✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.00T, up by 0.70% over the last day.
✦ According to Odaily, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon says his U.S. sentence over the $40 billion TerraUSD collapse should be no more than five years.
✦ Visa (V.N) has partnered with AquaNow to speed up settlements using stablecoins.
✦ Ripple says its USD-backed stablecoin, Ripple USD (RLUSD), has been approved by Abu Dhabi’s FSRA as a “recognized fiat-anchored token.”
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.98T, up by 1.51% over the last day.
✦ Blockchain data shows that vitalik.eth recently moved 1,009 ETH, with 1,006 ETH sent to the privacy protocol Railgun.
✦ Polygon co-founder and Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal said on X that many community members want the token code switched back from POL to MATIC, arguing that MATIC has stronger recognition.
✦ Arkham data shows that at 15:04, 5,012.95 ETH — about $14.74 million — was transferred from an anonymous address starting with 0x5962 to another starting with 0x8751.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.93T, down by -0.28% over the last day.
✦ The number of wallets holding at least 100 BTC has risen by 0.47%, adding 91 new large holders, while smaller wallets, especially those with 0.1 BTC or less have continued to decline.
✦ Arkham data shows that at 15:26, Fireblocks transferred 20,445.4 SOL about $2.81 million to Wintermute.
✦ A major Bitcoin whale address 0x5D2...9Bb7 closed 50 BTC in short positions over the past hour, locking in about $1.175 million in profit.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.94T, up by 2.56% over the last day.
✦ The Kobeissi Letter reports that since the U.S. Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) was created on January 20, U.S. federal debt has risen by $2.1 trillion — an average of $6.5 billion per day over 326 days.
✦ Data from DefiLlama indicates that the total market capitalization of stablecoins has been on a downward trend, decreasing by 0.33% over the past week. The current market cap stands at $302.837 billion, marking a drop of over $6 billion from its previous peak of $309 billion.
✦ Growthepie data shows the Ethereum ecosystem has hit a new TPS milestone, with a 7-day average of 364.52 TPS and a peak of 24,192.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.87T, up by 1.35% over the last 24 hours.
✦ The Kobeissi Letter reported on X that crypto ETFs saw $2 billion in outflows last week — the biggest weekly withdrawal since February. It also marked the third straight week of outflows, totaling $3.2 billion.
✦ U.S. President Donald Trump said this week that he expects a sharp interest rate cut after a new Federal Reserve Chair is appointed in May next year.
✦ Lookonchain reports that a large Ethereum whale, known as 66kETHBorrow, has bought 114,684 ETH over the past two days, worth roughly $319 million. #linea$LINEA
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.11T, down by -4.27% over the last day.
✦ Malaysia’s state power company, TNB, says it has lost about $1.1 billion (4.6 billion ringgit) to electricity theft tied to crypto mining from 2020 to August this year
✦ HSBC Holdings Plc is set to expand its tokenized deposit services to corporate clients in the United States and the United Arab Emirates by the first half of next year.
✦ Bitcoin Magazine reports that 95% of Bitcoin's total supply has now been mined.
✦ The Financial Times reports that Tether plans to invest €1 billion in AI robotics firm Neura Robotics, a move that could lift the company’s valuation to €8–10 billion.
✦ Bitcoin’s 30-day correlation with the Nasdaq 100 has climbed to about 0.80 — its highest level since 2022 and the second-strongest reading in almost ten years.
✦ Caixin Weekly reports that in September 2025, suspect Qian Zhimin gave police access to seized devices and two encrypted wallets, leading authorities to find that, besides the 61,000 frozen bitcoins, he also held additional BTC and XRP worth about £67 million.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.25T, down by 0.78% over the last day.
✦ According to Bitcoin Treasuries data, institutional investors have added over $500 million worth of Bitcoin to their reserves in the past 30 days.
✦ The U.S. Department of Justice has filed two civil forfeiture actions to seize $15.1 million in USDT stolen by North Korean hackers in 2023. The funds, tied to the APT38 military hacking group, came from attacks on four overseas crypto platforms. The FBI recovered the assets in March 2025 and is now seeking court approval to forfeit them and return the money to victims.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.28T, down by -5.79% over the last day.
✦ U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $866 million in outflows on Thursday—their second-worst day ever—as BTC hit a six-month low and investor demand weakened after the 43-day government shutdown ended.
✦ Onchain Lens reports that the attacker behind the Balancer exploit has started moving Ethereum (ETH) into Tornado Cash.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.51T, down by -0.86% over the last day.
✦ Web3 AI security project LISA has successfully raised $12 million in funding to develop its Agentic Security OS, which integrates AI with blockchain technology.
✦ Ripple is planning a significant investment of $4 billion to enhance its services and bridge the gap between cryptocurrency and Wall Street.
✦ Aave is currently voting on setting the Loan-to-Value (LTV) ratio to zero for several tokens, including $CRV, $UNI, $ZK, $BAL, $LDO, 1INCH, $METIS, and $CAKE, and removing their lending options.
✦ Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark, listed on Nasdaq, plans to expand its mining and data center operations by raising $1.15 billion through a senior convertible note offering.
✦ Analyst Willy Woo warned that Taproot addresses may be vulnerable to quantum computing, as powerful quantum computers could potentially derive private keys from public keys, threatening current crypto security systems.
✦ A major whale moved 500 BTC (worth $52.8 million) to a CEX after holding for four months — a sale now would mean a loss of $6.85 million, as the BTC were originally worth $59.4 million.
✦ CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju noted that Bitcoin whales have sold billions since BTC hit $100,000. Although he previously predicted the bull market’s end, inflows from MicroStrategy and spot ETFs have postponed that downturn.
✦ On-chain analyst James Check reported that around 4.64 million BTC worth more than $500 billion have been moved out of long-dormant wallets so far this year.
✦ U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to distribute a $2,000 tariff dividend to each American citizen.
✦ Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua expressed on the X platform that Ethereum's price could reach $7,000.
✦ Spot gold prices have surged past $4,060 per ounce, marking a 1.47% increase within the day.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.42T, down by 0.99% over the last 24 hours.
✦ Visa and Mastercard plan to settle a 20-year dispute with U.S. merchants by lowering fees and increasing card choice.
✦ El Salvador added 8 BTC this week, raising its total holdings to 6,375.18 BTC worth about $649 million.
✦ According to Hyperbot data, the top $ZEC holder sold an additional 3,500 $ZEC , reducing their balance to 41,500 ZEC. Meanwhile, ZEC’s price has dropped to 603 USDT.
✦ The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $3.73T, up by 0.68% over the last day.
✦ A whale with the wallet address starting 0x0090 has become active again after three years of inactivity, withdrawing $6.5 million in assets from Balancer following the recent attack on the platform.
✦ According to market reports, on-chain data indicates that the decentralized protocol Balancer may have been the target of an attack.
✦ Analyst Maartunn from CryptoQuant reported on social media that long-term Bitcoin holders have sold approximately 405,000 $BTC in the past 30 days.
✦ Romania's National Office for Gambling (ONJN) has blacklisted the prediction market platform Polymarket, labeling it as an unlicensed gambling entity.
✦ El Salvador has expanded its Bitcoin reserves this week, adding six more coins to its holdings. The country's total Bitcoin balance now stands at 6,367.18 $BTC , valued at approximately $703 million.
✦ According to data from DefiLlama, the total market capitalization of stablecoins currently stands at $307.408 billion, marking a 0.45% decline over the past week.
✦ Money Ape reports that Ethereum exchange reserves have hit multi-year lows, while staking has surged to over 33 million $ETH , signaling a sharp drop in available supply.
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