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In a wide-ranging interview, Huang claims AI growth is gradual, powerful and already changing global power dynamics.

Distribution is designed to go to the ecosystem, With 30% to airdrops, 25% to growth initiatives, and 10% for liquidity and launch support.

CEO Brian Armstrong said top banks are "leaning into this as an opportunity," signaling Wall Street’s quiet embrace of crypto infrastructure.

Bitcoin surged on Tuesday but lost momentum. Analysts debate whether the rally will last as markets brace for the Federal Reserve's rate decision next week.

Armed with CFTC approval, Polymarket has launched its mobile platform for sports and proposition markets under federal oversight.

Institutional Ethereum demand collapses as Digital Asset Treasuries’ purchases drop 81% since August, with inflows dropping to 370K ETH.

Bitcoin posted its strongest daily gain since May as buy-side flows, a sharp adjustment in investor sentiment and a return of the Coinbase premium hint at a potential rally above $100,000. Bitcoin (BTC) gained 5.81% on Tuesday, its biggest daily return since May 8. As the rally unfolded, a bullish engulfing pattern formed, marking the first significant structural shift on the daily chart in the fourth quarter. Traders now wonder if there is an increased chance for a sustained recovery over the coming day. Key takeaways: Bitcoin printed a bullish engulfing candle with its strongest daily gain since May, signaling early trend expansion. Read more

Bitcoin has traded near $92,000 as MSCI has consulted on how index rules treat crypto-focused treasuries, while Strategy has described potential Bitcoin sales as a last-resort response if leverage or liquidity metrics have deteriorated and market depth has stayed uneven. The post Strategy Floats Possible Bitcoin Sales As MSCI Review Nears Deadline appeared first on Cryptonews.

U.S. authorities have seized a Burma-linked domain tied to a crypto scam and have removed apps, accounts and funds, as DOJ and FBI actions have expanded to money laundering, North Korean hacking and forced-labor fraud cases across the crypto sector, amid rising U.S. crypto investment fraud losses. The post DOJ Seizes Burma Crypto Scam Domain After Victims Lost Millions in Fake Trading Scheme appeared first on Cryptonews.

Select users in the US will be among the first to access the predictions platform to bet on sports event contracts, following clearance from a financial regulator for a relaunch. Prediction platform Polymarket has begun rolling out its relaunch in the United States, announcing that waitlisted users would be the first to access its US app. In a Wednesday X post, Polymarket said that it would be making its US app available to waitlisted users, beginning with bets on sports event contracts, “followed by markets on everything.” The official launch came about three months after the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a no-action letter to a crypto derivatives exchange and clearinghouse acquired by Polymarket, laying the groundwork for the launch of its US services. Read more

Bitcoin's Bollinger Bandwidth indicator falls below 100 for the first time since November 2023, when it preceded a four-month doubling, as the cryptocurrency tests $93,000 resistance with momentum building toward potential breakout levels. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: 2023’s Parabolic Indicator Returns — Will Bulls Push BTC Up 40% Before December Ends? appeared first on Cryptonews.

Altcoin Season has stayed constrained while Bitcoin has rebounded above $92,000 and the fear index has improved to 22, as Sui, Chainlink and DoubleZero have posted double-digit gains on new access, steady utility and rotation into mid cap tokens. The post Bitcoin Rebounds Above $92K as Fear Eases and SUI, LINK, and 2Z Surge appeared first on Cryptonews.

Former SEC Chairman Gary Gensler cautioned that cryptocurrencies beyond Bitcoin lack fundamental backing, while Vanguard's dramatic policy reversal granted 50 million clients access to spot crypto ETFs, triggering $1 billion in immediate trading volume. The post Former SEC Chair Gensler Warns All Cryptos Are Risky — Except Bitcoin appeared first on Cryptonews.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission halted several ETF filings that proposed 3-5 times leverage on the underlying asset. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sent warning letters to several exchange-traded fund (ETF) providers, halting applications for leveraged ETFs that offer more than 200% exposure to the underlying asset. ETF issuers Direxion, ProShares, and Tidal received letters from the SEC citing legal provisions under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The law caps exposure of investment funds at 200% of their value-at-risk, defined by a “reference portfolio” of unleveraged, underlying assets or benchmark indexes. The SEC said: Read more

Crypto majors are sharply higher, climbing 6–10% following Vanguard’s crypto debut and supportive commentary from Bank of America, with BTC up 6% to $92,900, ETH up 9% to $3,070, BNB up 7% to $899, and SOL up 10% to $142. Among top movers, SUI gained 24%, PENGU 19%, and LINK 18%. Ethereum’s Fusaka upgrade is scheduled to launch today, aiming to improve mainnet ingestion of L2 data and reduce rollup costs to enhance scalability. Bank of America is now recommending a 1–4% crypto allocation for clients across Merrill Lynch and the Private Bank. On the corporate front, Kraken has agreed to acquire tokenization platform Backed Finance to accelerate the adoption of tokenized stocks, while Chainlink introduced its “LINK Everything” initiative, a comprehensive tokenization stack featuring CCIP, compliance tools, and expanded data and compute services. In the regulatory and leadership landscape, crypto-friendly Kevin Hassett is now an 85% favorite to become the next Federal Reserve Chair after Jerome Powell, Binance h...

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team spent the past year teaching AI agents to behave like professional DeFi attackers. The agents learned to fork blockchains, write exploit scripts, drain liquidity pools, and pocket the proceeds, all in Docker containers where no real funds were at risk. On Dec. 1, the team published results that should recalibrate how […] The post Anthropic AI agents can now shatter smart contract security for just $1.22, exposing a terrifying economic reality appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The deal grants ETHZilla access to Karus’s AI underwriting engine and loan origination network, positioning the crypto treasury company to offer auto credit onchain in 2026. Crypto treasury company ETHZilla (ETHZ) has taken a strategic step into onchain credit with the acquisition of a 20% fully diluted stake in automotive-finance AI startup Karus. The $10 million deal includes $3 million in cash and $7 million in ETHZilla stock, and will allow the company to integrate Karus’s underwriting AI models into its blockchain stack to issue tokenized auto-loan portfolios. According to Wednesday’s announcement, Karus’s decisioning engine is trained on more than 20 million historical auto-loan outcomes and has evaluated over $5 billion in loans at origination, giving ETHZilla a pre-modeled data set to structure AI-segmented pools with onchain settlement. The first tokenized portfolios are slated for early 2026. Read more

HYPE rebounds from $30–$33 support as double-bottom forms; price nears $36 resistance with rising open interest and Nasdaq listing news.

Strategy outlined two critical conditions that could trigger its first major Bitcoin sale since 2020, including mNAV falling below 1.0 and complete loss of capital market access. The post Bitcoin Price Prediction: If Strategy Sells, Everything Changes – Here’s What Could Force Their Hand appeared first on Cryptonews.

Experts say the shrinking Binance BTC reserves reflect rising self-custody and ETF demand, not market weakness.