Coinbase (COIN) is one of the top fintech ideas for 2026, according to a new outlook report from Clear Street analyst Owen Lau, who sees the crypto exchange as a central player in the transition to blockchain-based financial infrastructure. Lau, who already had a buy rating and 12-month price target of $415 for COIN – […]
The “UNIfication” proposal from Uniswap Labs and the Uniswap Foundation to enable protocol fees for the largest decentralized crypto exchange and burn millions of UNI received massive support from voters, transforming the token from a purely governance mechanism into a value-generating asset. The proposal received more than 125 million votes in favor over the five
Trust Wallet users lost more than $7 million shortly after releasing an updated version of its extension for the Chrome web browser. The stolen funds will be refunded, said Changpeng Zhao, co-founder of crypto exchange Binance, which owns the utility. The breach, reported on December 25 by onchain detective ZachXBT, was confirmed by the wallet
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Checking the last five years of Bitcoin BTC$87,612.66 Using CME futures trading data, it is possible to assess where this crypto has historically spent time consolidating and, by extension, where support has been more or less established. A useful way to understand this is to look at how many trading days Bitcoin has spent in
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Hong Kong plans to finalize its proposals to regulate brokers and custodians of virtual assets and introduce the rules to the city’s Legislative Council in 2026, the Financial Services and Treasury Bureau (FSTB) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said on Wednesday. The proposals, developed after a two-month public consultation that attracted more than
XRP slipped to $1.86 as traders continued to sell on rallies, even as ETF spot demand remained stable and total assets held by ETFs climbed to $1.25 billion – a gap that suggests the market is still digesting supply at key technical levels. News context Institutional appetite for exposure to XRP continued to grow thanks
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Spot bitcoin and ether ETFs saw another round of outflows on December 24 as traders entered the Christmas holidays with reduced liquidity and lower risk appetite. Data from SoSoValue showed that Bitcoin spot ETFs saw $175 million in net outflows on Wednesday, while Ether spot ETFs posted $57 million in outflows. The largest single-day outflow
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Bitcoin briefly posted $24,111 on Binance in a sharp wick on the BTC/USD1 trading pair late Tuesday before returning above $87,000 within seconds, according to exchange data. (Binance) The move did not show up on any other major BTC pairs and appears isolated to USD1, a stablecoin launched by Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial. The
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A press release issued on Christmas Eve claimed that Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, had launched a new platform offering tokenized gold and silver trading. However, this is “untrue,” a Circle spokesperson told CoinDesk. The platform, launched under the name CircleMetals, was promoted through a press release issued on December 24, a date
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The crypto industry is closing out the year with a record $8.6 billion in mergers and acquisitions, according to the FT, up sharply from $2.17 billion the year before. The flurry of deals comes amid a major political shift in Washington, where the Trump administration has supported the sector with a series of regulatory developments,
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