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AMLBot data shows USDT issuer Tether’s freezes were roughly 30 times larger than USDC by value and address count. A new on-chain study published by the AMLBot team shows that Tether has frozen more than $3.29 billion in USDT across the Ethereum and Tron blockchains between 2023 and 2025, blacklisting 7,268 addresses in the process. The findings highlighted a sharp contrast with Circle’s USDC, which froze $109 million across just 372 addresses during the same period, pointing to two very different enforcement philosophies shaping the stablecoin market. Two Distinct Paths for Stablecoin Policing AMLBot’s data, shared this month alongside an…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has claimed Bitcoin provides healthy competition for the US dollar, which in turn pressures policymakers to maintain fiscal discipline and helps preserve the US dollar’s dominance.“[Bitcoin] provides a check and balance on the dollar in the sense of if there’s too much deficit spending or inflation in the US, people will flee to Bitcoin in times of uncertainty,” Armstrong argued in an interview on Tetragrammation with Rick Rubin on Thursday.“It might be okay to have 2-3% inflation if the economy is growing at 2-3% but if inflation outstrips the growth of the economy, you’ll eventually lose…

People have been debating the meaning of the term “indie game” for years. What is an indie game? On paper, Hades 2 and Hollow Knight Silksong are both indie games, as they’re games self-published by developers that are not connected to a larger publisher.But they’re also both huge sequels to huge games—essentially guaranteed success, to some degree, unless things go spectacularly wrong. (They didn’t.) Compare that to something like Blue Prince, an original puzzle game that barely anyone had heard of before it hit storefronts this spring.There are other games that seem to better fit the indie designation, like Clair…

A widening gap between VC pricing and public market caps signals a reset after narrative-driven optimism cooled. Crypto venture capital firms poured billions into early-stage tokens during 2025’s risk-on rebound, but many of those bets are now trading far below their headline fundraising values. The growing gap between private funding numbers and public market caps highlights a market reset after narrative-driven optimism cooled. Data recently shared by CryptoRank shows dozens of well-funded projects losing hundreds of millions, and in some cases nearly all, of their implied value once tokens reached open markets, raising fresh questions about pricing discipline during bull…

Ethereum developers earlier this month agreed on the name and rough timing of the network’s second major upgrade scheduled for 2026, settling on “Hegota” as the next milestone in the blockchain’s development roadmap.Hegota will follow “Glamsterdam,” Ethereum’s next major upgrade, which is currently expected to roll out in the first half of 2026. That sequencing places Hegota tentatively in the second half of the year, continuing a faster cadence of protocol upgrades than Ethereum has historically maintained.The decision reflects a relatively new approach to Ethereum development, with core contributors aiming to ship network changes more frequently rather than bundling large…

The Solana price is down about 12% over the past 30 days. As 2026 approaches, the chart shows a mix of bullish and bearish signals.Some indicators suggest a bounce in January, but others indicate that pressure could persist if momentum fails to materialize.History Leans Bullish, But ETF Flows And Expert Views SplitJanuary has been a strong month for Solana. The average return sits near 59%, with median gains around 22%. The pattern sharpens when December ends red. Sponsored SponsoredIn 2022, SOL fell 29.6% in December, and in January 2023, SOL rallied 140%. In December 2024, SOL dropped 20.5%, and in…

The prediction market’s volumes accelerated over the past seven days to overtake its main rival. Prediction marketplace Kalshi saw its spot volumes hit a new record for the week ending on Dec. 21, notably surpassing its main rival Polymarket’s activity.Kalshi vs. Polymarket weekly spot volume in the past 3 months. Source: ArtemisAccording to Artemis data, Kalshi saw $2.3 billion trading volume last week, roughly 92% higher than Polymarket’s $1.2  billion for the same period. This was also the first time Kalshi’s weekly volume exceeded the $2 billion mark.For Kalshi, the surge in activity coincided with the platform’s integration of the TRON…

Dogecoin edged down to $0.123 while Shiba Inu slipped to $0.000007165, with both tokens failing to sustain rebounds during U.S. hours as bitcoin’s attempted bounce faded and ether stayed heavy — a setup that kept meme coins pinned to technical levels rather than narrative catalysts.News backgroundMeme coins continued to trade like high-beta proxies for broader risk appetite as large-cap crypto remained choppy into year-end. Bitcoin’s rebound attempts haven’t shown consistent follow-through during U.S. hours, and that lack of momentum has kept speculative corners of the market under pressure.Ether’s muted tape has also mattered. With ETH struggling to regain traction, flows…

Bitcoin is holding steady within a descending range, showing little directional conviction, while several altcoins are quietly building strength. As the market consolidates, these smaller assets could hint at early upside moves before BTC breaks out. Key Resistance In Focus: $90,588 And The Descending Trendline According to a recent update by Kamile Uray, there are no changes in the key levels being tracked on the daily chart, as the focus remains on the $90,588 level and the descending blue trendline. Unless BTC can close above these levels, the current decline may continue. Any upward moves below the blue descending trend…

Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis, a pro-crypto United States lawmaker, said the recent proposal from Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller to give crypto companies access to “skinny” master accounts would end debanking under Operation Chokepoint 2.0.Waller proposed the idea at the Payments Innovation Conference in October, allowing crypto and fintech startups, including payment-only banks, access to accounts at the Federal Reserve similar to the “master accounts” used by banks, but with restrictions. Lummis said:“Governor Waller’s skinny master account framework ends Operation Chokepoint 2.0 and opens the door to real payments innovation. Faster payments, lower costs, better security — this is how…