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Representatives of the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), a nonprofit Bitcoin advocacy organization, warned that US lawmakers have not included a de minimis tax exemption for Bitcoin transactions below a certain threshold.“De Minimis tax legislation may be limited to only stablecoins, leaving everyday Bitcoin transactions without an exemption,” Conner Brown, BPI’s head of strategy, said on X, adding that the decision to exclude Bitcoin (BTC) is a “severe mistake.”In July, Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis introduced a bill proposing a de minimis tax exemption for crypto transactions of $300 or less, with a $5,000 annual limit on tax-free transactions and sales. The…

Ethereum’s (ETH) recent pullback is starting to reflect more than short-term price volatility. As ETH trades below the $3,000 mark, a combination of heavy liquidations, declining network activity, and sustained institutional outflows is reinforcing concerns about weakening demand. Related Reading While prices have so far held above key support levels, multiple indicators suggest that selling pressure remains firmly in place, leaving the market in a cautious holding pattern. Over the past week, Ethereum has fallen roughly 12%, underperforming several major assets during a broader market correction. The drop pushed ETH briefly toward the $2,850–$2,900 zone, triggering over $200 million in…

A US court is once again being asked to weigh in on maximal extractable value practices after a judge allowed new evidence to be added to a class-action lawsuit tied to a memecoin platform.The judge granted a motion to amend and refile to include new evidence a class-action lawsuit against memecoin launch platform Pump.fun, the maximal extractable value (MEV) infrastructure company Jito Labs, the Solana Foundation, which is the nonprofit organization behind the Solana ecosystem, and others.The motion said over 5,000 pieces of evidence in the form of internal chat logs were submitted by a “confidential informant” in September that…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure In the midst of the waning action of the Ethereum price, investor sentiment, especially those on centralized exchanges, appears to be holding remarkably strong. Despite experiencing a pullback, causing ETH to lose the $3,000 price mark, the overall supply of the altcoin on cryptocurrency exchanges has fallen sharply, reaching a new multi-year low. Exchange-Held Ethereum Hits New Low Ethereum is becoming less prevalent on centralized exchanges at a rate that is difficult to ignore, indicating a significant change in the way investors are placing themselves. A CryptoQuant…

A cryptocurrency analyst has explained where Ethereum could go next based on a long-term Parallel Channel forming in its monthly price chart. Ethereum Has Been Trading Inside A Parallel Channel For The Last Few Years In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has talked about a long-term pattern that Ethereum has appeared to have been following for the last few years. The pattern in question is a “Parallel Channel” from technical analysis (TA), which forms whenever an asset’s price trades between two parallel trendlines. The upper level of a Parallel Channel is likely to facilitate top formations in…

Kraken-backed tokenized securities platform xStocks is launching on TON Wallet, a self-custodial wallet on the Telegram messenger.Following an initial rollout on Wallet in Telegram, xStocks is now live on TON Wallet, marking the offering’s official launch on Telegram-linked blockchain, The Open Network (TON), Kraken announced Thursday.“Launching xStocks on TON brings tokenized equities onto truly open infrastructure,” Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi said in the announcement, adding that the launch marks the first time for Telegram users to access tokenized US equities onchain.The initial rollout will include 10 tokenized stocks, including Apple (AAPLx), Amazon (AMZNx), Coinbase (COINX), Google (GOOGLx) and Strategy (MSTRx),…

RWAio says fragmented tokenized RWA markets waste up to $1.3B yearly in fees and price gaps as assets spread across chains like Ethereum and Polygon. Summary RWAio estimates fragmentation costs tokenized RWA markets $600M–$1.3B yearly via fees, slippage, and price gaps.​ Identical RWAs trade 1%–3% apart across chains and cost 2%–5% to bridge, hurting investor returns.​ Ethereum holds 52% of tokenized RWAs while Polygon leads bonds with 62%, underscoring multi-chain operational friction. Fragmentation across blockchain networks is costing the tokenized real-world asset market between $600 million and $1.3 billion annually, according to research released by data analytics platform RWAio. The…

Crypto hackers focused on large crypto entities and personal crypto wallets this year, resulting in $3.4 billion in crypto losses in 2025 — the highest figure since 2022. Just three hacks in 2025, led by the $1.4 billion hack of crypto exchange Bybit, accounted for 69% of all losses from January through to early December, a Chainalysis report released on Thursday found, with the largest attacks a thousand times larger than the typical incident. Andrew Fierman, the head of national security intelligence at Chainalysis, told Cointelegraph that while massive attacks drove this year’s uptick in losses, it’s unclear if 2026 will…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Trading and Markets Division on Wednesday laid out how broker-dealers can custody tokenized stocks and bonds under existing customer protection rules, signaling that blockchain-based crypto asset securities will be slotted into traditional securities safeguards rather than treated as a new category.The division said it would not object to broker-dealers deeming themselves in possession of crypto asset securities under existing customer protection rules, as long as they meet a set of operational, security and governance conditions. This applies only to crypto securities, including tokenized stocks or bonds.While the statement is not a rule, it provides…

Transaction throughput on the Ethereum network is set to be boosted again next month, with developers aiming to increase Ethereum’s gas limit from 60 million to 80 million in January. Christine Kim, vice president of the research team at Galaxy Digital, shared a summary of the All Core Developers meeting on Monday, in which Nethermind representatives said developers should be ready to move forward with a gas limit increase after the next BPO hard fork on Jan. 7.Ethereum Foundation developer operations engineer Barnabas Busa, however, noted that two client-level optimizations are needed before another increase in the block gas limit…