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South Korea is preparing to impose bank-level, no-fault liability rules on crypto exchanges, holding exchanges to the same standards as traditional financial institutions amid the recent breach at Upbit. The Financial Services Commission (FSC) is reviewing new provisions that would require exchanges to compensate customers for losses stemming from hacks or system failures, even when the platform is not at fault, The Korea Times reported on Sunday, citing officials and local market analysts. The no-fault compensation model is currently applied only to banks and electronic payment firms under Korea’s Electronic Financial Transactions Act. The regulatory push follows a Nov. 27…
Blockstream has introduced a major update to its Green mobile wallet that enables a seamless Liquid Lightning swap for faster, self-custodial bitcoin payments across layers. The new version of the Blockstream Green app adds atomic swap functionality between the Lightning and Liquid networks, letting users pay Lightning invoices directly from their Liquid bitcoin (LBTC) balances. As a result, they no longer need to manage channels or maintain inbound liquidity, which has often been a technical barrier for everyday users. Lightning specializes in instant, low-fee bitcoin transactions. Liquid, by contrast, is a federated sidechain that emphasizes confidential transactions and easier handling…
The CEO of Nvidia, the world’s leading artificial intelligence chip manufacturer, has made important statements regarding Bitcoin (BTC). Speaking at a panel on artificial intelligence and energy, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted Bitcoin’s innovative role in transforming surplus energy into a new form of currency. Stating that Bitcoin is not an environmental burden, the Nvidia CEO described BTC as a mechanism for converting unused electricity into a globally transferable asset. At this point, Huang argues that with BTC, excess energy is effectively transformed into a portable financial asset. According to him, unused power from power plants or renewable energy fields…
Digital asset service provider Hex Trust has launched Wrapped XRP (wXRP) issuance and custody services. According to The Block, Hex Trust will issue and store wrapped XRP (wXRP), backed at a 1:1 ratio of the native XRP asset, designed to support DeFi activities and cross-chain use. Accordingly, the wXRP token, which is pegged to XRP at a 1:1 ratio, is designed to support DeFi and cross-chain use cases. However, as wXRP’s use case expands beyond the XRP Ledger, it can be bought and sold with RLUSD on other supported chains, including Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Optimism, and HyperEVM, where RLUSD…
Ethereum saw a flurry of big moves that traders say could matter for its next price swing. In just a few hours, major accounts pulled large sums off an exchange and big wallets opened sizable margin longs. Market watchers are parsing those moves for clues. Institutions Shift Big Stakes According to Arkham Intelligence, Amber Group and Metalapha pulled out 9,000 Ether from Binance in a short span, a haul worth more than $28 million at current prices. Based on reports, institutional flows have been heavy for months — nearly 4 million ETH has been accumulated by institutions over five months.…
While the crypto market has slipped into a correction, liquidity has felt flimsy as November’s trading activity thinned out and the stablecoin economy pulled back. Since Nov. 15, roughly $840 million has drained from the fiat-pegged token sector. Crypto Market Faces Dry Powder Deficit as Stablecoin Economy and Volumes Contract For two straight weeks, the stablecoin economy has chipped away at its own size, and since our Nov. 15 report, another $840 million has vanished from the tally. On top of that, trading activity has been sparse over the past week, and when you stack a shrinking stablecoin supply on…
Law and Ledger is a news segment focusing on crypto legal news, brought to you by Kelman Law – A law firm focused on digital asset commerce. Is Crypto a Security? Part II: Utility Tokens The opinion editorial below was written by Alex Forehand and Michael Handelsman for Kelman.Law. Since the early years of the digital-asset industry, the term “utility token” has been used as a kind of shorthand for “not a security.” The idea was intuitive: if a token provides access to software, services, governance rights, or network functionality, then the reasonable expectation of purchasers is consumption rather than…
A trader on prediction market Polymarket struck gold, turning $3,000 into $125,000 by successfully guessing who would be the most Google-searched person in 2025. Their 3,872% profit came about because the market’s outcome was a big surprise. Leading into the results being revealed, Pope Leo XIV was the most likely to be the most Google-searched person this year, with 51.5% odds, followed by Donald Trump with 9.5% odds. At the same time, American singer D4vd had just a 7.2% likelihood of being crowned the most Googled person. Zooming out, the odds were looking even more drab, dropping to 0.2% at…
While Bitcoin (BTC) has experienced volatile price movements in recent days, a Bitcoin miner has achieved a major success. According to the data, an individual Bitcoin miner managed to earn a block reward alone, despite the extremely low odds. According to this, a Bitcoin miner, mining alone using CKpool, mined block number 927,474 and obtained a total of 3,133 Bitcoin. At current prices, this is equivalent to $289,380. This earning consists of a 3.125 BTC block subsidy reward ($283,944) and a 0.008 BTC ($689) transaction fee. CKpool developer Con Kolivas made the following post from his X account: “Congratulations to…
Solana’s lending markets are gaining traction, with their total value locked (TVL) hitting $3.6 billion in December 2025 – up 33% from $2.7 billion a year earlier, according to a new report from Redstone. Solana DeFi Lending TVL Redstone, a blockchain oracle and data provider, points to the network’s efficiency as a key driver, citing 400-millisecond transaction finality and a median fee of $0.001. Solana also maintained 100% uptime over the past year and processed a peak daily DEX volume of $35.9 billion. This growth reflects Solana’s growing influence in decentralized finance (DeFi), fueled by fast, low-cost transactions and a…