Brazil is testing considered one of crypto’s oldest assumptions: that digital belongings solely thrive when conventional monetary methods fail. With its benchmark Selic charge sitting at 15%, one of many highest amongst main economies, Brazil’s central financial institution has maintained an aggressively tight financial stance. Yet based on new IMF analysis, the nation’s monetary system…
Russian cybercriminals are probably accountable for the laundering of greater than $35 million in cryptocurrency stolen from LastPass customers, in accordance to a report by blockchain intelligence agency TRM Labs. The evaluation linked the multi-year drain of crypto wallets to the 2022 breach of the password supervisor LastPass. It famous that the stolen funds moved…
World Liberty Financial on Sunday proposed using a portion of its digital asset treasury to speed up the adoption of its affiliated stablecoin, USD1. The governance proposal, launched Dec. 28, seeks authorization to allocate lower than 5% of the venture’s unlocked WLFI token provide to fund incentive packages. The initiative goals to safe partnerships throughout…
XRP is buying and selling round $1.87 and has slipped beneath the $2 mark after a current slide. According to market trackers, the token is down about 30% within the fourth quarter of 2025, but some analysts say the present weak spot could also be half of a bigger build-up that has preceded robust rallies…
Uniswap Labs completely burned 100 million UNI tokens valued at $600 million on December 27. The transfer executed the on-chain portion of a governance plan designed to carefully hyperlink the protocol’s income to the token’s worth. UNI Rallies 6% After Labs Confirms Deflationary Pivot Uniswap Labs carried out the burn beneath “UNIfication,” a proposal launched…
The Bitcoin worth is presently over 30% under its all-time high of round $126,000, which was reached within the first week of October 2025. Unfortunately, it has gone downhill for the premier cryptocurrency since reaching this peak, beginning with the notorious October 10 market massacre. The common consensus within the crypto market has been that…
A December 27 report by a pseudonymous on-chain investigator, Specter, alleges that Tate’s digital asset actions lengthen past speculative buying and selling into potential cash laundering. The evaluation claims that particular blockchain addresses allegedly linked to Tate obtained roughly $1.2 million. The funds reportedly got here from wallets named in a Texas lawsuit tied to…
Charles Hoskinson is pitching his newest enterprise, Midnight Protocol, as greater than a sidechain for Cardano. Instead, the Cardano founder is positioning the privacy-focused platform as a shared infrastructure layer that might lengthen programmable privateness to rival blockchain networks, together with Bitcoin and the XRP Ledger. Hoskinson Moves Beyond Cardano With a Cross-Chain Privacy Play…
According to Sharplink co-CEO Joseph Chalom, Ethereum may see a serious soar in complete worth locked (TVL) subsequent 12 months if sure onchain tendencies choose up. Chalom put a daring quantity on it: 10X TVL in 2026. That declare ties collectively rising stablecoin use, greater tokenization of real-world belongings, and elevated curiosity from large monetary…
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong predicts US banks will reverse their stance on stablecoin regulation and ultimately foyer Congress to allow curiosity funds on these digital property. Armstrong’s forecast, posted December 27 on X, contradicts the banking sector’s present efforts to strip yield-generating options from the GENIUS Act. Armstrong Predicts Banks Will Reverse Course on Stablecoin…