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As 2025 draws to a close, Bitcoin and altcoins are attracting attention with their weak performance. While Bitcoin is expected to finish the year below $100,000, Coinshares has released its weekly cryptocurrency report, stating that there was an inflow of $864 million last week. “There was a total inflow of $864 million into cryptocurrency investment products. This marks the third week of generally modest inflows, and we believe this reflects a cautious but increasingly optimistic investor base.” Despite the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate cut, price performance remained sluggish, and mixed sentiment and erratic flows were observed in the trading…
Mike Selig just landed in his chairman post at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission a few weeks ago, and he’s now reconfiguring the agency with a rebuilt innovation committee that will start with a core of crypto insiders, according to a Monday statement. His temporary predecessor, former Acting Chairman Caroline Pham, had quickly put together a group of chief executive officers focused on innovative financial technology in her final days at the agency, and Selig — just a month after that council was announced — is using that list of names as “charter members” of the Innovation Advisory Committee.…
Volatility has always been one of the biggest constraints for onchain traders. Trojan is moving to remove it.—The Solana-based trading platform has announced a full end-to-end integration of USD1, enabling traders to execute and settle swaps directly in a dollar-denominated stablecoin inside Trojan’s non-custodial trading terminal. The partnership with World Liberty Financial marks the first time Solana users can trade onchain with USD1 as a native settlement asset—without routing through intermediaries or sacrificing self-custody.For traders, the shift is immediate and practical. Instead of managing constant exposure to SOL price fluctuations, users can now denominate positions, rebalance portfolios, and anchor value…
Ethereum is seeing a surge in new user activity even as ETH price action remains largely range-bound. Summary Ethereum is averaging about 327,000 new wallets per day, with a single-day peak of nearly 394,000, the highest on record. Lower fees after the Fusaka upgrade and record stablecoin usage have encouraged user onboarding. Wallet growth is growing even as ETH trades sideways, pointing to adoption driven by real usage rather than speculation. According to a Jan. 13 post by on-chain analytics platform Santiment, Ethereum has recorded an average of 327,000 new wallets created per day over the past week, marking the…
IREN has dropped 47% from its 52-week high on Nov. 5, significantly underperforming mining and high-performance computing (HPC) peers, but investment bank B. Riley said it’s keeping its buy rating and a $74 price target in a Monday report. Miners are down about 25% on average over the same period, and GPU cloud names CoreWeave (CRWV) and Nebius (NBIS), are off 31% and 25%, respectively, the report, by analysts Nick Giles and Fedor Shabalin, noted. The two framed IREN’s recent price moves as a sentiment-driven reset in a volatile AI proxy rather than a break in fundamentals. The stock was…
As DeFi trading environments grow faster, denser, and more professional, raw onchain activity alone is no longer enough. Visibility — who is trading, where liquidity is forming, and how capital actually moves — has become the real edge.—That’s the backdrop for Nansen’s latest integration with Katana, a DeFi-native blockchain built specifically for high-performance trading, deep liquidity, and capital-efficient markets.With the integration now live, Nansen’s AI-powered analytics and portfolio tooling are available directly across the Katana ecosystem, giving traders, developers, and analysts a structured, real-time view into one of DeFi’s more trading-centric networks.Making High-Velocity DeFi LegibleKatana is designed for speed. Its…
Crypto policy is shifting from talk to implementation as the OCC, FDIC and Federal Reserve begin to sketch a regulatory perimeter for stablecoins and tokenized deposits in the U.S., Bank of America said in a Monday report. Recent approvals and proposals mark the start of a multi-year transition that could push more real-world assets and payments onchain, the analysts led by Ebrahim Poonawala said. The OCC’s recent conditional approval of national trust bank charters for five digital-asset firms is a meaningful step toward federal acceptance of stablecoins and crypto custody, analysts wrote. The charters open the door for digital-asset activity…
The criminal investigation launched by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has reignited debates about central bank independence and reinforced the view that global investors need to diversify away from US assets. Powell’s assertion that political pressure was behind this move triggered volatility in the markets. In a video statement released Sunday evening, Powell announced that the U.S. Department of Justice had issued a grand jury subpoena to the Fed on Friday, threatening him with criminal prosecution. While the investigation was justified by a statement he gave to the Senate Banking Committee last June…
Yield, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, has lost $3.73 million in trade. This was a result of extreme slippage, resulting in 3.84 million GHO being exchanged for just 112,000 USDC. According to Perkshield, the transaction involved six different tokens and leveraged two DeFi platforms, including Uniswap V4 and Bancor. Several internal ETH transfers were executed to facilitate the swap, including transfers from Uniswap pools to wrapped Ether contracts, as well as Bancor swap and converter addresses. Slippage and liquidity difficulties cause losses in millions The main transaction sent 3,840,651 stkGHO from the Uniswap pool. After that, smaller amounts of both…
Federally chartered crypto bank Anchorage Digital has acquired the Securitize For Advisors (SFA) business unit from Securitize, bringing in-house a crypto wealth management platform built for registered investment advisors (RIAs), the company said in a press release Monday. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition formalizes an existing relationship between the two firms. Anchorage Digital Bank already custodies 99% of Securitize For Advisors client assets, and SFA has been operating on top of Anchorage’s infrastructure. “RIAs are driving one of the most important waves of crypto adoption. By bringing together Anchorage Digital’s federally regulated custody platform with…