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Cointelegraph.com - 14:45 Dec 05, 2025
Bitcoin traders brought back sub-$90,000 BTC price targets amid ongoing weakness after a rejection at the yearly open capped potential upside. Bitcoin (BTC) traders saw fresh downside at Friday’s Wall Street open as $90,000 hung in the balance. Key points: Bitcoin edges closer to $90,000 with traders lining up lower BTC price targets next. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:36 Dec 05, 2025
The IMF and South Africa’s central bank are still concerned about stablecoins, while in the US, spot crypto products can now be traded on futures markets. European tech regulators have fined social media platform X 120 million euros ($140 million) for breaking EU rules pertaining to online content. The fine follows a two-year investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA), which reportedly found that X was not doing enough to tackle illegal and harmful material. Regulators also said that the blue check marks on Elon Musk’s platform were deceiving. They did not follow industry decisions and negatively impacted users’ ability to make informed decisions about the authenticity of an account. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:00 Dec 05, 2025
Elon Musk’s viral comments on Bitcoin’s intrinsic ties to energy and physics signal a changing attitude toward Bitcoin from Tesla’s founder. Elon Musk’s ambitious goals of tackling excess spending and inefficiencies in the US federal government may have been futile, but it might have been the catalyst for his changing tune on Bitcoin. Batten clarified that Bitcoin’s energy use comes directly from mining, not through individual transactions, which he described as ‘critically important to understand’ because the network can theoretically process thousands more transactions without needing to expend more energy. “The moment you have this per-transaction metric, it suggests something very insidious, which is, it’s unscalable because as you scale more, then energy use is going to go up as well. And a lot of regulators in Europe still believe that,” Batten said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:47 Dec 05, 2025
Bitcoin whales are accumulating at a record pace amid almost $5.8 billion in capitulation losses, signaling a potential bullish reversal. Bitcoin (BTC) has dropped 10% over the last 30 days, as several groups of wallet holders switched from distribution to accumulation. Data suggests that this accumulation, coupled with record realized losses, points to a potential shift in momentum. Key takeaways: Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:38 Dec 05, 2025
Pros don’t “ape the dip” on gut feel; they predefine their allocation, let rules-based systems do the buying and use DCA-style flows as part of a disciplined, data-driven execution plan. “Buy every dip.” That’s the advice from Strike CEO Jack Mallers. According to Mallers, with quantitative tightening over and rate cuts and stimulus on the horizon, the great print is coming. The US can’t afford falling asset prices, he argues, which translates into a giant wall of liquidity ready to muscle in and prop prices up. While retail has latched onto terms like “buy the dip” and “dollar-cost averaging” (DCA) for buying at market lows or making regular purchases, these are really concepts borrowed from the pros like Samar Sen, the senior vice president and head of APAC at Talos, an institutional digital asset trading platform. He says that institutional traders have used these terms for decades to manage their entry points into the market and build exposure gradually, while avoiding emotional decision-making in volatil... -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:45 Dec 05, 2025
Bubblemaps CEO Nick Vaiman said Sybil attacks are increasing across presales and airdrops, calling on teams to use KYC or algorithmic detection. A Solana presale event encountered distribution issues after a bot farm reportedly used over 1,000 wallets to snipe nearly the entire Wet (WET) token sale in seconds. Hosted through the decentralized exchange aggregator Jupiter, the presale sold out almost instantly. But genuine buyers effectively had no chance to participate because a single actor dominated the presale, according to organizers. Solana automated market maker (AMM) HumidiFi, the team behind the presale, confirmed the attack and scrapped the launch entirely. The team said it would create a new token and hold an airdrop to legitimate participants while explicitly excluding the sniper. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:19 Dec 05, 2025
Paribu has bought a majority stake in Dubai- and Bahrain-licensed CoinMENA in a deal valuing the exchange at up to $240 million. Turkish crypto exchange Paribu has acquired a majority stake in CoinMENA, a Sharia-compliant cryptocurrency exchange licensed in Dubai and Bahrain. According to a Thursday CoinMENA announcement, Paribu acquired a majority stake in CoinMENA in a deal valuing the company at up to $240 million. The company claims the transaction is Türkiye’s largest fintech deal to date and the country’s first cross-border acquisition of a digital asset platform. Paribu said it plans to use the acquisition to scale its operations beyond its home market. CoinMENA obtained a license from Bahrain’s central bank in early 2021 and another from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority at the end of 2023. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:30 Dec 05, 2025
Bitcoin market participants saw the yearly open at $93,000 and above as particularly important heading into the weekly close. Bitcoin (BTC) analysis has mapped out key BTC price levels to watch going into the weekend, with a focus on the yearly open above $93,000. Key takeaways: Key Bitcoin price levels above and below the spot price are here as BTC is about to close the week. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:36 Dec 05, 2025
Cantor Fitzgerald slashed its Strategy price target, but remains bullish on the stock despite fears over potential exclusion by the MSCI Index and forced liquidation concerns, the FT said. US-based financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald slashed its price target on Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin-heavy company, Strategy, but kept a bullish stance on the cryptocurrency’s long-term upside, downplaying fears of forced liquidation, according to the Financial Times. Cantor Fitzgerald reportedly lowered its 12-month price target on Strategy stock by 60%, adjusted to $229 from $560, according to a Thursday analyst note seen by the FT. Despite the downgrade, Cantor’s “buy” rating reportedly remains unchanged, as the bank said that fears surrounding Strategy’s forced liquidations were “not warranted,” despite receiving significant attention. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:33 Dec 05, 2025
Ether price action staged a repeat of its 2021 bull market moves against Bitcoin, leading to predictions of fresh long-term highs against BTC. Ether (ETH) is teasing 170% gains in under two months as history repeats itself against Bitcoin (BTC). Key points: Ether has the potential to rematch long-term highs above 0.09 in Bitcoin terms. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 10:16 Dec 05, 2025
AlphaTON exits baby-shelf limits and plans a meme-sized $420.69 million fundraising program despite being a nano-cap with a steep stock decline. Small-cap publicly traded firm AlphaTON Capital has signaled ambitions to access a substantially larger fundraising capacity as it delves deeper into the artificial intelligence and Telegram ecosystem. The company has exited the SEC’s “baby-shelf” limitations and filed a $420.69 million shelf registration, a precise figure often referenced in crypto’s meme culture. The rules limit the amount of capital that very small public companies can raise through a shelf registration. This aims to prevent tiny issuers from flooding the market with stock and heavily diluting investors. According to Google Finance data, AlphaTON capital stock, ATON, suffered significant losses in the last month. The stock dropped from $4.75 on Nov. 5 to $1.71 at the time of writing. This marked a 64% drop in a single month. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 09:57 Dec 05, 2025
Italy’s markets regulator sets firm MiCA deadlines, forcing VASPs to seek authorization or exit by Dec. 30, and urges investors to check providers’ compliance plans. Italy’s securities regulator set a firm timetable for applying the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) in the country, warning that unlicensed crypto platforms face a deadline to either seek authorization or leave the market. The move directly affects virtual asset service providers (VASPs) currently operating under Italy’s regime and the retail investors who use them. In a news release published Thursday, Italy’s Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) reminded the market that Dec. 30 is the last day VASPs registered with the Organismo Agenti e Mediatori (OAM) can operate under the existing national framework. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 08:34 Dec 05, 2025
A 25% dip in Ethereum’s voting participation coincided with a bug in the Prysm consensus client shortly after the Fusaka upgrade, with the network just 9% away from losing finality. Shortly after the Fusaka network upgrade, the Ethereum network saw a sharp drop in validator participation after a bug in the Prysm consensus client knocked a chunk of votes offline. According to a Thursday Prysm announcement, version v7.0.0 of the client unnecessarily generated old states while processing outdated attestations, a flaw that Prysm core developer Terence Tsao said prevented the nodes from functioning correctly. Developers recommended that users launch the client with the “--disable-last-epoch-targets” flag as a temporary workaround. Beaconcha.in network data shows that at epoch 411,448, the network achieved only 75% sync participation (the percentage of 512 randomly selected nodes signing chain heads) and 74.7% voting participation. Voting participation being down 25% is under 9% shy of the network losing the two-th... -
Cointelegraph.com - 06:24 Dec 05, 2025
FINRA found the number of people invested in crypto was steady from 2021 to 2024, but fewer were considering either buying more or investing for the first time. US investors are not considering buying crypto as much as they used to, as risk-taking behavior has dropped, according to a study from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. The percentage of crypto investors was unchanged between 2021 and 2024 at 27%, but the number of investors considering either purchasing more or buying for the first time dropped to 26% in 2024 from 33% in 2021, FINRA reported on Thursday. The industry regulator found that those with “high levels of investment risk” dropped four percentage points to 8% between 2021 and 2024. The biggest drop was among investors under 35, which shaved nine percentage points to 15%. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 05:46 Dec 05, 2025
Bitcoin’s downturn has barely anything to do with “anything crypto specific,” but it’s unlikely to surge early next year, says 21Shares co-founder Ophelia Snyder. Current market conditions will make it difficult for Bitcoin to replicate its early 2025 price gains going into 2026, says 21Shares co-founder Ophelia Snyder. “It’s unlikely that the factors driving the current volatility will fully resolve in the short term,” Snyder told Cointelegraph. “A repeat performance next January will depend heavily on broader market sentiment.” Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 05:30 Dec 05, 2025
Santiment says social sentiment toward XRP has hit its lowest levels since October, entering the fear zone, but suggested that has preceded a rally in the past. Social sentiment toward XRP has tanked into the “fear zone,” but the intelligence platform Santiment says a similar drop has led the token rallying. Santiment said on Thursday that its social data is showing that XRP (XRP) is seeing “the most fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) since October.” “The last time we saw near this level of fear from the crowd was November 21, and XRP’s price immediately rallied 22% over the next three days,” it added. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 03:52 Dec 05, 2025
Indian crypto holders now hold 5 tokens on average, Ripple secures regulatory approval in Singapore, and Japan’s crypto tax: Asia Express The average crypto holder on the popular Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX is starting to diversify their portfolio, according to recent survey results. The Indian crypto investor today holds an average of 5 tokens per portfolio, CoinDCX said in an annual report released on Thursday. Its survey indicates the average investor in India has almost doubled the range of crypto tokens they hold, up from around two to three tokens in 2022. CoinDCX said that investors are increasingly exploring the potential of other blockchain networks rather than focusing solely on Bitcoin. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 03:52 Dec 05, 2025
Indian crypto holders now hold 5 tokens on average, Ripple secures regulatory approval in Singapore, and Japan’s crypto tax: Asia Express The average crypto holder on the popular Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX is starting to diversify their portfolio, according to recent survey results. The Indian crypto investor today holds an average of 5 tokens per portfolio, CoinDCX said in an annual report released on Thursday. Its survey indicates the average investor in India has almost doubled the range of crypto tokens they hold, up from around two to three tokens in 2022. CoinDCX said that investors are increasingly exploring the potential of other blockchain networks rather than focusing solely on Bitcoin. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:46 Dec 05, 2025
Meta is reportedly cooling on the metaverse with planned 30% cuts in its virtual reality research department, Reality Labs, which shareholders seemingly support. Social media giant Meta is reportedly planning to scale back its metaverse spending by up to 30% and redirect the funds into virtual reality glasses and artificial intelligence. No final decision has been made yet, but budget cuts and possible layoffs are on the table for Meta’s Reality Labs division, mainly aimed at its virtual reality unit, which eats up the bulk of metaverse-related spending, Bloomberg and The New York Times reported on Thursday. The budget cuts could come as early as January, but Meta plans to redirect resources to a Reality Labs unit developing augmented reality glasses. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:35 Dec 04, 2025
The bond was auctioned off to holders of the digital yuan, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) developed by the Chinese government. Hua Xia Bank, a publicly traded financial institution linked to China’s government, issued 4.5 billion yuan ($600 million) in tokenized bonds on Wednesday, aiming to reduce clearing friction by removing intermediaries from the auction process. According to Sina, the onchain government bonds were issued by Hua Xia Financial Leasing, a subsidiary of Hua Xia Bank, a state-controlled commercial bank in China. The bonds offered a three-year fixed yield of 1.84% to holders. The $600 million bond tranche was auctioned off exclusively to holders of China’s digital renminbi, also known as the digital yuan. Read more
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