The American Banking Group has questioned the approval by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for cryptocurrency companies to obtain national trust charters, citing concerns over regulatory ambiguity and potential impacts on financial stability. Meanwhile, Brazil's largest private bank, Itaú Unibanco, has advised clients to allocate up to 3% of their investment portfolios to Bitcoin as a long-term hedge. In Venezuela, due to local currency instability, stablecoins such as USDT have become a necessity for daily transactions. At the same time, U.S. regulators are advancing integr

Ethereum has fallen into a tug-of-war between fear and greed near the key support level of $3000. A whale opened a massive long position worth $537 million at $3175. After recent price declines, it currently faces an unrealized loss of $20.5 million. Data shows that Ethereum experienced over $120 million in liquidations within 24 hours. Meanwhile, large holders are approaching a critical realized price level, a situation rarely seen in history but often triggering large-scale accumulation. Falling below this whale’s price could trigger liquidations, while holding on may indicate the start of a

Onyxcoin (XCN) surged 39% after launching on Robinhood, reaching a local high of $0.00695. Liquidity and trading volume also increased significantly by 219%, reaching $45.53 million. The recent surge was mainly driven by active accumulation, with a buy-sell difference of 110 million tokens within 24 hours. Whales increased their holdings by as much as 28%, adding 911 million tokens. Despite the strong momentum, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) has fallen to 48. Currently, this altcoin is facing a tug-of-war between buyers and sellers, with a trading price of $0.0055.

The 4-hour candlestick chart recently shows a significant price increase compared to 2025-12-11 04:00:00, but a decline compared to 2025-12-09 20:00:00. A bearish engulfing pattern appears, with the last candlestick being a bearish (downward) candle, closing below the opening price. Current price and trading volume changes: recent trading volume has decreased, lower than the previous hours, with both price and volume declining simultaneously. The market is quiet and inactive. The current technical indicators are as follows: Based on MACD analysis, the current market trend shows no clear trend;

The 4-hour K-line shows that the price has dropped significantly compared to 2025-12-10 00:00:00, has rebounded compared to 2025-12-09 08:00:00, and has decreased compared to 2025-12-09 16:00:00. It is a small shadow candle, with the last K-line being a bearish candle, closing price below the opening price. The recent K-line indicates that trading volume has decreased, with the volume lower than in previous hours. The price has risen while trading volume has declined: weakening upward momentum. Some technical indicators are as follows: Based on MACD analysis of the current market trend: no obv

Twenty One Capital (XXI), a Tether-backed Bitcoin company led by Strike’s Jack Mallers, closed its first day of trading on Nasdaq at $11.42 per share, down about 20% from the SPAC merger closing price of $14.27, despite a 3% rise in Bitcoin’s price. The company holds 43,514 Bitcoins (worth over $4.05 billion), ranking third among public companies in Bitcoin holdings. Mallers emphasized that the company’s strategy differs from pure Bitcoin asset management firms like MicroStrategy, aiming to build a Bitcoin-native brokerage and lending business to achieve profitability while continuously accumu

Solana-based meme coin BONK rose 2.03% to $0.000009581, up 8.6% over the past week and is now approaching the key psychological level of $0.00001. Nevertheless, its performance still lags behind the CD5 crypto index by about 2%, with trading strategies mainly focused on range-bound fluctuations. Trading volume surged significantly by 78% to 1.06 trillion tokens, confirming strong buying support near $0.00000900. However, recent prices have been fluctuating narrowly between $0.00000952 and $0.00000956, indicating market indecision.

The heated debate over the future of Bitcoin is intensifying, with the focus on custody, sovereignty, and the role of ETFs. Investor Fred Krueger(Fred Krueger) agrees with Nick Szabo(Nick Szabo)'s dual approach strategy, advocating for mainstream adoption of Bitcoin through banks and ETFs, while firmly defending users' rights to self-custody. This stance aims to bridge the divide between Bitcoin purists and ETF supporters. Analysts such as Eric Balchunas(Eric Balchunas) believe that ETFs offer cheaper and safer custody services and can promote wider adoption of Bitcoin; while critics like Sam

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, who is currently at Playground Global, is actively supporting portfolio company xLight. xLight is a semiconductor startup focused on developing free electron laser technology for advanced chip lithography. The company announced it has reached a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce, under which the Department will invest up to $150 million and become xLight’s largest shareholder. This move highlights the government’s increasing equity investments in strategic technology sectors. xLight aims to produce its first wafers by 2028 and positions i

Asset management company manager Michael W. Green claimed that households with an annual income below $140,000 are living in poverty. This statement quickly went viral but also faced strong criticism from economists. Critics such as Scott Winship and Tyler Cowen pointed out that Green's analysis is flawed, failing to account for the significant improvements in the quality and affordability of goods, housing, and healthcare over time. They cited data showing that the middle class is shrinking due to upward income mobility into higher income brackets, and that poverty rates measured by consumpti

Micro1, a startup that provides human expert data for AI training, has seen its founder, Ali Ansari, tell TechCrunch that the company’s annual recurring revenue has soared from $7 million to over $100 million this year. After completing a $35 million Series A funding round, the company’s valuation has reached $500 million, with clients including Microsoft and other Fortune 100 companies. Ansari predicts that, driven by non-AI companies building internal AI agents and robotics companies needing pre-training data, the human data market will grow from $10-15 billion to nearly $100 billion within

On December 4, it was reported that Vitalik Buterin stated Ethereum will continue to enhance security and scalability through “hard invariants.” He reviewed the 2021 EIP-2929/3529, which increased SLOAD costs and reduced refunds; Dencun in 2024, which weakened SELFDESTRUCT; and the 2025 plan to set a single transaction limit at 16,777,216 gas, restricting the executable size per transaction or block, reducing DoS risk, and simplifying clients. He also suggested setting future limits for code byte access, ZK-EVM prover cycles, and memory pricing.

Bitcoin is once again approaching $93,000. Glassnode data shows that there is a significant accumulation of short positions between $92,500 and $94,000, indicating that if the price rises further, a squeeze may occur. Technical analysis shows that Bitcoin has re-established itself above the 20-day moving average near $90,500, with the Bollinger Bands expanding, signaling increased volatility and the potential for further rise to $97,900. If it can effectively break through $93,000, it may trigger a rapid pump; however, if it is blocked and falls back, this area will become a key resistance lev

Travis Hill, the acting chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), stated in prepared testimony that the FDIC expects to propose an application framework for stablecoin issuers seeking federal oversight later this month. The agency plans to release a separate rule early next year to implement the prudential oversight requirements for FDIC-regulated issuers as outlined in the GENIUS Act, covering aspects such as capital, Liquidity, and reserve quality.

David Sachs, the artificial intelligence and Crypto Assets advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, is facing conflict of interest allegations from The New York Times. The New York Times analyzed 708 technology investments under his name, of which 449 are AI companies that could benefit from his policies. Sachs dismissed the report as "pure nonsense" and secured a moral exemption for selling most of his Crypto Assets and AI assets, but the details of the disclosures remain unclear. Critics, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, have highlighted the overlap between his policy roles and investments

Online sales during the U.S. "Black Friday" reached a historic high of $11.8 billion, surpassing last year's $10.8 billion, with peak single-minute transactions hitting $12.5 million. A Salesforce report indicated that global sales reached $79 billion (with the U.S. market accounting for $18 billion). Although the order volume dropped by 1%, a 7% price rise may explain the sales increase. Artificial intelligence technology contributed to $22 billion in sales. Foot traffic in physical stores showed mixed trends, with an overall decline of 3.4%, but department stores experienced an increase

CoinShares has withdrawn its application to issue a Solana staking ETF in the United States, after seven SOL ETFs reported continuous inflows of funds. The company, which manages over $10 billion in assets, continues to issue Solana-based staking ETPs in Europe. Despite CoinShares withdrawing its application, Solana's price remains strong, currently trading at $137.83, with a weekly increase of 8.32%. Analysts point out that strong user activity and $613 million in Spot ETF inflows contribute to the potential rise in Solana's price.

On November 28, news broke that after the Balancer v2 treasury was attacked due to a major vulnerability, resulting in a loss of over $110 million in funds, Balancer DAO has begun discussing a plan to allocate approximately $8 million of recovered assets to affected LPs. The proposed plan includes providing structured rewards to white hat hackers and compensating users based on snapshot data of user pool assets at the time of the exploit, in accordance with the Safe Harbor Protocol. This protocol stipulates a bounty cap of $1 million per incident, and white hat hackers must complete full KYC a

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman attributed Bitcoin's recent 30% decline from its October high of $126,080 to the waning political influence of Donald Trump. He believes that Crypto Assets have become a "Trump-style trade," reliant on pro-Crypto Assets policies. After Bitcoin hit a seven-month low of $81,000 last week, it recently traded close to $90,348. Nevertheless, the prediction market still shows a 70% chance that Bitcoin will reach $100,000 rather than fall to $69,000. Krugman maintains that Bitcoin lacks fundamental utility as a currency or an inflation Hedging tool.

Saudi Arabia has joined the global Quantum Computing race, with its state-owned company Saudi Aramco installing the country's first Quantum Computer—a 200 Quantum Bit system from the French company Pasqal. Although the system was initially designed for industrial applications such as energy modeling, this move highlights the growing concerns: Quantum Computers may potentially crack Blockchain encryption technologies in the future. Experts point out that current systems are still far from threatening the security of Bitcoin, and researchers estimate that breaking modern encryption technolog