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For months, big-name crypto boosters promised an “unbelievable” fourth quarter (Q4) — and they weren’t wrong, just not in the way they intended. Bitcoin, the industry’s top digital asset, has performed poorly since Q4 began. It hit a six-month low over the weekend as liquidity thinned across global markets. The coin dropped to the 92,970 range on Sunday and has since hovered around 94,900 at last check on Nov. 17. Summary Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana have all fallen sharply since Q4 began, with BTC down over 10% and ETH over 11%, defying typical seasonal gains. Crypto boosters forecasted massive rallies,…

Key takeaways:Brazil’s moves are corporate and municipal, not sovereign.B3’s spot ETFs and resized 0.01-BTC futures let treasurers gain, size and hedge exposure using familiar tools.New VASP standards (licensing, AML/CFT, governance, security), effective February 2026, reduce operational uncertainty.Key sequence: Write rules → list plain-vanilla access products → add hedging tools → enforce disclosure.What’s actually happening in Brazil?To be clear, Brazil’s National Treasury and central bank are not adding Bitcoin to the country’s sovereign reserves. There is also no law requiring government bodies or state-owned firms to hold Bitcoin (BTC).What is happening instead is a patchwork of city initiatives, listed companies and…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum’s price continues to witness heightened volatility due to the bearish conditions of the broader cryptocurrency market, causing the altcoin’s value to drop to the $3,000 mark, a level not seen in months. While ETH’s price has fallen sharply, the network’s real economy has displayed significant growth faster than ETH’s market value. ETH Market Slow, But Real Economy Is Expanding The growth of Ethereum’s on-chain economy is significantly faster than the movement of its native asset price. Overall, the Ethereum network has quietly entered a phase of…

Investment bank UBS has entered a strategic partnership with financial technology company Ant International to explore tokenized deposits for real-time cross-border payments and global liquidity management, marking a notable expansion of the Swiss bank’s blockchain-based digital cash platform. The two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Singapore, anchoring the deal in one of the most active hubs for institutional blockchain experimentation. The move positions tokenized bank money as a potential replacement for traditional treasury settlement rails, which are still defined by cut-offs, fragmentation and multicurrency delays. Ant International, which oversees operations within the broader Alipay+ ecosystem, announced that it will utilize…

Bitcoin’s total circulating supply has just crossed 95% of its 21 million hard supply cap — a massive milestone baked in nearly 17 years ago when creator Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block on Jan. 3, 2009.With 19.95 million Bitcoin now in circulation, this leaves just 2.05 million Bitcoin to be mined. The question is, what does this mean for the future of Bitcoin and its price? Speaking to Cointelegraph, Thomas Perfumo, a global economist at crypto exchange Kraken, said it’s an important milestone in the Bitcoin narrative, because annual supply inflation is currently around 0.8% per annum, and hard money…

Crypto executives speculate that outflows from crypto exchange-traded funds, long-term whale sales and escalating geopolitical tensions may be to blame for the recent market slump, as Bitcoin dropped to nearly $93,000 on Sunday.Bitcoin (BTC) briefly fell to a year-to-date low of $93,029 on Sunday. The overall market capitalization has also seen a pullback in the last seven days, from $3.7 trillion on Nov. 11 to $3.2 trillion on Monday, according to CoinGecko.Speaking to Cointelegraph, Ryan McMillin, chief investment officer of Australian crypto investment manager Merkle Tree Capital, said it’s not one single shock that’s causing the market slump. The crypto…

Summary Tom Lee claims Ethereum is following in Bitcoin’s footsteps, warning of steep corrections but vast upside. Detractors ask what sets Ether apart from hundreds of rival coins and question its real-world utility for traditional finance. Future growth depends on stronger on-chain activity, Layer 2 innovation, and expanded institutional adoption. Ethereum (ETH) is “entering the same supercycle” that once powered Bitcoin to astronomical gains, says Tom Lee, executive chairman of BitMine Immersion Technologies and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors. Lee likens the current Ether rally to Bitcoin’s 100x return between 2017 and today, but cautions that volatility —…

The majority of institutional Bitcoin investors don’t seem to know or care about the Bitcoin Core vs Knots debate that has been raging on for the past few months, according to Galaxy Digital’s head of research, Alex Thorn.The debate centers on arguments about what Bitcoin (BTC) should be used for and whether non-financial transactions should be excluded, and has been sparked by the recent Bitcoin Core v30 update, which some have argued opens up the “floodgate” to spam. Supporters of Knots nodes said this type of “spam” should be filtered out, as it could open the door for bad actors to…

More crypto projects should consider using a blockchain-based equivalent to airline miles to grow their user base and power their economies, according to executives from venture capital firm a16z.In a report published on Thursday, a16z stated that one of crypto’s most underappreciated token types is called “arcade tokens.” These tokens maintain a relatively stable value within a specific software or product ecosystem, similar to airline miles rewards, credit card points or in-game currencies. They enable users to perform specific functions within that ecosystem, rather than being held for speculation. “Though arcade tokens aren’t for every use case, they represent a critical building…

Gold investor Peter Schiff called Strategy’s business model, which hatched the biggest Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company in the world, a “fraud” on Sunday and challenged the company’s founder, Michael Saylor, to a debate. Schiff, who is one of crypto and Bitcoin’s harshest critics and a staunch gold advocate, challenged Saylor to a debate at Binance Blockchain Week in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), in December. In a separate X post, Schiff argued:“MSTR’s business model relies on income-oriented funds buying its ‘high-yield’ preferred shares. But those published yields will never actually be paid. Once fund managers realize this, they’ll dump the preferreds.”…