Bitcoin Magazine Tether Leads $8 Million Investment in Lightning-Powered Payments Startup Speed Tether, the issuer of the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, announced a strategic investment

From the Atlanta Fed: The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2025 is 3.5 percent

Bitcoin Magazine Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin Treasury Strategy Now Accounts for 3.2% of BTC Supply Over the last two months, the broader bitcoin market has bled

Bitcoin Magazine MetaMask Launches Native Bitcoin Integration for 30 Million Active Users Metamask, the popular Ethereum and DeFi wallet, announces Bitcoin integration as the company

I wrote about Comcast yesterday as it was one of the top-10 picks from Barron’s for 2026. It looks like the market is taking a

Bitcoin Magazine Bitwise Says Bitcoin’s Four-Year Cycle Is Dead, Predicts Bitcoin New Highs in 2026 Asset manager Bitwise released a new report that argues that

Consumer confidence jumps to 96.5 from 90.9 in Q3. That’s a good sign for spending in New Zealand and highlights upside risks to rates and

US November non-farm payrolls +64K vs +50K expected US Retail sales for October rises by 0.0% versus 0.1% estimate S&P Global flash manufacturing PMI December

Japanese data is the focus of the calendar. The trade and machine orders info we’ll get today are not top-tier data, but its all goes

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Trades Near $87,000 as Market Slips Into ‘Extreme Fear’ Bitcoin price hovered above $87,000 today as market sentiment and the Crypto

New Zealand’s current account position deteriorated sharply in the September quarter, with the headline deficit blowing out to NZ$8.37bn, far wider than market expectations and

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett has emerged as a leading contender to replace Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell when his term ends in May,

Via Reuters comes the report that import volumes at the Port of Los Angeles, the busiest seaport in the United States, fell sharply in November

Japanese trade and capex-indicative data (machine orders data are a leading indicator of capital spending in the coming six to nine months, although its a

The number of crypto exchange-traded products is going to “accelerate forward at ridiculous speed” in 2026, according to Bitwise researcher Ryan Rasmussen.

Speed, which leverages the Bitcoin Lightning Network to facilitate USDT transfers, has secured $8 million from Tether and Ego Death Capital.

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as this week that would accelerate the reclassification of cannabis under federal

Aave’s 2026 plan focuses on scaling via v4’s Hub and Spoke architecture, $1 billion in real-world assets, and growing its new mobile app. 

Bitcoin Magazine Celebrating One Year of Hashrate Redirect™: How Abundant Mines Redefined Uptime and Protected Millions in Client Bitcoin Rewards Hood River County, Oregon –

Today’s Japanese trade and investment data are reinforcing expectations that the Bank of Japan is poised to deliver a 25 basis point rate hike this

The US government wants 1,000 tech workers to boost its capabilities and has turned to the private sector to plug its skill shortages.

Exodus partnered with MoonPay to launch a USD-backed stablecoin for everyday payments, integrating it into Exodus Pay for self-custodial transactions.

Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) delivered a stronger-than-expected performance in November, reinforcing signs that the city-state’s trade cycle remains firmly in recovery mode as global

Newly proposed legislation could see the US Treasury, FinCEN, the Secret Service, and law enforcement coordinate to catch crypto scammers and fraudsters.

Reserve Bank of India FX intervention to support the rupee Singapore central bank (MAS) survey shows stronger 2025 growth, policy seen on hold Singapore exports

CIBC notes that the non-farm payrolls release yesterday reflected further softness in US labour market conditions. Adding that while payrolls gained by 64k in November,

Lightning Network’s capacity reached an all-time high as exchanges increased adoption, while a new Taproot Assets update has enabled multi-asset transactions.

While it may be possible for a public company to catch up to Michael Saylor’s Strategy Bitcoin holdings, it is probably unlikely, Bitcoin entrepreneur Anthony

A lot of anticipation is riding on the BOJ this week with the Japanese central bank set to deliver one of, if not the last

Japan must raise neutral rate of interest via fiscal policy, growth strategy If Japan’s neutral rate rises as a result of fiscal policy, it would

It’s estimated that Bhutan has around 11,286 Bitcoin in total, a stash worth over $986 million, making it the fifth-largest known holder among countries.

Quantitative Bitcoin and digital asset fund Capriole says the price of Bitcoin could plummet if the network doesn’t develop resistance to quantum computing.

Morgan Stanley estimates that UK headline annual CPI will come in at 3.4% in November, with the core annual reading being at 3.3%. That’s slightly

Prior +3.6% Core CPI +3.2% vs +3.4% y/y expected Prior +3.4% That is an unexpected miss, especially on the core estimate which is the lowest

EUROPEAN SESSION: In the European session, the main highlight was the UK CPI report. The data surprised to the downside across the board weighing on

Screenshots of an email shared online purportedly show founder Yida Gao stepping down as managing director of Shima Capital and outlining plans for an orderly

That figure is 10.4% higher year-on-year, with visitors from China even showing a marginal growth of 3% in November. For some context, the year-to-date visitor

HashKey debuted on Hong Kong’s HKEX following a $206 million oversubscribed IPO, with the stock seeing notable volatility on its first day of trading.

Prior 88.1; revised to 88.0 Current conditions index 85.6 vs 85.8 expected Prior 85.6 Expectations index 89.7 vs 90.5 expected Prior 90.6; revised to 90.5

The proposal seeks a binding social consensus that the funds will never be accessed through future protocol upgrades.

KuCoin is using a freshly minted MiCA license to wire crypto payments and perks into Tomorrowland’s flagship festivals.

Bitcoin buying power from institutions flipped the daily mined BTC supply for the first time since the start of November, new data showed.

Prior +2.1% Core CPI +2.4% vs +2.4% y/y prelim Prior +2.4% The important point of the release is that core annual inflation is seen steady

As crypto platforms explore prediction market integrations, retention data highlights why sustaining user engagement remains one of the industry’s most challenging tasks.

A whale moved 4,000 Bitcoin to Binance, sparking fresh fears of a deeper BTC price drop if the $81,500 support level is lost.

A new report warned that the Central African Republic’s crypto push favored elites and exposed the country to foreign criminal networks, rather than boosting financial

Solana has partnered with a security company to test quantum-resistant technology on a Solana testnet, claiming to offer a scalable end-to-end solution.

Headlines: UK November CPI +3.2% v +3.5% y/y expected British Pound drops across the board as UK inflation surprises to the downside GBP/USD on the

A new Coinbase–Ipsos survey shows younger US investors are trading more often, taking more risk and putting a far larger share of their portfolios into

The SEC gave DTCC the green light to launch a tokenization service last week, and the company will be starting by minting US Treasurys on

The 15-year agreement anchors Hut 8’s shift toward long-duration AI infrastructure revenue as hyperscalers seek power-first compute capacity.

Binance warned users to avoid token listing agents and offered as much as $5 million to whistleblowers who report listing fraud.

The SEC’s changing approach to crypto is supporting RWA growth, but jurisdictional and yield constraints continue to limit compliant models.

Fed Chair candidates are falling over themselves to explain how inflation really isn’t 2.8% y/y, as it was in the most-recent PCE report. They’re stripping

Uniform Labs’ Multiliquid aims to bridge the gap between tokenized funds and stablecoins, targeting liquidity constraints that have slowed institutional adoption.

SOL price traded 52% lower than its $255 highs reached on Sept. 18, as onchain data and a bearish pattern suggested that SOL investors risked

Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Miner Hut 8 Secures Google-Backed Deal to Build Up to 2.3 GW of AI Capacity Hut 8 Corp. announced a sweeping AI

Securitize plans to launch compliant, natively tokenized stocks in early 2026, enabling real equity ownership to trade 24/7 fully onchain.

The machine shown in this picture is probably the most-important one in the world. It’s from Dutch company ASML and it’s used to fabricate the

Bitcoin Magazine Bhutan Pledges Up to 10,000 Bitcoin to Build New Mega-City Bhutan has committed up to 10,000 bitcoin to support the long-term development of

Bitcoin ETFs, corporate treasuries, and macro tailwinds are challenging BTC’s traditional four-year cycle, which could result in new all-time highs in 2026.

YouTube has added an opt-in option allowing eligible US creators to receive payouts in PayPal’s dollar-backed stablecoin, PYUSD.