Recent claims of a major Bitcoin mining crackdown in China’s Xinjiang region rippled through the digital asset industry this week, but data by TheMinerMag suggests the actual impact was far smaller than early narratives implied. According to the latest Miner Weekly report, the Bitcoin network initially experienced a short-term hashrate decline, which was linked to…
Filecoin FIL$1.2026 gave back earlier gains to trade 1% lower over the last 24 hours. as the storage token underperformed wider crypto markets. The broader market gauge, the CoinDesk 20 index, was modestly higher at publication time, trading up 0.2% at 2,662. Trading volatility intensified as the session progressed, with FIL establishing a $0.08 range…
Telegram has announced that investors can now trade tokenized versions of American stocks inside its messaging app. The xStocks platform, which runs on TON Blockchain, provides access through Wallet in Telegram. This means that more than 100 million users have access to buy and sell shares at any time of day. Users can purchase tokenized…
On-chain data shows widespread weak-hand selling, with long-term holder supply dropping to an eight-month low near 14.3M BTC, a pattern historically linked to mid-cycle shakeouts rather than cycle tops. Bitcoin faces short-term volatility as markets await U.S. CPI data, with inflation still above the Fed’s 2% target despite three rate cuts in 2025. While sentiment…
The U.S. dollar experienced an increase in value on Wednesday, rising from previously seen multi-month lows. This movement comes in… For the full story, head over to TheCurrencyAnalytics.com.
// News Reading time: 2 min Published: Dec 18, 2025 at 12:27 The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a pivotal Interpretive Letter on December 17, 2025, authorizing national banks to engage in riskless principal transactions involving crypto-assets. Under this new guidance, a bank can buy a digital asset from one…
A small but growing group of Bitcoin advocates and crypto fund managers is urging the network to accelerate work on quantum-resistant signatures, arguing that the perception of a future “quantum threat” could become a market risk long before it becomes a practical one. Some supporters are pointing to a draft Bitcoin Improvement Proposal known as…
U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) posted their largest one-day inflows since Nov. 11 on Wednesday, coinciding with a volatile crypto market during which bitcoin BTC$87,175.26 rallied to nearly $90,000 before reversing and falling below $86,000. In total, the funds recorded net inflows of $457.3 million, most of which — $391.5 million — went into…
Buterin calls on the simplification of Ethereum to defend trustlessness because the complexity in the network provokes the fear of technical hegemony. According to the co-founder of Ethereum, long-term decentralization and user trust require simplicity. Vitalik Buterin expressed his opinions in recent social media posts, focusing on the fact that Ethereum should be comprehensible to…
Solana spot ETFs pulled in $33.6M last week, lifting total assets near $930M and signaling rising institutional confidence despite market volatility. SOL topped all blockchains in revenue, app activity, and DEX volume, outperforming Ethereum, BSC, and others in real economic usage. Recent BTC dips stem from yen carry trade unwinds as the Bank of Japan…
