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Tether has invested in Parfin, a London- and Rio de Janeiro-based digital asset platform, to push USDT deeper into Latin America’s institutional market and expand onchain settlement across the region. According to Tether, the investment underscores its push to position USDt (USDT) as an institutional settlement rail for high-value activities, including cross-border payments, real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, and credit markets tied to trade finance, commercial invoices and card receivables. Founded in 2019, Parfin builds infrastructure for institutions to custody, tokenize and transact digital assets. In October, the company secured official registration in Argentina as a virtual asset service provider and…

Bank of America has received official approval to offer brokerage services for cryptocurrency trading to its clients. US Grants Crypto Brokerage License to Banks: Bank of America Becomes One of the First Institutions to Receive Authorization. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced that American banks can act as intermediaries in cryptocurrency transactions. This new regulation allows banks to buy and sell digital assets on behalf of their clients, without requiring them to hold crypto assets on their own balance sheets. The “zero-risk master trading” model defined by the OCC is similar in structure to how…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin made a rare public admission this week. He said the Ethereum Foundation spent years underestimating the importance of its peer-to-peer or P2P networking layer. For a long time, the focus stayed on cryptoeconomics, block design and consensus systems. Meanwhile, the actual network layer that moves data between nodes received far less attention. Vitalik said he often criticized this imbalance internally. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said he long criticized the Ethereum Foundation’s lack of P2P networking expertise—over-indexing on cryptoeconomics, BFT consensus, and block-layer work while taking the network layer for granted—but that this has now changed. He…

Continuing with recent patterns, even the most modest of crypto gains were met waves of selling on Thursday, sending bitcoin BTC$92,123.27 back to $88,000 after a rally above $93,000 just hours earlier. The move higher had begun on Wednesday evening in the U.S. after Nvidia (NVDA) calmed jittery markets with an earnings beat and rosy outlook. In addition to boosting battered crypto, the NVDA results sent the Nasdaq higher by more than 2%. Stocks are also rapidly reversing their gains, with the Nasdaq now higher by just 0.3%. Even mighty Nvidia is trading flat after being up more than 5%.…

Binance is launching a new perpetual trading contract to expand the variety of products offered on its futures trading platform and enhance the user experience. Binance Futures Launches NIGHTUSDT Perpetual Trading Contract The exchange announced it will list the USDⓈ-margined NIGHTUSDT perpetual contract on December 10, 2025, at 2:00 PM. The new product offers investors leverage of up to 50x, providing a significant option, particularly for professional traders seeking high volatility. The underlying asset of the contract is described as Midnight (NIGHT), the native token of the Midnight Network. The project is defined as a privacy-focused, next-generation L1 (Layer-1) blockchain…

Solana has long been one of the most followed networks in the industry, but 2025 marks its definitive transformation: from “Ethereum killer” to an autonomous, high-performance financial ecosystem now ready for institutional capital markets. With 400ms finality, average fees of $0.001, 12 consecutive months of 100% uptime, and a record of $35.9B in daily DEX volume, Solana now stands as one of the most robust and high-performing platforms in the entire sector. And the next phase of its explosive growth is lending. According to the Solana Lending Markets Report 2025 by Redstone, the network’s money markets are undergoing a structural…

Ethereum price today trades near $3,105, holding inside a tightening triangle that has guided price action since July. The market is sitting right at the apex, and the next move will be decisive. Sellers remain active along the descending trendline, while buyers continue to defend the long-term base near $3,000. Whale Activity And ETF Flows Shift Sentiment The whale who shorted before the October 10th crash is adding more to his $ETH long position.Current position value: $218,187,000Liquidation price: $2,117Right now, he is sitting on $3,377,000 in unrealized profits from Ethereum long position. pic.twitter.com/0Gmzyp2o72 — Ted (@TedPillows) December 9, 2025 A…

In the summer of 2020, Michael Saylor — then-CEO of what was, at the time, called MicroStrategy (MSTR) — made a decision that would upend the financial strategy of his publicly-traded company and ripple across corporate boardrooms for years to come. Initially created as a business intelligence software firm, the company now known as Strategy was sitting on over $500 million in cash. But Saylor saw that money not as a cushion but as a melting block of ice. With inflation ticking up and interest rates near zero, holding dollars seemed riskier than ever. So instead of parking that cash…

Singapore has overtaken the United States to claim the top spot in global cryptocurrency adoption, according to the 2025 World Crypto Rankings report released by crypto exchange Bybit on Wednesday. According to the report compiled with research partner DL Research, Bybit analyzed 79 countries using 28 metrics and 92 data points to assess adoption patterns, regulatory frameworks, and user engagement. Singapore, the United States, and Lithuania are the top three countries in terms of crypto adoption. However, Bybit lauded the Asian city-state’s integration of digital assets into everyday life and institutional infrastructure, surpassing those of the latter countries. Vietnam and…

Today KYD Labs, a Solana-based ticket sourcing platform, announced the launch of TIX — a DeFi lending layer built for live event financing. TIX will be integrated with KYD Labs, bringing a verifiable financing and settlement layer to its existing infrastructure. KYD is DeFi’s largest ticket transfer platform, with more than $8 million in ticket sales, and $2 million in pre-existing financing across more than 300,000 tickets, according to the press release. TIX looks to solve venues’ up front cost demand, and says it turns tickets into tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) “that replace opaque, ad-hoc loan agreements to fundamentally re-architect…