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Ex-Pump.fun Developer Sentenced to 6 Years for $2 Million Solana Fraud in London Court
Wood Green Crown Court in London sentenced Canadian national Jarett Dunn to six years in prison on Thursday for fraud by abuse of position and transfer of criminal property. Dunn...
Ethereum Could Get Faster in January With Gas Limit Rise to 80M Following BPO2 Fork
Ethereum developers discussed raising the block gas limit from 60 million to between 75 million and 80 million gas during their All Core Developers meeting. Nethermind developer Ben Adams stated...
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Adds $10.56M in BitMine Shares During Latest Trading Session
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest purchased additional BitMine Immersion Technologies shares valued at $10.56 million across three exchange-traded funds on December 17. The acquisition adds to Monday’s $17 million BitMine purchase,...
Crypto Company Theta Labs Sued by Former Employees Over Fraud and Market Manipulation
Two former senior executives at Theta Labs filed whistleblower lawsuits in California alleging the blockchain company and CEO Mitch Liu engaged in market manipulation and fraud. The complaints were filed...
Marshall Islands Launches World’s First Blockchain-Based Universal Basic Income Program
Marshall Islands Finance Ministry executed universal basic income (UBI) payments using blockchain-based sovereign bonds. This marks the first government deployment of this payment method globally. The Pacific island nation distributed...
Base Co-Founder Faces Backlash After Promoting Soulja Boy–Linked Meme Coin on Platform
Base co-founder Jesse Pollak promoted and backed a meme coin issued by rapper Soulja Boy, triggering community criticism. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT questioned why the rapper was being given a platform,...
Bank of Japan Set to Hike Rates 25 Basis Points, Bitcoin Likely to Face Selling Pressure
The Bank of Japan is expected to raise interest rates by 25 basis points at its December 18-19 policy meeting, which could put pressure on Bitcoin and other risk assets....
Netflix Drops New Crypto Comedy About Forgotten Bitcoin Password Worth $35 Million Stash
Netflix announced a new comedy feature titled “One Attempt Remaining,” starring Jennifer Garner. The film centers on a divorced couple who discover that the cryptocurrency they won on a cruise...
Tokenized Gold and Silver Outperform Bitcoin This Year as Safe-Haven Demand Increases
Tokenized gold and silver have outperformed Bitcoin this year as cryptocurrency markets swung from euphoria around U.S. presidential elections to the deepest fear levels since 2022. Bitcoin dropped from an...
Gemini Adds Ripple USD Support on XRP Ledger for Near-Instant Settlement and Low Fees
Gemini announced that RLUSD is now compatible with the XRP Ledger on its platform. The integration enables near-instant settlement and lower fees for users transferring stablecoins across networks via the...
Bitwise CIO Projects Bitcoin Will Hit $1.3 Million by 2035 With Conservative Assumptions
Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan presented long-term capital market assumptions for Bitcoin, projecting a price target of $1.3 million by 2035. The presentation addressed institutional investors seeking quantitative frameworks...
France Opens Retail Access to Crypto ETNs as Europe’s Regulated Market Expands
France’s financial regulator, AMF, authorized retail marketing of crypto-indexed exchange-traded notes, removing warning-label requirements for products that meet eligibility conditions. Analyst Raphaël Bloch stated the authorization is a milestone the...
Ripple’s RLUSD Surges Past $1 Billion Market Cap With Multi-Chain Strategy Driving Growth
Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin has reached approximately $1.3 billion in market capitalization, according to CoinGecko data. As of late 2025, the stablecoin posted year-to-date growth of roughly 1,278% as multiple factors...
Binance Suspends Employee Over Insider Trading Incident, Awards $100K to Whistleblowers
Binance suspended an employee on December 7, 2025, following an internal investigation into insider trading allegations. The exchange’s audit department received a report claiming an employee used insider information to...
SEC Meeting Sparks Disagreement on Decentralization Regulation Between Finance Sectors
An SEC Investor Advisory Committee meeting caused debate between traditional finance regulators and the cryptocurrency community over decentralization regulation. Commissioner Caroline A. Crenshaw raised questions about tokenized equity products and...
Aster Reveals 2026 H1 Roadmap and Burns $80M Worth of Tokens From Buyback Wallet Supply
Aster released its roadmap for the first half of 2026 on December 4. Q1 2026 plans include the Aster Chain L1 mainnet launch. The quarter will also introduce Aster Code...
Bitcoin Miners Face Crackdown After Stealing US$1B in Electricity From Malaysia’s Grid
Malaysian authorities are intensifying efforts to track down illegal Bitcoin miners who have stolen approximately $1.1 billion worth of electricity from the national grid. The country recorded about 14,000 illicit...
XRP ETFs Reach $910M in Assets Weeks After U.S. Launch With Five Products Trading
Five XRP spot exchange-traded funds have accumulated more than $909 million in assets under management within weeks of launching in the United States. Analyst Neil reported that institutional products now...
South Korea Advances Digital Asset Basic Act With Bank-Led Stablecoin Issuer Requirement
South Korea’s government and National Assembly are developing second-phase digital asset legislation titled the “Digital Asset Basic Act.” The government proposes to restrict stablecoin issuers to consortiums holding at least...
Kalshi to Become CNN’s Official Prediction Market Partner With Real-Time Data Integration
Kalshi announced a data integration partnership with CNN, becoming the network’s official prediction markets partner. The federally regulated exchange will provide real-time event probability data across CNN programming and newsroom...
Coinbase Adds Hedera, Mantle, VeChain to COIN50 Index in Q4 2025 Quarterly Rebalancing
Coinbase completed its fourth-quarter 2025 rebalancing of the Coinbase 50 Index, adding six digital assets to the benchmark. Coinbase Institutional announced that Hedera, Mantle, VeChain, Flare, Sei, and Immutable now...
Kalshi’s Prediction Market Contracts Are Now Tokenized on Solana Blockchain
Kalshi announced that its prediction market contracts are now tokenized on the Solana blockchain. The platform launched $2 million in builder grants alongside the integration, with Axiom Exchange as the...
China’s PBOC Reaffirms Crackdown on Crypto Trading and Illegal Stablecoin Usage
The People’s Bank of China convened a meeting of the coordination mechanism for combating virtual currency trading speculation on November 28, 2025. Officials from 13 government departments attended, including the...
David Sacks Hires Defamation Firm, Accuses New York Times of Fabricating Conflict Story
David Sacks, White House AI and Crypto Czar, accused The New York Times of fabricating a story about conflicts of interest tied to his government role. Sacks stated that five...
