the global FX market reached $9.6 trillion per day in April, up 28% from 2022, according to data from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). The daily trading volume in the global FX market is more than double all global stock markets combined, and far exceeds the roughly $1.69 trillion in average daily US equities trading, running 24 hours a day, five ... -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:47 Nov 13, 2025
The crypto industry has taken a sharp turn back towards privacy — and it can now exist side by side with regulatory compliance. After years touting the amazing transparency of blockchains, the crypto community has started to realize that privacy is actually essential for many traders, businesses and individuals. Until now, balancing the right to privacy with the need to avoid jail time on money laundering charges has proven a difficult task, as the developers of Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet have discovered. But 2026 is the year that pragmatic privacy is poised to take off, with a slew of new projects tackling compliant forms of privacy for institutions and surging interest in existing privacy coins like Zcash cheered on by Solana influencer Mert Mumtaz. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:47 Nov 13, 2025
The crypto industry has taken a sharp turn back towards privacy — and it can now exist side by side with regulatory compliance. After years touting the amazing transparency of blockchains, the crypto community has started to realize that privacy is actually essential for many traders, businesses and individuals. Until now, balancing the right to privacy with the need to avoid jail time on money laundering charges has proven a difficult task, as the developers of Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet have discovered. But 2026 is the year that pragmatic privacy is poised to take off, with a slew of new projects tackling compliant forms of privacy for institutions and surging interest in existing privacy coins like Zcash cheered on by Solana influencer Mert Mumtaz. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:30 Nov 13, 2025
Bitcoin whales doubled down on their BTC purchases, but long-term holder selling and resistance above $106,000 curtailed a potential recovery to $110,000. Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded 8.7% to $107,500 on Tuesday, following its four-month low of $98,900, as whales took advantage of discounted prices to add to their holdings. The price corrected to below $103,000 on Thursday, as $106,000 proved a tough barrier to break. Key takeaways: Bitcoin whales recorded their second-largest weekly accumulation of 2025. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:30 Nov 13, 2025
Institutions must stake ETH on decentralized networks using Distributed Validator Technology to secure Ethereum and maximize returns. Opinion by: Alon Muroch, founder of SSV Labs A green light for institutional staking alone will not signal a long-term future for Ethereum. As institutions enter the Web3 ecosystem, they need to recognize that ETH isn’t an asset that can be fit into existing TradFi molds; it’s the World Computer. Unless institutions can embrace Ethereum’s philosophy of decentralization, as well as its token, their core infrastructure and inherent proposition are doomed to fail. The dot-com bubble offers a cautionary tale for Ethereum adopters. It burst partly because institutions dove headfirst into the consumer internet’s lucrative market potential without sufficiently understanding the infrastructure beneath it. The gap between capital and comprehension bred dysfunction. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:17 Nov 13, 2025
The Monetary Authority of Singapore says only fully regulated, reserve-backed stablecoins will qualify as settlement assets as Singapore prepares legislation and expands CBDC trials. Singapore’s central bank has signaled a forthcoming shakeout of unregulated stablecoins as the country moves to protect the integrity of assets within its financial ecosystem. In a keynote speech at the Singapore FinTech Festival on Thursday, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Managing Director Chia Der Jiun warned that “unregulated stablecoins have a patchy record of keeping their peg.” “There has been a lot of attention on stablecoins. They are offered as open platforms, able to work across many different applications and use cases,” Chia said. “While agility is a strength, stability needs to be reinforced.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:22 Nov 13, 2025
The House passed a funding bill to end the longest US government shutdown in history, which had previously delayed crypto ETF approvals and key crypto bills. The longest US government shutdown on record is finally set to conclude, with the House of Representatives voting through a contested funding bill on Wednesday. The bill is now headed to US President Donald Trump, who is expected to sign it Wednesday night. Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers staunchly debated the bill in the House of Representatives, ahead of a final vote that ultimately ended in favor of the bill, with 222 votes in favor and 209 against. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:10 Nov 13, 2025
With crypto markets failing to meaningfully rally toward the end of 2025, this only sets up 2026 for more upside, according to Bitwise’s Matt Hougan. Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan is more confident that crypto markets will boom in 2026, particularly as there hasn’t been a late-2025 rally yet. Speaking to Cointelegraph at The Bridge conference in New York City on Wednesday, Hougan said a crypto market rally at the end of 2025 would have fit the four-year cycle thesis, meaning 2026 would mark the start of a bear market, similar to 2022 and 2018. When asked to revise his prediction about whether the crypto market will boom in 2026, Hougan said: “I’m actually more confident in that quote. The biggest risk was [if] we ripped into the end of 2025 and then we got a pullback.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:37 Nov 12, 2025
Bitcoin’s momentum loss continues as long-term holders add to market selling pressure, and rising US dollar strength leads investors to reduce their exposure to risk. Key takeaways: Dormant Bitcoin holders moving large sums to exchanges raises concerns about long-term confidence amid growing concerns about the potential impact of quantum computing. Strong inflows into Bitcoin ETFs failed to lift sentiment, with traders instead rotating toward fast-rising privacy coins, such as ZEC and DCR. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:49 Nov 12, 2025
Data shows that BTC’s “average annual returns have gradually declined, with no peaks at all in the last cycle, confirming the hypothesis that Bitcoin's risk/return structure has changed.” The phenomenon of financial bubbles is hotly debated among industry operators, and there are several academic papers on the subject, starting with Professor Didier Sornette’s 2014 study of financial bubbles. In fact, the paper defines a “bubble” as a period of unsustainable growth with prices rising faster and faster, i.e., growing more than exponentially. Obviously, bubbles by definition are destined to burst and bring prices back to their starting value or worse. In the recent past, Bitcoin (BTC) has experienced periods of more than exponential growth, followed by very sharp declines, called “crypto winter,” a period when no one talked about Bitcoin and other assets anymore, meaning there was a freeze around the sector, and prices collapsed. Previous declines following the Bitcoin price bubble were -91%, -82%, -81%, and -7... -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:30 Nov 12, 2025
IBM targets quantum advantage by 2026 and fault-tolerant systems by 2029 with new processors and faster error correction, advancing the race toward quantum computing. Technology company IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced new developments in its quantum computing research, including advances in processors, software, and error correction. At its annual Quantum Developer Conference in New York on Wednesday, the company outlined plans to achieve quantum advantage by 2026 and fault-tolerant systems by 2029. Quantum advantage refers to the point at which a quantum computer can solve a problem faster or more efficiently than any classical supercomputer. IBM said its new “Nighthawk” processor will play a central role in reaching that milestone, delivering circuits 30% more complex than its previous generation while maintaining low error rates. Read more
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