Silver (XAG) markets are heading right into a pivotal week after the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) introduced its second margin hike in simply two weeks, efficient Monday, December 29. The change has raised the preliminary margin requirement for the March 2026 silver futures contract to roughly $25,000, up from $20,000 earlier this month, growing stress…
Bitcoin miners produced block 929,699 on Dec. 27. What if that was the sign for a New Year’s second, moderately than our conventional calendar? The pitch is that block peak, the ordered depend of blocks each full node can confirm, can act as a calendar layer for a market that trades and settles throughout jurisdictions….
Congress is poised to make a historic transfer in US crypto regulation as Senator Cynthia Lummis’s bipartisan market construction invoice approaches a January 2026 markup. After a decade of uncertainty, the laws guarantees to convey readability for innovators, shield customers, and make sure that digital asset development occurs on American soil slightly than abroad. Regulatory…
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…
Cardano co-founder Charles Hoskinson has shared an interesting outlook for the crypto market in a current YouTube interview by Altcoin Daily, projecting a significant upside for Bitcoin in 2026 whereas additionally outlining a approach capital flows into altcoins. His feedback touched on institutional demand, decentralized finance, and why the following crypto market part might quickly…
A brand new on-chain research printed by the AMLBot workforce exhibits that Tether has frozen greater than $3.29 billion in USDT throughout the Ethereum and Tron blockchains between 2023 and 2025, blacklisting 7,268 addresses within the course of. The findings highlighted a pointy distinction with Circle’s USDC, which froze $109 million throughout simply 372 addresses…
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…
Coinbase mentioned a former buyer help agent was arrested in India as investigators probe a breach tied to insider bribery and buyer knowledge theft. Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said on Dec. 27 that the arrest concerned a former help agent and thanked Hyderabad Police for help in the ongoing investigation. The replace places consideration…
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…
Hyperliquid co-founder Iliensinc sparked chatter on Sunday, after revealing on Discord that 1.2 million HYPE tokens from Hyperliquid Labs might be unstaked at this time (December 28, 2025) and distributed to workforce members on January 6, 2026. The announcement additionally clarified that future workforce distributions, if any, will happen on the sixth of every month,…