For years, US banks treated Bitcoin as something best observed from a distance.The asset lived on specialist exchanges and trading apps, walled off from core banking systems by capital rules, custody worries, and reputational risk.However, that posture is finally giving way.According to data from River, nearly 60% of the country’s 25 largest banks are now somewhere on the path to selling, safekeeping, or advising on Bitcoin directly.US Banks Embrace Bitcoin (Source: River)Spot ETF approvals dominated the headlines of 2024. The story of 2025 is quieter: crypto is moving from fringe allocation to routine line item inside mainstream wealth and custody…
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Crypto ETFs are exchange-traded funds that provide investors with exposure to cryptocurrencies without needing to buy, own, store, or manage the digital assets directly. These investment products are traded on traditional stock exchanges and work like traditional ETFs, but they track the prices of crypto assets, crypto indexes, or companies connected to the crypto industry.If you’ve been wondering what ETFs in crypto ETFs are, this article dives into everything you need to know about crypto ETFs, including how they work, their types, and benefits. Additionally, we throw more light on their limitations, how to invest, regulations around crypto ETFs, and…
Key Highlights: Hyper Foundation validators will vote by December 24 UTC to burn Assistance Fund HYPE. The process will remove 37 million tokens, which is 3.71% of total supply, through social consensus. A stake-based vote reduces unlock pressure, improves HYPE’s supply, and supports price recovery. The Hyper Foundation announced today, December 17, 2025, on social media platform X, that it has started an important validator vote to officially treat a large amount of HYPE tokens held in the Assistance Fund as permanently destroyed. This step seeks to remove these tokens from circulation and total supply numbers, strengthening HYPE’s deflationary nature…
Author Sujha Sundararajan Author Sujha Sundararajan Part of the Team Since Jun 2023 About Author Sujha has been recognised as 🟣 Women In Crypto 2024 🟣 by BeInCrypto for her leadership in crypto journalism. Share Last updated: December 17, 2025 In a definitive statement, Anatoly Aksakov, Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, maintained a strict ban on payments using crypto within Russia.Addressing a TASS press conference, he emphasized that payments in Russia must only be conducted in rubles. He dismissed the possibility of cryptos like Bitcoin and Ethereum becoming legal tender.“We must understand that cryptocurrencies will…
LINK, the native cryptocurrency of decentralized Oracle network, Chainlink, records a low volatility trading around $13 mark. The daily chart shows a neutral candle indicating lack of initiation from buyers to sellers in intraday session. While this uncertainty prolongs consolidation in Chainlink price, the latest on-chain data shows that large-investors have been steadily accumulating the altcoin since November, bolstering the price potential for fresh recovery. Key Highlights: The Chainlink price seeks support from a long-coming ascending trendline that acts as a major accumulation zone for buyers. The open interest tied LINK futures shows a declining trend, indicating that the speculative…
Stargate Finance, a cross-chain native asset transfer protocol, today announced that Beldex (BDX), a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that enables users to execute public and private transactions, is available on the cross-chain liquidity protocol. The aim of the deployment of BDX on Stargate is to introduce the cryptocurrency into one of the most actively utilized blockchain networks in the world. Stargate, which is powered by LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) Standard, has rapidly become a foundation for cross-chain liquidity, linking more than 70 blockchain networks and facilitating real-time and safe transfer of crypto assets. Traditionally, transferring digital assets between blockchains involved multiple…
Key Highlights Bitcoin’s fear and greed index is indicating Extreme Fear Despite this, Bitcoin has witnessed a small rebound with 2.2% surge in 24 hours, soaring its price over $87,000 According to a popular analyst, BTC price movement depends on a “cost-basis returns cycle.” On December 16, Bitcoin’s Fear and Greed Index dropped to a new low, indicating Extreme Fear, which sparked widespread fear in the cryptocurrency community. JUST IN: The #Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index hit a new low in “Extreme Fear” 👀 HODL! ✊ pic.twitter.com/siDOccdFlT — Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) December 16, 2025 Bitcoin Soars 2.2% On a Daily…
Crypto Journalist Amin Ayan Crypto Journalist Amin Ayan Part of the Team Since Apr 2025 About Author Amin Ayan is a crypto journalist with over four years of experience in the industry. He has contributed to leading publications such as Cryptonews, Investing.com, 99Bitcoins, and 24/7 Wall St. He has… Share Last updated: December 16, 2025 Russia’s largest lender, Sberbank, is expanding its push into digital finance as it tests decentralized finance (DeFi) tools and rolls out investment products linked to cryptocurrencies. Key Takeaways: Sberbank is testing DeFi tools and offering regulated crypto-linked investments. The bank is working with regulators to…
One of the largest crypto whale or institutional wallets has suffered one of the worst losses to date in crypto trading, when a significant bet on AI agent tokens went terribly wrong. This might be one of the worst investments ever.A whale/institution spent $23M buying AI agent tokens on #Base and sold everything today for only $2.58M, resulting in a $20.43M(−88.77%) loss.Breakdown:$FAI: −$9.87M(−92.31%)$AIXBT: −$7.81M(−83.74%)$BOTTO:… pic.twitter.com/DbEqIyD6xT— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) December 16, 2025 On-chain analysis published by Lookonchain indicates that the investor purchased a number of AI-oriented tokens on Base for about $23.01M, only to dispose of the holdings at a much lower…
The AAVE (AAVE) price has dropped over 3% in the past 24 hours to trade at about $185 on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. The mid-cap altcoin, with a fully diluted valuation of about $3.5 billion, has continued to signal bearish sentiment amid the protocol’s impressive fundamentals What are the Recent Strong Fundamentals for AAVE Protocols As Coinpedia reported, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) formally closed its investigations into the AAVE protocol. The AAVE protocol gained much-needed legal clarity after the U.S. SEC ended its investigations without recommending an enforcement action.The closure of the SEC’s investigation into AAVE coincided with…
