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Institutions across the globe are adopting cryptocurrency, offering new services and buying into blockchain tech, despite slumping Bitcoin price. Markets are in a slump, with Bitcoin’s (BTC) price sinking below the $100,000 threshold. Despite a downward correction in markets, institutions continue to adopt digital assets in their operations. In the US, a major digital trading platform and chartered bank has opened crypto trading to institutional clients. The derivatives arm of the Singapore Exchange is getting into digital assets as well, opening up perpetual futures trading in crypto. Policy changes have allowed some firms to offer crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs), expanding the availability of crypto-related institutional financial products. Read more

Is the Santa Rally driven by retail FOMO or whale-sized capital flows? Here’s what actually fuels December’s market surge in stocks and crypto. Traditionally tied to the last five trading days of December and the first two of January, the Santa Rally now influences Bitcoin and major altcoins as seasonal optimism, low liquidity and renewed risk appetite shape year-end trading. With institutional desks quiet during the final week of December, even small retail trades can move prices. Social media narratives, year-end bonuses and FOMO often amplify that effect. Retail traders chase narratives, quick trends and speculative opportunities, while whales focus on risk management, balance-sheet adjustments and optimizing capital ahead of the new year. Read more

Zcash Price Prediction has explored ZEC’s move into the crypto top 10, its 220% surge and retrace to a $9B market cap, key resistance at $604–$700, major $500–$530 support, and how rising Coinbase searches and privacy advocates have shaped sentiment. The post Zcash Price Prediction as ZEC Becomes a Top 20 Global Crypto – Can it Overtake XRP? appeared first on Cryptonews.

A single company’s outage today disrupted access to internet services worldwide, revealing just how much global traffic depends on Cloudflare. Cloudflare’s status page described the event as an “internal service degradation” that began at 11:48 UTC, saying some services were “intermittently impacted” while teams worked to restore traffic flows. Earlier, at 11:34 UTC, CryptoSlate noticed […] The post The internet is still broken: A “failed” centralized bottleneck caused the global internet blackout today appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Many users reported not having access to websites, including Coinbase and Blockchain.com, and social media platforms after Cloudflare reported an “internal service degradation.” Cloudflare, the company responsible for providing network services to websites and platforms across the internet, reported disruptions, which removed access to the front end of many cryptocurrency websites and communications through social media. In a Tuesday update to its system status, Cloudflare said it had implemented a fix after reporting an “internal service degradation” at 11:48 am UTC.  “[W]e believe the incident is now resolved,” said Cloudlfare in an update on its status. “We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.” Read more

LevelField has received Illinois approval to acquire Chicago-based Burling Bank and has proposed combining FDIC-insured community banking with crypto custody, trading, and credit products while the transaction awaits Federal Reserve review. The post LevelField Wins Illinois Nod To Acquire Burling Bank For Crypto Services appeared first on Cryptonews.

Brazil is reportedly considering imposing a tax on the use of cryptocurrency for international payments, as it aligns its rules with a global standard for sharing tax data. Brazil is reportedly weighing a tax on the use of cryptocurrencies for international payments as it moves to adopt a global crypto tax reporting data exchange framework. A Tuesday Reuters report, citing “officials with direct knowledge of the discussions,” claims that the Brazilian government aims to tax cryptocurrency use for international payments. During the confidential talks, representatives of the country’s finance ministry reportedly expressed interest in expanding the Imposto sobre Operações Financeiras (IOF) tax to include some digital asset-based cross-border transactions. Read more

Bitcoin analysts are divided over whether the four-year cycle is in play or not as the price plunges: Trade Secrets Is this crypto market cycle over after four years or should the four-year crypto market cycle theory itself be consigned to history? Swan Bitcoin CEO and Bitcoin advocate Cory Klippsten leans toward the latter view. There is a very good chance that Bitcoins famous four-year price cycles are over, killed by institutional adoption, Klippsten tells Magazine. The debate has Bitcoin analysts around the world divided. Some insist the four-year cycle is still alive; others say it is dead and argue that Bitcoin is following a completely different path altogether. So whos right? Read more

Bitcoin analysts are divided over whether the four-year cycle is in play or not as the price plunges: Trade Secrets Is this crypto market cycle over after four years or should the four-year crypto market cycle theory itself be consigned to history? Swan Bitcoin CEO and Bitcoin advocate Cory Klippsten leans toward the latter view. There is a very good chance that Bitcoins famous four-year price cycles are over, killed by institutional adoption, Klippsten tells Magazine. The debate has Bitcoin analysts around the world divided. Some insist the four-year cycle is still alive; others say it is dead and argue that Bitcoin is following a completely different path altogether. So whos right? Read more

Aptos (APT) was also a top performer, gaining 5.3% from Monday.

Private key theft has become an automated, industrialized threat, highlighting the need for crypto users to remain vigilant, according to a report by GK8, a subsidiary of Galaxy Digital. Private key theft is no longer just another way hackers attack crypto users — it has become a full-fledged business, according to GK8, a crypto custody expert owned by Mike Novogratz’s crypto investment platform Galaxy Digital. In a report published Monday, GK8 detailed how private key theft has evolved into an industrialized operation, highlighting the rise of black market tools that allow perpetrators to locate and steal someone’s seed phrase. The study pointed to several tools, such as malware infostealers and seed phrase finders, that can scan files, documents, cloud backups and chat histories to quickly extract a user’s private key, effectively giving attackers full control over their assets. Read more

Falling revenue and record difficulty could tighten the squeeze on bitcoin miners, though many are more driven by their AI infrastructure initiatives.

About 60% of aPriori’s APR airdrop was claimed by a single entity across 14,000 interconnected wallets, according to Bubblemaps. Web3 startup aPriori has gone quiet after fresh allegations over its latest token airdrop, as onchain analysts flag unusually concentrated distribution patterns. About 60% of the recent aPriori (APR) token airdrop was claimed by a single entity across 14,000 interconnected cryptocurrency wallets, according to blockchain analytics platform Bubblemaps. The wallets were freshly funded through crypto exchange Binance with 0.001 BNB (BNB) each over a short period, Bubblemaps said. All of the addresses then sent their APR allocations to new wallets. Read more

Pi is turning its giant mobile community into a distributed compute grid, testing whether AI can run on a global crowd instead of the cloud. Before talking about “50 million nodes reshaping AI,” it helps to look at what Pi Network actually has today. Pi began as a smartphone mining app and grew into one of the largest retail crypto communities, with tens of millions of registered “Pioneers.” Read more

The stablecoin issuer's investment comes as BTC-backed lending scales rapidly, with Ledn surpassing $1 billion in originations this year and positioning for global expansion.

Historical data shows that nearly every large transfer from Mt. Gox has negatively affected bitcoin's price.

El Salvador says it has bought 1,090 BTC worth over $100 million, raising questions about an IMF loan pledge to limit Bitcoin exposure and fiscal risks. El Salvador, the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender, says it has bought more than $100 million in BTC despite pledging to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to limit public exposure to the asset as part of a loan agreement. According to data from El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office, the government acquired 1,090 Bitcoin (BTC) worth more than $100 million on Tuesday. The purchase comes after the IMF said in a July report that the Central American nation had not bought any new Bitcoin since the organization approved a $1.4 billion loan program at the end of 2024. According to El Salvador’s Bitcoin reserve data, the country’s Bitcoin holdings went from 5,968 BTC on Dec. 18, 2024 — when the government inked a deal with the IMF — to over 7,474 BTC following its latest purchase announcement. Read more

Average BTC deposit volume on Binance has jumped above 0.9, a level that historically signals mounting sell intent.

A widespread Cloudflare outage disrupted major parts of the internet on Tuesday, knocking many crypto platforms offline.