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Bank of America’s 2026 market outlook paints a picture of strong global growth, led by AI investment, but warns that volatility could rise as investors begin to grasp the full impact of the technology on the economy. The bank’s global research team expects U.S. GDP to grow 2.4% year-over-year by the end of 2026, above consensus, driven by business investment, fiscal stimulus, and recent rate cuts. China’s growth is also projected to beat expectations, with forecasts at 4.7% for 2026 and 4.5% in 2027. But the most significant force shaping the bank’s forecast is artificial intelligence. The surge in AI…

The Central Bank of Russia has officially confirmed that cryptocurrency regulations in the country may be loosened. Last week, Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov announced that the current regulation, which only allows a limited number of “highly qualified” investors to access decentralized digital assets like Bitcoin, is about to be amended. Following this statement, First Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia Vladimir Chistyukhin confirmed to the press that the issue of using the term “highly qualified investor” as a mandatory criterion in new crypto regulations is being reconsidered. “As our colleagues in the Ministry of Finance have stated,…

Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser—one of the key figures who helped propel the popular Grand Theft Auto franchise—delivered a stark warning about the direction of generative AI in video games, arguing that models trained on synthetic data will eventually degrade quality across the industry. Speaking on Virgin Radio UK, Houser said AI models that are scraping an internet increasingly populated with AI-generated content risk pushing the medium toward a recursive loop and collapse in quality. “As far as I understand it, which is a really superficial understanding, the models scour the internet for information, but the internet’s going to get…

The dYdX community has approved a plan that was proposed in late November 2025 called the Liquidation Rebates Pilot Program. It has been touted as a reward system expected to mitigate the blowback from future liquidations, thereby encouraging liquidity and risk management. According to a recent X post from dYdX, the plans for compensation have been approved via a governance vote and will be viewed as a measured experiment, which means it could still be refined further. The post revealed that 32 out of 42 Active Set validators and 112 accounts voted, with a 63.09% voting turnout in which there…

The Cocoon decentralized AI network, a privacy-preserving distributed computing platform built on The Open Network (TON) — an independent layer-1 blockchain associated with the Telegram messaging application — went live on Sunday. Cocoon allows owners of graphics processing units (GPUs) to rent their computing power to the network, processing user queries and requests in return for Toncoin (TON), the native token of the TON blockchain. The decentralized AI network has processed its first requests from users, and GPU owners are already profiting from renting out their hardware, according to Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov. He said: “Centralized compute providers such as…

Ethereum price has broken below the $2,900 support with rising whale sell pressure, but upcoming Fusaka upgrade could boost sentiment. Summary Ethereum trades near $2,803 after losing the $2,900 support. Derivatives data shows high volume and falling open interest, indicating fast position exits. On-chain data and whale flow point to continued sell pressure despite hopes around the Fusaka upgrade. The second-largest cryptocurrency was trading at 2,803 at press time, down about 0.9% in the past day and roughly 5% over the week. The 30-day slide now sits near 28%, placing ETH about 43% below its all-time high of $4,946 set…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. Subscribe to the Morning Minute on Substack. GM! Today’s top news: Crypto majors rebound after selloff; BTC at $87,400 Saylor’s Strategy announced a $1.44B USD Reserve to cover debt payments Vanguard finally opens doors to crypto ETFs starting today House Republicans release 50-page report on Operation Chokepoint 2.0 Myriad partners with Trust Wallet to bring prediction markets native in-wallet 🏛️ Vanguard Finally Lets Investors Buy Crypto One of the final anti-crypto financial giants just capitulated. Vanguard…

The crypto derivatives market passed through a rocky 24-hour period on December 1, 2025, with the total liquidation soaring across the key exchanges. The intensity of the market volatility was depicted by the number of traders that were liquidated to a total of 219,704. LIQUIDATION DATA IN 24 HOURS TOTAL LIQUIDATIONS: UP TO $636.94MTOP 5 COINS WITH HIGHEST LIQUIDATION: $BTC ~ $205.51M… pic.twitter.com/Ln90pWgYxE — PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) December 1, 2025 The largest single crypto liquidation order was on Binance, the BTCUSDC trading pair and was worth $14.48 million. This one occasion underlined the sharp market reprisals…

Phoenix, a crypto analytical platform, has released the list of the top 10 best-performing decentralized exchanges (DEXs) for the last month. In the given list, Uniswap stands at the first position with $3.92B total volume locked (TVL), with Coins/Pairs figure of 6985/16,878, and holding a huge volume of $13.14B by the last 7D. Furthermore, this exchange has 5.50M active users, over the last 30 days, with a collective volume of $79.97B over the last 30 days. TOP DEXES BY VOLUME IN THE LAST MONTH#Uniswap – $79.97B#PancakeSwap – $70.56B#Meteora – $19.05B#Aerodrome – $16.91B#Raydium – $15.80B#Orca – $14.33B#Curve – $13.91B#Hyperliquid – $8.07B#PumpSwap…

The Bitcoin mining industry has entered what may be its most severe economic downturn in its 15-year history, with even large publicly traded operators struggling to break even amid collapsing mining revenue and rising debt, according to TheMinerMag. In its latest report, TheMinerMag said miners are operating in the “harshest margin environment of all time,” as hashprice — the revenue earned per unit of computing power — has fallen from an average of about $55 per petahash per second (PH/s) in the third quarter to roughly $35 PH/s, a level the publication characterized as a structural low rather than a…