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The cryptocurrency market lit up on Sunday, with social media erupting in cheers as users hoped for new bull runs in bitcoin BTC$106,416.64 and tokens like XRP and DOGE fueled by stimulus checks, following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a tariff dividend for low-income Americans on Truth Social. But the reality, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later clarified, is more complicated. Bessent explained that the President’s tariff dividend might be delivered through the tax cuts from his major economic policy bill earlier this year. “The $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms, in lots of ways. It could be…

Law and Ledger is a news segment focusing on crypto legal news, brought to you by Kelman Law – A law firm focused on digital asset commerce. Is Crypto a Security? (Part V) The opinion editorial below was written by Alex Forehand and Michael Handelsman for Kelman.Law. The U.S. regulatory environment for digital assets in 2025 remains fragmented, policy-driven, and dependent on shifting administrative priorities. While courts have supplied some clarity—especially around secondary-market transactions and the distinction between tokens and investment contracts—the federal regulatory architecture is still defined more by agency posture than by statute. This Part surveys the key…

PayPal, an asset-conserving platform that acts as a bridge between Traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi), has announced its groundbreaking partnership with OpenAI, the most notable artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory in the world. The basic purpose of this partnership is to enable seamless and trusted shopping directly from ChatGPT without switching to another browser or application. Hundreds of millions already shop with PayPal, and through our partnership with @OpenAI, they’ll be able to move from chat to checkout in just a few taps. Businesses will be discoverable directly in ChatGPT, and we’re expanding our internal AI capabilities with…

Table of Contents Origins and DevelopmentCore FunctionalitySecurity and BackingThe $EVAA Token and DAO GovernanceRecent Developments and ExpansionsFuture OutlookHow to Get StartedFrequently Asked Questions EVAA is the inaugural decentralized lending protocol on The Open Network (TON) blockchain, enabling users to lend and borrow digital assets directly within Telegram. Launched in 2024, it has handled over $1.4 billion in transactions and connected with more than 300,000 wallets. The protocol operates as a liquidity layer, allowing participants to deposit cryptocurrencies, earn yields through smart contracts, and access loans without intermediaries. Integrated seamlessly into Telegram’s Mini Apps, EVAA draws on the messaging platform’s vast…

The zkEVM ecosystem spent a year sprinting on latency. Proving time for an Ethereum block collapsed from 16 minutes to 16 seconds, costs dropped 45-fold, and participating zkVMs now prove 99% of mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds on target hardware. The Ethereum Foundation (EF) declared victory on Dec. 18: real-time proving works. The performance bottlenecks are cleared. Now the real work starts, because speed without soundness is a liability, not an asset, and the math under many STARK-based zkEVMs has been quietly breaking for months. In July, the EF set a formal target for “real-time proving” that bundled latency,…

Imagine a world where your local bank issues digital currencies that combine traditional financial security with crypto innovation. That’s exactly what the Bank of Korea is proposing in their groundbreaking new approach to bank-led stablecoins. This strategic move could reshape how we think about digital money and financial stability. Why Is the Bank of Korea Pushing for Bank-Led Stablecoins? The Bank of Korea recently released a white paper that makes a compelling case for bank-led stablecoins as the future of digital currency. Their recommendation centers on having banks take the lead in stablecoin issuance rather than allowing non-bank entities to…

The long-running legal battle between blockchain firm Ripple and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) reached its definitive conclusion in 2025, ending one of the most consequential regulatory cases in cryptocurrency history. After nearly five years of litigation, appeals, and procedural delays, both parties exited the case with the core elements of Judge Analisa Torres’s earlier ruling intact, delivering long-awaited clarity on XRP’s status in the U.S. market. At the start of 2025, the case remained technically unresolved. Although Ripple had secured a partial victory in 2023, when the court ruled that XRP sales on public exchanges did not constitute securities…

ETHGas and Stakely have teamed up recently through an announcement on their respective X accounts. The staking economy of Ethereum is becoming more mature, in which reliability and predictable revenues are more important than simple returns. Such change is emphasized in the new alliance between ETHGas and Stakely and offers a perspective on the way the validator work might change in the coming years. 🔦 ETHGas Partner Spotlight: @Stakely_ioWe’re excited to partner with @Stakely_io, a top-rated node operator trusted by over 50,000 delegators and leading protocols across 30+ chains.As a strategic partner for @LidoFinance, Stakely continues to set the standard…

DeFiLlama, the largest data aggregator and dashboard for Decentralized Finance (DeFi), has revealed the list of Top Projects by weekly TVL Growth. Total Value Locked (TVL) means the total dollar value of cryptocurrency assets locked within a certain decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol. Izumi Finance ($IZI) stands at the first position with $5.3M in TVL, after getting the change of +84.4%, in the list of other top projects over the past 7 days, with a market cap of $6.3M. TOP PROJECTS BY WEEKLY #TVL GROWTH$IZI $F $RIVER $DAM $RESOLV $WAGMI #Polymarket $CPOOL $FLIP $LON $ORCA $SEAM $PAXG $EUL $AAVE pic.twitter.com/sLsa0nY7uY —…

Ethereum remains in a corrective phase, with recent price action showing compression rather than expansion. Volatility has contracted, and the market is currently rotating within clearly defined technical boundaries. Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, ETH is trading inside a well-defined range. The upper boundary of this range is capped by a long-respected descending trendline that continues to act as dynamic resistance. Each recent attempt to push higher has been rejected near this trendline, confirming that sellers remain active on rallies rather than the price transitioning into a breakout phase. On the downside, the asset…