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on Dec 17, 2025
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Payment company Visa announced the launch of USDC settlements in the United States. Issuing banks and acquirers can now conduct direct transactions in stablecoin through the payment system. The first participants in the program are Cross River Bank and Lead Bank, which have already begun using the Solana blockchain. A full-scale expansion of the service […]

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on Dec 16, 2025
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New investors in the leading cryptocurrency are incurring losses as the asset has been trading below their average entry price for over a month, according to CryptoQuant analyst Carmelo Aleman. Short-Term Holders Under Pressure “Historically, prolonged periods in which STH remain at a loss tend to coincide with weak-hand cleansing phases and supply transfer toward […]

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on Dec 16, 2025
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Venezuela has climbed to the 11th position in the global cryptocurrency adoption index. The surge in citizens’ interest in digital assets occurred amid increased pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on local leader Nicolás Maduro. Source: TRM Labs. The country rose from the 14th place it held a year earlier. Experts described this as […]

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on Dec 16, 2025
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Tesla has initiated trials of driverless taxis without supervisory drivers, though passengers are not yet involved. This was announced by the company’s head, Elon Musk. Testing is underway with no occupants in the car — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2025 “Today, a driverless Tesla robotaxi was spotted on the roads of Austin, Texas. There […]

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on Dec 16, 2025
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The AI-focused Bittensor network has undergone its first scheduled halving. Similar to Bitcoin, the block reward in TAO tokens has been halved. The first ever #Bittensor halvening is complete Block rewards have been cut to 0.5 $TAO per block History.$TAO pic.twitter.com/3ybir8TpG5 — DREAD BONGO (@DreadBong0) December 15, 2025 As with the protocol of the first […]

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on Dec 16, 2025
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The company Ripple is set to begin testing the stablecoin RLUSD on Layer 2 networks such as Optimism, Base, Ink, and Unichain. RLUSD is expanding to Layer 2s using @wormhole’s NTT standard for native, secure transfers and will become the first U.S.-based, trust-regulated stablecoin on @Optimism, @Base, @Inkonchain and @Unichain: https://t.co/ju9KyoOIBa This will enhance utility […]

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on Dec 16, 2025
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Banking giant JPMorgan has unveiled its first tokenized money market fund (MMF) based on Ethereum.  The product, My OnChain Net Yield Fund, with the ticker MONY, is issued through the bank’s proprietary platform, Kinexys Digital Assets. It is structured as a private placement fund 506(c) and targets qualified investors. These investors can subscribe to it […]

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on Dec 15, 2025
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Between December 14 and 15, the hashrate of the leading cryptocurrency network fell by 8%—approximately 100 EH/s. This was stated by Nano Labs founder Jack Kong.  算力较昨天掉了100E,跌了8%,按照平均250T,至少关了40万台 机器关了 https://t.co/cCg1F0DXOF — Jack孔@Nano Labs(NA)🇭🇰 (@punk8185) December 15, 2025 Experts at BlockBeats noted that over the week, the figure dropped by 17.25%. As of December 15, it stood […]

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on Dec 15, 2025
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The next eight years in the crypto industry will be marked by a focus on privacy, according to entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan. He divides the history of the sector into three major phases. The three eras of crypto. Proof of work: 2009-2017Programmability: 2017-2025Privacy: 2025-203Xpic.twitter.com/YIpJN2OMZo — Balaji (@balajis) November 13, 2025 According to the expert, the period […]

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on Dec 15, 2025
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In the hypothetical scenario of a quantum attack on Satoshi Nakamoto’s wallets, “old whales” would protect the market, according to analyst Willy Woo. Many OGs would be in to buy the flash crash. BTC network would survive, most coins are not immediately vulnerable. However 4M coins in P2PK addresses (including Satoshi’s) have their public keys […]