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According to Delphi Digital, Crypto exchanges are racing to become the home screen for trading, payments and Web3. According to a new report from Delphi Digital, crypto platforms are quietly morphing into distribution layers for everything from trading and payments to onchain apps and yield.  The “super app” vision that reshaped consumer finance in Asia is now colliding with Western UX preferences and clearer regulation, and exchanges are betting that whoever controls the primary interface will control the next wave of users. The report concludes that crypto is entering an “aggregation era,” where the real power no longer sits with base protocols but with whoever owns the user relationship. In other words, the place where people first log in, move money and discover products.  Read more

Tether announced on Tuesday it has led an $8 millioninvestment in Speed1, Inc., a payments infrastructure company building global settlement rails using the Bitcoin Lightning Network and stablecoins. The post Tether Invests $8M in Speed to Scale Lightning-Based Stablecoin Payments appeared first on Cryptonews.

Is Bitcoin headed towards the mid-$70,000s for Christmas? Crypto With James says a new ATH for Ethereum is still on the cards. Trade Secrets. Welcome to Trade Secrets Bitcoin and Ether price predictions from top analysts, along with options data, sentiment analysis and prediction markets to determine what they can tell us about the months and years ahead. As Bitcoins price hovers around the $86,000 level, analysts are split on where the worlds largest cryptocurrency will land by year-end. Institutional buying for Bitcoin will need to increase over the next week or so to see any meaningful movement in the price by Dec. 31, Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards tells Magazine. Read more

Some of last year’s hottest blockchains saw the steepest declines in onchain activity after viral moments failed to drive sustained growth. Onchain activity declined sharply on several major networks, according to Nansen data, with 11 blockchains posting drops in active addresses in the past year. Ronin fell the most at 70%, while Bitcoin registered a 7.2% decline. Several Ethereum layer-2 networks made the list. Nansen data also showed drops in transaction activity across many of the same networks. ZKsync recorded one of the steepest declines, with transactions falling 90%. Read more

XRP continues to bleed out quietly while market attention stays locked on BTC  and ETH. Despite brief relief bounces, the overall structure remains bearish across the board. Both the USDT and BTC pairs are showing weakness, with no clear signs of a recovery, and the buyers have lost control of key levels. Technical Analysis By […]

Visa launched USDC settlement for US financial institutions, starting with Cross River and Lead Bank on Solana, with a wider rollout planned for 2026. Payment processing giant Visa has launched USDC settlement services for some United States-based financial institutions. Visa said Tuesday that its USDC (USDC) settlement service is available for US financial institutions, with Cross River Bank and Lead Bank as the first participants; they have already begun settling with Visa in USDC on the Solana blockchain, and a broader rollout is expected in 2026. The report follows USDC issuer Circle’s launch of the public testnet for its layer-1 blockchain Arc, with over 100 major partners, including Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock and Goldman Sachs, in late October. Visa noted that it is a design partner for the network, which “offers the performance and scalability needed to help support Visa’s global commercial activity.” Read more

The funding will help the London-based team expand Strata, a DeFi protocol that structures onchain yields into senior and junior tranches.

The Hong Kong-based fintech says demand for stablecoin-powered cards and cross-border payouts is accelerating as it scales payments beyond crypto trading.

It's hard to argue the impact Trump has had on crypto - but has that impact been net positive or negative?

Hyperscale Data Inc., an artificial intelligence-focused data center company anchored by Bitcoin, said its Bitcoin treasury has reached approximately $75.5 million, representing about 97.5% of its market capitalization. The post Hyperscale Data and American Bitcoin Expand Corporate Bitcoin Treasuries appeared first on Cryptonews.

Election-linked speculation and viral political tokens reshaped memecoins in 2024 before confidence unraveled in early 2025, CoinGecko data shows. Political narratives helped push memecoins to record highs before accelerating a sharp reversal, according to crypto price tracker CoinGecko.  In its 2025 State of Memecoins Report, CoinGecko highlighted how election-driven speculation has reshaped the memecoin sector. The report found that the total memecoin market cap peaked at $150.6 billion in December 2024, surpassing the sector’s previous highs in 2021.  CoinGecko attributed the rally to a mix of new token launchpads, Solana experimentation and growing political narratives linked to the United States elections.  Read more

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Every few weeks, crypto aggregators run breathless headlines about capital rotating from Bitcoin into Ethereum. A whale swaps $200 million on THORChain, Ethereum ETFs inflows tick up for three consecutive days, a bridge records its highest weekly volume since 2021. Each time, the narrative forms instantly: institutional money is rotating up the risk curve, altcoin […] The post Bitcoin to Ethereum rotation narratives are lying to you unless they match this specific $480 billion signal appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Garlinghouse said the NYT repeated half-truths while omitting judges' criticisms of the SEC's actions during the Biden administration's crypto crackdown.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko claims the network is facing an industrial-scale 6 Tbps DDoS attack that has shown little visible impact. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and several accounts tied to the network’s ecosystem said this week that Solana had been hit by a large distributed denial-of-service attack, with some posts citing traffic that peaked near six terabits per second (Tbps). Yakovenko wrote in a Dec. 9 X post that Solana was under a six Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Earlier on Tuesday, Solana Labs co-founder and president Raj Gokal suggested the attack was still ongoing. Cointelegraph was unable to independently verify the attack or its scale. Also on Tuesday, the CEO of Solana-based decentralized physical infrastructure network (DePIN) project Pipe Network, David Rhodus, pointed out that the shared metric put the attack at an “industrial-scale.” In an update, Pipe Petwork also claimed that the attack was “one of the largest in internet history,” as six Tbps “translat...

The crypto market is down today. BTC fell 4% to $86,184, and ETH is down 6.8% to $2,924. BTC is approaching a strong support level around $84,800. The post Why Is Crypto Down Today? – December 16, 2025 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Custodia Bank is asking the full Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals to review the US Fed’s decision denying it a master account, which would allow it to process payments directly. Custodia Bank, a crypto‑focused bank founded by Bitcoin advocate Caitlin Long, is doubling down on efforts to obtain a master account at the US Federal Reserve by filing a new petition in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. On Monday, the Wyoming-chartered company filed a petition asking all active judges of the Tenth Circuit to reconsider its October decision upholding the Federal Reserve’s denial of a master account for Custodia. Through the petition, formally termed a “rehearing en banc,” Custodia argued that the panel had misread the Monetary Control Act, which it asserts entitles any eligible bank to a master account, and in doing so, undermines state banking authority. Read more

Spain’s securities regulator, CNMV, has spelled out how it plans to run MiCA in practice, using a Q&A to inform crypto companies what to expect. Spain’s national securities regulator, the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), has published a dedicated Q&A laying out how it intends to apply the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) on the ground. The document outlines what crypto companies can expect on authorizations, notifications, day-to-day conduct and the transitional regime, pushing platforms toward a clear “comply or quit” decision as MiCA comes into force. The move puts Spain alongside other EU member states, including Italy, which are actively using MiCA’s transitional flexibilities rather than allowing prolonged regulatory uncertainty. Read more

XRP‘s price has fallen under $2 to price levels last seen in April, as selling pressure mounts across both derivatives and spot markets. According to CryptoSlate data, the Ripple-linked token slipped around 6% in the past day to about $1.87, extending a retreat that has tracked broader weakness in Bitcoin and Ethereum. Notably, this negative […] The post XRP price falls under $2 after one 7-year-old wallet triggers a massive $721 million sell-off appeared first on CryptoSlate.

XRP drops below key support at $1.93 as volume spikes. Analysts warn of a move toward $1, with whale selling and bearish signals increasing.