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Cointelegraph.com - 16:39 Dec 12, 2025
Relaxing the current rules for traditional retirement funds and pension plans could attract trillions of dollars of capital flows into crypto. A growing rift has emerged in Washington, D.C., between the cryptocurrency industry and labor unions as lawmakers debate whether to ease rules allowing cryptocurrencies in 401(k) retirement accounts. The dispute centers on proposed market structure legislation that would allow retirement accounts to gain exposure to crypto, a move labor groups say could expose workers to speculative risk. In a letter sent on Wednesday to the US Senate Banking Committee, the American Federation of Teachers argued that cryptocurrencies are too volatile for pension and retirement savings, warning that workers could face significant losses. The letter drew immediate pushback from crypto investors and industry figures. “The American Federation of Teachers has somehow developed the most logically incoherent, least educated take one could possibly author on the matter of crypto market structu... -
Cointelegraph.com - 16:26 Dec 12, 2025
The conditional approvals clear a path for major crypto companies to operate as national trust banks under the supervision of the US OCC. The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has conditionally approved five national bank charter applications for companies tied to the digital assets industry. In a Friday notice, the OCC said it had conditionally approved BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets and Paxos to convert their existing state-level trust companies into federally chartered national trust banks. In the same announcement, the regulator said it had conditionally approved new applications from Circle and Ripple for national trust bank charters. “New entrants into the federal banking sector are good for consumers, the banking industry and the economy,” said Jonathan Gould, the Comptroller of the Currency, adding: “The OCC will continue to provide a path for both traditional and innovative approaches to financial services to ensure the federal banking system keeps pace with the evolution of finance and su... -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:53 Dec 12, 2025
As MiCA enters its implementation phase, uneven enforcement across the EU is reigniting debate over whether crypto supervision should move from national regulators to ESMA. Europe’s crypto regulatory framework is entering a new phase of scrutiny as policymakers weigh whether enforcement of the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation should remain with national authorities or be centralized under the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). MiCA, which came largely into force at the beginning of 2025, was designed to create a unified rulebook for crypto-asset service providers across the European Union. But as implementation progresses, disparities between member states are becoming harder to ignore. Some regulators have approved dozens of licenses, while others have issued only a handful, prompting concerns about inconsistent supervision and regulatory arbitrage. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 15:41 Dec 12, 2025
Bitcoin faced troublesome resistance levels to end the Wall Street trading week as new bullish BTC price forecasts reappeared. Bitcoin (BTC) battled stubborn horizontal resistance Friday with $94,000 next on bulls’ radar. Key points: Bitcoin keeps up pressure on familiar resistance levels as optimism over market strength increases. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:31 Dec 12, 2025
Ripple Payments partnered with Swiss crypto bank Amina to plug its fiat-to-stablecoin payment infrastructure into the FINMA-regulated institution. The payments subsidiary of blockchain services company Ripple has partnered with Swiss bank Amina to provide it with access to its payment infrastructure. According to a Friday Ripple Payments announcement, the company will allow Amina to “settle transactions more efficiently without relying on traditional payment infrastructure, making transactions faster, lower cost, and with increased reliability and transparency.” This builds on a previous relationship between the companies, with the bank’s integration of the Ripple USD (RLUSD) stablecoin happening back in July. The move also reinforces Ripple’s presence in Europe, with Amina being a Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority-regulated financial institution. The bank’s Austrian subsidiary also holds a license under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) granted by Austria’s Financial ... -
Cointelegraph.com - 14:02 Dec 12, 2025
Crypto investor demand for memecoins remains at lows not seen since 2024, despite a growing speculative appetite that has boosted TradFi leveraged ETFs to a record $239 billion. Traditional finance leveraged investment products are at a record high, but the appetite for speculative assets remains muted in the cryptocurrency market. Speculative appetite is cooling among crypto investors, with memecoin dominance versus altcoins hitting a near two-year low last seen in February 2024, according to crypto data platform CryptoQuant. “Memecoin markets are dead,” wrote CryptoQuant co-founder and CEO Ki Young Ji in a Thursday X post. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:41 Dec 12, 2025
Pakistan gives a nod for crypto exchanges Binance and HTX to register local subsidiaries as regulators advance a phased crypto framework. Pakistan’s authorities are moving to regulate major global cryptocurrency exchanges, issuing preliminary clearances to platforms including Binance to set up shop in the country. The Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) has granted no objection certificates (NOCs) to Binance and HTX, paving the way for the exchanges to register locally and pursue full licensing, the regulator announced on X on Friday. The NOCs aim to ensure Pakistan’s phased approach to regulating crypto asset service providers aligns with the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) policies of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), PVARA said. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:40 Dec 12, 2025
A buying opportunity from Ether’s realized price projected a major rally, as analysts said a return to $5,000 in 2026 is plausible. Ether (ETH) traded close to a level that has previously marked market bottoms, as classic chart patterns suggested a possible rally to $5,000. Key takeaways: Ether price traded closer to its realized price, historically a buying opportunity that has led to major rallies. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:34 Dec 12, 2025
The cryptocurrency industry is riding on the tailwinds of regulatory clarity and newfound interest from institutional investors into the new year. Institutional investment and clear-cut regulations are laying the foundation for a strong start to 2026 for the wider cryptocurrency industry. Industry players including Anthony Scaramucci, Kristin Smith, Eli Ben-Sasson, Ian Rodgers, Reeve Collins and Joseph Chalom delivered optimistic outlooks for the new year after a year of positive change, particularly in the United States. Cointelegraph’s latest LONGITUDE event featured panels focused on Solana’s growth, surging interest in privacy protocols and lessons learned from security incidents in 2025. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:06 Dec 12, 2025
Cross‑party MPs and members of the House of Lords have urged UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves to rein in the Bank of England’s proposed regime for systemic stablecoins. A cross-party group of members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, including former Defense Secretary Sir Gavin Williamson, shadow Science and Tech (AI) Minister Viscount Camrose and the former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s chief whip, Lord Hart, have urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to intervene over the Bank of England’s proposed regime for systemic stablecoins. In a joint open letter to the chancellor on Thursday, they warned that the Bank of England’s proposals for regulating stablecoins could drive innovation and capital offshore. The parliamentarians said the plans risk turning the UK into a “global outlier” by barring most wholesale use of stablecoins outside the Digital Securities Sandbox, prohibiting interest on reserves and imposing what they call “impractical and anti-innovation” holding caps that could pus... -
Cointelegraph.com - 13:03 Dec 12, 2025
The gap between equities and Bitcoin got wider after Bitcoin’s post-all-time-peak correction in October. The US Federal Reserve announced its third interest rate cut of the year on Wednesday, lifting US equities while Bitcoin (BTC) slipped before bouncing back. That dynamic has defined the second half of 2025. Even as capital flows into Bitcoin are increasingly tied to traditional equity investors, the cryptocurrency has continued to diverge from the stock market. Over the past six months, Bitcoin has fallen almost 18%. Meanwhile, the three major US stock indexes posted strong and consistent gains, with the Nasdaq Composite up 21%, the S&P 500 rising 14.35% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing 12.11%. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 12:55 Dec 12, 2025
The wallet-native feature lets users trade tokenized event contracts across politics, economics and culture without leaving Phantom. Crypto wallet application Phantom has partnered with regulated prediction market Kalshi to bring event-based trading directly into its wallet interface, signaling a deeper convergence between onchain finance and real-world outcome betting. The companies said on Friday that the integration would allow Phantom users to discover trending events, track live odds and place bets without leaving their wallets. A new feature called Phantom Prediction Markets will allow users to trade tokenized positions that reference Kalshi’s event markets across politics, economics, sports and culture. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:13 Dec 12, 2025
In comments Thursday, SEC Chair Paul Atkins doubled down on his vision for tokenized US financial markets and onchain settlement. Traditional financial markets are moving rapidly onchain as the US Securities and Exchange Commission chair doubled down on the idea of an “innovation exemption” to accelerate tokenization. “U.S. financial markets are poised to move on-chain,” wrote Paul Atkins, chair of the SEC, in a Friday X post, adding that the agency is “embracing new technologies to enable this onchain future.” His comments come shortly after the SEC issued a “no action” letter to a subsidiary of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), enabling it to offer a new securities market tokenization service. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 11:06 Dec 12, 2025
Binance quietly rolled out API endpoints pointing to stock perpetual futures, potentially signaling a renewed push into stock trading after a failed 2021 launch. Crypto exchange Binance has added new features to its application programming interface (API), indicating that the platform is preparing to introduce stock trading capabilities. Binance’s changelog notes that on Thursday, the exchange introduced three new API endpoints, one of which — with a URL including stock/contract — allows users to “sign [a] TradFi-Perps agreement contract.” The two other endpoints introduced on the same day allow users to query “trading session schedules for a one-week period” or “current trading session information.” Together, this suggests that Binance is planning to introduce perpetual futures trading on its platform. The existing trading schedule endpoints also suggest trading will likely occur in sessions, as in traditional finance, rather than following crypto’s 24/7 nature. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 01:42 Dec 12, 2025
Bitcoin miners Marathon Digital Holdings, Riot Platforms and Hut 8 are already in the top ten largest public companies holding Bitcoin. Bitcoin miners, which can acquire the cryptocurrency at below-market costs, could be in the best position to shape corporate adoption as accumulation by crypto treasury companies slows, says BitcoinTreasuries.NET. Bitcoin (BTC) treasury companies are projected to buy 40,000 BTC in the fourth quarter, the lowest since Q3 2024, BitcoinTreasuries.NET President Pete Rizzo said in a corporate adoption report released on Thursday. Despite the slowdown, Rizzo said Bitcoin mining companies continue to “anchor public‑market Bitcoin holdings” and accounted for 5% of new additions and 12% of aggregate public company balances in November. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 00:00 Dec 12, 2025
Sei preloads crypto wallets in future Xiaomi smartphones. Bhutan launches gold tokens on Solana. Asia Express Layer-1 blockchain Sei has announced that it is developing crypto wallets that will be pre-installed into future Xiaomi smartphones sold outside the US and China. Sei said the forthcoming app will let users access wallets and decentralized applications with their Google or Xiaomi IDs. It will also support peer-to-peer transfers and consumer payments. The initial rollout will target regions where Xiaomi holds a large mobile market share and where crypto adoption is already established, including Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 22:00 Dec 11, 2025
A federal judge heard statements from some of Terraform Labs’ and Do Kwon’s victims for hours before deciding on the co-founder’s sentence. Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terraform Labs, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud. In a Thursday hearing in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Paul Engelmayer ordered that Kwon serve 15 years in prison for his role in the collapse of Terraform, which wiped out about $40 billion from the crypto market in 2022. He will receive credit for time served in the US and 17 months of pre-extradition custody. Prior to making his decision on sentencing, Engelmayer heard from some of Terraform’s victims and questioned what kind of justice Kwon might face in his native South Korea, where authorities are also building a case against him. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:47 Dec 11, 2025
The remarks signal Pakistan’s push to turn its grassroots crypto activity into a compliant, innovation-driven sector anchored by Bitcoin and digital-asset regulation. Pakistan sees Bitcoin and digital assets as the backbone of a new financial rail for its 240 million citizens, a senior official said at the Bitcoin MENA Conference, signaling a shift toward formal regulation of crypto markets. Bilal Bin Saqib said on Tuesday that Pakistan can no longer rely on traditional economic models, but needs “a new engine,” citing digital assets. The minister said during a roundtable in Abu Dhabi: Saqib, the chairman of Pakistan’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (PVARA) and former special assistant to the prime minister on blockchain and crypto, said his mandate is to transform one of the world’s largest unregulated crypto markets into a compliant, investment-ready ecosystem. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:40 Dec 11, 2025
XRP’s slide below $2 pushed its funding rates to extreme lows, an occurrence that generally incentivizes bulls to pile in. What’s holding traders back this time? Key takeaways: XRP derivatives are dominated by bears as the funding rate turns deeply negative and open interest remains stagnant. XRP ETF volumes and declining XRP Ledger TVL show fading interest in the XRP ecosystem, reducing the chances of a near-term price rebound. Read more -
Cointelegraph.com - 21:30 Dec 11, 2025
The film, titled "One Attempt Remaining," about a couple trying to regain access to millions of dollars worth of crypto, mirrors real-world crypto dilemmas. Streaming service Netflix announced a new comedy movie focused on one couple’s attempt to remember a password and gain access to millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. In a Thursday notice, Netflix said that Hollywood star Jennifer Garner would be one of the leads in the movie “One Attempt Remaining.” The comedy feature would focus on the story of two people who divorced only to discover “the cryptocurrency they won together on a cruise is now worth millions… but they’ve forgotten the password.” According to What’s on Netflix, the story will include a notice from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and the couple would have 48 hours to retrieve $35 million from the wallet before the claim expires. Read more
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