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A fake Zoom “update” is all it takes for hackers to seize crypto funds, cloud credentials, and entire Telegram accounts. Cybersecurity firm, Security Alliance (SEAL), said it is tracking multiple daily attempts by North Korean-linked threat actors using so-called “fake Zoom” or “fake Teams” meetings to distribute malware and expand access to new victims. The non-profit reshared a detailed warning from security researcher Taylor Monahan outlining how the attacks unfold and the scale of losses involved. Fake Zoom Calls, Real Losses Monahan said the campaign begins with a message from a compromised Telegram account belonging to someone the victim already…

Regulators at the US Securities and Exchange Commission met with cryptocurrency industry leaders on Monday to discuss financial surveillance and user privacy, as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to shape digital asset oversight.In opening remarks at the roundtable, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, who also heads the agency’s crypto task force, joined Chair Paul Atkins and Commissioner Mark Uyeda in outlining how regulators could balance investor protection with privacy considerations as blockchain-based financial activity expands.Atkins said crypto had the potential to become “the most powerful financial surveillance architecture ever invented,” depending on how the US government handled regulation. He cited…

Ethereum emerged as the most connected asset, showing strong alignment with Cardano, Solana, and Dogecoin. Analytics platform DefiLlama has reported an elevated degree of price synchronization among leading cryptocurrencies. Over the past week, several major trading pairs showed correlation coefficients above 0.9, with Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL) moving almost perfectly in sync at 0.99, suggesting a market in unison, with broad sentiment overriding individual asset stories. Correlation Spike Highlights Bitcoin’s Grip on the Market DefiLlama described the correlations between the largest tokens as being “unusually high” over the past week, a period marked by weak momentum across the market…

Pain for crypto bulls persisted on Monday as bitcoin BTC$89,629.86 remained sharply lower during U.S. afternoon trading amid growing investor uncertainty surrounding the macroeconomic outlook.Just after the close of U.S. stock trading, bitcoin was lower by 3% over the past 24 hours to $86,000. XRP$1.8981, ether ETH$2,965.53 and solana SOL$127.18 all fell more than 5%. Most crypto stocks showed deeper losses, with Circle (CRCL), Galaxy Digital (GLXY) and Strategy (MSTR) falling more than 8% and Coinbase (COIN) shedding 6.4% on Monday. Meanwhile, some stocks fared relatively better amid the carnage, including Bullish (BLSH), which saw a 2.5% loss, and eToro…

Nasdaq is looking to enable nearly round-the-clock trading, aiming to match the increasingly global nature of financial markets and investor behavior, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Under the proposal, Nasdaq would expand trading hours for stocks and exchange-traded products (ETPs) from 16 hours to 23 hours per day, five days a week. The new schedule would include a day session from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET, followed by a one-hour break, and then a night session running from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. ET the following day. The trading week would begin…

Bitcoin slid to the $85,000 level on December 15, extending its recent decline as global macro risks, leverage unwinding, and thin liquidity collided. The drop erased more than $100 billion from the total crypto market cap in just days, raising questions about whether the sell-off has finished.While no single catalyst caused the move, five overlapping forces pushed Bitcoin lower and could keep pressure on prices in the near term.Bank of Japan Rate Hike Fears Triggered Global De-RiskingThe biggest macro driver came from Japan. Markets moved ahead of a widely expected Bank of Japan rate hike later this week, which would…

GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman, Dec. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The token sale offers 3% of the token supply, a bonus multiplier for Testnet participants, and the opportunity to receive a Gensyn branded GPU workstation. https://token.gensyn.network/ $AI Details:The Gensyn Foundation (“Gensyn”) today (Dec 15th) launches its $AI token sale on Sonar, marking a major milestone ahead of its upcoming Mainnet. The sale introduces the native token that will coordinate payments, staking & security, and governance across the Gensyn network. The a16z-backed, decentralised AI network is preparing for Mainnet and launching the $AI token sale. The Gensyn Testnet has already demonstrated rapid…

George Town, British Virgin Islands, December 15th, 2025, Chainwire Aster, an on-chain trading platform focused on performance and privacy and supported by YZi Labs, has announced the launch of Shield Mode. This new feature, integrated into Aster Perpetual, introduces a protected trading option designed to offer high-leverage trading—up to 1001x—within a more secure and flexible on-chain environment. Shield Mode represents a key milestone in Aster’s mission to build the next generation of on-chain trading platforms, designed to serve advanced traders while addressing the challenges of trading in fully transparent on-chain markets. “Shield Mode reflects our belief that the future of…

Tampa, Florida, December 15th, 2025, Chainwire The Geode Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to fostering economic opportunity and community empowerment through blockchain innovation, today proudly announces the primary exchange listing of its native cryptocurrency, GEODE, on BitMart.com. This milestone marks GEODE’s trading debut, opening the doors for broader adoption and liquidity in a project that has been quietly revolutionizing decentralized applications since its inception almost four years ago. As the crypto market continues to evolve amid a pro-crypto regulatory landscape in the United States, Geode Chain stands out as a beacon of long-term sustainability and real-world utility. Built on a…

Singapore, Singapore, December 15th, 2025, Chainwire The institutional-grade liquidity solution enables accelerated ETH redemptions for competitive on-chain and institutional yields mETH Protocol, the top ten ETH liquid restaking provider with a peak total value locked (TVL) of $2.19 billion, today announced a major liquidity upgrade that utilises Aave’s ETH market to support more efficient redemption flows for mETH. Its key feature is a curated Buffer Pool mechanism designed to deliver an estimated 24-hour ETH redemptions, subject to buffer capacity availability and network conditions. This marks a drastic improvement over Ethereum’s 5-20 day exit queues for native staking and most liquid…