Coin Edition
Coinbase CLO: Vanguard’s Entry Proves Crypto Industry Is No Longer ‘Choked’
Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal formally declared the end of “Operation Choke Point 2.0” Tuesday, crediting the Trump administration’s aggressive deregulation strategy for reopening the U.S. banking system to...
Altseason 2025 Delayed? New Data Shows Why Crypto Hasn’t Exploded Yet
The elusive Altseason; a period of parabolic growth for non-Bitcoin assets, has been effectively cancelled for the remainder of 2025 by the U.S. industrial sector. Fresh economic data released Monday...
CZ-Backed YZi Labs Launches Hostile Takeover of CEA Industries After 90% Stock Collapse
YZi Labs, the investment vehicle backed by Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ), initiated a hostile proxy battle against CEA Industries (NASDAQ: BNC) Monday. The firm filed a Schedule 14A with...
No Elon Here: Japan’s ‘DOGE’ Chooses Bureaucracy Over Disruption
Japan has created a new government team called the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE for short. The goal of this new unit is to examine the national budget, remove...
Saylor’s Strategy Builds $1.44B ‘Cash Moat’ to Protect Dividends, Cuts Bitcoin Outlook
Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) effectively decoupled its shareholder payouts from Bitcoin’s volatility since December start, establishing a $1.44 billion USD reserve to service its growing debt and preferred stock obligations. The...
Tether Faces Fresh Insolvency Warnings Over ‘Volatile’ Reserve Assets
Arthur Hayes publicly warned that Tether’s growing exposure to riskier assets (namely, Bitcoin and gold) could pose a solvency risk if prices tumble. According to Tether’s Q3 2025 attestation report,...
Crypto Hacks Surge 10x in November as ‘Code Fragility’ Costs DeFi $127 Million
The cryptocurrency sector suffered a catastrophic security regression in November, with total losses from exploits and hacks surging nearly 1,000% month-over-month. According to a forensic report by blockchain security firm...
Ripple Expands Singapore MPI License for Full Institutional Custody & Trade
Ripple has cemented its status as a dominant institutional player in Asia, announcing Monday that the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has approved an expansion of its Major Payment Institution...
Japan’s Bond Yield Spike Hits Crypto Hard, Triggers $646M in Liquidations
Japan’s sudden jump in bond yields not only shook Asian stocks, it directly hit the crypto market. The crypto market is now going through a sharp downturn today, with selling...
Grayscale to Convert Chainlink Trust to ETF, Debuting This Week
Grayscale Investments will debut the first-ever spot Chainlink ETF this week, converting its existing Trust product into a public trading vehicle. Nate Geraci, President of The ETF Store, confirmed the...
Arthur Hayes Predicts Most L1s Will Crash Except Ethereum And Solana
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, says that every major Layer-1 blockchain outside of Ethereum and Solana is eventually going to zero. In an interview with Altcoin Daily, Hayes explained why...
900 Wallets, $4M Missing: IRYS Airdrop Hit by Manipulation Claims
The IRYS airdrop, one of the most talked-about token launches this month, is now under scrutiny after on-chain analytics platform Bubblemaps published findings hinting that a large portion of the...
Key Token Unlocks To Watch For In December, List Unveiled
The altcoin season could be postponed, as some of the key players in the market are about to increase their maximum supply by a hefty amount. In December, based on...
Turkmenistan Legalizes Crypto Mining but Bans Use for Payments
As of January 1, 2026, cryptocurrency mining and trading will become fully legal in Turkmenistan. Earlier this week, local newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan reported that the country’s President, Serdar Berdimuhamedow, signed...
Bitcoin and Gold Futures Stuck in Limbo as CME Battles Outage
CME Group (NASDAQ: CME), the world’s largest derivatives exchange, suffered a catastrophic infrastructure failure on Friday, halting trading across global equities, commodities, and cryptocurrency futures. The outage, triggered by a...
Binance, Bitget, KuCoin and HashKey Lead Massive Relief Push After Deadly Hong Kong Fire
The cryptocurrency sector has mounted an unprecedented humanitarian response to the devastating fire in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district that has claimed at least 65 lives, with hundreds of people...
Dogecoin Price Trap: Why ETF Inflows Haven’t Triggered a Breakout Yet
Despite the combination of bullish catalysts that would have typically ignited a rally, Dogecoin (DOGE) stays structurally trapped. The leading memecoin is still trading around $0.15, failing to break resistance...
Malicious Chrome Extension ‘Crypto Copilot’ Caught Injecting Hidden Fees into Solana Swaps
A malicious browser extension masquerading as a Solana trading tool has been caught siphoning funds from users by silently modifying transaction payloads. Security researchers identified the harmful Chrome extension to...
Bitcoin and XRP Stabilize as Wall Street Prices in 85% Chance of a December Rate Cut
Wall Street’s consensus has fractured forcing a repricing of risk assets that has Bitcoin and XRP targeting immediate breakouts. Citing a new note from JP Morgan, Reuters reports that the...
Pi Coin Rallies as Network Announces GameFi Partnership With CiDi Games
On November 26, Pi Network announced a deep, two-way integration with a gaming platform called CiDi Games. At least for now, the move seems to have reinvigorated the crypto community’s...
The 4 Very Best P2P Crypto Exchanges for 2025-2026
Peer-to-peer (P2P) exchanges are at the core of crypto trading thanks to the fact that these platforms allow users to directly trade with each other. That way, they offer more...
Ripple’s RLUSD Secures ‘Accepted Token’ Status from Abu Dhabi Regulator
Ripple has secured a critical regulatory foothold in the Middle East, announcing today that the Abu Dhabi Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) has recognized its USD-backed stablecoin, RLUSD, as an...
UK’s Latest Budget Spares Crypto from Punitive Tax, Aligns Rates with Standard Assets
The UK Treasury’s “Autumn Budget 2025” has delivered a verdict of legitimacy for the cryptocurrency sector. While Chancellor Rachel Reeves raised the headline Capital Gains Tax (CGT) rates to 18%...
Upbit Confirms $37M Hack: Exchange Says It Will Cover Every Lost Dollar
Upbit, South Korea’s dominant cryptocurrency exchange, has confirmed a security breach resulting in the unauthorized transfer of approximately $37 million (54 billion KRW) in Solana-network assets. The exchange has immediately...
Naver to Acquire Upbit Operator Dunamu in $10.3 Billion Stock Swap
Naver Financial, the financial services division of South Korea’s tech behemoth Naver, said it is planning on buying Dunamu in a deal that likely won’t see any cash exchange hands....
