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Tilted, an AI-powered platform for gaming economies, has excitedly announced its collaboration with Zetarium, a decentralized infrastructure for scalable and secure Web3 growth. The objective of this partnership is to merge AI-powered digital labor with decentralized staking and token utility for creating a smarter Web3 economy. 🚀 Tilted x Zetarium is live — building the infrastructure for the next intelligent Web3 economy.@Zetarium_ ’s secure, decentralized staking and token utility now connect with Tilted’s AI-powered tagging, creator tools, and real-time data economy.Together, we’re merging AI… pic.twitter.com/kuHdB2Shuz — Tilted (@tiltedxyz) November 22, 2025 Zetarium is providing its services in the sustainability, staking,…

Global markets have experienced sharp fluctuations after US President Donald Trump threatened a “massive tariff increase” on products imported from China. Trump, in a post on Truth Social, stated that China was planning to impose export restrictions on rare earth elements and other critical manufacturing components, and that they could impose an “unprecedented tax increase” in retaliation. Following this announcement, both traditional stock markets and the cryptocurrency market plummeted. The NASDAQ 100 index fell 2.4% and the S&P 500 index fell 1.7%, while the crypto market also saw a sharp sell-off. Bitcoin (BTC), the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, fell…

Are stablecoins as safe as we think? A top South Korean financial regulator just dropped a bombshell warning that could change how we view these digital assets forever. The growing stablecoin risks are becoming too significant to ignore, according to Financial Services Commission Standing Commissioner Ahn Chang-guk. What are the real stablecoin risks? During a recent Financial Stability Board meeting in Riyadh, Commissioner Ahn sounded the alarm about several critical concerns. The expanding use of stablecoins in cross-border transactions creates unprecedented challenges for financial regulators worldwide. These digital assets, designed to maintain stable value, now pose serious threats to global…

The coexistence period between MT and ISO 20022 message standards is coming to an end this weekend, as the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) 22 November deadline closes in. Starting Saturday, SWIFT requires all financial institutional–to–institutional payment instruction messages to move exclusively to the ISO 20022 format, closing a transition window that has been open since 2023. ISO 20022 supports several payment and settlement processes, including cross-border wire transfers and securities transactions. It has also gained traction within blockchain-based financial networks that would like to open doors to traditional institutions and international payment services. Crypto, banking industries prepare…

The organizers of the Nobel Peace Prize are investigating whether insiders used privileged information about this year’s winner to profit on crypto prediction market Polymarket, according to local reports. Roughly 11 hours before the closely watched award was given to Venezuelan resistance leader Maria Corina Machado this morning, the odds of her victory surged from near-zero to over 70% on Polymarket.  The market on this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner has accumulated over $21.4 million in trading volume since opening in July. For nearly all of that time, the odds of Machado receiving the coveted prize have hovered around a…

The co-founders of privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet Samourai Wallet were sentenced to four and five years in prison Wednesday, setting an important precedent as privacy development makes a comeback in crypto. Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill were sentenced on Wednesday for conspiring to operate an unlicensed money-transmitting business and for facilitating transactions involving criminal proceeds, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said. Prosecutors argued that Samourai’s CoinJoin mixing service helped conceal the movement of illicit funds, even though the wallet was fully non-custodial. “The sentences the defendants received send a clear message that laundering known criminal proceeds—regardless of the technology…

LeverageShares, a European issuer known for single-stock and leveraged exchange-traded products, has filed to launch a 2x long ETF tracking the daily performance of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. According to Bloomberg senior ETF analyst Eric Balchunas, the submission is the first attempt to create a leveraged product tied directly to a private cryptocurrency exchange. The proposed ETF could provide investors with twice the daily price movement of Kraken, which recently filed for a US IPO confidentially. “LeverageShares just filed for a 2x Long Kraken ETF… which I believe isn’t even IPO-ing until next year. What a country,” Balchunas posted on…

A report from The Guardian has detailed how Christopher Harborne, a shareholder in DigFinex, the parent company of Bitfinex and Tether, and a large donor to Boris Johnson, traveled with Johnson on a trip to Ukraine. This report was based on the “Boris Files,” a collection of files purportedly hacked from Johnson’s office and shared by Distributed Denial of Secrets. Harborne, who also uses the Thai name Chakrit Sakunkrit, has become an increasingly important political donor in the UK over the last several years, supporting Brexit, Johnson, Nigel Farage, and the Reform party. Read more: Scoop: Bitfinex, Tether shareholder Harborne…

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) made its first major arrests in a cryptocurrency case, detaining two men in London and Bradford over an alleged $28 million fraud linked to the collapse of the Basis Markets scheme. The November 20, 2025, operation marks a pivotal shift in UK crypto enforcement. Authorities are expanding efforts to counter sophisticated digital asset crime. UK SFO Launches Landmark Crypto Investigation The Serious Fraud Office announced the arrests of one man in his thirties in Herne Hill, London, and another in his forties near Bradford. Raids, conducted in collaboration with the Metropolitan and West Yorkshire…

KuCoin Pay has integrated with Pix, Brazil’s central bank-run instant payments network, allowing users to convert and spend cryptocurrencies at any merchant that accepts Pix QR codes. The launch taps into one of the world’s largest crypto user bases, with roughly 26 million Brazilians, about 12% of the population, now using digital assets, according to a Friday announcement from the exchange. The integration supports instant crypto-to-Brazilian currency conversions (Brazil’s currency is the real), enabling users to transfer funds from KuCoin accounts to any Brazilian bank or pay merchants directly through Pix. It also features multi-functional wallet tools for managing both…