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Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, reportedly issued its first crypto-backed loan, utilizing digital assets as collateral under strict central bank rules. Crypto markets barely blinked, with Bitcoin holding near recent ranges, but this move matters more for regulation than for price today. It marks another step in the slow shift from “shadow” crypto use in Russia to supervised, bank‑level services. Russia is winning the digital credit race. Sberbank, Russia’s second largest bank, just issued the country’s first Bitcoin-backed loan. Commercial credit is a multi-trillion untapped market in the ongoing digital credit transformation. It takes both banks and regulators who are… pic.twitter.com/Tl2p9AjVzL…

This week started with a sensational screenshot shared across hundreds of breathless posts on X, and a claim designed to hit every financial nerve ending at once.A “systemically important” US bank, a silver margin call, liquidation by the exchange in the middle of the night, the Federal Reserve allegedly “forced” to pump billions into the system, and the bank’s name “concealed.”Screenshot circulating on X about US bank collapseIt reads like a ‘Big Short’ or ‘Margin Call’ movie sequel, and the internet ate it up amid the slow news season between Christmas and New Year.My initial thoughts were as follows: Silver…

Dogecoin slipped 3% to $0.1226 as year-end selling pressure pushed the token through a key support zone, keeping the meme coin pinned to the lower end of its December downtrend.DOGE broke below $0.1248 during the heaviest trading window of the session, with volume running about 157% above average — a sign the move wasn’t just thin-liquidity drift, but a real break driven by active supply. The drop extended a broader bearish structure that has defined DOGE’s month, with sellers repeatedly using rebounds to lighten exposure and defend lower-high levels.News backgroundThe move comes as year-end positioning continues to weigh on high-beta…

XRP is ending 2025 with one of the most paradoxical profiles in the crypto market, thanks to record-breaking institutional inflows colliding with one of the weakest price charts. Market Cap $111.74B 24h Volume $2.15B All-Time High $3.84 According to CoinShares data, XRP investment products attracted approximately $70.2 million in net new money in the final trading week of December. This pushed its monthly inflow to more than $424 million, making it the best-performing crypto investment product for the month.During the month, Bitcoin products recorded $25 million in outflows, while Ethereum funds shed $241 million.Crypto Assets Weekly Flows (Source: CoinShares)Yet, the…

Protests erupted across Iran’s capital of Tehran on Monday as the rial hit record lows against the US dollar, a currency collapse that locals blame on the central bank’s poor fiscal policies as they watch the value of their life savings evaporate.While there’s no single solution to the economic hardship that Iranians are facing, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley suggested that Bitcoin (BTC) is a way for people around the world to protect themselves from plunging currency values.“Economic mismanagement — The story of the past, present, and future,” Bitcoin is a new way for the people to protect themselves,” Horsley said…

Solana (SOL) is retesting a make-or-break area that could set the stage for a major move at the start of next year. Some analysts have suggested that altcoin’s chart signals a bearish performance for the coming months. Related Reading Solana Faces Another Rejection From Key Resistance After hitting a three-week high of $130 on Sunday, Solana started the week with a 6.1% correction to the $122 area. The cryptocurrency recently breached below its macro support around the $120 zone, hitting an eight-month low of $116 in mid-December. Since then, the altcoin has been trading between the $120-$126 mark, attempting to…

Peter Zhang Dec 29, 2025 04:35 The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) expands its RMB Business Facility, increasing the quota to RMB100 billion and adding 40 participating banks in Phase 2. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has announced a significant expansion in its Renminbi (RMB) Business Facility, as reported on December 29, 2025. The total quota allocated for participating banks has been increased to RMB100 billion, doubling from the previous RMB50 billion, and the list of participating banks has expanded to 40 institutions. Expansion Details Commencing from December 1, 2025, Phase 2 of the RMB Business Facility allows participating…

Bitcoin BTC$90,156.77 rose on Monday as dampened hopes of a Russia-Ukraine peace deal pushed oil prices higher.BTC, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, jumped over 2% to trade above $90,000, bringing cheer to the broader market. Major alternative cryptocurrencies such as ether ETH$3,041.01, XRP$1.9154 and solana SOL$128.75 gained 3% or more, according to data source CoinDesk.In traditional markets, prices for the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude increased by 1% to $57.24 per barrel. Brent crude rose 0.80% to $60.81 per barrel. Asian stocks traded tentatively as year-end holidays kept volumes and market liquidity thin. South Korea’s KOSPI index was an…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum treasury firm Bitmine has started staking its Ether tokens, depositing roughly $451 million worth of ETH into Ethereum’s proof-of-stake (PoS) system on Saturday, December 27. This appears to be a fresh strategy from the digital asset treasury (DAT) firm, which has managed to stay relevant in a nascent, uncertain sector of the cryptocurrency industry. How Much Would BitMine Make From Ethereum Staking? In the early hours of Saturday, December 27, on-chain analyst EmberCN revealed that BitMine has finally started attempting to stake its Ether holdings to…

Bitcoin miners produced block 929,699 on Dec. 27. What if that was the signal for a New Year’s moment, rather than our traditional calendar?The pitch is that block height, the ordered count of blocks every full node can verify, can act as a calendar layer for a market that trades and settles across jurisdictions.For argument’s sake, we’ll use Bitcoin Block Explorer and the last observed chain tip in this snapshot at height 929,699, timestamped Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:47:19 UTC, with a mempool around 5,324 transactions at the time of the page’s update.The same source listed difficulty near 148.26T.According to…