Crypto

Aptos (APT) was also an underperformer, down 5% from Wednesday.

Davinci Jeremie bought Bitcoin at $1 and told his followers to buy $1 worth in 2013. Now that BTC is at $100K the price no longer matters to him. Bitcoin OG Davinci Jeremie is best known for buying Bitcoin in 2011 at $1, so it may come as a surprise that he barely seemed to care when the assets price reached $100,000. A 100,000x return would have most people jumping up and down with joy, but Jeremie was already fully content seven years earlier. The major change for me came at $20K, so after that, I pretty much stayed the same, Jeremie tells Magazine. Bitcoin reached $100,000 in December 2024, pretty much bang on seven years after it first reached $20,000 in December 2017. Read more

The organization established by Coinbase to mobilize crypto enthusiasts has built up a 2.6-million-member base across 50 state chapters as U.S. elections loom.

The initiative leverages the Plume Network to tokenize credit card receivables, while giving merchants immediate access to cash.

Nvidia’s Vera Rubin slashes AI costs, challenging decentralized GPU networks like Render that thrive on scarce and underused computing power. Computing powerhouse Nvidia’s Rubin platform can cut the cost of running advanced AI models, a claim that challenges crypto networks built to monetize scarce GPU compute. Officially launched Monday at CES 2026, Rubin is Nvidia’s new computing architecture that improves the efficiency of training and running AI models. It is deployed as a system of six co-designed chips — branded under the Vera Rubin name in honor of the American astronomer Vera Florence Cooper Rubin — and is now in “full production,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said. For crypto projects built on the assumption that compute stays scarce, those gains can challenge the economics behind their models. Read more

Regulatory clarity, tokenization and bank adoption will push crypto firms from balance-sheet accumulation toward real operations.

China’s move to pay interest on the digital yuan is colliding with the GENIUS Act’s ban on stablecoin yields, intensifying questions over whether US digital dollars can remain competitive. China’s move to let banks pay interest on digital yuan wallets from Jan. 1 is sharpening the debate in Washington over whether United States dollar stablecoins are being left structurally uncompetitive by the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act’s ban on yields.  The move allows China’s commercial banks to pay interest on balances held in e‑CNY wallets, with officials framing it as a way to better integrate the central bank digital currency (CBDC) into bank balance sheets. ​Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong warned in an X post on Wednesday that the decision gives China a “competitive advantage” over US dollar stablecoins and has a “big impact on whether US stablecoins are competitive.” Read more

Four major headlines across TradFi and U.S. States has crypto on notice—the institutions are charging in

Bitcoin’s dip below $90,000 has triggered a liquidation spree as bullish momentum fades amid ETF outflows and thin liquidity.

The proposal reduces Florida’s crypto ambitions, effectively limiting eligible assets to Bitcoin and distancing it from pension exposure. Florida lawmakers are advancing a proposal that would allow the state to create a strategic cryptocurrency reserve, narrowing earlier efforts to a framework that would effectively limit holdings to Bitcoin. According to Florida’s legislative records, Senate Bill (SB) 1038, sponsored by Republican Senator Joe Gruters, was filed on Dec. 30 and was referred to the Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government on Wednesday, where it must clear hearings and votes before advancing to the Senate floor.  The bill would establish a Florida Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserve, managed by the state’s chief financial officer (CFO), which would allow the office to purchase, hold, manage and liquidate cryptocurrency under a standard similar to those governing public trust assets.  Read more

Chainalysis reported illicit crypto surged 162% in 2025, led by sanctioned entities, North Korean hacks, Russian tokens, and laundering networks.

In a statement, the board said that the disagreements stemmed from recent proposals to privatize the Zashi mobile wallet.

The token's performance is likely impacted by a civil war within a major BNB treasury firm, where a shareholder is challenging the company's leadership.

Bitcoin continues to show surprising resilience as it pushes back around $90K amidst rising geopolitical tensions. With the Middle East conflict intensifying and global markets reacting cautiously, BTC is seemingly being treated as a macro hedge. The market narrative is shifting, with growing institutional attention around the ETF developments and increased volatility across risk-on assets. […]

House Bill 1039 would let Florida invest in crypto outside its treasury, reviving a withdrawn proposal and signaling the GOP’s growing embrace of ‘digital gold.’

Binance launched gold and silver perpetual futures settled in USDT, expanding crypto-denominated access to precious metals markets. Binance launched new perpetual futures contracts tied to gold and silver, expanding the crypto exchange’s derivatives offering beyond digital assets as demand grows for exposure to traditional safe-haven markets. Binance said Thursday it had introduced gold and silver perpetual futures that allow investors to trade the metals around the clock without an expiration date. The contracts are settled in Tether’s USDt (USDT) stablecoin, giving traders onchain access to price movements in precious metals rather than direct ownership of the underlying assets. Read more

As the old saying goes, all good things must come to an end.

Banks risk falling behind if they cling to private blockchains. Upgrading to public, permissioned layer-2 infrastructure with ZK-proofs is essential for modern finance. Opinion by: Igor Mandrigin, co-founder and chief technology and product officer of Gateway.fm For years, private distributed ledger systems, like Hyperledger, have provided banks with a secure means to explore blockchain technology without venturing into public networks. These frameworks delivered privacy, permissioned access and a sense of institutional control — qualities that undoubtedly appealed to traditional finance players when the crypto market was still viewed as the Wild West. The environment has changed fundamentally since then, as tokenized assets, stablecoin settlements and institutional crypto exposure have quickly become the standard. The closed, permissioned models that once spoke to the risk-averse tendencies of banks now hold them back. At this critical geopolitical and macroeconomic juncture, financial institutions need to m...

Wyoming launched a state-backed stablecoin on Solana, and Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana trust product this week. Last month, Visa expanded USDC settlement to run on Solana rails, and JPMorgan tokenized commercial paper using Solana for part of the settlement stack. These are not rumors or roadmap promises. They happened over 60 days, and […] The post Solana is becoming settlement rail for Visa and JPMorgan but one metric still scares insiders appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Your day-ahead look for Jan. 8, 2026