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ETHGas announced a $12 million seed raise as Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin reignited discussion around onchain gas futures and fee-hedging mechanisms Ethereum blockspace trading platform ETHGas announced it has raised $12 million in a seed round led by Polychain Capital. The funding announcement comes after Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently discussed the idea of an onchain “gas futures” market, arguing that such a product could give users a clearer signal of expected fees and let them hedge future costs. ETHGas argues that Ethereum needs “a reimagination of the way blockspace is allocated on the network” and claims that its newly-launched blockspace trading platform is a step in that direction. The company said the market launched with $800 million in commitments from validators, builders and other participants. Read more

Inflows to Bitcoin and Ethereum DATs hit a seven-week high, absorbing over $2.6 billion in the two weeks after the Fed rate cut.

Bitcoin trades near $86.9K after rejecting a key trendline, with a possible 3D death cross and support tests near $83K and $80K.

Kraken-backed xStocks has launched on TON, giving Telegram users access to tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs through the app’s wallet.

The price movement comes after the DTCC announced it would adopt Canton Network for the issuance of tokenized securities.

Coinbase expands in Poland with PPro to support Blik, making crypto transactions faster and easier amid stalled local regulations. Major US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is expanding payment options in Poland by integrating with one of the country’s most widely used mobile payment systems. Coinbase has partnered with European payment processor PPro to enable payments via Blik, a popular Polish mobile payment network with nearly 20 million users. The announcement was made by Coinbase executive and NFT Paris co-founder Côme Prost, who joined the exchange in February 2024 to lead its French operations. Read more

Bitcoin surged $3,000 in an hour on Dec. 17, reclaiming $90,000 as $120 million in short positions vaporized, then collapsed to $86,000 as $200 million in longs liquidated, completing a $140 billion market-cap swing in two hours. The movement was driven by leverage, making it seem that leveraged positions are out of control. However, Glassnode's […] The post Bitcoin is facing a hidden “supply wall” at $93,000 that creates a ceiling no rally can break right now appeared first on CryptoSlate.

LEO is today's biggest loser.

Ethereum’s active addresses fall as retail retreats while price stabilization and returning demand remain critical for recovery.

A Bitcoin mining crackdown in China and a sharp decline in hashrate are behind the Bitcoin slump, according to analysts.

As KYC policies tighten across the board and surveillance conerns increase, privacy coins have undoubtedly enjoyed a fresh wave of attention. We spoke to Dash core member Joël Valenzuela about what fueled the rally and much more.

A key technical indicator is at levels that historically preceded a major Bitcoin rally, but will it happen again? 

India has cleared Coinbase’s minority stake in CoinDCX, paving the way for the U.S. exchange to expand in the local crypto market.

Dubai, UAE, 17th December 2025, Chainwire

Bitcoin's brief surge on Wednesday was quickly erased by spot selling, with on-chain data indicating dense supply caps and a lack of demand.

The change distances the Fed from policies denounced as Operation Chokepoint 2.0, which state-chartered crypto banks said boxed them out.

Bitcoin's Structure Shift indicator has dropped to -0.5, and hence a firm transition begins.

Ethereum could see another rise in transaction speed in January, with developers considering raising the gas limit to 80 million after the next blob parameter-only hard fork. Transaction throughput on the Ethereum network is set to be boosted again next month, with developers aiming to increase Ethereum’s gas limit from 60 million to 80 million in January. Christine Kim, vice president of the research team at Galaxy Digital, shared a summary of the All Core Developers meeting on Monday, in which Nethermind representatives said developers should be ready to move forward with a gas limit increase after the next BPO hard fork on Jan. 7. Ethereum Foundation developer operations engineer Barnabas Busa, however, noted that two client-level optimizations are needed before another increase in the block gas limit — namely, partial blob responses on the execution layer and the max blobs flag on the consensus layer. Read more

Kalshi’s head of crypto, John Wang, has explicitly framed prediction markets as “the memecoins of 2023,” capturing the idea that they now attract the same speculative attention and community energy that meme tokens did. The post Prediction Markets vs Meme Coins: Is This Where Crypto’s Next Alpha Lives? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Bitcoin faces declining participation as active wallets reach 2023 lows and the Fear & Greed Index plunges to 11, while analysts identify the $81,500 True Market Mean Price as the critical support level that must hold to preserve the bull trend, with a reclaim of $100,000 needed to invalidate bearish momentum. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: Active Wallets Drop to 2023 Lows as Liquidity Thins — Can BTC Reclaim $100K and Invalidate the Bears? appeared first on Cryptonews.