Crypto & Market

2025-12-18 06:45

BNB Pays for AWS While Macro Winds Shift: What the Last 24 Hours Say About Crypto’s Next Phase

BNB Chain is becoming a payment option for AWS customers via Better Payment Network just as U.S. macro data softens, inflation eases to 2.7%, and policymakers promise lower rates and large tax refunds. At the same time, DeFi builders push new roadmaps, stablecoin and RWA projects seek regulatory clarity, and banks receive a green light from the Fed to re-enter digital-asset activities. This wrap connects the dots between payments, regulation, infrastructure and price action to help long-term investors understand what really changed in the last 24 hours.

2025-12-17 19:40

From 'Do Not' to 'Do It Safely': The Fed Rewrites Its Innovation Playbook for Banks

The Federal Reserve has withdrawn a 2023 policy statement that effectively discouraged state member banks from pursuing new products and technologies, replacing it with guidance that explicitly welcomes “responsible innovation.” This article explains what changed, why it matters for insured and uninsured banks, and how the shift could shape experiments in payments, tokenization and other emerging financial technologies.

2025-12-17 12:00

Trump, Samourai Wallet and the Future of Privacy Tools Under U.S. Law

President Trump has said he will consider a possible pardon for the CEO of privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet Samourai. The case is not about spectacular price moves but about the legal status of privacy software, the boundaries of money-transmission rules, and how far a government should go in holding developers responsible for how their tools are used.

2025-12-17 10:05

Tariffs, Tax Cuts and a Growing Debt Mountain: Why U.S. Public Debt Keeps Rising

The United States is collecting more than 200 billion USD a year in new tariffs and preparing large tax refunds for households, yet public debt is still on track to rise by trillions. This article explains how tariff revenue, tax cuts and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act interact, and why the arithmetic still points to a higher debt burden over the next decade.

2025-12-17 09:16

DAT Updates: Corporate Bitcoin Treasuries Keep Growing Despite Market Volatility

Fresh DAT figures show that listed companies added more than 10,800 BTC to their balance sheets in the last seven days, led by a major purchase from Strategy and supported by steady accumulation from firms in Brazil and the United States. This article explains what these flows tell us about corporate conviction, why some firms are raising dividends to grow their Bitcoin allocations, and how delisting risks for smaller names highlight the difference between owning BTC directly and owning a BTC-exposed stock.

2025-12-17 08:15

November Jobs Report: A Cooling US Labor Market And The Next Phase For Crypto

The US unemployment rate rose to 4.6 percent in November while job creation and wage growth slowed. Rather than signalling a sudden collapse, the data point to a controlled cooling of the labor market. This article explains what that means for the Federal Reserve, why markets are unlikely to see an immediate rate cut, and how the evolving macro backdrop feeds into liquidity, risk appetite and digital asset cycles.

2025-12-17 04:00

FDIC Stablecoin Blueprint: When Banks Start Minting Digital Dollars

The FDIC has outlined how U.S. banks could issue payment stablecoins under the GENIUS Act, pulling digital dollars into the core of the banking system. At the same time, regulators close a long-running Aave probe, Visa pushes USDC on Solana, CME builds new benchmarks, and DeFi experiments with prediction markets. We unpack what these signals mean for liquidity, regulation and the next phase of crypto adoption.

2025-12-16 13:30

Ripple’s RLUSD Stablecoin Goes Multichain: Native Liquidity Across XRP, Ethereum And Layer-2s

Ripple is turning RLUSD from a single network stablecoin into a multichain settlement asset that moves natively across XRP Ledger, Ethereum and several layer-2s. By using Wormhole’s infrastructure and operating under a New York trust license, RLUSD sits at the intersection of regulated finance and open blockchain rails.

2025-12-16 09:03

SBI And Startale Plan A Yen Stablecoin For Global Payments And 24/7 Tokenized Markets

SBI Holdings and Startale Group are preparing a fully regulated yen stablecoin for launch in 2026. Backed and issued through licensed trust and banking entities, and paired with Startale’s existing institutional US dollar token, the project is designed as the monetary layer for a 24/7 tokenized securities venue and for machine to machine payments in an AI driven economy.

2025-12-16 07:50

Nasdaq Moves Toward 23-Hour Trading While Crypto Rebuilds Its Macro Edge

Nasdaq has officially asked the SEC to extend stock trading to 23 hours per day, just as Bitcoin slips below 86,000 USD and a new wave of tokenization, banking and wallet news reshapes the boundary between Wall Street and on-chain markets. This piece unpacks how these stories fit together and what they imply for liquidity, volatility and the next phase of digital-asset adoption.

2025-12-15 21:00

From Wild Frontier to Rulebook: What It Means When the UK Regulates Crypto Like Traditional Finance

The UK has signalled that from 2027, crypto assets such as Bitcoin will be supervised under the same regulatory umbrella as traditional finance. Crypto exchanges, brokerages and even wallet providers will fall directly under the FCA’s rulebook. This shift could transform the UK market from a lightly governed experiment into one of the most mature and institution-friendly jurisdictions for digital assets — but it will also raise the bar for compliance and reshape which business models survive.

2025-12-15 14:00

How Large Bitcoin Holders Selling Call Options Are Quietly Capping the Rally

Jeff Park, CIO of Procap, argues that a growing number of large Bitcoin holders are selling call options instead of waiting for an explosive price move. This systematic call-writing creates a soft price ceiling: as BTC nears popular strike levels, hedging flows and profit-taking can repeatedly push the market back down. We unpack how this mechanism works, why it has become so important in the current cycle, and what might be needed to break through it.

2025-12-15 11:45

Japan’s $500B ETF Exit: Why the Bank of Japan Is Choosing a Century-Long Timeline

The Bank of Japan plans to unwind more than $500 billion of equity ETFs — but at a pace so slow it could take over 100 years. Rather than a headline-grabbing shock, policymakers are signalling a carefully managed transition away from emergency stimulus, with an eye on market stability, politics and the credibility of their policy framework. This article unpacks what the plan really means for Japanese equities, global risk assets and the long-term role of central banks in capital markets.

2025-12-15 08:25

Strategy’s Latest $980M Bitcoin Purchase: Conviction, Concentration Risk, and What It Signals for the Market

Strategy has just added 10,645 BTC at roughly 92,100 USD per coin, lifting its holdings to 671,268 BTC and reinforcing its role as one of the largest corporate owners of Bitcoin on the planet. This article unpacks what a nearly 60 billion USD position means for the company, for shareholders, and for the structure of the Bitcoin market itself.

2025-12-15 06:30

Doha Bank’s $150M Digital Bond: A Quiet Milestone for Tokenization on Permissioned DLT

Doha Bank has issued a 150 million USD digital bond using Euroclear’s permissioned DLT platform, settling the transaction on the same day and listing it on the London Stock Exchange. The deal shows how traditional finance is adopting blockchain-style infrastructure without moving directly onto public networks such as Ethereum.

2025-12-15 04:00

JPMorgan’s Tokenized Money Market Fund on Ethereum: What It Really Means for Crypto Liquidity

JPMorgan is preparing to launch the first tokenized money market fund on Ethereum, turning one of TradFi’s safest cash instruments into on-chain collateral. Combined with new custody guidance from the SEC and renewed political attention on digital assets, the past 24 hours offer a clear snapshot of where the next phase of crypto adoption is heading: regulated balance sheets, programmable cash, and a sharper policy perimeter.

2025-12-14 19:00

$238B in Short-Term T-Bills: Liquidity Test for Markets and What It Means for Bitcoin

The US Treasury is auctioning $238 billion of short-term bills in just two days while outstanding federal debt is already near $38.4 trillion. Is Washington running out of cash, or is this simply the normal refinancing machine at work? And how could such a wave of issuance influence inflation expectations, market liquidity and digital assets like Bitcoin?

2025-12-14 07:01

Strategy (MSTR) Stays in the Nasdaq 100: Tech Stock or Listed Bitcoin Vault?

Strategy (MSTR) has survived the latest Nasdaq 100 reshuffle even though its market value now behaves far more like a leveraged Bitcoin vehicle than a traditional software company. That decision highlights a growing challenge for index providers and passive investors: how do you classify a listed company whose balance sheet is dominated by a single digital asset?

2025-12-14 02:55

Vanguard Calls Bitcoin a 'Digital Labubu' – So Why Is It Finally Allowing Crypto ETFs?

Vanguard’s leadership still describes Bitcoin as a speculative 'digital labubu,' yet the firm has opened its platform to regulated crypto ETFs. This apparent contradiction actually reveals a lot about how large asset managers are reframing digital assets.

2025-12-13 20:02

Kevin Warsh, Trump and the Next Fed Chair: What a Leadership Shift Could Mean for Markets and Crypto

Donald Trump says former Fed governor Kevin Warsh is the frontrunner to become the next Federal Reserve Chair, with Kevin Hassett also in the mix. What would a Warsh-led Fed mean for interest rates, the US dollar, risk assets and digital assets as the US enters a new policy cycle?

2025-12-13 18:12

SEC’s New Crypto Custody Guidance: What Individual Investors Really Need to Understand About Keys, Wallets and Responsibility

The SEC has published guidance explaining how individual investors should think about crypto custody: from private keys and seed phrases to hot vs. cold wallets and the trade-off between self-custody and third-party services. Behind the basic definitions lies a deeper message: control over digital assets always comes with operational risk, and there is no “undo button” when security fails.

2025-12-13 15:00

Norway Steps Back From CBDC as Stablecoins Quietly Move Forward

Norway’s central bank says it sees no urgent need for a retail CBDC, even as a leading US broker begins accepting stablecoins and a major fuel retailer in the UAE turns a dirham-backed token into a real-world payment method. Together, these moves show how the future of money may be shaped less by landmark CBDC launches and more by incremental integration of regulated stablecoins into existing financial rails.

2025-12-13 10:05

When a Bank Meets Solana: What Singapore Gulf Bank’s Stablecoin Bridge Really Signals

Singapore Gulf Bank is allowing verified clients to mint and redeem USDC and USDT directly on Solana using bank accounts in USD and SGD. It looks like a simple feature upgrade, but it quietly turns the bank into a gateway between traditional finance and real-time blockchain payment rails across Asia and the Gulf.

2025-12-13 09:00

Fifteen Years After Satoshi’s Last Public Post: What His Silence Really Built

On this day fifteen years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto posted publicly on the Bitcoin Forum for the last time. The message looked like a routine technical note about improving Bitcoin’s resilience against network overload. In hindsight, it was also a quiet turning point: the moment the creator began to disappear so the system could stand on its own.

2025-12-13 03:30

Goolsbee Calls for Patience: What a Slower Fed Means for Gold, Stablecoins and the Next Phase of Crypto

Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee is pushing back against rapid rate cuts, even as gold breaks new records and crypto weathers another wave of liquidations. At the same time, traditional finance is quietly moving closer to digital assets through stablecoin funding, new banking charters and wrapped tokens. We break down what this mix of caution and structural progress really means for the market.

2025-12-12 15:15

Caroline Crenshaw Leaves the SEC: How the Loss of Washington’s Most Skeptical Crypto Voice May Reshape Policy

SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, long viewed as the most crypto-skeptical voice on the Commission, will step down in January 2025. Her departure removes a consistent critic of digital assets from the SEC’s leadership just as the agency is redefining how tokens, stablecoins and trading venues fit inside US securities law.

2025-12-12 11:00

From Outsiders to National Banks: What OCC Charters for Circle, Ripple, BitGo, Fidelity and Paxos Really Mean

The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted national trust bank charters to Circle, Ripple, BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets and Paxos. Behind the regulatory jargon is a structural shift: digital asset firms are no longer operating on the edges of banking, but under a federal umbrella that reshapes custody, stablecoins and market infrastructure in the United States.

2025-12-12 03:50

SEC Greenlights DTCC Tokenization Plan as Crypto Rails Go Mainstream

The SEC has approved DTCC’s blueprint to tokenize stocks, bonds and treasuries — a structural shift that could move trillions in traditional assets toward public and permissioned chains. At the same time, consumer apps, ETF filings and new infrastructure projects signal that digital-asset rails are spreading across payments, capital markets and entertainment. Behind the headlines, the real story is about market plumbing: who controls the new settlement layer, and how crypto-native infrastructure is being woven into the core of global finance.

2025-12-11 22:55

J.P. Morgan Runs Real Commercial Paper on Solana: Why This Deal Matters More Than the Headline

J.P. Morgan has helped Galaxy Digital issue and sell a short-term bond entirely on Solana, with investors paying and being repaid in stablecoins. It is described as the first deal of its kind in the US commercial paper market. Beyond the headline, this transaction hints at a future where public blockchains quietly handle the plumbing of global finance, while banks, stablecoin issuers and on-chain networks converge into a single stack.

2025-12-11 20:00

UK FCA Makes Stablecoin Payments a 2026 Priority: What It Really Means for Digital Finance

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has named domestic stablecoin payments and a full digital-asset rulebook as top priorities for 2026. Behind the headlines, the plan is not just about allowing a new form of payment – it is about defending London’s role in global finance, redefining how banks, fintechs and on-chain platforms interact, and carefully managing the risks of programmable money.

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