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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal government could tap into the crypto sector’s potential for mass surveillance if not checked by formal policies, said SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, arguing that the industry is — alternatively — also capable of designing systems that screen users for proper illicit-finance protections without jeopardizing their privacy. “It’s no great leap to imagine a steady migration toward a future where the government in a constellation of intermediaries can peer into almost every dimension of the individual’s financial lives,” Atkins said at a financial surveillance and privacy roundtable hosted at the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday —…

Bitget has launched a private beta for a new TradFi trading feature that gives crypto users access to forex, commodities and stock derivatives contracts using stablecoins as collateral. The feature will allow Bitget users to trade major fiat currency pairs, gold and other derivatives alongside crypto spot and derivatives products on the same platform. Trades will be margined and settled with Tether’s USDt (USDT), allowing users to access traditional trading markets without the need to open a separate brokerage account or convert currencies. According to Monday’s announcement, use of the feature is limited to selected users and is being rolled…

Fragmentation across blockchain networks is costing the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) market hundreds of millions of dollars a year, according to new research from data analytics platform RWAio. The report, created with input from 17 companies including Coinbase, Franklin Templeton, and Polygon, estimates that fragmentation across blockchains is causing between $600 million and $1.3 billion in lost value each year. Currently, the total value of tokenized real-world assets in circulation, including private credit, U.S. Treasury debt, and commodities, has reached over $36 billion. RWAio found that the same assets often trade at different prices on different blockchains, with price gaps…

The sales data on the top NFT projects in the past week also shows that Courtyard is the best selling collection in sales volume, which is an indicator of the continued demand in established digital assets in the face of broader market trends. TOP #NFT COLLECTIONS BY WEEKLY SALES VOLUME #Courtyard #PudgyPenguins #GuildofGuardians #BoredApeYachtClub #Moonbirds #CryptoPunks #LilPudgys #Nakamigos #DMarket #MutantApeYachtClub #Froganas #GodsUnchained pic.twitter.com/wcojLCdjgB — PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) December 19, 2025 Courtyard registered sales amounts to $2.85 million within the last seven days with a robust growth rate of 35.26% compared to the last week. The collection…

Davide Crapis, leading artificial intelligence initiatives at the Ethereum Foundation, has underscored the necessity for greater transparency in platforms that champion free speech. He called for clarity on how these platforms optimize their algorithms. Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, further accentuated this issue by proposing that all algorithmic choices should be verifiable through zero-knowledge proofs, ensuring content and interaction records on Blockchain to avert both censorship and time distortion. He also advocates for algorithmic codes to be opened to public scrutiny, albeit with a delay of one to two years. How Could Blockchain Ensure Fair Algorithms?Will Ethereum Set a New Benchmark…

Coinbase, America’s biggest crypto exchange by trading volume, is leaving Delaware to reincorporate in Texas, citing a crypto-friendly environment and “strong culture of celebrating builders” for the decision.  The publicly traded company, which has a remote-first policy with its employees, had been legally based in Delaware but said Wednesday in a regulatory filing with the SEC that Texas was a better fit for the firm.  In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal wrote that “Texas offers efficiency and predictability, in part thanks to recent corporate-law reforms that enhance governance flexibility and legal predictability.”…

A controversial proposal by a wealthy crypto investor to develop a vast libertarian, tech‑oriented community on the Caribbean island of Nevis is drawing both excitement and alarm from island residents and political leaders, largely due to plans that could see aspects of local justice administered outside the existing court system. Olivier Janssens hopes to establish a self-contained community that would manage its own legal system, testing new models of crypto-driven governance. His project, Destiny, targets entrepreneurs and investors looking for legal independence and crypto-friendly facilities. Under a newly enacted Special Sustainability Zones Authorization Act passed by the St. Kitts and…

The new partnership is intended to enhance player engagement and provide more opportunities for user interaction within blockchain-supported games. Players will now be able to utilize the BONDX global network for making payments for games developed using the Salvo platform. This partnership will allow users to use the BONDX payment gateway for any game built on the Salvo platform; further reducing the barriers of entry to using decentralized blockchain gaming. The collaborative relationship will also allow for in-game purchases to take place without the complex transactions of prior established blockchains. Bridging Payment Infrastructure with Gaming Innovation Blockchain payment solutions from…

In a significant development for the cryptocurrency sector, Cango (CANG), a Bitcoin mining company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has reported an impressive weekly haul. The firm announced it managed to Cango mines 125.8 BTC this week, a figure that underscores its growing operational capacity. This achievement is not just a number; it reflects the intense activity and competition within the Bitcoin mining landscape. For investors and crypto enthusiasts, such milestones offer a clear window into a company’s health and the broader network’s security. Let’s break down what this means. How Significant Is Cango’s Weekly Bitcoin Mining Output?…

An API that charges for queries has always been awkward. Subscription tiers and monthly billing break down when autonomous agents make thousands of microtransactions per hour across new services. x402 is Coinbase’s bet that the missing piece is a payment primitive wired directly into HTTP. The mechanism revives HTTP status code 402 “Payment Required.” When a client requests a resource, the server responds with 402 plus machine-readable payment terms: amount, asset, network, and recipient. The client pays in USDC and retries with a cryptographic payment proof in an HTTP header. The server verifies settlement on-chain and serves the resource. Coinbase…