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Binance announced it will list three new USDⓈ-margin perpetual contracts on its futures trading platform, Binance Futures, to expand trading options and enhance user experience. According to the announcement, the ZKPUSDT, GUAUSDT, and IRUSDT currency pairs will be gradually launched for trading on December 21, 2025. Accordingly, the ZKPUSDT perpetual contract will launch at 13:00 with leverage up to a maximum of 40x, the GUAUSDT contract at 13:15 with leverage up to 20x, and the IRUSDT contract at 13:30, also with leverage up to 40x. USDT will be used as the collateral in all contracts, and transactions can be made…

If you’ve ever bought a stock and assumed you “owned it” the moment you hit confirm, you’ve already met the least glamorous part of markets: settlement. Settlement is the back-end handoff where the system ensures that the buyer’s cash and the seller’s security actually swap places for good, with no take-backs and no missing pieces. Markets still spend an odd amount of their day waiting for ledgers to match, for cash to arrive, for collateral to land in the right account, and for the middlemen that run the machinery to say, yes, that’s final. Tokenization has promised to shrink that…

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) extended their year-end slide in December, with total market valuations falling to their lowest level in 2025. According to data from CoinGecko, the overall valuation of the NFT sector fell to $2.5 billion in December. This represented a 72% decline from a peak of $9.2 billion in January. The decline came as NFT sales activity remained subdued following a weak November performance. In December, weekly NFT sales failed to surpass $70 million during the first three weeks of the month, falling below November’s pace. December is on track to reinforce late 2025’s downward trend as year-end liquidity…

Tharimmune, Inc. (NASDAQ: THAR), a publicly traded biotechnology company developing a new digital asset treasury strategy, announced the completion of a $545 million private placement. The funds will support the company’s plan to acquire Canton Coin (CC) and expand its participation in the Canton Network, a blockchain infrastructure for institutional financial markets. The financing round was led by DRW and Liberty City Ventures, with participation from ARK Invest, Kraken, Polychain Capital, SBI Group, Tradeweb Markets, and the Canton Foundation. Tharimmune becomes the first publicly listed company backed by the Canton Foundation. The company plans to use the proceeds to acquire…

Binance announced it will list new trading pairs to expand trading options in the spot market and improve user experience. According to the announcement, the exchange will begin trading in ADA/USD1, ASTER/USD1, LUNA/USDC, LUNC/USDC, and ZEC/USD1 currency pairs on December 24, 2025, at 11:00 AM. With the new listing, investors will be able to buy and sell popular crypto assets such as Cardano (ADA), Aster (ASTER), Terra (LUNA), Terra Classic (LUNC), and Zcash (ZEC) against various stablecoins. Binance officials stated that this step aims to increase market liquidity and offer users more trading options. Binance will also activate its Trading…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is exploring different paths for the newly rebranded Base App, questioning whether its focus should be on finance, social features, or both. In a Dec. 18 post, Armstrong noted that the platform currently functions as both a wallet and a social hub. However, he also admitted he’s hearing different takes on whether that’s the right direction for the app. “Should Base app focus on being a self-custodial version of Coinbase (trading and financial services oriented) or lean into content/creator coins and social? (Or is this a false dichotomy.) This is a key question I heard from…

Binance let hundreds of millions in crypto move through shady accounts after its $4.3 billion criminal plea deal in 2023, according to findings published by the Financial Times. These accounts (some linked to terrorist networks, others showing impossible login behavior or blatant KYC failures) remained active, with one Venezuelan in particular reportedly pushing $93 million through his Binance account, some of which were traced to Iran and Hezbollah. The Binance accounts came from Venezuela, Brazil, Syria, Niger, and China, with users allegedly logging in from Caracas and Osaka within hours, or changing banking details 647 times in just 14 months.…

Magma Devs, an engineering team building on the decentralized RPC routing protocol Lava Network, unveiled its RPC Smart Router on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Marketplace on Monday, Dec. 22. The launch, in partnership with Google, aims to give companies a more reliable way to connect to public blockchains such as Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon. The Smart Router distributes blockchain requests across multiple providers, automatically selecting the fastest and most stable option in real time. By avoiding reliance on a single access point, it seeks to prevent outages and reduce failed transactions or delays in decentralized applications, according to a…

Mercury fintech announced a new milestone: at the end of Q3 the company recorded $650 million in annualized revenue, according to an exclusive Fortune interview published on November 7, 2025. How did Mercury’s March Series C and $3.5 billion valuation reshape its growth outlook? Series C details Valuation and investor context How significant is Mercury’s annualized revenue jump from $500M to $650M? Will profitability remain a central pillar as the company scales? How much is Mercury investing in compliance and risk? Who are Mercury’s customers and how fast is its user base growing? What verification steps should analysts take before…

Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (OJK) has published a whitelist of 29 licensed crypto platforms, officially spelling out which exchanges are legally allowed to operate in the country. The list, which includes names of entities and their apps or platforms, is meant to serve as an official reference for users to verify whether a provider is properly licensed before trading. OJK has urged the public to transact only with entities on the list and to treat unlisted platforms as unlicensed operators. South Korea’s largest exchange, Upbit, is included among licensed exchanges. Source: OJK ​Global crypto players eyeing Indonesia The clarification of…