The 15-year agreement anchors Hut 8’s shift toward long-duration AI infrastructure revenue as hyperscalers seek power-first compute capacity.
The project previously raised an unannounced pre-seed round of about $5 million in mid-2024, founder Kevin Lepsoe told The Block.
The SEC gave DTCC the green light to launch a tokenization service last week, and the company will be starting by minting US Treasurys on Canton.
The new quantitative vehicle aims to deliver risk-managed returns across crypto market cycles as the firm readies a global expansion push.
Canton creator Digital Asset will help tokenize DTC-custodied U.S. Treasury securities.
A new Coinbase–Ipsos survey shows younger US investors are trading more often, taking more risk and putting a far larger share of their portfolios into crypto.
The platform offers full legal ownership, with shares issued and recorded onchain, and provides real shareholder rights and self-custody.
The partnership accelerates AI infrastructure growth, enhancing computational capabilities and potentially transforming AI model development.
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The plan arrives as the Aave DAO confronts rising governance tensions over fees, alignment, and protocol stewardship.
Solana has partnered with a security company to test quantum-resistant technology on a Solana testnet, claiming to offer a scalable end-to-end solution.
Bhutan's Bitcoin investment could enhance economic resilience, foster innovation, and position the nation as a leader in digital finance.
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The debate around Chainlink vs XRP is heating up again and this time, it’s about which crypto project is actually built to last. During a recent Rollup TV discussion, crypto newsletter founder Lark Davis shared a clear stance on where he thinks the next decade is headed. “I think Chainlink is an infinitely better asset …
A new report warns that the Central African Republic’s crypto push favored elites and exposed the country to foreign criminal networks, rather than boosting financial inclusion.
Your day-ahead look for Dec. 17, 2025
Norges Bank, which holds a 0.3% stake in Metaplanet voted in favor of for all five proposals ahead of the Dec. 22 EGM.
A whale moved 4,000 Bitcoin to Binance, sparking fresh fears of a deeper BTC price drop if the $81,500 support level is lost.
Lightning Network capacity hit a new high this week as major exchanges put more Bitcoin into off-chain channels, boosting the network’s total liquidity and changing how users move BTC. Related Reading: Ethereum Meets Wall Street: JPMorgan Rolls Out Tokenized Fund Exchange Support Drives Capacity According to reports, the Lightning Network’s public capacity climbed to about 5,606 BTC, with some trackers briefly showing a peak near 5,637 BTC. That is a clear uptick from earlier levels and marks the highest recorded total so far. Exchanges including Binance and OKX have been named as contributors that added Bitcoin to Lightning channels, and other platforms such as Kraken and Bitfinex are expanding their support as well. These deposits are aimed at speeding up deposits and withdrawals and cutting fees for customers. Network Activity Vs. Public Nodes Based on reports, that increase in capacity has not been matched by a big rise in the number of public nodes or channels. Public node counts sit near 14,940, while public channels are roughly 48,678. In other words, more Bitcoin is available inside the network, but the number of hands handling traffic has not jumped in the same way. Some of this extra liquidity is concentrated in larger, custodial channels run by exchanges, which can move big sums without creating many new public routes. That makes on-chain metrics a bit harder to read. Transaction counts and on-chain fee savings do show real user benefits, even when the node graph looks stable. A separate figure that shows real usage is the share of exchange traffic routed over Lightning. Based on reports, one exchange has routed around 15% of its Bitcoin transactions via Lightning rails after adopting Lightning integrations, pointing to meaningful operational changes at major platforms. New Use Cases And Funding Funding and protocol work are following capacity growth. Tether led a round that raised about $8 million for a startup focused on payments over Lightning, indicating interest in stablecoin flows on the network. Announcing Taproot Assets v0.7, now with reusable addresses, a fully auditable asset supply, and larger, more reliable transactions. ✅ With this release, we are laying the foundation for trillions of dollars to flow on bitcoin and Lightning. ???? Read more below. Upgrade today! — Lightning Labs⚡️???? (@lightning) December 16, 2025 Protocol upgrades — including work around Taproot-related asset handling and reliability improvements — are also being rolled out to support more varied payments and token types. These developments point to Lightning being used for things beyond tiny tips: remittances, merchant payments, and stablecoin transfers are being tested more widely. Related Reading: TechCrunch Founder Names XRP Among His Largest Crypto Positions Market watchers say this mix of exchange liquidity, developer upgrades, and rising on-platform usage could make Lightning a more practical rail for everyday BTC movement. Some critics warn that heavier reliance on custodial channels raises centralization risks and reduces the visibility of true peer-to-peer routing. Others note that improved user experience, lower costs, and faster finality are what ordinary users will notice first. Featured image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView
SBI Digital Markets, a unit regulated by Singapore’s Monetary Authority, has been appointed as the institutional custodian, offering segregated custody for client assets.
Precious metals are stealing the spotlight as investors rush to safety. Silver has hit a new all-time high, while gold jumped 16% in a day, trading near its October all-time high of $4,381. Meanwhile, Bitcoin is falling behind, struggling to break above $90,000 as money shifts away from crypto. Gold and Silver Hit Record High …
Bhutan is taking an unconventional yet carefully structured approach to national development by channeling a significant share of its Bitcoin reserves into a flagship infrastructure project. The Himalayan kingdom has confirmed plans to allocate 10,000 Bitcoin toward the development of Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), a special administrative region intended to redefine Bhutan’s long-term economic trajectory. …
Hyperliquid is putting nearly $1 billion worth of HYPE tokens under the spotlight. The Hyper Foundation has proposed a validator vote to formally recognize HYPE tokens held in the protocol’s Assistance Fund as burned. If approved, the tokens would be excluded from HYPE’s circulating and total supply, even though they are already inaccessible at the …
Bitcoin slipped overnight, dragging the broader crypto market lower as traders remained cautious with few external cues to provide direction.
X says its Terms of Service will change Jan. 15, 2026, expanding how the platform defines user “Content” and adding contract language tied to the operation and protection of its AI systems. The current terms, dated Nov. 15, 2024, remain in effect until the 2026 version takes over. A core revision is that X now […]
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The yuan has rise to its highest in over two months against the dollar.
K33 predicts early holder selling will ease in 2026, with two-year bitcoin supply recovering as net buy-side demand emerges.
Repeated distribution waves from long-term holders highlight how this bitcoin cycle is breaking from historical norms.
Bitcoin’s “death cross” is back in the group chat. And yes, the emails too. Matthew Sigel, head of digital assets research at VanEck, said he’s been “getting questions from clients” about the latest death cross print — the 50-day moving average slipping under the 200-day — and answered with the kind of data dump that tends to calm people down. “Lagging indicator,” Sigel wrote on X, alongside a table of every Bitcoin death cross going back to 2011. The summary stats are clean: the 6-month median return after a death cross is +30%, the 12-month median is +89%, and the “positive hit rate” is 64%. Another Bitcoin Death Cross, Another Missed Bottom? But the interesting bit isn’t just the returns. It’s Sigel’s market regime column — basically a hint that the same technical signal can mean wildly different things depending on where you are in the cycle. Take the ones tagged as some version of “bottom.” In 2011 (“post-bubble bottom”), the death cross showed up around the wreckage of an early-cycle blow-off, and the next 12 months were +357%. In 2015 (“cycle bottom”), it was +82% at six months and +159% at 12 months — classic post-capitulation behavior where trend indicators catch up late, after price has already stabilized and started to turn. Related Reading: US Bitcoin Session Leads December Returns After Weak November 2020 (“Covid bottom”) is the extreme example: forced liquidation, policy response, then a monster rebound (+812% over 12 months). And 2023 is also tagged “cycle bottom,” with +173% at six months and +121% at 12 months — the kind of “this is awful until it isn’t” regime crypto does better than any asset class. Now look at “structural bear.” That label shows up in 2014 (twice), 2018, and 2022 — and the forward returns are mostly ugly: 2014 prints -48% and -56% over 12 months, 2018 is -35%, and 2022 is -52%. Different environment. Less “washout and bounce,” more “trend is down because the system is deleveraging,” whether that’s miners, credit, exchanges, or macro liquidity tightening. In those regimes, a death cross isn’t a late alarm — it’s the moving averages confirming that the downtrend is real and persistent. Related Reading: Bitcoin Under Pressure As Yen Carry Trade Unwind Hits Global Markets The in-between tags matter too. 2019 is marked “late bear,” with +9% at six months and +89% at 12 — choppy, uneven, but improving as the cycle turns. 2021 is “late cycle”: +30% at six months, then -43% at 12, which fits a regime where trend signals can whipsaw while distribution and macro tightening creep in. And then there’s 2024: “post-ETF regime,” with +58% at six months and +94% at 12. That tag is doing a lot of work. It suggests the backdrop isn’t just “price vs. moving averages,” but structural demand (ETFs), different liquidity plumbing, and a market that may behave less like pure reflexive leverage and more like a hybrid of trad-fi flows plus crypto-native positioning. So the takeaway isn’t “death crosses are bullish.” That’s not true. It’s that the signal is mostly a trailing mirror — and the regime you’re actually in (bottoming, late bear, structural deleveraging, late cycle, post-ETF flow market) is what decides whether it’s a fake-out, a confirmation, or just noise with a scary name. At press time, Bitcoin traded at $86,631. Featured image created with DALL.E, chart from TradingView.com
As crypto platforms explore prediction market integrations, retention data reveals why sustaining user engagement remains one of the industry’s most challenging tasks.
Binance has threatened legal action against alleged fake “listing agents” and is offering up to $5 million for proof of fraudulent activity.
Crypto scams are getting faster, smarter and harder to track. Lawmakers are now treating them as a growing national problem, and they want a coordinated federal response. This week, U.S. Senators Elissa Slotkin and Jerry Moran introduced a bipartisan bill aimed squarely at crypto-related fraud. The proposal, called the Strengthening Agency Frameworks for Enforcement of …