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The acquisition puts Coinbase one step closer to owning the full tech stack for its “Everything Exchange.”Coinbase, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, continues to branch further into the prediction marketspace. Nearly a week after announcing that customers would soon be able to trade on the outcomes of real-world events, Coinbase revealed on Monday that they acquired the prediction market infrastructure startup, The Clearing Company.Coinbase called The Clearing Company “a startup with a strong vision for the future of prediction markets,” one that is led by “prediction market veterans,” including its founder, Toni Gemayel.Coinbase credits Gemayel —…

Solana and Ethereum will both thrive in the tokenization race and neither blockchain will push the other out of the space, says Dragonfly general partner Rob Hadick.“They are both Facebook,” Hadick told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday, when asked which blockchain will gain market dominance like social media platform Facebook or fall behind like the once-popular MySpace.Hadick said that with growing interest in tokenization and increasing economic activity onchain, there’s room for multiple blockchains to coexist. “There’s a lot of room in this market. If you believe that most assets are going to be tokenized, if you believe there is going…

Solana (SOL) price traded to around $122 on December 24, 2025. Fresh losses pushed SOL near the critical $120 mark. Waning investor confidence and macroeconomic headwinds see the altcoin at risk of further declines. Solana has extended its downturn in the final weeks of 2025, dipping below the $130 mark and testing levels around $120. On Wednesday, prices fell to these lows across major exchanges, and more declines could allow bears to test recent lows of $116. The $120 zone has acted as intermittent support throughout the year. But as this decline aligns with a wider cryptocurrency market retracement amid…

Balancer suffered a major exploit in November that resulted in the theft of almost $120 million worth of digital assets. Gnosis Chain said its community of node operators has executed a hard fork to recover funds linked to the Balancer exploit. This week, Gnosis confirmed that the assets are now out of the attacker’s control and urged remaining operators to update their nodes to avoid penalties. It has not yet specified the exact total amount of funds recovered. Validator-Approved Hard Fork In a post on X, the network said the decision was taken by operators following weeks of discussion after…

Zcash has dropped about 6% in the past 24 hours as bulls fail to rebound above $420. The privacy coin led the cryptocurrency market as Bitcoin floundered. ZEC may benefit amid broader adoption in 2026. Zcash price has experienced significant turbulence in the past weeks, rising to highs of $744 in November before plummeting to $313 in early December 2025. While bulls managed to rebound to above $450, the latest downturn has it hovering around $417 as bears show conviction at the $420 mark. Broader market pressures on privacy-focused coins, which also saw the Midnight token nosedive 25%, have ZEC…

Bitcoin financial services firm Matador Technologies has received the regulatory green light to sell up to 80 million Canadian dollars ($58.4 million) worth of company shares, which it will use to help reach its goal of owning 1,000 Bitcoin by the end of 2026.Matador said on Tuesday that the Ontario Securities Commission has permitted it to issue $58.4 million worth of common shares, warrants, subscription receipts, debt securities, or units over a period of 25 months. Matador CEO Deven Soni said the firm is “focused on increasing Bitcoin per share over time” and would “continue to target a treasury balance of…

Ethereum lost $555 million this week, while Bitcoin outflows reached $460 million, as the US Clarity Act delays fuel uncertainty and worry among investors. For the first time in a month, digital asset investment products saw money flowing out as total outflows reached $952 million. According to CoinShares, this pullback happened because investors reacted negatively to postponements around the US Clarity Act. These delays have extended uncertainty about how cryptocurrencies will be regulated in the US. At the same time, concerns remain that whales have continued to sell their holdings. Hence, the European asset manager said that it is very…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Ethereum is currently trading above the $3,000 level, offering a surface-level sense of stability after weeks of volatility. However, beneath this price resilience, market sentiment remains decisively bearish. Many analysts are openly calling for lower levels in the coming months, citing weakening momentum, macro uncertainty, and persistent selling pressure across risk assets. Extreme fear dominates positioning, with investors showing little conviction that the recent recovery can evolve into a sustained uptrend. This pessimistic backdrop makes recent institutional-linked activity stand out. Amid widespread caution, data suggests that Bitmine—an…

A South Korean man received a suspended sentence from the district court.The High Court handed him a four-year jail term instead.Defendant used crypto to launder $68,000 from victims of voice phishing.A man’s bid to reduce his sentence for using crypto to launder $68,000 for a voice phishing gang has failed spectacularly — with an appeals court sending him to jail.The unnamed man, aged in his 30s, was sentenced to four years of probation by a district court in 2024, the South Korean newspaper Kyeonggi Shinmun reported. The same court also sentenced him to two and a half years in jail,…

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Major museums around the world are increasingly incorporating NFTs into their permanent collections through high-profile donations from digital artists and collectors, aiming to preserve digital culture and engage younger audiences. In the latest donation from digital artists, MoMA has received eight CryptoPunks non-fungible token collections. These Punk NFTs are now permanently on display at the museum. Punks NFT Find Home At MoMA In a December 20 blog post, Infinite Node Foundation, a non-profit art organization focused on preserving, exhibiting, and studying digital art and blockchain technology, confirmed…