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Interim CFTC chief Caroline Pham confirmed plans to greenlight leveraged spot crypto trading in the US as early as next month following talks with regulated exchanges. Acting Chair of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Caroline Pham is in talks with regulated US crypto exchanges to launch leveraged spot crypto products as early as next month. In a Sunday X post, Pham confirmed that she is pushing to allow leveraged spot crypto trading in the US and that she is in talks with regulated US crypto exchanges to launch leveraged crypto spot products next month. Pham also confirmed that she continued meeting with industry representatives despite the government shutdown. The regulator is also currently considering issuing guidance for leveraged spot crypto products. Read more
The Bank of England invites feedback on its proposed stablecoin framework, with the aim of finalizing the rules in the second half of 2026. The United Kingdom’s central bank is moving toward stablecoin regulation by publishing a consultation paper proposing a regulatory framework for the asset class. The Bank of England (BoE) on Monday released a proposed regulatory regime for sterling-denominated “systemic stablecoins,” or tokens it said are widely used in payments and therefore potentially pose risks to the UK financial stability. Under the proposal, the central bank would require stablecoin issuers to back at least 40% of their liabilities with unremunerated deposits at the BoE, while allowing up to 60% in short-term UK government debt. Read more
The reopening of the US government could fuel Bitcoin price recovery, as exchange order-book liquidity placed $112,000 on top of the list for bulls. Key takeaways: Bitcoin price rebounded as traders expected the US government shutdown to end this week. Bitcoin market analysis sees a squeeze toward $112,000 after a bullish weekly close. Read more
Bitcoin made major gains on the back of the US government potentially ending its shutdown, while planning to give many Americans a $2,000 tariff “dividend.” Bitcoin (BTC) storms back above $106,000 to start the week as US government reopening excitement takes over. Bitcoin joins risk assets in rebounding amid hopes that the US government will end its record shutdown this week. US inflation data could also return, providing key insight into future Fed policy. Read more
Bitcoin and gold often display a recurring pattern during the Christmas rally. Their movements are shaped by Federal Reserve policy, inflation trends and overall market liquidity. The Christmas rally, also known as the “Santa Claus rally,” refers to a recurring pattern in which crypto markets tend to rise during the final weeks of December and early January. Several factors contribute to this trend, including improved investor sentiment during the festive season and year-end portfolio adjustments as traders and institutions rebalance their holdings. Lower liquidity during the holidays can also amplify price movements, adding to the rally’s momentum. Around Christmas, crypto investors often behave differently than they do throughout the rest of the year. Read more
Crypto markets could get a lift as Politico reports the US Senate has reached a deal on a multi-part budget bill to end the government shutdown. The crypto market could soon see some much-needed relief after the US Senate reached an agreement on a three-part budget deal to end the government shutdown, Politico reports. Pending legislation to fund the US government has more than enough support to pass the 60-vote threshold, Politico reported on Sunday, citing two people familiar with the matter. It was Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s 15th attempt to win Democratic support for a House-approved bill, putting the record 40-day government shutdown within reach of being lifted. Read more
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation. Today in crypto, Trump announces possible $2,000 tariff ‘dividend’ for Americans, Robert Kiyosaki predicts Bitcoin will reach $250,000 and gold $27,000 by 2026. Meanwhile, a crypto analyst mulls over altcoin season approaching. United States President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that most Americans will receive a $2,000 “dividend” from revenues collected from tariffs, which are currently undergoing legal review by the US Supreme Court. Trump maintained that the Executive Branch has the right to impose tariffs on other countries and floated the possible dividend in a Truth Social post: Read more
The cheap network fees are a boon for traders but could signal long-term fundamental issues with Ethereum's revenue generation model. Gas fees on the Ethereum layer-1 blockchain dropped to just 0.067 Gwei on Sunday, amid a lull in the crypto markets sparked by October’s historic market crash. The average price for executing a swap on Ethereum is just $0.11, non-fungible token (NFT) sales carry a fee of $0.19, bridging a digital asset to another blockchain network will cost users $0.04, and onchain borrowing costs $0.09 at the time of this writing, according to Etherscan. Ethereum network transaction fees hit a recent high of 15.9 Gwei on October 10, the day of the market flash crash that caused some altcoins to shed over 90% of their value within 24 hours. Read more
Large, long-term crypto and Bitcoin investors continue to sell into the market, keeping asset prices from hitting a blow-off top. Crypto whales and long-term holders are cashing out, exerting constant selling pressure on markets, and keeping crypto prices suppressed, similar to market dynamics following the 2000s dot-com stock market crash, according to analyst Jordi Visser. Visser said the current price action in the crypto market is reminiscent of the period following the 2000 dot-com stock market bubble, which crashed stocks by up to 80%, followed by 16 years of consolidation before they regained their previous highs. This meant that venture capitalists, who invested in tech during the crash, were forced to hold their investments due to mandated lock-up periods as they treaded water and then desperately sold into the markets as soon as they were able to, Visser said. He added: Read more
Investors saw the announcement as a positive catalyst for crypto markets, but the proposed stimulus hinges on a Supreme Court ruling. United States President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that most Americans will receive a $2,000 “dividend” from the tariff revenue and criticized the opposition to his sweeping tariff policies. “A dividend of at least $2000 a person, not including high-income people, will be paid to everyone,” Trump said on Truth Social. The US Supreme Court is currently hearing arguments about the legality of the tariffs, with the overwhelming majority of prediction market traders betting against a court approval. Kalshi traders place the odds of the Supreme Court approving the policy at just 23%, while Polymarket traders have the odds at 21%. Trump asked: Read more
Explore how the Condorcet paradox exposes the limits of perfect fairness in blockchain consensus. For decades, research in distributed systems, especially in Byzantine consensus and state machine replication (SMR), has focused on two main goals: consistency and liveness. Consistency means all nodes agree on the same sequence of transactions, while liveness ensures the system continues to add new ones. Still, these properties do not stop bad actors from changing the order of transactions after they are received. In public blockchains, that gap in traditional consensus guarantees has become a serious problem. Validators, block builders or sequencers can exploit their privileged role in block ordering for financial gain, a practice known as maximal extractable value (MEV). This manipulation includes profitable frontrunning, backrunning and sandwiching of transactions. Because transaction execution order determines validity or profitability in DeFi applications, the integrity of transaction ordering is vital for ...
Bitcoin traders focused on the weekly close amid flat BTC price action and warned that the whole bull market could end with a bad result. Key points: Bitcoin faces an important weekly close with several key price levels on the line. The bull market’s future is still at stake, a trader says, amid ongoing whale selling. Read more
Ledger is weighing a New York listing after revenues hit triple-digit millions in 2025, driven by record crypto hacks and growing demand for cold storage wallets. French crypto hardware wallet provider Ledger is considering a New York listing as surging cyberattacks drive record demand for its hardware devices, sending revenues soaring into the triple-digit millions in 2025. CEO Pascal Gauthier recently told the Financial Times that the company, founded in Paris in 2014, is seeing its best year yet as both individuals and companies rush to protect their digital assets from increasingly sophisticated hackers. “We’re being hacked more and more every day ... hacking of your bank accounts, of your crypto, and it’s not going to get better next year and the year after that,” he said. Read more
Robert Kiyosaki predicts Bitcoin will reach $250,000 and gold $27,000 by 2026, saying he’s buying hard assets amid a looming crash. Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki has doubled down on his bullish outlook for hard assets, saying he’s buying more gold, silver, Bitcoin and Ethereum even as markets brace for a potential crash. In a post shared on X on Sunday, Kiyosaki warned of an impending economic downturn but said he’s preparing for it by accumulating assets he calls “real money.” “Crash coming: Why I am buying, not selling,” he wrote, setting ambitious targets of $27,000 for gold, $100 for silver and $250,000 for Bitcoin (BTC) by 2026. Read more
Zero-knowledge proofs replace shared observation with shared verification, enabling accountability without revealing sensitive information. Regulators must embrace privacy as infrastructure. Opinion by: Agata Ferreira, assistant professor at the Warsaw University of Technology A new consensus is forming across the Web3 world. For years, privacy was treated as a compliance problem, liability for developers and at best, a niche concern. Now it is becoming clear that privacy is actually what digital freedom is built on. The Ethereum Foundation’s announcement of the Privacy Cluster — a cross-team effort focused on private reads and writes, confidential identities and zero-knowledge proofs — is a sign of a philosophical redefinition of what trust, consensus and truth mean in the digital age and a more profound realization that privacy must be built into infrastructure. Read more
Italian banks have endorsed the ECB’s digital euro project but called for implementation costs to be spread out over several years. Italian banks have expressed their support for the European Central Bank’s (ECB) digital euro initiative, but are calling for the implementation costs to be spread out over several years due to the financial burden it places on the sector. “We're in favour of the digital euro because it embodies a concept of digital sovereignty,” said Marco Elio Rottigni, General Manager of the Italian Banking Association (ABI), during a press seminar in Florence, Reuters reported on Friday. “Costs for the project, however, are very high in the context of the capital expenditure banks must sustain. They could be spread over time,” Rottigni added. Read more
Bitcoin is entering a much more “mature era” that is healthy for the asset and will see attention returning, according to Galaxy Digital’s Alex Thorn. Optimism around Bitcoin was far stronger at the start of the year, but it may not be long before the cryptocurrency regains that same level of hype, according to Galaxy Digital’s head of research, Alex Thorn. “Attention will come back to Bitcoin, it always does,” Thorn said during an interview with CNBC on Friday, emphasizing that “Bitcoin was the hottest trade of the year at the start of the year” after Donald Trump’s win in the US presidential election. Thorn said investors have turned their attention toward areas like AI, nuclear energy, quantum technology, and gold. “There were a lot of other places to get gains this year that impeded the allocation to Bitcoin,” he said. Read more
A crypto analyst said Bitcoin’s dominance chart has “looked bearish for weeks” and altcoin season could be on the horizon. The recent volatility in Bitcoin’s dominance could be a signal that altcoin season is approaching sooner than many traders expect, according to a crypto analyst. “The reason why you should have confidence in the altcoin price action is because the BTC Dominance chart looks bearish and has looked bearish for many weeks,” crypto analyst Matthew Hyland said in an X post on Friday. “The downtrend is favorable to continue; therefore, this relief rally has been a dead cat bounce in a downtrend,” Hyland said. In a separate video on Saturday, Hyland said that the recent volatility in Bitcoin’s (BTC) price may have been orchestrated by traditional finance giants. Read more
A crypto analyst said Bitcoin’s dominance chart has “looked bearish for weeks” and altcoin season could be on the horizon. The recent volatility in Bitcoin’s dominance could be a signal that altcoin season is approaching sooner than many traders expect, according to a crypto analyst. “The reason why you should have confidence in the altcoin price action is because the BTC Dominance chart looks bearish and has looked bearish for many weeks,” crypto analyst Matthew Hyland said in an X post on Friday. “The downtrend is favorable to continue; therefore, this relief rally has been a dead cat bounce in a downtrend,” Hyland said. In a separate video on Saturday, Hyland said that the recent volatility in Bitcoin’s (BTC) price may have been orchestrated by traditional finance giants. Read more
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price, blockchain, DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and crypto regulation. Today in crypto, CZ denies ties to Trump, said pardon was a ‘surprise,’ Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest added $2 million in BitMine shares across its ETFs. Meanwhile, Bitcoin retail investors and whales are moving in opposite directions. Binance co-founder CZ said the pardon from United States President Donald Trump came as a surprise and that the two have never met, spoken personally, or had close ties. The only interaction CZ has had with the Trump family was talking to Eric Trump at the Bitcoin Middle East and North Africa (MENA) conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), CZ told Fox News. He also said he was unaware of how the pardon would develop throughout the process: Read more6045 items