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Bitcoin price breakouts continue to be rejected at $94,000, even as traders’ long-term view of US monetary policy and the crypto market turns bullish. Bitcoin’s (BTC) price action remained underwhelming this week after another failed attempt to reclaim the monthly volume-weighted average price (VWAP), with BTC consolidating near $90,000 following the Federal Reserve’s 0.25% interest rate cut. The market continued to reject any meaningful push above $93,000, thereby limiting bullish momentum. Key takeaways: One Bitcoin analyst said that liquidity contraction is suppressing Bitcoin’s upside, reducing demand relative to sell pressure. Read more

World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin is now a part of Binance’s core infrastructure, the President Trump-backed crypto project said.

So much for that post-Fed relief rally. Bitcoin and Ethereum are again trending downwards, and the charts suggest bears are in control.

The Bank of Mexico's new stability report flags liquidity, contagion and regulatory-arbitrage risks as crypto adoption accelerates in Latin America. Mexico’s central bank warned in a new financial stability report that “stablecoins pose significant potential risks to financial stability,” citing their rapid growth, links to traditional finance and global regulatory gaps that could fuel arbitrage and magnify market stress. Stablecoins’ heavy reliance on short-term US Treasurys, market concentration with two issuers controlling 86% of the supply and past depegging episodes with stablecoins underscore how vulnerable the sector remains to stress, according to the Banxico report. Without coordinated international safeguards, mass redemptions or issuer failures could spill into broader funding markets, the central bank warned.   Read more

The exchange is adding new USD1 trading pairs and replaces BUSD collateral with the token.

Is there a chance for a major rally?

More Bitcoin now sits outside exchanges, and courts cannot move those coins without keys. That custody shift is colliding with family law. Exchange balances hover near multi-year lows at roughly 14–15% of circulating supply, about 2.7–2.8 million BTC. The rest sits with institutions in vaulted custody or in personal wallets where a 12–24 word seed […] The post Bitcoin is now the ultimate “divorce loophole” because courts physically cannot seize the keys appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Swedish fintech firm Klarna is working towards the launch of its own crypto wallet with Stripe-owned wallet infrastructure firm, Privy.

The nation that first adopted bitcoin as legal tender is looking to pioneer AI-powered education in 5,000 Salvadoran schools with xAI’s Grok

The Himalayan Kingdom mines Bitcoin, holds digital asset reserves, and has embraced blockchain technology to modernize its financial system. Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), a special administrative zone of Bhutan, announced on Wednesday that it is launching a sovereign gold-backed digital token called TER.  The physical gold deposits will be custodied by DK Bank, a digital asset bank regulated by the government of Bhutan, and issued on the Solana Blockchain network, according to GMC’s announcement. Matrixdock, a real-world asset tokenization (RWA) platform, is the technology partner responsible for tokenizing the real-world asset on the blockchain. Read more

The planned deal will bring Corbiere’s equity and event-driven strategies under Blockstream’s asset management arm.

Slumps across equity, options and crypto trading in November raised concerns that retail investor momentum may be fading.

RedStone said that the next wave of growth for Solana centers on tokenized real-world assets and institutional capital deployment.

ERCOT reported a record surge in large-load requests, with AI data centers surpassing Bitcoin miners and reshaping Texas’s grid planning and reliability outlook. Texas is rapidly emerging as an epicenter of artificial intelligence-driven energy demand, with an unprecedented surge in large-load power requests, a wave now dominated by AI data centers rather than Bitcoin miners. The figures, highlighted in The Miner Mag’s latest newsletter and drawn from ERCOT’s new System Planning and Weatherization Update, point to a grid facing a fundamentally different kind of growth. ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the state’s independent power grid and oversees reliable electric service for about 90% of Texans, reported that its large-load interconnection queue has ballooned to 226 gigawatts of new requests, roughly 73% tied to AI facilities. Read more

New blockchain analysis has raised doubts over PEPE’s fair launch, suggesting that one entity controlled a large share of the genesis supply and has sold early, as PEPE has faced price swings, security concerns, and renewed scrutiny of meme coin trading risks. The post Did One Entity Kill PEPE’s Fair Launch? Bubblemaps Flags 30% Genesis Hoard, $2M Dump appeared first on Cryptonews.

Disney says Google’s AI used its characters without permission, as it signed a new deal with OpenAI to allow character generation with Sora.

Trading volumes jumped 38% above monthly averages as institutional players repositioned ahead of a scheduled token unlock.

Bitcoin has stayed above $90,000 while the Fear and Greed Index has remained in the fear zone and the Altcoin Season Index has inched higher, as MYX, Tezos and UNUS SED LEO have recorded cautious gains on stable liquidity and steady network activity. The post Altcoin Season Shows Flickers As Bitcoin Tests Support Near $90,000 appeared first on Cryptonews.

The token is consolidating below resistance at $1.65, with support forming above $1.59, and traders are watching for a breakout above $1.70 to regain momentum.

Caroline Crenshaw, the financial agency’s sole remaining Democratic commissioner, is expected to depart in January, 18 months after her official term ended. SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, expected to leave the agency in less than a month, used one of her final public speaking engagements to address the regulator’s response to digital assets. Speaking at a Brookings Institution event on Thursday, Crenshaw said standards at the SEC had “eroded” in the last year, with “markets [starting] to look like casinos,” and “chaos” as the agency dismissed many years-long enforcement cases, reduced civil penalties and filed fewer actions overall. The commissioner, expected to depart in January after her term officially ended in June 2024, also criticized many crypto users and the agency’s response to the markets. Read more