Surging crypto enthusiasm is powering a seismic shift in U.S. holiday spending as consumers increasingly favor digital assets over gift cards, signaling unstoppable momentum for crypto-driven payments and gifting. Crypto Emerges as a Holiday Spending Powerhouse Growing interest in digital assets highlights strong consumer appetite for crypto-driven holiday spending and gifting behaviors today. Payments giant
Crypto’s next era is accelerating as powerhouse networks move to radically boost value capture, igniting surging bullish sentiment across ETH, UNI, and XRP with redesigned economics poised to reshape investor expectations. Value Capture Momentum Builds Across Major Tokens Bullish expectations are rising as investors reassess how major crypto networks may rebuild their economic structures. Bitwise
XRP is powering rising interest in native staking as its momentum accelerates across liquidity, tokenized settlement and institutional markets, setting the stage for broader yield-driven expansion and deepening its role in global financial infrastructure. XRP’s Expanding Use Cases Spark Native Staking Debate Growing momentum around XRP reflects its rising importance across modern crypto and institutional
Metrics reveal that, for the first time since March, the global count of crypto automated teller machines (ATMs) has contracted. Even with this recent pullback, roughly 1,480 crypto ATMs have still been added since the year began. 403 Crypto ATMs Vanished Since October According to data compiled by the crypto ATM tracker coinatmradar.com, the global
According to onchain data and social media reports, the crypto exchange Coinbase just shuffled nearly 800,000 BTC—roughly $69.5 billion worth—into fresh wallets. The company gave everyone a heads-up on Nov. 22, noting the platform would “undergo internal wallet migrations.” Coinbase Just Moved 4% of All Bitcoin in Circulation Coinbase opted to move about 4.01% of
Ethereum is hovering at $2,818 this Sunday, but the quieter spot price action is wildly out of sync with what’s happening under the hood. Derivatives traders are loading up, shifting size across venues, and positioning ahead of a dense cluster of expiries that could force ethereum out of its holding pattern sooner rather than later.
According to a myriad of reports, Aerodrome Finance and Velodrome Finance spent Saturday putting out fires after a DNS hijack quietly rerouted users to phishing sites. Aerodrome–Velodrome Front Ends Compromised The Base and Optimism platforms woke up on Nov. 22 to find their front ends hijacked, sending unsuspecting users straight into malicious look-alikes designed to
Key Takeaways DHS is probing Bitmain rigs for hidden remote-access risks linked to China. Large deployments near sensitive U.S. sites triggered the investigation. Potential import violations and restrictions could hit U.S. Bitcoin miners hard. The United States is investigating Bitmain, a Chinese company that makes most of the world’s Bitcoin mining machines. According to a
While China’s holdings of U.S. Treasuries ticked up slightly in August and September, the broader outlook for 2025 remains unchanged. China continues a steady retreat from U.S. debt instruments amid concerns about its growth. China’s U.S. Treasury Figures Hold Steady, Overall ‘Derisking’ Policy Continues The Facts The figures of U.S. Treasuries held by China have
UK authorities have stepped up efforts to dismantle crypto-linked money laundering networks, warning that cash couriers are a vital link between illicit cash and digital assets. Cash Couriers Bridge Physical and Digital Crime United Kingdom (UK) authorities have intensified efforts to disrupt crypto-linked money laundering networks, warning that cash couriers remain a critical link in