🪙 Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade targets improved MEV fairness

🔵 The upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, set for early 2026, aims to introduce protocol changes intended to reduce unfair MEV extraction advantages by restructuring how block building and transaction inclusion are handled at the protocol level.

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📊 NFT sales rise 12% to $67.7M, led by a spike in Ethereum activity

🟢 The non-fungible token market saw a 12% increase in sales volume, reaching approximately $67.7 million, with notable growth driven by activity on the Ethereum blockchain.

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🪙 Analyst: Selling Bitcoin for gold is “not so fast”

🌀 Bitcoin analyst Matthew Kratter argues that selling BTC to buy gold simply because gold’s price has surged may be premature. He highlights Bitcoin’s structural advantages—scarcity, digital transferability, and monetary characteristics—that could make it a better long-term store of value compared to gold.

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🍉 **Yalda Night… the longest night, but never longer than our hope!
With light, unity, and strength, a new chapter of movement begins…
Happy Yalda Night to the great **CryptoLand family 🍉

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☄️ Crypto industry voices support as Senator Cynthia Lummis announces retirement

🔵 U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis, a prominent pro-crypto lawmaker, has announced she won’t seek reelection and will retire in early 2027, prompting praise and support from crypto industry stakeholders for her role in advancing digital asset legislation.

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👉 U.S. lawmakers propose tax breaks for small stablecoin transactions and staking rewards

✔️ A bipartisan draft in the U.S. House of Representatives aims to exempt small stablecoin transactions from capital gains tax and allow deferral of taxes on staking and mining rewards until assets are sold, addressing long-standing crypto tax clarity issues.

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🇧🇷 Brazil’s crypto activity grows ~43% with rising average investment

🔘 Data shows that cryptocurrency market activity in Brazil expanded by around 43% in 2025, driven by increased transaction volumes and investor engagement, particularly through stablecoin usage and fiat-to-crypto on-ramps.

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🪙 Bitcoin demand contracts in Q4 2025

🟠 On-chain data from CryptoQuant shows Bitcoin demand from early October has fallen below long-term trends, signaling weaker inflows and potential downward price pressure in Q4 2025.

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☄️ Klarna partners with Coinbase to raise institutional funding in USDC

🔵 Swedish fintech Klarna has teamed up with Coinbase to tap institutional investors for USDC-denominated funding, expanding its capital base beyond traditional sources.

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👉 Vitalik Buterin says decentralized prediction markets are healthier info tools

✅ Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin argued that decentralized prediction markets can provide more accountable, accurate insights than social media and may be structurally healthier than traditional financial markets due to their bounded pricing and real-stake mechanisms.

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🔘 Maple Finance CEO says “DeFi is dead,” on-chain markets will swallow Wall Street

🔵 The CEO of Maple Finance stated that traditional decentralized finance as it exists today is no longer effective and that next-generation on-chain markets will replace legacy Wall Street structures, reflecting a bold long-term vision for blockchain-based financial systems.

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🕯 85% of new crypto tokens in 2025 trading below their TGE prices

🟠 A large majority of newly launched crypto tokens in 2025 are currently trading below their initial Token Generation Event (TGE) prices, indicating broad downward pressure on post-launch valuations.

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🪙 Galaxy Digital’s head of research says Bitcoin’s outlook is highly uncertain in 2026

🟠 The head of research at Galaxy Digital explained that Bitcoin’s price outlook for 2026 remains uncertain due to shifting global monetary policy, ambiguous institutional ETF flows, and macroeconomic indicators that have yet to provide a clear directional signal.

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🏦 Fed seeks input on limited payment accounts for fintech and crypto firms

🚫 The U.S. Federal Reserve is seeking public feedback on a proposal to create capped “payment accounts” that would grant certain fintech and crypto-related firms access to the Fed’s payment rails for clearing and settlement, without full master account privileges.

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☄️ Top 7 token unlocks this week total $56.56M, led by $H at $18.71M

🔵 This week’s largest token unlocks across the top seven projects amount to $56.56 million, with $H accounting for the biggest single unlock at $18.71 million, potentially increasing short-term supply pressure.

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🪙 XRP weakens after repeated price-action failures near $1.95

🟠 XRP’s price lost momentum and slid below key support after multiple unsuccessful attempts to hold above the ~$1.95 area, indicating seller dominance in the short term.

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🔶 Binance opens up new ways for users to generate income using ETH options

🟢 Binance has introduced new features enabling users to generate income through Ethereum options, broadening access to derivatives strategies previously limited to more advanced traders.

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🪙 Bitcoin bulls face bullish neutrality as short positions build upside pressure

💢 Bitcoin is trading in a broadly neutral range, but elevated short positioning is creating latent upside risk. If price pushes higher, forced short covering could accelerate gains through a short-squeeze dynamic, even without a strong trend shift.

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🪙 Bullish Bitcoin plays on Bitfinex swell to highest since early 2024

🟠 Data from crypto markets indicates that bullish positioning in Bitcoin derivatives on Bitfinex has risen to its highest level since early 2024, suggesting stronger long bias among leveraged traders.

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🕯 Boxing Day bonanza: $27 billion in Bitcoin and Ether options set for year-end reset

🚫 Bitcoin and Ether options markets show roughly $27 billion in open interest ahead of the annual year-end reset, indicating elevated participation and potential volatility as trades roll or settle.

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🔘 Hong Kong proposes new rules to tap insurance capital into cryptocurrencies.

🟢 Hong Kong authorities have put forward a regulatory proposal aimed at enabling insurance companies to allocate capital into cryptocurrency and digital asset markets by establishing clearer legal frameworks and investment guidelines.

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