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US inflation delivered its biggest downside surprise in months. Yet instead of a sustained rally, both Bitcoin and US equities sold off sharply during US trading hours. The price action puzzled many traders, but the charts point to a familiar explanation rooted in market structure, positioning, and liquidity rather than macro fundamentals.What Happened After the US CPI ReleaseHeadline CPI slowed to 2.7% year over year in November, well below the 3.1% forecast. Core CPI also undershot expectations at 2.6%. Sponsored SponsoredOn paper, this was one of the most risk-positive inflation prints of 2025. Markets initially reacted as expected. Bitcoin jumped toward the…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Danh C. Vo, founder and CEO of bitcoin mining company VBit Technologies Corp., with defrauding investors out of $48.5 million.  According to the SEC, Vo misused the funds for gambling, cryptocurrency purchases, and gifts to family members, while misleading investors about the operations of his business. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleges Vo raised over $95.6 million from approximately 6,400 investors between December 2018 and February 2022.  He sold “hosting agreements,” which promised investors a share of profits from bitcoin mining rigs operated by…

Calling Bitcoin a scam reflects investor psychology, not fundamentals, with prospect theory explaining panic selling after sharp drops. Bitcoin (BTC) critics have returned to a familiar refrain, calling the asset a scam as it struggles to go back to the five-figure level it last enjoyed in mid-November. However, crypto commentator Shanaka Anslem Perera has reframed the argument as a psychological response rather than a financial one, tying panic selling to Nobel Prize–winning prospect theory. The Psychology Behind the “Scam” Label In a November 17 post on X, Perera argued that steep corrections often push retail investors to search for explanations…

Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial has proposed using 5% of the project’s WLFI token treasury to grow the supply of its stablecoin USD1. The proposal was posted to the World Liberty Financial governance forum on Wednesday, with the team highlighting the importance of increasing USD1 supply to keep up with “an increasingly competitive stablecoin landscape.” The proposal outlines that the additional supply would help spread “USD1 use cases across select high-profile CeFi & DeFi partnerships,” with increased adoption helping to create more “value capture” opportunities in the WLFI ecosystem.  “As USD1 grows, more users, platforms, institutions, and chains integrate with World Liberty Financial…

In brief Coinbase will allow customers to trade stocks that aren’t tokenized. The firm will also offer access to Kalshi-powered prediction markets. The exchange’s app now supports novel assets on Solana. Coinbase signaled on Wednesday that its platform is expanding beyond digital assets, with U.S. customers gaining access to traditional stock trading as part of a sweeping update.In a livestreamed event, the exchange detailed changes to over a dozen new and existing products, ranging from prediction markets to decentralized finance on Solana, as well as an end-to-end platform for creating digital representations of real-world assets.As a commission-free brokerage, Coinbase said…

Coinbase is launching stock trading and prediction markets as the crypto exchange looks beyond digital assets to chase its ambition of creating an “everything app.”Coinbase head of consumer and business products, Max Branzburg, announced at the company’s year-end conference that “stock trading is now available on Coinbase.”“This is a major milestone in our plan to enable 24/7 trading of stocks and ETFs from anywhere in the world, powered by crypto,” he said.Stock trading.Rolling out on Coinbase in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/tTcjpvVyXc— Coinbase 🛡️ (@coinbase) December 17, 2025 Branzburg also said that Coinbase has launched prediction markets in partnership with Kalshi, which…

The Robinhood CEO is predicting massive growth for crypto-based prediction markets as adoption accelerates. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has said that prediction markets are entering a long-term growth phase, pointing to platforms like Polymarket as early winners of what he called a “prediction market supercycle.” The remarks place crypto-powered forecasting tools at the center of a broader shift, as traders, institutions, and major exchanges look for new ways to price real-world events using blockchain rails. Prediction Markets Gain Traction as Volumes and Adoption Grow Tenev’s comments surfaced in a video shared on X by Altcoin Daily, where he argued that…

During the 2023 trial, Ellison delivered damning testimony, describing lies, reckless borrowing and the secret misuse of FTX customer funds. Caroline Ellison, the former chief executive of Alameda Research and a central figure in the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire, has been quietly moved out of a federal prison facility after serving roughly 11 months of a two-year sentence. The 31-year-old was transferred on October 16 from the low-security Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut, to community confinement. From Star Witness to Home Confinement According to Business Insider, the latest status keeps her under federal custody but allows her…

Digital Wealth Partners, a Registered Investment Advisory (RIA) that specializes in digital assets, is offering high net worth (HNW) holders of XRP access to an algorithmic trading app to generate growth and cash flow their crypto holdings.A subsidiary of crypto family office firm Ascension Group, Digital Wealth Partners, enlisted the help of Arch Public, a specialist in crypto-based algorithmic trading, to build the strategy, which operates within tax-advantaged retirement accounts like IRAs.This arrangement may allow certain trading activity to occur without triggering immediate tax consequences depending on the account type and individual circumstances, according to a press release.The XRP algo…

Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch and CrunchBase, has placed XRP among his largest personal crypto holdings, according to a recent social post. Related Reading He listed XRP as one of his top five positions by dollar value, alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Immutable. The disclosure landed plenty of attention online and reignited debate about who is buying what and why. Arrington’s Holdings And Community Reaction Reports have disclosed that his post drew heavy engagement, with replies running the gamut from Bitcoin-only stances to more mixed portfolios. Several industry figures echoed Arrington’s mix; Tony Edward, for example, listed XRP with…