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CME Group’s Average Crypto Derivatives Volume Hits Record $12 Billion in 2025

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CME Group (CME) cryptocurrency derivatives trading volume reached record levels last year, with average daily volume jumping 139% year-over-year to 278,000 contracts, even as the largest tokens fell. The volume equates to around $12 billion in daily notional value, according to data released by the company, and marks the crypto products’ strongest annual performance since […]

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Tom Lee’s BMNR brings ETH holdings above 4 million tokens

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Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) announced that it now holds over 4.14 million ether ETH$3,226.21approximately 3.43% of the total supply, as it continues to accumulate tokens in an effort to reach its 5% goal. The company’s crypto and cash holdings now total $14.2 billion, including $915 million in cash, 192 BTC, and a $25 million stake

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Bitcoin miners continue to face declining profits despite less competition, says JPMorgan

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The Bitcoin network’s hashrate, a metric measuring mining competition, declined for the second consecutive month in December, according to a report released Monday by Wall Street giant JPMorgan (JPM). “The network’s average monthly hashrate, an indicator of industry competition, declined by 30 EH/s (-3%) m/m to an average of 1,045 EH/s in December,” wrote analysts

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Starknet back online after four-hour outage

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Starknet told “Starknet is back online and fully operational,” posted the team behind the layer 2 Ethereum network on Downtime may impact decentralized finance and other on-chain applications, including blocked swaps, delayed withdrawals, and difficulty updating positions. It can also disrupt sequencer-based networks, where transaction ordering and block production depend on a smaller set of

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Japanese Finance Minister Signals Support for Crypto on the Stock Exchange

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Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said she fully supports the integration of crypto trading services by the country’s exchanges as she touted 2026 as the “digital year”, according to a report by Japanese crypto news site Coinpost. Katayama highlighted that regulated venues will play a central role in expanding crypto adoption during a ceremony in

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Bitcoin’s latest advance comes with warning signs as spot volumes dry up

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Bitcoin and the broader crypto market have started to wake up recently, but underlying liquidity conditions appear surprisingly weak, according to on-chain analytics firm Glassnode — a dynamic that echoes concerns raised in a CoinDesk analysis in November about hollow liquidity in the crypto market following the October crash. The latest data from Glassnode shows

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Robinhood (HOOD) relies on advanced traders as cryptocurrency volatility reshapes user behavior

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Robinhood (HOOD) is focusing more on advanced crypto traders, a pivot that reflects changing customer behavior during a volatile year for digital assets. “What we saw really depends on the customer segment,” Johann Kerbrat, head of crypto at Robinhood, said in an interview. “We have a lot of customers who are a little bit younger.

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A few Republicans have the fate of crypto in their hands at the SEC and CFTC

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President Donald Trump’s campaign to exclude Democrats from U.S. regulatory work has created an unusual situation within the two agencies that will have the most say in how the federal government manages crypto: A handful of Republican crypto advocates are entirely in charge of both. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission just bid farewell to

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Goldman Sachs (GS) Sees Regulation Driving Next Wave of Institutional Crypto Adoption

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Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs (GS) said improving regulation and the emergence of crypto use cases beyond trading support a constructive outlook for the sector, particularly for infrastructure companies that support the ecosystem without being as exposed to market cycles. Regulatory uncertainty remains the main obstacle for institutions, and this context is changing rapidly, the

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