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Key Takeaways The PBOC has issued an Action Plan to strengthen governance and infrastructure for the digital yuan. The new framework and mechanism for digital yuan management will be effective from January 1. Share this article China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), has released an action plan for the digital yuan, setting […]
What caught my eye this week. The Christmas break seems to be whizzing by even faster than usual this year. Perhaps it’s the cliché of time speeding up as you get older? Or maybe there’s just too much going on these days for us to ever slow down. Forty years ago I’d go through our […]
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) is ending the year with major technological developments after a year that saw it gain significant adoption and milestones. On Dec. 24, Denis Angell, a lead software engineer at XRPL Labs, announced the integration of “post-quantum” cryptography and native smart contracts into AlphaNet, the project’s public developer network. The ‘Q-Day’ inevitability […]
Chile has made a hard pivot. In a decisive Dec. 14 runoff, José Antonio Kast, a conservative former congressman and leader of the Republican Party, won the presidency with roughly 58% of the vote over leftist Jeannette Jara. It marks Chile’s starkest rightward shift since the return to democracy. Markets took it as a deregulatory […]
Ethereum’s transparency has long been one of its greatest strengths, but for many real-world applications, it has also become a structural limitation. From MEV-driven trading inefficiencies to data leakage in DeFi, gaming, and AI-driven workflows, the assumption that everything must be public in order to be verifiable is increasingly being challenged. TEN Protocol is built […]
Bitcoin’s “miners are dumping” story is comforting in the way simple stories always are. Price slides, miners run out of oxygen, coins hit exchanges, and the price is shoved around by a single, easy villain. But miners are not a single actor, and selling pressure isn’t just a mood. It’s math, contracts, and deadlines. When […]
Four XRP spot ETFs now trade in the US, with combined assets of $941.7 million as of Dec. 18. Grayscale’s GXRP holds $148.1 million, Canary Capital’s XRPC $373.6 million, Franklin Templeton’s XRPZ $189 million, and Bitwise’s XRP ETF $215.6 million. That stack grew from roughly $336 million at launch in November to current levels in […]
Key Takeaways Bybit has resumed operations in the UK after a two-year absence. The exchange now offers 100 crypto trading pairs to UK users. Share this article Global crypto exchange Bybit has announced the official launch of its UK platform, making its services available to British users as demand for compliant digital asset trading continues […]
Bitcoin trades near $89,000 today after its 14-day relative strength index fell below 30 in mid-November, a threshold traders track for capitulation. A chart circulated by Global Macro Investor’s Julien Bittel, sourced to LSEG Datastream, overlays Bitcoin’s recent path with the average trajectory that followed the last five RSI breaks below 30 and traces a […]
JP Morgan Chase & Co. has formally entered the contest for on-chain cash, and the prize is not just a new product line. It is the billions of dollars in institutional capital that now sit in zero-yield stablecoins and early tokenized funds. On Dec. 15, the $4 trillion banking giant launched the My OnChain Net […]
