Key takeaways Texas became the first US state to add Bitcoin exposure to a state-managed investment portfolio by purchasing about $5 million of BlackRock’s IBIT ETF through its newly created Texas Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. SB 21 shifted Texas from a crypto mining hub to an active digital asset investor. The bill authorizes the state comptroller…
Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), extended its downturn into December after falling roughly 30% over the past three months, raising worries about how much further the sell-off could run by year’s end. Key takeaways: ETH could slide toward $2,500–$2,200 if MVRV support and the pennant break down. A potential falling wedge breakout keeps bulls’ hopes…
Ethereum’s upcoming Fusaka upgrade on Wednesday is being framed as just another scaling step, but it marks a shift in how the network ships change. Instead of massive, multi‑year overhauls, Fusaka is the first proof that Ethereum can deliver focused, high‑impact upgrades in something closer to six months. At the center of Fusaka is Ethereum…
RedotPay has teamed up with Ripple to launch “Send Crypto, Receive NGN,” a new feature that lets users convert digital assets into Nigerian naira and receive the funds in local bank accounts within minutes. The service is built on Ripple Payments and supports a basket of major tokens at launch, including USDC (USDC), USDt (USDT),…
Digital asset treasuries (DATs) experienced their slowest month of 2025 in November as the corporate treasury boom slowed. Data aggregator DefiLlama data showed that in November, DATs saw only $1.32 billion in inflows, the sector’s lowest monthly inflows this year. This represented a 34% decline from October’s $1.99 billion and an 88% decrease from September’s…
BitMine Immersion Technologies has acquired another 23,773 Ether over the past three days amid the current market slump, as its chairman pushed back his prediction on Bitcoin’s all-time high. According to an X post by the crypto data analytics platform Lookonchain, Bitmine purchased 7,080 Ether (ETH) for approximately $19.8 million on Monday. Source: Lookonchain The…
Another Ethereum whale has just woken from dormancy after a decade of silence — but rather than sell, the whale has deployed its entire stash into staking. The Ether (ETH) wallet holds 40,000 tokens, which the holder paid around $12,000 for during Ethereum’s genesis block launch in July 2015, according to blockchain data platform Lookonchain….
Ethereum researchers are working on ways to deploy a protocol they first introduced earlier this year, which could supercharge privacy with zero-knowledge proofs. Ethereum developer Artem Chystiakov shared his research on the Ethereum community forum on Monday, titled “Zero Knowledge Secret Santa (ZKSS),” which proposes a three-step “Secret Santa” algorithm. The paper was first introduced…
Key points: Bitcoin is facing significant selling at the start of the new week, with some analysts expecting a drop as low as $50,000. Several altcoins turned down from their overhead resistance and are threatening to dip below their support levels. Bitcoin (BTC) began December on a weak note, signaling that the bears are not…
Trading activity in Ether futures has surpassed that of Bitcoin on the Chicago-based CME Group, marking a notable shift in the digital asset derivatives market and fueling speculation that Ether may be entering a long-anticipated “super-cycle” — a sustained, multi-year period of accelerated growth driven by rising adoption. In a recent CME video, Priyanka Jain,…