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U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq Composite inching higher amid major banks’ earnings and fresh bets on further rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Summary Wall Street was upbeat as investors cheered banks earnings and anticipated interest rate cuts. Despite U.S.-China trade tensions, stocks were up. Bitcoin also held steady above $112,000 amid a slight return to risk-on sentiment. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 200 points as the session’s start contrasted with Tuesday’s sharp declines. A similar positive start to midweek trading saw the S&P 500 and the…

Four days after Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation proposed merging their operations and activating the long-awaited fee switch, a X spat between the protocol’s founder and Gary Gensler’s former chief of staff reopened wounds that the crypto industry thought had healed. The exchange wasn’t just about a governance vote, it was a proxy war for how Washington and Web3 remember 2022, and whether decentralization was ever more than regulatory theater. Amanda Fischer, now at Better Markets after serving as SEC chief of staff under Gensler, fired first.On Nov. 14, she posted that Uniswap’s proposal of consolidating Foundation operations into…

The DeFi ecosystem has gone through a substantial advancement over the past week. The notable DeFi projects like Notional Finance ($NOTE), Thala ($THL), and Supra ($SUPRA) have dominated the market with massive TVL growth. As per the data from DefiLlama, the other names in the top-10 list include Flow ($FLOW), Gala Games ($GALA), Turbos Finance ($TURBOS), Radiant Capital ($RDNT), Giza ($GIZA), Bluefin ($BLUE), and Blackhole ($BLACK). Overall, this remarkable increase in the DeFi TVL reflects the expansion in the worldwide DeFi consumer base. TOP PROJECTS BY WEEKLY #TVL GROWTH$NOTE $THL $SUPRA $FLOW $GALA $TURBOS $RDNT $GIZA $BLUE $BLACK $APEX $LON…

Leading cryptocurrencies Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and altcoins are experiencing a major correction. At this point, BTC has fallen below $95,000, while ETH finds support around $3,100. While there are analyses suggesting that the correction could deepen further, one analyst noted that Ethereum remains relatively robust against Bitcoin. Accordingly, market analyst Omkar Godbole said that Ethereum has been relatively strong against Bitcoin despite the ongoing strong correction in the market, which is unusual. Pointing out that the ETH/BTC ratio increased by more than 2% in a single day, the analyst stated that the increase in the ETH/BTC ratio is an…

Laser Digital, the digital-assets arm of Nomura Group, said today it has received in-principle approval from Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) to tokenize its global flagship Laser Carry Fund (LCF) under VARA’s pilot ARVA Framework. The approval clears the way for Laser Digital to issue Tokenized LCFs (TLCF), institutional-grade tokens that give professional and institutional investors exposure to tokenized units of the Laser Digital Carry Fund SP, a Cayman Islands segregated portfolio. According to the firm, each TLCF will be made available on one or more public blockchains via KAIO, while Komainu will serve as the VARA-licensed custodian for…

A new claim that will create controversy in the cryptocurrency market came from UniSwap (UNI) founder Hayden Adams. Gensler Even Wanted to Designate Bitcoin as a Security In a conversation with Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) about two weeks before the FTX crash, Adams suggested that then-SEC Chairman Gary Gensler was preparing to classify all major cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, as “securities.” Adams stated on social media that the SBF had asked him to support a bill that would “destroy” the crypto industry, but he had refused. Sharing details of the meeting, Adams said the SBF is in close contact with…

Falcon Finance’s overcollateralized synthetic dollar USDf now has a transparency and risk-management framework. Following the market decline on Oct. 10, USDf added over $700 million in new deposits and surpassed $2 billion in supply. The protocol is setting itself up to tackle issues that have long plagued decentralized finance like opaque reserves and complicated risk models. USDf overcollateralization A live Transparency Dashboard that offers real-time insight into USDf’s financial situation serves as the framework’s focal point. The overcollateralization ratio, reserve composition and yield strategies are all visible to users. Tokenized Ethereum, SOL and Bitcoin are examples of collateral assets for…

Key takeaways ETH is down 10% and now trades around $3,100 per coin. The bearish performance comes as the broader crypto market records a massive selloff. ETH dips 10% amid wider market selloff Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has lost 10% of its value in the last 24 hours, sparking increased profit-taking and loss realization, as prices approached the cost basis of whales. This latest development comes as Ethereum investors have intensified their selling activities over the past few days. Data obtained from Santiment revealed that investors have booked over $500 million in profits and $100 million in…

Allegations that Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) paid for the presidential pardon he received from US President Donald Trump have been categorically denied by Zhao’s lawyer, Teresa Goody Guillen. Speaking on the Pomp Podcast, hosted by crypto investor Anthony Pompliano, Goody Guillen said that such a deal “will never happen.” Pompliano asked during the program whether Trump controlled a secret Bitcoin wallet and whether CZ or Binance had paid into it in exchange for the pardon. Goody Guillen called this claim baseless, noting the transparency of blockchain transactions. “If something like this happened, it would have been visible on the…

Decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator 1inch has introduced Aqua, a new liquidity protocol designed to let DeFi applications share the same capital base across multiple strategies without compromising user custody. Developers can now access the Aqua software development kit (SDK), libraries and documentation on GitHub, with a full front end set to arrive in early 2026, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk. Aqua introduces what 1inch calls a “shared liquidity layer,” allowing capital from a single wallet to back several trading strategies at once. Typically, users must choose one strategy, locking their funds into a specific smart contract. With…