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The Ethereum price is expected to retest the $3,100 region as potential support after a major breakout. Recent on-chain data shows that $3,150 and $2,800 stand as immediate support. U.S. jobless claims surged to 236,000, triggering a risk-off move across crypto. On Thursday, December 11th, the Ethereum price plunged over 3.5% to reach $3,215 trading value. These losses align with broader market pullback amid disappointing U.S. unemployment data and the recent Fed rate cut decision, acting as a sell-the-news trigger. While the macroeconomic jitters are adding pressure to digital assets, on-chain data highlights aggressive buyers in ETH, preparing to take…

Market analysts anticipate the Federal Reserve will implement liquidity measures that could change cryptocurrency markets in 2026. The chief market strategist at Wellington Altus, James E. Thorne, projects the Fed will begin purchases of approximately $25 billion per month, likely starting early 2026 and maintaining this pace for at least six months to stabilize reserve balances. “Don’t call it QE,” the strategist noted. He distinguished the anticipated measures from traditional quantitative easing programs. The purchases aim to address funding pressures emerging in financial markets as year-end approaches. Don’t call it QE.IMHO: the Fed begins purchases of about $25 billion per…

The Samourai Wallet matter raises a fundamental question about how the United States treats non-custodial software and the developers who create it. Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill did not operate a financial service or handle customer assets. They wrote and maintained software that allowed users to construct collaborative Bitcoin transactions in a privacy-preserving way. Throughout the tool’s entire lifecycle, users controlled their own keys, initiated their own transactions, and never relied on Samourai or its developers to transmit or safeguard value. The distinction between a custodial service and a non-custodial tool is not a technicality; it is the core…

mETH Protocol launches a Buffer Pool using Aave’s ETH market to process ETH redemptions in about 24 hours, aiming to unlock institutional demand for liquid restaking. Summary mETH Protocol adds a Buffer Pool that routes ETH into Aave, targeting 24-hour redemption processing versus Ethereum’s 5–20+ day native exit queues.​ The upgrade uses dual liquidity paths for smaller and institutional-sized redemptions, allocating about 20% of TVL to Aave to blend staking and lending yields.​ Backed by custodians and validators like Fireblocks, Anchorage, Kraken Staked, and Mantle, mETH integrates with EigenLayer, Symbiotic, and 40+ DeFi platforms. mETH Protocol, an Ethereum liquid restaking…

ETH had a short-term push above the trendline and tested the $3,400 resistance, but the bounce quickly faded. The market is showing signs of exhaustion again, and bulls are struggling to maintain control. Unless stronger momentum steps in, Ethereum may be at risk of rolling back into the range. Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart After breaking above the descending trendline, ETH tapped into the $3,400–$3,500 resistance zone but failed to sustain higher prices. The asset is still trading below the 100-day and 200-day moving averages, both located above the $3,500 mark, and despite flipping the trendline, the structure…

BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), the digital asset treasury firm focused on Ethereum, said on Monday it acquired over 54,000 ether ETH$3,204.60 last week worth around $173 million at current prices. The firm now holds nearly 3.6 million ETH, closing in on 3% of the outstanding supply of the token, alongside a small bitcoin stash and equity in Worldcoin-focused treasury firm Eightco (ORBS). It also raised its cash holdings to $607 million, up from $398 million last week. BMNR shares slipped 2.6% on Monday to their weakest level since August. BitMine chairman and Fundstrat co-founder Thomas Lee attributed the current weakness…

President Donald Trump’s drive against U.S. debanking of controversial industries, such as digital assets, has led to a new report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency that further confirms the past practice and warns of potential punishment for the banks allegedly involved. The OCC is directing banks to heed President Donald Trump’s executive order issued in August that called for a halt to debanking and to punish those who’ve unfairly severed legal customers from the banking system. Trump’s order had demanded regulators probe for firms under their supervision that are guilty of debanking and go after them,…

A debate inside Aave’s DAO is raising questions about who controls the protocol’s interface and who benefits financially from it. The issue surfaced after Aave Labs integrated decentralized exchange aggregator CoWSwap into the app.aave.com interface earlier this month, replacing earlier Paraswap routing used for collateral swaps. While the change was framed as a user-experience upgrade offering improved execution and MEV protection, delegates later flagged that swap-related fees were no longer flowing to the Aave DAO treasury. An open letter from Orbit delegate EzR3aL argued that the integration introduced frontend fees of roughly 15 to 25 basis points that accrue to…

Ethereum price is trading below key moving averages as rising futures open interest and flat price action flag liquidation risk and heightened two-way volatility.​ Summary Ethereum price briefly broke a descending trendline and tested resistance before rejection, staying capped under its 100-day and 200-day moving averages.​ RSI has cooled from overbought while a nearby bullish order block and prior resistance turned support define the key zone to watch for a bounce or breakdown.​ Futures open interest is elevated despite modest price recovery, a structure that has historically preceded sharp liquidations when speculative positioning unwinds. Ethereum price is up roughly 1–1.5%…

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has disclosed 1,346 total holdings in its latest SEC filings. The most recent portfolio value is calculated to be $ 142,419,517,113 USD. Actual Assets Under Management (AUM) is this value plus cash (which is not disclosed). The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is one of the largest institutional investors in the world, with over $142 billion in assets reported in its latest regulatory filings. The new 13F filings reveal that in Q3 2025, the fund decided to open a significant position in MicroStrategy. Canada Pension Plan Investment Board enters Strategy At the end of…