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Ryan Navi will guide Forward Industries’ Solana treasury strategy as digital asset companies’ shares face steep market declines. Top SOL treasury company Forward Industries has appointed Ryan Navi as chief investment officer to oversee the execution of the company’s Solana-focused treasury strategy. According to Monday’s announcement, Navi will handle sourcing and structuring capital markets opportunities and direct how Forward Industries uses its staking and validator infrastructure to support the accumulation of (SOL), Solana’s native token. Navi joins Forward Industries after leading digital-asset investments at ParaFi Capital and previously serving as a principal at investment company KKR, where he focused on liquid and distressed credit strategies. He began his career in investment banking at Citi. Read more

Bitcoin’s decline to $84,000 was driven by US dollar stablecoin concerns, a weakening global macroeconomic outlook and factors beyond Japan’s bond market stress. Key takeaways: Stablecoin concerns, regulatory pressure, and reduced risk appetite among traders weighed more on Bitcoin than Japan’s bond-market moves. Reduced confidence in global growth and stress on digital asset reserve companies amplified BTC selling and subsequent stop losses. Read more

Bitcoin fell as low as $85,000 today, with Ethereum likewise down nearly 10%. Prediction markets are beginning to reflect what the charts are suggesting.

Peter Schiff took a victory lap after the company Monday morning announced it had raised $1.44 billion via common stock sales as a reserve to pay preferred dividends for nearly two years.

The move could challenge other prediction platforms by providing Kalshi users with greater anonymity through tokenized buys and sales on the Solana blockchain. Predictions platform Kalshi has reportedly begun allowing users to buy and sell tokenized versions of its event contracts on the Solana blockchain. According to a Monday CNBC report, Kalshi has moved closer to courting cryptocurrency users by offering tokenized contracts, which are now live on Solana. The move tokenized bets on the predictions platform, which includes US elections, sports and more, making them tradeable on the blockchain. “There’s a lot of power users in crypto,” John Wang, Kalshi’s head of crypto, told CNBC. “This is about tapping into the billions of dollars of liquidity that crypto has, and then also enabling developers to build third-party front ends that utilize Kalshi’s liquidity.” Read more

The appointments come ahead of a planned SPAC merger that will create a publicly traded company dedicated to accumulating and staking Cronos’ native token. Yorkville Acquisition Corp. has tapped two former Gryphon Digital Mining executives to lead its planned merger that will create a publicly traded digital asset treasury focused on accumulating the Cronos ecosystem’s native token. The appointments come as Yorkville moves toward forming a new entity with Trump Media & Technology Group and Crypto.com to acquire and manage the Cronos token (CRO) as its core reserve asset. Steve Gutterman will serve as CEO and Sim Salzman as chief financial officer once the merger closes, which Yorkville expects in the first quarter of 2026. The pair previously led Gryphon Digital Mining through restructuring, regulatory reporting and capital-markets transactions, and have held senior roles at E*TRADE, American Bitcoin and Marathon Digital. The new entity, formed through a business combination with Trump Media, co-founded by US...

Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin is rapidly expanding on Ethereum rather than the company’s native XRP Ledger (XRPL). According to CryptoSlate data, RLUSD’s total circulating supply has surged to $1.26 billion within 12 months of its launch. Of this, roughly $1.03 billion, or 82% of the total supply, resides on Ethereum, while the $235 million balance is on […] The post RLUSD supply hit $1.26B, and 82% of it now sits on Ethereum, not XRPL appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The "loudest" critics of the company are "manifestly unfamiliar" with how Strategy works, the investment bank wrote.

Though the US dominated the number of requests from agencies in individual countries, Coinbase reported a modest increase in the overall number outside the country. US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has released its annual transparency report, revealing that the company experienced a significant surge in requests from law enforcement agencies. In a report released on Monday, Coinbase said it had received 12,716 requests from law enforcement globally from October 2024 to September 2025, marking a 19% increase over the volume of requests reported in 2024. Of these requests, the exchange said that more than half — 53% — came from outside the United States, with 80% of all of them originating in the US, Germany, UK, France, Spain and Australia. Read more

The prediction market is rolling out tokenized contracts on Solana to meet crypto traders where they already are, Kalshi told CNBC.

Strategy’s 649,870 BTC stash implies a value 78% above MSTR’s price, flagging a rare historical undervaluation zone.

A lawsuit filed by Coinbase shareholders accuses the company’s leadership of withholding key information for years while making billions selling inflated stock.

If you open your brokerage this year and a “Markets” tab seems to be sprouting unfamiliar yes/no questions (“Will the Fed cut rates in March?”, “Will a major ETF get approved this quarter?”), you wouldn’t necessarily be hallucinating. The recent regulatory green-light for Polymarket via a cleared path under its newest acquisition of an exchange […] The post Prediction markets are coming to your brokerage appeared first on CryptoSlate.

XRP is falling hard alongside Bitcoin on Monday, but Ripple just got good news regarding its payments service in Singapore.

Central-bank guidance and rising yields have pressured crypto markets, with Bitcoin having dropped from about $125,000 to near $85,000, fear indices staying near extreme levels, and long liquidations and weak altcoin breadth having shaped December trading. The post Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan Indicators Hit Crypto, Market Losses Deepen appeared first on Cryptonews.

Ether futures overtake Bitcoin on CME as ETH volatility spikes, fueling debate over a potential Ether super-cycle amid a broader crypto market pullback. Trading activity in Ether futures has surpassed that of Bitcoin on the Chicago-based CME Group, marking a notable shift in the digital asset derivatives market and fueling speculation that Ether may be entering a long-anticipated “super-cycle” — a sustained, multi-year period of accelerated growth driven by rising adoption. In a recent CME video, Priyanka Jain, the exchange’s director of equity and crypto products, said Ether (ETH) options are currently exhibiting higher volatility than Bitcoin (BTC) options. Rather than deterring participation, she said, the increased volatility has attracted traders and helped drive growth in Ether futures activity. “This heightened volatility has served as a powerful magnet for traders, directly accelerating participation in CME Group’s Ether futures,” Jain said. “Is this Ether’s long-awaited super-cycle, or merely a catch...

Zcash (ZEC) plunges 32% in a week as RSI breaks down and key support levels fail. Analysts warn of further downside toward $300.

Coinbase has reported a record 12,716 government and law enforcement data requests between October 2024 and September 2025, with France and the U.S. leading demand, as the exchange has managed European compliance fines, a large cyber breach and a shift in SEC policy. The post Coinbase Hit With Record 12,716 Government Requests in 2025 appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin’s negative open to December shows bears’ plan to pull BTC to the $80,000 support. Analysts are now calling for a bull market to end with a drop to $70,000 and below. Key points: Bitcoin is facing significant selling at the start of the new week, with some analysts expecting a drop as low as $50,000.  Several altcoins turned down from their overhead resistance and are threatening to dip below their support levels. Read more

A retest of historical support may be Pepe's final shot at another bull run – PEPE price predictions hinging on a potential 500% rebound. The post Pepe Price Prediction: If This Critical Support Level Holds, a 500% Rally Could Happen Fast  appeared first on Cryptonews.