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Coinbase has agreed to acquire The Clearing Company, an on-chain prediction markets startup that spans digital assets, politics, sports, and culture, as it expands its push to become an “Everything Exchange” offering a broad range of investment products. In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Coinbase said it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Clearing Company, with the transaction expected to close in January. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition marks a rapid turnaround for The Clearing Company, which was founded earlier this year and counted Coinbase Ventures among its investors in a $15…

Neo co-founder Erik Zhang has detailed a set of protocol-level updates spanning Neo N3 and the upcoming Neo 4, focused on transaction fee control and native token infrastructure. Contract fee whitelist Neo core developers have completed development of a Contract Fee Whitelist for Neo N3, with the feature now entering testing and porting to Neo 4. The mechanism allows selected smart contracts to operate under alternative fee rules, defined at the protocol level. Whitelisted contracts adopt a fixed-rate GAS model, enabling predictable and stable execution costs. For Neo 4, the design extends further, introducing a zero-fee execution mode for critical…

Payments-focused cryptocurrency XRP$1.8763 is little changed in 24 hours, in line with the broader crypto market, even after the introduction of a new product that allows holders to earn extra money without selling their tokens. On Tuesday, Upshift, Clearstar and Flare unveiled earnXRP, a vault designed to make it easier for XRP holders to generate returns on top of their spot market holdings. The new offering helps XRP holders bypass the complexities of managing DeFi strategies and pays out yield denominated in XRP. Upshift is a platform dedicated to providing toolkitx to protocols and wallets to develop DeFi earn vaults.…

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), the first company to hit a $5 trillion market capitalization, has seen nearly $500 billion erased from its overall value this week. Nvidia’s market cap sat at $4.94 trillion on Monday, November 3, and since then, it has dropped to $4.45 trillion at the time of writing, Friday, November 7. The chipmaker’s shares have been on a steady decline since Monday, and the price is now down nearly 13% on the five-day chart, trading at $181.19 at press time. Investor sentiment was dampened by a number of factors, including weaker labor data and valuation concerns in the…

Two former senior executives at blockchain firm Theta Labs have filed whistleblower lawsuits in California, alleging the company and its chief executive, Mitch Liu, engaged in a years-long pattern of deception, market manipulation, and retaliation. The complaints, filed separately in Los Angeles Superior Court by former executives Jerry Kowal and Andrea Berry, allege that Liu used Theta Labs and its parent, Sliver VR Technologies, to inflate token prices through misleading partnerships and undisclosed insider token sales, while retaliating against employees who raised concerns. Liu and representatives for Theta Labs did not immediately respond to Decrypt’s request for comment.  Theta…

Decentralized perpetuals exchange Hyperliquid has been among crypto’s breakout projects in 2025, but rivals’ lucrative rewards systems are vying to lure investors away. Cantor Fitzgerald forecasts Hyperliquid’s HYPE (HYPE) token to surge to $200 by 2035. Hyunsu Jung, CEO of HYPE treasury company Hyperion DeFi argues that the surge will be fueled by the Hyperliquid Improvement Proposal 3 (HIP-3). “We see HIP-3 as the major driver of Hyperliquid’s next phase of growth, and as a key enabler of the valuation framework proposed by Cantor,” Jung told Cointelegraph. Perpetual swaps are futures derivative contracts that track the price of an underlying…

Key Notes Etherscan cannot properly index many native-level ZKsync features. All on-chain data will migrate entirely to the ZKsync native explorer on January 7, 2026. Developers using Etherscan APIs must migrate before the deadline. ZKsync will end Etherscan support for the ZKsync Era on January 7, 2026. Block, transaction, and contract data will move fully to the ZKsync native explorer. Developers relying on Etherscan APIs must migrate before that date. According to a GitHub post, ZKsync no longer fits standard EVM assumptions. Interop transactions, cross-chain bundles, Gateway settlement, and new compilers like solx require an explorer that understands the protocol…

Aave founder Stani Kulechov is facing scrutiny over his recent $10 million purchase of AAVE tokens, with some in the crypto community claiming it was used to boost his voting power in a key governance proposal. In a Wednesday post on X, Robert Mullins, a decentralized finance (DeFi) strategist and liquidity specialist, argued that the purchase was meant to increase Kulechov’s “voting power in anticipation to vote for a proposal directly against the token holders best interests.” He added: “This is a clear example of tokens not being equipped to adequately disincentivize governance attacks.” Prominent crypto user Sisyphus echoed those…

U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Stephan Miran, the newest member of the board of governors after his recent confirmation, pointed a spotlight on stablecoins and the potential that their explosive growth — especially by foreign users — will have heavy consequences for monetary policy. “Stablecoins may become a multitrillion dollar elephant in the room for central bankers,” Miran said in a Friday speech in New York. He said that Fed staff projects “uptake reaching between $1 trillion and $3 trillion by the end of the decade.” “In total, under $7 trillion in Treasury bills are outstanding today,” he said. “If these…

Lawmakers are confronting rising pressure to modernize cryptocurrency tax policy as uncertainty clouds compliance, threatens U.S. competitiveness, and forces Congress to weigh legislative action amid warnings that capital and innovation could move offshore. Capitol Hill Braces for Crypto Tax Overhaul as Crapo Warns of Capital and Innovation Exit U.S. Lawmakers are confronting mounting pressure to overhaul cryptocurrency taxation as capital and innovation threaten to leave the United States. U.S. Senator from Idaho Mike Crapo laid out that urgency on Dec. 15, pressing Congress to act decisively on modernizing federal tax rules for digital assets. In his weekly column published on…