BTC plunged under $105,000, triggering a wave of liquidations as many altcoins hit new lows since October 11.
In the past 24 hours, over $1.19B in long positions were liquidated — including a $48M BTC/USDT long from a whale on HTX wiped out in a single order
The Fear & Greed Index has dropped to 21 — Extreme Fear.
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According to the old-school 4-year cycle theory (which many analysts now consider outdated and irrelevant), the bull market might already be over. This model suggests that after each halving the market follows a predictable pattern — and right now we’d supposedly be entering a prolonged correction phase.
However, many analysts argue that today’s market is driven by macro factors, institutional flows, and geopolitics, making the 4-year cycle far less reliable.
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🚀 OpenLedger has officially launched its mainnet, and the excitement surrounding the project is building in a very organic way. 🚀
⚡️ With its strong focus on AI, the platform is attracting attention from both everyday users and seasoned traders, creating a wave of natural momentum.
Since the announcement, $OPEN has been gaining steady traction across the community.
✔️Many are already beginning to wonder whether this surge could mark the early stages of a new all-time-high run.
🔥 The energy feels real, the interest is growing, and all eyes are now on what comes next for OpenLedger.
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⚡️ With its strong focus on AI, the platform is attracting attention from both everyday users and seasoned traders, creating a wave of natural momentum.
Since the announcement, $OPEN has been gaining steady traction across the community.
✔️Many are already beginning to wonder whether this surge could mark the early stages of a new all-time-high run.
🔥 The energy feels real, the interest is growing, and all eyes are now on what comes next for OpenLedger.
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In June 2025, only 0.007% of transactions on Binance were linked to illicit wallets — 2.5 times lower than the average across centralized exchanges (0.018%).
The company notes that the decline in unlawful activity strengthens user trust and supports broader adoption of cryptocurrencies.
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Crypto Dispensers, a Chicago-based crypto ATM operator, is exploring a potential $100 million sale after the U.S. Department of Justice accused the company of involvement in a $10 million money-laundering scheme.
The company and its CEO, Firas Isa, have pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Crypto Dispensers said it has hired advisors to review and assess the potential deal.
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The Zama Protocol is not a new Layer-1 (L1) or Layer-2 (L2), but rather a cross-chain confidentiality layer that sits on top of existing chains. As such, users do not need to bridge to a new chain and can interact with confidential dapps from wherever they choose.
The Protocol utilizes Zama’s state-of-the-art Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) technology, which enables computing directly on encrypted data. FHE has long been considered the "holy grail" of cryptography, as it allows for end-to-end encryption for any application, whether onchain or offchain.
Zama believes that just as the internet transitioned from zero encryption with HTTP to encrypting data in transit with HTTPS, the next natural step will be to use FHE to enable end-to-end encryption by default in every application—a concept they term HTTPZ.
Until recently, however, FHE was too slow, too limited in terms of the applications it could support, and too difficult for developers to use. This is the problem Zama's team has spent the last five years solving. They now possess a highly efficient FHE technology that can support any type of application, using common programming languages such as Solidity and Python, while being over 100 times faster than five years ago. Importantly, Zama’s FHE technology is already post-quantum, meaning there are no known quantum algorithms that can break it.
While FHE is the core technology used in the Zama Protocol, they also leverage Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZK) to address the shortcomings of other confidentiality solutions:
1. FHE: Enables confidentiality while remaining fully publicly verifiable (anyone can recompute the FHE operations and verify them). The use of GPUs will soon allow scaling to 100+ transactions per second, while dedicated hardware accelerators (FPGAs and ASICs) will enable scaling to thousands of transactions per second.
2. MPC: Enables the decentralization of the global network key, ensuring no single party can access it. Using MPC solely for key generation and data decryption for users minimizes latency and communication, thereby making it far more scalable and decentralized than using it for private computation.
3. ZK: Ensures that the encrypted inputs provided by users were actually encrypted correctly. Using ZK only for this specific purpose makes the ZK proofs lightweight and cheap to generate within a browser or mobile app.
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If momentum keeps building like this, the spotlight on $OPEN is only going to get brighter.
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A lawsuit has been filed in the U.S. against Binance and Changpeng Zhao by 306 victims of the October 7 attack and their families. They accuse the exchange of allowing more than $1 billion to move through accounts linked to Hamas, Hezbollah, and other groups.
The case includes accounts allegedly tied to militants, Gaza-based money exchanges, and laundering routes through Venezuela and Brazil.
The lawsuit comes shortly after Donald Trump pardoned CZ, clearing the way for Binance to re-enter the U.S. market.
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Fanatics, a sports merchandise maker, challenges Polymarket
Fanatics, a major player in sports apparel and fan gear, is launching a prediction market.
The platform will be fan-led through a partnership with Crypto com.
Fanatics Markets will let users trade contracts, placing bets on the outcomes of real-world events.
Fanatics, a major player in sports apparel and fan gear, is launching a prediction market.
The platform will be fan-led through a partnership with Crypto com.
Fanatics Markets will let users trade contracts, placing bets on the outcomes of real-world events.
Polygon has completed the Madhugiri hard fork and increased network speed by 33%
The update reduced consensus time to 1 second and boosted throughput by nearly one-third.
The network introduced the Fusaka EIP (7823, 7825, 7883), making heavy computations cheaper and safer, while preventing the network from being overloaded by a single “heavy” transaction.
A new transaction type for the Ethereum → Polygon bridge has been added, simplifying interaction between the networks.
The update reduced consensus time to 1 second and boosted throughput by nearly one-third.
The network introduced the Fusaka EIP (7823, 7825, 7883), making heavy computations cheaper and safer, while preventing the network from being overloaded by a single “heavy” transaction.
A new transaction type for the Ethereum → Polygon bridge has been added, simplifying interaction between the networks.
Pyth Network creates a PYTH reserve to support the ecosystem
The project is launching a reserve mechanism that involves purchasing PYTH tokens to strengthen the network’s value.
The initiative aims to increase ecosystem stability and investor confidence by linking the token’s price to growing adoption and revenues.
The project is launching a reserve mechanism that involves purchasing PYTH tokens to strengthen the network’s value.
The initiative aims to increase ecosystem stability and investor confidence by linking the token’s price to growing adoption and revenues.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said that the network’s architecture is too complex for ordinary users, forcing participants to rely on a narrow circle of developers.
According to him, the goal of Ethereum’s roadmap is to simplify interaction with the blockchain to the level of familiar web applications.
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With major partnerships like Cambridge and Chainbase, a public technical roadmap, and $OPEN up ~15% in the last 24 hours 📈, OpenLedger is hitting an inflection point .
Market momentum is building 🌊, and many are now watching to see if $OPEN can push toward the 0.30 range 💰
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A decline in mining activity could signal a bullish reversal for bitcoin, according to VanEck.
Analysts note that historically, bitcoin has more often delivered positive returns during such periods.
Bitcoin’s hashrate has fallen by 4% over the past month, marking the sharpest decline since April 2024.
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Pudgy Penguins hits the biggest ad screen in Las Vegas
NFT project Pudgy Penguins brought its characters to the Las Vegas Sphere — one of the world’s most famous and expensive media venues. The display is running throughout Christmas week.
The team reportedly spent around $500,000 on the campaign, focusing on animated characters and physical merch rather than directly promoting the NFTs or the token — partly due to restrictions on crypto advertising on such venues.
The project has been shifting toward a consumer brand: as NFT revenue cooled, the team expanded into toys, turning it into a separate revenue stream.
NFT project Pudgy Penguins brought its characters to the Las Vegas Sphere — one of the world’s most famous and expensive media venues. The display is running throughout Christmas week.
The team reportedly spent around $500,000 on the campaign, focusing on animated characters and physical merch rather than directly promoting the NFTs or the token — partly due to restrictions on crypto advertising on such venues.
The project has been shifting toward a consumer brand: as NFT revenue cooled, the team expanded into toys, turning it into a separate revenue stream.
One of the Big Tech companies will integrate a crypto wallet in 2026, according to a prediction by Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at crypto venture fund Dragonfly.
He is also confident that more Fortune 100 companies will begin launching their own blockchains.
Some major financial players have already built private blockchains, including JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and IBM.
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Launch of the updated Trust Wallet Chrome extension has been delayed again
Following the Trust Wallet hack, the team prepared an updated Chrome version, but the release is being delayed: according to the CEO, the extension is temporarily unavailable on the Chrome Web Store due to a technical issue on Google’s side.
🛠 The update was expected to add tools for affected users, including case checks and submitting compensation claims for losses estimated at around $7 million.
Trust Wallet warns of a higher risk of fake apps on the Chrome Web Store during the pause.
Following the Trust Wallet hack, the team prepared an updated Chrome version, but the release is being delayed: according to the CEO, the extension is temporarily unavailable on the Chrome Web Store due to a technical issue on Google’s side.
🛠 The update was expected to add tools for affected users, including case checks and submitting compensation claims for losses estimated at around $7 million.
Trust Wallet warns of a higher risk of fake apps on the Chrome Web Store during the pause.
On January 3, 2009, the Bitcoin genesis block was created, for which Satoshi Nakamoto received the first 50 BTC.
Soon after, he stepped away from the project, leaving the network’s development to a decentralized community — the very force that transformed Bitcoin from an idea into a global financial phenomenon.
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